The Beach (2)

Red and the girls went back to their cabin, they just wanted to rest for now.

Red was silent, he didn't say a thing all the way back, the girls didn't say anything but they were looking at red with admiration.

The girls took the room, it had a large bed and they were the ones that needed the rest.

Red just sat on the couch and was lost in thought, it was strange "He said he runs this spot? what the hell does that mean" red thought to himself "Is it like a gang of rankers? what if more people show up. i'm not scared but what if the girls get pulled into this" even with reds current progress, things are getting more and more difficult quickly. the pressure he emitted to make the ranker go down like that took off most of his mana "if he persisted and attacked me, i might have been beaten and god knows what he would have done to the girls." Red thought as he took out 6 lesser mana elixirs and drank them "Should I do a dungeon?" red thought. for a while now, red has been conquering dungeons.

Level 16 ..... To next level 10 256/ 50 000

After adding around 30 LP to INT. Red had a terrifying amount of mana. He completed a lot of dungeons. He fought zombies, goblins, giant spiders, ghosts ...

He got a lot of experience in fighting and how to abuse his inventory system. what he did was whenever he got in a bad situation or got his HP reduced to a certain point, he would dodge and run while drinking lesser health and mana elixirs, he can easily craft them now. The materials needed are available for purchase in the guilds site so Red managed to make a lot of profit while keeping a huge amount of elixirs to himself.

"Create Dungeon level 10."

Like always, red was teleported to what looked like a mine. it had torches and rails for carts, broken pickaxes and rotten corpses of people everywhere, but the scene didn't even faze red.

'Kill all the crawlers : 0 / 10'

Red already met these crawlers in a dungeon before. The ones he fought were called Weakened Crawlers, they looked like giant green cockroaches with sharp needle like legs and it spits poison from its mouth.

After using all the defensive spells and arming himself, Red moved forward. He was used to fighting these things and didn't have any worries. they attack in a straight line and have difficulties attacking to the side. they usually spit poison or bash with their bodies as their main attacks.

....

Red kept on moving to the side and attacking their legs, and stabbing them. He nearly died when he first fought them before but now they were too easy. As he moved forward, he kept taking the broken pickaxes and collecting gold, iron and steel ores from the mine. He completed the raid easily.

"Kill all the crawlers : 10 / 10"

"Reward : 10 000 XP / Skill book 'Bash' "

Red wasn't surprised. This was not the first time he got a spell book from a dungeon. He learns them then trades or sells them to the guild, that was what he always did.

"Create Dungeon level 11" said red again.

This time he teleported to a Dark cave, it was eerie with moaning and groans which can be heard in the distance.

'Kill the necromancer and obtain his ring : 0 / 1'

It looked like an average cave. but as red moved in, the noises got stronger and stronger. finally an opening can be seen. it was where the noises were coming from. when red peeked in, he saw a disturbing scene.

There were people everywhere. children, women, men and elderly. Some were locked in cages, while the rest created a mountain of corpses. red frowned, he saw some sort of creatures were feeding on and tearing people apart. they looked like a skeleton and ghouls.

This was expected by Red after seeing the quest. He killed an apprentice necromancer which was only capable of summoning zombies. there was no other way but to kill all of the undead before getting to him, and now red needed to do the same thing again.

He snuck up on the creatures and set up some rune traps behind them, he then stepped back and charged 3 mana bullets, one for each. with a new control passive skill he traded, red now is capable of using 4 mana bullets at the same time. it was very useful.

There were 2 ghouls, which are similar to zombies but with intelligence and harder and darker skin, and 1 skeleton, it had a sword and a shield. its eyes were hollow and dark, some strange dark runes on its bones. The difference between skeletons being summoned with a spell and ones using sacrifices is those runes, they represent the human soul which was destroyed and used to empower the bones, making the skeleton faster and more durable.

BOOM!

Surprisingly, after attacking with the mana bullets, these things didn't die. but lost a ton of flesh and broke bones. they turned around and growled. red took some precautions just in case his attack missed or failed and like idiots, the monsters stepped on the traps. It was a fire bomb. fire is deadly to undead creatures and the moment the trap exploded, the monsters died right away.

'(Broad sword / Wooden Shield / Rotted flesh*3 / Bones*4) Looted'

'Cursed Skeleton slain : 2000 XP'

'Lesser ghoul slain : 2000 XP'

'Lesser ghoul slain : 2000 XP'

...

Red was a bit shocked. when he looked around, he saw people in cages, real people. they begged and screamed for red to save them.

This was the first time that he met real people in these dungeons, and he didn't know if he should help or ignore them.

There were 4 skinny and beaten men, one was missing an arm, another was missing an ear with the rest being severely injured. they looked like they were starved and left there to die.

