20 Chapter 16: dungeon exploration
Emyrs and his team safely arrived at the dungeon entrance. A large inn greeted their sight of view. It was enormous in size and luxury, fitting to keep a high ranking adventurer.
They had organize themselves before meeting up. Russell was, expectedly, late again. However, he wasnt too late as he complaint about someone knocking on his door at rapid intervals. (I wonder who?)
Entering the depths of dungeon, it wasnt like one would expect, stench and filth was nowhere to be seen. Instead, clean purified air ran up Emyrs nose, which was a surprise to him.
In some areas, he could savor the light sweet scent of cavern flowers. In some areas, he could taste the saltiness of the sea. In some, it was a vivid image of plain grassland that tickled his toe. In others, he could see the brilliance of the crystal that illuminated the dungeon. It was truly bizarre.
Emrys: (asked) Are all dungeons like this?
Russell: Like what?
Emyrs: You know, dungeon that changes its scenery once in a while.
Russell: (?) Dont you know this dungeon is famous for its illusion and rare monsters.
Emyrs: Rare monsters are strengthen version of their kind. Wont it be too hard for us?
Russell: You scared?
Emyrs: (shook his head) Not at all.
Russell: (shrugged) Well whatever.
Natsumi: (toward Emyrs) Is this your first time here?
Emyrs: Yeah, (made up some lame excuse) I was focusing on ranking up to B rank when I was in C rank.
Natsumi: (brought it) Oh
Russell: (retorted) What an unamusing life!
Faelyn: (flatly) What an annoying person.
Russell: (pulled up his sleeves) Huh? Wanna fight?
Faelyn: You think I would want to waste my time with you? (you already are!)
Russell: (jumping around like a monkey, in a challenging expression) Look, look, someones scared!
Faelyn: (flushed) Roar!
The rest was history
Dungeon: floor 3
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Natsumi: (pointed towards a golden pig) There, an exclusively rare monster!
Sarah: (suggested) Golden pigs are strong but slow, we should keep a distance to have an advantage against it.
Emyrs opened the stats of the golden pig, in search of more information.
Status
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Name: Golden Pig
Title: [rare monster]
Race: dungeon monster
Level: 39
Health: 5,000
Mana: 0
Attack: 50
M.Attack: 0
Defense: 45
M.Defense: 20
Agility: 8
Luck: 0
Equipment
[none]
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Rare monsters in a dungeon are equivalent to finding treasures in ancient ruins, a jackpot. They are nothing more than a chromatic version of the original ones. Those rare monsters often has a crucial weakness to defeat them. In addition, it is a guarantee that they would drop rare loot that is an easy way to earn a quick buck. (this is one of the many reasons why dungeons are so desired and why the aristocrats manipulate them)
Natsumi: leader, your instruction
Emyrs: instruction? (laughed) attack it of course.
Everyone: (another absolute silence)
Emyrs: (chuckled) Alright, no more fooling around.
Everyone: (retorted) your the one fooling around!!!
Team leaders are expected to lead well and the other members are expected to follow their orders. Expected. If the other members see fit, they may or may not follow or complete out the orders.
Emyrs: (unexpectedly, showing dominance) Everyone, into formation!
Alice: yea~
Everyone else: (startled, stared at each other before looking back and shouted) Yes sir!
Emyrs: Gaviel take agro, Russell flank from behind dont let it escape, melee classes keep a distance, attack only when you get the chance to, ranged classes slowly deteriorate its health!
In a dungeon, everything works like a game, except that when youre dead, your gone. In fact, everything in this world works like a game, the only difference is the accessibility of game features. This also explain why emyrs abilities were so game like.
An arrow flashed past Gaviel...
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Faelyn: (widen eyes) Now thats some bull
The golden pig didnt run away like a coward but instead scratched its belly, scorned with his head tilted towards the sky, before acting like nothing had happened, continuing to stroll down the park with occasional glances at them.
Faelyn: (clearly provoked, breathed out fire) YOU DAMN PIG!!! Have a taste of my yin yang ray! [shots a beam of light and darkness that deals 20x the damage of a normal attack on a single target, and creates an explosion that blast everything off of it in a 50 meter range]
Energy from the surrounding started to gather onto Faelyns bow to form an arrow that shoulders both taint and purity, clearly Faelyn was going all out.
Swoosh!
Boom!
A cosmic explosion occurred, as the damage were contained in a small dungeon, their effects were multiplied and everyone in the team was blown of by the incoming blast wave.
Russell: (the one who was blasted the furthest, complained) Were you trying to kill us?! That's an overkill!
Emyrs: It's coming
Russell: (confused) huh?
Out of the smoky cloud came a pig, a polish metallic pig that charged towards them with fiery eyes.
Russell: Its not dead?!!!
Emyrs: Nope, just half gone. [-2360]
Russell: (hold his head with both of his arms) Thats rigged!
Sarah: (suspecting) That pig probably had a defensive skill.
Natsumi: stop chit chatting, its coming!
Gaviel, holding his large shield, went head to head towards the golden pig.
Gaviel: defensive charge! [reduced damage by 25% while dealing 150% more damage]
Gabriel's speed was significantly reduce while his defence was increased.
Boom-
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He was knocked backwards a few meters, but he was holding on fimly.
Gaviel: (glared at the pig with a twisted smile, truly unusual) And thats ⅕ of my health gone...
Emyrs: (toward Alice, telepathic) Alice, tone down your damage, dont stand out too much.
Alice nodded in concussion / concurring
Alice: Fire blast! [shots a stream of flames for 3 seconds and burns whatever it makes contact with every second for 15 seconds]
A thick stream of sharp raging flames surrounded and wrapped around the golden pig.
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Emyrs: Its weak against magic attacks. Focus on dealing magic damage.
Everyone nodded (note that no one has the same ability like Emyrs in the team, except for scout classes)
Russell: arcane fire whirl! [spins to create a blue flame beyblade and deals stacking damage for 5 seconds] (note that this ability is magic damage based)
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Natsumi: furious claws [rapidly attack 5 times on everything in front of her in a certain small radius]
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Faelyn all out assault made it less taxing on the team and after a long while they finally defeated the golden pig. Of course, Emyrs did the least in terms of damage.
Proof-
Of goes the pig carcass in an blink on an eye. What remained was a strip of long crispy golden cured meat(bacon).
End
