The Guild….Amaya walked inside.
"It was a long walk but here I am." Amaya thought to herself.
She then walked up to the counter.
"What can I do for you?" Hana asked.
"I decided to go to that A-rank dungeon."
"Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean, you're only a B-rank."
"I'm not going alone. I came to see if you can help me find some people to form a party with me."
"Yes, of course. I'll just announce it." Hana then walked out from behind the counter and put her hand on Amaya's shoulder.
"Does anyone want to assist this adventurer in an A-rank dungeon?!! She is a B-rank fighter."
Two girls stood up. One was a little girl wearing a brown coat, her hair was half grey, half white and her eyes were ocean blue.
The other girl was wearing a grey cloak, she had on a mask that covered the lower half of her face. Her pupils were black and so was her hair..
"I'll help out." said the little girl.
"Are kids really allowed to enter a dungeon?" Amaya asked.
"I'm not a little kid, my name is lily and I'm an A-ranker."
The girl standing next to her then spoke.
"And my name is Aika, I'm an s-ranker"
Amaya then introduced herself as well.
"My name is Amaya, thank you guys for deciding to help me. Also I have a question, ``What's the difference between each rank?"
Hana looked surprised.
"I probably should've told you when you became an adventurer, sorry.
But to answer your question, there is a big difference between each rank."
( Short description: D-Rank overall= lower than 1,000. C-Rank overall= 1,000 or higher. B-Rank overall= 2,500 or higher. A-Rank overall= 5,000 or higher. S-Rank overall= 25,000 or higher. Silver-Rank overall= 100,000 or higher. Gold-Rank overall= 450,000 or higher. Platinum-Rank overall= 850,000 or higher. Legendary-Rank overall= 2,000,000 or higher.)
" Worldwide, there are only 3,000 that made it above s-rank. 1,800 of those people are silver-rank, 800 are gold-rank, 395 are platinum-rank and only 5 people are currently legendary-rank."
A voice then came from behind.
"I heard you can use a hand."
Everyone turned around. It was a man with long black hair, white pupils and dark circles under his eyes. He wore a long black cloak and had a katana attached to his back.
Hana was clearly surprised and seemed somewhat scared.
"S ranked Katsuro, w-what are you doing here?"
"I just happened to come looking for a new quest." He replied.
Katsuro then looked at Amaya.
"So do you want my help?"
Amaya then thought to herself.
"I need as much help as I can get but….this guy gives me kind of a bad feeling."
She then replied to his question.
"Yes."
Katsuro began walking towards the entrance.
"I'll be waiting outside." He then proceeded to open the doors and walk out.
Hana turned to face Amaya.
"Be careful."
"What do you mean?" Amaya asked.
"How do you not know about him?" said Aika.
She then continued.
"He's an s-rank adventurer. He is registered under a mage-class but he's never been seen using any magic. Katsuro usually completes quests alone but, when he is with a team, they usually go missing or end up dead.He's been investigated for being a member of the dark mages organization but they found no evidence."
"I knew something was strange about him." Amaya thought to herself.
Hana was visibly unsure if she should let them leave or not.
"Just try to stay safe, guys."
Amaya turned to face the entrance.
"We will."
After leaving they all began walking through the forest, to the dungeon.
"Is it alright if we stop?" Katuro asked.
Amaya wore a confused look on her face.
"Yeah, but why?"
"I accepted a quest that was in this area, I was hoping I could complete it really quick."
"Oh, okay. Try not to take too long."
He then turned to face the trees.
"Thank you." as he walked off Amaya noticed an evil grin on his face.
She then thought to herself.
"Should I tail him and see what he's up to?"
Amaya turned to face Lilly and Aika.
"Wait here I gotta go use the restroom."
"Okay, we'll be waiting, try not to take too long." said Aika
Amaya then ran off.
After tailing Katsuro amaya hid behind a large bush.
She peeked through and saw Katsuro approaching a large group of orcs. There were nine of them in total.
"What is he up to?" Amaya thought to herself.
She then focused on the orcs.
(Elite Orcs: Hp:9,888 Mp:3,400 Atk:2,300 Speed: 233 Endurance; 229)
"He's going to die! Why is he going to challenge elite orcs?"
He then grabbed his sword and sliced one of the orcs necks.
The orcs began rushing at him when suddenly, knives began shooting out from behind the trees. All the orcs fell over, covered in knives.
Amaya was shocked.
"What was that?" Amaya thought to herself.
People wearing hoods began walking out from behind the trees.
All of their faces were covered in shadows and their eyes were white.
The group approached Katsuro and one one of them stepped forward then began talking in a creepy raspy voice.
" We need bodies, so he can feeeeed. Thank you for your work, high ranker. Why did you wish to meeeet todayyy?"
Katuro then answered his question.
"Today there is a new opportunity for him to feed. After I'm done with what needs to be done I will meet you back here."
