The ominous Dungeon entry-prompt that Timmy had issued to our group was adding even more fuel to the fire of my worries.

"Hey, Lingfeng, did you know that there was a dungeon under the whole mountain?"

"I did, but I have no idea when these small tunnels have shown up." Answered Lingfeng as he summoned a white illumination orb above his head, to light up the darkened tunnels. "They were not here before, it used to be just a straight passage. "

"So...what's this “Heavenly Library” then? Where are all the books?"

"We actually don't know. About 20 years ago, we even called an expert archaeological team and we cleared all of the Dungeon sections that we could access, but found nothing of relevance. The only thing that the archaeologist guys had been able to retrieve were a bunch of bas-reliefs depicting Angels and Demons fighting each other during some sort of a primordial conflict, but those were just about the only things of value. After we found nothing but wall carvings and glowing mushrooms everywhere, the expedition ended when some of the rocky passages collapsed by accident, and we left them like that, because there was no point in opening the dungeon again since it contained nothing worth mentioning. This is not one of those Dungeon-types that just keeps on respawning monsters or resources over and over again, because the dungeon core here is not overflowing with Qi. That, or the core is partially broken, we don't really know since we never found the actual core chamber. Even if a Dungeon's core is partially defective, then the Dungeon will still be considered “active”, even though it cannot regenerate itself anymore, and that seems to be the case for this one."

*Rock RRumble*

Lingfeng instantly turned around and aimed his sword at the source of the noise. Fungus and myself immediately pulled out our bows, Liliam summoned out her Zither and was using it as a baseball bat, while Xibei had produced some sort of wand and was pointing it in the same direction as the noise. Lingfeng then picked up a boulder from the ground and tossed it right into the direction of the noise.

*Rocktoss*

*Plong* *Bump*

"Ayee!" A scream could be heard in a gruffy nasal voice.

"Whoever you are, get the hell out from behind that rock and face us!"

"Alrite! Alrite! Ya gots me! No need t' be pointin' all of yer violence sticks in me direction!"

"A d...dwarf? What the hell is a dwarf doing down here? Who the hell are you and what are you doing in this place?"

"See Gibbsn’? I told yus dat dey aint no hallucineyshns!" Whispered the dwarf while hugging his pickaxe. "Cough...Names' Car Mc'Kracken. With a C, not a K. Oooh... oi've been stuck down 'ere for the last twenteh' years or so, after th' tunnels collapsed on meh. I used t' be on dat Elven archaeological team dat ye fancy humans invited over t' dig up dis 'ere place."

"Are you kidding me? Nobody could have survived alone in this place for that long! What the hell have you been eating or drinking, if you’ve been down here for that amount of time?"

"Oh, no,no,no, oi wasn't alone, I had me pal Gibbsn' 'ere with meh. Ain't tha' roight, Gibbsn'?" The dwarf shows us his pickaxe that looked like it had a bloody face painted upon it. Aw boy, Severe Castaway Syndrome detected.

"Oi ate th' Glowin' Mushrooms and drank th' infiltrashn' water. Tis all over th' place if ye know where t' looks fer it. "

"Glowing Mushrooms? But those are poisonous!"

"Oh, dey are! Terrible stomach ache if ya eats dem raw. But if ya peels th' glowin' outer layer and den boil dem properleh, dey become somewhat edible."

"Cook them with what? There is no wood or fuel available down here!"

"Oh, I just used me blacksmithin' fire and me minin’ helm as a pot, since oim a smithy meself. Well, used t' be. I haven't forged anythin' in over twenteh years, so me smithin' skills have all probably gone t' crap. All I needs fo' preparin' th' Mushrooms iza few magic stones, and there's plenty o' those in dis place if ye kno' where t' dig for 'em."

"You mean spirit stones?"

"Same thing, if you asks meh. Dey be stones with magics inside of dem, so I just calls dem magic stones, simpler dat way!

"How the hell did nobody detect your presence inside of the dungeon, if you have been stuck down here for the last twenty years? There's intruder detection runes and arrays all over the place!"

"Maybe b'cause oim alreadeh attuned t' dem all? I was part of th' archaeological team afterall. It woulda been stupid t' trigger all of the alarms every toime a member of th' archaeological team came in or out of th' Dungeon, so we had whitelisted o’rselves to th' detection f’rmations before delvin' in deep."

"Man, you poor bloke, you must have been through some terrible shit. How did you get abandoned down here?" I chimed in.

