MMORPG: Rebirth of the Shadow Mage

Removing my hood I brushed my hair to the side, because they were getting in my eyes.

' I need to get a haircut '

I mumbled under my nose while walking through the street. I felt tons of gazes land on me or more specifically, my crown. Since I was surrounded by Demons they knew that it's not normal to have such horns. If some other being from another race would see me they would probably think of it as a common Demon thing.

Approaching a small mansion in the middle of the city I walked near the city's fountain. It was made out of the white marble. In the middle there was a statue of a muscular and handsome Demon with horns similar to mine. His horns were more detailed and they constantly radiating black color.

While walking nearby I lowered my head. The Statue was of the current Demon King - Dragres. He's the most powerful Demon in the entire game. I haven't heard of someone successfully completing his raid. There was even collaboration between the strongest Guilds, but they still failed. They lost Miserably. The Guilds' strongest players weren't able to survive in the boss room for more than 5 minutes.

Not a lot of information was leaked from the Raid, but I heard that Dragres had a skill that could harvest souls from the players even if they were alive. I've dug up a screenshot proving the myth.

< ACTIVE SKILLS >

1️⃣ Soul Harvest

-- Forcefully Harvest Souls from your enemies strengthening yourself

~ Cost 10k MP

~ 30 second cooldown

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One of the Raid's participants even said that a single player was destined to die every half a minute. The Boss raid was attempted a lot more times, but the best run was when the boss HP was halved. After a few years the boss collected a lot of Souls and it was basically impossible to wound it. Unfortunately developers didn't care about its power and the Boss was named a Darkness God which can't be defeated by the community.

Lost in my thoughts I didn't even notice when I was already at the doorstep of the wooden mansion. Bumping into the front door I absentmindedly lifted my eyes. Before me was a wooden door with golden words engraved in its middle.

[ S.U.S ]

I've come to this village for two things:

1. Complete Quests that will provide me with Gold Coins

2. Defeat Basilisk

The First thing was simple, I'll accept a quest to defeat golems and receive XP from completing the quest. Golems are made out of various ores and rocks, some of them are destined to be rare and sell for a good amount of Gold.

The second Thing was way harder. Basilisk is an early game Boss with no known cheesy method to defeat it. The Basilisk is living in his Nest which is full of various snake species ranging from highly poisonous to invisible ones.

Shaking my head I managed to get rid of the thoughts about terrifying and powerful... snakes. Raising my hand I recalled the secret code to enter into the mansion. Usually the players are not allowed to enter the mansion until the currencies are tied together, but I knew a secret code.

Knocking the door three times in a row I did a little pause and used my full power to punch the gold text in the middle of the door.

- 1 HP

My knuckles were bloody, but I didn't care. I was listening for a sound that would indicate that the door is unlocked.

Click...

The Door was slightly opened and an old man with gray hair and beard appeared in the gap.

" What do You want? "

The man had reddened cheeks and his breath gave away that he was drinking alcohol.. A lot of it. Noticing that I was not at the perfect time I scratched my neck and started carefully choosing what words to say. I didn't want to lose the only way to gain Gold coins this early in the game. If I infuriated this NPC he wouldn't give me a quest.

" While Travelling I've heard some miners complaining about Golems constantly chasing them out of the mine shafts and even destroying some of the machinery. I'd like to help you to get rid of them! "

I was smiling from ear to ear while pretending to be excited to offer a helping hand to a total stranger.

Fortunately the man was barely holding himself back from falling. He didn't even look at me and closed the door. I was about to knock once again, but a hologram appeared.

< Help City Mayor to get rid of Dangerous Golems x50! >

< Do you want to Accept the quest? >

< ACCEPT > | < DECLINE >

Accepting the quest a red mark appeared in my Map. Shifting my body from the mansion, my steps seemed a few pounds lighter than previously. While I was going out of the mansion's territory the same old man was eyeing me from the second floor window.

His eyes were slightly narrowed and a small smile was playing on his lips hidden by the long gray beard.

" So he's the one who defeated Minas "

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Happily walking through the city I saw some shops working here and there. I also saw a shop owned by Oliver's son. I'll sell my items there, because of the discount I've gotten. The Discount is halved, because this is not Oliver's shop, but it's still better than other shops in the city.

Finally reaching the end of the Culg City I left through the gates and moved towards the mountain area to the east. Two white mountain tops could be seen from my point of view. At the mountains' top there's an ice wyvern living.

Wyvern is considered to be a hard Boss that will assault you with various elemental attacks from the air. The perfect class to defeat this flying Boss is considered to be an archer.

Thinking about the boss I though how fortunate that the wyvern rarely descends down the mountain. The cave is located at the bottom of the hill. To my knowledge the wyvern's descent only happened once or twice in my past life. Confident of my success I started contemplating how to defeat the Golems. I needed to cause mass destruction for their hard skin to crack.

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A beast was peacefully lying hidden in snow. Its body was completely covered, because of snowflakes continuously falling.

Suddenly its blue eyes opened and the beast looked down the hill seemingly irritated.