Upon our arrival at the inn, we met the shield warrior Dumah, he seems like a really good-natured nice guy. From Vera's words he's happier than usual and it makes him more hyperactive, he's happy because as he's a member of the club that Captain Raven founded, he's happy to get a new member to train, it looks like training with Captain Raven is not a pleasant thing for him.
When I asked what training was like he went blank and turned the subject around, it seems he suffered a lot from being the captain's only training partner and is now happy to have gained a new teammate, who probably stole some of the captain's attention during the train. And Dumah is extremely happy about it, but it just makes me even more nervous about what training is going to be like.
According to the intrusions given by the captain, she left some challenges for me and Raziel to bear during the expedition, the first and that we should finish the sixth to ninth floor running this is not a very big challenge, but the pace should be chosen by Vera is wearing a sinister smile when explaining this rule.
The second task is that the first guardian must be killed without the help of Vera, Martin and Dumah if we fail, we will have to go through intensive training, and when Dumah explained I saw he was terrified when he said intensive training, even Vera lost her smile.
Third task was that we had to reach the twentieth floor if we don't make it, we're all going to be punished. Captain Raven really has a deferential way of inspiring her team members, she is a great example of leadership.
With our arrival on the dungeon road the sun was already starting to lighten the sky.
Upon entering the dungeon, we appeared in a cave with a single exit, and Vera began to laugh wildly like a local, just missing a howl to complete her sudden madness.
"Let's start your test, try to follow us little boys!"
With that statement, Vera took the lead and ran down the tunnel and right behind her Dumah and Martin followed her.
"If you can't kill some monsters, I'll tell Raven you need hellish betrayal!"
I start running after Vera, who by the way is keeping all the monsters in her path, looks like I'm going to have to take this seriously. I channel my aura and my wind element to try to reach Vera, but I'm barely reaching her that I'm not even using her aura of hers to increase her physical strength.
Raziel is suffering a pole more than me, he's at least six feet behind. He really is in trouble. I draw my bow and fire my arrows, even though I'm behind Vera my arrows are fast enough to reach the monsters before she kills them.
Seeing that I could kill the monsters before her, Vera started blocking my arrows with her spear. And she started making fun of me.
She's really making my life difficult, during the next hour I barely managed to kill a few dozen monsters, Raizel barely managed to kill twenty monsters. This was repeated over the next few floors.
Until we reach the portal to the tenth floor.
"Not bad, Ulric. You really have some skill with a bow, getting to fight monsters with Vera."
"Thanks Martin, did I get enough to avoid being forced to suffer at the hands of Captain Raven?"
"Maybe, but I know Raziel isn't going to be lucky to avoid training straight. You have five minutes to catch your breath and prepare to face the guardian, remember because of the level of our group's cores the guardian can end up being strong for both of you to face, don't underestimate him even if he is the guardian from the tenth floor."
When Raziel and I were ready, we led the team through the portal. When passing through the portal we appear in a simple room and the guardian was a mature lizard, his body is full of mana and the fire element.
Looks like not all guardians are going to have the shadow element in their body, the lizard's ripeness was pretty thick and thorny and from the way he's charging at us now, I have to admit he's pretty good.
"Raziel, I'm going to fight head-on and you help me try to hinder his movements."
As I dodged the lizard's bite I probed its defense, my sword made a shallower clean cut in its armor. Looks like I'll have to use my aura and elemental energy at the same time to hurt the level two lizard.
Raizel tried to tie the lizard's limbs using his whip and shadow element, which by the way changed from a shadow to a sticky substance, it seems Raziel has learned a new trick mastering an unusual property of his element is not easy, I'm having trouble mastering a new feature of my elements.
When I was going to approach the lizard again, I saw its elemental energy concentrating inside its body and it was going to its mouth. I leap back using my wind element, only to narrowly dodge the lizard's blast of fire.
His fire element is really strong and corrosive, his flame and a dark red that is running through the cave floor, this lizard's fire is very dangerous and I have to avoid being hit by the flames.
I aim at the lizard's paws and start to make it bleed, when I managed to weaken the strength of the lizard's leg Raziel managed to finish immobilizing the lizard that was spitting its flames. But now that he is immobilized, he can only spit his flames in one direction and that makes him harmless.
I climb onto the lizard and drive my sword into the back of the lizard's head and start decapitating it, as I didn't have enough strength to decapitate it in one move, so it turned out to be a pretty messy job, but in the end, I decapitated the lizard and sinned its core.
"Not bad, you two will be able to subdue the guardian without too much trouble and without wasting a lot of time."
"Thanks Martin, but the lizard wasn't very strong so it died easily."
"Raziel was a little too passive in this first part of the dungeon, Ulric managed to steal some monsters before I could kill them. If you don't get better in the next part, I'll have to tell Captain Raven you're not trying hard enough."
"Don't be like that Vera, you made the dungeon difficult enough for both of them, but Raziel has to improve his physical ability and improve his use of aura to strengthen his body. The shadow element can strengthen your body when you are in the cave but your strength will only increase enough when you can strengthen your body with your aura."
"Thanks for the advice, Dumah, I will strive to master my aura fully so that I can strengthen my body without wasting aura."
"Ready to move to the next floor?"
But before we could give an answer, Vera walked through the portal.
"We better go after her or you won't even have a monster to kill,"
With that the race through the eleventh floor to the portal to the fifteenth floor, just as before Vera led the team in a frantic way through the dark tunnels.
But the problem is at the point that the monsters in the tunnels are all level two, entering a small group that the level of the cores is high changed a lot the monsters on the dungeon floors.
The monsters were the lizards, figures and golems although I know how to kill them and I have experience doing this while running through the tunnels, it makes the task complicated my arrows can seriously injure the lizards and kill the figures, but the golems are complicated for that. that Dumah has killed most of them with his hammer.
As the difficulty increased, I could finally see the abilities of my new team members, Vera creating a whip on the tip of her spear with every thrust and cutting her spear a shadow element whip has ripped the lizards and golems apart.
Dumah has focused on the golems while Martin remains at the center of the team ready to protect any of us.
Thanks to Vera and Dumah's attack power we were able to advance through the floors without a problem. I'm really shocked by the level of their strength we've made it through the last few floors, only Raziel and I had a problem keeping up with the team.
I'm running out of aura and my wind element energy is running out. Raziel can't be in much better condition than mine, so when we were faced with the portal to the next guardian, I had to ask for a break.
"How about a break to rest a bit, maybe have a drink of water and catch your breath."
"Only if you beg your big sister."
"Vera, and enough they warmed up the top floors well, if we push now, they can't fight the guardian well."
With Martin's support, we can finally take a break and rest. This exploration is being very fast and tiring.