The three of them set out to beat level after level.
"There's not many people here anymore. There's only roughly 2,227 people still participating and there were 4,000 at the start" Akihito said as they were all walking together through the sandy place.
"Who cares. As long as you survive why does that matter?" Tukomi said.
"I want you two to know that I'm in this for myself and only myself. Power is the only thing that matters"
"No one really asked" Akihito mumbled to himself.
Aimi looked at him "you weren't like this before..what happened to you? You were the sweetest, chubbiest, cutest kid I remember" she chuckled.
"Yeah that was in the past, before I realized what type of world this is" Tukomi had a small frown on his face "anyways I'm gonna go get that spell so don't get in my way"
"Spell?" Akihito asked.
"You don't know? What a brain dead idiot" Tukomi responded.
Akihito immediately moved in front of him "I don't know everything. But I'm not gonna let you talk down on me because of that. I have a purpose here and I'm gonna serve it"
Tukomi looked at him surprised as Aimi then pointed towards a dungeon area. "Hey guys stop fighting and look!"
Akihito glared at him then walked towards the dungeon. They all walked as Aimi explained how some levels have areas with common spells, rare spells, and some with very rare spells.
There's a boss battle usually every tenth level and whoever defeats the boss will get the spell, everyone else will still get coins and make it to the next stage.
They then approached a line and they stepped over it. The biome changed into a icy area and there were other people around the dungeon.
"Seems like a bunch of people want this new spell. What do you think it is?" Akihito asked.
"Probably a ice spell..I have a bunch of those so if it comes down to it I want one of you to have it" Aimi smiled at Akihito and he smiled back.
"Y'all are way to soft" Tukomi and some other people walked off on their own and into the dungeon.
"Let's go Aimi" she nodded then they ran into the dungeon.
'Find your way to the boss through these obstacles. Except you're gonna be alone now, goodluck!' Stated a sign on the front entrance.
"Well what the fuck" "this makes no sense what type of bull is this!" "this is for people who need luck honestly" a bunch of people started to yell, complaining about the dungeon.
"Hey Aimi-" he quickly turned to face her but she wasn't there and everyone else vanished "damn it.."
There were cells on the side of him and a paper that had some markings on it 'find the key' was stated on the paper.
He walked into each cell and under one of the beds there was a key. He walked to the front door and opened it with the key.
"Well that was easy" he walked up to a table that was in the next room and there were markings on the paper that matched the table.
"Hm.." he thought for a few minutes "it seems some sides match with other sides" he rotated some of the shapes to match the sides of their corresponding side.
"And there" another door opened and he smiled "nice!" He ran through the door and onto a square, he jumped back as soon as the square dropped into a pit of spikes.
"T-that was close" he looked down at the spikes "I could've died.."
He took a step back then looked at his sheet of paper.
There was a middle shape that had x's on certain spots of the square.
He looked at the squares then walked on the squares without the x's. He made it to the other side and began breathing heavily.
'Crap, that was scary no matter what way you put it' he thought to himself as he approached a giant door with a bulls face on it.
He walked to the door and the door opened, automatically transporting him to a big arena.
The arena was made of ice and was guarded by a giant ice bull with blue fire coming from its nose.
He looked at the bull then back up against the wall, he looked around and there was no one else there but a shadowy person in a cloak.
His pupils got smaller and his chest was going in and out quickly, from his heavier breathing "H-hey you!" He ran towards the person with the cloak but then some other people started to appear, which blocked his path.
He remembered people that looked like this from his past so he tried to get to the person "move! Get out of the way!"
He kept running until Aimi appeared in front of him. She looked around and saw him "Akihito!" She ran to him and hugged him.
Akihito was still trying to look at the cloaked figure until he couldn't see them anymore. He looked down at Aimi then began to calm down.
He hugged her back "w-we should probably beat this boss don't you think?"
"Y-yes of course!" Aimi responded with a blush and quickly moved off of him.
A bunch of other people were going at the bull but most of their attacks weren't working in the slightest.
"Let's do this, Aimi!" They both put their guard up.
"Right!" Aimi responded with confidence.