madnovel Chapter 26: Blood flame lizards
Chapter 26: Blood flame lizards
Chapter 26: Blood flame lizards"Don’t worry about it, just sign him up for the exam," Seer said.
"Yes, right away," the receptionist said. She pulled out her drawer and started
[Rewards: one level for every test level you assist in. New skill if you assist in all.]
[Penalty: permanent 4 reduction in stats from every level of the test you didn’t assist in.]
"A mission?"
Jake carefully read the details of the mission he had just gotten. The rewards were good, but the punishments felt crazy as well.
"System, isn’t this too much punishment?" he asked.
[I can’t do anything about it. My processor weighed the reward and penalty and found it as perfect. You have to take it as it is.]
Jake knew there was no arguing with the system, so he simply got ready. He summoned Crypt and all his skeletons. He took the sword of one of the skeletons and unsummoned it.
"Leveling up is very important to me now. I’ll have to give my all here," he muttered.
A minute passed since he had gotten here, and what he had meant to fight finally came. He heard the growls coming from the ruined houses. One by one, they came out.
Lizard-like creatures, seven feet tall. The best way to describe them was to call them lizard men. Their scales were blood red, same as their eyes. Spikes ran down their backs all the way to their tails. The tip of their tails had spikes in all directions.
They had teeth and claws that could rip through armor.
[.....]
On the second floor of the guild, Seer and Rion were inside a room with the receptionist, watching a projection of the test.
Their eyes lit up when they saw the lizard men.
"Why the hell is he facing Blood Flame Lizards right off the bat?" Seer asked.
The receptionist was startled when she heard Seer speak. She waved her hands. "I don’t know! Please, I didn’t do anything to the test," she said.
"No one is saying you did anything. We just want to know why blood Flame Lizards are showing up in the first test. Shouldn’t it be goblins or something weaker?" Rion asked.
"Yes, it should. This is the first time I’ve seen blood Flame Lizards show up as the first level. But the test is a semi-sentient being linked across the entire kingdom. There are times it makes unusual decisions," she said.
"We’ll need to stop it. If he’s facing the lizards in level one, he’ll surely face worse going up," Seer said.
"It’s impossible to stop an already started test, Lady Seer," the receptionist said.
"She is right, Seer. The test will take your forced entry or stopping as someone trying to cheat, and it will attack the trial taker even more—killing him," Rion said.