6 Dungeon

We spent the week studying the dungeon, since the format of the dungeon was a cave would be easier for Douglas to identify the paths so he was in charge of decorating the paths up to the eighth floor, the monsters of this dungeon were kobolds, said they were descendants of dragons, with their 1.3 ~ 1.5 meters and resembling bipedal lizards, their fighting force was greater than that of a goblin but smaller than that of an orc.

Of course, they would not have only normal kobolds, and would have magicians and great kobolds, for only then would it be a challenge for E Rank groups, not to mention that some inherited traces of dragons and could use the blast ability of fire.

We were in front of the guild at the agreed time, we soon saw a woman approaching us.

"I'll be your evaluator for this test, my name is Eva's adventurous B Rank I was assigned directly by Bor to do your evaluation." Eva says calmly. "Please follow me to the dungeon. There are some rules, the first is that I have no right to help you and any help on my part causes disqualification except in case of some fatal accident where when I interrupt it will be given to your evaluation." She gives us some time to understand and speak again "the second rule is if you pass the 7th floor and enter the 8th floor you will be automatically promoted to D Rank as soon as you return to guild and last but not least you will only have 12 hours to do it all, as soon as the 12 hours runs out you guys are forced to leave so that the next group can come in and I'll help clean up the monsters on the back to make it easier."

As we digested the information and thought of a way to streamline the process, we were soon at the entrance to the dungeon and the amount of people who came to see the show was very large.

"Why are so many people here if we're going to be down there for a long time?" Asks Remi.

"I'm taking a device that can record and transmit your progress in real time so you do not have any cases of theft during your run through the dungeon." Eva explains.

"Does that mean we're going to be watched by all these people?" Asks Hella.

"Yes and some that have the device directly connected to mine. Well let's start at 8a.m you have until 8p.m to stay inside."

As we enter the dungeon we feel the amount of mana surrounding changing along with the appearance of the place. It was a narrow cave that would close if three people stood shoulder to shoulder and need not even be people like me.

"Ronan, you and Remi are going to deal with two first floor the quick and easy way, so we can all save energy." Hella says, explaining the strategy.

Soon our first enemies appear, three kobolds holding second-hand swords running toward us, two in front and one in the back, an arrow fires and hits the first well in the head in the dungeon unless you have some special ability to hide your presence the monsters will know where you are then hiding does not make sense.

Kobolds to fight me one by one had no chance, a lock with my shield plus a lunge in the throat handled the second, plus an arrow ends with the third.

"They could not even warm those here." I say, making a few muscle movements.

"Well, whoever did most of the work was me after all," Remi says, showing her tongue.

"Oh! Let's see what else we can do until we get to the 3rd floor?" I say defying Remi.

"2 to 1 for now."

"Well, keep advancing to the second room." Says Hella.

Arriving in the second part, four kobolds comes towards us, I fire forward, my shield hits the head of the first one I see, I step aside to doge of a sword, a cut and his head leaves flying from his body soaking everything of blood, looking to the side two kobolds were defeated by arrows.

"4 to 3 hihihihi" says Remi laughing.

"We will continue" Hella

This time it was five kobolds all wielding swords, I was tired of fighting with these normal monsters, with just one step I get close enough to get one's head off, then I use my sword's hilt to hit anoter, it falls flat on your head, the strength of my body plus the weight of my metal boots crush the skull of the kobold, I did this only to realize when the third arrow was going to be fired, I hear the sound of the arc being fired, I feel the movement of the wind and below my sword, the arrow was split in two, but at that moment the kobold tries to attack me, but with his speed I have time to block with my shield, swish my sword cuts his arm off, he crazy with pain tries to punch me , he hits me, but does not cause the least damage to me or my armor, my sword crosses his chest as he kneels I tear his head off.

"Six to six now," I say to Remi in a provocative tone.

"I used to think crimson blades came from her hair and used two swords, but apparently it was wrong." Eva says, with a time of suppression.

"Nothing to discuss." says Hella.

Down the ladder to the 2nd floor of the dungeon, the only difference is the space that has widened just a little, taking that and that will come 4 waves of enemies instead of 3 and the increase of chance of having some kobold with some different weapon taking this was all the same, it barely took 10 minutes to get to the end of the 2nd floor.

