Meanwhile, at Ouka and Mikoto's side.
"Okay, I will help!" Mikoto declared.
Ouka did not comment on her actions. He knew that he alone wasn't sufficient. Thus, he was grateful and kinda helpless. As a captain in the Familia, he couldn't ensure his comrades' safety.
Mikoto did not know what was occurring on Ouka's head. She foraged some hidden weapon thrown in the ground, and find some dagger. She picked it and held it to repel some of the assassins who tried to sneak at Ouka's back.
Slashes after slashes were coming after both of them. Injuries were being stacked in their bodies; blood was spilling on the ground. In two minutes, their bodies became sluggish from the blood loss and some might be poison.
In the assassins' side. One of the cloaked assassins was observing the battle. Their objective for today was to give some trouble to their target Familia. Even though their employer was fine if some of the targets died, he didn't. If the adventurer died in the city from battle, the guild would surely find the culprit and sentenced his/her. He did not have the capability to fight the guild, yet. Thus, even though he knew the one running away would likely get reinforcement, he did not stop her.
"Give up the Renard girl, and we will spare your lives" He bluffed.
Mikoto who finally able to catch some breath, shouted "Who are you, people?" She still asked the assailants' identity, even when the assailants were wearing cloaks to masked their identity.
"HAHAHAHA" All of the assassins laughed hearing her question.
Mikoto was irked by their responses, it was like that her question was a joke. She clapped her hand and wanted to chant her magic. Unfortunately, the assassin leader said, "Let's retreat, reinforcement is coming".
When they saw the assailants retreated, both of them sighed in relief. They dropped on the ground exhausted and lost consciousness. The reinforcement was surprised seeing this. They hurriedly ran and after seeing both of them and could see their state of injuries and possible blood loss. They began tending after them and carry them to the house.
---
Meanwhile, in the inn's room. Haruhime was seen clutching her forehead with a hurt expression. Prana was reprimanding her for walking in the middle of the night, even though she knew that she was being targeted.
"Prana-sama?" Haruhime did not hear the reprimanding. For her, this time was the best moment to confess. She felt that after this day, she might not see him again for a while. Therefore, she braved herself in the middle of being reprimanded to interrupt his speech.
"What?" Prana being interrupted was irked.
"I know that I am wrong. But I couldn't help it when I think that I can't see you again after you left me like today."
"You just used to be beside me" he stated.
"Um…" She did not know what to say, "Even though, we just met for a while. I know that I feel comfortable with you, it feels warm in here *while holding her chest next to her heart*. I want to be with you. I… I… I like you; I love you Prana-sama" she shouted in her last sentence.
Prana was dumbfounded hearing her confession, he flicked her forehead once again, "Don't joke around"
"Ouch.."
Being flicked once again and her confession did not take seriously by Prana, she felt indignant. She rubbed her forehead and said, "I am serious, Prana-sama"
Her expression was so serious, and with the way she pouted, Haruhime was so cute to Prana. He already aware of her feeling actually. It started after they encountering that life and death moment, and he almost sacrificed himself for her.
"Haruhime, let me tell you something" He added, "Do you remember my treatment to you for the first time we met?"
Haruhime answered, "Of course"
"You know that the first time we met, I did not have any interest in you even when your body was almost bare right. It was because I feel repulsed being near a woman I did not close to. I had some problems with women, and now it is still the same. I couldn't trust them. Do you want to be with someone who doesn't trust her partner?" Seeing her silent, He continued, "No, right. Therefore, I advise you to buy--"
"I will get your trust then" Haruhime interrupted him again.
Prana hearing her response was choked. 'This girl' he tried to find another way to reject her and came with an idea. He inched closer to Haruhime, and when he almost hugging her. He whispered in her ear, "Then let's consummate it" he teased her while fondling her tail. This was an idea he thought of, 'being a pervert, I think that no women want her partner to be a pervert and only lust their body, right?'.
Hearing her silence, Prana was assured that it was a success. He released her and shocked that Haruhime fainted with a red face.
