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"Let's do this!"

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Once the group entered the gate they were transported to a completely new plain of existence, they were in a tropical forest with lush green vegetation and high mountainsvin the distance.

"This is new," Denki said, he had never seen a dungeon like this before.

"Get used to it, because most high rank gates lead to landscapes such as this," Tanaka informed everyone, as he had the mist experience in high rank dungeons because of his position in the Draw Sword Guild.

"Hn," Itachi merely grunted and started walking forward into the forest.

The others followed suit and subconsciously found themselves forming a diamond formation with Ken, the healer, in the middle. Tanaka was on point and Denki at the base of the formation with Itachi and Mai flanking either side of Ken.

They all understood the importance of protecting the healer in a gate, the were the ones to change the tide of battle in a raid singlehandedly.

'It's quiet here...really quiet here,' Ken thought with growing alarm. His eyes widened when an arrow came flying right to his face, it would have taken him down in one shot had it not been caught by Itachi.

'He saved my life so casually!' Ken thought astonished and relieved. It proved that his alarm was warranted and that he wasn't the only one to sense the danger.

"Everyone on guard! The monsters have made their presence known," Tanaka commanded everyone.

"Arrows is a curious opening move don't you think, Itachi?" Mai asked Itachi.

"It must mean that the enemy is suggesting that they have us surrounded," Itachi responsed to the posed question.

"If that's the case then I can draw them out!" Tanaka exclaimed confidently

[Taunt!]

"Make yourselves known, you cowards!" He shouted using his skill causing the monsters to start rain down countless arrows on their position.

"I think you were a bit too rash there!" Denki shouted out everyone's thoughts. Tanaka just grinned and used another skill to defend everyone.

Dark orange mana began gathering around his body while he turned his head upward in the trajectory of the arrows and then let out a mana enhanced shout,

[Force Shout!]

His shouting skill deflected all the arrows heading for them, "It's not a problem for me to deal with unmanly opponents attacking from the shadows!" He explained with an excited grin forming on his face.

'He's in that guild for a reason I guess,' Mai thought amazed at Tanaka's casual strength.

Suddenly multiple 2m tall, green trolls started making their presence known from the shadows of the trees, Denki reacted immediately and started gathering silver mana around his necklace.

[6 Star Rain!]

36 magic arrows fired from Denki's necklace and impaled all the trolls surrounding the group, He the snapped his fingers and caused the arrows to explode and kill all the monsters.

'That was more draining than I thought. These guys are tougher than I thought,' Denki sweated from the amount of mana he used to take out all the trolls.

"Wrrrahh!!"

A roar was suddenly let out by a troll holding a huge hammer, it was 3m in size with dark green skin as well as aggressive blood red eyes that screamed with bloodlust. The troll shot forward from it's position at the end of the path towards the rushing river behind it with lightning fast speeds.

'It's my time to shine!' Mai thought with a grin as she ran to face the troll head on.

[Serpent's Strike!]

She slammed her right green mana covered gauntlet into the trolls gut sending it back a couple of meters.

'She was holding back that much power in our battle, huh,' Itachi thought mildly impressed with the power behind an unrestricted Mai.

"I haven't even gotten started yet!" Mai shouted almost as if she read Itachi's mind.

[Viper's Assault!]

She then unleashed a barrage of pressure point blows on the troll. At the end of the assualt it could only widen it's bloody eyes as if fell to the ground defeated.

'Another mana stealing technique as well,' Itachi thought, hypothezing that Mai didn't kill the troll from the blows she landed, but by draining the mana from it completely.

"Ah man! I thought he would he lasted longer than that? Whatever it doesn't matter, so what did you think, Itachi?" Mai said relaxing after dominating the troll.

Itachi responded by casually throwing 3 shuriken and deflecting 3 arrows coming from his blindspots. "Don't let your gaurd down," he said simply, "Hmp! Show-off!" Mai just dismissed his statement with a casual grin.

"There are 6 archers positioned 600m away from us on high vantage points, I think that taunt skill of yours drew most of them out," Itachi explained the situation to Tanaka.

"That's good to hear. You think you can take them out without them knowing?" Tanaka hazarded a guess that since Itachi was an assassin he could probably erase his presence.

Itachi didn't verbally reply and only leaped into the treeline and vanished from sight.

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Itachi had his Sharingan activated so it didn't take long for him to locate the archers precise positions. He leaped from tree to tree and eventually reached a clearing, he noticed that there was a plateau in the distance and guessed that the archers preached themselves on that landmark.

