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Chapter 21 - The Old Grand Canyon Of Metal

Ace heads back and looks at Melanie thinking that he can now travel to a Legendary Dungeon.

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A Legendary Dungeon is a dungeon deemed worthy by one of the 10 dragons or higher in the teir list and has been selected by the government to grant unique rewards to people who can achieve particular goals inside the dungeon.

For an adventurer these dungeons are a high risk high reward situation as it tests all of their abilities and skills.

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Ace puts Winfred away in the contract crystal.

Ace and Avery jump on Melanie and head off east about 6 hours. Heading towards the once breathtaking Grand Canyon but these days is falling apart and is classified as an abandoned mine in which most of the "big" towns used to gather metal before a dungeon took over.

The dungeon was a metal element based dungeon that is all about navigating a maze made out of cave systems, less monsters and more traps and puzzles to confuse and kill invaders.

This dungeon has been deemed worthy by the Metal Dragon.

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After the hours of fast flight exausting Melanie. They land at the entrance of the dungeon where a few guards wait for them each of them exerting a heavy and dense aura.

They land and put Melanie away.

"Welcome to the hard metal dungeon, please show us your ID cards and we will give you the magical mission book for this dungeon"

They both show their ID cards and both receive a Misson book that updates as they complete a mission.

They enter and find themselves in a dimly lit cave with gems and metal ore glowing faintly. The metal elements so dense it feels like being in a storm with many iron filings. This area being known as the metal maze.

As slowly they take a small amount of damage over time, small scratches and cuts appearing over there bodies.

Ace summons his shield and the metal element in the area slow down and become less vicious still leaving some small cuts on them but not as often or as deep/big. Probably close to 1 HP per minute now.

Ace quickly uses Heal Pulse on both himself and Avery to quickly heal the wounds. They walk forward and a hundred metal arrows shoot down the narrow corridor leaving them with no cover. Avery ducks behind Ace as Ace uses his shield, taking an arrow to the left foot and and the right upper leg in the end. "Geez at least heal pulse is still active" Ace rips out the arrows as a splatter of blood comes out and the wounds dribble little bits of blood.

They continue foward nothing happening for a good hour till a yellowy green colour has fills the room. A mist then forms a giant snake that goes to bite the two but phases through Avery because of his blessings but leaves Ace in Agony and pain as he feels like he is on fire from the inside out.

Avery quickly uses his blessing Crystal Clarity to make the illusion of pain and agony fade away till Ace can't even remember it. The gas disappeares and the narrow path gets narrower as it goes on.

They reach a dead end but to the side is a rubix cube. Ace touches it.

"Ding… Puzzle engaged, letting go of this item will cause instant loss of life, solve the puzzle to move foward each mistake you make you loose 5HP"

Ace sighs and goes to solve the puzzle moving it one way loosing 5 HP moving it another loosing 5 HP. After 8 hours Ace figures it out after loosing 170HP.

A passageway opens up to continue the maze.

Ace ignores the passageway and quickly uses Heal Pulse and Avery uses Totem to boost Heal Pulse.

After a bit of walking a huge axe lands in front of Avery behind Ace, scaring Avery and nearly chopping his nose off.

Ace clams Avery down and they keep going foward as various other traps and puzzles attempt to kill them. Arrows, swinging axes, lava pools, illusion gas, moving walls, false doors and puzzles designed to push your intellect and knowledge.

After being in the dungeon for 4 days they make it to the end where a giant metal golem stands.

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Guardian Metal Golem

Blessings:

Pure metal

Power level 8

Class: element (metal)

Reflects all basic element blessing that are under power level 8.

No pain

Power level 16

Class: support

The user feels no pain and can keep fighting at full strength till it dies.

Mirror weapon

Power level 13

Class: element (metal)

The user can summon a massive Axe or Hammer to fight with.

Metal coat

Power level 10

Class: Enhancment and Element (metal)

Enhances the users defence by 2.5 times (rounded to the nearest 25)

Stats:

Level: 31

HP 200

Defence 275 (+700)

Strength 400

Soul 25

speed 50

Stamina 250

Combat power 109

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The golem takes into action.

"Stand back and be ready!" Ace yells out to Avery.

Avery takes many steps back and prepares the few healing items he has.

Ace draws his sword and summons his shield. Activates his Stat boost and Sonic Speed.

He runs at the golem as it summons its own giant Hammer. Ace shoots a few poison bullets at the golem but they just bounce off. The golem swings at Ace slamming into the shield with a huge Bang, Ace gets pushed back a few meters but otherwise nothing happens.

Ace uses his sword against the golem's leg but it bounces off and reverberates around and leaves no marks on the golem.

The golem slams his hammer into Ace's shield again, pushing ace into the ground cracking the metal floor underneath them.

"We can't beat this warp us out!" Ace yells at Avery.

Ace continues to defend against the many hammer strikes being rained down upon him.

Avery fumbles to grab a Warpstone, anxious and scared he accidentally drops it, moving foward to grab it. The golem now sees Avery and flings a hammer strike towards Avery.

Ace using his sonic speed, blocks the strike for Avery. "Get the warp stone and let's go" Ace says while blocking many hammer strikes.

A blue light covers the two of them and they find themselves collapsed out the front of the dungeon.