"wake up"

"Five more minutes mom"

"Wake up"

"...."

Vina picked up the mostly gone torch laying on the floor next to luke and dropped it on him

*thud*

"Ow!"

"Idiot"

"Ok ok! give me a moment"

Vina rolled her eyes and walked to her bedroll to pack it, she can hear Luke slowly getting up from his own roll with a groan.

----~----

"Do we have another torch? This one is about to run out"

Luke asked as they walked down the stairs leading to the underground part of the dungeon.

"No we don't have any spare"

"Should we go back and get more?"

"I'm sure there must be some old torches down here"

"Well you do you but i don't wanna be walking in darkness, atleast you can use your nose and maybe your eyes down there, as for me i'm basically blind"

"Why don't you use your ears then? Mmm?"

"Why are you so sarcastic today?"

"What do you Mean sarcastic? I'm just telling the truth" she said that one with a smug smile, Luke just shrugged.

Luke and vina arrived at the bottom of the stairs and was greeted with a large open room, it was dark obviously and the torch Luke is holding is doing nothing to make it better and as if to make things worse there are no leftover torches like Vina had thought.

"Now what"

"Take off your armor and give me your clothes"

"What, why?"

"For a torch"

"Hell no, this shirt is a reminder of my world"

"You still have your pants and phone Luke"

"But..."

"Just do it or do you want to walk in darkness?"

"Alright fine i'll do it"

Luke took apart his armor and removed his shirt, Vina took it and wrapped it around one of her arrows and light it on fire meanwhile Luke watched as his favorite shirt burn with a sad face.

"Well that's that"

"Let's look around, how is your torch?"

Luke looked at his mostly burned torch

"a couple more minutes i guess"

"Great, i go left side of the room and you go right"

"Yes Ma'am"

Luke Wandered around the right side of the room and found nothing other than dust, rocks and random animal bones here and there, he was worried that something killed Them and dragged Them down here but waved it off as he remembered that the dungeon has been cleaned and these might be the bones of the creatures used to live here, maybe.

after a bit of going in circles he decided to just walk straight in the direction of what he was sure is the wall and he did hit one, the wall was like any other part of room but there was something different, a pipe, well not really It was cut in half with an open top and it was horizontal to the wall and Made of stone as well, he checked what's inside and found a stream of pitch Black liquid, he tried to get a closer look by putting his torch on top of it, that was his plan until a piece of burned Wood fell off the torch, hit the liquid and ignited it, on his face.

"OW! MY FACE!"

"Luke! What did you do? Why is there light all of a sudden?"

Luke opened his eyes slowly and realized the room that was previously dark is now relatively well Lit, he looked at the half pipe and found the Black liquid inside of it burning, the pipe which apparently span the entire wall of the room and more rooms next to it, is now acting as a light source and he just flipped the switch.

"It's fucking oil"

"What happened to your face?"

"Nothing, welp now that it's Lit we can properly explore right?" Luke said rather nonchalantly despite his face looking like a Black board

"Well... Yeah good job Luke"

"My shirt though"

"What is lost is lost let's continue"

they looked around the room for items and found nothing, after a bit of debate whether to go to the room to the right or left room it was decided that they would go to the left one first, as they walked in to the room that looked like a storage area of the dungeon Luke noticed something strange about it, there was no trace of fighting, no slash marks, no broken pieces of the room other than rocks from the ceiling and the bones that lay on the floor all looked intact as if whatever died here died from natural cause.

"Hey uhh Vina?"

"Hmm?"

"Is it weird that this room is uhh.. clean?"

"What do you Mean? Look at those bones on the floor, probably left by whoever cleaned this place before"

"No no no look around you, don't you notice anything? There is no trace of fighting! No broken arrows, no sword Marks, not even evidence of exploration like a burned torch or something, nothing"

"What are you trying to say?"

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"What i'm trying to say is that the quest is lying! This place is not clear!"

"We haven't seen anything so far other than Bugs Luke"

"Look i have a bad feeling about this"

"No need to worry about anything, even if there are Monster left we can take care of it, you haven't forgotten how to use your Axe Don't you?"

