"I think I'm going to lose my mind!" Evelyn yelled with excitement. They were both staring at the system message of the first monster they encountered in the dungeon. A three-foot tall, long-legged spider approached and once she blasted it with a simple fireball.
[Arachada defeated: +10 exp/+5 class exp]
Evelyn's eyes were glowing with excitement and snapped back to reality when Darla cut in, "What's class exp?"
Evelyn shot a look to Darla and said, "Right. You can do whatever you want. How do I put this," she put a hand to her chin insinuating she's thinking and said, "You could saw that as a Siren, it's bloody crutch the system has for me." She lifted her hand up and pointed to her gauntlet and said, "This was an accident. I accidentally chose the brawler class for my starter weapon and now I'm stuck with these until I reach certain level and then I can change to another class and use other weapons."
"But you're a total badass with them still," Darla complimented her.
With a side eye glance at Darla and then looking away with a slight blush, Evelyn said, "Well, thank you." She composed herself and then said, "But I think depending on the monsters in here, we'll by able to level up a bit. I've been waiting for something other than special missions for leveling up. If we're lucky, I can level up to level 15 by the time we're done!"
"Is there something special about level 15?" Darla asked as she prepared herself as a horde of spider appeared from around a corner down the cave.
"For me, yes. For you? I don't think so. But trust me, you'll love what comes," Evelyn said as she sent out a huge fire blast incinerating a lot of spiders.
[12 Arachada defeated: +120 exp/+60 class exp]
[Current Exp: 130/500]
[Current Class Exp: 65/175]
Darla launched an extended swipe of her sword whip slicing up the rest of the spiders that were in their current area.
[30 Arachada defeated: +300 exp]
[Congratulations! You reached level 9!]
[Current Exp: 0/350]
"Are you kidding me? Fuck you," Evelyn laughed with a hint of jealously.
Darla giggled and said, "I confide and agree with your earlier excitement. Maybe you want to make this a bet."
"I'm not going to start gambling with you when I'm still figuring stuff out myself," Evelyn said. "I'll do it only if the system tells me to."
They began to make their way down the cavern and Darla looked over the edge of a drop nearby where the spiders were and asked, "How far down to you imagine this thing goes? I know it's dark, but I don't sense a bottom." She picks up a rock and drops it and listens for a sound of it making ground.
"Well it has to have a ground eventually, right?" Evelyn says.
"Watch you footing," Darla says. "I didn't hear anything and if I did it's still too deep to be sure where the ground is. If there is."
"HSSSSSSSSS!!!!"
"The fuck was that?" Darla said as she and Evelyn turned to the darker part of the cavern from where they were.
Evelyn summoned a fireball and shot it to the darkness and saw giant dark blue lizards with white bellies. Evelyn's fireball too out one of the lizards and a message appeared.
[Salambomb defeated: +15 exp/+5 class exp]
[Current Exp: 145/500]
[Current Class Exp: 70/175]
"They're big so I think that might be the only challenge," Evelyn said until they heard an explosion in the lizard's direction and then another message appeared.
[Salambomb explode several seconds after death]
"WHY WOULD IT LEAVE THAT INFORMATION OUT FROM THE GET-GO?! WE COULD HAVE MOVED ON AND DIED!" Evelyn exclaimed.
"But did we?" Darla smiled.
"Well, no. But still-"
"To be honest it did show up like it was an afterthought. Like it's making up things as we go," Darla cut her off. "Anyway, these things look the size of lifeboats, and I really can't tell how many there are."
"I wonder about that too. That aside, I can take them all," Evelyn snickered.
Smiling, Darla said, "You really think so?"
"Well, no. I actually have no idea. I'm just jealous of your damn leveling up a second ago."
"Is leveling up so special?" Darla asked.
"Just a special feature at level 15 is," Evelyn answered.
"Then by all means, go ahead. I'll back you up," Darla said.
Evelyn smiled and then summoned two fireballs and then with her gauntlets, punch them sending fireballs firing at the lizards as they progressed forward to Evelyn and Darla. Evelyn could only take out so many before they advanced on them and then Darla had to step in with her sword whip. Darla took the most utmost cation that when a lizard died and was nearby them, she made sure to use her sword whip to launch them far away from them before they exploded in their face.
[Salambomb defeated]
[Salambomb defeated]
[Salambomb defeated]
[Salambomb defeated]
[Congratulations: You are loud]
I feel like I'm being mocked," Evelyn said as she and Darla stopped fighting the lizards as they stopped progressing on them.
[Salambomb defeated: +375 exp/+ 30 class exp]
[Current Exp: 520/500]
[Current Class Exp: 100/175]
[Congratulations! You are now level 12]
[Current Exp: 20/600]
"Finally!" Evelyn gasped.
"Congratulations but shouldn't we be concerned?" Darla said. "They're no longer charging at us."
Evelyn looked at the lizards and said, "Yeah, that's weird. Shouldn't that make taking them out easier though?"
"I mean I guess you could be ri-"
Darla stopped her words in their tracks and Evelyn's jaw dropped. The lizards separated and through the path they created, a larger lizard came through.
[Dungeon Boss No. 1 Appeared]
[Gargantuanbomb]
[Larger explosion than Salambombs upon death]
"Seriously? There are multiple dungeon bosses?" Evelyn moaned.
"We were beast hunting pirates. Is this really a drag for you?" Darla said as she got into a stance for Gargantuanbomb to charge.
"Yo-La-Lu was the only monster I was a part of for a hunt," Evelyn moaned again.
"Yo- what now?" Darla asked.
Evelyn readied herself and said, "The sea serpent back at Waterworld. Its name was Yo-La-Lu. Huge health bar and lots of perks." Gargantuanbomb's health bar showed up and Evelyn smiled, "I take back my complaints. This guy will be like easy mode compared to that sea beast."
"Wait, sea beasts have names?" Darla said losing focus of what was hurling at them at incredible speed.
"WATCH OUT!" Evelyn yelled out as Darla regained focus on the Gargantuanbomb suddenly in front of her and jumping out of the way of it biting and ripping her head off. In its attempt, it's large teeth latched onto a nearby boulder.
"I don't remember the other ones having teeth that large or sharp!" Darla said in an annoyed tone.
"I don't remember any of them getting close enough to find out," Evelyn added.
They Gargantuanbomb reacted fast and hurled itself in the girl's direction using the momentum of the boulder and slammed its tailed into Eveyln knocking her back near the edge of the bottomless pit from earlier.
"Ow," Evelyn said in a whisper.
"Are you okay?" Darla called out to her.
Evelyn looked up and saw Darla resisting the teeth of the monster with blades of her sword whip. And then smiled, "I'm fine! But look at its tail! It's gone!"
"I'm a little busy to be looking anywhere else than where I'm trying not to turn into lizard food!" Darla yelled.
Evelyn looked at the HP gauge of the monster and noticed it was at half and said, "When I count to three, push back and get behind me." She summoned a large fire ball and said, "3!"
"WHAT!" Darla yelled as she pushed back and ducked behind Evelyn.
Evelyn pushed the fireball at the monster as it hurled to them with and open mouth and was engulfed by the fireball and looked like charcoal cooked lizard after it passed through and saw the HP hit zero.
[Congratulations! Dungeon Boss No. 1 Defeated]
"Well, that's over," Evelyn smiled.
Darla stood up and said, "Wait, doesn't it-"
The Gargantuanbomb exploded and knocked Evelyn and Darla down the bottomless pit.