Yuki saw the two players that approached her to form a party, which happened almost immediately. The one in front was a girl, she was at least one head shorter than Yuki with shoulder length copper colored hair and light blue eyes. Equipped with a dark green coat, leather pants, a white shirt and boots till the knee.
While the other behind was a boy around her height, he had short light brown hair and grayish blue eyes. He was equipped with a combination of leather and some metal armor, while a shield rested on his back and a sword on his hip.
As for the girl, Yuki couldn't discredit what she was using, and she wasn't sure of what they were capable of. Neither for herself as well. She also presumed that they were around her age while their names were Kali and Gray respectively.
"What is your weapon? Mine are magic stones, but sadly I can only buff and debuff with them." asked Kali while saying what and what not she could do to Yuki. "While he is the vanguard or sorts." finished Kali as she pointed at Gray behind her.
"I mainly use a rapier, sometimes I may add a dagger as well." replied Yuki as they now somewhat knew what each other used and they actually had a decent party composition. Then they entered the forest making their way towards the dungeon.
Along the way they thought that they would need to fight a lot but it was quite peaceful as only a few monsters got in their way, which was relatively easy to defeat with 3 people and soon enough they were in front of the dungeon or so they thought.
Instead they saw a gathering of parties waiting for their turn to enter the dungeon, chatting with each other, a few fighting to relieve their boredom until their turn. They all had come here as there were almost to no monsters within the forest due to them being hunted relentlessly by them to extinction.
They could always go deeper in the forest but then they would meet with even stronger foes that they couldn't deal with and with all the lower level monsters gone the stronger one expanded their territories in search of food.
"Are we gonna wait or are we going to explore the surroundings?" asked Kali as she was doubtful that they could enter the dungeon anytime soon, although it was getting a little bit quicker for the next party to enter.
Yuki wanted to get done with the quest she was given but seeing the situation she was in, it was going to take more time than what she had thought
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"Yeah, let's see what is around?" replied Yuki at Kali's question, while Gray took out a piece of paper out of his inventory and read through it. "Follow me, there's another way in." Gray finally spoke up.
Yuki was surprised by him talking and along with Kali, were confused as to where that other entrance is. "Lead the way then." said Kali as she made her way to Gray in order to see what was on the paper, while Yuki waited for him to make a move.
Doing a double look on the paper, Gray began to lead the way. They stuck close to the mountain whilst Gray looked for something on the side of it. After a while of walking, stopping and then walking again they came to a halt as Gray looked one last time on the paper for confirmation.
"We are here." said Gray, as they looked at stone. "Is there anything hidden to open an entrance?" asked Yuki, her reply was Gray taking out a pickaxe from his inventory and began smacking at the stone. "No there isn't and this will take a while." replied Gray as he then focused back on mining though the wall.
"Anddd we lost contact with him, at least for a while." remarked Kali. Yuki made a confused face and before she could ask why, Kali pointed at Gray's face which was fully concentrated and had a smile on his face.
"What are we gonna do while we wait for Gray to finish?" asked Kali as she clearly saw that Yuki didn't talk too much, she was thinking that she was a bit like Gray. "I don't know. There's not much to do." replied Yuki.
"Then let's go a bit deeper to see. If it's something too much we return." Kali said while grabbing Yuki's hand and dragging her along deeper into the forest, but before making it too far into the forest they heard rocks crumbling and quickly returned.
Looking at the side of the mountain they saw a large hole had opened while gray had retreated back from the hole. "Here is our way in." said Gray, proud of his achievement. But something was bothering him as it was far easier than what the map on the paper was drawn.
The trio slowly heard skittering through the hole that Gray had just dug and it was coming closer and closer by the second as well as multiplying. Soon enough they saw gray jagged legs clutching the rocks while eight green eyes emerged from the darkness.
Everyone backed away slowly and got ready to fight as a spider half their size came out of the hole and soon more followed.
Gray stored his pickaxe and took out his sword and shield, Yuki stiffened her grasp on her rapier and Kali buffed, Yuki with strength and Gray with health and defence.
The spider that came out first lunged at Gray with force as it bit his shield and attacked him at the sides with its two front legs.
Yuki took the chance to strike the spider at its abdomen. While it did not take much damage from Yuki's strike a slight crack was heard.
Yuki thrusted once again and this time her rapier pierced through the abdomen cell, the spider shrieked and averted from Gray to Yuki and attacked her.
Yuki unlike Gray didn't have a shield and relied on her agility to dodge the attack and although it was close, she managed to avoid it and then strike again at its head through one of its eyes.
The spider shrieked once again while trying to back away, Yuki then shove the rapier even further into the spider skull.
The spider fell to the ground, not moving and Yuki pulled her blade out. Though with only one down it barely meant anything as Yuki now needed to deal with 3 at the same time, the same went for Gray who had one on the front again and tried to push away. One coming from the behind and another biting his leg.
While Kali was already dead as she couldn't deal with the spiders alone and could only run.
Yuki then was attacked by one spider from the front, jumping back to avoid the attack.She was unfortunate as a spider struck her with its two front legs from the side and the one in front sinked its fangs into Yuki's side and although it did not hurt it was uncomfortable nonetheless.
Yuki took out her dagger and repeatedly struck the spider's head until it gave away while the other two continued to attack her, finally managing to take down the one that was gripping onto her.
She struggled as much as she could and kicked and pushed the spiders to make a little space between them but the moment she did a new one would attack her.
'There's no way in hell we could have fought that many.' Yuki thought as she saw that an endless sea of spiders emerged from the hole they had made.
[You killed 2 Cave Spiders 194 experience.]
[You Leveled Up.]
Was the last thing she saw before the [You Died.] screen.