Dungeon fight

Jason pointed to the large room at the back of the dungeon.

"you see that guys," he said as he circled the room multiple times with his finger "we are heading straight to that, the other rooms can be saved for later, lets get the loot in there first, we can do the other stuff later, but I have a good feeling about that room"

Rocky peeked over Jason's head to see the map.

The map displayed the dungeon in a dagger shape. With Jason pointing out where they were as the hilt of the dagger. The place where Jason was vehemently circling with his finger was at the very point of the dagger. Also known as a straight line from where they currently were.

Rocky looked up to see 3 pathways slightly in front of them each going their own directions. One turned 90 degrees to the right and another to the left while the 3rd and final one continued straight down.

The 3rd corridor was the only one that Rocky could clearly look into. Broken wooden support beams, some seemed to be gnawed apart, drops of water fell from the ceiling of the cold mineshaft, the only light that Rocky could see in that cavern was just a bit of green fluorescent moss which served to only lit up a few feet in its surroundings. 20 meters into the corridor, the darkness seemed to envelop it with only the occasional bit of glowing moss seen in the distance.

Perseus after carefully sheathing his sword walked up to the crossroads where all three corridors started are looked into each one just poking his head in slightly.

After a bit, he looked back and commented

"why not split up and go into a specific corridor?"

Jason quickly ran up to Perseus and placed his hands on his shoulders he looked at him in the eye and responded slowly and carefully.

"no"

while Boops shouted in the background in Jason and Perseus's head

'that's how people die in horror moviesssssss'

Perseus cocked his head in confusion at the mention of horror movies.

Jason reassured Perseus

"don't worry about it Perseus, they are something you don't need to know about"

Boops nodded as best he could in Jason's brain space

'mhm mhm yes Perseus we must preserve your innocence'

Both Jason and Boops got quick flashbacks to when they watched their first horror movies. It wasn't like they hated them. Okay nevermind they both hated them, they both were still scared watching an evil clown offer candy to kids.

Anyways, Perseus shrugged and followed Jason as he slowly walked into the corridor, he held out the lantern creating a small circle of light in his surroundings as they traveled to the glowing moss assuming they were the guides they had in traversing the corridor.

Rocky chased after them, slightly confused as to how Jason and Perseus were able to communicate so well with just a single "no" and how Perseus just willingly accepted without objecting or complaining like his own little sister.

Rocky, was sadly the slowest of the group, he had invested most of his stat points into strength and stamina. He lagged behind the entire time, and Jason and Perseus had to frequently slow down or even stop to wait for Rocky to catch up, heaving and wheezing.

As Rocky hurried towards the two with Jason calling out to him to come quickly. He managed to spot the bright circle of light Jason's lantern was emitting and hurried towards it.

As he ran, a sudden crack was heard that resounded throughout the entire dungeon.

Rocky heard what sounded like wheels spinning as Jason let out a loud

"AGAIN?"

Rocky saw both Jason and Perseus dive to the sides of the wall as a massive spiked mace the size of his head swing down at a devastating force.

The momentum of the swing carried the mace back up to the ceiling and created a crack in the mine ceiling just from sheer force alone.

Jason and Perseus who were hugging the sides of the mine watched as the mace slowly swung back down the deadly strength and power of the weapon in front of them displayed in full force.

Without a word, Perseus leaped up with a dagger and slashed at the small wooden frame that was shrouded in the darkness holding up the mace.

Perseus with his slash easily cut through the 4-inch plank of wood and the mace fell clattering.

Jason picked it up and called for Rocky with a wide grin.

Rocky ran over, worried that something may have happened. Jason presented the mace to Rocky and pushed it into his hands. He looked up to Rocky and let out a laugh as he let Rocky hold up the huge black mace.

"congrats it's yours"

Rocky quickly took the weapon and analyzed it

[steel headed mace(right-handed)]

[attack power:140]

[rank: rare]

[options: 4% chance to inflict stun]

[description: a steel headed mace created as a weapon for a skilled adventure, unfortunately, the adventurer fell in this dungeon and the weapon was repurposed by the dungeon as a trap weapon]

Tears almost fell down Rocky's face as he read the stats. His former mace was still 50 attack power, but this, this beauty of weapon was his?

Rocky looked back to see Jason laughing evilly as he imagined Rocky stunning opponents left and right. While Perseus leaned against the wall letting out a small grin as he watched Rocky's face display all of the emotion he felt without hiding a single bit of it.

Rocky let out a sniffle and whipped his eyes.

"thank you guys" he blubbered out

But the time for Rocky's little thing was over. The sound of scamping feet caught all three's attention. Perseus drew his sword cringing slightly when he heard the blade of the sword clashing against the sheath in a rough manner.

A small red glow circled around Jason's sword as he held it out. It seems after getting the blessings in the rose household that red glow aura was going to stay permanetly.

Rocky took one last sniff and gave his chest a small thump to get himself back into shape. The gratitude he felt needed to be repaid, he thought to himself as he lumbered to the front of Perseus and Jason he placed his shield down in a hard slam making the ground shake for a few seconds.

He held his mace out and narrowed his eyes as the scampering of soft feet got closer and closer.

Boops shouted to Jason as he finally got visuals on the monsters on the map.

'uhh that's a lot of red dots, looks like a swarm of monsters around 120 of them, wait what type of monster are they? oh, Oh it's giant rats.'

Jason pursued his lips and yelled out the information while giving the other two quick commands to alter their formation a bit.

Perseus nodded and retreated a bit behind Rocky while leaving a few feet between Jason and him. Rocky also backed up a bit shortening the gap but also leaving just enough space for Perseus and Jason to swing their swords without getting himself slashed in the back.

Perseus swung his sword lightly giving a small prayer that there wouldn't be any more damage on his precious sword. Rocky stared in the direction of the scampering feet, determination was the only thing he was feeling. He was going to prove himself once and for all.

Jason was questioning why the rose knight swordsmanship didn't have a form for actual defense, instead the only thing he had close to one was a form that defended others, not himself.

The three adventures watched and waited in silence as the scampering of feet only got louder and louder.

And then they came bursting like a flood out of the darkness of the dungeon, rat-like monsters jumped out, with malty brown fur and yellow teeth. Each of them was a bit smaller than the size of a couch and they were around the height of Jason's waist which was about 2 meters.

Beady red eyes, incessant chattering, long sharp claws coated with a clear slimy substance. Barring fangs with mouths dripping drool out constantly.

[giant rat]

[level 24]

If it was just one of them, the three of them would have been totally fine, but with this much, they were definitely going to struggle, if not wipe.

The group of giant rats rushed towards the group of three like a flood, the only thing they could do was wait for the rats to come to them. They all gripped their weapons fiercely except for Perseus who did it very gently and carefully.

As the rats got closer and closer 2 metal skewers were thrown at high speeds into the crowd somewhere in the sea of rats, 2 or 3 of them were laid on the dungeon floor slowly dissipating into blue flecks. Jason let out a nod of satisfaction as he balanced another metal skewer in his hand.

Boops yelled out in his and Perseus's head slightly drunk off of the atmosphere

'lets kick some buttttttttt'