As Jue moved to open the chest, his eye shined, and his hands shook, as it was his first time opening a chest.
'Hope something good comes out.'
He joyously moved his hands to open the chest. Everyone's attention was also focused on the chest, and when it finally opened, everyone's excitement was dampened in the worse way,
'What is this scam dungeon!?' Ryu thought with a sour expression
"Big brother, is this dagger awesome?" Jue asked Ryu, confused as he picked up a bronze dagger out of the chest,
Aiena's face also had a hint of disappointment because she was also expecting something grand as Grandpa chief's story, Ryu scanned the dagger for a chance of it being something special, but it just disappointed him further,
(Name- [Bronze Dagger]
Description- just a normal bronze dagger, had a sharp edge. Disposable)
'Even the description says Disposable…. Let's test its strength.'
"Jue throw that dagger up once," Ryu said to Jue as he began chanting the icicle strike spell; Jue nodded as he moved a bit near and waited for Ryu to reach the end of the spell, and finally tossed it up.
"… Icicle shot!!" Ryu shouted, and the giant Icicles formed over his shoulders and shot toward the falling dagger, but something strange happened. Even though Ryu was trying to test the dagger's strength, the dagger, along with icicles, went inside the wall,
"Aaaaaaaa!!" a shrill voice comes inside from the wall,
"What is even up with this dungeon at this point!!" Ryu couldn't help it anymore and blurt out,
"Big brother what should we do?" Jue asked as he pointed at the wall,
"Ryu I think we should just leave," Aiena said as she was confused by the dungeon and was worried there might be more demons inside that wall,
"Ryu the cat is in there," Rafa said as she sniffed the air like a puppy,
"Let's go in!!" Ryu said almost instantly as he thought,
'Even if it's just a salvaged skill, I won't go out of here empty-handed!!' Ryu thought as he walked towards the wall, followed by Jue and Rafa, with Aiena in the middle. As soon as Ryu entered the wall, the surroundings changed to a big room with a dungeon core in the middle,
"This really is like a normal home," Ryu spoke, looking around to see a blanket on the floor, a fireplace, and a small pond.
"Is Dungeon lord a human…?" Aiena spoke, confused as she had never heard about a human dungeon lord,
"Big brother, there is a chair and table here, too," Jue said as he moved around, looking at the strange core room,
They were confused and discussing what to do, as there was no dungeon boss in sight,
"Big brother, there are fishes in the pond," Jue said with sparkling eyes as he pointed to the corner where the lake was,
"I see, Rafa big sister. Is the cat really here?" Ryu asked, and Rafa nodded,
"Its smell is strong!!" she moved her nose around, and suddenly Aiena, who was looking at Ryu, got a pale face,
"Aiena, what happened!?" Ryu asked as he held her shoulders concerned, but Aiena just pointed above his head, as Ryu turned around to come face to face with a spectacle-wearing girl,
"Ummm… Hello… welcome to my dungeon," the floating girl awkwardly said as she nudged her glasses with her hand, scent akin to flowers coming from her body.
Everyone's facial expression was in a state similar to Aiena aside from Ryu, who looked straight at the floating girl and spoke,
"You are not a ghost, right."