"Of course not"

"Good then there's nothing to be afraid of"

"*Sigh* fine but don't blame me if there is a flood of monsters in one of these rooms"

"Hah! No way"

----~----

After several hours of searching, Vina and Luke we're both exhausted, they have checked every room and corner including cracks on the floor and find almost nothing and apparently the underground "dungeon" was only about 10 interconnected rooms big with all of Them more or less the same except two seemingly being a storage area, the only really notable thing they found is another necklace and a small metal Shield about Twice the size of luke's head which he had claimed for himself.

"Sooo is that it? Another silver necklace and Shield? I suppose the shield is decent, but we didn't even find any chest like back on the tower!"

"That's weird, i know i said that some dungeons are just glorified basements but this one is so small, it doesn't even feel like a dungeon"

"The only thing dungeon-esque about this place now that i think about it just the bones laying around and the stupidly long hallways"

"Well the quest did say it's possible for a hidden room laying around, should we check?"

"How? The wall of this place is lined with these oil pipes no way there's a hidden door"

"I don't know"

"Huh.. the only thing that can happen now is me leaning on something and activate a switch for a secret room or something like in the movies" Luke said as he leaned on a pillar, trying his luck.

"That sounds ridiculous, and what is a movie?"

"A movie is..."

Luke didn't get to explain what a movie is as the pillar he was leaning on crumbled but instead of the ceiling collapsing on him, he instead fell into a empty space inside the pillar.

"What the hell?..."

"Hey look the pillar is hollow, and there's a crank wheel in here"

"WHAT THE HELL?"

"Seems like your intuition is right, should we crank it?"

"Uhh yeah sure"

Luke sat on the floor with remains of the pillar still on him dumbstruck at what just happened as Vina started spinning the wheel, there was a noise, like a grinding of stone and metal and a hole opened on the floor of the room they were in, they walked to it and found stairs leading to darkness

"Oh no i'm not going down there, let's go back and report it"

"Cmo'n don't be a baby or are you afraid of spiders again?"

"What kind of spider live in a secret room?! Look whoever was here and cleaned it probably haven't found this room at all, it's probably not clear!"

"If we can't take care of it then running is always an option Luke"

"What if there are traps down there?"

"Then we go carefully"

"Alright fine, but you stay behind"

"Mmm? Why the heroism?"

"I Mean watch my back"

"I always do"

Luke picked up the Arrow with his burnt shirt on it and lighted it on fire, he went down the stairs with Vina with her bow at the ready behind him, he reached the bottom of it and immediately checked the wall and was glad to find more half pipes filled with oil

"Oh thank God, there's oil pipes down here"

"Light it up then"

Luke dipped his torch on the oil and this time had remembered to get his face away from it to not get blasted again, the room Lit up and they can see it was just along hallway with something in the end

"Interesting"

"What do you think is that?"

"I don't know, let's keep going"

As They walked towards the end of the hallway Luke was watching the floor just incase the oldest trick on the book AKA pressure plates was present and thankfully found none along the way, in the end of the hallway was a pedestal with a stand on top it, on the stand they can see a beautiful golden ring with carvings of animals and flowers on it with what is probably the shiniest emerald Luke had ever seen, Luke can see other Tiny shapes on it that doesn't look like they were just engravings, so he figured it was probably runes, which means this ring is magical.

"Well that's definitely something different"

Vina was reaching out to grab it when luke's inner Indiana jones kicked in and stopped her from doing so

"Hey don't you see this is a trap? The moment we take that ring something will probably happen!"

"Like what? It doesn't look like there's enough room here for a trap"

"Anything! Rolling Boulders, moving spikes, the ceiling slowly lowering itself! A lot!"

"That's absurd Luke" Vina said as she lightning grabbed the ring with her free arm

"No! What are you doing!?"

"It's fine see? No traps"

"That's what they want you to think!"

"This is ridiculous Luke, let's just.."