'They're in an advantageous position compared to me, they will most definitely see me approaching them before I even get close. They most likely will launch higher scaled projectiles since I bypassed their initial assault team,' Itachi analyzed the situation and was coming up with countermeasures to his own theories.

Itachi's instincts suddenly screamed at him to dodge an incoming attack. He dodged an attack from a troll that had giant axe in it's hands.

'I didn't sense it's presence until the last moment! Wait...I located the archers way to easily,' Itachi then realized that this was a ploy to draw them out and catch in an even more disadvantageous position than catching them unawares in the forest.

'They must be able to hide their presence, but I can't imagine it's a technique that trolls are capable of performing,' Itachi thought while easily avoiding the swipes of the troll aiming to take his head off. 'The archers must have placed some kind of concealment spell on them to catch people off guard and kill them. Whatever they are, they're very cunning predators and need to be dealt with quickly,' he concluded on his thoughts and finished his fight with troll by jumping over it while simultaneously throwing kunai that ran right through its head without resistance. He landed elagantly after the maneuver and glared straight at the plateau with his glowing scarlet eyes.

"No matter what you do these eyes of mine can see through your deception," Itachi said resolutely.

He then ran forward with impossible speed, he looked up and saw huge flaming boulders headed straight to his general vicinity.

[Fire style: Flaming Shuriken Teccnique!]

He threw up 3 Shuriken at mouth level and spit out mana flames from his mouth igniting the shuriken and sending them hurtling towards the boulders destroying them.

Itachi continued to close the distance between him and the plateau as he began running up the landmark whilst a barrage of arrows were launched at him.

[Fire Style: Grand Fireball Technique!]

He spit out a gigantic fireball of death that absolutely annihilated the arrows raining down on him. 'Back to arrows...strange?' Itachi thought as he ran without pause to the top of the plateau. Once he reached the top he came face to face with the enemy, Dark Elves.

There were around 16 of them all surrounded Itachi. He had his scarlet eyes scan each and every one of them. "It seems you were the foes that gave us such a hard time," Itachi intoned casually not at all concerned about high B-rank monsters in front of him.

A Dark Elf right at the back of the group, surrounding Itachi, let loose a fire arrow hoping to catch him off guard. Itachi jumped into the air elegantly dodging the arrow as he landed right behind the perpetrator.

He then launched a spinning back kick that sent his foe tumbling. The others seemed to gain their wits as they all got into fighting stances, pulling out daggers from their quivers, ready to kill Itachi.

[Genjutsu:Sharingan Binding!]

He looked into the eyes of a Dark Elf to his left causing it to freeze in place, allowing for him to land kill shot with his kunai.

He then blitzed past four of them whilst landing critical strikes on all of them causing purple blood to spray everywhere. 'How strange? Why would the archers be up here by themselves unprotected? They were smart enough to try and lure all of us here so I don't doubt their aptitude for battle strategy as they even mislead my perception into viewing only 6 archers,' Itachi thought as he parried multiple fast moving arrows with the kunai in his hand.

'Is this another bait? Or a distraction from the real move they're about to make?' Itachi theorized internally as he threw multiple shuriken that swiftly ended the lives of multiple Dark Elves.

He frowned lightly as he couldn't help the feeling of dread in his gut. His instincts told him that there was something wrong here and his instincts rarely let him down. He dodged and kicked down one of the last remaining archers as he looked up at the clear blue sky in thought.

'I'm missing something....'

Suddenly the ground beneath Itachi's feet crumbled as the plateau began to fall apart. "What!" Itachi exclaimed as he leapt from giant falling rock to giant falling rock trying to get to safety before gravity did its work and crushed him under countless amounts of rock.

He eventually leapt out of the way of majority of the falling debris and landed safely near the base of where the plateau used to be.

'That was definitely trap! I'm correct in assuming that there's another monster pulling the strings' Itachi frowned as he thought about the burial beneath tons of rock he had just avoided. 'It seems there was a deadman switch inbeded in the last Dark Elf I killed. It would have definitely worked if all of us went here instead of only me,' Itachi thought about the ploy the enemy pulled to try and take out his entire team.

Itachi then started running in the direction of the raid team he entered the A-rank gate with as he wondered if these monsters had a plan for his teammates as well.

"I need to find out what's going on...and fast!"