"Hi guys, you are wondering who am I and why I am talking to you like that."
"My name is Clifford, long story short, I am a newly promoted Iron rank adventure and my party have been tasked to check out a new dungeon that had spawned in the forest. We are now just walking into the forest."
"Oi Clifford who are you talking to?" a red hair girl looks towards the boy who is monologuing.
"Just who ever who needs to know what we are doing." Clifford retorted to the girl.
"Like I was saying before Rebecca interrupted me, this forest is a pretty safe place, only an occasional goblins, forest wolves, big ear rabbits can be spotted and we make quick work of them as usual." looks to the side with a haughty look.
"Don't worry too much about us, since we have been collecting herbs from here since we just started out as a adventurer."
"Clifford, you're making too much noise, the goblins will get alerted." the chestnut hair girl looks at him why trying to by as soft as possible.
"Okay guys, I'll check back with you guys when we reach." Clifford looks to the side and whispered.
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"Hi guys, we are finally here, at the locations where the said dungeon is. From the outside it is pretty much just a cave. Now, my party will be heading into the cave. Let's head in!" Clifford said excitedly.
"Brother, keep your voice down when we head in, just in case there are enemies." A orange hair man in his early 20s said to Clifford as he head in first with his shields up.
"There are broken pikes and wooden spears lying around the floor, what's that, there 2 cows and 2 horses. They seems to be well fed. But that aside, we will head in through the only door that has 2 weird looking sculptures." Clifford whispered as softly as he could.
"Guys, we are now heading through the door, our tanker Zayne is taking the lead. It seems like the door had been smashed and burnt through by some sort of spells. The blue light from the torches makes it feels like I am in a horror mansion, but fear not guys, we will press on. There are also a lot of broken wooden barricades pieces along this hallway, the guild did mentioned that there was a fight against bandits in here. But so far there isn't any enemies in sight." Clifford continue to monologue as the group search through each and every one of the rooms.
"Guys, we are currently going to head down, deeper into this dungeon, so far other than the 4 animals we encountered in the front, there doesn't seem to be any monsters or traps, I wonder are dungeons supposed to be so easy? I heard stories from my grand pappy that dungeons are very dangerous."
"Hey, be serious!"the chestnut hair girl took her staff and knocked on Clifford's head.
"Alright, alright!" Clifford raise his sword and headed right behind of Zayne.
The group walked into the graveyard level in high alert. However, to their surprise there wasn't any monsters around, but there was a thin layer of fog covering up til their knee level.
"Woah, there is a moon illuminating this floor, though this floor seems a little eerie, there doesn't seem to be any enemies around, I wonder where all the bodies went, didn't the guild say that the knights didn't dispose the bodies? Wait a minute what's that?" Clifford looks towards a blue glowing thing on the floor.
Clifford run over to the blue glowing thing, realizing what it was up close, he immediately took out a knife and remove it from the stem, "Guys, there are ghost caps here."
Rebecca ran over to Clifford immediately and punch him on the shoulders, "Hey don't go wandering on your own, didn't the guild said that the knights fought a undead cavalry here?"
But as she looks upwards, she saw a entire field of ghost caps, she immediately turned to clifford and said, "We can harvest this after we explored the dungeon."
"Guys, we are now heading to the mausoleum where the guild said that the knights have encountered the undead cavalry." Clifford stood on the side of the entrance, while Zayne held up his shield, Rebecca placed a bear trap on the floor in front of Zayne, before running to Zayne's back. The chestnut hair girl at the back, held her staff up preparing a holy spell.
Zayne nodded at Clifford, Clifford immediately swung the door opened, expecting something to rush out. They only felt a breeze go by.
Realizing nothing had come out, Clifford peek his head through the side to take a look.
"There is another stairs heading down."He looks at his party and wave.
"Guys, this is getting exciting, the guild didn't mentioned that there was a 3rd floor in this dungeon, they said that the knights told them there was only 2 levels and the dungeon orb was right here. It seems like the dungeon is evolving. First time witness here! We will be the first group the explore the 3rd floor." Clifford begin monologuing again.
After the group gathered for a discussion, they decided to head down to the next floor.
"As usual Zayne is leading the group, this is so exciting, a new floor. I wonder how much will the guild reward us for exploring this place."
"Omg is that floating sword?" shocked by what he saw, Clifford call out in surprised.
Not realizing what he had done, the sword flew over to the group.
Ping!
