Fantasy Star Online's

17. The Spider Dungeon IV

"Hidden quest?"

Moon tilted his head.

"Yes" Ryzen replied.

"What kind of thing?" ask Moon.

"Mmmm...."

Ryzen explained the details. Telling the details of the hidden quest he obtained was in accordance with his original explanation.

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Quest: Ancient Artifact

Hidden Quest: The Origin

Story: The little boy seems to know something, ask him about Ancient Artifacts

Objective: Find Lucius

Reward: Exp +4000

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"So the boy's name is Lucius" Ryzen murmured.

Moon was more or less able to understand the situation, he stroked his chin and thought for a moment while Ryzen was busy himself organizing his inventory even though it contained only a few items like Iron Sword +1, which was just a few, 3 Types of HP, MP and Stamina potion bottles of 2, and 3 slices of bread, respectively.

A few minutes later, just as Ryzen finished sorting the contents of his inventory, so did Moon who was done with something he was thinking about.

"Alright, I've decided it" Moon said suddenly.

"Hmm, what? what did you decide?" ask Ryzen.

"I'll help you."

"Oh! Thank you very much! though I still did not return your help at that time, and now I was helped again. Next time, I'll definitely pay him two—four times over."

Moon tilted her head back, with her index finger taped near her lips. "I don't remember when I helped you, but I'll look forward to it, your help."

"Eh? Have you forgotten?" asked Ryzen glumly.

Moon again tilted her head, she was like a broken doll trying to remember the events mentioned by Ryzen, and Ryzen finally agreed and they went to look for the little boy named Lucius.

After a long time searching for the whereabouts of the boy, they finally found his trail, a footprint that leads to the broken hut house, the trail disappeared in front of the rickety door of the hut.

"Maybe this is a fake trail?" ryzen slowly said.

"No. Inside this hut is a staircase that leads underground" Moon said, holding the rickety door.

"Know where?" ryzen asked suspiciously.

"I have a skill that makes me able to see an incident related to the thing I hold, the name is 'Vision', it's pretty much draining MP," Moon replied, his face suddenly looks tired.

"Hmm, okay. I trust you, if that's the case, let's check" Ryzen asked.

Ryzen broke down the broken door, then checked every corner of the small hut that was no more than 5x5 meters wide. Ryzen did not find any secret passage there, he immediately looked towards Moon who was standing near the corner.

"You found something?"

"Yes, this is the door."

"Ooo, this is the secret path."

The floor next to them suddenly moved and opened, displaying a staircase that had fallen underground.

"Let's go in" Ryzen asked.

Moon nodded slowly and walked behind Ryzen, the stairs turned out to be quite deep, taking about 30 seconds to reach the bottom of the floor again. Upon reaching the base, they were on a path that looked like a tunnel illuminated by the firelight from a distant torch.

"Hee, I didn't expect there would be a place like this in the slums" Ryzen said.

"Don't let your guard down, we don't know what's ahead there" Moon said.

"Okay, okay."

5 minutes later, they finally got out of the narrow road and ended up in a cave-like place that was used as a mine, at the other end there was the sound of laughter from a group of people.

Ryzen and Moon went closer to the source of the voice quietly, when they got there, they saw a group of people who were partying and drunk, not only that, but they also saw a group of people who were drunk, the group was also seen playing with four women who were covered in bruises from the blows, the faces of the four women were resigned, no more light was seen in his eyes, it was like being a dead man.

'They got this far, how real is this game really?!' inner cry Ryzen.

On the other hand, Ryzen turned to his side and saw Moon put on a gloomy face and his breathing sounded heavy. Ryzen swiftly pushed Moon backwards so that he would not have to see the scene like that anymore.

'He, is he scared?' inner Ryzen while glancing at Moon.

Ryzen turned to look at Moon, trying to calm him down, "Calm down, don't worry, this is all just a game. Remember, all this is fiction, there's nothing to worry about, even if you die here, it doesn't mean you'll die in the real world either."

Moon swallowed his saliva then looked straight at Ryzen's bluish-green eyes, he nodded slowly and a moment later he started to calm down again.

'Well, but, seeing events like this with my own eyes even though all of this was just virtual and fiction, still, left me a little surprised.' Ryzen's inner self.

Seeing that Moon had calmed down a bit, Ryzen sighed then explained his plan to wipe out all the bandit mobs there, which after checking, estimated their average level to be level 20.

Before executing their plan, Ryzen added Moon to his party. Knowing Moon was already level 26, Ryzen breathed a sigh of relief, everything would become easier for him, but there was one thing that was bothering him. It was a debuff icon sign owned by Moon, the icon read 'MEN' in red and a red arrow down.

'MEN' means mental. Because Moon has the debuff, it means that Moon's mental or mental health is slightly disturbed, by having the status of the debuff will reduce the amount of damage given and focus and defense are also reduced.

'But he'll only help me in the back. So, I don't have to worry.'

Ryzen gave a finger sign to begin his plan, after Moon nodded slowly. Ryzen replied with a nod and then he stood up and walked over to the group.

"He—huh?! Guhak—!"

When the drunken, aloof man noticed Ryzen's presence, his eyes widened and ready to scream, but he was late because an arrow had already been stuck in his head, the drunk man's body broke into pieces of glowing polygon.

Due to the sound of the shards, some of the people who were still conscious in the group immediately turned to the direction of the voice and saw a man with a spear. Ryzen smiled cynically then swung his spear horizontally and cut off the three necks of the bandits there.

One of their heads rolled and stopped before the woman who was being played by the bandits, but the woman did not react to the broken head, the one who reacted was even a bandit who was playing with the woman. Upon seeing his comrade's head roll there, he was startled and instantly 'picked out the sword' from the woman's body, pushing the helpless body to the ground, smeared with blood pouring from the head of the bandit that was cut off.

"Invader! There's intruders!"

"Everyone, wakeup! There's intruders!"

"Someone, quickly call the chief!"

In an instant, the bandits who were there instantly woke up. There were some drunken bandits who attacked Ryzen without orders, then they were immediately shot dead by arrows from afar.

"Farmers! Be careful!"

Seeing the reaction of one of the bandits among the bandits, Ryzen was quite surprised that the bandits could talk like that and fight in formation.

"Well, well, maybe he's an AI NPC. If it was true, this would be quite troublesome..," Ryzen murmured, he glanced back, "i hope he can compromise."