"Psst....Trina, do not let the beard fool you, that's a Female dwarf." Xibei whispered to me.

"What? Seriously? Aw...sh...riiight...female dwarves and the beards...Oh...I see now. It makes sense, having one so long after being stuck down here for twenty years. It's not like there's many shaving implements down here in the first place. So that's why he...I mean she sounded so squeaky?"

"Ye, oim a lass allrite! Ye sissy humans always thinkin’ dwarves onleh’ have males and dat we’re born from rocks! Glad at least one of ye knows to be polite! How’d ye kids wind up down ‘ere anyways?"

"Building got struck by a few siege spells, and cracked in half. We were the people stuck in the half that sank. Funny how it went down just like that, because I'm sure that these tunnels weren’t here before. It must have been the dungeon expanding, RIIIIGHT?

"Rite so, ehhehehhhhh..."Said the dwarf while hiding her pickaxe behind her body and grinning back guiltily.

"Well, since you do seem to be an expert at digging anyway, can you see if you can get us all out?"

"Rite, sure! T’surface. Ok, lemme through there and lemme see what’s dis buildin’ all about."

*Clong*

*TapTap*

*Scratch*

*Smell the powder*

"Yep, we ain't digging our way back up in dat direcshn'. Dis whole buildin's made out of a reinforced type o' magic-infused stone. Tis probableh why it hasn't collapsed on top of ye in th' first place. Me pickaxe cannot even scratch th' surface of dis stuff. We will probableh have t' dig our way around th' entire buildin', and dat's gonna take days."

"But we do not have that much time to waste! The whole Sect is under siege by Demonic Cultivators! We have to get back up and help immediately!"

"Well, it sucks for yeh, but whatever's going on up top, it doesn't concern ye anymore until we get the hell outa here, and by my mild estimeishns' dat's going to take at least one week of continuous diggin', even if we're goin' straight upwards. So ye should probably make yourselves feel at home, cuz yer stuck down 'ere with meh for the foreseeable futcha'. Enjoy some glowing mushroom stew while yer attit."

"DAMNIT!...OK the...Mr. Fung, Mr. Xibei, would you two please be so kind as to drag the Hero of the Flame down here in the dungeon? We don’t know if the building will remain safe. What if another meteor strikes on top of it?"

"Yes, Elder!"The two responded in unison while they rushed to grab Jin’s unconscious body and drag him out of the slanted building like a sack of potatoes.

"Psst...Lingfeng, is it ok to say that about Jin so openly?" I poked him hard.

"It’s fine, Trina. The cat’s out of the bag anyway. We heard the demoniacs ask for Jin’s head before they started the siege, so the news got out to them somehow. We have a severe leak somewhere in our camp. Another thing to worry about, once we get back up top."

"So yer an’ Elder of dis ‘ere Sect? Why ‘avent seen yez before back twenteh’ years ago? And wot wuz dat bout’ a Hero?"

"I am indeed an Elder here, but I was not present during the excavations twenty years ago, Miss Mc’Kracken, because I was on a mission from the Adventurer's Guild back then. I’m a Platinum-Plate Adventurer and one of the members of the accompanying party of the Hero of the Sun. Well, former party. The Hero...Ugh...died...recently."

"S’dat roite? Never ‘eard of ‘im. Musta gotten famous after oi got stuck down ‘ere. Sorreh to hear ‘bout yer loss tho. Seems like he wuz some important figure, bein’ a Hero an’ all dat. Den wut ‘bot dem kids?"

"The unconscious one is thought to be the next Hero of the Flame, and the others are...ugh...just simple sect disciples." Said Lingfeng hesitantly. "We think that the Demonic Sects are attacking the mountain because they found out that we had an upcoming Hero in custody, and wanted to get rid of him."

"Well, den we shoud probableh get outa dis specific section of the Dungeon. If yer whole buildin’ fell down like dat, den th’ rest of th’ roof could come down on us anytoime."

"Right...Ok, lead the way then, Miss Mc’Kracken."

"Just call me Car. Mc’Kracken’s too long and I wuz never th’ polite type."

"Car...is that short from...Caroline? Carlisa? Carla?"

"Carmine...like th’ red pigment. Dad saw meh pop outa meh Momma’s belleh’ painted red in blood, and thoughts it would be a funneh name for me cuz’ o dat."

"Ugh...sorry?"

"Woy? Me thinks it’s fittin’!"

