The monsters seemingly didn't notice them, Thal just informed the party that there was a survivor amongst the bodies in the cavern, and that one was neither player nor NPC.

"Who is this...?" everyone thought.

From the looks of it, it was a woman, like red, almost pink hair and a slight tan.

"Is it an enemy?" asked Alex.

Thal took a second to reply.

"No... I don't think so... it's like an NPC that was meant to get wiped from this world before the Isekaing... but didn't... like the puppets," Thal explained.

Quietly John began to sneak over to the person, with his dagger at the ready he was prepared to cut the person free of the black tendrils.

The moment the woman's eyes locked on John she began to speak much to everyone's dismay, her voice was loud and was more of a sharp, shrieking than taking.

"AN UNDEAD!" she exclaimed.

John had to cover his ears as the needle-like sound came close.

"HE'S GOING TO DEVOUR MY SOUL ISN'T IT ALREADY ENOUGH THAT I'M STUCK IN THIS DUNGEON!?"

She continued talking, this grabbed the attention of the monsters.

John looked over to the slime monsters who now looked at the group like a swarm of piranhas.

The pink-haired person slowly turned to face the monsters,

A solid ten seconds later, she finally turned to see the monsters.

"OH NO, YOU ATTRACTED THE MONSTERS, UNDEAD!" she exclaimed.

JohnWillStab took a deep breath.

"I already hate this character..." he thought.

The group ran through the sea of enemies, their numbers doing little to shake their formation.

The wet floor tiles and cracks forming mud below them, should one person slip, they would most certainly die.

"HEY! WHAT ABOUT ME, UNDEAD! WEREN'T YOU GOING TO EAT MY SOUL?!" she demanded.

"Fear not, friend! We shall rescue you once the monsters are dealt with!" Bonifacius assured her.

That's when they saw it, the demonic figure of the first boss, it looks like a centaur, except the horse part of it was a spider.

The moment the group came into view it began to attack, leaving them no time to get ready, it raised its arms into the air and the slime creatures vanished, their black liquid forms flying into the boss' hand.

Its form growing, its muscles growing and its eyes glowing a vibrant green.

"That's not how the boss looked in the game..." Bromy remarked as the cigarette fell from his mouth and onto the floor where it was extinguished by the stagnant water.

A black scarf and cloak covered the creature's head.

With a single flick of its wrist the monster shot out a whip of black slime, quickly Bonifacius countered it, his shield was reduced to a pile of debris in the process.

"Bony!" Curstl called out as she turned her hateful glare to the boss, she charged at him with the lance, she was inches away from stabbing him when she felt something grab her by the arm, it was one of Bromy's tendrils pulling her back.

"What the hell, Bromy?!" she demanded before seeing what Bromy was pointing at.

It was a black puddle of slime on the wall from which a dozen black spikes shot out, if not for Bromy, she would have surely been killed.

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Bonifacius got back up and charged at the monster without a shield, smashing into it with his armoured shoulder.

Predictably the monster summoned his whip to attack Bonifacius.

The tendril flew at him as Bonifacius realised his plan, he grabbed onto the tendril.

The boss cocked his head seeing Bonifacius' attempt to restrain it.

Bonifacius looked at what little of the monster's face was visible, he could have sworn he saw the corners of its mouth rise as it smiled a toothy grin.

It had cracked, black lips.

From its back a dozen more tendrils appeared, the monster took some time to show off its appendages to Bonifacius before going in for a final hit.

Its eyes widened as it found its tendrils stuck, they were all entangled by thick roots and vines sprouting from the muddy cracks in the ground.

The monster looked to the group and saw Bromy, it very clearly saw him grinning a toothy smile as the roots began pulling away.

"Got you, bitch..." Bromy remarked feeling a wave of sadistic joy.

The monster began to panic, it moved its body down and tried to bite-down on Bonifacius who head-butted it causing it to start jumping around the place, it thrashed its tendrils around and finally got itself free from the roots and smashed Bonifacius into the wall causing him to crack it.

The monster began making a retreat, it raised an arm as black slime began to form, before it was able to summon a meaningful number of minions, Olivionion manoeuvred behind the monster and severed its arms before shadow stepping behind him and digging a blade into its back, the blade suddenly became stuck as Olivionion could neither pull it out nor push it in.

The cloak lifted itself and showed the tendrils tightly clutching Olivionion's dagger.

"Shit..." he thought as he was launched across the room with several broken ribs.

Bromy immediately began work on healing him as the monster continued its retreat.

"Alex, Curstl and Me will finish him off, Jordan you come too, the rest of you heal up!" JohnWillStab instructed before shadow stepping behind the monster.

She swiped at it and seemingly cut the skin before backing away, the door to the boss' room was closed since the fight was in progress.

It spun around eyeing the man.

Alex and Jordan were running in while Curstl chose to stay back.

