Chapter 114: Tower of Mariuk - final

Looking at the damage number of more than 12 million appeared in red, Wil mumbled, "what a stroke of bad luck. The critical hit was activated even though there's only a 25% chance."

As the crashed fox stood on its four legs, Wil shouted from behind, "Felix, you forgot to use the 'Bark' skill. Use it the moment…"

Before his words even finished, the Emberstone Golem jumped high in the air and landed before Felix and tried to kick it away while Wil and the rest of the party take a few steps back to stay out of its range.

*wow*

Felix, who was quick on its feet, dodged its leg and barked to increase its attack by 20% more and decrease the enemy's by 20% thereby almost removing the advantage of the attack buff it's getting from those 6 mages for the next five minutes.

"14,287,512"

As Felix bit the leg of the Golem taking out a chunk of hp, Wil shouted, "Now, go around it and attack from behind."

Felix then followed Wil's order and quickly dashed towards his back and tried to bite the right leg that's coming back after the Golem failed to kick.

"Damn. I forgot to take its battle experience into account. Felix isn't either a wild boss or dungeon boss that doesn't need to be taught. Even though it has superior reflexes, still, it's like a noob wearing legendary grade equipment," mumbled Wil as he facepalmed because of the blunder he made after watching Felix failed to bite because of mistiming and got its face kicked instead as a result.

"-9,699,568"

Looking at the hp that almost downed to 93%, at first, Wil thought of healing it but then, he put that thought away after realizing the fact that if both sides heal each other, it might take a long time before the match finishes. After thinking for while, Wil stayed silent and decided not to give a piece of advice to Felix, anymore.

A while later, Wil's lips curled up as Felix's attacks were getting failed continuously and getting beat up by the Golem instead.

After it lost more than 15% of the health, Felix saw Wil dashed forward and raised his hands towards the Emberstone.

*wow*

Upon hearing the bark of Felix, Wil replied, "I know but in your current state, you aren't a match to it. I'll train you further and bring it back here later."

"Heavenly push, 300 mana"

The extremely violent wind released from his palms and blew the giant golem a hundred meters away leaving behind only 12 million of its health and was saved by its high critical resistance.

"657,568,120"

"Tch… I should have used 10 more mana."

As the Golem slowly gets up from its feet, Wil quickly took an arrow from his quiver and shot towards it before the annoying healers heal it up.

*Ding. Emberstone Golem died. You receive 130 million exp.

*Ding. You level up.

*Ding. You level up.

Continuous notifications started ringing in his ears until he leveled up 10 times and reached level-185.

Meanwhile, Felix leveled up 15 times and reached level-167.

*Ding. Congratulations on becoming the first player to clear a level-200 dungeon in the Llyne Kingdom. You receive 100 fame as a reward.

*Ding. Congratulations on becoming the first player to clear a level-200 legendary grade dungeon in the Llyne Kingdom. You receive 1000 fame as a reward.

*Ding. Congratulations on becoming the second player to clear a level-200 legendary grade dungeon in Xynnar Continent. You receive 1000 fame as a reward. 

*Ding. Congratulations on becoming the fifth player to clear a level-200 legendary dungeon in the world. You receive 500 fame as a reward.

Looking at the notifications, Wil was taken aback, "What the hell… there are people who cleared level-200 even before me? I can understand if there are one or two but four of them? I guess I shouldn't relax then. Anyway, let's see the drops…"

Looking at a mountain of drops that have hundreds of equipment, scrolls, books, and potions, etc…, Wil smiled as he started rummaging, "I love this 100% increase drop rate. Maybe, the other dungeons aren't explored. I can advantage of this situation and claim everything.

Next time, let's bring Aster and others. It's time Scarlet becomes a superpower."

He threw every equipment below gold grade while the remaining eight epic grade equipment and 18 gold grade equipment into inventory without taking a look along with the potions, augment stones, and scrolls.

"Oh, two legendary grade equipment. Let's see…"

Muriek's Boots

Grade: Legendary

Level: 200

Hp: 3,998,233

Defense: 501258

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Muriek's Heavy Shield

Grade: Legendary

Level: 200

Class: Guardian, paladin 

Defense: 1523578

Critical resist: 76.8%

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"Ugh… a Guardian's shield. There's only Rock Fist in our guild but this is something that's at least worth a hundred million credits if we go by the current exchange. Hmm, there's also a legacy in my inventory.