"HAHAHAHA! I won 21 to 20 for myself" says Remi as she jumped.

"Do you want some prize?" I say with the bitter taste of defeat.

"Come here." Remi says and starts whispering in my ear.

Every word she speaks, makes my face sink more and more.

"Do I have to do this now? It could end up affecting our performance." I give you some tattered excuse.

"Okay, as soon as we're done you can do it, but as soon as we decide to finish, Eva is proof and sure she's remember. Eva?" Remi says as she looks at Eva.

"If this bet is as interesting as it looks I'll remember" Eva

"It's so much better than it looks, how good you'll remember it for us." - Remi.

On the 3rd floor we started walking more cautiously and this was rewarded for not being caught, 5 kobolds staring at us, 3 with swords and two magicians, magicians kobolds are dangerous because of their affinity with fire, my shield can disperse the heat, but it can not dispel the explosion.

As I imagined two fireballs coming toward us, I use my shield to defend one and cut the other with my sword, the explosion makes me take two steps back, a sword was coming toward my right shoulder, but he never hit me only blood came and the sound of a sword lying on the ground reached my ears, Hella should have taken the kobold's hand.

A peak of earth was prevented from killing a magician, for he used a mana barrier to protect himself, but he did not wait for the arrow to pierce his forehead. The second kobold mage was smarter and diverted from a flying dagger, as soon as I regained my balance I advanced to the kobold in front of me, his sword skills were much better than those of the kobolds on the 1st and 2nd floors, even so his strength still did not compare with mine.

As soon as his sword struck my shield a small flaw in his posture made him step back half a step, it was enough for Hella to cut his chest diagonally out of his life.

Now it was only 2 kobolds, the magician tried to sing a spell, but his attention was drawn when an arrow was coming towards him, as he deflected from the arrow a dagger fixed on his shoulder, Ana runs towards the magician, he tries to attack with an arcane missile, but Ana drifts easily even though she can not see, the kobold tries to hit Ana with his staff, but before he can do something he feels something cold in her throat and then hot, Ana's dagger had cut her throat doing he lose his magic singing skills and die drowned in his own blood.

The last kobold was not difficult after all the others had died, after recovering our things and the spoils we walked again, the battles became faster and faster after we learned to deal with magicians.

It was not half an hour since we entered the dungeon and we were already on the 4th floor, things began to get more difficult from that point, a kobolds warriors began to appear, their bodies had 1.8 meters and their scales were more resistant than the of normal kobolds or kobolds magicians.

Since the kobolds warriors will appear Hella beginnings use it [sharpness] to be able to cut them more easily, I could deal with their shield strokes or trimming with my sword, only one or two fell into my armor, but the damage was not considerable , they had the force of orcs, but their weapons were less heavy, since they carried shields.

We arrived on the 5th floor but instead of a ladder the one that was waiting for us was a double door, behind that door was the first chief of the dungeon, by the records the chief was a 2.5 meter kobold who wore a 2 meter sword , but that did not stop his speed.

"Remember Ronan you can not let him pass you, Ana just attack if you are sure to cause some damage, Douglas you if something wrong cover Ronan, Remi keep calling attention with your arrows and Mike do not let Ronan die."

Everyone nodded, the pressure to face a show strong enough to clear a group of E Rank was both exciting and frightening.

I push both doors and we enter the monster is already waiting for us standing with the sword in hand, he was bigger than I imagined.

I use [charge] hitting him with my shield, and already emitting a [shield strike] and all that happens is the monter giving two steps back, taking advantage of that I use [heavy blow] on his leg, but all he does is one small surface cut.

The monster uses a top-down attack, fast enough that I can not dodge, I keep my shield on the path, the blow falls on my shield like a mountain, my knee from behind doubles due to the prey, my hand holding the shield shield lost some sensitivity.

Before I can position myself better he was going to strike another blow, but an arrow stuck in his arm preventing him from attacking for a second, but that is what I need to deflect.

His sword falls on the ground, at that moment Douglas uses [mud] where the sword was going to fall then solidifies the ground in back of her, that time was enough Ana uses her enchanted daggers with venom of paralysis leaving her movements slower, and Hella makes her another short cut in the arm.

He uses all his strength to pull the sword from the ground, small pieces of stone fly everywhere on all sides.

