60 Chapter 54 ~ Rakuri’s Expedition: A Certain Dungeon First Layer (2/2)
They walked in right away and the lizard, Baldheaded Grandma uses his ability [Candlelight] to light up the surrounding area. It is not by much, but they can see further using it than normal torches.
”This place is crawling with those giant spiders. We should watch out for the ceiling, something might come down from above” said Fortress.
The ground is damp and watery, the atmosphere is cold.
Rakuri pulls out her daggers.
”Hm? Wait, you're an assassin too?”
”No.”
”Oh…”
”…”
It was silence for a moment, Rakuri shifting her eyes left and right, wary of the surrounding area. Fortress is a tank, and he's been positioned to the front. The assassin is right beside him, the priest is beside Rakuri.
Kucing asked, ”Have you been here before, err…”
Indicating that she hasn't catch her name, Rakuri went and said her own name, ”Rakuri.”
”Right, Rakuri-san.”
”Yeah, it's my go-to dungeon to farm. Many good pieces are laying around here. By that, I mean after everything ends.”
”Eh, really? Then, you have beaten the boss, yes? We couldn't get to him because we died before reaching that place. Can you be our guide then, Rakuri-san?”
”Sure.” She then thought, 'I wonder why she's talking like a robot cliched cartoon character, but whatever.'
The party's mood soon lights up. They wouldn't believe it if it's coming out from another person's mouth, but they believe her. Rakuri said it in a way that is very reassuring and it felt like it came from a real experienced person.
A dungeon has three layers, and at each layer there exist at least 4 mini-bosses.
”This place isn't so hard to beat, but the annoying part is the backtracking... well, that's just my opinion, I hate it that you have to walk back again. But anyway, the pathway is simple and linear, but the mini-bosses are far in between.”
”Err, mini-boss? Do we have to fight them too?”
”What, you didn't?”
Fortress shook his head, ”It's more like we don't have a chance to fight them.”
”Welp, if you don't kill them first, the boss will be harder to beat. Those mini bosses will join at the later stage of the fight, so we have to kill them first before proceeding to the main boss.”
”Err, okay. Can we really kill them though? How many are they?”
”About… 8. Two in this layer, and the other 6 in the second layer.”
The party is getting nervous again, but they believe in Rakuri. ”All right, let's go do it then.”
Rakuri nodded.
...
They have walked deep inside the dungeon and the tension keeps rising up.
Hushing in screeching voice, they can hear a mild subtle sound that brings terror to their hearts. ”Oh god, I don't want to die again. Bian, you better watch your front!” yelled Baldheaded Grandma.
”Leave this to me,” said Rakuri, ”Suburbian, you'll march with me and keep using [Cutting Edge], and please don't miss, at least you should get their feet.”
Fortress nodded, ”Mm.”
”Kucing will assist us on the side whilst protecting Grandma, and you, since it seems you don't have [Magelight], just move around and light up the area. Try not to get hit.”
Rakuri shifted her eyes to the front, she opened her palm wide and flames start whirling them around. Bashing them together, she created a ball of fire in her hands and then smash it to the ground.
*Bwoooooooomph*
It is a mere flash, but the flames spread across the entire area, lighting them up and revealing the nasty spiders that are crawling around. There are many of them, it is easy to count that there are at least 30 of them.
The space is wide and there are only a few foxholes in the area.
”Welp, watch your steps.”
Raising her foot high, she stomped the ground hard, creating an earthquake.
The party's eyes quickly lose their footings, but they recover pretty easily, ”Holy shit, what the hell was that?!!” screamed Fortress.
”Let's go!”
Rakuri propelled to the front straight to the darkness in sight, but the spiders are easy to spot.
���Eh, wait what?”
Fortress was baffled and unprepared. Kucing yelled, ”Bian-san, Rakuri already gone.”
”Ahhh!!”
He quickly went to join her.
'Spiders… heh, this has never been any easier.'
She coated her dagger with fire from [Flame Creation] and went to slice the spiders apart. Fortress follows behind her and tried to finish off the spiders who survived her attacks.
*Slash *Slice *Stab
She stabbed it into its head and repeatedly slice its eyes again, she went around and mounted the spider and then pierce the back of its head with her dagger.
Rakuri is not struggling at all, and Fortress is trying really hard to catch up to her speed. However, the other two members are the ones that are struggling in the fight with the many spiders that are on their surroundings.
The said spider opened its mouth and fires off multiple webs and Grandma got hit by it, he can't move his feet around, but his body can't.
”Geh, holy shit! I'm stuck!!”
The base priest skills only have the support-type ability on them, so he can't get out of it. And he doesn't have any other spells.
Kucing tries to help him by cutting off the web, but it's hard and takes too long. Her hair suddenly went up as the spider jumping at her. She screamed, ”Fade!”
*Fwoosh*
The assassin used her skill to disappear out of trace.
[Fade] Allows you to be invisible for a short period of time, in addition, you will gain a slight boost to movement speed the second this skill activated.
The spider hits nothing, but it got another prey close to it instead. However, Kucing won't let that happened. She reappeared behind the spider and stabbed it on its head. The spider is still alive, and she went slice it again and again.
*Blash*
Her hand suddenly got webbed from another spider coming at her.
Three more are coming from behind it, and there are many more coming from every other direction. She starts sweating. ”Guh, just leave me! Join the others!” yelled Grandma.
*Stab*
Piercing the spider's head, she yelled, ”I can't leave you here, we're only just started!”
”It's okay, once I ressed, I'll go back here.”
Kucing's face hardened, as her cat ears move, she realized that she won't make it, and the skill [Fade] is on cooldown for another 30 seconds. [Shroud] is still available, it is the same as Fade, but if she uses that, she won't be able to activate [Fade] again for another 100 seconds.
What Grandma said was right, she has to go before it's too late.
But then…
*Bwoooomph*
A blast of flames emerges from around them, creating a trail of fires all around. ”Kriiiiieeeeeeeeeeh”
As the screeching sound stopped, the spider could not pass the flames, they know it's their weakness. They turned around and saw Rakuri heading their way, fully cloaked in flames. Kucing's eyes widened in shock, ”That's… tier 4 spell, [Immolation] ! How? Didn't she say she's not even level 50 yet?”
”Gah, you stupid cat. Stop that cringy ass shit. Just go assist them already!”
Rakuri of course did not forget about them. The cloaked flame in her hand, she throws it away and it hits directly at Grandma's body. ”Gyaaaaaaaah!” he felt the burning of the flame to be painful and it spreads out... right to his tail.
When he got freed, he rolled around on the ground while casting his healing spell. Gesturing as he talks, ”Gaaaaaaah dammit, that fucking hurts, dude. I was this close to be turned into a steak!”
”Hey, friendly fire is active, be careful,” said Fortress.
”Heh, my bad.”
As the spiders coming at them, someone else is coming on her behind. It is Kucing, she leaped onward and then thrust her daggers to one of the spiders. Rakuri boosted her speed once more and sweep through the spiders in style. Fortress soon joins them and they are wrapping up the battles with them as the victor.