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Chapter 28 - The downfall of Jack

In the Dark City, one could find a man called Jack. He's what you could call a mercenary or adventurer. And on this day he was headed towards the new dungeon with his team. A priest of some god had hired him and a few others to explore the dungeon and gain info on it.

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"Fuck man, how do they expect us to get to that place? Only C and up can do so and we're rank D heroes. Sounds like to me they're trying to get rid of us."(Jack)

"Shut the fuck up, nobody wants to listen to your complaining anymore!"(Jock)

"Both of you shut yer traps before I shut them for ya"(John)

"ALL OF YOU , SHUT THE FUCK UP"(Piccard)

"Yes, sir and sorry sir."(Jack, Jock, John)

At this moment in time Jack and his group, who are led by Piccard are outside the dungeon lands. Just a peek at the surrounding landscape, will show a bunch of headstones. Even worse, more headstones are constantly appearing. Which isn't that great of a morale boost. The darkness of the area just makes it worse.

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After a break of 10 minutes, the group clenches their buttocks and start striding in. It immediately becomes apparent that a source of danger is coming. A moving mound is approaching them, as John starts sprinting back towards the normal land. John is a C class with a danger perception ability, as such when he runs, the group follows.

But this time, luck had run out for John. As before he left the land, a piece of the normal land opened up revealing a gigantic trapdoor spider. Which instantly yanked John into it's hole in the blink of an eye. With the fate of John being revealed, the remaining 3 started sprinting towards the castle.

As they're running, they hear the ground groaning behind them. There's also the sound of something like a drill grinding rocks. From the knowledge they had acquired before, they know it's a worm that's chasing them. People have tried fighting it before, only to meet the same end, in it's stomach. As such, they're running for their lives towards the castle as that might be their only salvation.

However, at that moment, the worm suddenly stopped chasing them. The three victims, are now next to the wall. Following it, they find the gate along with a few other groups as well as solo people. Upon their appearance the other groups stare at them. One of those solo adventurers, comes up to the three.

"How in the blazes are you 3 still alive and here? Even those who could fly or turn invisible died to that Holy demonic Worm. Well, first off my name is Solo, the solo adventurer, Rank B hero"(Solo)

"Wait, you said it's a Holy Demonic Worm!? That thing is a deadly existence to everything in the area!"(Jock)

The shock of finding out what the worm actually is, made Jock become shocked. The others in the group however, ignored the factoid. The worm is dangerous, but as they are now in it's territory, there's no use worrying about it.

"We got here due to running without stopping, we would've gone back but another of our number got devoured by a Cellar-Door Spider. So we just sprinted and when we got close to the wall it left us alone."(Jack)

At that moment, a bolt from a crossbow nailed Piccard in the head. It came without warning from above. Piccard dropped instantly before suddenly rising back up. Except, when he rose back up, not only did the bolt still exist but he also instantly attacked them.

BOOM

With a fast and sudden punch, Solo struck. Blowing the former Piccard to pieces, as if he got struck by an artillery shell. As, a plus the gate opened up for people to enter. After witnessing the death of Piccard twice, both Jack and Jock ran inside the gate.

After entering, they saw the castle door on the other side of a bridge. Throwing caution to the wind, they ran over the bridge towards the castle gate as now arrows and bolts came flying at them. Avoiding them, they got all the way to the castle door, before a bolt hits Jock in the leg. After being hit Jock lets out a scream as he falls backwards, off the ledge into the lava below.

"Sorry, Jock, I'm so sorry, I decided to focus my ability only on myself. This place is cursed."(Jack)