Indeed, the hair and beard of the dwarf...erm...dwarfette? was blood-bright red, just like her name.

"For how long do these tunnels go on for?"

"Oh, Miles I reckn’. I never bothered measurin’"

"Then where are we headed?"

"To th’ original Dungeon tunnels. Those are th’ most stable. Don’t want anythin’ comin’ down on top of us if ye say ther’s fightin’ goin’ on at the surface level, so th’ safest place would be inside th’ old structures."

"I know that Dwarves have low-light vision, but how the hell have you managed to dig tunnels down here with no light source?"

"Oh, I used th’ Glowing Mushrooms. The dam things are everywhere down ‘ere. Elder, mind turning down dat light spell fer a second?"

"Sure."

As soon as Lingfeng turned off his Magelight, the whole cave system suddenly became inundated in the phosphorescent green-blue glow of the Glowing Mushrooms that hung all over the walls, creating a fascinating light show.

"That’s...beautiful…"

"Aye, dat it is...And ye ain’t seen anythin’ yet. Wait till we get to the main caverns. Some huge-ass mushrooms in dere glow brighter even than yer mage’s light. Also...check dis out...oi got this thing after eatin’ too many Glowin’ Mushrooms!

Immediately, the dwarf’s hair and skin lit up like a fucking neon, sending rays of light in every direction.

"Pretteh cool, eh?"

"A...AMAZING!" Said Lingfeng while inspecting the dwarf’s beard."Every single strand of hair is glowing on it’s own! This is...revolutionary! For how long can you keep that up?"

"Till I runs outa mana...ermm...I mean Qi, fer ya easterners. Almost half a day, if I keeps it on all of th’ time."

"And you say you got this from over-eating Glowing Mushrooms? How many?"

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"MANY! WAAAY TOOO MANY! Dose were the only things I had t’ eat down ‘ere. Dat, and the insects. I know what yer gonna say “EW, INSECTS”, but when yer starvin’, yer gonna be willin’ ta eat anythin’ dat moves, I tell yuz."

*UUUAAAGH…*

*MOAN*

"Trina, Jin’s coming back around. What do we do with him?" Asked Fung who was carrying the boy on his back.

"Put him down here. I need to have a serious talk with him."

*Poke*

*Poke*

*Gentle Faceslap*

"UGGHH!...MY FUCKING HEAD!...WHAT HIT ME?" Jin’s eyes widen as he comes around.

"AAARGH! YOU! YOU WITCH! WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME! AND XIBEI? EVEN YOU ARE WITH THEM? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS!"Jin attempts to light his first on fire, before being strongly grabbed by Fung and getting tossed back on the ground.

"Keep your hands where I can see them, Flameboy!" I shouted back at Jin while pointing an arrow at him with my bow. "Do you have any fucking idea what you have done? You spitefull, stupid, ignorant, petty-ass little pipsqueak! You almost got Lady Yao killed! If It weren’t for my alchemy pill, you would have now been responsible for the death of one of the Elders of the Sect! Lady Yao is a good and gentle soul! How could you do that to her!"

"Nonsense! I saw your Plague Lab! I saw all of those EVIL concoctions! Unnatural! There’s no way that..."

"Fung..."I nudged at Fungus.

*Slap*

"Actually, VERY natural, you fucking idiot. Those were tests ment to find out medicine against all of those ugly things that you saw in there. Did you even spend even a second to think about it?"

"MEDICINE? PREPOSTEROUS! I KNOW WHAT I SAW! THERE IS NO WAY MEDICINE CAN LOOK LIKE..."

"Fung!"

*SLAP*

"YOU have no fucking idea how the world works, Jin. You might be a strong cultivator, but you are a MORON! You fell to the schemes of your competitors inside your Clan and went berserk. You got led by the nose by a demon and did not even know about it. You instigated a fight without taking even a second to check if your information was correct or not. I know that you’re supposed to be brash and untamed, being the Hero of the Flame and all, but not this STUPID! Which so far, that’s the only thing you have been."

"BUT…"

*SLAP*

"NO BUT’S! Once we get out of here, I do not want to see a single trace of your red spiky hair ever again, because if I do, I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU JIN, HERO OR NOT! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR? But for now, because we are stuck in this place and need every manpower available, I am postponing my punishment to you, because unlike you, I am not a dimwit. On the other hand, you WILL listen to everything I say, and DO everything I tell you EXACTLY the way I tell you to, so that we may all get the hell out of this place in one piece. Do you understand?"

