Erin and his team meet up again in the morning, they discuss what they are going to do today.
Erin says "Why don't we explore the dungeon again? The floors after floor ten should result in some good earnings."
Ike responds with "We can but we are not strong enough to fight many A Rank monster or even an S Rank monster that appears further in."
Erin grins "I see... but with my new weapon i think we will be just fine."
"We already know your destructive force but a single bow doesn't increase your power that much." Gary says.
Erin quickly says "Then lets go to one of the mining caverns that have been taken over by giant stone lizards. I could use resources to craft new weapons with and it would be a good money source for today at least."
Min quickly says "that's a good idea actually, giant stone lizards are worth a good chunk of money and they are C Rank monsters which will help us level up faster."
They all agree to head to the mining caverns in the eastern forest. Upon arriving they set up a small camp for a break before heading in, using this time to test Erin's new bow.
Erin stands away from the group and looks into the sky pulling his bow out and notching an arrow, "let's see how strong I can make this single shot."
He quickly forms multiple magic circles, enchanting the arrow with speed boost, mithral edge and a delayed fire ball spell. After the enchantments activate he fires the arrow into the sky, as it launches the speed of the arrow is increadible and the strength behind it leaves a burst of wind in its path. It reaches high into the sky sperating some clouds along its path before it explodes with an intense fire the heat being felt by the whole party.
He returns to the group with a grin, "looks pretty strong to me, a huge explosion isn't good for closed in areas but wide open areas like this its pretty good." He says before sitting down for some food.
After eating the all head into the mine shafts quickly making their way through the tunnels. Erin lets Arnold explore next to him as they mine out various ores mainly common iron and occasionally some gold.
Suddenly a group of two giant stone lizards appear, utilizing earth magic the lizards trap everyone in rocks, as panic sets in to everyone but Erin. Erin quickly draws his bow and launches two arrows enchanted with speed boost and mithral edge.
The arrows skewered the lizards before they are engulfed in flames from Arnolds attack, they swiftly fall to the ground dead leaving behind ores of gold and iron.
After a few hours they leave the mine after collecting mountains of gold and iron and killing 13 stone lizards.
They get back to their camp and count all of their earnings. As they are counting they realise large amounts of their gold ore is missing. After a quick search they find nothing, like the ore just disappeared.
They head home separately after deviding up all of the ores, Erin returns to the guild to look at his status to see how he is progressing.
Placing his hand on the crystal he looks at the display screen;
Erin
Gold: 152
Silver: 12
Class: Mage
Level 60 EXP 3500/5000
Health: 68618.6
Mana: 343298.4
Stamina: 68618.6
Strength: 34308.7
Speed: 13680.2
Skills: (13/♾️)
Skill Master - SS Rank 0/0
Ultimate recovery - SS Rank 1/1 (recovers 10000 Mana, Stamina and Health every second)
Infinite growth - S Rank 0/0
Ultimate EXP boost - S Rank 0/1 (Increases EXP gain by 10 times)
Ultimate fire magic - S Rank 1/2
Master Ranged weapon - A Rank 0/2
Master language understanding - A Rank 2/4
Master Light magic - A Rank 0/2
Major blacksmithing - B Rank 0/3
Major craftsmanship - B Rank 0/3
Major monster taming - B Rank 1/3
Major enchanting - B Rank 1/4
Major mining - B Rank 1/4
Equipment:
Tracking golden flame bow - B Rank
-Tracks targets up to 10 meters away and follows them.
- coats arrows in a dull golden flame that deals an extra 10% damage and has a piercing effect.
Languages:
English lv 5, spirit language lv 5, elven language lv 5, dwarf language lv 5, monster language lv 5, ruin script language lv 5 and monster god language lv 2
Giant Blue slime (Arnold)
Uncommon (0.5kg/1kg)
Level 30
Health: 258
Mana: 725.6
Stamina: 510.1
Strength: 129.8
Speed: 63.8
Defence: 212.7
Skills: (4/10)
Enhanced Language Understanding - C Rank
Enhanced Recovery - C Rank (Recovers 100 mana, stamina and health every second)
Focused Damage Reduction - D Rank (Reduces damage taken by 30%)
Focused fire magic - D Rank
His stats have improved significantly as well as his skills have improved. Maybe he needs to focus on more defensive skills like the damage reduction skill Arnold has or something.
Technically his stats are already on par with some of the strongest in the countries already.
With a smile Erin looks at Arnold's stats seeing that he has had a small increase but not much but like before an evolution tracker is next to his rarity. Erin ponders what the tracker is for, thinking about before when all of the gold went missing, "must be consuming gold ore to evolve." Erin mumbles to himself.
They head back home to relax for the day.