"In that case, I'll choose... attack amplifier and ...hmmmm...second chance."
Amaya opened her eyes and quickly stood up. She turned and saw that the demon was approaching Lilly.
['Speed Boost' has activated] Amaya quickly ran and threw and swung her fist but it moved to the side then picked her up by the throat.
She then held her hand out as electricity shot from it.
It flowed through the demon as it shocked him.
Amaya was able to free herself as the Demon was now stunned.
"Attack Amplifier!!" She slammed her fist into its chest.
(Demon Samurai: Hp: 4,000/122,000)
Amaya then held out her hand as her Katana appeared.
The Samurai Demon began moving again.
It was suddenly behind her. It swung it's fist at her but...
['Dash' has activated].... Amaya quickly moved out of the way.
"I just need to land two more hits," She thought to herself.
Amaya swung her sword but the demon quickly weaved to the side.
"Crap, I left an opening."
It struck her face, sending her across the room until she hit a wall.
(Amaya: Hp: 0/3,607) Amaya then fell forward.
Aika stood next to Lilly as they watched Amaya lay there.
"Are we next?" Lilly asked.
Aika was unsure about what to say. She knew that She was no match but wanted to comfort Lilly in their last moments.
".....No we can beat it, don't worry."
She then turned to face Katsuro.
"Why aren't you helping?! You're an s-rank aren't you? This should be easy for you! Do something."
He then smiled.
"Do you know whyyyy most of the people I team up with die?...."
Katsuro then paused for a second and continued.
"..Well let me tell you. It's because I either kill them, or let them die. I then feed their bodies to something important, something with great value."
As he finished his sentence he wore an evil grin on his face.
['Second Chance' has activated]
(Amaya: Hp: 3,607/3,607)
Amaya began to think to herself.
"Thanks to my second chance skill, I am still alive and my health is fully recovered. Also, my skills that were in cooldown are ready to use.
I can't focus on what Katsuro just said, I have to focus on landing a hit on that thing first."
['Speed Boost' has activated.]
The demon began walking towards Lilly and Aika when suddenly, Amaya came from behind.
It quickly turned around to hit her but she easily ducked.
Amaya glared at the demon as she swung her palm into its face.
"Take that!!"
(Demon Samurai: Hp: 0/122,000)
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"Now that I've taken care of the demon, that just leaves one more problem...
She then turned to face Katsuro.
He smiled as he pulled out his sword.
"I'm really surprised, I thought that for sure the dungeon boss would have killed you guys. I guess I'll have to do it myself, then. Goodbye..."
He then swung the sword at Lilly but missed as Aika grabbed her out the way.
"Ha, I guess you're pretty fast." said Katsuro.
"So you're even trying to kill a kid?" Aika asked.
"An adventurer is an adventurer. She knew it would be a dangerous job."
Aika reached behind and pulled out a knife and a healing potion. She pulled the cork off and drank the liquid.
"Speed Boost!"
Katsuro grinned.
"Speed Boost."
They both ran at each other. Aika rapidly slashed at him as he gracefully dodged each and every attack.
"Haa, you're predictable!"
Aika jumped back and threw the knife, peircing his shoulder.
(Katsuro: Hp: 15,420/16,500) He then dropped his sword.
"That kinda hurt, ya know." He then yanked the knife out and tossed it on the floor. Katsuro then began moving his shoulder around.
"It's been awhile since I've seen my own blood. I'll be stealing my health back now."
Amaya walked over and stood by Aika.
"We have to take him down."
"It's not going to be that easy. He's an S-rank for a reason." Aika replied.
[Enemy has activated 'Burst'] He was suddenly in front of Aika as he struck her in the stomach.
(Aika: Hp: 0/4,000 Al: 1,460/2,000) (Katsuro: Hp: 16,500/16,500)
Amaya threw a punch but missed as he moved out of the way.
She then thought to herself.
"What skill did he just use? His health points just went back to normal, how? Whatever it is, I have to be careful."
Katsuro stepped back and began speaking.
"The others will be easy to deal with but, you're the one I have to be careful with. You're a dangerous one. You'll make a great meal for what I feed."
Amaya reached out her hand as her katana appeared.
She gripped it tight and thought to herself as she looked down.
"He is beyond crazy. I want to save lives but…..right now I'll have to end one. Is this really okay? Yes,If I don't kill him, he'll kill all of us. I won't let that happen."
Amaya took a deep breath and let it out.
['Rage' has activated]
She then looked up and glared at Katsuro. From a distance, he looked into her eyes and for a second there was doubt.
"Somethings telling me to run... but I'm stronger, does she think she can actually beat me? Haaa, I'm going to rip her limbs off!"
He wore a bloodlust smile on his face as he spoke.
"I'm going to enjoy killing you."
He then ran at Amaya and began swinging his fists.
As the seconds passed, there seemed to be no stop to his punches as they were extremely fast. But, Amaya….she was even faster as she blocked each and every hit.
Katsuro paused as Amaya held his wrist.
"Are you done?"
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Amaya swung her Katana and hit Katsuro's shoulder.
(Katsuro: Hp: 1,850/16,500) He yelled out in pain as he struck Amaya's face with his fist.
(Amaya: Hp: 6,841/9,111) The impact pushed her back.
Katsuro then thought to himself.
"That's strength and speed!....Is she actually a demon in disguise?"
Amaya also thought to herself.
"He can still keep up even though his stats were reduced? He's strong. I guess he really is an S-rank for a reason."
Katuro held out his hand.
"Shadow arms!"
Eight different arm shaped shadows appeared from the floor and grabbed Amaya.
[Enemy has activated 'Burst'] Katsuro was now directly in front of Amaya.
