Chapter 145 - Not a Ranger
"God Damnit! It's a tease!" I screamed in frustration at the empty tunnel ahead of us.
Austin and I had just finished the seventh-floor guardian and were making our way down to the eighth when the tunnel abruptly ended. As we neared where it ended, the tunnel took on a rougher and more unkept look which should have made the end less surprising but my mind didn't want it to be so.
The seventh-floor guardian was a great fight where Austin and I had to go near full power to defeat it and it promised a fun time on the eighth but it wasn't to be so. It had teased us with a good fight only to leave us stranded looking for more.
"It still has seven floors, Christopher. What did you expect from a new dungeon?" Austin tried to soothe my frustration but it did little.
I was eager for a good fight but it seemed I would be denied, which was annoying.
"I hereby name this dungeon Tease, for being a jackass and not giving me a good fight." I declared in the barren tunnel.
Naming the dungeon wouldn't actually do anything but it felt good to spite it. Even if it was inanimate without a clue that I was cursing it.
Dungeons didn't have names, not really anyway. Civilizations still gave them names to refer to them better but those were by no means System enforced. It was just people collectively agreeing to call it the same thing for convenience's sake.
Facing the dead end, we had to march all the way back to the surface and my frustration bled out of me as we hiked back. It was hard to stay mad about it while taking a half hour to get back.
Overall, the whole dungeon run took a few hours and we were only a few coins richer along with various bits of material. The dungeon loot was lackluster but we were warned it would be such.
When we got back to camp, I made sure everyone referred to the dungeon as the name I bestowed upon it, if only for my own amusement.
After it was scouted out, and the difficulty level for the floors was known, people started to sign up to go down into it. Where these dungeons differed from games was they weren't instanced or anything like that.