Chapter 11: Dungeon (Part 2)
(A/N: I saw read the last chapter again and DAMN my usage of pronouns is all over the place. I'll try to improve it in later chapters)
Alexia and Ryogaku were in a huge room, it had many pathways going in all directions, they were in the middle of the lowest pathway.
They could see the only exit on the top of the room, where the widest pathway was.
They quickly ran and jumped towards the exit, Alexia enhancing her and Ryogaku's body using a spell.
They encountered many low ranked monsters on the way, which were easily defeated by Ryogaku's sword skills and Alexia's support with a few low level offensive spells.
"Almost there" shouted Ryogaku as he jumped towards the exit with Alexia right behind him, but she was suddenly pushed to the floor with a loud sound and the floor cracked.
Ryogaku came to a sudden stop. He turned back and saw Alexia, fully bloodied and unconscious on top of a crack on the floor which spread throughout the top pathway and almost made it completely break. A monster, which can only be described as a Minotaur stood near her.
A feeling started bubbling up in him, it wasn't fear, it was . . . Rage, he felt such immeasurable rage at that moment that he could not think of anything before jumping towards the monster.
Why did he do that? He knew that this monster was stronger than him, it was a C-Rank for God's sake!
But, he did not think about life or death at that moment, he only thought about saving his friend, and slashing that monster into pieces.
As if answering to his determination, his sword started emitting bright orange sparks with a bit of red mixed in them.
The Minotaur, instead of dodging, tried to block the sword with its arm, thinking that the slash would not even cause a scratch, but that is not what happened, the sword went straight through its arm, slashing it cleanly, slicing into its body, creating a shallow wound, it was not enough to kill the monster.
The Minotaur hastily stepped back and observed the boy, whose sword was emitting sparks. His eyes, that were visible slightly through his dropped hair, seemed to be glowing. Its instincts told it that it was dangerous to engage any further, but it ignored the feeling and attacked.
The speed of the Minotaur was not something to laugh at, it almost seemed like it teleported, but Ryogaku was ready, and slashed his sword into its head, which was blocked by its hands.
'Hardening the skin using mana, huh?' thought Ryogaku as he continued his strikes, which were all blocked by the monster. The Minotaur punched him in the gut, causing him to cough up blood.
He felt . . . weak, this monster could block his full-powered strikes easily, he felt as if he was training for nothing, was he really going to die here?
"NO"
"This is not where my journey ends" Screamed Ryogaku, but his voice seemed coarse due to the blood in his throat.
The sparks on his sword started increasing, both in amount and intensity, as he jumped towards the monster.
The sparks on his sword suddenly expanded and completely covered it in flames, beautiful red flames that created a thin layer around the sword, and bright orange flames surrounding the red flames as if it were hellfire itself.
The Minotaur tried to run, but couldn't, Ryogaku was too fast.
The monster raised its hand to block the sword as Ryogaku slashed down.
The sword went clean through the body of the monster, as if it was going through air. Its body was cut into half, and started burning from the line it was cut from.
The split body of the Minotaur fell in opposite directions, left and right.
Ryogaku smiled with satisfaction as he glanced back at Alexia, she was about to regain consciousness.
He had put a lot of strain on his body, but he felt his strength grow. He slowly lost consciousness and fell down.
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When he woke up, Ryogaku saw Alexia sitting with the support of the wall, while she was sweating.
Observing his own body, he found out that all his injuries were almost completely healed. He figured out that Alexia had healed him, but the amount of mana and stamina needed to heal such injuries was a lot, so she was now tired.
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They both went through the exit into another room, Ryogaku in the front and Alexia right behind him.
As Alexia was tired, she did not assist in battles, like Ryogaku needed help anyway. His strength had grown, and, although it was not as strong as when he killed the Minotaur, he could control the flame-coating of his sword, which highly increased the damage he could do.
They both did not run into anything that could endanger their lives after that.
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Anny and Johan went through the exit of the room, this was their 5th room cleared.
As they both entered the room, they saw something weird, this room had no monsters, moreover, it had 4 paths to go to, one which they came from, one to the left of that path, another to the left of that path, and finally, one to the opposite side of the room to these three.
As they thought this they saw two figures coming from one of the paths.
The figures were of Alexia and Ryogaku.
"Ryo! Alexia!" shouted Johan as he ran to them.
"Johan!" said Ryogaku as he spotted them.
"You two fine?" asked Johan
"Well we almost died until Ryogaku here cut a C-Rank into two" said Alexia with a smile
"THAT'S SO COOL" shouted Johan
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After catching up about their experiences till now . . .
"So we can assume that Sukuna will come out of the third door, while the room opposite to the three is to the boss" said Alexia as she was sitting.
The four tried to rest while waiting for Sukuna.
'He is alone, even if he is strong, he will be having trouble in such a dungeon, I just hope he is safe' thought all four of them.
As they were resting, Anny seemed to notice something, she pointed to the wall next to the door leading to the boss and said, "I think something is written on the wall there"
The other three looked at the wall and agreed, although it was far, they could vaguely see some writing on the wall.
All three of them went to the wall and saw some engraved writing that made them shocked.
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"Ya'll took too long to come so I'm going ahead, cya at the boss room
. . . -S'kuna"
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