All the students who failed to make it in time and those who failed in their welcoming training are all on their way to reach a rank E dungeon.
Florian and Klien are placed in the middle. They left the three of their group mates as they were being healed in the academy. Students who manage to leave unscratched on that training will be the one to be joining the other students.
Florian can feel the tension from all the students who's walking with him side by side. Even he felt anxious about going to the dungeon. Rumors say that it was near impossible to get inside a rank E dungeon, reach up to the middle, and leave the dungeon with a smile.
It's been an hour since they leave the school grounds and they still haven't reached the dungeon. It was said that finding an E dungeon in this town is rare, since most dungeons are upgrading.
"We won't face something dangerous, right? They just wanted us to kill one creature?" Klien asked. Florian shrug his shoulder as he wasn't sure if that was true. He doesn't even know why the punishment has to be in being in a dungeon.
Dungeons are a mystery, even if it was rank as E. They do not know what hold in that cave like place.
Klien can feel how cold his feet are under his shoes. He also can't almost feel his legs from the fear of going to the dungeon. As a prince, he learned from their guards and their town hunters how scary the dungeon was. How dangerous it is, and on how it can cost you your life in a matter of seconds.
"We are almost there." Florian heard from one student.
"Can you feel your body?"
"It was really true."
"Right, my body emits some energy, too."
"This looks cool, like my soul is leaving my body."
Will all the noise from every student, Florian, remained silence as he never experience something they have. He never emit this energy to protect his body and power inside the dungeon, and he wasn't sure if he can have it.
They were almost at the entrance of the dungeon, and he felt like backing up. He feels something wrong will happen, something that might cause something horrendous.
"Don't you feel it?" Florian tried asking Klien, but the moment he swift his head to his side to face Klien, is the moment he knows he can't expect an answer from him. He becomes as pale as snow and out in his own thoughts.
He must be stopping himself from fainting.
He swallowed his own saliva as he felt his throat drying up when they finally reach the dungeon. He was hoping that the weird feeling he had felt won't happen since the moment they reach the zone of the dungeon.
One of the student council guided them all to get inside the dungeon. "Don't get too far. It will be dangerous."
Everything is normal inside the dungeon. It removes the negative thoughts that Florian is having earlier. The dungeon surrounds a blue light, creating a beautiful blue dungeon. Every corner has a crystal that reflects the light, making it look so valuable than just an ordinary cave.
He can already tell why so many people risk their life by getting inside the dungeon just for some crystal.
"Like the traditional, all we have to do is meet a one creature and kill it. Doesn't matter if only one student killed it and the rest doesn't do a thing, all of you will still be leaving the dungeon."
He can hear how relieve Klien is from what the student council said. Even him, he knows someone will try to get all their attention because aside from the fact that they are powerful - and they knew and are proud about it - they might be also an attention seeker.
Florian personally won't mind for something like that to happen. It can be a great help to him. That just means that he doesn't need to use his power and prove to everyone how worthless he is.
Being nervous, Florian grab his dull sword that was in his waist. That makes Florian wonder if killing a monster can help him polish his sword into a more fine sword, not just a dull sword. He doesn't want to live all his life with a dull sword. He might actually like it better if it was a sharp blade small knife. In that case, he can just be like a ninja who owns a dagger.
That might be more useful in an actual fight than a dull sword. If he has a dagger, all he needs is agility and speed to be more like a ninja.
"How powerful is your acid?" Florian asked. He wants to know how helpful Klien can be. They aren't sure what might happen in the future, so he wanted to be prepared. Not expecting a thing on his dull sword.
They keep on walking and walking that he is starting to get edgy. He wasn't sure how a dungeon works since he never enter one. But from what he can tell, they were walking for a long time and not even a single monster appeared. It was like the creatures are luring them deep inside the dungeon to kill all of them.
"Oh, I can melt metal. Just from that level," Klien said. Florian felt a little reassured. It might be still at the beginner level, but melting a metal requires an outrageous amount of acid.
"How long can you melt it?" He asked.
"For like 10 minutes. I'm having a hard time breathing after that, as I am using my power to the limit to release more acid on my palm."
"Can you release acid on other parts of your body aside from your palm?"
"That was possible?" Klien asked, surprisedly. He never heard about that. Now he wants to ask his father to help him find a great mage who also uses an acid magic to help him train and learn more how to use it.
"I do not know, maybe. It was your power. Maybe you'll learn a secret to it."
"Oh, maybe--"
All of them froze when they feel a dangerous aura that surrounds the area, giving them a hard time to breathe and to move. Florian doesn't want to believe it but he sees it again... those gazes he felt before receiving his power.
They met again...