Arlo was up all night, talking to Krause and telling him more stories about his journey. After a few hours of talking, he heard a voice coming out of the tent. Was it Octavia again? No this voice had a much higher pitch, it was Alice.
"Good morning Carlos, I couldn't sleep from anxiety of entering the pyramid again" said Alice while yawning
"That's an interesting book you've got there, it's not really made out of human skin is it?" Asked Alice with a confused expression.
"Go to sleep kid, talk about the book some more and I'll kill you" said Arlo with a glare of threat
"Jeez, you act so differently when it's about that book. You should really get some sleep, I heard from Octavia that you barely got any sleep the whole way here" said Alice with concern and a mad expression.
"I do sleep, it's just that no one looks at me when I'm sleeping" said Arlo with an agitated expression
"Fine then sleep right where you're sitting" said Alice with the expression of scorn and dissatisfaction (basically the definition of hmpf)
Arlo obliged and closed his eyes after lying down, pretending to sleep. He felt the ground lightly shake as footsteps began getting closer to him and then stop suddenly as the person making the footsteps lied down next to him, it was definitely Alice.
Arlo waited a few hours for Alice to fall into a deep sleep and finally heard some faint snores. He wanted to carry Alice back to her tent, but it was hard to manoeuvre out because Alice's hand was resting across Arlo's chest by that point. It was a hard task but he eventually managed to get out of Alice's grasp.
Arlo gave Alice a princess carry to bring her back to her tent and he heard her mumbling in her sleep "brother, please don't leave" Arlo must have reminded Alice of her brother. Arlo opened up the tent to put her inside, but he saw something lying down in the right side of the tent, it was the body of a half naked mature women, it was the body of Octavia sleeping. Arlo didn't stare, he placed Alice down on the left side with haste and bolted out of the tent as fast as he could. But he was stopped by the voice of Octavia.
"Here to see to see the body of a voluptuous woman?" Asked Octavia jokingly
"I'm sorry!!" Said Arlo with an apologetic expression.
"I'm just joking, I know you were just bringing back Alice after a busy night with her (UWU)" said Octavia with a smug face.
"Well I guess we should clear the first part of the dungeon since we're both up, they're just small fry anyway" said Octavia while stretching a bit.
Arlo agreed since he was getting bored and Octavia put on her armour because the temperature was cold enough. They both made their way through the hallway and found a huge room filled with coffins all over the walls, with another doorway at the other side of them.
"Would you look at that, coffins as far as the eye can see" said Octavia with awe of the number of coffins there are.
"Look, there's a doorway at the other side, let's take a look over there" said Arlo while pointing forward.
They took a step inside the huge room and both of the doorways disappeared while the coffins began to open, hoards of mummies began swarming out and they both began to prepare for a long battle.
Octavia opened her Grimoire and started casting a big spell. Arlo began slashing at the mummies to protect Octavia.
After Arlo had taken out a bunch of the mummies, he made a stance and shouted "MOONLIGHT SLASH", whipping out hundreds of the mummies.
Octavia's spell finished soon after and she shouted "EARTH SUMMIT".
A huge mountain of earth spikes shot out from the middle of the dungeon, taking out most of the mummies left. They were cheering from the victory, but their expressions started changing when they saw the fallen mummies rise again. They tried taking down the mummies again and again, but the mummies never died.
"Hey Arlo, I think it's about time you do your abyss thingy, since they won't give up unless they all disappear" said Octavia with a concerned expression
Arlo went in a stance with his body facing right and both hands holding the sword. His left hand was holding the sword up with the elbow tilted 90 degrees. His right arm was bent upwards and holding the sword with a similar angle. He concentrated hard but he didn't get the same feeling like the last time he tried the attack, his vision didn't disappear either. He released his attack anyways and shouted "ABYSS SLASH" his sword did hit a target, but it didn't have the same force as last time and no one disintegrated either.
"Damnit, so we can't rely on your trump card either" said Octavia with a disgruntled expression.
They continued with their futile attacks, becoming more and more frustrated everytime the mummies rose back up. It wasn't a problem for Arlo, but Octavia began getting more tired the longer they fought. She was already sweating all over and her attacks became weaker, she was getting close to her limit. She let her guard down for a moment and got slashed on the back by a mummy's scimitar.
"You ok?" . Asked Arlo with concern of Octavia's condition.
"Don't worry about it, my armour took most of the impact. Let's change our formation" said Octavia with a false proud expression.
They changed their formation, this time they had their backs to each other, taking down enemies on each other's blind spot. Arlo thought to himself "come on, do something you fool, she won't last much longer. This formation will collapse soon, damnit" suddenly he heard a loud deep voice "YOU WHO HAS ONCE LOOKED INTO THE ABYSS, DO YOU REALLY WISH TO USE MY POWER ONCE MORE?" Arlo looked a bit surprised, but answered immediately.
"Yes give your power, I'll give you anything except money in return" replied Arlo with an expression of determination.
"MUAHAHAHA I LIKE YOUR GREED, EVEN IF IT'LL BE THE CAUSE OF YOUR DOWNFALL. SINCE MY ROOMMATE HAD TAKEN A LIKING TO YOU, I SHALL GRANT YOU MY POWER. KEEP IN MIND THAT I'LL ONLY GIVE YOU 1 MINUTE"
"NOW GO AND OPEN YOUR GRIMOIRE!!!"
Arlo hesitated a bit (because he didn't want to open and look inside Krause uwu), but took it out because there was nothing else he could do. He opened the Grimoire, revealing pages made out of human skin. After looking for a bit, his vision began to fade.
"Hey Arlo, why are you taking out your Grimoire all of the sudden, did you come up with a new plan?" Asked Octavia with a bit of hope.
Arlo didn't answer, he just looked into the book with a blank stare.