While Cyrus is still asleep, The monsters are waiting on their pillars for the next intruder. So, as they wait, they're participating in an activity that concerns concentration and strong emotional strength.
"Hey, Diona...,," Tyr looks up and tries to read her facial expression. She shows no emotion, but Tyr feels in his soul that she's panicking underneath her expression. However, underneath her poker face, Diona is smiling amused about what he's going to ask. Clearly not alarmed by his actions.
"...Do you..." He closes his eyes and raises his cards high enough to cover his nose. "...have..."
"Hurry up already!" Lou slams her hands on the ground.
"Ok, Ok..." He quickly opens his eyes as sweat starts to form on his forehead. "Do you have a micell?"
She smirks, "Go fish" Lou immediately bursts out laughing.
Tyr mouth drops in shock. "Noo! Clovis, how many micells did you put in the stack!" He draws a card.
Clovis makes 4 spikes and makes an equal sign with two of his fingers.
"If it's equal amount cards of every race than how come no-one has gotten a micell card!"
"Tough Luck" Quinn walks up to them with a huge grin on his face. Although the cards were made by Clovis, the idea was his. Yet, he doesn't understand how he came up with it. The idea popped in his head as if it was an old memory.
"Quinn! Your game doesn't like me!" He groans.
Still laughing, Lou looks up at Tyr, "No, you're just bad at the game"
He slams the cards on the ground and frowns. "I'm done playing! Diona already has most of the sets and Lou has two!.. W-What do I have? NOTHING!"
"Ouu, someone's feelings are hurt" Lou raises both of her hands to cover her smirk.
"We can start over if you want Tyr" Diona puts her cards down and smiles.
"I don't want your fake pity… but we're definitely doing a redo" He quickly shuffled the cards, but as he was about to pass them out a message popped up in the dungeon.
[-We have a visitor-]
Tyr scratches his head, "An intruder? As much as I love fighting, I need to get my revenge first on this card game" He continues what he was doing and starts passing out the cards.
"I wanna keep watching Tyr lose" Lou grabs her cards
Clovis gets up and heads over, but Quinn stops him in his tracks. "I'll go" He tilts his head to crack his neck. "I haven't fought in a while"
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"This.. should be it" A huge and abnormal looking micell walks through the entrance with a map in his hand. He's wearing a black suit and glasses with a war hammer on his back.
"It better be! Let's get this over with! This is where he went right? I'm ready to f*cking kill every single b*stard in here!" A white female ratman with an eyepatch struts inside.
"Calm down, Shala! We'll get revenge for your brother and Quill....Right Lot?" A red female ratman with a bow and arrow rubs Shala on her back.
"Sure" He rolls his eyes and throws the map behind him since it had no use anymore.
"I can't believe he went without me! I don't care what those micells said!" She stomps her foot
Lot looks over at the red haired ratman "Val what's the plan?"
"How am I supposed to have a plan when we don't know what's in here? Stay on guard for now" She looks to the right of her. "Did you tell your dad we came here?"
Shala looks away, "That b*stard of a father didn't need to know"
Val slams her hands on her face and shakes her head,"What if something happens to us?!"
"We'll be ok! Besides if something does happen, we have Lot here to protect us!"
Val sighs and smiles "What am I going to do with you?"
Shala laughs, "We're best friends! Why would I ever put you in danger" she smiles.
"Right.." She smiles sightly. They keep walking until they encounter the huge arena surrounded by enormous pillars.
"What is this?" Lot grabs hold of his war hammer
Shala readies her sword "It's some kind of platform".
"It's an arena" A mysterious voice appears from behind them making all three of them jump back.
Val immediately pulls back her bow and arrow string ready to fire. "Who's there!!" When all of them look back at the figure, they can't figure out what they are looking at. All they see is a figure covered in a black shadow with glowing dark pink eyes. It has 2 horns facing the opposite direction while its hands are behind its back.
"Val.. what i-is that?" Shala knees start to shake.
Val shrugs "How am I supposed to know?"
"You go out to fight more than me!"