For Haruhime, Prana's actions were too much. She felt his touch on her tail, and when she heard his sentence. She blushed so redly that her mind was short-circuited and directly fainted. However, in her mind, she was happy and plastered a smile on her face. 'At least, Prana-sama has some fetishes to me'
Early in the morning, Takemikazuki came to the inn along with his children.
*Knock Knock Knock*
Inside the room, Haruhime was already awake for a while and fidgeting when remembering last night's experience. She was so happy and relieved at the same time. At least, Prana did not feel repulsed at her after hearing his trauma.
When she was still daydreaming, she heard a knock on the door and stood up to open it. She opened it cautiously and only her head was visible on the gap between the door. "Yes?"
Takemikazuki seeing Haruhime surprised, 'Didn't the clerk said that this is that young man's room?' But knowing that he was in hurry, he did not dwell on this matter. He curtly asked about the young man to Haruhime.
"Ummm, Takemikazuki-sama, he is still asleep" She answered.
"Can you wake him up?"
Inside the room, Prana was awake hearing the noise outside the room. Somehow, he couldn't sleep peacefully and was easy to be startled awake. He sat up and saw Haruhime was standing at the door. "Haruhime, who is it?"
Haruhime was surprised that he could awake at this time. Before she was going to tell who the visitors are, Takemikazuki cut her off.
"It is me, Takemikazuki." He waltzed toward the room since Haruhime was stepping aside and implicitly told him to go inside.
"Oh, morning" Prana greeted this God. Upon seeing the god walked inside, he knew that something must happen for the fact that he put. He looked so serious and solemn. Prana couldn't help to ask what was happening to him that made him made that kind of face.
"The thing is my family was attacked last night, and they need us to hand over Haruhime…." Take explained the event last night.
Hearing the explanation Prana was sure that it was the same Familia that attacked him yesterday. Thus, he suggested to Take "As I said before, you should ask protection from the guild"
"Yes, I know. That's why I come this time. I need to bring Haruhime with me and proceed with asking Ouranos's protection"
Prana nodded, "Okay. Also, I need to go to the guild. Let's go together"
---
In the street
One of the Take's children asked Prana something. "You don't have any belonging with you? Something like equipment, money, etc?" he was confused seeing Prana did not bring anything with him when they went out of the Inn.
"Oh, Of course, I have" He answered with a flat expression. As if that is a matter of fact.
"But you don't seem to carry anything?" he asked puzzledly.
"Why should I carry it? Here I have it" He answered again, meanwhile taking out his spear.
All of the members of the trip were dumbfounded seeing this. 'He has space magic'
Take seeing the situation turn out this way, advised Prana, "You shouldn't flaunt your skill like that. Space magic was incredibly unique and there only some people that can use it in the past, and even it could be counted with both hands. If any great Familia know this you might face a lot of trouble. Therefore, I advise you to not use it and always bring your belonging in open."
'Damn, I used to think that they want to flaunt their weapon in the open in the past. To think they did not have storage magic'. He was shocked and realized it for the first time.
"Umu, I will take it in mind" He nodded seriously, and bring out some pouch leather and hang his spear on his back.
---
When they arrived inside the guild, Takemikazuki and his children bade farewell to him, and Haruhime also followed them after saying that he must look after her after this.
Prana was seeing their back for a while, then he walked to the Eina – the elf receptionist who hosted him before.
"Morning, Miss Eina" He greeted her formally. Eina as usual answered and greeted him back with a smile.
"Good morning, Mr. Prana was it?" She placed her finger to her chin with a thinking pose when remembering Prana's name.
"Um, yes. I want to sell some magic stones and for the house matter"
"Okay, do you already join a Familia?" seeing him shaking his head, Eina knew the answer "Then, there will be a 20% processing fee if you sell your magic stones, is it fine with you?"
He nodded, "Yes please" and bring out all of his magic stones in his pouch. Then, he was instructed to the counter where he could sell his stones.
After being counted, he was able to earn three hundred and twenty thousand valis with a single transaction with the fee already included. 'What a rip off' he thought. The guild could easily earn the eighty thousand valis in just a second.
