27***First Floor (Prep)[Part 2]

Angus

We are in trouble!

Thanks to those Deus Ex Machina level buffs Nylon got us, I was cleaving through those Giant Lizards while he switched between tanking the lizard attacks and killing the remaining Flying Beetles, and now only on beetle and lizard remained!!!

The thing is though, our buffs are gone!!!

Adrenaline Disabled. You're hit with Fatigue x3

Nylon's Lizard Skin Was Shed. Softness Enabled

When the buffs ended, we got some serious de-buffs, with mine leaving me partially stunned in mid air!!!!!

With my buff gone, and all but my Flint Daggers broken, I looked at Nylon to see if he had any other Deus Ex Machina plot twists up his *ss, but all he did was give me a sad-looking big *ss, sh*t eating grin and mouthed a few words to me before he started running to me.

It wasn't until he got under me before I realized what he said...

'Sorry'

He back flipped into the air and rested a Stomp (I heard him shout out the name when we fought those bandits) into my back and kicked he upwards! He was sacrificing himself for me to live again!!! Well I had news for him!!! That wasn't going to fly this time!!!!

I activated Revolver Shot!!!

Using its slow mode, I grabbed Nylon's leg and shot him up in the same direction he was going to kick me! But he then turned on that Full Coil thing and grabbed my arm the moment I let him go, throwing me up even faster! Seriously, is he doing this on purpose?!! My mind moves x5 faster in this mode, and my body moves at x3 its speed, but he still caught up and manage to throw me back before I could react!!!!

So instead of throwing him back, cause I still only had 5 seconds I just held on to his arm and let his momentum drag us both up!

I was like this for what felt like ten seconds, so 2 seconds must've passed in real time. After grabbing Nylon's arm, I realized the lizard's head that was coming after me change its course slowly in my POV, to intersect mine!!! I had about 3 more seconds with Revolver Shot to hit him, which would have been more than enough, but a quick simulation told me that if I threw one now, our momentum would have flung us out of control!!!

I had to set myself up for a throw that wouldn't outright throw us into his claws or something, so I had to wait for two more seconds before I was almost in optimum throwing position!!!

'Five' I started counting down in my head. Still not enough!!!

'Four' still not enough!!!

'Three' my last Flint Dagger is ready to throw, but it's still not enough!!!!

'Two' come on, almost there!!!

'One' BINGO!!!!!

The instant I let go my Dagger, the Stun effect hit me like a truck! But things were already in motion!!!

The dagger got the piercing effect on it and it went into its mouth and up its head with a crit hit, killing it instantly!!! Nylon, unbeknownst to me, had set himself up to Shield Bash an incoming beetle and with our joined antics, we were thrown a fraction higher! The stun plus the fatigue increase were both too much for me, and I only had enough time to hear a notification go off before I was forcefully logged out!!!

Nylon

Lost Dungeon Found

ABANDONED LADYBRINTH

"Angus? Angus?!!! Noooooooo, Angus!!!! You little sh*tf**k who could you just die like that??????!!!!!!" I yelled out before I immediately covered my mouth in embarrassment!

'Why the heck did I curse so suddenly?! I've never done that before!!! Was that because of Angus perhaps?!!!' I heard once somewhere that whispering in some areas for long amounts of time, can cause some of the more dominants personality traits of the receiver to get transferred! I don't know exactly how long we've been out their but I do know we've been using it practically non stop while we were running to get here! The fact that we are doing that in this weird area is another thing. Maybe whatever is keeping this place from being shown up on the map is what caused this???

In any case, Angus has a serious potty mouth. I think I need to have a word with that little f....

Party Member Angus' Fatigue Levels have reached unstable. Avatar Has Blacked Out. Angus Has Been Force Logged Out. Cooldown: 30 minutes

I stopped my over dramatic mourning when I saw the notice the notification, and sighed in relief. I realized something about Angus after thinking about it for a bit while she was being sulky, and if what I'm guessing about her is right, she needs to live more than I do.

I did a scan of the parameter, and after confirming that no monsters were coming for us, I dragged her body with me to the entrance of the dungeon.

The entrance was.... not what I expected. Being little more than a hole, slightly inclined and with a Stick Grate covering the entrance and nothing but small shrubs and open land surrounding it in a small circle, it was... anti-climatic at best....

Now, I know what your thinking!!! I jumped and saw the dungeon so I shouldn't be so surprised right? But the thing is, I didn't see the dungeon...

All I saw was a small wooden cross that jutting up, and that was only because its unique color in this basic waste land caught my eyes! Even using Body Reinforcement essence on my eyes, I couldn't even identify what it was from that distance, and it was only until I was almost out of essence replenishers and couldn't waste them on jumping and eyesight enhancing when I realized it was a cross!

I was expecting something more, like a building reduced to rubble with a stairway going down, or a cave entrance, but not this!!!

Sighing in disappointment, I pulled out the last of the meat I had and made a fire using dry grass and dead leaves I found lying around, and a small bit of Explosion essence. I'm really lucky that I have my Improvisation Mastery. If I used Explosive essence without it, it would have just exploded in my face without lighting!

I made a splint and set all the meat to Roast, then I cleaned up my remaining shield and gear. Mobs avoid areas in front of dungeons, so I decided to log out and deal with thing in the real world. I may be stuck in that dungeon for quite some time, so I really don't want something unfortunate to occur outside while I'm there.

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Back Home

"Owowowowowowowowowowoowowowowowowow!!!!!!!!" I screamed out as I logged out! My whole body was enveloped in pain, reminding me about what had happened!

'I must have been moving up and down in real life.' I thought to myself, though that made no sense to me seeing as if I was experiencing this much pain, I should have been forcefully logged out of the game the moment I was...

"Bark Bark Bark!!! *pant**pant**pant*" My musing were ended as I saw Crash rolling around on the floor all happy like, his tongue sticking out of his doggy grin as his tail tossed his behind to and fro! A white bandage at his midriff and hind leg the only thing stopping this from being a really cute scene, and I almost tore up at the sight. I still don't even know why they attacked him like that!!! Though it doesn't really matter, those thugs will pay for this some day!!!! Just... not now....

I got up and stretched a good stretch! My wounds didn't start bleeding again, so I headed to the bathroom to change them myself. Lets just say, my stomach doesn't like me for doing that to it...! I also changed Crash's bandages and after cleaning up a bit, I headed down to get something to eat. It's been a full day at the very least since I jumped back on, and I'm starving!!! I went down to get some food, only too find a sandwich under the food cover and dogfood in Crashes bowl! Mom must have come down earlier and made something! A sad smile broke on my face as I saw the food. I wonder if Mom's okay. I couldn't bare it if I worried her enough to make her stop playing...

I slowly ate my sandwich with that in mind and jumped back on the game to wait for Angus.

And boy was I surprised when I got there!!!!