Delayed Transfer

Mark took the three bubble loots that came out from the three Giant Scorpion.  As usual, he would Identify and tally all of his earnings at the end of his dive. 

Mark refreshed his Bark Skin and Spatial Shield but he didn’t cast Invisibility like earlier since enemies were lurking under the dunes, he’s afraid that he would miss some group of enemies if they didn’t ambush him because he was invisible.  It was a good thing that he actually forgot to cast Invisibility earlier.

Mark floated near the dunes around three feet while holding a spear touching the sands to make sure that enemies underground would hear or feel the vibration and attack. 

The next group that he saw was around five lizard men that walked on two feet while holding some sort of scimitar.  They looked like desert Lizard Folk from one of the fantasy franchise that he loved, Dungeons and Dragons.  The only weapon that Mark could see that the Lizard Folk were wielding were just the scimitar swords.  He didn’t see any bows or staff so every monsters on this group were melee. 

Mark summoned the Bush Golems and the Tree Golems so he could see how they would fare with the battle with the desert Lizard Folk.  After calling out his summons, he cast Invisibility so the Lizard Folk would not attack him.  He was glad that he found in his System Interface a way to show the icons of his current active spells time duration.

The golems attacked the desert Lizard Folk and Mark was surprised on how coordinated were the enemies.  Two of the Lizards surrounded one of the Tree Golem while the other three enemies harassed the remaining golems.  Mark could actually see the urgency that the two Lizards who attacked one of the Tree Golem exhibited.  They clearly wanted to kill the golem as soon as possible so they could assist one of their friends.

Based on what he saw of the combat, the two Bush Golems and the two Tree Golems would be able to deal with the five Lizard Folk but it would take time.  After a couple of minutes he cancelled his summons and cast Glacial Void on to the five desert Lizard Folk.  The he summoned a Swamp of Briar to further slow and damage them.  He the hurled a Void Tsunami at the five monster to push and damage them a bit then he cast Void Chain Lightning and Void Storm.  The five desert Lizard Folk died from the bombardment of spells from him.

Mark looted the bubbles that burst from the corpse of the desert Lizard Folk and continued on.  This time he tried walking instead of casting his Levitation and he felt that the process of walking on the hot shifting sand dunes added to the feeling of adventure of exploring an unknown land so he decided then that if it's not needed, he would walk the rest of the dive.

The next group consisted of Elite and long range desert Lizard Folk.  The elites were actually riding Giant Scorpions.  He didn’t waste any time and bombarded them with Glacial Void, Swam of Briar, Void Chain Lightning, Void Storm and Void Tsunami.  Every enemy died without getting near him.

Mark completed the rest of the dungeon dive on the 12th Floor without any mishaps.  He understood clearly that since he was level 47, he probably wouldn’t find the dungeon difficult until he went past dungeon level 20.  It was only around two in the afternoon when he completed the dive.  Mark went to the 11th floor of the dungeon to store the  unidentified items there. He unequipped his dungeon items and repaired and cleaned them using his Inventory Item Restoration skill.  When he went to his bedroom, he received some texts from his friends. 

Armina and Enleed went to the research facility that Donald established for researching dungeon items and other possible magic items that he could find.  Sam and Melissa went out to talk to Donald’s brother to establish a company and rent out a place they could use in continuing Mark’s project of downloading the media content that he wanted.

Since everybody were busy, Mark ate his lunch alone then called Sebastian regarding his personal project of building a house in the 11th floor.  Sebastian said every materials that would be needed to build the villa would be collected and completed on Monday afternoon.  After the talk with the architect, Mark went to the 11th floor to sort out the unidentified items.

Mark destroyed all the normal white and rare green items and stored the gathered crafting materials on their storage cabinet that he prepared.  He then Identified one of the Magic Blue item to check it’s parameters.   The item that he identified was a magic blue robe.  There was a new parameter which was level.  It said that the item level of the robe that he got from the 12th floor of the dungeon was level three.  There was skill on the item and Mark got an inkling that skills on the items could only dropped either from super elites or bosses.  He replaced his equipped items with those that had better parameters and destroyed the rest keeping the crafting materials.

Mark checked his Status and it showed that he was now level 49 with 10 stat points and 23 skill points.  Based on what he read, he was wrong on expecting to receive new skill on reaching level 50 since it clearly said on the help section on the skill tree that the next skills would appear on him reaching level 60 so he decided to spend the stat and skill points.

Mark decided to put two points each to Strength, Vitality, Dexterity and Agility bringing them up to 12 from 10 and increasing his base HP to 360.  He kept the two remaining stats and would probably add it to his stats once it reached five.

Mark reviewed his Skill Tree, thinking of where to add the 23 skill points or if he should hold off on adding them to his current skills and wait until level 60.  He decided that he should add a few of them now and keep around five skill points.  He was torn on which Skill Tree he should begin adding the points, Gaia’s Disciple or Rune Engineer.