Chapter 40: First Dungeon - Part 1 (2/2)

Mizuneko also shared what information gathered over the Dungeon and its monsters which weren't that hard to gather since most of the players that were in the town had come for the Dungeon and most likely had visited it a few times.

It seemed the theme of the Dungeon was of Ooze monsters.

There were a few troublesome ones to deal with, but as long as you found its main core and destroyed it, you would kill it unless it had multiple cores, but that was a scarce thing for that range of level.

Early on, they would mostly face Plain Slimes around 5 to 8 level, so they should handle them quite easily, especially by having that many Arcane users but even Hineko and Tycoon won't have much trouble as long as they find their cores.

After them, there would be some Acid Slimes that would be of a little higher level, and their body would be similar to acid but not that strong but still wouldn't be much of a problem.

But after that, they should face Oozes of high enough level to fit their need, and the deeper in the Dungeon they got, the more dangerous it would get. As for the Dungeon boss, no one had seen it, and no one was looking for it.

Every Dungeon had a Boss that fitted its theme.

If one were defeated, it would get a possible great reward out of it. A lot were trying to find them but only in the non-permanent ones. The case was because even when you killed the boss at a Dungeon, the Dungeon would disappear after an hour. It wasn't known why there were some permanent ones and some non-permanent ones even though both had Bosses and would both disappear when their Boss was killed while the non-permanent ones would also disappear after some time even if the Boss is still alive.

So since the permanents ones had many resources and a way to level up that was stable players had made the rule among them not to kill the Boss of a non-permanent Dungeon since everyone, in the long run, would benefit more than the possible reward they would get from the Boss since either way those dungeons weren't very high level either way so the possible reward wouldn't be that good.

And so they made their way and, as expected, didn't have much trouble passing the Plain Slimes and Acid Slimes as they adapted on them quite fast, especially after following the orders of Shingi. These monsters were too easy to learn how to deal with for him, so it didn't take him long to form plans for his team.

Then the first real group of opponents appeared.

They were 5 Black Oozes and two Yellow Oozes. Shingi and the party knew what they were as Mizuneko had mentioned them.

The Black Oozes could split themselves into many pieces, and each one would act as its entity. They could also drain the energy of mana-made attacks like spells and lessen their effects. This energy would cause them to heal, and most of the time, the heal would be more than the leftover damage.

The Yellow Oozes had a similar split power to the Black Oozes. They also strengthened their body and were as heavy and tough as being made of metal, making physical attacks almost useless.

The Yellow Oozes were lower level than the Black ones as both of them were at Level 11, and the Black Oozes were 12-14 and was decided to let all 5 of them be killed by Tycoon as even if their split ability would be hard to deal with it wouldn't be impossible to do. She had to deal a certain amount of damage quickly for it to split, so as long as she was careful, she would be ok. Also, this Oozes didn't have a lot of health and could deal with them in 3-5 hits from what they have gathered, so she didn't have to get a lot of damage from them, but they were somewhat slow but could deal some damage but not too much to possible put her in danger. She probably could handle 20 or so hits from them; that would be enough to deal with all of them without any healing.

So Shingi made his move first to get their attention and tried to separate the group by grabbing with his MANA HANDS and pushing three of the Black Oozes away from the rest, letting Tycoon deal with them as he and the rest of the party kept distracted the other two Black Oozes and decided to kill the Yellow Oozes. They could also let Wild Tycoon deal with the Yellow Oozes since they were at the right level, but it would take them too long cause of their nature to resist attacks from physical weapons.

The Yellow Oozes were dealt by Mizuneko and Phoenix, while Shingi helped a little by throwing a few ROCK THROWS here and there. At the same time, Hineko kept the two Black Oozes distracted by pushing them and getting away and kept avoiding them by jumping around and doing unnecessary flips now and then, mostly to increase his ACROBATIC skill and cause it was fun for him. Shingi also helped on it mostly with his MANA HAND, which wasn't getting affected by the Oozes special ability as it would only work on cases of spells that would try to damage them, and the MANA HAND didn't have that effect.

After close to five minutes, they were able to deal with all of them, and Tycoon, who had less than half her health cause she had to be hit quite a few times, had 5 more kills at what she needed for her challenge. Of course, she still kept using the exp she earned to her skills instead of her level. Still, fortunately, since this time there were three people instead of one at the party she was earning less exp than before but was getting the bigger part, at least for killing the Black Oozes since she was the only one who dealt damage on them.

As for Shingi, he didn't earn any exp cause he didn't have a class. He didn't have a level to raise and couldn't use the give exp to his Skill since that was something only Players could do. Still, he was getting more used and familiar with his Skills and use of his Spells during the battle, which had some great effects, as shown in the past, so it wasn't like he didn't earn anything out of it.

So after taking a short break and Tycoon drinking some of the HP Potions Hineko had prepared just for her, they continued. Shingi gave him money to prepare to quiet a few of those potions and had them on his Spatial Ring so they wouldn't be hard to have them.

Of course, he had to explain how he came to have a Spatial Ring to the party since they would at some point notice him using it. They understood why the Players were after him, but they didn't know that it wasn't really the ring they were after all, but Shingi himself and his strange power, and he let it like that.

So they made their way and carefully finishing one encounter after the other with a needed break between each depending mostly on the situation of Tycoon's HP.