39.4ᴘᴀᴛʀᴇᴏɴ.ᴄᴏᴍ/sᴛʀᴀᴛᴏᴛʜʀᴀx

Opal scowled. "Why do you even want protection? You've got invisibility, you can just scuttle away like a rat!"

"I can't leave and I have a very fragile kind of invisibility. The only reason those two assassins didn't know to look was because they hadn't heard the news yet. If you know to look and have the right tools or skills it's not hard to see me."

"See! She's useless!" said Opal triumphantly.

The Elf-sheep opened her mouth to protest but Rain held up a paw.

"It's fine. Tell me, none of your skills let you see others who are invisible right?"

"No, I can maybe get a feeling someone with invisibility as fragile as mine is nearby, I'm part Elf, but someone high level? Not very likely."

Rain nodded. "That's… not good. We need to change the situation, either we find some way to see the invisible… or we leave the dungeon, go where they aren't.

Opal turned on him in surprise, even the Kobold looked surprised.

"What!" said Opal. "We can't leave!"

"Sooner or later at least some of those levelers are going to find us and if they are in large groups we aren't going to win. If there are any more assassin types all they have to do is get lucky as we have no way of seeing them. The simple answer is to go where they are not without them knowing, that way they spend their time scouring the dungeon looking for something that is already gone."

"B-but!"

"It will be fine Opal, it's safer on the surface normally, away from a dungeon swarming with levelers? Definitely so."

The Goblin gave him an offended look, as though she couldn't believe he was considering this.

"I'm sorry, It's a nice idea, but it's not going to work," said Lyra "The Inquisitor, she put the dungeon in lockdown, nothing and nobody can leave or enter, it's literally impossible."

"Are you sure?"

"I saw it myself, I went to check the entrance before I found you. We can't leave."

Opal scuffed the ground with the ball of her foot. "Why don't you just take one of the other ways out?"

The Elf-sheep blinked at her. "What are you talking about? There are no other ways, dungeons only have one way out, obviously."

"Hmphh, you're so cocky and arrogant, typical leveler. I have something you don't sheep girl, I have memories, memories of Gobbos in past lives, I know there are other ways out of this dungeon because Gobbo scouts used them in the past."

Rain and Lyra stared at the Goblin.

"Dungeon m-monsters can leave a dungeon whenever they w-want?" said Lyra, a little childhood fear creeping into her voice.

Opal crossed her arms. "It's a secret Gobbo route, for special Gobbos. Like me."

"You can show us the way out Opal? A way to avoid the lockdown and leave all the levelers hunting me hunting ghosts instead?"

"Well yeah, that's what you want right? That's easy."

"I can't believe this, how can there be another way out that levelers don't know about, we have mages that use magic to look for that kind of stuff!"

"Levelers are all drooling nasty morons, it's really not that surprising they'd miss a clever Gobbo thing like that." said Opal, lifting her head at Lyra and looking down her nose at her.

"I'll believe it when I see it. It seems far more likely you had a weird dream and are confusing it with ancestral memory."

Opal stuck her tongue out at Lyra. "Hmph, suit yourself, get ready to eat crow though." She turned away and joined Red in sorting through the undead.

"What's your name Elfy-sheep thing?" said Rain.

She wrinkled her nose in annoyance. "It's Lyra, and I'm not half sheep, I'm half-Elf half-Woollie. My father was an Elf, my mother a Woollie, and please keep the jokes about sheep to yourself, and the ones about Elves sleeping with anything on two legs."

"My name is Rain. The angry Goblin is called Opal."

"I'm not angry!" seethed Opal.

"I need you to come here Lyra."

Lyra eyed him and then nodded, she took a step from behind the pillar, her legs trembling out of control. She took another step and nearly fell over. She looked down at her shaking sheep legs in frustration.

"I hope spending time around you cures me of this. This is quite humiliating."