He walked again to Eina and asked about the house. From her explanation, it seemed that the house was near that tall tower and it looked like and the owner only agreed to rent and not to sell. The rent price was quite steep, it was five hundred thousand valis in a year, and 90% installment. Fortunately, from her information, the furniture was complete and fit my requirement. Thus, with gritted teeth, he was able to fork out four hundred and fifty thousand valis to finalize the transaction.
After that, he began chattering with Eina about common sense in the dungeon. Also, he asked about his mission target. Unfortunately, she couldn't tell anything to him anything. But she said "if he wants to know about Ais Wallenstain, he could see her picture on the bulletin board"
When he arrived at the bulleting board, he saw the sketch of the woman named Ais Wallenstain. From the description, she was nicknamed Sword Princess and already Level 5 this year and the quickest adventurer to level up, and particularly she was the member of Loki Familia who often went to explore the lower level dungeon.
After finishing his business in the guild, he went out and walked straight to the dungeon. He was too poor right now, his valis only enough for one meat course in the pub. Thus, he wanted to quickly get the stones and train in the dungeon.
---
Takemikazuki, Ouranos, and Ishtar were seen in a certain place with a situation where two of them arguing and one of them listening.
Ishtar came to Ouranos at the same time as Takemikazuki. She wanted to declare a war game with Takemikazuki Familia. However, after she declared her intention. Takemikazuki cleverly was able to think of a way out by obtaining the protection from the guild for half a year.
'Damn this upcoming God' Ishtar cursed Takemikazuki. Her plan couldn't be executed if she couldn't get Haruhime. Thus, she tried to reason by saying that the killer of her Familia member was Takemikazuki's children.
However, Fels interjected. "Takemikazuki-sama only accepted Sanjouno Haruhime as his new children and based on her board. It is impossible as you claimed she was the killer"
Ishtar was indignant, Ouranos also having a headache, Takemikazuki was afraid that Ouranos would succumb to her words.
"Ishtar, Take Familia will be in guild protection," he said it firmly this time "Fels, relay the message. Also, in three months from now, the guild will hold a tournament in the city, each familia must send 1 fighter below Level 6 and there was no requirement for free adventurers."
Free adventurers were they who do not join Familia because they were quit by their own mind, or banished by the familia, or have certain reasons.
---
Finally, Prana has arrived in the tower. It was still quite early in the morning, but there were already some adventurers going in.
Seeing this situation, Prana was excited. It felt like the adventure time was finally came to him. He held his spear and spin it around with one hand and walked inside.
When he walked inside the dungeon, suddenly the system notification rang out.
[Ding…]
[ Ding... Since the Host is diving inside the dungeon, a new feature is activating….
Feature: HP percentage, drop item rate up, RPG mode (Party and Aggro)]
[Clear the Dungeon! (Daily Mission)
Description: Clear the dungeon inside the Tower of Babel.
Reward: Floor x 100 SP (System Points), Floor x Lottery Ticket Fragment x 10
Time limit: --
]
'Hehe, one more reason to dive inside the dungeon' Prana was inside the dungeon right now, specifically on the First floor of this dungeon.
'Total Concertation: Awareness' When he was casting his radar, he found out that the range was slimmed significantly to only 3 meters radius around him. 'It seemed that the dungeon affected my senses.'
He inspected the dungeon and feel the mana around him were kind of unstable, and there were too many electric currents for him to differentiate in the corridor.
He walked along the cave corridor while maintaining his concertation. After just several minutes of walking, he found several doglike monsters blocked the road while circling each other.
Seeing these Prana was excited, 'Nice, Eight-fold Dashes'
*Boom*
The kobold was startled hearing the loud rumbling sound. They turned around, and their life was extinguished.
Seeing the result, Prana was kinda disappointed. With just one large swing of his spear, three of them were dead. However, since this was only the first floor. He just shrugs it off.
'Dive lower, to meet the stronger monster.' He picked the magic stones, and directly dashes to the next floor. Along the way, he met some kobold that unconsciously aggroed by him.
After arriving on the second floor, he met some variations to the monster. Beside kobolds that attacked him, there were also some goblins and lizard. There was quite a considerable amount of them inside the second floor. The goblin was quite troublesome since they could attract reinforcement if they did not get killed in one attack.
