BAMM!
The door in her room slammed open. But still, that's not enough to wake Megumi up. Vincent, who slammed the door looks annoyed, to see Megumi still in her dream spaces. "It's already 10 o'clock and you still haven't woken up yet?" His forehead twitched in annoyance. He walks and forcibly removing the blanket Megumi was wearing.
"Lemme sleep 5 more minutes, Daddy. I help the sisters until past midnight. I'm still sleepy…" Megumi mumbling in her sleep, trying to take the blanket again.
"Dad—what?" his face turn dark, with forehead twitched more. "That can't do!! Wake up!!" With brute force, he throw the blanket away, then open the window curtains. A sudden light shower her face, Megumi can't help but squinting her eyes.
"Which mouth who said—I will do my best tomorrow, hn?" Vincent said while pinching Megumi's cheek. "Clearing a dungeon can't be done by just a few hours. Especially Nightfall Labyrinth. This dungeon have 10 levels, and today you must at least clear level 1, no excuse." He continued.
"Okay, okay, I understand" Megumi replied with difficult since her cheek is still pinched widely. Vincent finally let go his hand, and Megumi stroked her sore cheek, pouting. "I'm used to speedrun event in game. Don't worry." she continued, mumbling for herself.
Ah, for your information, yesterday when she has free time after ruining her first day to do dungeon, she use the time to make up with sisters and priest in this church. She is talented in this, especially if you know the target's heart (In this case, the npc's programmed for). She even got a few that actually a side quest when she interacting with them. In no time, she actually gain their trust and they even let Megumi to stay in the church. That's a great help. Nothing is better than being a freeloader with free room and free food.
After taking her brunch (breakfast-lunch), Megumi finally entering the dungeon again. The fear is still the same as yesterday, but today, she can overcome it without going out crying. With a great difficulty, Megumi finish the level 1 as Vincent asked. And surprisingly, she got a lot of experience points just by clearing level 1. Her level max heal give a massive damage, on a par with a mage's magic attack. And to get the experience points all for herself, that's really lucky of her.
At first, she needs hours and hours to clear the level 1 dungeon. But as she levels up, the time needed to clear it decreases more and more. She even has a spare time to help Sisters with their job. Now, her daily routine is: wake up, take a bath, breakfast, helping Sisters or Priest, entering dungeon, take a bath, then sleep. Again, and again, and again.
After she think the experience points in level 1 isn't enough anymore, she going up to level 2. Everyday she will finish that 2 level dungeon. Again and again. She doesn't care about outside world, and just clearing up dungeon again and again. If it not enough again, she will climbed up to level 3. And so on.
5 years has passed. Finally, experience points from level 9 isn't enough for her anymore. She is ready to enter level 10, or the highest level. A dungeon master, equals to region boss is waiting ahead. When Megumi opens the door in front of her, a dark shadow burst out, almost drown Megumi in it. This is really different with other's level.
It just a pinch black inside, but as Megumi stepping into the chamber, fire suddenly lit around the wall. A hush fell over the cavernous chamber as the towering figure of Orcus, the Dread Lord of the Underworld, stepped forth from the shadows. His eyes, burning like smoldering coals, surveyed Megumi with a cold and calculating gaze.
"Behold, mortal," he boomed, his voice resonating with the chill of the grave. "I am Orcus, master of death and ruler of the damned. In my realm, the souls of the departed writhe in eternal torment, and the legions of the undead obey my every command."
With a wicked grin, he continued, "Those who dare to defy me shall know the true meaning of fear, for I am the harbinger of their doom and the architect of their demise. Bow before me, and know despair."
A typical last boss's words. If Megumi met this Orcus in her day 1, she will passed out for sure. But now, she already used for scary thing. She don't feel any urge to run away. "I have come to kill you!" Megumi said defiantly.
The angry shout of the demon lord echoed throughout the chamber. He then slammed the floor into pieces. Luckily, Megumi dodged it. It will be instant death for sure if she failed to dodge.
"Arcane Benediction" Megumi use her support skill to buff herself. This is an advanced support skill, which is blessing, accelerate, vigilance, insight, dexterous, and empowerment all combined became 1 skills. She can feel the power throughout her body. With this, she can dodge Orcus attack better.
"Angelus!" again, she cast a skill to Orcus. An advanced skill Megumi have, that summon a celestial being to heal the target continuously and grand divine protection. But for an undead monster, that's mean continuous damage. Orcus screamed in pain, and attack more aggressively. Too bad for him, full buff Megumi can handle it very well.
Orcus starts to panic, realizing his HP is decreasing to half in no time while he failed to land even a single hit on Megumi. He finally using his skill. "Necromancy!"
Orcus is often associated with undead creatures and necromancy in Celestia. Orcus is commonly depicted as a powerful demon lord who rules over the undead and commands legions of zombies, skeletons, and other undead minions. This skill has already proven itself. He summons legions of zombies, skeleton and other undead minions, that resided in this dungeon. Really lives up to its name.
Fortunately this chamber is very wide with no obstacles, really different with the others level which is a labyrinth like its name. Even though that means Orcus can summons as much as almost half of the chamber with undead monster, Megumi can easily use her AOE (Area of Effect) skills to its maximum efficiency.
"Aurora Aegis" she casted. The floor in the chamber shimmering with a soft green light and bathes them all in healing energy. In all of her skills, this skill consumes most of her mana so Megumi rarely use it, especially in labyrinth like dungeon like this. It's a waste to see the healing floor obstructed by obstacles.
Each of the undead soldier Orcus just summoned get a great deal of damage and turn back to nothingness. Orcus take the same damage too, of course. The damage decreases Orcus's HP further until the point where Megumi needs to give him the final blow.
"Sacred Exorcism!" She casted. 4 celestial appear, surrounding Orcus. Each of them shoot him with a giant cross. This is one of advanced skill Megumi have. But it has its weakness. This skill only affect the dark attributes monster and if the target has more than 50% HP, it only have 50% chance to instantly defeat the monster. However, if the target's HP falls below a certain percentage (which depends on the skill level), the success rate can increases up to 100%.
Orcus screamed defeated, disappeared like ashes blown away by the wind. "You may have won this battle, mortal, but mark my words: the darkness shall rise again, and when it does, none shall be spared my wrath! Your victory is but a fleeting illusion in the face of eternal darkness!" he said before finally disappeared completely.
For the first time, Megumi finally cleared this dungeon. The experience points she got from defeating a region boss monster, Orcus, by herself is so much, she even went up a few levels at once. She laughs full of joy, quickly come out from the dungeon. She can't wait to brag about it to Vincent and get him to praise her for her good job.