Chapter: 67

“I’ve nearly levelled up anyway, so I want to keep going. Maybe I can also reach level five before we get too tired”.

“Sounds good. Let’s move.”

The two continued like this for the next few hours, finding that the smaller obelisks would eject two level one bayrings or one level two – while the bigger obelisk’s would eject two level two’s and rarely, a level three.

As they walked, they came to realise that the distant mountain-sized obelisk wasn’t getting any closer. They both came to the conclusion that it was simply an illusion, designed to have them walk in a certain direction.

“Hmm, I wonder if there’s a boss in this dungeon” said Jay. So far, it seemed endless, and there wasn’t a progression in the obelisk sizes – it was all random. “They said there would be level seven obelisks in this dungeon right? It seems weird that we haven’t even found a level four one yet”.

“We have to figure that out on our own.” said Anya as she looked at the moon and her crystal.

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“Just fucking hit it!” Matheson said, dodging away from the flying bayring’s [Graze] skill.

“I am! It’s got so much damn health!” Trenley yelled back. The level five bayring had a huge health pool, but they had gradually taken it down to about 15% HP.

“AH!” Trenly suddenly screamed as a level five bayring was digging it’s crystal into his back. He fell forward as it pushed into the wound “Fuck this, I’m outta here! We’ll die if we continue!” Trenly knew he needed to escape, at this point it doesn’t matter what Matheson said.

Trenly screamed, slowly losing consciousness as he began to run away from the bayring – he could leave if he made enough distance; thankfully he had a movement ability, [Dash], which gave him enough distance to meet the requirements to leave the dungeon – he had to make it out of the monsters aggression range.

“Little stupid unreliable bastard!” Screamed Matheson, seething with rage while seeing Trenly abandon him as he killed the bayring they both damaged together, before grabbing its crystal and exiting the dungeon.

“Ah!” Trenley yelled as he floated down from the yellow ring – the dungeon entrance. He was caught by his ranged class trainer.

“Tend to his wounds, then take him back to the guild.” The trainer said in a calm voice.

“Sir.” A guard grabbed the young man from the trainer and carried him off.

Before long, out came Matheson, swearing with a red face full of anger. “Fucking bastard! He nearly got me killed! I tried to tell him we shouldn’t attempt the level four dungeon but he didn’t listen! I only stayed there to protect him! Instructor, I want to join another party!” Matheson did nothing but lie.

The instructor shrugged “All the other’s are in the dungeon. There’s no one you can join. You can go by yourself.” ‘…He’s a pretty bad liar for a noble’ Thought the instructor.

“Ugh! Can’t you come with me? Hmm?!?”

“No. We have strict orders to guard the students, due to another situation happening in the forest. Not even your father can override these orders.”

“Bastard” said Matheson, he knew the instructors couldn’t punish him so he cursed at them freely. Turning around, he floated back into the dungeon.


Anya levelled up to four as they killed more Bayring’s and collected the green crystals – each of them having about 120 green crystals.

After killing so many Bayring’s they were becoming quite proficient at killing them – Anya would keep one stunned while Jay and Muffins would destroy another as they each switched between tanking the damage from it every four seconds so that it’s [Graze] skill didn’t burn them.

This gave them enough time to kill both of them before they could release a charge attack.

Walking through the dungeon, they came to an obelisk which didn’t eject any Bayrings.

It had three holes on each of it’s four sides. It only took a moment before Jay and Anya got a message.