The city Zelis is the biggest city in the island Osterious and is also the only place with order and laws. Zelis is the first real city created in Osterious and is the only city that has the support of an adventurer's guild as its main source of income. The adventurer's guild is in charge of recuiting adventurers and managing/training them by receiving requests from the locals and by exploring the surrounding area and seeing if there are any threats in area that need to be taking out. The Mana caves are caves with a mana core the continously release mana that creates monsters such as goblins, spiders or silmes. However, the reason why the adventurers came to this island in the first place is due to the fact Mana caves are known to only show up in Osterious and the first mana cave was discovered around 200 years ago. They even sent over in the A-rank Half-elf Candor to watch over Osterious and investigate these mana caves and make sure they are not a danger to the world.
POV Candor
"Have you investigated the disappearances of the dead bodies in this island yet Helna?"(Candor)
"Yes sir After 100 years of investigating we finally figure out what is causing the disappearences""(Helna)
"I see is it how I think it was?"(Candor)
"Yes sir after digging up ancient files we have determine that this situlation in exactly what happens adventurers died in dungeons long ago...sir do you really think after around 600 years without a new sighting of dungeons that we would really find a dungeon here."(Helna)
"You humans really have a weak grasp of time due to your lifespan...this island showed up out of the blue 450 years ago and in the last 400 years many different kinds of people have tried to conquer this island only to be wiped out by other bandits or monsters from mana caves."(Candor)
*knock knock
"Come on in, Helna you can get back to the reception office tell me if you found out anything new."(Candor)
As Helna leaves the office, An male clerk brings in Fred
"Sir this man saids he found a Mana Cave and he wants to report the location of it to the Adventurer's guild for the reward."(Clerk)
Candor seems a little shock that a Mana cave has been discovered so quickly and he quickly brings out a map showing a detailed drawing of Osterious including locations of well known bandit groups, towns, hideouts, mines and previous locations of known Mana caves.
"Point out where you found this Mana cave...If you lie I will personally hired the assassin guild to hunt you down...are you sure you wish to report the appearence of a Mana cave?"(Candor)
"Yes I would, it appeared directly in the middle of Osterious as shown in the map. Its a cave that gave off an massive sensation of Mana and I can still feel how dangerous it was."(Fred)
"The middle...I See! This makes since...so you finally shown your true colors, John give the man his reward and escort him out of the guild."(Candor)
'I sure hope no ione is stupid enough to enter a Mana Cave alone without my supervision' (Candor thought)
'A dungeon over 500 years old after absorbing the dead bodies of everyone who died in Osterious and in a time where no humans know the terror of dungeons. Not even I could defeat the dungeon in my current state and if what I think is true then this might be the actual entrance to the dungeon'(Candor)
POV Bandit Leader Lentios von Grefor, Lenti
"You Morons! How could we lose three men to an goblin ambush. Now I only have 9 meat sheilds to lose and we only cleared the first floor"(Lenti)
The first floor of this mana cave was supposed to be easy it only had about 16 goblins and it was a straight line to the stairs with only 2 rooms on each side making it 4 rooms in total. However, Lenti charged ahead and rushed to the stairs dealing with all of the goblins in the hallway and then he spilt his men in 4 three men groups and sent them into the roomns and cleared out the goblins in half of the rooms while the goblins were sleeping, but a series of small goblin sized tunnels connected the rooms and the last team was ambushed as soon as they turned their backs and let down their guard thinking it was an empty room was killed by 6 goblins.
"Fucking Fools...morons...That's it! You Fools can't be trusted for anything! Come on you fools I guess you need me to fucking hold your hands in this cave. We are Bandits for crying out loud. How can you forget to check for ambushes when our job is ambushing Merchants"(Lenti)
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"But sir...whear ar tha bods I canet see tem"(Joe)
"The Goblins are probably eating them. It doesn't matter just stop speaking your accent is killing me...If I hear anyone talking besdies me I will fucking kill you and feed you body to the fucking monsters as bait."(Lenti)
Joe desperately nods his head and shuts up as the rest of the bandits go down the stairs to see a wide circular room full of copper veins and a goblin camp sitting right in the middle of the room with 4 goblins guarding the entrance of the camp and 10 goblins spread out the room mining copper.
