On the way, they encountered various imps, which are mainly good at sneak attack, or would lay traps to harass the party. This is also the most troublesome part of the quest, but thanks to Rishabh he helped them in solving.
As for the suggestion regarding this, he said, "well you need to gain experience in this aspects. Low Magic Trap can't disguise the mana signatures, while a good scout or proficient earth mage could easily found the other traps here."
Soon they entered the small hall, with a imp mage sitting on the throne. As soon as Rishabh and his party entered, imp looked at them and smiled. After speaking something in its own language, it snapped the finger, and many other imp entered. Unlike before, they are as tall as human.
"Does anyone have mental resistance", Rishabh asked. Almost everyone in the party was confused at his sudden question, when Silvermoon blasted fire ball at him. "Silvermoon", everyone shouted.
"It's not her fault, the shaman have something which is producing the illusion mist", Rishabh replied while slapping a giant imp and walking towards it. At the same time, the other members of the party is in mess, attacking each others harming there own teammates as well as the imps attacking them.
"Oh! right, I remember. The static current is more effective against these kind of tricks", while taking out some spherical ball out of the inventory and activated them.
Few moment later, everyone of his party returned to normal, and looked at each other in confusion, when they heard, "Instead of looking at each other, it would be better to focus on your enemy."
After which, Rishabh walked towards the Shaman effortlessly swatting the imps like flies. Seeing it, shaman started to shout in frustration, and after failing in several attempt, it took out a small skull of lizard like creature and shattered it.
*HOWL*
After howl, a formation appeared, followed by a Cerberus, full of red flame, while imp shaman turned to ashes in same flame. Imps immediately kneeled before it. The aura forced everyone except Rishabh to retreat in fear, while the temperature of room increased a lot, while sulphur smell engulfed the room.
All the three head look around the cave, when Rishabh walked towards it. Cerberus tried to throw him aside, with its paws. Stopping it, with one hand, Rishabh throws it instead.
Shaking its head, it stood up, and looked at Rishabh in anger. After barking, it pounced in him, while the hot saliva dripping everywhere. "What are you all staring at, attack this cute puppy, while it is busy with playing with me", Rishabh said.
Hearing this, all the other party member woke up from shock, and do there best to attack it. Rishabh would occasionally attack it to. While the other party members attack only give minuscules of damage, Rishabh would give massive damage in single attack.
After attacking for several times, he created confusion among its three head, because of which the coordination between them got disturbed. As soon as its Health Point reached nearly 15%, it entered the berserk state.
*BOOM*
A fire ring blew out of the Cerberus body, while its skin become blood red, with strange orange lines all over its body. Looking at it, Rishabh shouted, "All of you retreat, it had entered the berserk state, and its not something you could handle."
After they retreated, he also started to attack the Cerberus, but still didn't take out his weapon. After circling in air, his kicked landed on one of its head, throwing it away, after which he restrained it with chains made of bone, which slowly drains its life force.
After sometimes, the party member come back, after Rishabh sent the message. Looking at the huge corpse of Cerberus, Hunkar said, "Why isn't it like other game?"
"We would just needed to touch the corpse, and we would usually gain gold coin, equipment etc. unlike this damn game, where we would need to bring it to the E&A center, who would process it", everyone else agreed to his complaint.
"Why don't we look around, maybe there is hidden treasure somewhere", Rishabh suggested, to which they nodded and started to look around. They found several gold coins hidden here and there along with few alchemical powder, most likely created by the shaman along with few scrolls with something written on them.
Meanwhile, inside the dark forest,
Joseph entered a strange castle, deep inside the forest. Some people appeared, but after talking with his guide, they retreated. One thing in common among them is the pale skin, with black dress. Most of them are avoiding the sunlight, seeing this he have some guess in his mind.
As soon as they entered the gate, his guide turned towards him, and said, "Welcome to the Dark Mary Castle", and took him inside.