Why is this room on hard mode

Chapter 18

Monday December 22,2012

11:54 am

(Ivan's POV)

I walk into the room connecting the hallways, I look in the middle of the room and I see the machine that keeps making the robots. How does it keep rebuild itself? I send a blast of wind into the machine, in less than a second a chunk of it was ripped off. I wait for a little bit, but it looked like the machine was destroyed. I walk to the entrance of the second hallway, I look up and I take one step in. I notice that this time there wasn't a gate coming down from the roof. It looks like I'm forced to go in a specific order. I walk through the hallway; at the end of the hallway I see rope dangling from the ceiling and a couple of gray circles flying thought the air. What the hell is wrong with that room?

I step into the room and I notice that the room was smaller than the rooms I've seen before, but this time there was a huge gap in the middle of the floor. The platform I was on could barely hold me, I look on the other side and I see that the platform on the other side of the room could barely hold more than half a person. This isn't fair. I look at the ropes hanging in front of me, I notice that the ropes lead to the platform on the other side of the room. Are we supposed to use the ropes to get to the other side of the room? I guess it looks easy. I suddenly see a gray circle fly past me, barely grazing my forehead. Oh, I forgot about that. I see about twenty gray circles flying across the room, every single one of them looking like a blur.

I kind of want to give up now. I take a few steps back and I take out the map for the dungeon. I see one more room after this room before I get to the boss room. I look back up at the room, I wonder if I could just fly to the other side of the room. I walk into the room and imagine the wind picking me up. I slowly make my way off the platform, until I sense something about to attack my arm. I panic and I somehow send myself soaring through the air. I slow myself down until I could figure out what just happened, I make myself still, and I immediately feel my leg get slashed.

I let out a scream and I see a gray circle fly away from me. I look down at my leg, I see a line of red quickly fall down my leg. More and more blood flows down my leg, I wince, and I quickly start flying to the other side of the room. As I get closer to the platform, I feel my leg start to feel like it was burning, eventually it started to feel like it had knives constantly slashing at it. When I get to the platform, I drop myself to the ground. Luckily I was able to land on the platform with only being an inch away from the edge. I sense something coming behind me and without looking I use Wind's Cannon. I slowly get back up on my feet, I grab the handle of the door and I limp into the next room.

I close the door behind me, and I lean against the door, I slowly drop myself down to the floor. I look at my leg and I see blood start to drip onto the floor along with the flesh being able to be seen easily. I feel a chill run down my spine. I think about taking out a potion until I remember the item Insta- heal. I take out the item and I something that looks like a stapler appear in my hand. I slowly bring my leg closer to my body, every inch closer feels like my leg was about to give up. I bring the item to my leg and I see a needle on the bottom of the item. I put the needle to my skin and I slowly put it in. I press down on the top part and I feel a hot liquid go into the leg. I feel a little bit of pain, but suddenly it starts to fade away. I look at the cut in my leg and I see it quickly being to close itself. In a matter of seconds, the cut was completely gone, the only sign that the cut was even there was a scar that went from my ankle to my knee. I didn't even realize the cut was that big. I stand up without any difficulties; the only thing I felt was the blood from before falling down my leg.

I look at the other side of the room, and I see three sets of those machines that making robots. Why can't I have one room that just has you walking across the room? I summon Anenoid, and I give him his weapon. I take out Tribute and I aim at a robot raptor. I pull the trigger but my shot misses and instead hits the wall. I put Tribute back in my Inventory, then I quickly take out my katana. I rush towards one of the machines. I see one human shaped robot get out of the machine, I look towards its direction and without even thinking about it I quickly send a wind arrow towards his head. The arrow creates a hole in the robots head, when the robots body hits the ground all the other robots suddenly jumped out of their machines, almost as if they did this a hundred times before. I quickly stop myself from getting closer, I wait for a raptor to come towards me. Instead I see sense something aiming for the side of my head. I jump back and I look it its direction.

The first thing I notice about the thing that attacked me was its tail with a hole at the tip pointing in my direction. I look down and I couldn't tell what I was looking at, mostly because it was a thing that I have never seen before in this dungeon. I take one step towards it to get a closer look, I squint my eyes and I notice that it was a new kind of robot. The color of the robot was mostly a dark red color with some parts of its body having a bright red color that reminded me of lava. The robot had the body shape of a lion, with a mane made of metal around its neck. Somehow the mane moved like it was fur instead of it being stiff and still like metal. I look at its feet and notice claws that were definitely over six feet long. At the back of its body there was a container that had a baby blue colored liquid. The container looked like it was connected to its long black scorpion like tail. Oh god what the hell is that!