The boss let our a frightful roar as black slime began rooming all around them, covering the walls completely.

JohnWillStab had to dodge a dozen black spikes from every side, the only indication of them being the rippling in the black liquid.

As he kept fighting, Jordan cast a firebolt which let out a deep screeching noise as it flew and eventually flew into the monster causing its insides to char and prompting it to let out a small puff of black blood before falling over to its side, John decapitated the foe just in case before cutting it open and pulling out the massive look-organ.

"Damn, I was hoping to get the final hit in on the boss..." Alex sighed.

JohnWillStab brought the organ out in front of everyone, they cut it open and inspected what's inside.

Calsight Shield - Bonifacius

A large-type of shield composed of fused bones, what it lacks in mobility, it makes up for in shock absorption.

Swordsman's Boots - Alex

A pair of black leather boots with metal plates, good for almost any melee class and ideal for a swordsman.

Greater Lensing Staff - Revenberry

A staff composed of a metal rod with a leather grip. 

The top of the staff has no gem or focus like usual, instead, when held by a magic-user element-appropriate magic circle will form and amplify their magic.

Manapop Ring - Bromy

When worn by a magic-user with full mana, a reserve of mana build up in the form of a round gem which will give the wearer a maximum of half their total mana.

The amount of mana gained is proportional to the amount of time the ring was given to gain mana.

Flamelash Ring - Jordan

Makes you capable of controlling fire created by you or any party member as well as environmental fire to a certain degree - this ability does not apply to the fire of enemy monsters of players.

Iron Wristhooks - JohnWillStab

The iron Wristhooks compose of a spring-loaded mechanism that is capable of releasing a very durable metal hook, this unlocks the climbing ability as well as allowing the player to do extra melee damage.

Crimson Pouch - Olivionion

A bag filled with the endless supply of special dust, when applied to a blade, every cut feels like the worst pain imaginable for up to twenty-four hours.

Necrotic Choker - Curstl

Makes the wearer immune to inhalable poison, this includes gas clouds.

They also received an average of fifty gold each.

"I would call this a success... though the boss was far from easy..." Bonifacius remarked.

"Yeah, not to mention this was meant to be the easiest one in the dungeon..." Bromy added.

"Well, now that everything is dealt with..." john began.

"WHAT ABOUT ME!?" demanded the woman from before, this time she was released from the black slime binding her and stood with her arms crossed, looking at the group with visible anger.

"Yup, let's get going!" Alex exclaimed.

"That was the worse..." Revenberry remarked.

"Oh, don't worry, I'm sure it'll get easier with time!" Alex assured her.

"No, it won't!" Bromy exclaimed.

"DON'T IGNORE ME!" demanded the pink-haired person.

Bonifacius turned to face her. 

"Ah, yes! I see thou are free, how great..." he turned back to the group and began heading towards the now open boss room, for some reason, the boss left his designated room in favour of fighting them in the minion-room.

"THE FRONT GATE IS LOCKED!"

Jordan looked at the person with a look of pity before turning to leave.

She turned to face Alex.

"Aren't you going to help a beautiful damsel in distress?!" she asked.

"Nope," Alex replied.

"YOU'D LEAVE A LADY TO BE EATEN BY SLIME MONSTERS!?" she demanded.

"As a believer in true equality, I believe it is the right of any gender to be devoured by sentient slime monsters," Alex explained dismissively as they left.

The pink-haired woman stood up and stormed after them.

"Look here, I've been stuck here for years and you're telling you don't feel the slightest bit of compassion?!" she demanded aggressively poking Bromy in the back.

Every other party member moved to the said as an aura of darkness began to appear around Bromy.

He reached for his scalpel and turned around.

His voice sounded deep and demonic, thought that was simply how they perceived him because of the murderous aura around him.

"I wIlL hApiLlY ReLeAse yOu oF tHe BuRdEn Of LiViNg!" Bromy said.

"Quit being edgy and say you're sorry!" she demanded.

Bromy raised his hand into the air and was prepared to stab the newcomer with his scalpel when Bonifacius charged in and grabbed him by the arm.

"Please Bromy! Spear this innocent person! If thou wishes to slay someone thou may murder me as tribute!"

"nObOdY cAn sAtE mY bLoOdLuSt..." he replied in monotone before quickly grabbing the scalpel with his other hand and bringing it back down on the person, going straight through their eyeball and into the brain.

Bromy let out a sigh of relief.

"Ah... much better..." he replied as Bonifacius let him down.

"Was that really necessary?" asked Bonifacius looking at Bromy with a disappointed look.

Bromy nodded.

"Give me a few minutes, the regrets will kick in," Bromy assured him.

Suddenly Bromy felt a sharp kick to his crown jewels.

He looked down and saw that the person he just killed kicked him in the balls.

"That's what you get for stabbing me!" she exclaimed before pulling the scalpel out of her eye and tossing it to the ground.