[Third Person POV]
Ryujin and Aqua fell twenty meters down. All of them kept walking and finally they could see some mana stones on the walls of the dungeon. The mana stone let out dim blue light which meant that it would be easy to spot the ghosts but it also meant that they would be a lot more stronger.
Before they went seperate ways Ryujin gave them six mana potions and five health potions. He also provided them with lots of army rations he had bought just in case.
"Huuu!"
Strange noises were coming from every direction. Aqua stuck closer to Ryujin . Ryujin could sense five ghosts coming at their direction and ten more above them. This time Ryujin did not need to signal his party about the ghosts. Akio's vision was phenomenal and he could see some traces of the ghosts. They got ready for the battle and assumed the same formation as they did before.
"Aqua get ready. There are five coming at us."
Aqua loaded his bow with an arrow but his hands were trembling.
The five ghosts casually walked toward them without hiding themselves in the darkness. The ghosts were quite different this time. Their whole body was covered in blood and they were naked as well, their hands looks liked knives and their face was covered by a knight's helmet. The system had already appraised them and they were D rank and would give nausea and dizziness to anybody who touched them.
Aqua fired a arrow towards one of their head but missed and hit them on their body. However the arrow passed straight through it.
"Huh! but I imbued my arrow with mana."
Aqua said and ghosts charged towards them.
"Enchanting magic: Light."
" Enchanting magic : Strength."
Ryujin recited two enchanting spells. One of them would give them some amount of light attribute for a short amount of time and the other would simply increase their strength.
One of the ghosts came from the front, the other two rushed from the left and right while the others levitated and attack from the above. A ghost tried cutting Ryujin but its whole arm got erased, and the one on the left and right tried to do the same but all og them faced the same outcome.
But instead of screaming in pain all of them backed up and their arm did not heal back.
' So their weakness is the head.'
Aqua said to himself . The arrow he shot passed through the ghost's body and healed back but when Ryujin attack cut him, it did scream like the first ghosts. That meant that the body was just an illusion. Aqua was quick to calculate all of this stuff.
As he was thinking a ghost passed from the right of Ryujij. Aqua loaded his bow again but did not shoot. Once the ghost was only few meters away form him, he let go of the bow string and the arrow skewered its head and the ghost turned into dust.
"Their weakness is the head, Ryujin."
Aqua said to Ryujin but he already knew cause of its sixth sense. He even let the ghost go past him but he was surprised how fast Aqua had found about it. Ryujin then ran towards the three ghosts ahead of him.
He casted a wind magic upon him and increased his speed. He swung his knife at on of its head. The ghost leaned back but its head got stuck. Ryujin had already fired another wind spell and was pushing it s head from behind.
"Slash!'
The head was cut in two half and a mana stone dropped from it. It was a big compared to the one dropped by the E rank ghosts. The ghosts on his right again tried to scratch him but their hand was erased.
"You guys do not learn do you."
Two fire spells above his head.
"Fire magic: Combustion."
The magic then spread around their head and completely burned it.
There was now one ghost left and Aqua was taking care of it. He had trapped its head in a water cage and was slowly crushing it but the ghosts hand almost reached him.
"Hey Ryujin a bit of help here."
Aqua requested but Ryujin did not move an inch.
"Focus on rotating the water and use its centrifugal force to crush it."
Aqua did what Ryujin told him to and crushed its head. He then sat down for a moment to catch his breath. Ryujin sensed that his friends above the ground had already dealt with the ghosts.
He then called Adam via his smartwatch and Adam picked it.
"Lets rest for 30 minutes."
"Ok."
Adam then cut off the call.
Ryujin walked towards Aqua and put his hand on Aqua's back. He felt Ryujin transfer mana to his body.
"Ryujin, I have a mana potion, plus you need mana as well."
Aqua said cause he was worried but Ryujin did not stop. He could use Kairos and regain back his mana anytime and was immortal as well. Ryujin then sat beside Aqua and started talking with him. Even though this was not the right place to chat, Aqua was delighted. When he talked with Ryujin, there was no awkward pauses not the conversation just flowed naturally.
Aqua was curious about Ryujin. He wanted to ask him many thing but he was scared ig he would ask sensitive question so he asked something simple.
"Ryujin has your Divine Ability been useless at time?"
"Hmm..No! I can erase anything. It is the perfect offence and defence for me.
Ryujin though about it. Kairos could control time and in tough times it was Ryujin's best companion. He could turn back time and gain back his mana, heal injuries and erase anything.If he ever felt hungry, he could even turn back the clock to when his stomach was full.
He could even fast forward the time and make anything age faster. It was a cheat ability and whoever knew about it never tired to mess with Ryujin but to the world it was just a Divine Ability that could erase anything
After thirty minutes they started going back on their journey and fought for almost 2 hours straight. The enemies were still the same but their numbers drastically increased. They did manage to defeat all of the ghost but the ghost managed to scratch Aqua, Adam and Lucius. Their injury healed in a instant but the side effects were took a toll on them.
Ryujin handled the next venery of ghosts underground and Adam and Cary took charge in the top. They again had to take a one hour rest and decide to eat the army rations. While Ryujin was eating the army rations he asked the system how far the boss was and they were close to it. Five minute walk and they would be there.
After their second break, all of them started to walk and reached the boss room. Adam and his group above could see gigantic glass door but they could not see what was at the rear of the door. While below the ground was just a small door. Ryujin opened the door without any hesitation and saw nothing but could sense something ominous inside the room. He used his Nagis eye and a dense amount of mana at the corner of the room.
Before he engaged in the fight he made sure to check the boss above the ground was something they could handle. There was another boss above as well and it was as strong as the one here but they could defeat it.
"Good luck."
Adam said form the watch and Ryujin said the same. He then looked at Aqua. Aqua nodded his head and they both entered the room.At the same time they could hear a door creak which mean that the others had entered as well.
The boss in front of Adam and the others was a head. It's face was covered by the same helmet the ghosts wore but it was golden. They could see only its eyes and they all of it was white. The head then looked at he four and started to shake.
"It has been a so long that was trapped inside here. I almost forgot the taste of human blood but now you have come to me. I will make sure to give you an easy death."
The head spoke in a loud and spooky voice. Since its head was covered, the helmet muffled its voice and made it sound more intimidating. All of them got shivers. The voice was so loud that even Ryujin and Aqua could hear it.
The boss on the ground was a big. It had two swords in its hand and each was almost 6 meters long. It was wearing a gray coloured bloomers. It did not have anything on its upper body and it clearly showed every tone muscles in its body but there were lost of scratches on its body and lot of blood was dripping from its neck.
'System show me its stats.'
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Name: Hyde The Headless Knight
Rank: C
Strength: B-
Agility: C
Mana Core: C
Mana
Link (B)
Ghost (C)
Blood thread (C)
Blink (C)
Description: Once a faithful knight who swore to protect now a monster who likes to drown itself in human blood.
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The monster was really powerful and had many ability as well. The body on the knight struck its sword again and again on the ground. It was taunting Ryujin and Aqua. Aqua loaded his bow with his arrow and Ryujin took a stance to launch himself at the boss.
' You are going to regret for taunting me.'
Ryujin said to himself and rushed towards the boss.