“Puh, we made it in.”

  Cye sighed heavily, throwing a fierce look at Liam.

  “This wasn’t your best idea!”

  “But it worked.”, stated Liam with a shrug.

  [Wele, adventurers!]

  [You have ehe dungeon ‘Reyr’s Curse’.]

  [Only Pyers leveled 5-10 admitted.]

  [The limit ohs will be suspended within the dungeon.]

  [A pyer only die thrice during a single run.]

  [All EXP earned will be stored and only given out upon pletion of the dungeon.]

  C’s meical voice rang in everyone’s ears.

  “Are those the dungeon’s rules? Iing.”

  Silent Acacia murmured, paring the rules to past games.

  Meanwhile Silver Bde looked at Liam with some curiosity.

  “Since we couldn’t listen to the priest’s expnation, could you tell us more about the dungeon?”

  The veteran nodded his head. He still held onto the lore book about the devil Refresnim, handing it to Silver Bde as he began talking.

  “Fortune, please don’t cut this in.”

  “Sure, sure.”

  “Thanks.

  So, Reyr was a strong warrior among the inal nephilim. Like many others he tried to rekihe pact with hell, so that inal nephilim could regain their dark magic.

  To do so he tacted the devil Refresnim.

  But the holy nephilim found out quickly. Abh the dark side, they sent someoo stop Reyr.

  The tter felt threatened and performed a ritual to cast a curse. It stopped the holy nephilim, but also bound himself in pce.

  Now the priest outside sent us to kill Rayr.”

  The party nodded in uanding, some more and some less ied.

  Silent Acacia obviously wasn’t the type to care for lore, urging the group:

  “Got it. Go in. Kill boss. we begin?”

  “Sure.”

  Liam stepped to the side, letting Silver Bde go ahead. However, he po direct the party this time since payment was on the line.

  The group looked around, finding themselves in a small, save room, with only e door leading away. Oil mps hung from the dark stone walls.

  Silver Bde stepped forward, pushing the heavy door open. Crag echoed between the smooth walls. Coupled with the dim corridor behind the door, it created an ominous atmosphere.

  Shadows pyed on the floor. Balm looked ahead, suddenly shivering as she poiowards the ground.

  “T… there. Corpses!”

  “Don’t worry. They won’t stay dead.”, joked Liam.

  “What?”

  Balm quickly uood what Liam meant. As soon as Silver Bde took the first step, rustling noises echoed in the corridor while the corpses began moving.

  The bodies slowly dragged themselves up, their pale skin half rotten, old armors ging to their bodies.

  “Z… zombies.”

  Balm wasn’t able to stay calm fag those pu monsters straight out of horror stories.

  “Don’t think too much. They are just mobs like any other.”

  Silver Bde spoke with an encing voice as she checked the oppos.

  [Minor Zombie WarriorRank: on

  Level: 7

  HP: 500/500]

  “Level 7? Small fry! Watch me dispose of them.”

  Bloody Edge spoke boldly as he went into stealth, sneaking behind one of the zombies.

  Liam shook his head.

  “You shouldn’t uimate them.”

  [-240!!!]

  Bloody Edge’s body appeared again; his dagger stabbed into a zombie’s back. ing out of stealth he had a higher ce to hit critically, almost killing the monster in one go.

  “A valiant effort!”, praised Radiant Shield.

  But the others suddenly showed worried faces.

  “Careful!”

  “Behind you!”

  At this moment zombies stepped out of the shadows. There were more than a hundred, all of them staring at Bloody Edge with poisonous green eyes.

  The thief felt a shiver running down his spine.

  Suddenly the zombies began moving, their speed at the level of an average human.

  “W… what? You’re zombies, damn it!”

  Bloody Edge felt his stomach sink as he was instantly encircled by five oppos.

  Silver Bde pted whether to save him or not when Radiant Shield already dashed forward.

  Sihere was y for dying in the duhe tank was fearless, smming his shield into the first zombie.

  Silver Bde had no choice but to copy his as.

  “Quick! Form a line! Protect the mages!”

  Urgently direg everyohe young woman engaged a zombie as well.

  But suddenly she found a tall body before her, blog a punch.

  “Watchful Eye, what are you doing?”

  The bodyguard heard Silver Bde voice, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

  “Apologies, young dy. Habits…”

  Silver Bde rolled her eyes.

  “Don’t call me young dy in the game.”