The sword got blocked by Zayne's shield, it flew backwards due to the knock back, however, the sword immediately swing back from the side, slamming into the shield. Clifford tried to step in as he attack the sword, only to get parried backwards.
"Ru, cast your holy spell." Feeling the pressure from the non stop attacks, Zayne shouted for the chestnut hair girl.
{Praise thy lord, as light falls onto the lands, I pray thee to smite my foes.}
A holy bolt flew out from her staff and strike the possessed weapon.
SHREEKKK!
A loud shriek echoed out, a white ghastly smoke came out from the weapon and disappeared, not long after the weapon dropped onto the floor. Clifford went towards and picked up the drop weapon, "Ooo, nice it's quite a good sword, it's not really damage, we can sell this."
After putting the sword into his backpack, they continued to advance further into the crypts. Not long after, they encounter another possessed weapon, this time it's a spear, this time however, Ru was prepared ahead of time and they manage to strike it before they could aggro it.
As they cleared through the entire crypt, Clifford spotted a weird root hanging from the wall.
"Guys, it seems like we hit the jackpot, there are even golden roots growing from the walls here." Clifford immediately took out his knife and carefully cut the root, to get the most out of it.
By the time the group cleared finishing clearing the crypts of it's herb and monsters, they headed back up the stairs to the graveyard area.
"Good news guys, we manage to get a total of 11 weapons, one of which is a magic spear, though we can't use it, we can sell it. We also managed to get 30 golden roots, though it isn't as expensive as a magic weapon, we can sell it at a profit. This dungeon is great."
"Zayne, do we have enough food? I am considering whether we should stay here for the night to harvest these ghost caps as well." Ru walked up to Zayne and asked.
"Yes, Ru we have enough food to stay for 2 nights out of town if needed. I believe it's getting late soon, my body clock seems to tell me that it needs to rest, we should go up to the first level and setup camp in one of those rooms, it will be easier to guard." Zayne gave a suggestion.
"Oh, nice we are going to stay in a place with eerie lights and a graveyard in the basement."Rebecca unhappily retorted.
"Girl, it's better than staying outside in the forest where we might get battered by the elements." Zayne replied.
"Guys, our group decided to stay in this room, we will be preparing our meals in the main hall, since there are so much wood lying around, we don't really need to gather much. Ru will take first shift, followed by Rebecca, I will take the midnight shift and lastly Zayne will take the last shift. Alright I will check back in with you guys tomorrow!"after much debating, they decided to stay in the dungeon room on the first floor. However, they cook their meal in the main hall before resting in one of the room.
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"Good morning guys, today we will be collecting those ghost caps that we saw in the 2nd floor and after that we will be going home. We will see you in a bit." The group headed down into the graveyard cautiously, when they felt that it was safe, they begin harvesting the ghost caps.
"Alright guys, we have just finished harvesting the ghost caps and got about 50 ghost caps from that entire floor, though we wanted to checked the other mausoleums, but our baggage are already filled up and our rations would not last us too long. Time to head home."
"What's this guys, a chest in the main hall of the first floor?"Clifford exclaimed as he saw a chest sitting in the middle of the hall.
"Rebecca, go check if that's a trap or a mimic."Zayne immediately tasked Rebecca.
"By the way guys, Rebecca is a archer class, with a spy sub class which is a pretty rare class to get, they can pick locks, disarm traps. Mimic are a type of trap by the way." Clifford continues to explain why Rebecca was tasked to do it.
"There's a note here, it says : I want to trade a magic staff with the 30 ghost caps and 30 golden roots that you guys have harvest."after checking there was no problem, Rebecca took out a note and read it out loud for them to hear.
"Should we trust it? I heard from our senior there were some dungeon that do such exchanges, but how they exchange I am not sure."Zayne said after hearing what Rebecca said.
"No harm trying, we did harvest the herbs from the dungeon anyways. If we can get a magic weapon, why not we aren't on the losing end." Clifford spoke out.
Ru reluctantly placed the herbs into the box and closed it, not long after another box appeared beside it as the box with the herbs disappeared.
"Doesn't seem to be a trap." Rebecca check the box before saying.
Clifford immediately open the box, "Woah, there really is a magic staff in here. Seems like the dungeon didn't scam us. Here you go Ru, this can replace your current staff."
"Alright, let's go back, we could make it back to the town by evening, if we leave now." Zayne said.
"That's all folks for today's adventure and I'll see you soon."Clifford turns to the side and wave goodbye.