Every time he met goblin, he would dash forward and held his spear to prepare a quick stab to their forehead. This occurred until he got into the fifth floor. He was blocked by a hobgoblin. It seemed that it was guarding the stair leading to the sixth floor.
Seeing a new opponent and with a wooden giant club in its hand, Prana was riled up. He held the spear downwards and dashed in one leap to the hobgoblin.
The hobgoblin was shocked by its opponent's burst speed. Fortunately, its instinct was kicked in. It placed the club in front of his chest to guard and parry the attack.
Prana who was frustrated with the one-hit-kill enemy grinned at this hobgoblin. 'This goblin is quite good' he decided to play with it and sharpen his technique.
He used his new combat technique, 'Triple Strike'. It is a common technique used by every spear user. The user will stab thrice toward the target as quickly as possible and aim for the vital. This time, however, Prana only stabbed at the giant club protecting the hobgoblin's vital.
*Thud* *Thud* *Thud*
The hobgoblin was thrown out by the sheer force of the stab. Even though, Prana did not use any sure hit technique. Just for his strength alone, he has already left the hobgoblin in the dust. Thus, he was not surprised about this outcome.
'Tsk, too much force' Prana thought.
The hobgoblin was enraged after being thrown by a human. Since usually, it was him who throw others with his giant club. He roared to Prana and recklessly dashed toward Prana.
Prana seeing this couldn't help to shake his head, 'In the end, it still a mindless creature' He continuously used 'Triple Strike', until the Hobgoblin was no longer able to stand up again. Therefore, he finished his training in the new combat technique.
Walking along the corridor, he sighed. "I miss my Instant Mastery skill"
---
Ishtar Familia, Belit Babii. The amazoness shaman was reporting to Ishar.
"Ishtar-sama, the man target dive inside the dungeon"
"Haha, nice. Aisha! Amira! Bring him here if you can, Finish him otherwise" She commanded her children, and couldn't wait to see his expression when she tortures him.
"Yes, Ishtar-sama" Aisha and Amira acknowledged the command and walked away to get their equipment.
---
Takemikazuki's thought.
When he accepted Haruhime as his Familia children, he was shocked seeing Haruhime board.
[Sanjouno Haruhime. Lv. 1
Str: I35, End: I80, Dex: I99, Agi: I96, Mag: D543
Uchide no Kozuchi: a level boosting magic that can only be used on one target, other than the caster. Its effects can last for ten to fifteen minutes interval. Demerit, the target only gained half the experience/falna when slaying the monster.]
'No wonder, Ishtar was so hell bent on bringing Haruhime to her side. Every familia that having this skill would be ecstatic since it could boost their party exploration. However, I still don't understand the exact reason for Ishtar, I feel like there is something behind that reason. Since this support skill only available for one target. Hmm?'
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Prana who was being targeted is strolling the dungeon leisurely. Right now, he was already on the tenth floor. Even though in each level the difficulty was raised by the dungeon, there wasn't enough to stump him.
On the sixth floor, he met with a shadow-like monster that seemed to have some fighting experience. Thus, it was quite enjoyable to fight with them with one vs many environments. The one that gave him trouble was the frog. Because, they could spit their acidic saliva to him, and he couldn't kill them quickly if he did not kill the shadow first. Therefore, he kept killing the shadow while maintaining his awareness of the spit.
On the seventh floor, he fought with an ant monster. The monster was quite sturdy, their exoskeleton could withstand his normal strike once before it was cracked. Also, these monsters loved to call reinforcement before their death. So, it was tiring to fight on the seventh floor.
On the eight and nine floors, the composition of the monsters was the fusion between the sixth and seventh. Prana was demanded to fight the shadow, the frog, and often with the ant on the floor. Also, he met with a rabbit with a horn on its forehead. Somehow it was cute, if not for the red eyes and its aggressive behavior.
'This dungeon did not only demand strength from the adventurer, but also endurance to keep walking forward. If somehow, they were too tired to be active inside the dungeon. It was certain they will die if they met monsters. Fortunately, I packed quite Stamina Potion and food for the next few days.' He silently mused. Prana's intention was to diving the dungeon in three days and take a look at the progress after.