How about convincing Storm and Silver to enter the game, and select one to handover both the shield and the legacy." 

While he's in deep thinking, the system sent one more notification.

*Ding. Do you want to publish your team name for the announcement?

As Wil clicked on yes, the system once again asked him.

*Ding. What would you like to name your team?

After typing Scarlet, he selected okay and the system immediately made a kingdom-wide announcement.

*Ding. Congratulations, Team Scarlet for becoming the first to clear the level-200 legendary grade dungeon. Here's the list of members, Time Traveler; 

Although a lot of people were shocked, it was only for a moment and didn't cause any impact on the players as if they thought it was natural for him to finish it solo. After all, everyone knew that Wil has full-set legendary grade equipment with a legendary grade pet.

Most of them strongly believed even a hundred level-200 guards can't defeat him. It's also for this very reason, Resistance became silent and three of their guilds even stopped co-operating with them and shifted their base to other cities as they feared Time Traveler might suppress them in the future.

As Dreamwalkers decided to leave East Ocean city from their plans, their guild strength also stopped progressing with Scarlet putting a ban on them in their shops. This led hundreds of players to leave their guilds and joining the ruling faction every day. 

Meanwhile, upon hearing the announcement, once again, White Tiger started beating up a low-level heroic mob in the wild to relieve his frustration as on one hand; his enemy is becoming too strong day by day.

On the other hand, it also became harder for the Imperial guild to maintain dominance in the Eldershore city after large guilds like Starlight, Dreamwalkers, Murderers, etc… built their branches to expand.

Not to mention, to maintain many subsidiary guilds requires a huge amount of money but because of Scarlet's intervention in the background, his company is facing losses and the share value is decreasing very fast as days passed and forced to cut the salaries or firing the employees…

***

Ares city;

"Oh… I'm going to get engaged? So, who is it?" Akiko asked calmly as if she was asking about someone else engagement.

Looking at her response, as Kiyumi nodded in satisfaction as if she knew her sister was going to say that, meanwhile, her mother was taken aback by her response.

She replied, "the soon to be Chairman of Scarlet Securities."

"Oh, SS' chairman? How old is he?" asked Akiko.

This time, Kiyumi replied instead of her mother with a smile, "He's two years younger than you. 19 years old. In fact, you know him too. The strongest gamer in War Online."

"Eh? Are you talking about Time Traveler? The winner of WBT? He's the chairman of SS? Wait a second. Is he 19? Doesn't look that way from the pictures," asked Akiko as she was clearly taken aback upon hearing his identity.

Kiyumi giggled, "It's obvious that he changed features in the game. Look, this is his real picture."

As she handed over a tablet with a picture of Wil on it, Kiyumi asked, "What do you think?"

"A typical westerner, eh?" commented Akiko as she glanced at the picture. Upon hearing her comment, as Reisa frown and about to tell her that she has no say in this, Akiko then returned it and shrugged her shoulders, "he's handsome indeed. What's his name?"

Kiyumi replied, "Williard Ravens."

Akiko then nodded and stood up, "I won't really mind. Give me a second." Then, she took out her mobile phone and dialed a number. 

While the mother and daughter in the middle of smiling in joy as their mission is almost a success, they heard Akiko speak, "Hello, Hiruma-kun. I'm going to get engaged. So, let's break up, right now. Yes… Why do you want to know? Don't bother…

He's the next chairman of Scarlet Securities. No… A college freshman. Well, does it matter? I know. Okay, then… good luck you too…"

After disconnecting her call, Akiko turned her head to see her mother and eldest sister are staring at her in silence…

"What?"

Coming back to her sense, Kiyumi asked, "Do you have a boyfriend?"

Akiko sighed as she takes her seat, "it doesn't matter. We have long decided to break up after our graduation since he's going to set up a martial arts school and I'm going to join the company. Now, it's just happening one year before. That's all. You can proceed with the engagement."

As if this isn't enough change in Wil's future, there was one more unexpected incident occurring in the game that is going to change a part of the future that Wil knows forever.

Gailzach Kingdom, North Zalfari;

At a seemingly ordinary cave at level-180 volcanic zone, 'One' sat for a while and enhanced his equipment. After a while, deciding to log out, as he went even deeper to the end of the cave just in case, suddenly, the surface below him collapsed and he fell on some mud floor.

*Ding. You discovered the resting place of Archmage Solomon, one of the ten demigods of the world. You discover 1000 fame.