A white mist began appearing as the raspy voiced man said his goodbyes.
"Very well, we will be in touch…."
The mysterious group began backing off into the mist until they completely disappeared.
"I should leave now." Amaya thought to herself.
She turned around and quickly ran off.
She then came out from the trees.
"I'm back."
"You took pretty long." said Aika.
"When are we going into the dungeon." Lilly asked.
"We'll go right when Katsuro gets back." Amaya replied.
The sound of a branch breaking came from behind.
Amaya then quickly turned to see what had caused the noise.
It was Katsuro.
"I'm done with what I had to do."
"I guess we can head to the dungeon now." said Aika.
After witnessing the mysterious group, Amaya was unsure if it was still a good idea to go. She then opened her mouth and replied.
"Yeah….let's go"
After walking for a while, they had reached the dungeon and began walking inside.
"Did you really need help with this dungeon? There's no sign of monsters." said Aika.
"There should be," said Amaya.
She was clearly confused why there was no sign of monsters in this giant dungeon.
Their walking came to a stop. There were dead monster corpses all over.
Aika kneeled down to examine the bodies.
"These are Elite Shadow Bears. What kind of monster could've done this?"
Amaya looked straight ahead and thought to herself.
"I haven't gone this far in so I haven't seen any other monsters besides the shadow bears and that demon. Was there more than one Elite Demon?"
Aika then stood up.
"Let's go further in." Katsuro suggested.
They began walking deeper and deeper. Suddenly, they're walking came to a stop once more.
"What is that?" Aika asked.
"I don't see anything." Katsuro replied.
Amaya then thought to herself.
"She's right...but there's not just one. It feels like there's a group of monsters hiding."
Lily held out her hand.
"Light!" A bright orb of light flew up to the top of the cave and filled it with light.
There were five giant creatures. They had long white horns, razor sharp teeth and glowing red eyes.
Aika's eyes widened as was now able to see the creatures in full detail
"Those...are silver-ranked monsters, berserk Demons."
Amaya looked at them as they got closer and closer.
(Berserk Demon: Level:122 Hp:25,327 Mp: 0 Atk: 6,300 Speed: 244 Endurance: 233)
"These monsters are extremely strong!" Amaya thought to herself.
She turned and saw an evil grin and Katsuro's face as he stared at the monsters.
"This...is gonna be fun."
Suddenly, he ran at the demons and slashed one of them. He then ran further into the cave as three of them chased him.
One of the demons ran towards Amaya and swung it's long sharp claws at her.
She quickly jumped to the side and held out her hand as her Katana appeared.
"Penetrate!" She Swung it, hitting the demon's throat.
(Berserk Demon: Hp: 18,371/25,327)
It then wrapped it's hand around Amaya and picked her up.
The demon slowly opened its mouth and brought her closer and closer.
(Amaya: Mp:0/722) Electricity shot out from Amaya and began shocking the demon.
Amaya slipped out and rapidly swung her katana at it.
(Berserk Demon: Hp: 981/25,327)
"Almost there!" Amaya thought to herself.
It then leaned over and opened its mouth.
"What's it doing?!"
A beam of fire quickly shot out. Amaya didn't have time to move so she did the only thing she could, she put her head down, closed her eyes and crossed her arms to cover her body.
(Amaya: Hp: 414/1,594) A couple seconds had passed and Amaya opened her eyes back up.
"I'm alive?"
She then held out her hand as her dagger appeared.
"Take this!" Amaya threw it at the demon, hitting its eye.
[You have leveled up] [You have leveled up]
[New skill learned: Night vision] [You have leveled up] [You have leveled up]
[You have leveled up] [New skill learned: Burst]
[You have leveled up] Amaya held out her hand as a bottle full of a green liquid appeared. She tore the cork off and drank the liquid.
(Amaya: Hp: 2,788/2,788)
Amaya turned and looked at Aika, who was fighting the other demon.
Amaya held out her hand and her katana appeared. She then ran at the demon full speed and kicked its side.
Aika and Lilly began to step back.
The demon quickly reached out to grab Amaya.
"Dash!" She quickly jumped back and thought to herself
"That was close!"
Aika yelled out from behind.
"Amaya take these!"
She threw a small bag over to Amaya and explained what it was.
"They're strength enhancing pills. Each pill you take will reduce your health by twenty-five percent but increase your attack times two. The effect lasts one hour."
Amaya opened up the bag and swallowed three of the pills.
"Why hasn't the demon attacked me yet? I guess I should use this to my advantage." Amaya thought to herself.
She held out her hand as a glass bottle of a blue liquid appeared. Amaya tore the cork off and quickly drank it.
(Amaya: Mp:1,089/1,089)
['Speed Boost' had been activated] ['Penetrate' has been activated]
Amaya ran up the sides of the wall and kicked off the ceiling, jumping down towards the demon.
