Chapter 409 (2/2)
Warning! You are about to enter into a Raid Dungeon. Only one team may attempt a Raid Dungeon at a time. You will either pass the Raid Dungeon in the allotted time or die. You cannot escape the Dungeon without defeating it.
Warning! You are under Level 10. It is recommended that you do not enter any Dungeons before obtaining Level 10. Do you wish to proceed?
Randidly almost rolled his eyes and pressed yes. There was a lurching sensation in his stomach, one that was extremely familiar. It was exactly the same feeling that he got when he had been teleported to Shal’s world. After a split second of that feeling, everything snapped back into focus, and Randidly blinked and coughed.
The people around him stumbled, their faces green. Apparently entering normal Dungeons weren’t quite so violent a switch, and it had taken them by surprise. To Randidly’s relief, they were still all together, all 10 of them, and also Chrysanthemum had been able to enter with them, putting their number at 11.
It made Randidly’s heart tighten somewhat because he didn’t doubt that Neveah would have been a great boon in this journey…
‘Stop whining,’ Lucretia whispered to him, breaking her long silence since he had obtained a Class. ‘She’s powering up, you know that right? Did you even look at the Aether constructs around her? Heavy stuff. Much closer to some of the constructs left by the Creature than anything we had attempted before. The girl’s a genius.’
Randidly thought nothing back in response, but he agreed with Lucretia’s assessment. The shapes in the Aether that had appeared near her… it was honestly intimidating, but the fact that they were so sophisticated was probably positive. She would recover, they just didn’t have time to wait for that to happen at the moment.
Their group of 11 was standing in what appeared to have once been a great hall of a castle, or a cathedral, with an open space in the front, and a line of absolutely huge, skyscraper-sized pillars leading away towards a door, perhaps almost a half kilometer away. For their size, the pillars were incredibly ornate, but it simply emphasized even further the mind-boggling size of the building they were standing in. Light streamed in through holes in the roof, showing the time to be near dawn or dusk here.
A sound caught Randidly’s attention, about the same time that everyone else noticed, and he turned to find several large black cats climbing down the pillars, growling at the interlopers. The cats, as they came closer, revealed themselves to be skinless things with glowing green eyes, leaving bloody pawprints on the ground as they stalked closer. A glowing 47 hung over their heads.
Very soon, seven had appeared, stalking closer, circling slowly.
“Better fight them now before more numbers show up,” Rose said, glancing up at the huge pillars. There was an upper level of walkways that connected the things, and Randidly suspected that's where the cats lived. “They are using a Skill called Summon Kin, so let’s move quickly. Alana, Lucifer, want to soften them up? Ace and Thea move to support.”
Alana leveled her spear and stalked forward. Lucifer drew his weapon without ceremony and starting trotting towards the enemy, moving into position. Although Ace sneered, he moved to follow orders, putting his helmet on.
Randidly’s mouth quirked into a smile as another dozen dropped down behind the group, much, much closer. Rose’s eyes widened, but before she even spoke, bolts of lightning from Clarissa smashed two backward, causing one of the new arrivals to roar. Which earned it an arrow through the roof of its mouth, destroying its brain in a single go.
It collapsed, while its brothers began running toward the group. Randidly’s eyes glowed emerald as his smile widened.
“Tch, these fuckers are tough,” Clarissa remarked, as she watched those she hit with her Lightning Bolts stagger to its feet. “Good experience though. Gained a Skill Level already.”
“Thea, pull back and support us,” Rose ordered, turning around and glancing at the new arrivals, her expression calm. Can you three handle those seven?”
None of the three answered. All were too busy approaching the cats. Several of Ptolemy’s Arcane Orbs crashed in that direction, distracting the cats, allowing Alana and Lucifer to close the distance without giving the opponents much time to surround them. If these cats wanted a fucking fight, they would get one.