"I don't care if I over go my mana limit, I have to kill her!!"
He swung his fist but right before it hit, the shadows that held Amaya ripped apart.
"Dash!" She quickly moved behind him.
At that moment, Katsuro's eyes widened as he felt something cut through his stomach. Amaya had stabbed her Katana into his back and through his stomach.
(Katsuro: Hp: 0/16,000 Al:1,827/8,250)
He coughed up blood as he let out one last sentence.
"You're….a monster..aren't you"
Katsuro fell forward as Amaya yanked her sword out.
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Aika and Lilly waked over to Amaya. She then noticed that they had walked over.
"Are you okay, Aika. I thought Katsuro nearly killed you."
Aika then replied.
"Lilly was healing me while you two were fighting, so I'll be okay."
"How did you win?" Lilly asked.
"I...just got lucky." Amaya lied as she recalled not to tell anyone about what she had encountered while unconscious.
"We should leave now." Aika suggested.
Amaya looked over at the now dead, Demon Samurai.
"Yea we should but, I have to do something first."
She walked over to the demon and ripped it's armor off.
['Storage' had been activated] She then placed the armor inside of the portal. Amaya looked back down.
"Maybe I should take it's sword too."
She bent down, grabbed the demon's katana and placed it in the portal.
"That should do it. Weapons, return to storage."
['Storage' has deactivated]
Amaya then turned and walked back to Lilly and Aika.
"Okay, I'm done."
After that, they left the dungeon and returned back to the guild.
Amaya walked up to the counter.
"We cleared the dungeon."
Hana seemed somewhat surprised.
"Where's Katsuro?"
"They boss was stronger than we thought and Katuro was killed."
"That… is unfortunate. I still need proof that you cleared the dungeon. Like, maybe an item from the boss."
Amaya held out her hand as the Demon Samurai's helmet appeared.
She then placed it on the counter.
"Like this?"
"Hold on a second." Hana replied.
She looked at the Helmet and saw what the previous owners stats were.
(Demon Samurai: Hp:122,000 Mp:12,000 Atk:10,335 Speed: 310 Endurance:211)
Hana wore a shocked look on her face as she looked back at Amaya and thought to herself.
"Even with the help of an S-rank, a monster like this shouldn't have been possible to beat with a team like that."
"What's wrong?" Amaya asked.
Hana then replied.
"According to my skill, we got the dungeon ranking wrong. The monster you beat was….an S-rank boss. It's a boss that needs around six S-rank adventurers to beat."
Hana then shook her head.
"It's no use continuing this conversation. You guys cleared the dungeon, that's all there is to it. Well, I guess I better give you your reward money."
She bent down behind the counter. When she came back up she handed Amaya three different large bags.
"Each bag has 1,833 silver coins. The middle one is yours, it has 1 extra silver coin."
Amaya grabbed the bags.
"Thank you." She then turned around and gave Lilly and Aika their share of money.
"Amaya, why don't you have your rank re-evaluated." Aika asked.
"How do I do that?"
"You just give a guild worker five-thousand honor and tell them you want to be re-evaluated." Aika replied.
Amaya wore a confused look on her face.
"Can you explain to me what honor is and how it works? I'm new to all this.I've just been guessing how things work so far."
Aika began to explain.
"One copper is equal to one honor, one silver is equal to fifty-honor and one-gold is equal to one-thousand honor."
(Short Description: 1 copper= 1 Honor 1 Silver= 50 Honor 1 Gold=1,000 Honor)
"Ohhhhh, I get it now. I'll do that later on, right now I have something to do."
"We should go on another quest sometime." Aika suggested.
Amaya began walking over to the entrance then stopped.
"Yeah, we should. When I see you around again we'll talk more."
After leaving, Amaya went over to the weapon shop.
Weapon shop….. Amaya opened the door and walked inside.
"Welcome back, what can I do for ya?" Hikaru asked.
Amaya walked up to the counter and held out her hand as samurai armor appeared.
"How much can I get for this?" She then placed it on the counter as Hikaru studied it.
"I can give you 5,000 honor. You can choose how you want it."
"That's not all I'm selling. I wanna sell my old sword and daggers."
Amaya placed one sword and two daggers on the counter.
Hikaru looked at everything.
"7,000 honor. How do you want it?"
"I'll take 120 silver and 2 gold."
"You got it." Hikaru went down behind the counter. As he came back up he handed two seperate bags to Amaya.
"Okay what are the types of potions you have?" Amaya asked
Hikaru then handed a list to Amaya.
( Healing potion= 250 Honor Mana recovery potion= 250 Honor
Speed Enhancing Potion= 100 Honor Attack Enhancing potion+10%=250 Honor Attack Enhancing Potion+25%=500 honor
Attack Enhancing potion+50%=1,000 Honor
Attack Enhancing Potion+100%=2,000 Honor)
"I'll take 4 health potions, 4 mana recovery potions and 2 attack enhancing potions, the plus one-hundred percent ones."
"That'll be 6,000 honor."
Amaya then handed six gold coins to Hikaru.
['Storage has been activated.] Amaya placed the potions in the portal.
['Storage' has deactivated]
"I'll stop by either tomorrow ot the next day...and I want youto craft me the strongest sword you can." said Amaya.
"I'll do my best." He replied.
Amaya then turned around and walked out of the shop.
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Meanwhile in the forest.....Katsu sat by the campfire and thought to himself.
"Tomorrow is the day I finally come back. I wonder how much everyone has grown since last time I saw them."
He then looked at the campfire.
"I've been in this world for almost nine months now and I still haven't managed to save one life. But I've grown a lot since my first day here."
He then looked up at the sky.
"I'm getting pretty tired. It's Time to sleep."