24 The Power of a Team (1/2)
Fei Lei and Eriks stood up front and swung their blades cutting through hoards of enemies at once, extending his telekinetic blade to ten feet he cut multiple magical beasts down at a time, as the bodies dissipated and dropped their magic cores, he suddenly stopped and said ”I'm doing this all wrong.”
Fei Lei retracted the blade and said, ”Keep the blade small, and when I reach the peak of my swing.” Fei Lei's arm rippled, as he pulled Clear Mist to his waste and performed an Iai-Jutsu strike, ”Quickly magnify the size of my blade.”
Suddenly the telekinetic blade increased to 20 feet and shot through dozens of enemies all at once.
Eriks suddenly equipped a suit of lightning armor as the power of a level 3 spell rippled from his body, he shot out at an unimaginable speed as he cut through dozens of enemies in a single second.
Yan Mei shot out a large arrow as she used her level 2 Scatter shot, it dispersed into dozens of arrows that struck their targets with incredible accuracy, Hina, and Terry kept the hoard of enemies from getting close to the light barrier, and Hachi constantly killed anything that got between Hina, and Terry's net.
The Light Maiden suddenly raised her hand and said a few prayers before shouting, ”Holy Circle!”
The dome of light suddenly glowed with a slight green hue as the group felt their Mana slowly starting to recover.
Fei Lei and Eriks stepped up their game and started to pick up the pace, this continued on for almost a full hour. As Fei Lei killed his last beast, he stared at the ground littered with a few thousand level one Magic Cores of all six different elements.
”So do we spilt this evenly, or do go by contribution? Eriks asked with a grin on his face.
”I claim all light cores!” June said with a innocent smile on her face.
Fei Lei shook his head and said, ”We'll split all cores equally, if you wish to exchange specific Cores with the others, then do it after we've divided them.”
Everyone agreed to do as he said, and began collecting the cores, altogether they made around 5886 Mana Cores, they split the cores into to even elements and each of them earned 654 give or take a few broken cores.
Altogether Fei Lei had 109 level-1 cores of all 6 elements, many of them traded the Cores that they wanted when June came up to Fei Lei and asked for his Light Cores.
”No, I have a use for them.” Fei Lei answered as he stored them all in his new ring.
Yan Mei and Hina kept all there cores as well, making June frown, and say, ”I don't see why you need them, after all, it's not like a Non-Elementalist can use them!”
Fei Lei laughed and thought, ”Of course I can't use them, they're not for me, but the Mages that will join my city someday.”
Seeing that neither of them was trading the Light Mage sighed and chose to deal with them at a later time.
The group stood next to each other as they stared down the stair way to the next level when Eriks said, ”The next floor will have even stronger magic beasts, stay alert and watch out for item drops.”
”Item Drops?”Fei Lei asked lifting a brow.
”Sometimes on the lower levels, rare monsters that will appear have a very small chance leave a magic item, or unknown material, the lower the levels in a dungeon the stronger monsters we'll face and the higher chance we'll have for an item to drop,” Hina explained to the two first-timers, Fei Lei and Yan Mei.
”Sound like one of those games Isaac used to play,” Fei Lei thought to himself.
As they approached the second floor they wondered where the Grey Mage was. As it turns out the Grey Mage was already on the lowest dungeon floor, he walked up to a strangely built room that was in the form a 200 mile radius bio-dome full of trees and shrubbery, the artificial sky shined with a pale blue light, the walls surround the entire terrain seemed to be made of an estranged material that was a cross between a stone and metallic texture.
The Grey Mage walked up to the center of the room revealing a powerful orb shaped dungeon core that shined with a rainbow of colors.
The mysterious mage then placed his hand out to touch the core and frowned as an electric shock traveled across his fingers, he pulled off his hood and showed a pair of silted pupils that represent the Demon Race's main defining physical feature.
”Odd, I thought I had enough power to now? This demon's body still isn't enough to absorb a Dungeon Core!” A strange voice called out, it sounded like the blending of two different voices in one body.
The Grey Mage's eyes were suddenly filled with a black and blue fog, he stared upward and shouted at the ceiling ”How much longer can you keep my brethren imprisoned! I refuse to let such a low born species harvest our power.”
A loud roar the barely sounded bird like cried out shaking the room around them, the trees in the distance started to fall over as the sounds of something incredibly heavy stomped through the terrain.
”If I can't absorb the core with this body, I'll need to start my search all over again. Since you volunteered yourself, why not become my pet? I'm leaving. Keep those disgusting sub-species filth away from the core.”
Raising his hand, a large quantity sinister energy flowed out from his body and flew into the forest, only a loud screeching noise was heard as the several dozens 3-Star Avian Magical Beasts flew away from the area.
Fei Lei and the rest were completely unaware of what was transpiring below them before they moved to the next floor, they discovered a resting area that seemed to recover their Mana and heal their wounds.