Alexia

Unlike anything I expected, I end up getting an egg when I open the loot box. An egg.

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Elemental Pet Egg

Description: This egg passively absorbs the mana of the user who bonds with it, eventually hatching into an Elemental Pet. The species of the bonded pet will be dependent on the elemental affinity of the one hatching it.

Stats Bonus: N/A

Requirements: Must be related to Alexia Knight to hatch this egg.

Item Tier: 4

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Huh. Why do I get the odd feeling that Luna will be rather upset if I hatch this egg.

I tap my finger against my chin for a few moments before shrugging and grabbing the egg. But unlike what I was expecting, nothing happens. I don’t feel my energy entering the egg at all.

Just nothing at all happens.

Okay… what’s going on?

A System Message appears in my vision after a few seconds of holding it.

{Users may only hatch a single elemental pet egg in their lives.}

Hmm. Yeah, I’ll just give this thing to Astrid. She can make use of it.

Kind of surprised I got another in my lifetime though.

Very surprised.

These eggs are incredibly rare after all. Most people never see one.

And I’ve gotten two.

Guess I am rather lucky after all. Just like what Astrid always says.

Well, anyways, I go ahead and put the egg in my storage ring. An act that’s only possible because of my improved storage ring letting me put in living things. Then I look around the disgusting cavern, trying to find an exit.

This is… going to be unpleasant.

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I look down from the cocoon directly at the floor, which is covered in purple water with a bunch of flesh webbing in it. Both webbing attached to the ground and the cocoon, and webbing that’s just floating around in it. Having been ripped from whatever it was on.

There also appear to be a few creeper corpses that I never noticed.

Probably were hiding inside the smaller cocoons and died during our fight.

Well, they’re dead now. Doesn’t matter.

What does matter is figuring out how the hell I’m going to find that exit.

Because the fleshy webbing is still covering over half of the cavern, and the pool of poisonous water filled with more webbing is not a very pleasant place to go searching through.

Especially with the corpses floating through it making it even grosser.

Ugh.

Well, at the very least I can start searching the upper walls. Even though I doubt it’ll be there.

I just really don’t want to wade through that disgusting mix.

So I take several minutes to recover my soul a bit before beginning to teleport around the cavern. Searching through the cocoons and the walls.

With, of course, a nose plug on. Because there is no way I’m going to be smelling the disgusting stench that is this cavern throughout this process.

No way in hell.

I continue making my rounds through the cavern, but I don’t ever find anything. Which leaves me grimacing rather strongly at the gross mixture.

Double ugh.

After staring for several seconds, I eventually just teleport over towards the main cocoon, remembering that I still need to check deeper inside of it.

In reality it’s just an excuse to prologue the inevitable.

But to my surprise, I actually do find something.

Directly beneath the loot box, there’s a hole going down all the way through the ground.

I clasp my hands together and raise my head upwards, sending a prayer to the god of piranhas, the System, for my decision to procrastinate. Then, after turning serious again, I lower my head and jump right on into the hole.

And fall for quite a while.

Longer than I was expecting.

After entire minutes of just falling, eventually resorting to teleporting to slow my fall, I end up finally leaving the tunnel.

And falling right into the open of a massive cavern with a brightly shining sun.

Which makes no sense considering that I should be underground, but I guess logic doesn’t matter in a dungeon.

The cavern I’m in – which I really can’t call a cavern since it has no walls or ceiling other than that random hole that I am currently watching seal itself back up while blocking my way back – is massive. Larger than an entire island. So large it fits multiple mountains on the edges of it along with a massive forest and one large pit at the very center of the forest.

And I have to admit, it really is a nice view while falling from this height. Then, to my surprise, I slowly begin to com to a halt right as I’m nearing the tree line.

Guess that’s how people who can’t teleport survive.

The System just floats them down to the ground.

Interesting. Takes the excitement out of it though.

I raise my head as I’m floating down with my hands in my cloak’s pockets and the memories of my time in a previous dungeon come to mind. That first dungeon, actually. With the bat cavern and the invisible platforms that I had to navigate my way down from the ceiling through.

It was also the place that I first got Luna’s egg.

Nice memories.

Once I land on the ground though, I find myself facing a very pleasant surprise.

The sight of some wolves.

Not some abominations like the creeps, creepers, or Cal. But some regular old wolves.

If you ignore the fact that this pack of wolves surrounding me is all about five meters tall each.

Perfectly normal wolves.

I nod my head at that fact.

Then I stand still while I watch them all pounce, leaving them to create a crater at the place I’m standing.

Without harming me, of course. Because physical attacks.

Yep. Perfectly normal wolves.

The wolves jump back while snarling at me.

Then each wolf begins using a different type of magic. All ranging from lightning, fire, earth, wind, water, and even dark.

Just sending an array of magical attacks towards me which I dodge by teleporting into the air with my hands finally leaving my pockets.

Not a fan of putting down these doggies, but I guess there’s no choice.