On the tenth floor, it was shrouded by the mist. Also, I could hear some eerie sound from the mist. 'I wasn't surprised that there might be a lot of adventurers perish in this floor. Since the sudden attack inside the mist could crumble the entire party might'.
He walked toward the mist while dragging his spear, and sometimes knocking on the ground with the bottom of the spear with a certain rhythm.
When he walked and made the sound, finally he was able to pick some monsters in his awareness. 'Five creatures with a small body. Goblin? No. They are crouching waiting for an opportunity to strike, unlike goblin who charge recklessly.'
He swept the spear in a half-circle in his left direction, and finally able to see their appearances. 'Identify'
[Imp. Peak Lv. 1] x 8
'It is been hours since I dive in this dungeon, and right now I am still on the tenth floor.' After finishing the imps and orcs, Prana tried to find the stair that leads to the next floor.
When he walked, he felt the wind blow chaotically. Also, the mist was being cleared by the wind. Prana tried to access the surrounding but did not see any magician unleashing a spell around.
*WHOOSH*
Once again, the wind blowing, and finally, he saw the one who made the wind. It was a wyvern. It was like the wyvern shown in the fantasy program. The wyvern was colored in blue and had metallic luster in its scales.
'Identify'
[Wyvern. Peak Lv. 3 creature]
'Wow, finally decent opponent' he was delighted seeing his new opponent.
The wyvern, feeling that had been spied turn over its head to find the culprit. It was a tiny creature that often preyed on. The wyvern did not feel seem agitated by Prana. It just looked around. The wyvern wanted to find another creature that could be preyed on.
Prana who was being ignored and felt the piercing eyes from the wyvern frowned. 'Tch, am I not worthy for you, huh?' He readied himself and placed his spear on his hands.
'Don't think that if you can fly, you are invisible.' He predicted the trajectory for his jump. Fortunately, there was some dried tree that can be used as a stepping.
*Dash* Prana directly used his first technique; he dashed on the ground and calculated the distance before jumping to the tree and got the final jump to the wyvern.
*Jump* He jumped in the air directly while scattering his mana in the air to make some scaffolds.
The wyvern who ignored the human before was stunned. The human was so fast and reached its place quickly. Seeing the wide sweep delivered by the human, the wyvern flies a step back to make some room for blocking. The wyvern intended to block the spear with its wings and claw at the human's head with its talon-like leg.
*Clang* the sound of metal rang out between the spear and wing clash.
'So hard' he thought as his hand felt numb from the rebound, 'Life Drain activates' Prana injected some mana to the rune on the shaft. Life drain was one of the runes scripted to the spear. It could exhaust the target when the spear blade met with the target.
The wyvern felt smug after the impact. It knew that its wing able to block any cold weapon from the human before, thus it dared to do it right now. However, its complacent did not last long, after the block he felt that his strength was sapped out of nowhere.
The wyvern did not think too much about it, since it was sure that the human was the cause. It instantly shrieked and dived at Prana with its talon-like legs.
*Shrieekkkk*
The wyvern was enraged and Prana who was still in mid-air did not have any stable foothold yet. His grasshoppers did not form yet. Being forced to block it, Prana positioned his spear at the incoming talons.
*Clang* Once again the sound of metal rang out. Prana's spear was bending and his hand was paralyzed, it looked like it was going to touch his chest while Prana also being thrown to the ground by the wyvern.
*Boom* The sound of flesh made contact with the ground sounded. Prana groaned since some of his innards might shift from the impact.
The wyvern was delighted and shrieked once again. It was slowly and carefully descended. Since the dust cloud made its eyesight clouded.
Prana did not have to think about the pain right now, his life was in danger once again. But this time by a monster rather than a human. He directly resumed his lightning breathing and put the second stance.
Since his opponent was right above his head. Prana held the spear with one hand vertically. He gathered his lightning energy and mana to his right hand. Some snake electricity appeared on the spear blade, it made some humming and cracking sound then vibrated.
