Is it wrong to be an Elf in a Dungeon?

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Ember Pov

I looked at the establishment in front of me, it was without a doubt a potion shop. There were no potion makers here, thus the potion was imported for the nearby places. Thus, the price of the potions here unfortunately was a bit more than their average price, however still less than in Orario. I entered through the opened gate, and a woman welcomed me," Welcome Sir! We are Merry Potions shop! You can find Potions! Mind Potions, High Potions and other stuff here!", she said introducing their products.

" I would like ten Potions, two Mind Potions, one High Potions and Seven poison bags", I quickly ordered the stuff I wanted. Her eyes shined hearing my order, as it was quite big and thus without any delay she started taking out the stuff, and finally said," Each potion costs 400 valis, a Mind potion costs 9000 valis, and a high potion's current price is 15,000 valis. Poison bags cost 100 valis per each, so that would make your order... around 37,700 valis."

I winced slightly at hearing the price inside my mind but nodded calmly, taking out a few pouches, I lined them up, each contained 10,000 valis, so after sorting it out in front of her, I gave her money and took the goods. ' Damn now that I don't have the support of my monthly allowance it is going to hurt, well I still have three million valis stored up, so it's fine ', I thought.

I have earned around 46,000 valis last week hunting with the party, so basically my all costs were covered. ' I also have two Elixirs stored up, and this makes it around seven High potions that are left, I have only ten potions, and two mind potions and seven and half poison bags ', I thought and recalled all the items I have.

I quickly left the potions in my room, in a secure place. I have sneakily broken the wall behind the cupboard, and made a secret storage stash, I also made the opening such that once closed it does not produce a different sound compared to the rest of the wall. Thus, taking two mind potions, three potions and a high potion I quickly departed for my hunt.

With my recent adventuring I have got a gist of the surrounding area, the Argon Town is surrounded by a forest, and one can find the strongest monsters on two sides, Northeastern side and Western South side, former was towards the Dragon Valley, and latter was the direction towards the Orario, thus it made sense for the monsters to be in huge amount there.

Taking the advantage of my race and my slightly superhuman abilities, I jumped from tree to tree, avoiding the monsters like kobolds and Goblins, and finally saw a horde of Killer Ants. I observed the surroundings and them for a while before jumping on top of a killer Ant, and thrusting my sword through it's body and finishing it.

*Screech!* *Screech!*

The killer ants clicked their mandibles rapidly and charged at me. I smirked, and charged as well, with a jump, I slayed one, and then with another thrust I sliced another to two along with its magic stone completely disintegrating it. The swings of my sword cleaved through their bodies; my equipment undoubtedly was of a high quality made to kill Level 5 monsters.

Thus, with my strength and its sharpness I quickly slayed all the Killer Ants. Once I was finished slaying them, I heard the rustling of bushes, I grew wary and heard a voice," Wait a minute, Sir Elf!", I quickly looked to find four people, three men and one woman. I have seen their party in the Guild, my eyes narrowed, as I readied myself for chant.

Meanwhile I started focusing on my hearing to see if there was a hidden Archer. He suddenly raised in his hand in surrender and said," Sir Tithonus, while I can understand your wariness, can you listen to me first? We have no hostile intentions, it was just we were hunting here when we found you hunting this horde, to be honest I am impressed, and while I know you belong to Chad's team, however you aren't it's true party member, so would you like to form a party with us? "

My senses told me he wasn't lying, however better to be prepared. I pretended to let my guard down, however I was completely on alert, I can imagine an arrow whizzing out of nowhere towards me, but seeing that no arrow came I finally looked at their party and replied," Thankyou for your invitation, however I have no plan to party up", my words caused his expression to change into one or regret.

They didn't pester me any longer, and with some with some parting words left the place, I sighed and looked at the carcasses of the killer ants lying on the ground. I sheathed my sword and taking out my dragger I started dismembering them taking out their magic stones, thankfully all recorded monsters had a set place for their Magic stone, so I was quickly able to take 56 Magic stones.

It was a big haul, equivalent to that guy's party's one day haul, however, for me it was just the beginning as I got on top of a tree, I took a bit of packed dried jerky, ate it and drank some water while taking rest. Once I had recovered I continued with my search, jumping from one tree to other nimbly.

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I stared at the ugly creature in front of me, whether in games or fictions, or even reality, these creatures are ugly as ever. They are Orcs, pig monsters known for their strength, in this world they are just Level 1 Monsters, well known for their strength. Meeting them head on is suicide, only a Level 2 dares to do that.