There were also 2 women, They were in a better state then the men but were still injured and starved.

The last person was a girl, she looked around the same age as red. she looked cleaner, like she came here recently. she looked hungry but not enough to affect her outer appearance. She had long blond hair, brown shining eyes and red lips. She was beautiful, like a goddess. She wore what looked like medieval type clothes. she looked at red with watery eyes, she didn't say anything but red could tell she was begging him to save her.

After some thinking, Red walked over to the cages, and used a mana bullet to break the locks. the women started crying while the men teared and kept thanking red. The girl just looked happy but didn't say anything.

"THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH HUNTER"

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY ACTUALLY SENT A HUNTER, THAT BASTARD DIDN'T ABANDON US."

With all the thanking and crying, red frowned "Hunter?" he thought "They're wearing strange clothes, are they not from my world? They're speaking English though." red kept thinking.

He looked at them, and saw that they were barely able to walk. so he got some food from his inventory that he prepared before and gave it to them. they ate like animals, that's how hungry they were, except the girl, she kept silent and ate slowly. Red stared at her for a bit, he didn't know why she didn't say a thing.

"That evil bastard liked her, he killed all her family and kept her here. He gave her food but she kept sharing it with us. when he made a move on her she cussed at him and told him to leave her alone. so he cut off her tongue and stopped giving her food. he said he'll come back for her today to have his way." one woman whispered to red "Thank god, you came just in time."

"Oh," said Red, "That's why she's eating slowly?"

After some thinking, he reached and used healing touch on all of them. including the girl. slowly, all their limbs and injuries were gone. they were shocked and just looked at red.

"Is that a holy spell?" one of the men spoke "Are you a saint?" he muttered.

"A saint?" asked red "I got injured and lost some of my memories some time ago so can you please explain"

"Oh, sure" the man answered "Healing spells are extremely rare, people usually use healing potions or artifacts. but they are extremely expensive" he continued "Healing spells are used by only the saints. it's a holy spell that can be learned only if you are favored by the gods. are you not a part of a church? you don't even need to be doing hunts, you can live a luxurious life by joining the church."

"Hunts? I came here because I heard screams." said red.

"You're not from the hunters guild?" the man frowned "That bastard abandoned us"

"Who?" asked red

"Kayun, A hunter we followed here on a raid." The man said "We detected some death energy from this cave and we formed a team to explore and slay whatever creatures that resided here. it was all his idea, we are hunters as well, but at the first sign of danger after being surrounded, he ran and left us." the man's eyes lit up with anger "We got lucky that you came in then. that coward probably didn't even inform the guild, just so people don't know about what he did by abandoning us and running away."

"Sorry to hear that." said Red, "You guys should go, I'm gonna have to keep going and kill the necromancer that summoned those things."

"By yourself?" the beautiful girl asked. after being healed, she got her tongue back and can finally speak.

"Yeah, you shouldn't go, you'll get yourself killed." a woman spoke.

"I have to, the necromancer probably knows that his summoned undead were killed, and if we leave now and come back with backup later, we might not find him." said Red. He knows he can't leave this place. This was not the first time he found an exit from the dungeon, but even when he saw the opening and the trees and grass outside, he would be blocked by some sort of invisible barrier. so he knows that he is not welcome to roam outside, and from what these people told him. He's not even in his world, which explains a lot of things.

"Let us go with you then. We were hunters after all and we've recovered." another man spoke.

"Yeah, we might be able to kill him if we go with you." another spoke.

"No." said red "All of you are still fatigued and not in shape to fight. you'll only get in my way."

It was silent for a few seconds before the girl spoke "I'm a druid, and I'm in better shape than them. i can help you."

"A druid?" Red asked. He didn't care anymore about excuses, he just asked whenever he wanted to. He might not have an opportunity like this ever again.

"Yeah, I can summon my spirit animals and help you, plus I know some defensive spells that might come in handy." she answered.

"No, sorry but i can do this alone. I don't want to worry about you when fighting" said red.

The girl blushed a little and didn't say anything else.

"Well, young man you're powerful, you took down those things easily, so you might be able to do it. I'm anay, I hope we can meet again out there." a man spoke.

"I'm staip"

"I'm yours"

"I'm huka"

...

The girl kept staring at red, she was thinking about something and then spoke. "I'm jasmin, ok i won't push it and won't go with you, but take this, when you get out of here and need anything, use it to contact me." a small gray ball with some weird symbols appeared in her hands, she handed it to red and smiled.

"Yeah, thank you. i'm red by the way" he said and smiled back.

...

After helping the people get up and giving them some weapons and food, they left.

This was an interesting discovery for Red. He now knows that these dungeons exist in another world. too bad he can't leave them.

After thinking for a while, red looked around the space and took whatever seemed useful and kept moving.