97 Without me you are nothing (1/2)

The monsters we encountered in the instance did not change much from the first monster we encountered. Because of their advanced ability to hide the monsters were rather difficult to deal with. This was easily countered by bailey's senses.

Her stats may have been low, but her sense of perception was off the charts. It was apparently a class skill she had gotten when she took the class. As of right now it was only useful on rank D or below, which is why she was unable to sense me.

The skill was called [Heightened Senses] and was a skill that got stronger as she did. It gave her an additional stat called perception, and gained an additional point every time she leveled up. Unfortunately as she was still technically level one the score was still only at 1. With a score of 1 as long as she was actively paying attention she could spot a level D or below beast that was hidden.

I managed to get a good look at the beasts, they were called [Snow Rays] and as you can imagine they looked like sting rays back on earth. Their tails however were much closer to that of a scorpion, from it dripped a cold essence poison. Their bodies had weird adaptions that allowed them to swim through the snow as if it were water, and could even float above the snow for a short period of time.

They were once again a creature that focused on ambushes, but they were much more proficient than the worms I had encountered before were. If I had been alone I would have fallen victim to their sneak attacks on more than one occasion. Thankfully Bailey was able to spot these creatures with relative ease.

The floor ended with a mini boss. It was a much larger version of the Rays we had encountered earlier. It was so large that we actually ended up fighting on it's body. We had to constantly dodge it's tail attacks while it carried us through the air.

When we finally defeated the large ray we were transported to the second floor. Not before we fell several thousands feet from the sky that is. The the portal appeared right before we hit the ground, and would definitely enter the top 10 scariest instances I had ever been in.

The second floor of the instance was actually underground in a series of frozen caverns. There was not a sign of the rays from the first floor, but instead we encountered a species of bear that seemed to thrive in the environment. They had a large amount of muscle and flesh that protected them from the cold, and seemed to have developed an immunity of sorts to the freezing atmosphere.

The scariest part of fighting them was not their massively high constitution or vitality, nor was it the strength they carried in their attacks. The scariest thing about them was that they had a ice breath weapon that could freeze a creature in a block of ice.

Thanks to my relatively high constitution when I was struck it only managed to slow me down, and make my body stiff. The same could not be said for Bailey. She had been hit several times, and her skin began to turn a nasty blue and black. I unfortunately had no way to warm her other than by using my own body heat.

The experience was awkward for both of us. For me it was awkward because she was actually really attractive, and her hands needed to be on the warmest parts of my body. For her it was awkward because... actually she did not seem very awkward, but her face turned a shade of red that I had not seen in a long time.

The bears were a pain, and it would take more than 10 shots to take down. This was enough time for them to counter attack several times, and always enough time for them to unleash their breath weapon on us.

Needless to say the more were attacked with the breath attacks the less space their was for her to place her hands. Eventually she could only place them in a place that had become very excited from the constant touching. Both of out faces turned bright red, and we were unable to make eye contact after that.

We eventually pulled through, but decided to rest before we got to the boss. We ended up wasting over an hour waiting for heat to be restored to our bodies before we continued.

The boss is exactly as you would expect, It was a large version of the bear. Only this bear had three different heads. The bear was massive, a single on of its legs was thicker than Bailey and I combinded. It stood over 5 meters tall while on all fours.

The bear looked at us as if we were not even worth being a snack. It started the fight with all three of the heads using its breath attack. Thankfully we were out of the lethal range, and with some.wffort were able to escape from the blast.