we arrived at the place the quest was assigned.... belizard's ruin. A place that is said it was used to seal away the evil god belizard, it looked like a castle but the entrance to the ruin was the top floor, so basically the place is buried underground, adventurer's who c ame here(S to SSS-rank advenrers at least) said that the ruin only had four floors, weird right?.
what's more weird is that the boss room never seems to open so the dungeon hasn't been cleared yet.
'if it didn't open for them then why would it open for us.' I taught as I stood in front of door.
"something about this place creeps me out,I don't know why but after seeing it with my eyes,I kinda feel like this might actually be a bad idea."
the one who said that was Emilia,my companion in this quest.
"weren't you all enthusiastic about it when we were at the breifing?." I retored as she started getting sulky.
"come on cheer up, don't worry, you know I would always have your back,right?,just like you always had mine!." I smiled ad said those words.for some reason, after hearing the words, Emilia started blushing for no reason.
'wow, that's a lot of adventurers, even high rankers from other places are here too.'
as I was once again lost in thought when Emilia came to me and said.
"Hey, what's wrong, come on let's go.the others are already moving in.don't wanna let them get an head start on us."
"yeah, let's do this.
......
*a few minutes later*
"whew, that's another one down."
we are now on the 3rd floor and we are facing an A-rank magic beast called shadow wolves.they hacve jet black fur and black eyes and large range on their mouths. this is the tenth one we've killed so far,with emilia killing 6 and I killed 4.
of course, it was emilia who really damage while I apply the finishing blow.on the first floor, we faces off against shadow goblins and on the second floor was shadow spiders. they both have jet black skin and the shadow goblins were a little stronger than green goblins while the spiders were tough to deal with since we have to shoot them down, avoid their strikes and also their webs, they are super sticky and hard.
We arrived at the fourth floor where they say the boss room is located and then after was for 2 or 3 minutes.
'where are all the monsters?.'
we haven't spotted a single monster since we came here.
"hey, Arnold, don't you think something's off about this floor?." the one who asked that was Emilia.
"yeah, we haven't encountered any monsters which would allow us rest a little, but I'm starting to have a bad feeling about this place."
not so long after finishing my reply to Emilia's word,we came across a door,it was a least 9 meters high and was decorated like a old republican style door.
"it won't even bugde." one of the adventurers tryed to open the door but to no avail.we search the area for a key or button to open the door,then I found a painting on the left wall. it said 'those who are not worthy shall not pass for if they pass,they shall all die a cruel and painful death.'
I decided to tilt the painting back to it's original position and then....
*click* *rumble*(sfx for the door opening)
and the it made a clicking sound and the door started opening."hey, it's opening!." some adventurers were amazed by the sight while some were nervous.i felt the sleeve of my shirt being pulled.i looked back and saw Emilia.
"i-i-i'm just a bit n-nervous,th-that's all."
I tried to maintain a cool and calm appearance but on the inside...
'why do you have to be so cute in a situation like this.' I walked towards the door while suppressing myself from bleeding from cuteness overload.the room was a western style meeting hall used to strategize during war time .
when we entered, the scene in front of us was overwhelming."GOLD, LOT'S OF GOLD, HAHAHAHA."an adventurer went running towards the gold and then something unbelievable happened l,leaving us wide eyed.'the adventurer who went towards the Gold was at least A-rank, then...'the head of the adventurer was not on his body again as it slumped to the ground with a thud.
"hiiiiii" Emilia squealed as she hid herself behind me.then the perpetrator of the incident came out,it was a humanoid figure,it had purplish black skin, purple eyes and it's fingers were long and sharp,on it's hand was the adventurer's head.it looked at all of us as we stood stock still out of fear.
*Roooooooaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr*. once our eyes met, it screamed and then jumped.'shit' I grabbed Emilia and jumped away as the monster pierced the ground where I was standing.
I stood up as it looked at me.'so it's after me' I started running as I jumped after me, I rolled away as I felt a sharp thing pierce the ground a few centimeter away from my leg. the other adventurers started attacking, I ran towards Emilia.
"hey, Emilia,are you okay?." I asked, her face was ghastly pale because of the near death experience she just had."y-y-yeah."she answered but her body was still shaking.
'she hasn't recovered from the shock.' Ii looked towards the monster,it had managed to kill 3 of them."you guys, stay here." I told the people in the corner with Emilia as I ran towards the monster.
"wait, Arnold don't go." Emilia said but to reduce the risk of it coming for them. I was almost there but had to stop as an absurd scene took place.
'the monster regenerated!.' the monster which had wounds all over it body and lost one of it's hand had regenerated the hand and healed it's wounds.
it then started killing the tired and bewildered adventurers,it only took seconds for it to finish the adventurers.'shit,this is bad.' as I was thinking, a giant fireball flew over me and hit the monster.i looked back and saw Emilia as she nodded at me.*rrroooooooaaaaaarrrr* the monster jumped out of the fire and was going straight for Emilia.
"NOOOOOOOOOO."
I ran as fast as I could and jumped in the way of the fingers that were coming down on Emilia.
"ACKK...."I vomitted blood as I pierced me in the stomach.
"NOOOO,ARNOLD!"Emilia screamed when she opened her eyes. I looked at the direction of the door and saw that it was still opened.
"y-you" I called one of the adventurers that was there with Emilia."take Emilia.... and get.... out..of.....here,now!." I told him and weakly pointed at the door.
NOO,I'M NOT GOING TO LEAVE YOU HERE,NO LET ME GO,ARNOLD.... ARNOLDDDDDDD." she screamed as they took he away, unsurprisingly the monster was only focused on me.'so you were after me all along'.
"ack... urgh..."I spit out the blood in my mouth as the door closed with a loud bang.i held my sword as I stood up and faced the monster.
"well, it's me against you, one on one."