Chapter 154 - Bungars Keep (2/2)

Less monster implied less loot in most cases, but to compensate for it, there would also be six bronze chests in the floor. If they managed to open it before others, it was bound to provide silver grade armaments. The traps were mostly arrows and flame balls that were triggered by stepping on particular. The traps in this place had no signs and one couldn't avoid triggering them except if they already triggered it before remembered its location and avoided it. Even if he accidentally triggered any trap, Balthazar could easily avoid them or block the arrow with his dagger if he was alone.

With a team, he had to employ the tanks to shield the others. The players could always block arrows with their weapons, but any flame balls would still cause more damage without shield and only could be evaded. That is not an issue for an individual, but even if one evades these traps, there is a good chance that the person beside him would be the victim of it as the evading person would block his line of sight.

So, blocking the traps was very essential. There were already three tanks with shields in the team. A shield was also provided to Tetsujin allowing them to cover the other five from attacks on either side. This was one of the simple ways used to counter the situation in his past life. It allowed the players to protect the weaker members of the team, but it put a good amount of effort on the healers and tanks. The tanks would be forced to take all the damage in this situation and if they kept moving through the wrong way, they would continue to bear attacks till they even lose their life.

But it was still the best option to use this method as the alternatives were not any better. Shadow went ahead of them with the excuse that he needed to explore. He decided to take them to mini boss of the first floor. This one was a troll who guarded a few dwarves who were held in cages. These dwarves could help them with the path to the other bosses.

Once, he was done with the dungeon, he could just give the path to the troll and the others could easily complete the dungeon with the help of the dwarves they rescued. He knew that there was also a good chance for first kill of the mini-boss as he didn't hear of anyone crossing the first floor yet. If the mini boss was dead, it would be a simple thing to cross even the second floor much less the first.

But before the mini boss, he had to take them to treasure chests too. There were six in this floor of the fortress with three being guarded by orcs and the other three just at the ends of a few passages. He first led them to the chests as he hoped that they could equip themselves better before reaching the mini boss.

The traps would be considered too many in number for the ones who aren't used to it. Such a number of traps would frighten most players as it required a lot of resources to move through the place. If they went for the treasure chests, it would increase their consumption of potions, but Balthazar knew that bronze equipment too are worth more than the amount of potions that would be used for it. So, he took the decision and led them to the treasure chests first.

As he knew the way, their progress was quite fast and within forty minutes they managed to get through five of the treasure chests on the floor. A couple of them were guarded by orcs, but they had no issue in killing them. They managed to get 16 armaments with four of them being silver grade. It was a good upgrade better than any he had at this floor in his previous life. Bitter Beast, Tetsujin, Tang and Sultan got to use the silver equipment. Most of the equips found in the dungeon were for physical attack occupations.

He left the last one as it was along the way to the next floor and soon led them to the mini-boss. They ended up in a large room with shiny black walls and a lot of empty cages adorning the walls. There were a number of chains hanging around the place and even a set of bloody torture tools that looked like they have just been used. A number of chains and broken-down cages could also be seen on the ground.

A large furnace was at one corner of the room with a few pieces of meat hanging over it from a metal rod. There was a brownish yellow colored large troll sleeping at the back of the room as it hugged a huge club with a couple of dwarves lying down in a cage by its side. On the other side, there were a heap of skeletons which looked like the meat had just been picked of the bones. A bunch of broken down weapons were right beside these bones. Most of the team felt like puking out after they saw it.

[Prison Warden Chrome] (Minor Boss monster)

Level 15;

HP: 10000/10000;

Most players would think that it was in deep sleep and would try to open the cage to free its captives. That would be the worst decision ever. The NPCs in the game are quite intelligent. If the troll were really sleeping, they would have signaled to them for help. Any player who attempted to free them or even got close to them before killing the troll would be smacked by the huge club.

”Hold back,” said Shadow stopping Tang who was about to rescue the dwarves. ”The troll is not sleeping,” he said looking at them. He immediately through a throwing knife at the trolls face which it deftly slapped away. Though the room was large, the troll was atleast 4 metres tall which made it hard for them to evade. This fight wasn't an easy one and they had to fight while constantly maintaining distance from it to avoid its club. Though trolls are slow on their feet, they swing their club at very high speeds.

He wanted them to move back away and used the pillars of the place to hide whenever it swung its club. But unexpectedly another set of commands came up. They were Merlin's. ”Tang go for the feet, Quiet fire cover.”

Tang ran forwards jumped up into the air and suddenly a burst of mana formed on her feet as a layer of mana covered her shield. She accelerated in the air at a breakneck speed and struck the knees of the troll. At the same time, a huge cloak of fire sprung out of Quite Fires wand and directly fell onto its face wrapping it.

Balthazar, then realized that he had more members with unique weapons no and he had completely forgotten to look at their skills. It was a major mistake. Tangs skill was something that he seen before. It was called Meteor Smash and was a skill of the unique shield of the guardian lord (The protector).

There was a high chance that Quiet Fire's skill was also had similar origin as he hadn't seen that either. It was quite a powerful skill which blinds the enemy while dealing significant fire damage. With these to attack, the troll unexpectedly fell back onto pile of bones with a large crushing sound.