I am not a Fantasy Hero

Chapter 08: First Floor

[Floor 01]

[Finish 100 bloody bats from the caves]

[No time limit]

"Are you kidding me?"

Julio immediately turned around and started climbing the stairs "now that I think about it more carefully, the sand worm didn't seem like a bad idea either" before he could get out a translucent barrier stood in his way "a barrier? Great, I'm stuck in this place with bats that for some reason seem very dangerous to me."

He hadn't finished with one problem when another one appeared and apparently it was much more problematic than the previous one, murdering a hundred animals was not something an ordinary person could do, even if he labeled them as monsters they were still real life forms, of course all of the above counted as long as Julio himself could murder, even if it was just one of these bats.

"I think the first step is to find a bat, usually in the movies they appear..." Julio took a drink and looked up "at the ceiling of the cave."

Over Julio's head there were many bats resting, apparently the sound of his own feet had not woken them up, good news.

Now that Julio had found the bats he had another problem.

"They don't seem to be resting in solitary, I don't think there are a hundred in this cave, there may even be thousands of these idiots and if I attack one I'll probably have a lot of idiots to worry about."

Julio looked closely at the bats "their size is comparable to that of a cat, about twenty-five centimeters, they are as big as the largest species of bats on earth, the Philippine flying fox."

Nervous at the situation Julio took a gulp of saliva and moved away from his position slowly, backing away without raising noise, the last thing he needed at this moment was trouble with flying rats.

Julio walked through the cave trying to create a map in one of his notebooks, he did not want to get lost as happened before in the desert.

The exit was not far away, there were a few dark dead end passages, but nothing special, there were no holes or other problems.

"good, I have a structured map, now I must think how to assassinate a hundred of these things" Julio took a look at the ceiling, there were sectors where these beings were concentrated in greater numbers and others in lesser numbers, but he never saw one isolated from the group.

"even the bats stay in groups, if I had stayed with the rest this wouldn't be happening" he rubbed his hands through his hair annoyed with himself.

"well, I have other tests to do before I assassinate these things" he went back to the entrance of the dungeon and tried to get out again, but that strange force in the form of a barrier prevented him from leaving "well, leaving through here and through the goal is completely the same, if I don't finish the mission then there's no way to get out alive".

With that in mind he decided to use a small pebble and threw it outside, but it too couldn't get through the barrier "what's inside the barrier doesn't come out of the barrier, well, pretty useful concept" Julio nodded his head.

He performed the same pebble test at the exit of the cave, it didn't change anything one side of the other, that was also recorded in Julio's notebook, now he just had to come up with a plan of action and a way to finish off a hundred bats while managing to get out alive.

The first step in the course of action was to check the cave again for things that might be useful.

"Wood, there is enough to build a house in this place, I suppose if someone were in my situation they would use this wood as a weapon to fight with, but I have other plans."

Silently Julio gathered some wood in his hands and carried it towards different points of the cave.

He piled up the wood so that it looked like he was making several campfires.

"Julio laughed in his mind, he searched through his belongings until he found the lighter he usually used at home.

Before moving on to the next step, Julio folded his jacket several times and took off his last sock, he poured half of his water reserve into the sock soaking it completely, then put it between the folds of his jacket and put it on his face as if it was a gas mask.

"all right, see you in hell rats, this is not personal, just something necessary" he said to himself to keep his composure.

One by one the stacks of wood were lit in sequence, a total of thirty stacks of wood producing smoke in large quantities.

Upon finishing the third stage of his plan, Julio stopped just to one side of the barrier to advance to the next floor, it was a matter of time.

After about ten minutes the first alert came from the system

[You killed a bloody bat of the caverns (lvl 36)]

[you gain 500 exp]

[You killed a bloody bat of the caverns (lvl 35)]

[you earn 470 exp]

[You killed a bloody cave bat (lvl 31)]

[you earn 400 exp]

[You killed a bloody bat of the caverns (lvl 40)]

[you earn 800 exp]

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[You completed the quest]

[bloody cave bat killed: 677/100].

[You killed more than 500 members of the Chiroptera family of the same species in less than six hours.]

[Congratulations!]

[You obtained the title "Terror of the Chiroptera."]

[Every individual of the Chiroptera family has a 30% chance of becoming paralyzed for 7 seconds when in your presence]

[+8 points]

[You leveled up]

[You leveled up]

[You leveled up]

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