The Golden found himself walking down the second hallway holding his Viburnum shield in front of him as he moved forward, having to move slowly under constant attack and swinging his giant onion mace as much as possible. This was because, unlike before, the threats in this hallway were not hidden, waiting to ambush him, but were overflowing, trying to overwhelm him through sheer numbers.

Golden managed to block a few more stings with his shield while sending a few of the other creatures crashing to the ground with his giant onion mace. This latest sideswing of his had given him some breathing room, so he used it to identify the creatures that the cavern hallway was filled with as he stared at the broken corpses on the ground for a moment, causing a stats screen to appear.

The swarming petal-tier one- swarm beast-plant type- swarm- description- a creature made out of petals made into the shape of various aggressive insects such as hornets or wasp-specialist trait- infinite petal- this creature never runs out of petals which is good because in battle it uses the petals that make up it's body by sharpening them to stab enemies.

The Golden having gotten the details of the creatures, though he had lost his breathing room as more and more of the swarming petals came to give him a game over. Though the golden cane came to the conclusion that the Swarming Petals were probably being spawned by something at the end of the cavernous hallway. So once again he found himself having to charge down the hallway, though this time it was so he wasn't overwhelmed by the creatures sheer numbers.

He was stabbed repeatedly by the strange petal stingers of the swarm, but thankfully the stingers weren't as dangerous as the vines before them, and his shield was just as good for bashing them as his mace was. Which made his charge through the swarm far more effective than it had been through the vines, though as he ran through, he feared this hallway was actually longer than the previous one, which made it easier for the swarm to wear him down.

"Not now, not today." Golden said firmly to himself as he pushed through the thousands of the swarm of petals that had filled every inch of the hall. He did not let the creatures stop him despite the hundreds that had put themselves on his limbs slowing him down, and it didn't matter when he swung his giant onion mace to kill them, for they were soon replaced, but soon enough, through sheer determination, he reached the other end of the long, cavernous hallway where his true quarry awaited.

There in the center of a stone chamber was a giant flower that kept creating swarm petals at a rapid pace. "Well, it appears if I am to win, I must stop you, your Highness, and as one ruler to another, I apologize." Golden said in an apologetic tone as he looked over the creatures that had appeared before him.

The swarm queen flower-tier two- brood beast-plant type- brood- description- a giant flower with thousand of pink petals along with a green spine and brown roots - petal brood- this queen of flowers uses it always replenishing thousand petals to create a constant stream of a petal based insects that attack all who enter its domain.

The large flower continued to spawn a swarm of petal insects to try and destroy him, though he could tell there seemed to be a certain frenzy to its movement as if the swarm queen flower was panicking that he had gotten so close. "I apologize that I have caused you to act undignified near your end queen. Allow me to end you before you soil your dignity even further." Golden said politely to the panicking monster flower before charging at it, to which its swarm petals countercharged him with their swarm.

The two sides clashed in the chamber, both putting their all in their charge as the swarm formed into a constant stream trying to force Golden back, but they were not enough as they could not stop the golden determination. So step by step he made his way closer to the swarm queen flower until finally he was in range and brought his mace high in the air.

"This is goodbye, your highness. I hope history is kind toward the details of your rule." Golden stated simply before bringing down his giant onion mace on the flower queen, ending her and her rule. As once his mace made contact, the flower queen exploded in a shower of plant guts, and her swarm fell to the ground not soon after.

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Golden stood there a moment, breathing heavily, and like before, Eter made himself known behind him. "Well done there. I take it you need a minute." Eter stated, not really asking, figuring from Golden's heavy breathing that he did need a minute to rest. Golden didn't respond; instead, he ignored the offered rest time and walked back the way he had come, wanting to go down the third and final hallway, which would finish the tutorial.

He took the way back slow, not pushing himself, so after a far longer time than it took him to charge down the cavernous hallway, he had walked back down it. Finding himself back in the central chamber, he then took a quick breath, then brought his shield up, then began his march down the third and final trial of the tutorial.

He had barely made it a few steps down when it was made very clear this would be very different from the previous trials. As the cavern walls were covered in moss, stone creatures that were staring at him were waiting for him to get closer. That's when he felt Eter standing behind him, though he didn't turn around to face him as he did not want to turn his back on the most creatures.

"Well, trainee, this third trial is optional, just so you know. But if you decide to take this trial, you just need to make it to the other side; that's it. There's nothing waiting for you on the other side." Eter said simply making it clear the simplicity of the trial. Golden looked at the army of angry-looking moss monsters, then back at Eter. "If you get killed trying the third trial, you get spawned in the Dragfly Mountains instead of being sent to wherever you come from." Eter said, responding to the unasked question.

So Golden felt this was the best time to test the question on whether or not what he saw in the promotional movie had been people being teleported out, so he simply charged into the third cavern tunnel. This caused the moss creatures that filled the cavern to charge at him in a green frenzy. Golden had a moment right before him, and the force of green rage met, allowing him to see their stats screen.

Moss racer ants-tier two- calvary beast-plant earth type- brood- description- a mix of moss and rocks forming the general shape if an ant this creatures are always in a rage for all those who dared enter the paths they call there's- green charge- these creatures charges grow far more powerful and dangerous when on the green moss marked paths of their territory.

Golden had only a few moments to look down and see the green moss paths that covered the cavern hallways floor before looking back to the moss racer ants heading his way. Golden, realizing what was about to happen, had one word to say: "Shit." He stated simply before he was reduced into a red smear as the moss racer ants sudden fast charge ran him over in an instant charge too fast for him to react.

What was left of the Golden began turning into light as he was beginning to spawn into the Dragfly mountains. Though before he left he heard Eter speak to him. "That last one was more a trial and more a lesson on death traps. Hopefully, you'll have learned it." Eter said in an even tone before Golden was gone completely, as he would find himself somewhere else with Eter's final words ringing in his ears.

"Well, I gotta say, Robert, your Detrei has really come through on this one." Simon said as both men looked at the many different players going through the tutorial for the Dragfly mountains. It was rather interesting to say the least, as many players had many comic fails, but the more competitive ones timed themselves and redid the tutorial hoping to better their times.

"Yes, she did. Honestly, though, I might have to do something with all the player footage." Robert said he should probably create some kind of official record-keeping for the fastest times to placate the competitive players.

"I see where you're going here, and I agree; it's always a good boost for long-term viewer numbers when you have some kind of scoreboard that's changing, as people tend to want to know who's number one." Simon said his obsession with boosting viewer numbers was coming through once again.

"Fair enough. I suppose I'll get on it while you watch and make sure everything is running smoothly." Robert asked Simon, wanting to get on with the improvement but also wanting to make sure he would be informed in case anything went wrong.

"Of course, Robert, you know I wouldn't let you miss the action." Simon stated before focusing back on the TV screens to see the players and their hijinks, while Robert got to working on a system that would help deal with the scorekeeping the competitive players wanted.