" Cremation!", I used my magic taking them by surprise and blasting a few of them dead, only two survived, even then they were injured, I nimbly got down the tree and started running around, meeting it head on was risky, even if it was weaker than its dungeon variant infamous for making Level 2 Adventurers immobile, it wasn't a weak monster.

Once I had ran around it, I quickly turned and charged at the Orc behind the first one, It stared at me and roared, and punched, ducking below, I sliced its arm through and turning around, I jumped on it's back and thrusted my sword through its throat killing it, then moved back to create some distance between me and the other Orc, which charged towards me.

I nimbly moved to the side, and sliced through its side, it roared and turned around, punching towards me, I moved back avoiding them and quickly started running away, it charged again, with another swift move, I moved to its side and got behind it, taking the advantage of the situation, I jumped and thrusted my sword in its head.

It cried in pain and fell down, dead. I started panting and looked around quickly for another threats, after a few seconds I saw a lone goblin roar and move towards me, I quickly slayed it, and after that no monsters were nearby. I quickly started taking out the Magic stones, and once I have taken them out, I quickly climbed on top of a tree to rest.

I sipped water and ate some dried jerky, suddenly I heard a loud roar. My eyes squinted as I climbed higher to see the monster, and I finally saw it. ' An Infant Dragon ', I concluded, it was a Level 2 monster and stronger than your average Minotaur. Now, there were two options left for me, either to retreat or to advance.

While killing it in combat is impossible for me, I can slay it with my magic. Though another thought loomed in my mind,' Why the monster is here? Normally, only Level 1 monsters can be found here ', it was concerning for obvious reasons, but it wasn't the place to think about it, so make a quick decision I started jumping from tree to tree, from a branch to branch while chanting.

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3rd Pov

" O'Flames of Legends! Burn brighter than thy enemy! ", he chanted as he jumped on another tree, and grabbing the branch swung himself to the top of another thick branch, landing on it, his speed continued becoming faster, at some point, his movement was inhumane. One can argue why he wanted to be strong, he was born as Royalty among Elves, he had high-level elves as his protectors and the comfort of rich, then why?

" Turn them into cinders! Let their Ashes wash in your blue flames! ", he continued the chanting. The answer was clear, that's why he was going against the monster that can kill him. Abandoning the safety of his castle, he yearned to travel the world, see the mystical sights that were just a fantasy in his past life. To fulfill his dream he needed strength, does he need a tragic cliche background to have the drive? The motive? To have hatred against monsters? Nope, his drive stemmed from his goal, and it was ever burning, everlasting.

" Cremation! ", he finished the chant, and had arrived near the Infant Dragon, which roared looking at him, but was met by a torrent of bluish hell, that descended upon it's scales. The scales that it was proud of melted under the bluish flames, the muscles that were its strength, burned and scorched, it's life like a fleeting ember, was extinguished, in a few seconds it dropped dead.

While Ember dropped on the ground, feeling pain in his legs as his drop from the height was rapid. " Haha! Holy Mother of cow! That was reckless as hell and freaking fantastic!", he laughed out loud seeing the dead body of the monster, he had used up nearly half of his mana to kill the monster. He could have used less mana to kill it, after all he had killed an infant dragon once before getting falna.

However, he didn't want the infant dragon to survive by fluke, so he used more mana than necessary toasting it alive. After cheering up for a while he got up, he could feel his legs were almost numb due to his reckless drive, but seeing the dead body of the Infant Dragon, made him grin. He took an health potion, chugging it down his throat and kept the empty glass tube back in his pocket.

He moved towards the infant dragon's corpse which dissipated as he started digging out its magic stone, and he was pleasantly surprised by the loot it dropped. It was a huge dragon scale, which can be used to forge considerably strong armor. " My luck is quite good huh? ", he muttered, but after that he felt troubled.

He can't take the loot back to the guild, for monster stone he can break it into small pieces however if he were to take the Dragon's scale, people will be either jealous of him or will realize he is a magic prodigy. He was leaning for a small genius, who is thriving to become a proficient Magic Swordsman background, not a prodigy who can kill a monster higher level than his own, when he had been an adventurer barely for two months.

So, after pondering for a while, he hid it and brough a bag and waited till midnight before returning to the inn and hiding it there. ' I should buy a house ', a thought came up, while using an inn had it's pros, it would be better if he had his own house. In such a rural area, making an wooden house, and the price of land will not exceed 500,000 valis and even then it will be quite an comfortable place.

For now, though he decided to rest, it was already midnight and having a late night snack was all he could afford before heading to sleep, he was really tired with today's hunting however a satisfied look was on his face as he slept quietly. Even then he looked Elegant, thus with a satisfied hunt, Ember's first day of solo hunting was over.

To be continued...