"What happened to the, 'I'm ready to f*cking kill every single b*stard in here!' energy?"
"It was here until I knew that the monsters looked like this!"
Lots starts to swing his warhammer "Y'know with the way you dress, who would've thought that you're a micell at heart.. and i'm an actual micell. Weak.."
"I just wanted to be cool like.. my brother" She whispers
The mysterious figure walks up to them and they all ready their weapons. They stood there in silence for minutes until Shala and Lot charged in while Val jumped back. Val right away shot her arrows at it, but the figure easily blocked them with a tendril from the shadow.
When Lot and Shala got close enough to attack, they both raised their weapon to strike but it was parried with more of the shadow's tendrils.
Shala's mouth drops slightly "Wow.."
"Don't get distracted" Val shouts and continues to try and shoot the monster, however nothing is working. "D*mn!"
Shala charges in once more and maneuvers to the side of the monster. The monster doesn't pay her much attention, so she took the opportunity to jump and aim for his neck. As her sword gets about an inch closer to the monster's neck, she closes her eyes and slashes. Not feeling her attack get parried, she slowly opens her eyes as her feet reach the ground "Wait.. did I do it?"
Once her vision clears up, she realizes that her sword isn't in her hand. It was in the hands of the shadow. "w-what!? How did it take my sword! I had a firm grip on it!"
'Not really. It was actually really easy' the monster thought.
Before she could try to take it back, the figure's shadow had already thrusted the sword towards one of her comrades. Shala tried to yell their name, but they were too focused in battle.
Val didn't even see it coming till the sword was right up in front of her which was already too late for her to avoid .
The sword went straight into Val's chest pushing her body all the way to the spike wall due to the momentum. She spits out blood as her energy gets consumed by the spikes. With panic on her face, Shala rushes to Val's side.
"Val! Val! Are you ok!?"
"Do I..f*cking look ok?"
"I'm so sorry! It's all my fault!"
"It is! You better hope you die, so I won't have to haunt you're living soul you b*tch!"
Shala's face lit up with horror, "W-why are you saying this?"
"We were never... close! Ever since we were little I-I've.. hated you!" she starts to lose her breath, "I only ..faked our relationship because you're the-" Val's head was suddenly bust open by the monster's shadow, not allowing her to finish her sentence.
The monster laughs "I'm sorry.. but nobody has the time to listen to your monologue! The chapter is almost over and you think people care about your death. We're already at 1300 words!" he shakes his head and gets back into the fight.
Shala is too shocked to take action, so she just drops to the floor and Lot is too into the fight to even care about the others. "It's just the two of us then" he grins
The monster yawns 'Let's finish this up.' Suddenly, the shadow released 20 more arms with 10 arms already out.
"Wow! So that wasn't even your full power" Lot laughs.
The monster ignores him and has five of the shadows tendrils rush towards Lot. Although their attack speed is fast, Lot manages to dodge them. So, the monster would add another tendril every 10 seconds to quicken the battle.
Lot may be big, but he's very agile allowing him to dodge them. The monster is a bit in awe because he's never seen such a strong micell. 'What to do... What to do' The monster thinks for a while for a few seconds, then comes up with a plan.
The monster then decides to have all 30 of his tendrils in the battle. Lot is now trying really hard to focus on avoiding the tendrils. Although he's having a tough time, Lot hasn't been touched by one yet.
"Is this all you can do?" Lot grins
The monster's eyes widen, "Wow"
"What can I say? Thanks to my boss's experiment.. anyone can have a body like no other"
"Experiment? What are you talking about? You haven't noticed?"
"Wha-?" A tendril that was waiting patiently by Lot's side grabbed his leg and pulled him down allowing the other tendrils to grab a hold of him.
"Was that all you could do?" the monster grins
"H-how did I not notice that?!"
"Should've paid more attention" Lot was about to speak, but one of the monster's tendrils already pierced the middle of his head. Realizing the other Ratman was alive, he chopped her head off.
"That took longer than it should have..." He sighs. "I wonder what he meant by experiment?"