"AGHHHHHH!"
"Disappointing. You've succumbed to power."
With my sanity lost, I attacked him in random patterns. I grazed him with my curved swords.
"You... Mere beast... Lay your hands on me?! Black Blade!"
His hand was surrounded in a dark blade. He rushed at me and with one quick step of his, he flew right infront of me.
With all of his might, he swung his blade and I barely deflected it.
"RAGHHHH!" I then countered with my right curved sword a thrust to his body and my left sword an overhead swing. It made a cut but not so deep.
"Tsk."
We then exchanged blows one by one.
*cling* *clang*
The sounds of our blades clashing were heard ringing through the room.
While we were exchanging blows, I felt something inside of me. My consciousness delving and diving deeper and deeper.
"Ah... I lost my sanity huh. Tsk. This early in the game and I already lost control." No one could hear me nor see me inside here. And then when I said those words, a bright light emerged from the depths of the sea I'm falling. "What... Is that? Wait... Is this the activationg required for the hidden skill?" I swam faster to the light. I grabbed it with one of my hands.
Back to the reality, an explosion formed within me that made the enemy infront of me retreat.
"Finally. I got control of this stupid skill."
[Gained skill, Insanity Immunity. Cannot turn insane. Will always keep a cool head.]
It was a one in a million bet that I could get a hidden skill. But it was worth it. I could get a power range on the artifact dungeons here. I still can't go to other dungeons and this was the lowest level requirement one.
My body was in a bad state. Despite using the unholy armor, I sustained a lot of injuries. Seems like becoming insane only focuses on attacking. He got good hits on me.
"What's your name?" I asked.
"Does it even matter?"
"Yep."
"I'm Afal, The Undead Prince I'm the one protecting this throne and artifact."
"Why are you protecting an empty throne?"
"He'll come back. My father will come back."
"Who's your father?"
"I... Cannot say that."
"I just need the artifact."
"Enough! You don't know the curse it holds. My father is the only one capable of using it. I can't let it get into anyone's hands!" Afal rushed towards me but I blocked it with a quickswap to my greatshield.
I just need to endure. An opening will surely show!
*clang!*
With every strike of Afal, I get pushed back even with my shield.
*clang!*
"Here, here! Taste my blade!"
*clang*
Endure.
*clang!* *clang!*
A little bit more!
*clang!*
"This is getting annoying. Abyssal Enhancement, Black Blade!" Afal's both hands has now the same sword enhanced with his skill. "This is the end!" With Afal's final attack, he swung his sword that broke my greatshield in half but it was merely a decoy.
I jumped in the air and swapped to my curved swords. "BREAKER! Take everything! My armor, my weapons in my inventory!"
*crack*
My armor, reduced to ashes and my weapons in my inventory were gone.
It was all for this one swing of +13000 strength. A glass cannon attack.
"TAKE THIS, AFAL!"
With both swings of my curved swords, Afal's body was covered in deep cuts. The wall behind him was broken and the terrain behind it showed and all the trees were cut down with a few swings of my weapon.
"Ugya!" Afal's body was blown away to the outside of the dungeon.
"Last Stand!" I became immune for a few seconds. I used this because I can't handle the sharpness of my curved swords. It became too strong that every swing of it damages me. "*cough* *cough* finally. Its done. Heal, Great Heal!" Within a few minutes, I regained my health to maximum. The Breaker buff ran out and the stats of my curved sword returned back to normal. "Good work curved swords. You shall be named, Gyries."
I stood up and went ahead and walked to the coffin and pushed its top. There it was, the artifact.
It was held by a dead corpse, I'm guessing it was a female because of its greyish long hair. She was holding tight to the katana.
"A Katana again? Seriously?" I grabbed it took it away from the corpse and got a hold of the katana.
The katana's hilt transformed into a monster and began taking over my hand.
"Blood..."
"What?" I heard something but I couldn't pinpoint the location of the one talking.
"Give us blood!" The katana controlled my hand and raised it swinging it everywhere. "FEED US!"
[Insanity Immunity activated]
"Ah. Good thing I got this passive skill. It seems to turn me berserk or something." I put it in my inventory and it got immediately named inside of it. "Bloodlust? Nice name. Fits the katana."
I went outside the dungeon and found my levels didn't change. "He's still alive? Nice. I could do 'that'"
I looked around for his body and finally found him. He was unconscious.
"I'm just hoping this works. Enslavement."
A mark appeared on my arm and his arm. It resonated at it throbs with pain.
"What... Is this?" Even though Afal was unconscious, I heard his voice.
[This is a soul contract. Bosses from artifact dungeons cannot be simply tamed or enslaved except for a soul contract.]
"Afal, I want you to serve me."
"For what?"
"I can help you to find your father."
"Okay then."
"Seriously?" I was shocked on how easy it is.
"You're strong. You beat me and I can see you can handle the mind control of the artifact."
[Soul Contract complete. Afal now serves Zieglind]
Afal woke up.
"Let's go back to my village."