It's been two hours since Yuichi and his classmates entered the dungeon.
Yuichi was slashing and slicing some dungeon spiders along the way as he finds them more often now while descending into the depth of the dungeon.
He counted his kills 7 dungeon spiders and he almost leveled up to 4, just a couple more spiders and he's good to go.
[EXP Progression [84/100]
He's not the only one who is gaining experience as Mitsuki and the others were also gaining EXP when encountering a bunch of different types of small monsters like Dungeon Bats, Dungeon Spider, and the infamous Slime.
Dungeon Bats and Dungeon Spider have the same value of 12 EXP while Slime were already mentioned as may vary because of their diversity, but they only encountered Blue Slime which means they only gain 5 EXP of each Slime they kill.
With Mitsuki already killing 5 Dungeon Spiders, 4 Dungeon Bats, and 9 Blue Slime, she gained 153 EXP and she levelled up to 2 with extra 53 EXP.
[Mitsuki Hoshizaki♀]
[Level up!+]
"Phew... Leveling up and gaining experience is such a hassle, don't you think, Yuichi-kun?" Mitsuki said nonchalantly while wiping her forehead.
"All you did was summon ice bolt magic and instantly killed them at one point. Your magic is also considered as Novice, which is a total gap compared to mine. I'm sure you're not having a hard time farming EXP." Yuichi replied, looking at her with his witted eyes.
"I didn't ask for this so I don't really know what else to do if I'm just gonna one shot everything." Mitsuki whined while crossing her arms, getting her breast a ride.
"Not everything you can just one shot, Mitsuki-san. We're not even encountering something more fierce than these small monsters we're slaying." Yuichi logically said.
"So you're saying that I'm definitely weak if I don't have such power, is that right?" Mitsuki pouted.
"What? No, I didn't say anything like that! I'm just saying that it would be a little challenging if we encountered something stronger than these monsters." Yuichi quickly replied.
"Hmph, you're a liar." Mitsuki once again pouted, unintentionally moving her breast up and down while looking away.
Seeing the unintentional lust, Yuichi glanced away from her with his half-witted eyes and was a bit flustered.
While the group was walking into the depth of the dungeon, they noticed that the walls were more glowing than before as far as they explored the dungeon further. Cyan moss that was seemingly just a mere line on the walls are now beginning to form into a large lush of moss.
They have now reached floor 5th in the dungeon. As soon as they arrived at floor 5th, they noticed something peculiar on the ground. There were lots of bone parts of human remains such as skeletons, skulls, spinal cords, and so on.
They also noticed that these bones were from fallen adventurers as torn clothes and weapons sat down on every side of the floor. It seems that someone had explored this before them, and their fate didn't meet with luck.
The students were apprehensive about the scene, chilling bones and skulls looking at them is like straight from a horror show.
In the distance, abruptly, a light flickered in the cavern and propelled itself into their directions. The tall man with iron armor immediately noticed the danger and swiftly took out his sword, deflecting the object that was rapidly approaching.
Upon deflecting it, the object spun and landed on the ground, revealing a sharp arrow that was seemingly fresh. A lethal hit from this could kill a person, but they were lucky Alistair was there.
Alistair then gazes into the abyss, raising his guard and gripping his sword. Upon speculating, he paled and broke a sweat as a figure emerges from the shadow, holding some sort of staff with a skull on the top.
The figure then raised its staff and its eye socket glows in red, creating a red magic circle around the lifeless skeleton, turning them into a living skeleton.
The skeletons promptly grabbed weapons on the ground and slowly encircled the group with their sharp swords.
"The skeletons! They're alive!" One of the students shouted in shock.
The ground then formed into a circle as they were swiftly surrounded by the skeletons, threatening them with their weapons ready to swing.
"We're surrounded! What do we do now!?" One of them panicked.
During this moment, Kazuhira stepped in from the circle with his two friends in his back following and took out their sword with arrogant smug on their faces.
"Don't worry guys, I got this." Kazuhira said with his overbearing manner, immediately charging into the skeleton army.
Swinging and slashing the skeletons with their swords, most of the enemy were taken care of.
At first they were getting positive as they saw Kazuhira and his two friends crushing the skeletons very easily with one swing, but that feeling turned upside down when the figure raised its staff again, casting some sort of spell towards the skeletons, making them stronger.
"They're just getting stronger!" One of the students anxiously yelled.
The tall man with iron armor swings his sword around and makes a dance between the skeletons. He manages to take down five skeletons in one battle and gripped his sword with firmness.
"Don't falter! Defend this position and eliminate the skeleton army!" Alistair shouted.
Yuichi was in defense stance as he was preparing for any attacks the skeletons would do. But his eyes were locked onto the figure as he pinched his eyes, getting a better view and analyzing the mysterious figure. The system was able to detect the figure and a screen popped up.
[Necromancer [Level 10]
[Description: ???]
'A necromancer? Now it makes sense that these skeletons were resurrected.' Yuichi thought as he prepared to do something.
Mitsuki shot a [Frostbolt] into the skeleton army and immediately destroyed them into pieces like a lego. But those skeletons were immediately reformed and resurrected by the necromancer in the distance.
Although, these skeletons don't have intelligence on their own and they've only been controlled. This necromancer gave these skeleton armies some buff that made them stronger and also quick to rejuvenate their vigor.
Amidst the fight, the necromancer in the distance was about to cast a mysterious spell into the group, slowly raising its both hands and a mist of green surrounds him.