In the corner of my eye I see one of those wasp robots from earlier flying towards me, I wait for it to come closer when it was close enough, I then swiftly cut through its body with my sword. Less than a second later I sense something about to strike my back. I use Wind's Cannon to blast it away, I quickly turn around only to be met with a raptor on the floor with a dent in its chest. I stare in shock at it, since when did Wind's Cannon get so powerful? In the corner of my eye I see a piece of metal coming for the side of my stomach. I quickly block it with my sword, and I feel myself slowly getting pushed back. That fight didn't last long because shortly after I sensed something aim for my back.

I use Wind's Cannon to launch myself to the side, I look at what was about to attack me. I saw the blue liquid from the new robot hit a human robot in the chest, a hole slowly appears in the robots chest and its body collapses. Is that liquid acid? With my luck it is, either way I'm glad I didn't get hit by that. I land on my feet and quickly ambushed by four raptors. I use the wind to slice through one, but I wasn't fast enough. One caught me with one its talons while the other two bite down on my arms. I drop my sword and I let out a loud yelp as I feel their teeth dig into my skin. I try to move my arms but the more I moved my arms the more pain I felt. I quickly get discouraged from moving and I decided to block out the pain. I feel Gamer's Mind activate and I try to think of a way out. In only a few seconds I remember about Wind Aura. I start to feel a talon poke at the skin of my leg, I wince, and I accidentally bite the inside of my cheek. I imagine a layer of wind moving around my body. I see my Mp bar quickly go down. I feel the raptors holding my arms loosen their grip, the only thing holding me down now, was the raptor holding me down by the leg. I violently shake my arms and that somehow gets the raptors holding down my arms off me.

I feel the raptors talon enter my skin, I quickly take out another katana and I stab its head. The other raptors charged at me, I quickly slice through one, but the other raptor cut my arm with its talon. I cut through it with the wind and its body collapses. I start to hear my heart thump in my head. My arms and legs are begging me to stop, but I was still expecting for something to attack me. I look at my arms and see pieces of the raptors teeth in my skin. Did Wind Aura just break off the teeth? I take out a health potion and I quickly chug it. I feel the pain in my arms and legs disappear, but the pieces of teeth were still in my arms. Should I take them out? I didn't get much time to think about it; I look up and I see the machines start to make more robots.

Shit where is Anenoid!? I look around the room and I see Anenoid being surrounded by a horde of robots. He was hacking and slashing through the robots like they were butter. I notice that all of the robots were attacking him instead of me. I run to the machines and decide to leave the rest of the robots to Anenoid. I put my katana back in my inventory and I take out a laser Xiphos. I get to the machine and I quickly start wildly slash at it. In only a few seconds the machine was destroyed, I quickly move on to the next one, but the robots at the other machines were already out. God dammit!

I get out my katana and put the laser Xiphos back in my Inventory. I swing my sword at the first robot I see, a human robot tries to swing its sword at my arm but instead I doge it and stab it in the stomach. I quickly take out my sword from its stomach. I quickly feel something pierce my arm; I fall down to the floor in a heap of pain. I try to use Wind's Cannon, but nothing happened. Did I use all my Mp on Wind Aura? I look at what pierced me, and I see one of the wasp's needle in my arm. It slowly removes itself from its arm, I quickly stand up and I take a few steps back. I see a human robot try to hit me with a bat, I jump back and immediately feel my vison become blurry. What the hell? I feel something trying to attack me from my right, I run to the side and I try to look at what just attacking me. After a second of trying to figure out what it was, I guessed it was either a raptor or one of those lion shaped robots.

I see a wasp try to stab me in my chest, but I was able to quickly thrust my sword through its body. The human robot from earlier tries to once again swing at my head, I quickly sidestep, and I try to slash at its side. When my katana was about to reach the robot, the arm that was stabbed with the needle from the wasp started to shake around violently. My grip loosens on the hilt and my strike wasn't as hard as it could be. I drop the sword and I try to run away. A blurry figure of a robot quickly catches up to me. I get tackled to the ground and I land on my arm. I hear a crack and I let out an ear deafening scream. Shortly after I feel something close around the top of my head. I feel tears form in my eyes and I feel adrenaline coursing through my body. I feel pressure start to form on the top of my head, each passing second, I feel the pressure increase. I try to struggle against it but each time I moved my body I felt its claws enter my back.

I feel the adrenaline coursing through my veins begin to die out. I see my health bar quickly turn to gray. As the bar began to turn grayer, I feel my body getting weaker and weaker. I eventually feel by body go limp. I hear something to rushing to my side, as it got closer to me, I feel the pressure around my head go away. I try to move my body, but I felt like I was being weighed down by bricks. I feel something grab my waist, and it lifts me up into the air. It turns my body so that I was staring at the ceiling, I get a better look at the figure at see that it was just Anenoid looking down at me. I see his mouth move, but I couldn't hear a thing. Did my hearing leave me? This isn't fair, how was I expected to fight hordes of robots. It is my fault; I should have waited a little bit longer; I should have trained my powers more.