She was cut off by a rumbling sound coming from the floor above, Luke visibly panicked

"See?!"

"Okay uhh... Let's just get out of here"

They went to a dead sprint along the hallway and into the stairs, the moment they arrived at the top Luke had expected that they just activated a series of traps and had to slip their way into the exit, instead all they found was 5 huge suits of armor standing in front of the entrance holding equally huge axes, swords and hammer, they stopped running and stared nervously at the motionless suits, Vina was the most distressed out of the two and she had a look realization on her face

"Uhh... What? Isn't there supposed to be traps? What are these doing here"

"Luke! Get away from it!"

"Why?"

"Those aren't just random suits of armor!"

"Then what are..."

Luke didn't get to finish that sentence as huge Axe landed in front of him, inches away from cutting his foot, he looked up to see the each armor suits now has two glowing red eye and It was staring into his soul

"IRON GOLEMS!"

----~-----

Luke was sent flying across the room as the hammer of one Golem managed to hit him, it didn't kill him but it hurts like hell and he was pretty sure several bones we're broken, he coughed some blood and got up again, he can see Vina distracting 2 of Them by shooting arrows at Them and running around trying to not get caught, it didn't work as well as they hoped and 2 Golems focused on Luke instead, with the last one blocking the exit with it's body, killing any hope of distract and run tactic.

Luke lifted his Axe to block a sword swing and tried his best to not get hit by that stupid hammer again, his Axe has been useless against Them, the Sharp part of it the keep bouncing off of Them and the pointy spear-like part of his axe that was Meant for penetrating armor didn't do much other than making a small hole which the Golems are unfazed by, and he would definitely get gutted if he got hit by that sword.

"Luke! I have an idea!"

"What is it!" Luke said as he blocked another sword slash and dodged another hammer Slam, he parried the sword Golem with his shield and backed off to get some breathing room.

"Stab Them in the eye!"

"I can't do that if they keep attacking me! And they're too tall!"

Vina went quiet for a moment while dodging the various axe swings, then she yelled "Are you ready?"

"Ready what?"

Vina didn't answer that one as she slid under one of the Golems that was chasing her, ran up into a wall, jumped kicked off of it and into the back of the Golem that was fighting Luke and stabbed the gaps of the armored golem with her dagger, making the Golem kneel to the floor trying to get her off

"What are you doing?!"

"NOW!"

Luke was shocked but got the message, he charged full speed with the Sharp Pike part of his Axe pointed at the golem's head, Vina jumped off as Luke hits it and Made a sizeable hole on it's helmet, the red eyes dimmed and finally turned off and the Golem went limp, collapsed and scattered itself on the floor

"It worked!"

"Watch out!"

Luke looked up and Saw an Axe Golem preparing a downward slam on him, he dodged and the golem's Axe instead hits pieces of it's fallen brother.

"Do it again!"

Vina ran up a pillar and did the same trick, it worked and the Golem fell to the floor, Luke lifted his Axe into the air and slammed it on the golem's armored head, this time the force was enough to penetrate and killed the Golem.

"Good job!"

Luke wasn't able to reply as he was busy blocking the attacks from the last 3 Golem, the other one who was blocking the door now joining the fight.

"Run now! I'll follow!"

Vina didn't need a word for that and went running to the stairs to the surface, Luke parried another attack and went for it himself, dodging a sword swings and an Axe slam on the way, he ran up the stairs and looked back to find the Golems still chasing

"Damn! All of you are persistent"

----~----

Luke reached the top of the stairs and was met by a worried looking vina.

"Run! They're still following me!"

Vina ran to the front door of the tower and Luke did too, once they were outside they immediately Ran for the forest, wait ina bush and waited to see if the golem's still persist and they didn't, the Golems did arrived at the surface but something seems to be stopping Them from stepping past the entrance.

After what felt like hours of waiting and watching what the Golems do, they both breathed a Sigh of relief as the Golems goes back down to the underground part of the dungeon.

"That was something"

"Yeah.. ow my ribs"

"Are you okay? What's broken?"