"YOU CAN’T JUST ORDER..."

*SLAP*

"YES I CAN AND I WILL. IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO LISTEN TO ME, I AM GOING TO DROP YOU IN THE NEAREST ROCKY PIT I CAN FIND AND LEAVE YOU THERE TO ROT! AND THERE'S PLENTY OF THOSE AROUND HERE! YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL, JIN! YOU ARE JUST A CHILD THAT GOT KNOCKED OUT BY A MERE BLOW TO THE HEAD FROM A WOODEN CHAIR. IF YOU WANT TO LIVE, FOLLOW MY ORDERS AND SHUT THE HELL UP!"

"UGHH...mumble"

"WHAT’S THAT? I DIDN’T HEAR YOU, JIN!"

*SLAP*

"YES OK, OK, ALLRIGHT! STOP HITTING ME!" Yelled Jin while cradling his head. "Where the hell are we anyway? Why is it so dark?"

"We’re in a Dungeon that was beneath the Hall of Medicine. The whole place sank beneath the Earth due to a siege spell strike while you were off in dreamland."

"A D...D..DUNGEON? But those are for high level parties! They kill people! OH MY GODS, WE’RE SO SCREWED."

"If I were you, I would be more worried about the three Demonic Sects above us that have all come screaming for your head. The Sect is under siege because of YOU!"

"B...Because of me? How the hell? I thought they were coming for your Plague Lab!"

*SLAP*

"That was not a Plague Lab, it was a medicine center, you fucking moron! If I hear you call it a Plague Lab again, I’ll have Fung beat you up."

"Ok, Ok...whatever…"

"For now, follow us and the glowing Dwarf Lady!"

"The what? Oh GODS, WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?" Jin finally spots the miraculously-glowing dwarf lady.

"That’s Carmine Mc’Kracken..."

"AND GIBBSN’, don’t ye forget bout’ ‘im."

"...and Gibbson, her trusty pick, and they have been down here for the last twenty years. She was currently guiding us to a safer area, when you suddenly woke up."

"Cough...Ye kids done arguin? Fiery one, dat lass! Set the boy straight immediately…I wish I had someone like dat in me adventurin’ parteh back den."

"That she is...that she is..." Replied Lingfeng while rubbing his glabella.

"Alrite, keep following meh!"

As we kept chasing after the Glowdwarf, I began to notice the sudden transition from barren rock tunnels to something that had traces of architecture on it. Both on the left and right of the path we were taking, a myriad of carvings depicting Angels, Heroes, Demons and Gods all fighting eachother could be seen everywhere, as well as many ancient-looking letters that had been worn out so badly that even with my “auto-translation” module active, I could not understand the writings anymore.

Finally, Car led us into a huge cavern that lit up under her glowlight, revealing a half-buried Ancient Temple of some sorts, with many columns and broken statues littering the landscape everywhere. The palace had been taken over by nature, as vines, stalactites, stalagmites and Glowing Mushrooms decorated every nook and cranny of the place from top to bottom. The most interesting feature though, came in the form of a rocky bridge that lay across a seemingly bottomless pit. I tried to toss a rock in the gap, and I failed to hear any end-crash noise even with my enhanced cultivator ears, so it was a VEEERY long drop to say the least. The whole thing literally screamed System Shenanigans to me, since the damn thing almost looked like the bridge of Khazad Dum, with Lingfeng obviously being Gandalf and me the fucking literal ring-bearer since I had the Tablet of Mowses stored inside of my ring. We even had a Gimli placeholder with us, albeit with a neon “character skin”. Fungus could probably count as either a Sam or a Legolas replacement, since he was the only one capable of properly shooting a bow, Jin could count as Aragorn since he was the “Main Hero” and all of that, and Xibei and Lilliam could probably count as Merry and Pippin because of their singing. All we were missing now was some sort of fucking balrog-wannabe to show in the form of one of the Demons siegeing the Sect uptop and trash the bridge, and we would be on our happy way to a totally plagiarized and copyright-infringing adventure. I also realised that I was raising a shitton of danger flags onto myself and the others for no reason with all of my negative thinking. Still, I did not think that the System would just place such a shoddy bridge over the gap without also having some way to trash it during the narrative.

"Impressive, ainit?"

"Most certainly! We had no idea this was here! We never heard about anything this deep from the archeological team!"

