The Golden King found every step he took to be a challenge as every step forward through the tunnel he was in was contested as another vine would suddenly appear and strike at him usually calming at him from a bad angle that was hard for him to block with his shield. Not to mention his main and only weapon was a mace which was a large and blunt weapon good for bashing things.

It was not good would came to reacting quickly to sudden strikes which he had to keep doing as it tried to reach the end of the hallway where he hoped there would be a way to finally stop the constant sudden and hidden attacks by cave vines. " Where do they keep coming from!" Golden King roared out clearly frustrated with the situation as well as in pain from the ambushes by the cave vines that had gotten through causing him to have a several painful bleeding cuts scattered all over his body from the surprisingly sharp and fast vines.

The Golden as he was calling himself in this game took a breath which turned out to be a mistake as at that exact moment three seperate vines slammed themselves into his shield that he'd been holding in front of himself as he moved. The sudden slam into the shield at the same time he was exhaling caused him to let out a gasp as he was sent stumbling to the floor on his knees.

Then he found himself needing to turtle behind his shield as several more cave vines we're now striking at him due to his now very vulnerable position. " You can do this." Golden said to himself in a firm whisper as he slowly went from his knees to his feet standing tall and began to charge ahead simply ignoring the vines as they strikes at him from wherever they were hiding within the cavern hallway making sure to hold his shield in front of him as he charged through like a battering ram.

Eventually his charge ended leaving him gasping and covered in painful bleeding cuts but he was now at the other end of the hallway in a small stone chamber with one entrance which was where he had come from. Golden went to a knee getting his breath back but making sure his shield and mace were at the ready. As he got his breath back in his lungs the Golden scanned the room hopping to find a source of all the vines that had been attacking him but only seeing varying shades of brown rock.

Once he got his breath fully back Golden stood back up and made for the center of the chamber hoping that maybe looking from there would let him see something that he had missed. Once he got to the center of the room he began to slowly turn himself in a circle looking at every inch of the room trying to see if they're really was a source of the vines in the chamber or if he was going to have to charge back to the where had started while being cut by the sharp ambush vines.

Just as the Golden was facing back the way he had come and was about to walk back out of the chamber the creature that had been hiding in the far side of the chamber which was now behind him striked. Luckily years of being a hero let him sense the attack right before it his so he was able to roll away knowing he couldn't turn around in time. The sudden roll hasn't gotten out of the creatures reach but had negated a good bit of the damage its attack would have done.

" Dammit!" Golden shouted in pain making it known that only being partially hit by the creature still hurt. He turned around the roll giving him the distance he needed and behold the creature that had been tormenting him in the cavernous hallway which caused stats to appear.

The unfound strike-tier two- predator beast-plant type- ambush- description- one giant root with a maw of green fangs in its center and thousand of vines growing out of it.-specialist trait- browning of vines- this predator has it's vines turn brown when not in use allowing them to bleed in with their rocky surroundings but they turn green when in use.

Golden looked at the stats for the creature examining then and realizing way he hadn't been able to see the vines until they attacked they'd been blending into the cave walls until he came within striking distance. As if to prove this point several of the unfounded Strikes roots twitched causing a flow if green to go up some of its plant roots causing a good dozen vines in the tunnel to to turn green then pp of the wall and try and pierce him in the skull.

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" Well it seems to not like me being so close to it. Well to bad because I'm getting closer." Golden said before he closed in as he slowed stepped up adjusting his shield to bare the brunt of the vines onslaught though his armor was finally doing its job. As unlike before when the vines had been aiming for unarmored weak points the creature was clearly to panic to do that now.

So it instead lashed out in beastial panic rather than the earlier cunning it has displayed. This allowed the Golden to slowly close the distance from the other side of the chamber where his earlier roll had taken him. Once he was only a good ten feet away from the beast he charged with his shield in front with one hand and his giant onion mace above his head with the other.

He had closed in on the monster bringing his giant onion mace high before burning it down as hard he could before the monster could do anything causing large part of the creature to shatter as the power of the mace to activate and the creature to let out a roar of agony. In this moment of distracted agony Golden striker again doing even more damage and killing the beast or so he thought.

As golden stood there believing heavily looking at the shattered main body of the beast that had attacked and wounded him feeling the sweetness of victory from winning against the monster the thought to be dead monster let out one jerky momevent and swung one last time with one of its vines causing a great wide cut across Golden's throat causing his hands shoot up to stop the bleeding despite knowing it would be no use.

Then a hand reached over and moved his weakening ones out of the way and applied a special green cream that immediately stopped the bleeding causing Golden to let out a sigh of relief. He looked to who has save him and saw it had been Eter the man in charge of his instructions.

" Well I gotta admit besides the end there you did a pretty good job there." Eter said complimenting golden on his well he had done as he had been impressed with his performance. As he had been watching the entire time with special giving to only those training in the name Detrei well as far as he knew.

"In no thanks to you." Golden said a feeling a bit agonistic as he had been rather annoyed being cut by so many vines not to mention his throat being slit at the end. Eter merely smirked at him for a moment before rersponding.

" What did you think I would hold your hand?" Eter asked looking at Golden with a raised eyebrow before he spoke again. " Now stop talking and enjoy your break you got two more hallways to go." Eter said with a smug smile to which golden merely laid down taking full advantage of his break.

" Hmm gotta say Simon did not expect Detrei to get so draconian with her training." Robert said a bit surprised at how Detrei has players being trained how to fight underground by fighting there was through plan monster infested tunnels. As that seemed a bit extreme for a starting point to underground combat in Allyssa.

" Well it is a bit but hey it's great for ratings nothing guiet gets all those eyeballs like a new recruit trying not to die in extreme basic training." Simon said staying in the positive side since his rating were still good though Robert supposed if those started to dip he would change his thoughts on it in a heart beat.

" I think you just had a horrible dirty thought Robert. Why I am I thinking that Robert?" Simon asked Robert rather intensely somehow sending he had thinking negative thoughts that could relate to his ratings. So Robert deciding this was getting dangerous changed the subject.

" No idea Simon anyway we got rookies to see be eaten by vegetables don't we for the ratings right?" Robert asked figuring that turning the conversation towards positives for ratings would get Simon on board for a subject change and of course he was swiftly proven right about that.

" Of course for the ratings though I will admit I do find it hilarious. Not like we can feel guilty about it since your players don't get hurt they just get sent back to their real bodies if they get a game over. So it's back to the viewing of vegetable vs man and vegetable is winning." Simon said as the two focus went back to the wall of TV screen to monitor the evolving situation with the trainees.