Chapter 31: The Tenth Floor. 30
Inside the ninth floor,
It was quiet and dimly lit.
"Why is it silent again?" nawfi was afraid and nervous. "It’s creepy."
"Brother, they might be afraid of us and run away," Elina proudly said.
"Clank." Skull gently nodded his head like he agreed with it.
"Yeah... might be for you guys, but not for me," Nawfi was talking in his mind.
Suddenly, some red dots showed in the distant dark place.
"Brother? What are those? Candy? Berry?"elina was droling.
"Exactly the same thing I want to ask... What are those?" He was confused and nervous.
The red dots were increasing rapidly. Not one or two, but hundreds of them.
"Guys, I think..."
Nawfi’s guts told him something dangerous was coming. "We are fucked up."
There were many skeleton warriors, mages, and crawlers surrounding them.
There were too many of them for them to handle.
"Items open!" Nawfi was sweating and tried to focus.
Nawfi was looking at the monster cards while Skull and Elina prepared to fight.
[You have used Monster Card "Hyna Hound" Uncommon + Rank.]
[You have used Monster Card "Hyna H...]
[You have used Monst...]
"GRAAA!"
"Hyna Hound! Take them out!"
"GRAAH!"
They started biting and attacking the mages nearby and used their claws to kill the crawlers.
"GAAR!... GAARR!"
"Leap!" Skull jumped swiftly and, as usual, sliced the skeleton warriors and other skeletons.
Elina was in full battle mode. She was just blasting anything with her spells.
"I better not go near her." He gave a confused smile and stood far behind them, near the cave wall.
But he used some other cards to support them.
[You have used Monster Card "Acidic Slime" Uncommon Rank.]
[You have used Monster Card "Wolf" Uncommon Rank.]
"Phew... it should be enough for a while."
He did not notice that a skeleton came near him.
"Agh!" The skeleton swung its sword and almost killed him.
"Flep!"
[You have used Temporary Skill Card "Flep" Uncommon Rank.]
He was bleeding. "Ahg!"
He looked at the skeleton.
[Skeleton General]
"Agh! It’s a Skeleton General!" He was grabbing his hand tightly to stop the bleeding, and he was in pain.
Skull looked at the Skeleton General with murderous intent and instantly came in front of Nawfi and stood to fight it.
Skull looked at Nawfi from the corner of his eyes.
"Skull?" Nawfi was a bit confused, but he felt relieved. "I’m fine. Just focus on the battle."
Skull looked at the Skeleton General with a grin.
"Leap! Dash!... Thash! Break! Boom!"
They jumped at each other and started fighting.
"Can Skull beat him?... It seems powerful." Nawfi looked at their status windows.
[SKELETON GENERAL STATUS]
Name: Skeleton General
Rank: Rare
Level: 77
HP: 5200/5200
MP: 700/700
SP: 2000/2000
STR: 240
VIT: 210
AGI: 145
INT: 65
DEX: 95
Skills:
[General’s Command]
[Bone Cleave]
Trait:
[Undead General]
[SKULL STATUS]
Name: Skull
Rank: Unique
Level: ??? [ locked ]
HP: ???
MP: ???
SP: ???
STR: ???
VIT: ???
AGI: ???
INT: ???
DEX: ???
Skills:
[Flash Step]
[???]
Trait:
[???]
"Crushh!"
They were almost equal in power.
"Clank! Clank! THASH!"
Elina was blasting the other skeletons with her magic spells, and wolves were fighting some skeleton warriors with the support of acidic slimes. Meanwhile, Hyna Hounds were engaged in a battle with skeleton riders.
Nawfi was helping them with potions.
After an intense battle, Skull defeated the Skeleton General, but he looked exhausted.
[You have got an Epic Monster Core.]
[Floor nine complete.]
"Huh! That was exhausting. I lost all the Hyna Hounds and wolves too."
He sat on the ground. Others also seemed exhausted. He clicked the panel and put out some food items.
[Sandwich]
[Juice]
[Veggie Steak]
Elina and Skull came running and started eating.
"Luckily... I learned cooking from Skull in case we need it. But..." He was thinking about practice time and gave an awkward smile.
He took one bite from a sandwich.
[You have consumed a sandwich. (Rare)]
A notification panel popped up while he was eating.
[You have recovered stamina 50%.]
