Liam’s party wasn’t the only one moving through the dungeon. Naturally each group was within their own instanot able to i with each other.
But messages from outside could still reach them.
Fat Tiger stood stably, holding back monsters with a rge shield when something popped up in front of him.
[Fighting Bear: Boss! We failed… others made it into the dungeon.]
[Fat Tiger: What? How? Did you mess up?]
[Fighting Bear: No! We perfectly adhered to the pn. But someone uhe crowd, pushing us aside without attag.]
[Fat Tiger: Who dared to do so?!]
[Fighting Bear: It was that streamer, Fortune.]
[Fat Tiger: Fortune? Why does she care for the dungeon?]
[Fighting Bear: She eogether with a party.]
[Fat Tiger: Really? Who is stupid enough to take a tent creator in? Haven’t all pros already banned her?]
[Fighting Bear: I was only able to chee name. A warrior called Bleary Mirage.]
Fat Tiger fell silent, veins popping on his forehead.
How could it be that guy again?
The chubby man looked towards the side, where his alley Glorious Sunshine wore a simir expression, also having received a report.
“Let’s hurry up!”
“Yes!”
At the same time Liam’s party moved with purpose, looting the zombies quickly. No copper was left behind.
At the end of the corridor iraling staircase leading upwards. Silver Bde sent Silent Acacia to scout, carefully following behind.
The thief was highly vigint, qui his feet. His eyes sed the wall, disc quite a fes. With dexterous hands he dismahem, even pig up some poisonous arrows for himself.
But after a short while he returo the group, rep diligently:
“The path up ahead is blocked by a wall of bck fire. I ’t do anything.”
“Then what should we do?”
“Before the blockade, a single door leads away. We might be able to find a lever or something simir.”
“Good job. Let’s go.”
Silver Bde sighe party to move on. Silent Acacia moved ahead again, using his [Stealth] to carefully open the door.
But he was stunned as he was met with plete darkness, nothing about the room disable.
He didn’t dare to enter, waiting for the party to arrive.
Balm trembled faintly, subsciously hiding behind Radiant Shield, speaking quietly:
“What is this? Why ’t we see anything?”
Silver Bde frowned, gazing at Bleary Mirage, who nodded calmly.
“Let’s just go in.”
“Alright.”
The party members braced themselves as they stepped into the darkness. They felt a wooden floor uheir feet as they tried to dis anything about their surroundings.
“What might await us in this darkness? Will we e out alive? Will we be devoured?”
Fortune spoke a few ominous sentences, being the st to enter.
But as soon as she stepped in…
Boom!
Fortune flinched as the door closed behind her with a deafening sound.
But inwardly she grinned, knowing this was a great shot for her video.
“Ah! Guys are you still there?”, asked Balm into the darkness.
“Get ready for a fight! Mages at the back!”
Liam spoke sternly. The others tried to orient themselves in the darkness, gathering in front of the door.
A moment ter fmes suddenly lit up in fire bowls at the side. They were bck as the night, emitting an eerie ess, their light barely enough to highlight bright surfaces.
The special atmosphere immediately directed one’s attention to the white figures sitting around a table.
“Hehehe.”
Eerie cag echoed in the room as blue fmes suddenly lit up within eye sockets, their shilining the skeleton heads around them.
“The undead are feasting here…”, spoke Bloody Edge in a deep voice.
“Shut up! You’re not making it better!”, grumbled Cye.
“Careful guys! They are moving.”
“Don’t touch the bck fire!”
Everyo Liam’s warning in mind as they ied the oppos.
[Skeleton soldierRank: on
Level: 8
HP: 850/850]
[Skeleton archerRank: on
Level: 8
HP: 660/660]
[Skeleton GuardRae
Level: 8
HP: 1600/1600]
“Two elites and ten onsters. Stay alert.”
“Let’s focus the small mobs first!”
Orders were reyed as the group got ready for a fight.
[-86!]
A magical attack arrived immediately before the skeletons could even stand up. The archer stared at Cye as if bming her for not pying by the rules.
“Hmm, my damage is not great. Seem like they have high magical defense.”
“Let me try!”, spoke Silent Acacia, sending out an arrow.
[-142!]
“Their bones are quite brittle!”
Liam nodded quietly as his party took his earlier words to heart, immediately gathering information.