"Dem Elven sissies did not kno’ a thin’ ‘bout diggin properleh. I dug dis ‘ere place all by meself! Well, me an’ Gibbsn’!" Said Car with a literal glow of pride on her face. "Lemme show ye somethin’ even weirder. Might be even our way outa ‘ere. Follow meh."

Car then immediately rushed across the shoddy bridge without even flinching, like she had done so a million times. Which in hindsight, might have actually been true.

We all followed carefully while trying to not look down at the abyss below us, and finally got across the gap without the bridge falling apart for no apparent reason.

On the other side of the bridge, there was a very wide semi-circular ledge littered with columns, stalactites and stalagmites. The columns and stalagmites were arranged in a suspiciously round pattern around the room that simply just screamed “Boss Fight Mechanics” to me, so I urged everybody to proceed carefully from now on. At the end of the ledge we could see a huge double-sided door that was separating the cavern system from something else, probably the “Library” itself.

"Lookeh here...dis be me crown achievement!" Pointed Car at the highly decorated door that was affixed into the wall.

"Impressive!" Said Lingfeng while caressing the sculptures on the door. "Pre-Sinovian for sure, and by a lot! These carvings and symbols? They look like Celestial Script! And you say you dug up the bridge and the door all by yourself?"

"Aye, me founds dem both bout' 13 years ago when I w's trying t' dig meh way outa here. I thought t'was some sort of door that would lead t' th' surface, but oi cannot seem t' be able t' open it. Oi've been stuck trying combinations ever since, I havs dem all marked down 'ere on th' wall nearby."

"Combinations?"

"Aye! See dem four arrows on the door dat point at th’ Cardinal Directions? Ya can pressem down if ye wants ta! I assume dey respond ta some sort of a code, or combination. Once pressed in the roight order, th’ door would open and allow for passage, but oi ‘avent been able to finds the roite code yet."

"What about just digging around it?"

"Nope...Tried dat. The stone is unbelievably hard. Me pickaxe can’t even SCRATCH the surface when oi hit it wid me max strength".

Hmm...why does that door look so familiar? Four arrows, pointing Up Down Left Right and a Yin-Yang Symbol in the middle?

Up, Down…Left...Right...UGHH!

NOOO!

IT COULDN’T BE!

FUCK! IF THIS IS WHAT I THINK IT IS, THEN THIS IS MOST CERTAINLY PART OF A “PLAYER’S” QUEST OR NARRATIVE!

*BOOOM CRASH!*

*MASSIVE EARTH SHUDDER*

"That sounded like it came from uptop! The fight is getting worse!" Yelled Lingfeng.

*HORLONGCLONG*

*CRACK* *CRACK* *CRACK*

*BBBAAAM* A few stalactites immediately fell from the ceiling straight onto the shoddy bridge, smashing it to pieces and then sending the debris right into the abyss below.

Well...CRAP! I should have seen that coming. FUCK YOU MOMMA SYSTEM! FUCK YOU!

"AAARGH! TH’ BRIDGE! HOW ARE WE’S SAPPOSED T’ GET BACK NOW?"

"We aren’t. Lingfeng, remember what I told you about the System? Well...this is one of “those things” happening right now."

"From the…"Lingfeng narrowed his eyes.

"Yep, the other…"

"UDDER?" Asked the dwarf. "What’s a cow’s tits got to do wid’ all of dis?"

"Other! Not Udder!...Fuck...nevermind. Anyway, Lingfeng, get ready for a fight. With our only exit path cut off, we’ll have to fight our way out."

"Cut off? Just because the bridge fell, it doesn’t mean that…"

"Lingfeng...try flying across on your sword."

"Ok…" Lingfeng tossed his sword, and it simply went clattering to the ground. UGH! What the fucking hell? I just got a System prompt saying that the “The Ancient Library suppresses all Flight Skills within its confines! NO NOISE! SHHH!”

"Hah...I thought as much…Alright. Listen up everybody. I have no idea what will happen when we open that door, but it’s not going to be anything nice. See all of those stalagmites spread around the room? They are probably there to save your lives from something that can probably one-shot you if you do not get behind them in time."

"Open the door? How? Do you know the code for entering? Or have you figured something out?"

"It’s something that’s common knowledge...from the other place. This is a trial for “players”, since only “players” would know how to enter this place."

"Players? Wot are ye two blabberin’ about?"

"I’d honestly like to know that as well!" Added Xibei.