"I think I don’t need this heavy armor anyway," he thought in his mind.
"It’s time to go... you guys."
He and Skull stood and started walking towards the 10th-floor portal gate, while Elina was still eating.
"Brot... mm...ter... wait for me!"
She entered last while keeping a sandwich in her mouth.
[You have entered Floor 10.]
The whole Floor 10 was pitch black.
"Guys, where are you?"
"Kek... kek..."
"Brother?"
"Stay close... don’t go too far."
"Kek... kek..." Skull responded.
"If they go far away, then who will protect me?" he was thinking in his mind.
The three of them couldn’t see anything, and the sound was echoing.
"Ahh!" Elina fell on the ground. "What is this?"
Elina grabbed something from the ground, but instantly, something grabbed her hand instead.
"Huh? Brothe!" she shouted halfway and stopped.
"Elina? What happened? Are you there?... Elina! Damn it!" He indiscreetly searched for her in the dark.
"Skull? Are you there?" Nawfi asked.
"Kek... ek."
"Phew... fine... then..." He felt a bit relieved and thought in his mind, "Searching for both of the fools would have been a hassle."
"Skull, stand where you are. Don’t go anywhere. I’m coming for you guys."
"Kek."
He looked at how much damage his armor had taken.
[16k/20k]
He closed the panel.
"I have plenty of HP for now... let’s go... if I don’t face anything blizzard that is ," he was talking to himself.
He was trying to follow the sound direction, but the echoing was making him even more confused.
"Are you there, Skull?" Nawfi asked.
"Kek... kek."
He somehow managed to get closer to Skull and touched Skull’s bony shoulder.
"Wait here for a sec."
He stood and was searching for something on the status panel.
"Find it."
[Owl Eyes Goggles
Item: Equipment
Rank: Rare
Info: See in the dark for 12 hours
Note: One-time use only]
"Only one time use?... I thought I would use it for something important..." He was a bit disappointed and sighed. "Phew... I have no other choice but to use it."
He wore the goggles.
His vision became green, and the color of the area looked green to him.
"It looks strange... but it’s better than nothing. I can manage it somehow... Let’s go, Skull."
He grabbed Skull’s hand.
"Kek!... Kek!" He heard Skull’s sound from a bit of a distance.
"Skull?" He was thinking. "If Skull is at a distance, then who am I grabbing... Sk... u... ll?"
He got goosebumps and slowly, slowly looked behind.
"Kekh..." A sound came from behind him.
[skeleton]
He saw a skeleton without an arm that was in his hand. It was looking at him. He instantly understood it was not Skull.
"Ha... ha..." He tried to force a smile like nothing happened., " nice to meet you .. ha ha .."
"Kekh..."
The skeleton suddenly moved towards him.
"Ahh!"
He threw the skeletal hand towards it and ran while shouting.
"Skull! Skull! Where are you, man!" He was running in fear.
"Kekh... kekh..."
It followed him and chased him.
"Damn! I will die!"
"Kek... kek."
He heard Skull’s sound and followed it. After a while, he found Skull’s head lying on the ground. He was making sounds in that state. It was strange, no matter how you looked at it.
"Is that you... Skull?" He didn’t want to make the same mistake as before, so he asked.
"Kek... kek..."
That skeleton was still following him, and beside it, there were some more skeletons following it.
"Let’s go, Skull. We don’t have time. We need to find Elina too."
He instantly grabbed Skull’s head, and the moment he thought of running, he noticed something big was in front of him.
"Oh... noo... oo? What the hell is that thing?" He was very terrified while looking at it.
A massive mountain of bones and skeleton parts was lying on the ground.
"Holy cow?" He was just shocked, standing and looking at it.
"GRAMM!... GRAAAMM!... GRAAMMM!.."
Suddenly, the mountain of bones was trembling.
The vibration of the bones moving kept his heartbeat even faster, and he knew something big was going to happen.
He stepped a bit back while carrying Skull’s head in his hand.
At that moment, one of the craniums of the skeletons started to crawl over the skeletal parts and went to the top of the mountain.
"What is happening?" He was confused about what to do. "Let’s get out of here?"
The cranium’s eye holes suddenly became red, and it was looking straight at Nawfi.
"Shit!... We are fucked."
[Mountain Bone]
Level: 100
[Floor Boss]