Blood mist continued dispersing around Otto's surroundings, the sleeping carnivorous trees sensed his presence and were slowly awakening.
Sniff!
The pungent blood stench sent a shiver down Otto's spine, "Poison," then he started shivering and immediately covered himself with his hoodie.
With this he had a good level of defense. Removing his long 1.9 meter Claymore sword from the side of the tree bark he tapped his feet on a branch and darted upwards.
Instantly dark vines wove themselves together blocking Otto's path.
Gritting his teeth, he tightly gripped the claymore with both hands, then imbued the sword with his unique chaos mana, enough to activate the enchantment of the fire attribute.
In a battle at an unfamiliar environment and not knowing how to escape a new type of situation, he calmly decided to scout and sparingly use mana until he finds an opportunity to escape.
"Basic fire type vertical slash"
"Basic fire type horizontal slash"
Shiing! Shiing!
Pop! Pop! Shh!
The vines burned up with popping sounds and turned into shreds releasing a burnt wooden smell.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Black dark vines with reddish hue bombarded Otto from behind like sharp javelin pikes, bashing his defense cloak and causing blood to rush up towards his mouth.
"Kuek!"
Another bundle of vines came rushing atop him and latched on to his right leg and arm then started to pull him down to the dark shade, and the branches of the tree holding him started smiling creepily with its irregular sharp mouth on the branches.
"Damn it! I have no choice but to risk damaging the mana circle enchantment with overloading my chaos mana." He said.
Buzz!
His chaos mana rushed into skulls flaming heart, making it as light as a feather, holding it with his one free hand he viciously cleaved the constricting vines like that of a python.
"Chaos mana vertical slash,"
"Chaos mana diagonal slash,"
"Chaos mana horizontal slash,"
Puk! Swash! Shiing!
"Out of my way there is no way I am becoming fertilizer," said Otto gritting his teeth as his ankles and wrist started to hurt even with bracers on and even after all his training the exhaustion of using to much mana was still no joke.
With a calm domineer Otto rushed towards the trees that we're still waking up, he could tell this by looking at trees that did not release any blood mist and left trails of carnivorous plants trembling and waking up as the blood mist started to spread out.
Like a tiger he darted to the top of the other still resting trees that were waking up, sprung himself to the sky escaping the blood mist and vines that chased behind him.
Ratatatata!
The vines that got exposed to the sun shrilled up and the blood mist descended back into branches of the trees as if afraid of the light.
"Thank goodness they are afraid of light," said Otto who stood on top of the umbrella tree which seemed to be harmless now.
The leaves seemed to reflect the light of the sun protecting the monstrosity below it.
Staring at the whole scenery now, the umbrella trees stretched out far and wide and it appeared he was in the middle of a death forest.
Breathing in and getting ahold of his exhaustion Otto noticed the sudden shifting of the shadows he looked up to be greeted by the orange red hue signalling the coming of the now dreaded night.
Without seeing any end to these trees he had only one idea to find a hiding place inside the death forest before the night came.
"The time I meet those lunatic instructors I will land a punch right to their noses," said Otto with grit teeth and resentment in his tone.
He then stored his Claymore in his grimoires and
Woosh!
He began to run and jump on top of the umbrella shaped trees. With no direction in mind but hope to find a safe zone.
After hours of continuously running and staring at the setting sun the forest's end was nowhere to be seen.
"It feels like I'm jumping on these trees in circles, nothing works." Said Otto his heart beating heavily from the darkness approaching.
"Am I really going to die in this wretched place?" He said with a dejected tone.
Ping!
Dungeon in close proximity.
Otto's ears perked up from hearing the notification.
Ping!
Dungeon in close proximity
"Huh what the heck?" he said in a surprised tone, but he still could not hide his wide smile filled with delight.
The reason being the sound of a notification of a dungeon in this quiet but beautiful place signaled one thing 'safe zone'
While figuring out direction of the dungeon Otto saw the three suns half way in the horizon.
Turning his head back darkness began creeping closer and behind it the umbrella shaped trees changed into spiked shape like trees reveling large 'eyeballs' in the main stem.
The tree eyes blinked open from their barks revealing vertical slit melon sized green eyeballs three times the size of a man's head, and glowed in the dark, immediately all eyes shifted towards Otto creating a frenzied rustling and rattling of branches as black vines one after the other pursued him.
A chill ran down Otto's spine seeing this creepy sight and he immediately ran with the light not forgetting to keep his calm listening to the wind blowing against his face as he struggled to keep himself in the light.