It was Prana's first time seeing this, but he did not dwell on the matter. Since the shadow of the wyvern finally appeared.
"Javelin" He shouted in his mind, and throw out the spear.
*Whoosh*
The wyvern who did not know about this was panicked seeing something was thrown out from inside the dust cloud. It was intending to dodge the object but the object was too fast for the wyvern to dodge.
*Pierce* The sound of something being pierced rang out. The wyvern managed to move sideway, however, one of its wings became the price.
The wyvern losing its ability to fly, and rapidly dive to the ground.
Seeing this outcome, Prana instantly used 'Instant Strike' and moved behind the wyvern before it was touching the ground. He mounted its back and placed his weight to the wyvern back. He held the wyvern mouth to prevent it from shrieking, then he reinforcing his finger with lightning and mana and stabbed its brain from behind.
*Puchi*
The wyvern was disintegrated and leave behind magic stones and some metallic scale.
He sat up but fall to the ground. Even though, it was short. The thrill and adrenaline he faced were exhausting. He tried to command his spear to disintegrate and back to the inventory.
He sat down and called the inventory panel. 'Inventory'
He took out one stamina potion and gulped it down quickly, and took some dry meat to chew.
'Dr. Blythe' He summoned his doctor, and command it to check his organs and innards, in case something was injured. Since he was falling really hard before.
Being summoned and directed, Dr. Blythe directly opened his body once again. This time it was on his shoulder. Prana felt that some muscle tissue near the place was ripped after blocking the strike.
Since Dr. Blythe was working and his body has been injected with a pain killer with the doctor. Prana tried to open his status once again.
'Status'
+ NAME : Prana Takada
+ AGE : 17 years old
+ BLOODLINE : Pure Human
+ STR : 200 (H-) ( 309 (H)
+ AGI : 360 (H+) ( 467 (G-)
+ HP : 60%
+ MANA : 100%
+ SKILLS : Lightning Manipulation (S+ Support/passive), Instant Strike (A-active), Backstab (C-Active), Camouflage (C-Support/passive), Dr. Blythe (SS-Support/Active), Defensive Blade (B-Active), Identify (D-Active),
+ EQUIP :
+ POINT : 1570 points (Converted from the magic stone)
+ INVENTORY: Stamina Potion x 6, 20.000 valis.
Lottery ticket x 2]
'What! My breathing skill is gone from the list. But I am still breathing using the usual technique. Is it evolved? Since before when I threw out my spear, there was some lightning danced around the spear.' He mused, 'Ch, It is fine as long I could still use my breathing
'The most surprising is still my growth. In just a few hours, and some beating from the higher monster let my stats went higher more than a hundred. Also, my strength stat was too low. It was apparent when facing another opponent with greater strength. In just one clash, my muscle was ruptured. I should find some potion or whatever that can help to balance my strength.'
'Shop' He scrolled down the consumable panel and filtered the items. Finally, he found something cheap.
[Bone Muscle Altering Pill x 1200 points. Increase the capacity of power inside the bone and muscle. When being consumed, it was able to bring excruciating pain to the consumer. The harvest is the user strength and agility will be permanently increased by 100 points. Only can be consumed once in a lifetime.]
'Once again, PAIN. With my measly points, I couldn't buy a great elixir that did not have any side effects huh'
He pressed the buy button, and the notification for the product already in inventory came.
'Unfortunately, I couldn't consume it right now'
Dr. Blythe was finished performing the surgery and already giving his massage (punch) to the shifted organ from the front.
Prana sighed, 'Lottery ticket it is' He used the lottery tickets, and hope that something useful might come out.
[Ding… congratulations for obtaining two items:
Ninja's smoked bomb x 1 (Dungeon Only). Throw the bomb on the ground and the user will be teleported out of the dungeon.
Guardian Necklace (SR). Increase mana recovery by a medium amount. Passive skill: Protection. Grant the user the protection for any life-threatening attack. The necklace will protect the user inside; thus, the impact is still being felt by the user. Use 3 times a week. Additional protection will be granted and the necklace will break.]