"I'm fine, i only got hit once"

"By a Giant hammer that Sends you *flying*, there's no way you're fine"

"Ah well then, maybe just some internal bleeding and broken bones"

That was the last thing he said before everything went dark and he passed out of pain, he can feel Vina shaking his body.

----~----

Luke opened his eyes to the sound of crackling fire, he opened his eyes and found himself wrapped in a bedroll next to a campfire, he can see Vina sitting on a log cooking pieces of meat on one of her arrows

"Uhh..."

Vina looked at him with surprise on her face then a look of dissapointment

"Do you know how heavy you are? What have you been eating hmm? And i have to use all our bandages on you!"

"What?..."

"You passed out Luke, i had to carry you all the way here! You're heavy! and you were wounded as well"

Luke unwrapped himself and sat up, he looked down to find his stomach bandaged.

"You probably doesn't realize it when we escaped to the surface but you were bleeding a river from your stomach, probably got slashed by the sword ones"

"Thank you, wait, where did we get this many bandages? We didn't bring that much?"

Vina pointed to somewhere behind him, he turned back and sees a young looking female elven with robes sitting behind him.

"Greetings"

"Luke, meet Eryn"

"What"

"She's a mage, she was apparently going to the same dungeon as we are after founding the same request paper posted again"

"I thought it was gonna be easy since it says it was cleared, apparently not, but those Golems must be a fascinating sight"

"Just ask him he killed two of Them before getting out" the elven brighten up and her eyes looked like the eyes of a kid who is begging for free candy

"What"

"Oh really? Wonderful! What type of Golem is it? How do you kill it? What do they looked like? How many?"

"What? Oh uhh... It was an iron golem"

"And?"

"I killed Them by stabbing Them in the eye and hitting their head hard enough"

"And? And?..."

"They just looked like big suits of armor moving around by Themselves and there was 5 of Them"

"AMAZING!" She pulled out a notebook and an ink and Quill set and started scribbling down on it

"But how do you know stabbing Them in eye worked?"

"Uhh..."

"It was my idea" Vina interrupted his answer with a smug smile

"Ooh... Did it just come to your mind?"

"Well their helmet did looked thin"

"Excuse me can anyone explain what happen? I Haven't really caught on with it, blood loss haze and what not"

Vina looked at him with a stoic face

"you passed out because you got slashed, i dragged your heavy ass here and met Eryn on the way, she offered help and i accept, she healed you with healing magic and bandaged you, Eryn is here for the same quest as us, the poster of the quest reposted it because we took the paper"

Luke pondered about the wall of exposition thrown his way and nodded his head, he suppose he can thank both of Them, he looked at Eryn who is still writing things on her note.

"Thank you Eryn, i don't know what Will happen if not for you"

She looked up from her note and stored it back somewhere inside her robes which Luke just realized has a hood and depiction of plants on it just now.

"No problem, just helping people who needs help"

"Technically i can still save you alone you know, though a bit messier than healing magic"

"And thank you Vina"

"Well then" Eryn clapped her hands and got up from her crouching position next to luke

"Why don't we go to sleep? We probably have a long day ahead of us"

"Good idea" Vina got up, walked up to Luke and practically dragged him to their usual tent, as he was getting forcefully dragged by his furry companion Luke can see Eryn going inside her own, the dragging stopped when they got in the tent, Vina sat in front of him with a worried look on her face.

"Be more careful next time luke, we could've ran together up the stairs but you decided to play Hero again"

"yeah sorry that was a stupid one"

Vina laid down and she looked back at him with half-closed eyes "the moment we reached the town i want you stay on the inn for as long as i want, ok?"

"Ok, hey did you cry when i passed out? Think i'm dead or something"

"AS IF"

"You cried don't you?" He teased

"No why would i cry? It was your stupid doing! I should be laughing"

"Sure"

Luke laid down and closed his eyes with a rather dramatic image in his head of Vina crying with a bleeding him on her hands 'i looked heroic' he thought and the night was spent with sweet dreams, somewhat