"Shot, come on the notification sound rang when I was facing this direction, come on where are you safe zone,"
Even though the chances of that dungeon being a dangerous high rank one, Otto did not care to think about it now, he had to get rid of the problem at hand.
Whip! Whip! Whip!
Vines hurled themselves at him getting covered by the approaching dark of the night sky, thrashing Otto's butt mercilessly "Ouch!"
Opening his grimoire he removed skulls flaming heart.
"Chaos mana diagonal slash"
Then the sound as if metal whacking metal reverberated in the air.
Kwing!
Sparks flew upon contact with the vines that were now ten times tougher and a numb feeling assaulted Otto's hands at the same time greatly throwing him further away.
"Damn is this the work of the night?" but then
Boom!
"Kreee!" a light pillar reaching the clouds burst out in front of Otto departing the darkness that was about to befall him and chased away some of the vines.
Elated Otto threw himself head first into the light when he heard.
Ping!
Congratulation for making it into the {Unique} ranked beast dungeon.
Name: liege Hells mutant beasts dungeon.
{Unique} rank: this rank is a special case omitted from the primary ranking measurement, as unique ratings are more rare but not unheard of like Unknown ranks. They also occasionally contain special trait mutant beasts that deviate from the primary elements.
Looking behind his back the one eyed trees bared their branches filled with many sharp teethed mouths at him, but dared not enter through the light shield.
"But the grimoire says I've entered a dungeon does this barrier mean I'm already in?" said Otto.
His black grimoire then glowed up releasing ominous vibes.
Taking it out Otto opened it up then his mana seeped out of him and a mana enchantment circle appeared below his feet.
Ping!
User: Otto Alarick
Welcome to unique liege hells dungeon.
Be prepared to be transported in 3…2…1
Shwosh!
Otto saw his world darken and his body felt the turbulence of the space attribute all around him.
It gave him an immersive feeling that coated him making him feel comfortable.
"This is space attribute mana so advanced too," he then tried to meditate to feel it but was interrupted abruptly as the feeling disappeared and he arrived in a spacious hall room.
A podium was in the front and standing behind it was a faceless giant statue made of dirtied bronze reading a golden scroll.
The hall was like a giant gladiator arena with two doors by his left and right side both made of ancient tree appearing as sturdy as steel, had a dark hue similar to the trees outside "How powerful is this dungeon to use those hard and tough carnivorous trees to make simple doors. And what is behind them,' he thought.
Ping!
To get out of the liege hells dungeon user must clear it and obtain dungeon boss core.
{Unique} liege hells dungeon.
Floors to complete ¼
Ping!
The dungeon master lacks interest in you.
This was a unexpected indeed. Otto was now in a unique dungeon as soon as he arrived in lawless island.
Dungeons could be found in the islands all around the world of Bethania as they were spontaneously made.
Many theories have been made about their origins as some say they are made from large mana veins underground and others say dungeons are made from dimensional rifts, or even powerful remains of demons, but the main similarity is that they have large mana inside of them.
They are also ranked from common, uncommon, rare, legendary and finally mythical.
Unique dungeons are the deviants, since beasts found inside them are mostly out of the primary elements.
They contain elements from light, metal, lightning, ice, and other not normally found elements.
Getting unique cores and syncing them to your grimoire will also allow a Grimm to wield unique skills outside of the primary elements granted their foundation veins match the core.
Darkness vein goes well with a light unique core, fire goes well with a lightning unique core, water goes well with frost unique cores and so on.
Surveying the giant arena like hall, Otto wasn't dumb enough to think winning a unique dungeon would be easy and retrieving a unique core.
Seeing nothing yet Otto steeled his heart and took one step forward then.
Click!
Stepping on a foot pressure plate the door to his right opened upwards.
Kerr! Ching! Ching! Ching!
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The ground lightly trembled, introducing a metal skinned raptor.
Ping!
Type: Mutant pre-calamity beast
Name: Full metal Raptor guard
Level: 9
Element: metal
Staring at the 2 meter long metal reptile, it's 1 meter height with its short arms and crimson red glowing sapphire gemstones for eyes had me stunned.
The raptor seemed more like a machine than a living animal baffling me on how on earth it can live like that as a metal creature.
Psstshhhh
Fuming out white smoke it eyeballed me and cranked its mouth open wide.
Vwa! Vwa! Vwa! Vwa! Vwa!
A circular orb was visible inside it's mouth and it's chest glowed red revealing a hidden orb inside, its mouth produced a flaming red light that intensified every passing second.
Boom!
Chapter 8: metal raptor vs Claymore arts
Flip! Flap! Flip! Flap!
Otto's grimoire hurriedly opened up releasing his Claymore.