Yuichi saw the suspicious movement of the necromancer, promptly charged into the skeleton army and swung his dull sword, destroying them. Mitsuki saw Yuichi's reckless action in the distance.
"Yuichi-kun! What are you doing!?" Mitsuki yelled out.
But this didn't stop Yuichi from what he was doing and kept running into the necromancer.
His plan was to eliminate the necromancer first as attacking the skeletons is just pointless if it's just gonna regenerate itself after getting destroyed. But thinking that way, he must have confidence to do such reckless action, or so he thought it was confidence that was urging through his vein.
As he kept running and running, some skeletons were trying to stop Yuichi from approaching the necromancer, but they ended up getting disassembled by him in just one swing to another.
The skeletons then formed a blockage, seemingly lining themselves in two layers, hoping to stop Yuichi. But Yuichi used his brain and instinctively positioned his hand into his front, palm open wide.
[Skill: Wind Gale]
Yuichi's palm then formed a trail of light green swirl and blasted it into the skeleton phalanx, like a strong wind gushing.
When he used [Wind Gale] however, it didn't entirely destroy or blow the skeletons away from their position, instead it just went past them like a small fan blowing away. The wind creating a light green swirl trail on the skeletons body visually makes it seem like it's a strong skill, but in reality, it's just a mere wind that is giving them fresh air.
The skeletons were blanked and slowly moved their legs into Yuichi's position, preparing to stop him at once. But this is Yuichi's plan all alone as he leaps forward and jumps over the skeleton phalanx, like a kangaroo jumping over a roadblock.
Although they are new in this world, Yuichi has already adapted to agile movement ever since he can feel the wind attributes power urging through his body. He did not think twice if he couldn't do this risky move.
After jumping over the skeleton phalanx, he rushed over the necromancer and swung his sword over them. The necromancer was able to block it with the staff and hold Yuichi in place.
"You sure are quite intelligent, but I'm going to end you here." Yuichi said and twisted his sword, landing the flat side in the staff and lunging it into the necromancer's head, impaling it.
Yuichi then forcefully swings the sword from the necromancer's head and slashes it, decapitating the necromancer.
With a victorious scene, Mitsuki and the others saw Yuichi successfully defeat the necromancer and they immediately were amazed and also cheered as they won the battle.
During this moment, Yuichi felt a strange and odd feeling all of the sudden. Normally, after killing a monster, an alert notification will pop up on your head that you have successfully slain the monster and your EXP reward. As he expected something like that, there isn't.
'Strange... I didn't get any experience...' Yuichi was quite confused.
And soon after, the necromancer's body turned into ashes, revealing its true self. Yuichi looked at it and it was just a skeleton with staff, seemingly mimicking the look of a necromancer.
Although it was clear that this necromancer was just a skeleton, it's not the real necromancer, it's an illusion image thinking this skeleton was the necromancer and Yuichi fell for it.
'Crap!' Yuichi suddenly turned pale and was caught off guard as an arrow was propelling rapidly into him, hitting his left arm in a fatal shot.
"AHHH!" Yuichi grimaced in pain as his left arm was impaled by an arrow, bleeding from its wound.
From the shadow of the cavern, the real necromancer emerges with its black robe and menacing skull staff. Yuichi gazed at the necromancer and wryly smiled, knowing he messed up.
'I messed up. I got tricked, thinking that was the necromancer.' Yuichi thought while grimacing lightly.
In the distance, Mitsuki heard Yuichi's grim and directly looked over there, seeing Yuichi leaning against the wall with his arm bleeding as an arrow pierced through.
"Yuichi-kun!" Mitsuki screamed.
Upon hearing Mitsuki's scream, a metallic noise of a blade resonates instead of her voice, abruptly approaching into Yuichi's back. Yuichi heard the blade noises and turned around, instinctively positioning his sword to block the blade.
Yuichi was able to parry the skeleton's sword attack and continue dodging it. When the skeleton was about to swing, he swiftly followed a gash into the skeleton's abdomen, splitting it into half.
Mitsuki and the others were too busy fighting the other skeletons and couldn't get a glimpse into Yuichi and the necromancer as they were surrounded. Swords were clashed into another and magics were shot into the enemy, it was like a dance of battle.
When he was able to take down the skeleton, the necromancer who just revealed itself went into the darkness of the cavern, seemingly retreating from Yuichi.
Yuichi saw the necromancer leaving the scene swiftly and didn't think twice but to follow the necromancer with his dull sword.
After one minute of chase, Yuichi found himself on two separate paths. Although he was chasing the necromancer, he didn't see where it went and looked around for small clues. At the left path, he found a black smoke that resonates with the necromancer's appearances and Yuichi didn't waste time moving his leg and chased it.
Despite having a wound on his left arm with an arrow pierced, he continues to run while faintly grim. But strangely enough, why would he enthusiastically chase the necromancer when he manages to retreat away from his friends?
When going through a path where the necromancer was running with, the cavern's wall glowed in cyan as the moss was reacting to magic auras that the necromancer was releasing, illuminating the whole cave.
Yuichi clearly saw the necromancer with its black robe and held his sword out, trying to cut the necromancer on its back. But when he does, a large crack on the ground was created and the path broke into rubble.
Yuichi lost his balance and fell off from the ground, seemingly descending into deeper in the dungeon.
"AHHH!" Yuichi screamed as he wasn't expecting this, slowly descending into the depth.