"Okay morons. what we are going to do is kill the goblins around the room first with our bows and then the rest of you will focus on shooting every goblin that comes out of the camp with arrows."(Lenti)
His men nod there heads and take out their bows and while it took awhile and several of their arrows miss their targets they managed to kill around 18 goblins and collected the copper the goblins collected.the arrows that could still be used. Lenti then led his men to the camp easily killing the rest of the goblins and the only tent left was the middle tent. Where 4 goblins with copper clubs along with their boss a Hobgoblin with copper armor and a huge copper hammer. The 4 goblins were easily killed by Lenti's men and Lent's sword easily burn through the hammer and armor killing the hobgoblin in one strike. After looting the camp Lenti and his men rested up a couple hours maintaining their equipment and preparing themselves for the next floor.
Lenti immediately could feel something was different in this floor. The floor seemed to be a simple cave with no side rooms and large puddles spread across the room with only 10 goblins in sight that charged at Lenti's group until only two were left and they retreated. However as Lenti's men started to approach the puddles to clean themselves and get a drink of water. Lenti realize too late that these were not puddles, but slimes as Lenti tried to warn his men the puddles shot off from the ground killing everyone who was trying to clean themselves and the 10 slimes combined to one big ambusher slime disolving everyone in its body. Only Lenti, Joe and Henry were left and slimes were hard to kill without magic due to their acidic body capable of melting equipment. Henry enraged watching his friends die charge at the slime foolishly trying to avenge his friends only to be pierce by a slime whip and be swallow whole. The slime then split into 5 different bodies each charging at Lenti and Joe in different directions.
Lenti immediately grabbed his spare spear and threw it at the slime's core shattering it and therefore killing the slime. The slimes lost their form and turned into puddles again. Lenti looked at his fallen men and at Joe.
"Fucking Morons...think for a moment where in hell would water show up in a cave when it hasn't rain in the last month. Fucking idiots...Joe grab what you can we are leaving this dammed cave behind...we got enough loot to rebuild our group and recuit more morons like you."(Lenti)
Joe shook his head and pointed his fingers behind Lenti.
"Joe you can speak now...fool what are you looking at...the Hell...how is it still alive!"(Lenti)
Just as they were about to leave the cave. The dead slimes combined once again into a giant slime and ambushed Lenti who barely moved out of the way, but his arm was taken away from him. Joe took out his bow, but lenti used his other arm to push Joe out of the way as a Slime dive at him from the ceiling. Joe confused by the sudden push could do nothing as both Slimes attacked Lenti. Lenti tried his best to use his magic sword on the slimes, but it was a losing battle with no time left. Lenti Kicked Joe backed up the stairs and screamed at Joe.
"YOU FUCKING IDIOT IF YOU SEE A MONSTER THEN TELL ME SOONER! LEAVE ME...I DON"T NEED YOU ANY MORE. TAKE THE LOOT AND WAIT FOR ME AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE CAVE."(Lenti)
Joe with tears in his eyes nodded his head started to leave when he heard something being thrown to him. He instinctively caught the item immediately noticing it was Lenti's Sword. Joe cried even harder and rushed to get out of the cave. Lenti seeing Joe leave him to his fate smile once last time as his spare weapons disolved and his statmina spent. He looked at the Slimes and Screamed.
"I am the bastard of the noble House Grefor, I stole the heirloom from my house and I killed hundreds of people. I don't need any weapons to deal with you Dammed monsters."(Lenti)
Lenti used his remaining hand to grab the Slime's core and shatter it before his arm disolve in the acid..finally killing the slime for good.
"I am sorry brother...in the end the only thing I gave to your kid was nightmares and your heirloom. I killed all of your enemies and the people who caused our house to fall to ruined...Lentios von Grefor is my name and you son Joe, no Joiestein von Grefor will be able to survive without me protecting him...I guess in the end I am the biggest Moron in the world...right...after...tell...ing...my...men to be...careful...I...end...up killed in a ambush...I...am...a...fucking...fool...am...I...not...Brother"(Lenti)
POV Joe, (Joiestein von Grefor)
"Uncle you always knew didn't you...that I was here to avenge my father...for all of your talk of how your family was ruined...you never explained to the others that you caused the downfall of our house by stealing our greatest weapon and running away from the house, but Father never blamed you even when he was killed by bandits and asked me to forgive you...I could never forgive you so I tracked you down and pretended to be a fool to let your guard down for me to kill you. Yet you probably knew what I was planning and yet you still allowed me to poison and weaken you until you were anger all the time and evenually you made a mistake and died due that mistake...know this Uncle I will not thank you, but in graditude for everything you have done for me I will avenge you and destroy this cave even if it costs me the rest of my life."(Joe/Joiestein)
With that said Joe left the cave and travel to train himself and gather more bandits to raid this place with an army of bandits using the money his Uncle saved up to buy the numbers he needed to become the first Bandit king of Osterious.