Mark and Velma were walking aimlessly in the dark, Mark looked a bit Panicked.
"Hey, wait, what's this noise?"
he slowly whispered.
"I don't know... but I am getting a bad feeling,"
she said as they squatted down.
"This is so damn dark I can't see a single thing,"
"don't worry the Instructors know some spells that'll let them see in the dark too. we just have to wait."
Mark pondered for a few moments then spoke. "hey, Velma do you have any mana signatures of the Instructors?"
Velma thought for a few seconds then spoke, "I do have this," she handed him a storage ring.
"Is this a storage ring?" he asked curiously.
"yes, this was given to me, by Miss Christie."
"Okay, then I think this will do,"
he grabbed the ring and commanded the system to search for Miss Christie.
<< scanning successful, couldn't find the mana signature within Host's vicinity. >>
"watch out!"
Velma pushed him to the side, as the white beam shot at him.
"Is this the one from before?"
she asked as she got up from the ground.
<< Rank A Undead beast - cursed dragon >>
"This is a Rank A Undead beast be careful"
he said as he took out his sword and got into a battle stance.
"Velma you go from the right!"
because they could barely see it in the dark, they had a huge disadvantage.
but they could clearly see its glowing red eyes. and its body was huge.
Velma rushed from the side while muttering some chants.
Mark jumped to the left and started to take a roundabout to attack it.
"Plum fortress"
the ground shook slightly as huge vines came out of earth, and shoot out high from the ground.
them She stopped at the spit and cast some hand signals.
like before in the dorm, the Vines started to coil around the undead creature.
"Now!"
Mark leaped from the ground with his sword high above his head.
"emperor's 4th sword"
the white arc of light shot at it, and before it could even turn its head, *Boom*
the arc of light collided with it, cutting half of its ribs.
but their eyes widened as they noticed the cut recovered immediately.
"oh... don't give me this shit!"
they both took a few steps back.
the vines also withered immediately as if they were sucked off their life.
"Let's go once again we can aim for its head."
just as she finished a white beam of light shot from its mouth, directed at her.
"Haaah"
it will take her some time to cast a spell, so Mark jumped in and fringed his sword to defend her.
but this time around the attack didn't stop, one by one many beams shot at them continuously.
Mark lifted her and started to run around to avoid the attacks.
"looks like these undead creatures can absorb the life force out of the vines,"
Mark said as he forced himself to go even faster.
"then what should we do? we can't run, now that it has already caught up to us."
Mark pondered for a second then spoke, "I have a plan, listen carefully."
he explained his plan and then put her down by a huge cover.
"shadow shift!"
he immediately vanished from the spot and reappeared behind the undead dragon.
"Emperor's 4th sword!"
he pointed at its right leg and severed it apart from its body.
*groooooowwllll*
with a loud shriek, it dropped to the ground losing balance.
Velma sitting there, finished chanting some spells and raised her arm.
"Plum Fortress!"
this time a lot of Huge vines rushed out from the ground and coiled around one another.
the Undead dragon looked at the vines and Rushed at them, trying to suck the life force again.
"shadow shift!"
with that, Mark vanished from the ground and appeared 10 meters above its head, raising his sword.
"graaa"
but suddenly the dragon turned its head at him, with a glowing ball forming in an instant.
'oh, shit!'
he cried as he looked at the energy ball forming, which was aimed at him.
As he needed darkness to use shadow shit, the glowing ball made it impossible for him to use.
within a few milliseconds, his mind was in an uproar, then he suddenly realized something.
"Ice Chains!"
he shouted with his right hand pointing at the dragon.
a chill passed through him. and a Magic circle formed around his free hand.
suddenly a lot of ice chains came out of the ground and seized the dragon's mouth.
the chains wrapped around its mouth making it unable to complete the attack, and the already formed magic ball was trapped inside its mouth.
Mark grabbed the hilt of the sword with both hands and cleaved it inside the Dragon's head.
*Boom*
the energy ball detonated, exploding its head, and throwing Mark back.
"Mark!" Velma rushed at him.
He landed on the ground and was just fine.
"hehe... that was refreshing. I don't remember using my brain for a while now."
he got up and looked at Velma. she seized his top to toes and checked for any wounds carefully.
"Oh, God you scared me!" she said and hugged him.
"Okay Okay, first let me extract the Mana core."
then she rushed at the undead creature and clever his chest with a short blade and extracted its mana core.
"Here, take this, and Rank A Mana core is really valuable."
he took the mana core and started at it.
it was plain and round, the surface was glistening and glowing with a faint white glow.
"There you are!"
a voice came from a distance. they looked at the coming figure.
"Mr. Floyd!" they both shouted looking at him.
Floyd was flying very fast and appeared in front of them in a second.
"All of you I found these two, gather at the pool,"
he said in his communication bracelet and turned to the corpse of the undead dragon.
"Hmm... did you two kill the undead dragon?"
he looked around carefully and frowned.
"What? Velma you can use Ice element too?"
Mark and Velma looked at each other then she spoke, "Actually... it was Mark, who used Ice chains and defeated it."
Floyd had a weird expression as he looked at Mark,
"are you sure? you know that he could not awaken an element back in the classes."
"I am sure, he is the one who used it."
Floyd turned to him and looked at him with suspicion.
"Okay, we should head back, we will talk about this later."
he said as he waved his hand, and chanted a spell quickly, "incinerate"
the undead dragon's corpse. engulfed in orange flames and burned into ashes.
Mark stared at the scene with amusement. 'Maybe if I practice magic, I can do something like this too...' he thought to himself as his curiosity piqued.
"Follow me you two, and mark carry her with you, she can't fly yet so..."
Mark stretched his legs a bit and leaned a bit.
Velma didn't stand at the ceremony and hopped on his back.
he gripped her legs and started to run.
The Instructor was flying very fast yet he can just catch up with him by running.
Velma was really surprised.
after around 10 minutes of running, they arrived at the 7th-floor entrance pool.
And to their surprise, everyone was already there.
they all looked at the 7th-floor entrance pool with a deep look.
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