Chapter 30: The Skeleton Dungeon. 29
[You have entered a rare-rank Skeleton Dungeon.]
Inside the dungeon,
The whole place looked like a dark cave. They couldn’t see anything except the magic crystals on the walls and the magical fireflies brightening the area.
"Both of you, be careful where you step, and don’t run around."
He was giving them directions, but they had already done exactly what he had forbidden them to do.
Elina was trying to catch the fireflies and running around. Skull took out a magnifying glass and started checking the magic crystals here and there.
"Stop it... you guys..."
They wouldn’t listen.
"It’s no use... I have to..."
He almost finished talking, but suddenly—
"Clank... clank..."
Some metallic sounds came towards them.
[SKELETON STATUS]
Name: Skeleton
Rank: Common
Level: 20
HP: 1000/1000
MP: 200/200
SP: 500/500
STR: 70
VIT: 60
AGI: 50
INT: 20
DEX: 40
Skill:
[Bone Slash]
It was a skeleton coming towards Nawfi, and there were two other skeletons following behind it.
"Hey... guys... be ready to fight..."
He said it in a trembling tone and took a fighting stance while holding his sword straight. He was afraid to fight it.
"Clak... clakk... clak..."
The skeleton came running quickly towards him and was about to hit him.
"Hey... I’m dead."
He gave a confused smile.
Skull looked sideways at it, and in the blink of an eye, he reached it and cut it down. He closed his sword into its sheath.
"Pew!"
He was relieved to be alive, but he saw two more skeletons attacking him from the right.
"Ah!"
[SKELETON STATUS]
Name: Skeleton
Rank: Common
Level: 20
HP: 1050/1050
MP: 210/210
SP: 520/520
STR: 88
VIT: 62
AGI: 60
INT: 21
DEX: 42
Skill:
[Bone Slash]
"Boom!"
Both of the skeletons burst flames from their eyes. Nawfi noticed that Elina had cast a fire spell on them from a distance.
She was more powerful than Nawfi had expected. She tried to stand there looking cool with a bored expression on her face.
"Ha! What am I, then?"
He smiled in an insulted way at himself.
"That means... I’m always the weakest after all... He! He!"
He sadly accepted the fact that he was the weakest.
"Clang!"
The monster drops appeared.
He went to collect them.
[You got Monster Core x3.]
[You got a Skeleton Card.]
"Nice... that’s what I’m talking about!"
He had expected some monster cards.
"Clank!... Clank!... Clank!"
They looked over, and more skeletons were coming.
"Guys, get ready again!"
Nawfi stood prepared in his blazer-like armor, pointing his sword in their direction while thinking that he might not be able to do anything.
Skull came closer and stood beside him, grabbing his sword. Elina also came and stood beside them while fixing her bracelet with a proud look on her face.
He smiled.
"Let’s do it, guys!"
They started fighting the skeletons.
[First Floor Cleared.]
In the second floor,
"Hey, why are there no skeletons here...? It’s been half an hour..." Nawfi asked while bored.
After a few minutes,
"Brother, it tickles... please don’t..." Elina was moving robotically because of the tickling.
"What are you talking about?" He was trying to find a clue and was busy. "I’m here. It must be Skull?"
"Clack... clack..."
Skull made a sound with his teeth and bony jaw. Somehow, Nawfi understood him.
"You are saying... you are not?" He was talking while checking a wall and then looked. "Then who... who..."
Nawfi was a little scared.
"Elina?" he said in a trembling tone.
"Ye...s... bro...ther..." She seemed uncomfortable due to the tickling.
"There is something below you?" he said confusingly.
"What is... it?" She looked.
Some skeleton without its lower body parts was grabbing Elina’s leg with its skeletal arms.
[SKELETON CREEPER STATUS]
Name: Skeleton Creeper
Rank: Common
Level: 29
HP: 1150/1150
MP: 220/220
SP: 800/800
STR: 78
VIT: 55
AGI: 90
INT: 22
DEX: 62
Skill:
[Crawl]
"Bro... br... o... th... er...!" Her tone was like some mechanical or robotic vibration, and she raised her hand, casting a spell.
"Elina! Wait!" Nawfi said in a worried tone.
"BOOOM!"
Everyone’s face was full of dust, and their hair was burned like a clown’s, except Skull.
[Second Floor Cleared.]
In the third floor,
There were warrior skeletons with swords and shields. Elina blasted them out, and Skull was toying with them.
[Third Floor Cleared.]
"Why is this floor so silent...?" He was talking and nervous. "It’s so creepy."
"THASH!"
"Wha!" Nawfi was surprised.
An arrow shot towards him. Some skeletons were standing in the distance.
"What are those?"
