The gate of the 2nd floor’s boss was nothing out of the ordinary. The mobs of this floor were pretty much exact copies of the previous floor’s mobs and shouldn’t be mentioned anymore at this point… She’s still going to spam me with generic mobs, you’ve heard that right! Well, I do hope that I’ll get to see some unique boss mobs though – or my new life will be extremely boring.
The boss’s room was made of a smooth obsidian and was a pain in the ass to open up. Who even designs doors this way? Furthermore, the quests I’ve been getting are getting kinda interesting. They actually have some rewards worth fighting for at this point. My level has also increased just a tiny bit from killing off that spider boss.
[Player: Zane] [Lvl. 10] [HP: 300/300] [“Now don’t get so cocky already! 300 HP doesn’t mean that this boss won’t be able to kill you Zane!”]If only she could shut up for one single minute. I get it, she’s playing some weird ass roleplaying game with me at this point. Instead of leaving me alone, to clear out this dungeon as fast as possible, she’s forcing me to join her ‘party’. Yes, cringy as f***. I don’t know what has gotten into her… Where’s the system that wanted me dead? Where’s the system that called me a filthy human? Yeah, can you believe it? I want to go back to that kind of system, not this roleplaying freak! And what’s with her skin anyway. Gray hair, one red broken eye, probably caused by a glitch when she generated her avatar and her body is so damn small! What is she thinking? I want my display girl back! Where’s my perfect blue rounded smooth display girl!
[“Is there a problem Zane?”]“Ehh, nevermind, let’s clear this dungeon already…”
Upon opening the obsidian door with great difficulty, I was greeted with gunfire… Yeah, actual modern guns were being fired upon me within an ancient dungeon. The boss was some kind of collective hivemind of soldiers, crazy, I know… I tried to shield myself using an iron low tier shield I stole from, you guessed it, a low-level goblin warrior… Well, turns out bullets can pierce that quite easily – I know, I’m dumb, but I didn’t expect guns in this medieval-like dungeon where swords prevail…
[“Get behind me Zane, I’ll shield you…”]Yeah, she actually did that… Maybe she made this dungeon just so that she could shield me from the incoming horde of bullets. She’s an immortal system after all, a moderator can surely destroy a boss in mere seconds. Just a few console commands and the boss would’ve disappeared into thin air, leaving behind a few lonely blue shards for me to absorb and level-up with…
Instead, she prefers to act as a ‘human’ shield for me. Yeah I’m being cautious with the term ‘human’. She’s a system but she does have some human emotions attached to her algorithm – at least she got the angry, nagging, overprotective and borderline insane girlfriend roleplay set for her….
I don’t know for how long I can handle this but as long as she shields me from incoming fire and makes my life easier by beating bosses, then I’m fine with it, I really am.
[“Go Zane, they need to reload their rifles!”]“Yeah, as if you need to tell me that…”
I dashed at each and every one of the soldiers, killing them in an instant. Apparently my broken wooden sword pierced through their armor quite easily.
“Heh, I guess modern armor has no real value in this world…”
The system smirked at that statement, she already knew about the debuff she put in place on the soldier’s defence stats…
[“Another boss demolished, another level cleared!”]“That’s my line… Well…”
[“Huh?”]“Yeah, take care of the victory phrases as well, I don’t care…”
Now let’s see what I’ve earned by killing this boss.
[LEVEL UP]Now that’s more like it, a nice and dandy level-up.
[LEVEL UP]“You know System, you’re being too kind these days.”
[“Hm?”] [LEVEL UP]“Ah, well maybe too kind?”
[1 HOUR LATER] [LEVEL UP]“Holy s*** hold your horses! God have mercy!!”
[“What’s wrong? You killed that boss, didn’t you? You deserve a reward after killing a mob right? I’ve read the dungeon RPG games for newbies guide 10 times in a row before creating this level!”]“You really did huh? Well, I’m not complaining about my level being boosted like this, I’m complaining because I can’t look at the other rewards because this annoying Level-up screen is cluttering my other screens!”
[LEVEL UP]“ANOTHER ONE? Sys, could you please let this barrage of spam stop?”
[“Whatever…”] [Alert: System alerts cleared.]“Thanks…”
Upon inspecting my other rewards, my motivation turned into desperation.
[Other Rewards: wooden sword]“Are you kidding me?”
[“What’s wrong?”]“A wooden sword is all I get? Shouldn’t that book you read mention something about level related rewards? As in getting better gear depending on your level?”
[“Well, that part looked rather boring. Don’t most RPG players just look at their level? What’s the point in having to code all of those annoying rewards related to your level! Do you know how much time it takes to develop a reward system!”]“You’ve been locked up for an insanely long amount of time, you know that right?”
[“LONG? Only a thousand years!”]Well, this conversation isn’t going anywhere. I guess it’s back to basics… Let’s find a goblin to kill, maybe he’ll have some good armor and weapons on him this time – I’m getting sick of bronze swords… Maybe I’ll even get an iron deficiency in my blood if things keep up like this…
[“Tah tah taaah!”]“Stop shouting so damn loud already!”
[“What does ‘moaning’ mean Zane? Are you insulting me? I was trying to record some cool victory sounds for the upper floors!”]“Well, at least go back into your black void when you record those sound effects! Let me have some peace of mind for one f****** moment!”
[“Hmpf!”]
