Venerable Chapter 22: Chapter 22: Earthquake

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A few days had already passed since the announcement of the special event. Somewhere inside a dungeon. "These types of dungeons with monsters are much easier to clear than the puzzle ones," one of the men from Gareth's group said. He had introduced himself as Mark earlier. He was talking to Dustin, who was busy looking at his status window. They had already cleared the last dungeon about a day and a half ago. They had entered this new dungeon about ten hours ago, but they still could not find any monsters or anything dangerous. Dustin did not reply. He was still looking at his glowing stats window. [ Physical Strength: 49 ] [ Vitality: 44 ] [ Agility: 59 ] [ Stamina: 47 ] [ Endurance: 40 ] [ Perception: 50 (maxed out) ] [ Wisdom: 15 ] [ Intelligence: 26 ] [ Bonus stat points: +3 ] [ One of your skill stats has maxed out. ] [ You can now either upgrade it or evolve it to another passive skill after reaching Level 20. ] Dustin had already reached Level 15 after clearing the previous dungeon with the group. "You have been staring at your status window for the fifth time since we entered this dungeon," Mark pointed out with a loud sigh. "I hear you," Dustin said. He finally closed his status window. "I was just thinking about this maxed out skill. Do you guys know anything about this? All of you already have much higher levels than mine." "Not really," Arina replied while walking alongside them. "Even though we have many people in the camp, none of them have any of their skills maxed out yet." "Do you know anyone who does?" Arina asked while looking at Gareth. "No," Gareth said. He looked at Dustin with a serious expression. "Actually, your Perception stat is much higher than your overall level. We have many Rogue class people in the camp, but none of them have fifty points in their perception and other classes have even less. Even the guy with the highest level in Rouge class is Level 22, and his highest perception stat is only forty-three points." "I am only Level 15 right now," Dustin muttered. "I guess I will just have to find out what happens when I reach Level 20." "Anyway, what do you guys think of this new event?" Dustin asked to change the topic. "It is called Choose A Cicada. Do we have to catch a bug and make them fight with other people's bugs? Or will we get gigantic bugs and have to ride them in a race? Haha." It turned out that no one laughed at his joke. The tunnel remained awkwardly silent. Dustin just turned toward Mark, who had become a decent friend to him over these last few days. Mark was very talkative. Dustin was not very social and did not like to talk much, so he usually ignored Mark just like everyone else did. But right now, the awkward silence was too much. Dustin thought starting another conversation with Mark would be a better choice. "Like I was saying, killing monsters is way easier than that dungeon we cleared first," Mark started speaking immediately as soon as Dustin turned toward him. "We had to solve so many different puzzles just to move forward, while also killing many monsters along the way." Mark kept speaking happily, but Dustin just pretended to listen to him. Mark had already told this exact same story to him four times. "We have not encountered anything in this dungeon so far, and it has been around twelve hours," Gareth said, interrupting Mark. "Yeah, I also think it is very suspicious," Arina added. "Let us take a small break for now," Gareth commanded. "But everyone be on guard. This is a medium grade dungeon." About eleven hours ago. [ You have discovered a Medium Grade Dungeon ] [ Minimum number of people required to enter: 4 ] [ Minimum average level of all people entering: 20 ] [ Maximum number of people allowed at a time: 10 ] [ Task: Kill the Dungeon Bosses under 24 hours ] [ Rewards: 3500 points per person and Experience based on performance ] [ Enter: Y / N ] "So..." Dustin started calculating on his fingers while looking at the floating text. "Now I get it. Our average leve