The oppressive energy surged through the room as Morwrath raised his staff, the air itself crackling with dark magic. The skeletal guards closed in around the group, their weapons gleaming wickedly in the dim light. Raven's heart raced, but she fought to keep her focus, knowing that their survival depended on keeping calm and working together.
Arfes looked calm, he was the leader of the squad, and he had already cleaned some times this level, even though it was the first time they had appeared into this scenario. He knew his team was good and trusted, the new additions seemed very green, but even so, the skills displayed by Raven suggested she was the real deal... and the other girl looked trustworthy.
"Argos hold the line!" He said "Raven support him!" His mind rushed, he wasn't expecting to find a monster who could triple-cast, that was way too advanced, maybe it was something you could find in the dungeon at floor 25 or above "Eisir, Yineri, Mary, cover fire!" Then he turned to Fuwa "With me Fuwa, we are gonna take out the minions!"
"Yes!" The group said after hearing their orders.
As the group sprang into action, each member moved with precision, executing Arfes' orders without hesitation. Argos braced himself, keeping his shield up and kept receiving the heavy punishment of the rex monsters, his guard wouldn't hold it much longer but he wasn't about to give up. His massive form was like a wall between the enemy boss and the rest of the group, his shield shimmering with the magic from Raven's Aqua shield.
"『Aqua Heal』!" She casted on the warrior who felt a little better and refreshed.
Meanwhile a bolley of arrows flew towards the enemy minions, the skeletons used their spears to defflect them spinning them around, but it slowed their movment. Yineri took out two green potions from one of the bags and threw them at the enemies, the weak glasses easily broke at the minimum contact with the skeletons who bloked them along the arrows, but sticky fluid fell on them making it hard to manouver.
"Don't touch the affected ones!" Arfes screammed while he charged with his sword in front, Fuwa nodded and followed him behind.
"『Magic Up』『Greater Magic Up』『Luck up』"
"What the hell!" Mary scremmed "Thats cheating! A friggin monster that can buff himself!"
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Eisir easily defeated two of the guards with precisse arrows on the head now that their movment was heavily interupted by the sticky fluid over them, Fuwa was trying hard to fend off one of the skeletons that kept her at bay using its spear and Arfes was able to easily overpower another of the skeletons, using his sword to deflect the enemy attack he quickly cut it in half.
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And with both of them ganging on it, it was pretty easy to dispatch the last skeleton as well, who got its skull shattered by one of Fuwa's punches.
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The boss who had kept them at bay for some time, looked at the group who was reunited once again, it had been more intense than they had expected but they got the situation under control, or so they thought.
'Tch.. this is pretty easy for them... and me and Fuwa were struggling on the first floor last time... pathetic' Raven thought looking at the boss.
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The dungeon notification flared in everyone's head.
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[Morwrath, Undead King lvl5]
"What!?" Asked Raven.
"Impossible!" Said Mary.
"Level... 5..." Yineri looked like she was about to faint.
The room was suddenly drowned in a suffocating wave of malevolent energy. Morwrath's aura, now overwhelming, pressed down on the group like a tidal wave of darkness. The skeletal figure stood tall, its hollow eyes glowing with a wicked purple light, the light of the undead, with even greater intensity, the dark magic coursing through its bones now visibly crackling in the air around him. The oppressive force made the ground tremble, and Raven felt her legs buckle under the weight of the dark energy.
"Level 5?" Arfes muttered, his eyes wide with disbelief as he struggled to stay on his feet. He was strong, but even he could feel the pressure of the boss's newfound power "This is bad… really bad"
Morwrath's voice echoed through the chamber, deeper and more malevolent than before "Fools. Did you think my power could be so easily contained? You will all be crushed under the weight of my wrath!"
The enemy boss raised it's hand, and the entire group could feel as if they were getting pulled... to the roof... Everyone, including the objects were violently thrown agains the roof of the room, which soon began to crack uppon the preassure of the spell.
'I.. am... getting... crush!' Thought Raven incapable of talking.
Then it happened. The roof top was breached under the streghnt of the spell, all the group got expelled to the reaches that shouldn't be able to be trasspased during a dungeon, and everyone found themselves flying under an unknown sky, Raven eyes opened wide, she was in pain, in intense pain, but the problem now... was the sun. For a moment she forgot about everything.
'What is this place?' She wanted to know.
At the sky two enormous suns shone with intensity, this place was unbareable hot. There was sand everywhere, at the distance the monolytic view of some kind of triangular building who looked majestic on this land. But it wasn't time to think about it, surging beneath the sand the boss protected by a negative energy shield appeared once again to finish the job.
Raven hit the scorching sand with a thud, the breath knocked out of her as the heat from the twin suns burned her skin through her clothes. Her muscles ached from the crushing force of Morwrath's spell, and her head spun as she tried to make sense of what had just happened. How had they been expelled from the dungeon? Was this even part of the dungeon? The suns above blazed fiercely, and the strange desert stretched out endlessly in all directions. She had never seen anything like it before. Fuwa landed near her by chance or destiny whim.
Raven groaned as she looked around. Arfes was nearby, still conscious but clearly struggling, and the others—Argos, Eisir, Yineri, Mary—were scattered across the desert, groaning in pain. The oppressive heat weighed on them all, and the sight of the twin suns sent a wave of dread through her.
"This dessert will be your tomb" Mocked the Undead "『Major Summon Undead』" The rex monster golden staff shimmered with evil energy.
From beneath the sand bones began to fly into the sky, and the spirits of the dead who had escaped where forced against their will to fuse into a core, soon an abomination of bones got ensambled.
[Evil Blossom lvl4]
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Yineri, still shaken from the earlier fight, managed to stand up, her hands trembling as she fumbled with a potion "I-I can't believe this… we're going to die here... aren't we?"
"No!" Arfes barked, his voice commanding despite the exhaustion weighing him down "We're not done yet. This isn't over"