[ARCHER SKELETON STATUS]
Name: Archer Skeleton
Rank: Common
Level: 34
HP: 1100/1100
MP: 310/310
SP: 760/760
STR: 62
VIT: 54
AGI: 95
INT: 38
DEX: 102
Skill:
[Bone Arrow]
"They look strong... We have to be..." Nawfi was telling them and looked at Elina.
Elina was making many ice arrows floating in the air and shooting them down.
"Boom!"
"Careful..." He finished his talk and realized it was useless to tell them anything. "Never mind."
[Fourth Floor Cleared.]
In the fifth floor,
"Clank... clank." Skull made a sound with a grin on his face, and Elina did too.
"I know, Skull and Elina..." Nawfi told them.
"Brother, let’s..." Elina was saying something.
"Yeah... guys, finish them off..." Nawfi knew that he was useless in battle, so he stayed in a corner.
There were not just some skeletons, but all the types of skeletons from the first to fourth floor were there on the fifth floor, and a small floor boss was behind them.
[SKELETON SHAMAN STATUS]
Name: Skeleton Shaman
Rank: Uncommon
Level: 42
HP: 1050/1050
MP: 850/850
SP: 600/600
STR: 40
VIT: 55
AGI: 48
INT: 120
DEX: 45
Skills:
[Fireball]
[Withering Curse]
"Clank... clash... crack... BOOOM!"
He felt depressed seeing them fighting.
[Floor boss has been defeated.]
[You get a rare monster core.]
"Nice."
[Fifth Floor Cleared.]
"Hey... guys... I think we should take some rest before entering the sixth floor," Nawfi suggested.
Skull nodded.
Elina wanted to use her magic equipment a bit more, but she agreed to rest.
Nawfi took out some stamina potions, mana potions, and buff potions that he made. Both Elina and Skull drank them.
Nawfi was confusedly looking at Skull drinking the potions.
"How can a skeleton even drink?" he was thinking in his mind. "Well... it’s a fantasy world for you..."
He was looking at his status window, and he took out some sandwiches.
They came quickly to grab the sandwiches.
"Am... mm..." Elina was eating like a puppy.
[You have consumed mana potion uncommon. Recovered 25% of MP.]
[You have consumed stamina potion uncommon. Recovered 25% of SP.]
"Luckily, I learned alchemy from Skull..."
Their bodies were emitting blue and red auras after eating the food.
He took a bite from a sandwich.
"Not bad... if I say so myself," he proudly said.
"Hmm?"
[You have consumed sandwich rare.]
[Your status points are buffed by 10 for 1 hour.]
"Status points?..." He confusedly looked at the panel. "Oh... there is some change in the status window... so, it might be good..."
He stood.
"Guys, let’s go then..."
There was something behind them that they didn’t notice.
[You have entered Floor 6.]
They started fighting the skeletons.
[SKELETON RIDER STATUS]
Name: Skeleton Rider
Rank: Rare
Level: 51
HP: 2200/2200
MP: 500/500
SP: 1100/1100
STR: 130
VIT: 105
AGI: 115
INT: 35
DEX: 70
Skills:
[Bone Charge]
[Death Ride]
With the support of Elina, Skull was slicing them like butter, and Nawfi was just standing, watching and collecting the monster cores and monster cards.
[You have got a Monster Card: Skeleton Rider.]
[You have got a rare Monster Core.]
[Sixth Floor Cleared.]
In the seventh floor,
[SKELETON ROGUE STATUS]
Name: Skeleton Rogue
Rank: Uncommon
Level: 59
HP: 1400/1400
MP: 420/420
SP: 1200/1200
STR: 85
VIT: 65
AGI: 150
INT: 30
DEX: 125
Skills:
[Shadow Dash]
[Backstab]
There were skeleton rogues, but they couldn’t compare with the speed of Skull.
Some of them tried to attack Skull from behind using Dash.
"Sweep!"
But Skull used Flash Step, an advanced-rank skill.
[Seventh Floor Cleared.]
In the eighth floor, Skull was having a sacred duel with the floor boss.
[Floor Boss: Headless Knight; Dulahan]
[HEADLESS KNIGHT: DULAHAN STATUS]
Name: Dulahan
Rank: Rare
Level: 68
HP: 4500/4500
MP: 600/600
SP: 1800/1800
STR: 210
VIT: 180
AGI: 130
INT: 55
DEX: 85
Skills:
[Death Slash]
[Dark Charge]
Trait:
[Headless Knight]
But Skull won the duel, and Dulahan seemed to acknowledge him as a proud knight.
[You have got a unique Monster Core.]
[You got...]
"Unique! Nice!"
[Eighth Floor Cleared.]
"Phew... it’s going nicely..." He was relieved. "They cleared the floor alone, and I didn’t need to do anything."
He looked at them and looked at his equipment.
"But I want to try my new equipment."
"Brother! We are leaving you behind. Hurry up!"
"Well, it’s not the last, so I would get many chances later." He sighed and left with them.
[You have entered Floor Nine.]