  The others looked at the iion with amusement while guessing who Silver Bde might be.

  With Watchful Eye taking a step to the side, the fight tinued normally. Bloody Edge got rid of the zombies. Making use of his agility he darted left and right, taking out oppos at low health.

  Meanwhile the warriors formed a line of defense, allowing the led batants to fire freely.

  Liam ighe rusty swords swinging at him. If he kept defending, he would never be able to attack.

  [-4!]

  [-5!]

  [-4!]

  The zombies dealt little damage, but Liam khat their sheer numbers would still provide some difficulties.

  “Balm. This time it’s on you. Use your [Heal] cleverly.

  The rest o juggle their health. Don’t drop to low health at the same time! Keep your eyes open!”

  Everyone aowledged Liam’s words. This would be a test of their awareness.

  The zombies smelled living souls, swarming at the party with drooling mouths.

  “Now I know how those guild pyers felt like.”, joked Fortune while leisurely throwing out her magic attacks.

  [-91!]

  Cye chuckled happily, fighting alongside one of her idols.

  [-109!]

  “Your damage is not bad.”

  With a single praise from Fortuhe smaller woma eted, as if on cloud nine.

  Liam tinued fighting in the frontline, keeping his eyes on his HP.

  [-4!]

  [-5!]

  [-4!]

  While his owh was trig down, he swung his sword robotically on cooldown, easily hitting multiple of the densely packed monsters.

  [-120!]

  [-122!]

  It took about four attacks for two zombies to fall, but their numbers were simply too much.

  After a bit more than a minute, Liam looked worriedly at the other warriors.

  The two tanks were alright but Watchful Eye’s and Quickstep’s HP were about to run out at the same time.

  However, Liam refrained from saying anything. It was necessary for everyoo adapt.

  But at this moment a faint red energy enveloped Quickstep, giving off a fierce aura. Liam immediately reized it as [bat instinct].

  Although the skill was somewhat wasted this way, it allowed their party to tihout troubles.

  Balm was somewhat tense, keeping a close look on everyone’s HP, evetack speed decreased because of it.

  When she saw Quickstep and Watchful Eye close to critical health, she was hesitating to speak up ae others.

  But luckily Quickstep resolved the situation.

  Balm flicked her wand, a warm light immediately embrag Watchful Eye.

  [Heal (rank 1)

  Cost: 25 Mana

  Effect: Heal the target for 400HP+78HP(ST&INT). Has a 2%ce to se oatus effect.

  Cooldown: 30 seds]

  Watchful Eye hankfully as his HP were restored. But Balm still felt anxious. After five seds Quickstep’s skill ran out, her HP redug steadily.

  The female warrior oher hand didn’t feel any pressure. She ro pyer, havihrough many difficult fights.

  As her health slowly reached a critical state, Quickstep switched from attag to defending, losing stanstead of HP, waiting for Balm’s heal to e off cooldown.

  Thiry seds ter a warm light filled up her HP.

  Meanwhile Liam went through the same rotation, soon brimming with life once again.

  Thus, the fight tinued orderly as zombies fell one by one.

  Soon only a few stragglers remained. Blocked by Silver Bde and Radiant Shield those couldn’t make any big waves and soon died uhe party’s attack.

  Cye sighed briefly, her arm already feeling numb from attag.

  “We did it. What a hassle.”

  “May their cursed souls find relief.”

  “Well said! That’s definitely in the vid!”

  Fortune was gd to at least get something hy at the end as this fight against the zombies would be rather b to watot suitable to put into a video in full.

  Silver Bde sed the dead zombies with a smile, but as she g Liam she found him frowning.

  “Mirage? What’s with that face?”

  “Sorry to speak bluntly guys, but this was a terrible performance.”

  “What do you mean, expert?”

  While Cye was fused, Quickstep and Silent Acacia, the pro pyers, nodded in agreement.

  “How you go into a dungeon and not unicate at all? You should call out your HP, the oppo’s movements, your rade’s HP, basically everything you see.

  If we go into a boss fight like this, we will surely be wiped.”

  The party members looked at each other, not daring to refute.

  “The expert is right. Let’s do better fight.”

  “Alright.”

  “I’m suys, this should be my responsibility.”, said Silver Bde guilty.

  But the others disagreed. Most of the group had spectated pro games before. They khat unication was key in many situations.

  If they wao rise swiftly in Fate of aboul, they had to take it seriously.