They jumped out of the bush they were hiding in and ran right at us. Wolves about ten wolves were running towards us. Preparing my magic, making as many plasma bullets, I launched them as fast as they could go.
I then launched my magic, and the bullet killed four of them, leaving the rest injured. Some of them could not move due to the injuries I had dealt to their legs.
"AWOOOO!" The wolves howled, crying about something. Serena saw this chance and launched a wave of flames finishing the rest of the wolves.
After finishing them, more wolves appeared. Did the wolves early call for the rest of the pack? If so, we gotta kill them fast just in case there's more of them.
Their speed was fast. Olivia using her food made something smelly. They stopped moving due to the horrible stench Olivia caused, affecting the monster and us. Covering myself in magic, I eliminated the smell coming toward me.
The monsters that cried in pain were rolling on the ground in pain. Finishing them off with my magic, the monsters that had attacked earlier have all died. This floor was much more dangerous than the first. The numbers here were almost quadrupled, making it take a while to clear them all.
"OLIVIA, CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS SMELL?" I screamed. The smell was so bad that I had almost hurled earlier if it wasn't because my magic took most of the stench off.
Serena was also angry from the unexpected surprise, making a barrier on her body, blocking her sense of smell. She was fine for the most part.
"Got it!" The food she made disappeared, and the smell lingered, but it wasn't as bad as before.
"What did you make to make the food smell that bad?" I wanted to know what the smell that assaulted me was.
"It was stinky tofu." That's why the food smelled like moldy socks. I was lucky that my magic could shave some of the smell off. Otherwise, my nose would've gone wrong.
"Olivia, please warn us about it next time you do something like that." I grabbed her cheeks and pulled them angrily. She made me smell something terrible without giving me any warning. The smell was revolting. I don't know what would happen to me if I kept smelling it.
"I'm sowry." She tried to apologize, unable to say it correctly due to me pinching her.
Serena, who was still covered in a barrier, didn't want to release it. She wanted to ensure the smell was gone before she did that.
"I just want to help!" I couldn't stay angry at her for helping to let go. I sighed. Checking the drops of the dead wolves, I went to their bodies. Having to see about twenty mana cores and some fur skin coming from them, we put them up in Serena's pouch.
It was good that I had sensed something wrong earlier. It would've been bad if we were any later in defending. Olivia could have been hurt if that had happened.
"We should continue on forward. There could also be more of these wolves nearby if we took a rest." Standing here doing nothing could be detrimental. We needed to finish the boss as soon as possible.
"Charlie's right. We should continue going." Serena said that she let go of the barrier, protecting her from the bad smell from earlier.
Hearing both of our opinions, Olivia joined in and agreed. So with no one disagreeing with the idea, we moved to the river and continued.
Coming across, we have encountered a different kind of monster from a wolf. It was an odd-looking monster. I never thought a fish-looking monster would appear so humanoid. Is this what they call a Murloc? It was a disturbing sight, to say the very least.
It had a yellow body mixed with orange; the eyes were unnecessarily large. The teeth looked kind of freaky. It had legs like a human, with three toes each making them pointy themselves, which wasn't pleasant to see. With its gills moving creepy, it looked disgusting. Holding a trident with its arms, it ran straight towards us.
I could also see Serena disgusted by its appearance. Olivia looked away from it, scared of its appearance. I launched an attack using my magic to explode it, leaving with nothing left of the monster. I didn't like looking at it, so I instantly killed it.
"Thank God you did that; otherwise, I would've done it myself." Looks like Serena also wanted to finish that abomination.
"I don't think it was that bad." She said, trying to be nice to the Murloc.
"You don't need to feel bad for a monster," I told her she didn't have to care about her opponent.
Getting the mana core, we continue our exploration. The trip wasn't that hard compared to the wolves that had attacked us earlier. Was that just a rare event for a second floor?
Crossing against mammal-type monsters wasn't that hard to defeat. Judging by these monsters, the boss was probably a mammal also.
After twenty minutes more of walking, we found a lake. On the other side of the lake, the place was blocked off. Was it the border of this dungeon?
"I think we went in the wrong direction." Olivia was concerned that we had to walk back. Both me and Serena were annoyed by this fact.
"How unlucky." I looked up at the sky, blaming my horrible luck.
Lamenting our luck, something in the water began to shake. Feeling the mana of the monster, I felt something was wrong.
"It's a secret, boss!" Serena yelled in surprise. A secret boss? I remember reading a book about a dungeon containing secret bosses' knowledge.
Secret bosses are much stronger than regular bosses, but the chances of finding them are challenging. Not every floor has a secret boss. When defeating a secret boss, we would be able to skip floors, and not to mention the artifacts dropped from them are valuable.
I smirked at this find. It was almost a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight it. Seeing it beginning to appear, we get ready to fight.