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[ Spring Clean Challenge! ]
[ This room is a mess! Clean out the trash and put them in their proper bin. Now is the time to spark it clean~! ]
[ Challenge 2: Clean and Segregate the trash! ]
The room seems to stretch in their eyes and as they blink, it expanded along with the trash. As they return to their senses, the first thing that hits them is the smell.
Angelo gag, heaving, as the scent almost made him throw up what he ate. He saw various plastic bags littered around the area. He eyed what seems to be a used diaper and Angelo quickly turn his focus to other things.
Angelo's visage is now almost as pale as Ken who's still suffering from overdraft. Earlier, the trash they are seeing is just some back-drop and scattered props. Thus seeing it didn't really affect them. But when the next challenge was issued, the back-drop turned real along with all its effects. Hence, without ample mental preparedness, anyone's stomach will turn, especially as he himself just ate.
"Ken!"
Shaira's voice turns his attention to Ken who's weak body shuddered as he vomits bile on the floor.
"Damn! Those assholes are f*cking sadistic!" cursed Marco, a remnant of tears can be seen in his eyes as he spits out a gurgled water. "Look! They didn't even add a timer."
"They just really want us to clean huh..." added Angelo, his voice a bit muffled at the handkerchief wrapped around his lower face.
"The instance is not called 'Cleaning Frenzy' for nothing if we-" Ken's voice is cut off as he hurls again.
"Yeah, yeah, we got it. Just take a rest this time" Shaira pat Ken comfortingly.
"Yeah Ken, we got this. Just take a rest."
Marco gives a thumbs up to Ken, smiling as he puke between sentences.
Shaira's lips can't help but twitch as she saw him, shaking her head in fond exasperation. "Not really reassuring Marco"
Meanwhile, Angelo took his baton and an iron block. Utilizing his skill <
<< Grabber Tool ( Common - Low-tier )
A hand-held mechanical tool for grabbing things not within reach.
Durability: 80/80
Weight Capacity: 1 kg
Maker: Rey dela Cruz
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"Meh...good enough" Angelo muttered, he then uses the grabber tool to pick up a plastic bag with a substance better left unknown. Shuddering, he leans it away from him, his eyes wandering around the area, looking for a place it can be disposed of.
"Ah...Rey...you might want to throw that" Marco warned as he back away from him.
"What?"
Angelo looks back and saw an eye staring at him. The plastic bag gripped by the grabber tool turned into some kind of creature. It eyed the grabber menacingly as it tried to wiggle itself loose.
"Shi-"
Angelo quickly tossed the grabber tool away from him, taking the weird creature along with it.
"What the f*ck!"
Angelo eyed the creature and its tag revealed what creature it is.
<< Hazard D lvl 13 >>
The Hazard snarls, its plastic body swaying as it tried to lunge at them. A red substance ooze out of its mouth as it let out a gurgling sound.
Angelo use
<< Hazard tier D lvl 13
HP: 130/130
Deals 40 damage to enemies within 1 meter and has a 20% chance of infecting them, dealing 80 damage over time. Infect anyone who has direct skin contact and deals 120 damage over time.
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[ A creature born from the malignant aura formed in medical waste. Its presence can spread diseases within its vicinity. ]
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Did someone throw medical waste in this river? What the heck?! That's f*cking disgusting! Moreover, it's damn illegal!
It seems upgrading
"That thing can infect anyone, don't let it touch you" warned Angelo as Marco get close to the Hazard. He eyed the Hazard in wariness as it snarls and drools all over the floor.
"I thought we will just clean this place but the trash can also turn into a monster?"
Shaira sighs, ignoring Marco's rant. She draws her sword and aims it at the creature.
Breathing deeply, she chanted. "Silver Slash"
Her body vanishes and she quickly appeared before the Hazard and slashes her sword down. A red substance flew but she quickly dodges it with her enhanced agility.
She stabbed the creature so many times forming a 15 slash combo before it disappears into nothingness. It then leaves behind a red cube.
Suddenly, four portals appeared hovering in the air. It glows in colors such as blue, yellow, green, and red. Angelo picks up his grabber tool back and used it to pick up the red box. He analyzed the portals and it seems that they served as trash bins for the wastes around. He then promptly dropped the red box inside the red portal.
"OH SWEET!"
"..."
"What the f*ck?" Marco uttered. All of them stared dumbfounded at the portal. The gruff nasal voice that's just sounded out startled them. They all stared at each other for a moment before unanimously agreeing to ignore the weird sound.
The group is vigilant, waiting for another trash to become a monster.
"..."
They stared, waiting but no trash attacks them.
"Ah...so what now?"
Angelo tentatively picks up another trash again, this time it's a stack of old newspaper in the ground.
The moment he picked it up, the stack of old newspaper turned into a creature. The stacks of newspaper become denser and a shred of paper turned into little triangles. The triangles align themselves, forming a simile of teeth. Four googly eyes opened and it stared straight at Angelo.
"Ah..."
It chomps against the grabber tool, its deceptively harmless paper teeth slicing against it.
"Oh shit!"
He immediately let go and he watches as the grabber tool vanish under its paper jaw.
"..."
"Talk about getting a papercut..." uttered Marco as they stared dumbfounded at the new creature.
<< Paper monster lvl 15 >>
The paper monster grumbles at them, staring at them for a second before turning dormant, changing back into a regular stack of newspaper.
"..."
The trio stared at each other.
"It seems as long as we move the trash they will turn into a monster."
Angelo gazed at the now dormant paper monster as he said this.
"F*ck! There is so much trash here. Don't tell me, all of them will turn into all kinds of monsters the moment we pick them up?!"
Marco grips his hair, his eyes darting towards the numerous pieces of garbage around him.
"Well, we have no choice. If we want to get out of here, we need to finish this challenge."
Shaira grips her sword. Her hands turning white as she stared at them resolutely.
Meanwhile, Angelo is silent. His eyes turn to the buff he acquired from Muning. Base on the time left, they've been here for almost three hours. The countdown from the normal instance was gone the moment they entered the challenge. The only thing that quickly tells him how much time he has spent here is the [ 10% bonus EXP ] buff.
The others started defeating the monsters and dropping the colored coded cubes to their appropriate portal. But at the rate they are going, it will take them a long time if they defeat the monsters one by one.
Angelo then looked around. There at the corner is a metal can. He walks towards it and without hesitation, kicked it across the room. It bounces around the other trash before it clangs against a pile of broken wood.
CRASH!
The disturbed trash bounced by the can quickly turn into monsters. Their eyes stared at Angelo glaringly.
<< Trash golem lvl 12>>
<< Paper monster lvl 10>>
<< Wood golem lvl7 >>
<< Hazard tier D lvl 12>>
<< Rustbucket lvl 2 >>
<< Trash golem lvl 13>>
F*ck! I've managed to disturb a Hazard.
Angelo quickly equipped his slingshot and first deal with the Hazard.
67 Damage
53 Damage
<< You have gained 60 EXP >>
Heaving a sigh of relief, Angelo turns his gaze at the rest of the monsters. His eyes glinting a fiery light, making some of the monsters step back.
Equipping his tonfa, Angelo jump into the fray. His figure leaving colored cubes in its wake.