“Gnaah!”
One of the skeleton soldiers let out a strange sound, as it stood up and angrily approached the group, a sword raised above its head.
Radiant Shield took the first blow.
[Stance -8]
“Eight points of stance, I should be able to block six attacks.”
The fight began, with the party stantly talking. They designated a target, bringing it down in a short time before the two elites arrived.
Radiant Shield and Silver Bde took deep breaths, fag oe each.
The skeleton guards were tall, with dominating, long spears.
[Stance -12]
“Twelve points. This won’t be easy!”
“Quickly, kill the soldiers! Silent Acacia, Bloody Edge, you take down the archers?”
“Of course.”
“Easy.”
There was little spaove in the dining room. Bloody Edge had to tread carefully, avoiding the bck hellfire as he sowards the archers.
Suddenly he lunged forwards, his dagger stabbing towards the oppo’s knee.
[-136!]
The archer was already injured, now close to death. Silent Acacia quickly followed up with a [Flurry], sending it to the afterlife.
Cye watched from the back, Bloody Edge’s as giving her an idea. She slightly repositioned herself, aiming carefully, before casting [Push].
The skeleton soldiers were hit by her spell, tumbling backwards. Two of them came into tact with the fire bowls.
Instantly fierce fmes climbed up their arms. The skeletons rattled their heads, shaking their arms as damage numbers plopped up above them.
[-30!]
[-30!]
[…]
“Good job Cy!”
“Hehe.”
After a few seds the skeletons got rid of the fmes, having lost nearly half of their HP. But their ordeal wasn’t over yet as it was now Balm’s turn to do the same.
Only one skeleton was shoved into the fire this time. Not able to extinguish the fierce fmes it was buro ashes.
Meanwhile, the archers had already bee with, Bloody Edge now creeping up behind the elites.
“My stance has run out!”
Radiant Shield spoke calmly, but everyone cluded that they had to finish the fight soon.
Immediately after his annou, a rusty bde cut at Radiant Shield’s chest.
[-50!]
Radiant Shield looked at his HP, his face stern.
“I endure 12 hits.”
Balm nodded her head quickly, trying to keep up with the fight so she wouldn’t miss any healing.
But a moment ter, one of the elites moved swift like the wind, its spear stabbing at Radiant Shield.
[-96!]
“Damn. Fet what I said. A quarter of my HP are gone.”
“Don’t panic, guys. Use your bat instinct if necessary.”, reminded Liam calmly.
He moved to the side, targeting two skeletons with his [Double Ssh].
[-110!]
[-180!]
Liam sword directly severed the undead monsters’ spines, both dropping to the ground, dead.
One by ohe other soldiers fell as well, leaving only the elites behind.
Balm already had to use her first heal on Silver Bde, who was geared towards magical defense, with Radiant Shield following soon behind.
Cye was disappointed in her damage throughout the fight, using her skill on cooldown. A fsh ht light stroke one of the elites from above.
[-142!]
[-21!]
“Huh, what was that sed damage?”
“Your holy strike’s effect triggered and those skeletons are weak to holy damage.”
“What? Really?”
Suddenly Cye’s eyes lit up as she pulled out a small white sphere.
“Take this!”
The young woman smiled brightly as she threw it at the two elites.
Liam didn’t react fast enough, staring in disbelief.
“A bomb with holy damage?! No! Don’t waste it here!”
But it was already too te. The bomb shattered on the grouing a bright light, burning the skeletons.
[-115!]
[-115!]
[-115!]
“Roaah!”
Even the skeleton guards let out pained groans as their HP kept dwindling.
“Hehe, take that!”
Cye smiled brightly, but Liam didn’t find it funny.
“Why did you waste this here? We don’t even know if we clear the dungeon.”
“Ah, don’t worry I still have some left.”
“What? How? Where did you get them?”
Possibilities pyed in Liam’s mind, but none of those made se this point in the game.
“I fished them!”
Liam didn’t know what to say, stunned by Cye’s unbelievable luck.
“O… of course.”
With Cye’s bomb the elite skeletons were already not far from dying. With ten people attag from all sides, they weren’t able to hold on much longer, soon colpsing in a pile of bones.
As soon as the skeletons were gone, dles lit up in the room, driving away the cold, and creating a fortable atmosphere.