Learning that this can happen he uses a vertical blow, instead of trying to deflect I take a step towards freight by putting my shield towards the sword, as soon as the impact hits me I attack his hands that hold the sword.

I am sent back at least 5 to 6 meters but I realize that your grip on the sword is weakening.

At that moment I feel a wave of heat in my body, Mike must have used healing on me, but the worst happens at that moment, the monster goes towards Mike with all his speed I could not run to him so I use [protection], I feel my head spinning and I feel drained.

This ability spends a lot of mana so I avoid using it, a mana shield forms around Mike that protects him from the first attack, but cracks can already be seen, Hella uses all his strength to make cuts on the monster's back, Ana climb on his neck, and thrust his two daggers, but is sent flying backwards.

The second blow destroys the mana shield I made. The monster's movements have become much slower, Mike is still frozen in place.

I get to the front of the monster, I kick Mike at his safeest distance, the blow hits my chest, even if my armor does not knead and dissipate part of the blow I'm still sent flying until I hit a wall, blood stain the inside of my helmet, my vision darkens time seems to stop.

My partners and friends facing a giant monster, I can not stay here lying down, let's go, the fight did not stop, Ana took a blow from the syrup and can only use one arm, Hella tries to trim the blows her arms are trembling with pain , Douglas is pale as an evil vampire and does not stop singing spells, Mike has recovered and is healing Hella, Remi was hit by a stone in the leg and now is immobilized to move with his grace always.

Leaning my sword to the ground I find my target, with all my might, reaching the monster full, all my strength was behind this attack, the weakened monster kneels.

My sword pierces through his ribs, a thorn of dirt enters his chest, a cut at his throat guarantees his death.

As soon as the body falls on its own weight all collapse on the floor of tiredness, I remain standing, my body can not move anymore just remain in that position.

Soon Mike began to heal everyone, we were prepared for it, bought basic mana and health potions to deal with such a situation, all who needed to take a health potion, Mike and Douglas took potions of mana.

Mike came to my side to help heal me to expedite the process so we could get out of this dungeon as quickly as possible.

We sat for an hour recovering from the battle, after a fight like this and our near death we got up with a morale and focus greater than before, the support that comes from your companions makes you one step further when it is necessary.

We opened the way for the 6th floor, but going through these normal monsters was so simple, our coordination improves with every battle. Now he understood why our group was advancing faster than the others, each one who came to fight has a sense of space and battle greater than most.

Each step we took in this dungeon filled the corridors with blood, if our weapons and abilities were inferior to much we could not do what we did with mastery, inside this dungeon we were a single machine to kill, blood filled everyone's clothes, our vision dyed scarlet made us walk forward.

We easily reached the 8th in just 3 hours, at which point Hella speaks.

"We give up."

Eva looks at us in amazement. She would never expect us to give up after everything we've been through, maybe she even thought we were going to clean up this dungeon.

"What do you mean, quit?" Ask Eva

"We got to the 8th floor so we're considered D Rank right?"

"Yes."

"So we do not want to be part of the championship to see who goes further, so far it's very good."

"Are you sure about that?" Eva asks.

"Absolute." Hella.

"Ronan." Says Remi.

"What?" I answer

"The bet," his mocking smile on our face made me angry.

I wipe the blood from my sword and keep it in its sheath, take off my helmet and walk slowly toward Eve.

Thankfully Remi did not specify how I should say this if it would not be 10 times worse knowing what she can do.

Eva stares at me thinking of what I can do, I come to her side and say.

"Eva from the first moment I saw you I fell in love with you, that as we go to have some drinks one of these days" knowing that many people are seeing and hearing this only makes it even more shameful.

Eva looks in my direction, then at Remi who is laughing, then she takes a better look at me, stares at my face, takes an item from her pocket, should be the transmitter, she turns it off and speaks in my ear.

"Of course, when we get out of the dungeon we talk better about it." she says to me.

After that she turns and starts guiding our way back through the dungeon, the advantage of the way back is that we did not have to face the head of the 5th floor again and as soon as we left the dungeon I feel many glances over me.

But now that she looks at Eva, her body is may be hidden by a wizard's cloak, but her appearance must be good, of course she will not be defined as a fighter, but her face is very beautiful, it seems that I ended up winning that bet without realizing it.