Outside of the Dungeon
William feels more than a little cold sweat running down his back, drenching his armor at the sight of the Quantum Reaper girl blowing up the head of his latest addition of forces to join his group. And the sight of that seems to break the majority of his men as half of them all immediately begin running away, only for bolts of quantum energy to be sent flying towards them as well, killing each one of the runners without any shift in the indifference on the girl’s face.
“You see, I really don’t care much about other people unassociated to me one way or another,” the girl slowly begins to speak as every one of his remaining men tense up, ready for a fight after understanding that there will be no escape. “Not unless I just feel like helping people in trouble on a whim, that is. But no one ever helped me or Astrid when we were young and being abused. But you probably don’t care about any of that, now do you?”
The crown prince’s gaze meets the reaper’s, following which the girl finally smiles and says, “But all of you tried to kill my sister. And that can’t go unpunished.”
A purple polearm appears out of nowhere in the palm of her hand, the weapon glowing with quantum energy whose power seems to be connected to the girl like that of a soulbound weapon.
“Attack her!” William shouts, deciding that he won’t just stand here, waiting for the slaughter to start.
But just as he expected, he and his eight remaining forces, all of whom are only in their high thirties to low forties in level, stand absolutely no chance against a level eighty-nine with Legendary Feats. It doesn’t even take her an entire minute to wipe out all of his men before she turns her polearm, a weapon consisting of a long pole attached to a wide short sword about two thirds to three fourths of the way up the pole, towards him.
Right when he lets out a sigh, expecting to be killed, a voice shouts in the ensuing silence, “Wait, please don’t kill him!”
He blinks in surprise before turning to find his sister standing off to the side outside of the base with the others of the reaper’s kin’s teammates. And the reaper turns to look at her as well only to glance at him again and mutter, “Siblings?” Then she blinks, recognition finally settling in on her face as she says, “The crown prince and the princess.”
The faintest hint of hope creeps its way into William’s heart while his grip on his sword tightens and he says, “You wouldn’t want to hurt the son of the-”
“Please shut up,” the reaper says, making his mouth shut closed faster than he’s ever shut up in his life. Then she turns to ask her sister, “What do you think, Astrid?”
William turns to look at the girl who is almost identical to the reaper with the exception of her inhuman qualities before letting out a sigh of relief when the girl says, “Sure. Leave him to his sister. I don’t really care.”
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Then the polearm vanishes from the reaper’s hand and the reaper stretches a little while walking over to her sister and saying, “Well, that wasn’t what I was expecting to find when I left those nearly endless caves.”
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Alexia
A couple minutes before leaving the dungeon
I stare at the large loot box that was left behind by the boss before tilting my head a little in contemplation about what might be in it. But then I just shake my head and reach out to the chest, deciding to just go for it.
And what appears above the chest… is a ring. A ring with a beautiful purple jewel embedded in a black band, with smaller purple jewels going around the rest of the band.
Not unsurprising. Rings are common pieces of equipment from dungeons after all.
I identify the ring.
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Band of the Corroded
Description: This band increases the Poison Resistance of whoever wears it by a passive two levels while it is worn.
Stats Bonus: +15 MAG, +15 MEN
Requirements: N/A
Item Tier: 2
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Nice, but not all that useful now that I’m getting it for finishing the place full of poison that I’ll probably not be returning to. Not very often that you find an item that gives a temporary skill though. A skill that only lasts in the state that the item affects it until the item is off.
I put the band over my ring finger before turning around and looking at the door. Then I look all around the cave, finding the walls to still be coated in poison even if the majority of the puddles of poison vanished at some point after killing the boss. Which makes moving through here easier.
Actually… I look at the poison that remains for a few seconds before tapping my lips.
This place could absolutely work for training my Poison Resistance skill. So maybe that band is better than I thought. Since I might be returning at some point after all.
Maybe. Depends on if I can find any enemies that are strong enough for me to get to level 100 outside of the dungeon by the time the tutorial is finished. Something I rather doubt.
I can still hope for that though. After all, it would be unfair of the Tutorial to leave the people outside of dungeons without a chance to even get to level 100 while still giving those with Legendary Feats that chance. Considering how no one but the first clearer of each dungeon can enter it during the first dungeon run.
Then again, there could be more dungeons than just the ones that have Legendary Feat holders in them.
Well, that issue aside, I turn to face the exit of the dungeon again.
I’m gonna have to explain everything that happened to Astrid, and possibly her team as well. Assuming she hasn’t ditched her team. Which I can see her doing when I’m not there.
Overall going to be a pain, but it will be nice to see her again.
I hope she’s doing okay.
Knowing her she’ll be fine though.
I smile at that thought before stepping up and touching the exit, making it flash with a purple light, completely blinding me until I end up outside of the dungeon.