The din of battle was all I could make out, but it all stopped when that horrible scream crunched the earth. Only the advance team knows what happened in that dungeon."
Those were the words with which, later, a member of the containment group described the moment at the end of what would, in the future, be known as the first dungeon to be classified with the grade of Calamity.
Deep in those catacombs illuminated with old torches of blue fire and huge crystals of spectral glow a duo of individuals were in a large room, separated by a huge crowd of opponents, a man of strong body and covered in scars was fighting against a myriad of skeletons covered with armor while wielding weapons of a purple and shiny crystal, that man went through the enemy ranks with ease, wielding a pair of hand axes shattered both the crystal armor and those who carried them, falling to the ground the crystals shattered into fragments, in turn these lost color and the skeletons wearing the armors quickly turned to dust after being defeated.
"Easy with those crystal shards, Yaga! They look fragile, but they are as sharp as obsidian," - shouted the long-haired fellow, feeling how, with every careless and rough lunge, the skeletons around him did not miss the opportunity to attack him, cutting his flesh and making him bleed slightly. This man's aggressive and feral fighting style explained the scars on his body. Leered was the name of this individual.
"Ha! Don't tell me you're already full of wounds, you little humans are that fragile?" -answered a corpulent figure. it was Yaga, belonging to the race of giants, a man with prominent musculature. His silver and black hair swayed in the wind with every word, as he stood before a figure of similar dimensions to his own aproach. A huge crystal golem was exchanging attacks with the giant, carrying heavy masses in each hand. It was striking at Yaga's burly body, while Yaga was only throwing himself slightly backwards to cushion the blows.
"Do you think the others had to fight commanders this boring?" -asked Yaga as he caught his enemy's hands just before delivering another blow.
"Claymore said there were 3 monarchs, this is supposed to be the one with the diamond army" - Leered said as his blows became more violent, his axes moving swiftly and with each lunge they began to glow, one with an orange glow, the other with a blue glow.
"If this is a commander, then you and I are Gods of war" -at that moment Yaga launched a powerful knee strike that quickly threw his opponent several meters backwards, greatly damaging that heavy armor revealing that inside that Golem was a skeleton of enormous dimensions, quickly the beast took one of his mallets while he rejoined, beginning to release a silver glow which collected the crystal fragments around him and returned them to their original position, restoring the armor.
"Enough testing big one, the others must be waiting for us, let's get serious, smash the core of that thing and lets meet up with the crew!"- shouted Leered as his axes now seemed to give off a strange energy as his eyes lit up.
"I thought you'd never ask, humie," said the giant as he cracked his knuckles with a clash of fists, arrows of a deep red color beginning to forge in his hands as his eyes glowed like his companion's and a mischievous smile spread across his face.
Quickly the giant launched himself against his opponent, taking advantage of a small crack that had not yet finished regenerating in the heavy armor of the enemy, Yaga raised his arm while forming a fist, the line that before was only drawn on his hand now ran along his arm glowing as if it was about to ignite in flames, "Direct Hit!" shouted the giant while in the blink of an eye his arm had pierced the armor of the monster, pulling from inside a multicolored sphere, like a huge pearl that glowed in purple, pink and green colors, tearing it from inside the monster while the creature let out a loud groan as his armor began to lose color, On the other side of the room Leered was not far behind, while his comrade pierced the armor of his opponent, the human full of scars gave a big jump while his weapons reached the peak of its brightness, it seemed as if at any moment they were going to explode, after a few seconds in the air Leered rushed against the horde of crystal warriors, falling as he delivered a strong blow accompanied by a warcry "Twin wolf fangs: perpetual howl! ", echoed throughout the room as a wall of sun-white flames shot through the enemies, who were devoured by the flames although they did not fall with them, the army stood completely still as the flames dissipated and once they disappeared the armors began to fall one by one, they had all been hollowed out after Leered's attack.
"Not bad for a simple humie!" -said Yaga who had blocked the wall of flames using his opponent's body, throwing it aside once it dispersed and with it breaking that big black pearl in his hand, releasing a huge green glow, after that he simply cross fists with his partner.
"I can see why those with a penchant for Ignis are so popular with the children, those flames of yours are very showy"- said the giant as he kicked one of the crystal armors onto a hole in the wall, shattering it on the spot.
"If we wanted to finish quickly the best thing to do was to launch an area attack to finish off all the little guys, but well, shall we go, you know how Claymore and Anvil are, if we don't finish off the dungeon boss more powerful monsters will keep coming to the surface and I don't think the containment team can keep fighting forever." - Lee was saying, walking towards that narrow gap in the wall that he assumed must be the entrance to the next level of the dungeon.
"Hey the rank system is good for something, maybe the bronze rankers and some silver ones will die, but also a few gold ones on up will get their level up, it wouldn't hurt the organization to forge more Adamantine level heroes, would it?" -said the giant as the figure of his human companion faded into the shadows, so he only limited himself to slouching a bit to follow him into that tunnel.