Chapter 31 - Giants

I don't have any armor so going to this dungeon might be suicidal. I need to get stronger. Someone already passed the 100 level mark. I need to gather all the things I could get.

My suit is just some ragged clothes that Ortov and his team made. It was pretty comfortable but I doubt it'll do much in terms of defense. I'll just have to use my dark armor.

The time finally came to go to the artifact dungeon. I left Yefa and Afal for now.

We went southeast of the location Lam told me. While we were walking towards there, a bunch of random monsters emerged from the dungeon. It looks like... They were running?

Goblins, lizardmen and ogre that ranges from different classes. There are about hundreds of them swarming out.

"Get ready!" I commanded.

"Yes!" Everyone else stood their positions.

I took out Bloodlust to test the damage of this thing. Its already acting up making me insane but the immunity keeps me sane.

Rize caster the rain of arrows. Flurry of her attacks came running down piercing through the flesh and the lives of everyone unfortunate enough to be hit by her.

[Rize leveled up to Level 20.]

It seems Rize is leveling up pretty fast. That EXP boost must be applicable globally monsters, npc or players.

Greta took out her claws and changed into beast form. With her sway of her hand, a flesh will be torn out in everyone thag gets in her way.

Zeta continued casting buffs. Healing, speed boosts damage boosts and more. He was truly the best support I can find.

Precia danced around with her katana. She was truly a beauty using that weapon. With grace and beauty, she rushed to the enemies wrecking havoc.

It was over in an instant. I couldn't even do anything. My team is growing stronger every battle.

[Greta leveled up to Level 38]

[Zeta leveled up to Level 32]

[Precia leveled up to level 35]

"Well done everyone. I'm glad each and everyone of you is getting stronger."

They all nodded in agreement.

We went in to the entrance of the artifact dungeon. The entrance was bigger than anything I've ever seen.

We all went in and smelled the disgusting scent of flesh.

"Ugh..." Zeta groaned in disgust.

"What is this?" Precia asked.

Greta kneeled down.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"I'm sorry but beastwomen like us has sensitive smell. This is just too much." Greta coughed and coughed.

"Leave the dungeon for now. We can handle this."

"But-"

"No buts. Its better than having you die here. Go rest outside."

Greta was hesitant at first but she finally went outside to take a breather. Its just us four taking on this dungeon.

We went deeper into the dungeon and the smell just got worse. The smell was coming from the decayed corpses of goblins and lizardmen. It seems that the cages were open and that maybe is the reason why all of them were running earlier. The cages don't even have decent locks in it. Just ropes.

Zeta tried to cover his nose and mouth. "Ugh. This horrid smell. Greta can't handle this. I'm thankful Zieglind that you let her rest."

"Wait." Precia suddenly stopped us in our tracks. "I hear something."

I focused my hearing and also heard something. It was the sound of snoring?

We all walked slowly and go to the direction where the snoring goes. There we found it. A giant.

"A gia-" Precia covered her mouth to prevent speaking.

We were all in awe how big the giant was. I can't even think how the hell they fit in this dungeon.

We continued to go on further to gather information. We go deeper and saw some giants. I then felt a tug on my clothes.

"What's the matter?" I asked while continuing forward.

"Huh?" The two of them were confused.

I turned around and saw a small person.

Zeta and Precia immediately pulled out their weapons and slashed the unknown entity.

"What was that?" I asked Zeta.

"That was a baby cyclops. It has only one eye."

I looked over to it and found out it does have only one eye.

The baby cyclops then shouted a large deafening sound.

"Barrier!" Zeta casted on me. "Barrier!" Zeta casted on Precia.

Despite his efforts, Zeta heard too much of the baby cyclops' loud shriek. His ears were bleeding. But that isn't the only problem. The giants have heard the noise and began waking up.

"Heal, Great Heal! Crap. Why didn't you protect yourself first!"

Zeta let out a smirk and lost consciousness.

"Precia, take Zeta out of this dungeon. After that, come back here."

"You better be safe when I come back!" Precia grabbed Zeta and began running towards the exit.

The giants noticed where the noise is coming from and came walking up to my direction.

I took a peek at the giants and they were the same. They were also cyclops.

The cyclops began sniffing out something.

"Hmm... Blood... Child... Me?" Cyclops were particularly dumb in the area of speech. "Must... Get... These... Out..." The cyclops grabbed his wooden club and smashed the ground next to me.

I covered my mouth from speaking too much.

The stones near the ground were left in rubbles. The cyclops ransacked the rubbles and found the baby cyclops. He picked it up and looked at it.

"Baby... BABY!!!!!" The other cyclops was curious of his shouting and every one of them began walking his way. "Who... Did... This!!!"

3 other cyclops looked at the corpse of the baby cyclops and began crying. It was a weird sight seeing giant enemies cry.

"Must... PAY!" The other cyclops roared in agreement. They all began sniffing out different parts of the dungeon.

I moved from places to places trying to avoid their sense of smell. Despite them being dumb, they have great senses.

"Hmm?" The cyclops without warning, grabbed his club and began smashing everywhere. The stones, the cages and all the other stuff were destroyed and left in rubbles. And of course, my cover was also destroyed.

"Human?" The cyclops that destroyed everything found me.

"Human?!" "Human?!" "Human?!" The other three heard his voice and began rushing towards him.

"You... The... One... Killed... This?" He began pointing at the dead baby cyclops.

"Uhh... No." Well it was half right. Precia and Zeta are the ones that killed it anyway.

"Liar!! Blood... You... Smell!" The cyclops grew angrier and began waving his club destroying everything. And here I am barely dodging the large attacks he was giving.

"This might be tough."