"Me too!" Said Jin

"YOU! You are a “player”, Jin, and you don’t even know it! Ugh...I don’t have the patience to explain all of this to you right now. The only thing you need to know is that shit will probably hit the fan the instant that door opens, and we have to be ready for anything. A.NY.THING!"

"Are you insane? We’re all level 15 or 16 here! We have no chance even against a single trash mob from a level 50 dungeon!" Yelled Jin.

"Yes, and you are right to think that way. But you are also missing the point. Because you are a “player”, there will always be a way for you to take down what is a seemingly an undefeatable foe, no matter how strong it may look. Back home, we called this “plot armor”, and you’re wearing it Jin!"

"Armor? I don’t see any armor…"Jin looked down upon himself while raising his hands like a scarecrow.

"It’s not visible. It’s more of a spiritual thing. Just think of it this way: as long as you are here and you TRY YOUR BEST, there will always be a way out. You just have to be SMART enough to find the exit. And at this moment, that means listening to what I say, no matter how absurd it may seem to you! DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR? NO MATTER HOW ABSURD THE ORDER! IF I SAY JUMP, YOU JUMP! IF I SAY STAND IN THE FIRE OR CHARGE THE BOSS, YOU DO IT! IF YOU HESITATE FOR EVEN ONE SECOND, YOU COULD KILL EVERYBODY! That goes for the rest of you as well. I’m not trying to be a douchebag here, but I’m the only person at this moment that has any idea about what could truly happen. Lingfeng is second after me since he has real adventuring experience, but might still get blindsided, since he has been in the company of the Hero of the Sun for too long and has developed bad habits because of the Hero’s insane regeneration. Ok...everybody come here and take some of these." I pull out some of my pill inventory and I hand it out to everybody.

"This is an all-stats medium-power buff pill, it will increase all of your stats for an hour by 5.

This is a Healing Pill, and it has a cooldown of 5 seconds and restores half of your HP, but not much of your bodily integrity. It might stop minor bleedings and patch up small holes, but nothing stronger than that. You get 5 each. It’s more painkiller than flesh regenerator. Nobody is to try any heroics just because they think that they can heal back up with these. They will not “fix” you if you get cut in half or your head gets blown to pieces.

This is a Haste pill, and it makes you run faster for around 30 seconds. Use it only in emergencies. I only have one for each of us, so be smart with the usage.

Also, just think "Accept" in your head when you get the next prompt."

Ok Timmy, invite everybody.

Timmy: Sent invite to Liliam

Timmy: Sent invite to Xibei

Timmy: Sent invite to Jin

Timmy: Are you sure you want to add Elder Lingfeng and Carmine to the party? If you invite a 6’th and 7’th member, your party will be converted to a Raid Group and will be treated as such. Because you are currently limited to only 5 users per Chat, Lingfeng and Carmine won’t be able to use the Party Chat feature once added.

That’s fine, we don’t need to worry about that at this moment.

Timmy: Sent invite to Lingfeng

Timmy: Sent invite to Car

"WHAT THE BLODE HELL!"

"UGH! WHAT’S THIS?"

"Faire maiden, is this request sent from your behalf?"

"Yes yes, that’s my doing. Just accept the invite in your mind."

Timmy: Lilliam has joined your party and has been placed in Group 1

Timmy: Xibei has joined your party and has been placed in Group 1

Timmy: Jin has joined your party and has been placed in Group 1

Timmy: Lingfeng has joined your party and has been placed in Group 2

Timmy: Car has joined your party and has been placed in Group 2

Fung had already been in my party for months now, so I did not have to worry about him, and Lingfeng seemed rather used to the whole thing.

After helping the rest “fix” their own interface so that it did not get in the way, I began to plant near the entrance of the door a bundle of over-charged fire-infused spirit stones, for the “just in case” reasons. Fung had also taken half of my entire amount of Lightning spirit stones, if I ever needed a “pitcher”. All our weapons were pointed at the door, as everybody had ducked behind one of the stalagmites.

"Alright...Everybody ready? Here we go!"

Up Up, Down Down, Left Right, Left Right, Yang Yin.

*SHUDDDER*

*CLONG* *MECHANICAL GEAR NOISES*

*CCCCCRRREEAAAAKKKK*

"FUCK! I KNEW IT! "

I immediately rushed behind one of the stalagmites with bow in hand, as a huge shadow stepped out of the door and locked it’s gaze upon us.