"… I am not a ghost, yes", she nodded, still floating in the air in front of Ryu,
'Damn… now I can't use Hanuman Chalisa!!!!' Ryu thought, disappointed as he wanted to use the chant taught to him by his friend in his last life,
"Aiena, don't be afraid; if she wanted to attack us, she had the best chance before you pointed at her," Ryu said simply as he pointed at the floating girl, who nodded, as she spoke,
"I just wanted to say hello… but was feeling nervous… it is the first time I met someone else in person since I was born", the floating girl spoke with a small voice as she shyly fidgeted with her fingers,
She spoke suddenly with excitement as she remembered something,
"I prepared food!!!... tasty food come with me!!" she took Ryu's hand suddenly and pulled him towards the table, with Fusion souls following behind them. Even though the floating girl was suspicious, she showed no hostility. Her legs were covered by smoke, and even from her upper back, the haze was being emitted,
When the Fusion Souls were brought to the table, there was only one chair and the floating girl who looked troubled and, after thinking a bit, turned to Ryu,
"Umm… can I take back the dagger I put in the chest… I need it to make the chairs," she requested politely, and Ryu almost laughed at her expression as he nodded,
"Thank you!!" The Floating girl said as she summoned a few chairs for everyone,
"Please sit," she said as she tried her best to be courteous. She presented fish to everyone that she cooked in the fireplace, everyone was confused about what to do, but Ryu decided to eat. As he spoke,
"If you are trying to poison us, just know that we all have high poison resistance."
But the floating girl looked sad as she spoke,
"I eat it every day. It is just fish."
After eating for a bit, Ryu turned to the floating girl noticing his currently made arch-nemesis in her arms,
"Hisss!!!" the cat hissed at Ryu as she felt secure in her owner's arms,
"You cat!!" Ryu spoke as he stood right up from the chair and pulled out a dagger,
But the girl turned her back, still holding the cat,
"Please don't kill Rei!!!" she said, and Ryu spoke,
"Then explained already what is going on. Who are you?"
The Floating girl nodded as she adjusted her glasses and spoke,
"First, promise you won't kill Rei."
Ryu looked at other party members and nodded to the girl finally,
"Okay, I am… coming down," she said, and as she came towards the ground, the smoke from her legs disappeared as the tall legs revealed themselves. The smoke was now being emitted from her shoulders only now, she adjusted her glasses as she spoke,
"I am the Dungeon Lord of Illusory Dungeon… My name is Chisi."
"So why can you speak, and for that matter, why would you serve us food?" Ryu asked, getting straight to the point, to which Chisi replied with a disheartening look,
"I was just alone since birth…. And wanted to be a good host when I finally had guests."
"But we are not guests, right? You know we are dungeon-raiding adventurers?"
"Ehh? Are you not here to save me?" Chisi spoke as she tilted her head,
"Why would we come here to save you!?" Ryu replied while shrugging. Chisi pulled out a paper as she spoke,
"A blue-haired boy with crimson eyes, with a brown-haired boy and blond hair girl with a wolf kin… will come to save you. You'll be safe as long as you get on the good side of the brown-haired boy and blond hair girl… beware of blue haired one. see a big brother from a nearby dungeon clearly wrote you'll come to save me."
Ryu looked at the obviously stupid girl in front of him as he spoke,
"Whatever the message is, you weren't supposed to speak it in front of us, genius, and do you think you can get on their good side after saying that?" Ryu pointed at Jue and Aiena.
"I didn't think about it," Chisi said as she tore the paper and spoke,
"There is nothing. Please forget about it."
"Explain everything you know. We don't have time to waste," Ryu said clearly, as it was the truth that it would be equally dangerous for them if they stayed in too long and the Elite paladin entered the dungeon, so Chisi thought for a bit as she spoke,
"Come with me. Seniors would explain you better" she again began pulling Ryu's arm, who was about to shout,
'I can walk myself!!!' but held it in as he just wanted to get done with it,
Chisi brought him near to the dungeon core and then spoke,
"Please keep what I show you secret… from other humans" she put her hand on her lips as she touched the core; before Ryu could even affirm or deny a blue window popped out from the dungeon core, opening a big chat window in front of them,
As Ryu moved his eye to see it, he began reading whatever was being texted,
[Dungeon Lord of Hell's fire: Chisi came online
Dungeon Lord of Primal frost: Chisi, are you okay? They didn't get you did they?
Dungeon Lord of Southsea: Are you hurt?
…..many more messages]
'What the f@ck a dungeon chatting group!?' Ryu thought as he turned to Chisi, who just smiled as she began writing with a hologram pen in her hand on a holographic board,
-To be continued