I feel something enter my chest, instead of it feeling painful, it instead felt warm and comforting. I feel something warm start to flow through my veins. Slowly my vision starts to return to normal. My hand twitches and suddenly my body lifts its self-up. I look at my health bar only to see that it was half gray. I begin to hear Anenoid's voice clearly. He lightly taps my face repeatedly.

"Can you hear me now? Say literally anything and I will stop." At least be a little bit worried about me. I push his hand away from my face.

"I'm fine! Now let go of me!" He lets go of me and I quickly get back up on my feet. I look around the room only to find bodies scattered throughout the room.

I guess I underestimated Anenoid a lot. I didn't think he could all of this. I turn to him and ask how he healed me.

"Just a spell I used." No shit dumbass. I walk to the door leading to the next room and I sit down next to it. When I sat down, three boxes appeared. What do the boxes want now?

You leveled up 2 times!

Lvl- 31

Xp: 21/125

Hp:134/134

Mp:113/113

Stamina:140/140

Str: 52+2=53

Dex: 57+3=59

Vit: 52+4=56

Wis: 52+2=53

Int: 43+3=46

Luc: 41+4=45

Points: 17

I'm kind of concerned that my luck caught up to my Int. I just don't want to rely on my luck, most of the time my luck is ass; my only question is how do level up my Int? I ignore it for now and I realize that all the pain disappeared when the box came up; does my health refill itself whenever I level up? I'm not complaining, I'm just curious to how all of this works. I put aside the thought for now and I check the other boxes.

Thanks to the repeated use of skills, you leveled up!

Lvl12 Wind's Cannon-> Lvl13 Wind's Cannon

Lvl10 Wind Arrow->Lvl11 Wind Arrow

Lvl6 Wind Slash-> Lvl7 Wind Slash

Lvl7 Wind Aura (Mode I)-> Lvl8 Wind Aura (Mode I)

Lvl6 Fly-> Lvl7 Fly

Lvl13 Physical Endurance-> Lvl16 Physical Endurance

Lvl10 Sprinting-> Lvl11 Sprinting

Lvl8 Basic Slash (Katana)-> Lvl10 Basic Slash (Katana)

Lvl2 Parry (Katana)-> Lvl4 Parry (Katana)

I feel some pride as I read through the list. I wonder if there is a limit to how far I can level up these skills. I close the box and look at the last box, the box just told me that I got new items. Mostly just potions, Insta-heals, and some weapons. There was still no laser katana; I just want that one thing! I get up and I stretch. I see Anenoid walking towards me, the closer he got to me the more I notice how tall I was. From what I can guess his height was around five feet eleven, but right now he barely reached my shoulder. Anenoid leans on the door and he closes his eyes. I decide to sit back down and rest. At first there was an awkward silence between us. Thankfully Anenoid broke the silence.

"So you're tall now." I look at him and see an embarrassed look on his face. "Never thought you would be taller than me." I just reply with a silent grunt and a silence falls over us again. I close my eyes and to begin to let my thoughts wander. Somehow, I begin to think of what my Soul power would be if I could use Soul. I wonder if it would useful. I wish I could use both. Wait can humans use both. If they could why don't people learn both; everyone I met know only how to use Soul, I think Anenoid is the only person I know that uses magic. Even then he uses Aztec magic. Wait why doesn't he just use both? I look and at Anenoid and I begin to ask him.

"So how come you don't use Soul? You aren't a demigod, why not just both magic and Soul?" He thinks for a little bit and then replies.

"Usually no one can use both. Mostly because when you use magic something happens in your body that prevents you from using Soul, same thing happens when you learn Soul. So most people have the choice between using magic or Soul. But most people use Soul because its easier to use."

"So why did you pick magic?" I see him take a deep breath. His eyes begin to look like he was about to cry.

"My mom was good with magic, so I wanted to be like her." His lip quivers and I think I see a tear roll down his check. Feeling uncomfortable I let out a, Oh.

Some time passes before I decide get up and go through the door. Anenoid grabs me the shoulder.

"Are you sure we should enter the door? You almost just died; I doubt the dungeon will get easier from here." I think about it for a little bit. I feel my legs shake a little bit, but I calm myself down. I guess if things get bad, we can just run away.

"If I think I'm going to die, I will just run away." He rolls his eyes and he backs up a little bit.

"Fine." I push the door open and I step inside. I step inside and I get overwhelmed by how big the room was.

Hopefully Anenoid doesn't smack anything this time.