'Heh, what a handy skill for lifesaving time' he thought.
After being treated, Prana resumed his journey to the middle floor. From what he heard, usually, the monster would be coming in a pack and like a tidal wave, coming one after another.
He strolled the floor like usual since the monster in the eleventh to thirteenth floors were compiled from Lv. 2 monsters. Even though a lot of them were quite troublesome and he got some scratch here and there, but with a spear, in hand, he appeared very valiant when eradicating the monsters.
Finally, he arrived at the Fourteenth floor and he could face some new monster. At first, he was facing an early Lv. 3 monster, it had the appearance of a boar with a large tusk and a boar brain. All it could think was charged forward with everything it had. Thus, Prana was having an easy time playing with the boar and got bisected in tens of seconds.
The most troublesome monster on this floor was the Minotaur, a mid-Lv. 3 monster. They always came in a group. The least he saw was on a group of three. Thus, he could only kite one of them at a time. However, something felt off recently. Prana felt something was watching him, but he couldn't see anything.
Then, when he was finishing one of the Minotaur, where he has heard a clapping sound behind. He turned back vigilantly and asked, "Who is there?" since all he could see was darkness in the corridor.
"What an impatient little brother" a woman sound with a flirtatious voice sounded.
"What an impatient little brother" a woman sound with a flirtatious voice sounded.
When Prana heard the voice, he jerked his head in its direction. Right there, he saw two beautiful women walked to his.
One of them had gray-colored short hair and a pair of earing adorned, she had a pair of brown eyes and has dark skin color while holding a staff for a magic-user. The other women were truly enchanting for Prana. She had tan skin, purple eyes, and long black hair that covers the right side of her face. She was wearing clothing that reminiscent him of as a dancer along with various gold decorations and earrings. In conclusion, both of their clothes were revealing enough that they could be mistaken as wearing underwear.
However, even though he was charmed by their appearances. Prana did not lower his vigilance, since he knew that every person that attacked him before had the same characteristics, which were women and were tanned.
Seeing Prana's wary appearance, the women was chuckling.
Prana was actually using 'Identify' on the two of them, and the result made his expression really grim.
[Samira. Mid-Stage Lv. 3 Adventurer. Ability: Unknown]
[Aisha Belka. Early-Stage Lv. 4 Adventurer. Ability: Unknown]
"Hehe, are you done feasting your eyes?" Aisha was teasing Prana, even though she knew that based on his expression that he did not have greedy eyes on them. Prana did not answer her question, he directly readied his spear and spin it in his hand.
In his mind, Prana was thinking about how to escape from this situation. He knew that he will die if he engaged in a fight, but he also knew that the chance was slim to escape without any tool from the system.
'My skills are still on cooldown after the fight. I can only rely upon my lightning to survive this.'
Prana exhaled a deep breath. He firmly gripped his spear, and let the lightning coil the spear in the blink of an eye.
The amazoness duo was impressed by Prana's magic. Since there were not many adventurers that could wield lightning at will. However, from their two countenances, there was not any hint of uneasiness even faced with this magic.
Prana did not dilly dally his move, he directly threw his spear at the dark-haired Amazon, Aisha.
*Swoosh*
'Just a moment. Bind her'. After Prana threw the spear, he directly dashed toward the other amazoness to force the way out.
Aisha was impressed by the speed and the power. Even though the guy was a whole tier lower than her, she couldn't avoid or catch it with her hand. She slashed down her great sword toward the spear's tip.
*Bang* The following event did not match with Aisha's thought. She thought that the spear would be stopped and brought down by her sword. It was true that the spear was stopped, but the coiling lightning was never stopped.
When the spear and the sword clashed, the lightning instantly moved toward the sword and in a blink of an eye transform into an object like a chain and bind her arms and legs toward the ground.
Aisha knowing that she was fallen to his trap did not try to destroy the chain, but only stayed still. Even though, she could see Prana went toward her friend, Samira.
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Prana seeing his trick worked, dashed with vigor toward the other amazon.
"Exhaust"
Prana heard something, then he felt that some of his power leave his body. He frowned but still dashed toward Samira since he did not want to waste this opportunity.
