taking away ten points of the fifty point health bar. I came in while the pup was down and also struck, taking away another 20 points since my staff took half life points away. The puppy went after Gage again who blocked the attack easily then returned another attack which dropped the health by 15 points. The pup went to attack again as Gage blocked it easily then killed it in another stroke. The pup fell to its side and disappeared, in its place was a sack containing wolf puppy pelt and 2 coppers, both of which Gage pocketed. “I have never did this well going up against one of those things, it was like it couldn’t touch me, I was faster, hit harder and could defend better that I ever have” Gage said as I noticed he left me none of the treasure. “It’s my ability” I began. “It helps out my party members by giving you more speed, strength, magic and defense”. “Well I like that ability” the small warrior said as he walked on. “Your first hit of the beast was great; your next couple though were not as strong”. “It’s my weapon, it takes away half-life every time I swing but the target must be stationary as it is hard to wield this heavy weapon”. “Well I think with you here we should go try the dungeon I was strengthening up to face” Gage said as he heard another noise and spun in its direction. Another wolf pup came out and was dispatched like the first. Gage smiled and was in good spirits as he again took all of the loot. The dungeon wasn’t that far away and we got there quickly after fighting three more wolf puppies, Gage’s health was down a tenth but he didn’t seem to care. The dungeon was just a cave with many other players milling about outside, these were all level 6 and above. A couple of teams tried to pick a fight but could not as only after 5 levels could you battle another player. I walked into the cave and was instantly assaulted by a bat.
This fight was harder as the bat was way more mobile and I could not strike it if I wanted to as my weapon was heavy. My spells were easy to land as they were area effect spells and the bat could not help but to fly into the mist and the rain. Gage though fought as tough as could be expected and eventually beat the bat before taking all of the loot. Maybe he plans on letting me scavenge other corpses further in I thought as I could see other parties fighting not too far from the entrance of this beginning dungeon. We pressed further inside where we battled and killed even more bats before walking down a set of stairs. After we killed the last bat a pop up happened in my window informing me I had leveled up and had skill points to spend, unfortunately my idiotic Team Player Skill also leveled up with me. I only received 4 skill points, I decided to save them since I couldn’t really protect myself anyway, maybe they would come in handy later.
I watched Gage take all the loot again as we went deeper into the cave, I needed to find a way to protect myself better but hanging around with Gage definitely wasn’t it. Hanging with me though was doing a lot for his character as he took less damage than he normally would have and was hitting far harder. Although he was just a level 4 with the boost I was giving him he was fighting like he was at least a level 10. All of the enemies in this dungeon were level 6 so far, which would level me up quickly. I think once I reached level 6 or 7 I would abandon my greedy friend. Ahead of us as we walked through the cave system I could see a humanoid figure shambling over towards us, I scanned it and could see it was a decaying Zombie, Level 10. Gage gleefully laughed as he dashed in and scored a hit on the slow zombie, and danced away before the zombie could counter. I cast Corroding Mist and Decaying