She then stabbed her sword down on its head before jumping off.
[You have leveled up] [You have leveled up] [You have leveled up]
[You have leveled up] [You have leveled up]
"Finally, it's over."
Aika had a surprised look in her eyes.
"Are you really a b-rank?"
"Yeah, just a b-rank" Amaya replied.
Aika held a glass bottle full of a green liquid out to Amaya.
"Here, heal up."
Amaya grabbed the bottle and tore the cork off. She then gulped down the liquid.
"Thanks for that." Amaya then turned to face where Katsuro had run off.
"Let's go."
They bagan walking further into the cave.
"Do you think Katsuro is still alive?" Amaya asked.
"I'm sure that he is. Katsuro is an s-rank after all" Aika replied.
At the moment a man came walking out of the shadows with blood on his face. It was Katsuro.
"Woah, are you okay?" Aika asked.
Katsuro ginned.
"Don't worry...the blood is from those monsters. They landed a couple good hits but I stole my life right back."
"Do you think It's okay to keep going?" Amaya asked.
Katsuro then answered her question.
"Yeah, when I ran off I came across a pair of big doors. That might be the boss room."
Amaya looked straight ahead.
"Okay let's do this."
They had walked for a while but haven't come across any more monsters as they were now at the doors.
Amaya kicked them with all her might and they flew opened.
"Time to see what this room holds." Amaya thought to herself,
They all walked in and saw it….
It was sitting on a throne, it had glowing blue eyes and was wearing blue samurai armor with a sword on its side. On top of it's head, there was a pair of horns coming out of the armor helmet. You were able to see it's fog everytime it let out a breath.
Amaya looked at it as it's stats came into view.
(Demon Samurai: Hp: 122,000 Mp:12,000 Atk:10,335 Speed: 310 Endurance:211)
Amaya looked at Aika who was clearly feeling a bit unsettled.
"This….can't be an a-rank dungeon...out of all the dungeons I've been in….I have never seen something that gives off an aura this scary."
The Demon then stood up as the doors slammed shut.
"It's locking us in?" Amaya asked herself.
Aika was frightened but gathered up all the courage she had left.
" I guess our only option is to fight."
The Demon got closer and closer.
Aiaka let out a shout.
"Speed Boost!"
She suddenly ran and threw a great number of hit's a kicks.
(Demon Samurai: Hp: 108/122,000)
It then grabbed her by the neck and threw her across the floor.
(Aika : Hp: 439/4,000)
The Demon reached on its side and pulled out a katana.
"Did the monster intentionally hold back on her?" Amaya thought to herself.
She saw the monster's eyes focus on lilly.
"If it's going to attack her then I need to be fast to stop it."
['Speed Boost' has activated]
The Demon ran and reached its hands out towards lilly.
Amaya quickly dashed and moved her out of the way.
"You'll have to get through me first," said Amaya.
She then noticed that Katsuro was just standing there with a grin on his face.
"Why isn't he helping? Is he waiting for that thing to kill us."
Amaya reached out her hand as her katana appeared.
"Penetrate!"
She ran at the Demon and swung her sword but...missed.
The demon was suddenly behind her and Amaya felt something stab through her back. She looked down as she spit out blood.
It was the demon's sword, she was stabbed.
Amaya fell forward onto the floor
Her vision kept getting blurrier as she thought to herself.
"I was able to see its movements but my body couldn't move fast enough. Is this…..the end already..."
She slowly closed her eyes.
Amaya reopened her eyes and was confused. She was now in a giant white room that seemed to have no walls.
"Is this a dream?" Amaya asked herself.
A calm soothing voice came from behind.
"I guess you can say that."
Amaya turned and saw a humanoid figure covered in a blue mystical light. She could not make out any features of its face as it was fully covered by the shine.
"Who are you?" Amaya asked.
"Me? Hmmmm, let's see..what would be the right way to describe myself to?...I guess..You can say I'm an angel."
"An angel?"
"That's right, I have been given permission to save you. This is a one time thing though. So, don't expect to be revived like this again. From this point on, you will have to get stronger and really on your own strength. The world needs a hero like you."
Amaya seemed to be confused.
"Why save me?"
"You have met the requirements, you haven't been getting strong just for the sake of it. You've also been doing it so you can save others. Also, you died protecting that girl who was with you."
A menu came up into Amaya's view.
(Skill Menu: Gate, Teleport, Attack double, Quick Attack, Adapt, Awaken, Second Chance, Absorb, Sneak, Invisibility, Conceal, Attack Amplifier. High Hp Regeneration, High Mana regeneration, )
"What is this?" Amaya asked.
"You may choose two of the skills that are listed, once you do, you'll wake up and your health and magic will be fully recovered. However, you may not tell anyone about this encounter. If you do, you will lose all of your skills and your stats may be reduced."
Amaya studied the list.
"In that case, I'll choose...."