Samira was the shaman in Ishtar Familia. Usually, she was the one responsible for any ritual concerning the Familia, and the sole magic-user. Her magic mainly came from the curse branch, and Ishtar really invests a lot in her magic tome.
Exhaust was one of her curses that would make her opponent's strength decline. Usually, she would stand in the back and inflict this curse on the monster when doing an expedition. However, in her heart, she also wanted to directly face the enemy on her own.
Thus, this opportunity was really timely for her. The opponent underestimating her for being a magic-user, and forgot about her origin.
When Prana was directly in front of Samira. He directly uppercut her stomach, since his position right now was slightly crouching below her. This move of his would render any magic-user to be sprawled on the ground, however, he was overly confident and did not see Samira's expression.
Her eyes were really scary, it looked like a hungry beast met his prey.
When the fist near her stomach, Samira catch the fist with both of her hand.
*Thud*
Every force Prana directing in his hand was dissipating and he came to an abrupt stop with his hand being held. Samira did not waste the opportunity, she backflipped and her leg kicked Prana's chin really hard.
Prana who was hit by the leg felt his mind was dizzy. He bit his own tongue to alleviate this symptom. But before he could recover, he could see the amazon hand in front of his face. He hurriedly dodged to the side but he met with another hand.
His face hurt, he tried to put guard again his head. *Bang* *Bang*. The sound of her punches to his flesh was clearly pronounced to his ears.
Samira was excited, really excited. There was a deep red hue on her brown face. She punched and punched her opponent like a sandbag, and then punched below his guarding hands which were his stomach.
When Samira saw her opponent lower his guard, she kicked his chin once again with her right leg and followed with a sidekick to his cheek with her left leg.
*Bam*
Prana was thrown toward the dungeon wall. His sense still not returned, the effect of such a kick toward his head was deafening.
He really underestimated her. He thought that as a magic-user, she did not have strength in her body. He had a lesson, that every amazoness in this world was gifted with talents in CCQ.
He coughed the blood on his gum, and stand up again. He looked toward the amazoness, the one who beat him was putting an excited expression like 'she wants another round with him', and the other one was grinning while leaning toward her great sword on the ground.
"Spear" he extended his hand toward his spear.
'What should I do? Should I use the smoke bomb?' he was hopeless right now. The shaman knew some curse that lower his power, both of them should be really strong with their amazon bloodline.
After contemplating, he remembered that he found a hole that pierces through the ground in a minotaur nest. 'Should I gamble it?'
'Ceh. Go for it, if anything wrong then use the smoke bomb. For now, I don't wanna go to the surface'
He put on a stance again, manipulating the lightning energy and his mana toward his legs, and activating one of the spear abilities that increase his speed.
He took a step forward like a leopard wants to lunge toward its prey.
Then,
No more than for him, he turned around and flee.
Samira was dumbfounded, she thought that he would come for her. But he actually ran with his tail behind.
Aisha seeing Prana ran away began chasing after him and quickly close the gap.
"Stop right there" She shouted toward Prana. But Prana still ignored her rant and ran with his might toward the nest.
Running with Lv. 4 adventurer in his back was really strenuous for him, he kept mumbling 'Ganbare ore no ashi' to support his will.
Each step was quick but heavy at the same time for him. He felt that blood kept flowing out from his legs bit by bit, his training in tempering the muscles with lightning and his endurance largely have part with this. If it was him before coming to the dungeon, his legs must be unusable for a run right now.
When he arrived at his destination, he was relieved that the minotaur did not spawn yet. He directly ran toward the hole, and when he wanted to jump toward the hole, he said "Adios amigos, Wait for my revenge".
When Aisha saw he jumped below, she was frustrated and could only stomp the ground. For a moment, she also wanted to follow him, but from what she heard this hole was a 'lift' toward the lower floor. She did not know which floor, but she sure that no one came out alive when they jumped down.
"Damn" she cursed as she felt indignant about this situation.
A short while later, Samira was catching up. She saw Aisha with a terrible expression and a hole. Instantly, she realized the outcome and could only bitterly sighed at the situation.