Illusory Dungeon Raid #2

"Everyone follow it. Don't let it escape!!" Ryu shouted as he rushed behind the cat, followed by Jue and others,

'Why is it running away!?' Ryu wondered as he had never experienced dungeon monsters that ran away, Jue who followed closely behind him, felt weird about the cat they chased,

"Big brother, it is alive," Jue said, and Ryu replied while running,

"Of course, it is alive. If it wasn't, why would we chase it!! Now hurry up!!" Jue meant something different, and Ryu knew it, but there wasn't much time to talk about it as they couldn't let the cat escape their sight,

The cat, which was running away, strangely turned its neck back every once in a while, after making a distance as if checking if they were still following or not,

Suddenly the white cat rushed out from the illusion wall and ran out towards the area the main area of the dungeon,

"Big brother, there is someone there!!" Jue said as he halted running, and Ryu stopped too. The white cat had rushed from the right illusion wall side to the left. They could see it, but between them and the cat in the middle area stood a figure wearing a long leather coat, with a menacing wolf with hunched back. As Ryu saw the bony face of the creature, he was sure what it was, but he still scanned it,

(Level- 30

Species- Cadaveric

Title- [Demons of Exile]

Blessing- [Blessing of Bladeur F]

Skills- [Blade arts III], [Shadow segment], [familiar control], [Subordinate tactics] + 10 skills)

"Ryu they are the same as last dungeon right?" Aiena asked, and Ryu nodded,

"Big brother, what should we do?" Jue questioned; Ryu thought for a bit and then noticed the cat on the other side,

The cat was shaking their butt at them and making a face with its tongue out and one arm on her eye,

'That cat is mocking us!!' Ryu thought as he pulled out one of his daggers,

"Big brother, you shouldn't," Jue said as he read Ryu's mind was thinking,

'How much chance do I have to kill that bastard cat from here' Ryu sighed as Jue read him and spoke after a bit of thinking,

"I think we should kill it from behind," Ryu said nonchalantly, as he knew that the feeling he was getting from the cadaveric wasn't a good one,

"Ryu, shouldn't we try to talk? Remember grandpa chief told us that it is due to Evil God that humans and demons fought in the past and there are good demons too," Aiena said as she was against killing someone innocent, but Ryu just pointed at that demon with a shaking finger,

"He where does he look good from?" Ryu questioned, and Jue nodded as he added,

"That wolf seems dangerous too."

"But…" Aiena wanted to reason but didn't have any sound reason to say. For their survival, killing the cadaveric, who was a Demon, was the only valid reason, but still, she didn't want to kill without confirming, and Ryu, who noticed it, sighed as he said,

"Let's try talking, but the moment he attacks, only negotiation will be his death."

Aiena nodded, and Ryu slowly went out of the illusion wall, as he smiled brightly,

"Yahoo, Mr Demon, what are you doing this far from Tenebris? Especially in the forbidden region for Demons?" even though his tone was pleasant, his questions were far from it, as the smiling brightly and the Cadaveric looked at him and spoke,

"And I thought Dungeon master pulled something strong out, haha… I was waiting for you to come out of the wall."

"you knew I was there?" Ryu asked with a fake shocked reaction to mock the demon, and it worked as the demon replied,

"Why else would I stand in the middle without walking!?"

"I thought you were exhausted", Ryu replied, shrugging, and the Cadaveric spoke,

"Either way, I don't know how you entered. You are not going out alive now" as he said it, he pulled out a cube from his coat and threw it on the ground, which brought a glowing glyph on the ground summoning various monsters,

"Attack him!!" he said to imp-like monsters that were slightly larger than imps with helmets,

"Is this how Demon people show their courtesy?" Ryu mocked as he took a fighting pose, slashing through monsters, which seemed to have high healing, but that wasn't all,

"Heal your partners!!" Cadaveric ordered the demons with staff, and they began casting healing skills on the monsters Ryu attacked. The wolf also joined in the attack as Cadaveric stood behind with total confidence in his victory,

"Isn't it unfair to use this many against one?" Ryu questioned with a grin,

"Everything is fine die or kill" Cadaveric kept it short, but Ryu had enough of his crap as he shouted,

"Rafa sister, Jue come out!!"

Cadaveric was shocked as Jue came out with blazing rock knuckles smashing through Imps in a way that left them unhealable, but more than that, Rafa cut through many monsters through a single slash of a sword. Ryu aimed for healers with his dagger making short work of them.

'I must escape!!' Cadaveric thought hurriedly, but as he tried to back off, a kitten's voice came from near his feet,

"Meow," the white kitten said, and Ryu jumped over the monster's head as he pointed his dagger towards the Cadaveric neck, the only area without the bone exoskeleton,

"You can't!!" Cadaveric said as he brought out a long sword from the back of his coat, waiting for the moment to perfectly parry Ryu's attack, but the dagger suddenly turned into a sword,

"News flash, I can!!" he stabbed through the neck of the cadaveric making short work of him,

Everyone regrouped in the middle room and took a breath. Jue had fought the wolf and killed it apparently,

"Big brother, I was surprised when he summoned those monsters, Rafa big sister almost rushed out, and I had to stop her," Jue said as he took a deep breath,

"Ryu, Jue, are you both fine?" Aiena asked as she looked at both of them,

"Yes, that guy was all talk," Ryu said with a thumbs up,

"Meow meow" the white cat also joined in the conversation, and everyone's face turned to it,

"You bastard…." Ryu smiled as he looked at the white cat, and its expression turned grim and it began rushing away in a hurry again as it remembered it wasn't a part of their group,

Fusion souls cat chase started once again, but this time they noticed that almost no monsters were coming out. The white cat rushed ahead at wild speed without looking back this time, and Ryu ordered as he used [Quickening],

"Everyone just keep pace with it but don't actually catch it" even though the request was weird, everyone nodded, and Ryu slowed down a bit as he picked up Aiena, who was the slowest runner among them, and sped up again,

The running seemed endless, but eventually, they came in front of a giant door, and the White kitten phased through it quickly,

"Boss room," Ryu said as he tried stopping before hitting the gate, but as he tried to push forward his hand for support, it phased through the wall,

"Ehh?" Aiena spoke as her half-body was inside the gate and half outside,

"Well let's go in then," Ryu said as he entered the gate completely. Jue and Rafa also entered; what stood before them was a giant black cat taller than the ones they had already fought with. It was as big as a minivan and had big fangs and smoke surrounding it,

"Get ready for fighting Jue, Rafa", Ryu spoke, but strangely enough, the boss didn't fight; instead disappeared wholly in front of them as if it was eaten by air,

"Where did it go?" Jue tilted his head, and Aiena looked around,

'[Instantenous detection] isn't detected anything either…' Ryu thought as he tried to focus his attention everywhere, and finally, they began moving forward. There was no sign of the boss monster as if it never existed in the first place,

They noticed a smaller door this time, which was open,

"Is this a reward room?" Ryu's eyes shined as he remembered the tales of Grandpa chief, wherein the permanent dungeon, the Reward room, was filled with various kinds of treasures,

"Big brother, isn't it a trap?" Jue spoke cautiously,

"Even if it is not like we can go back the same way," Ryu said. Once they came inside from the phasing door, it became solid,

Ryu began moving ahead towards the door and opened it,

"It seems normal" Ryu peeked inside to only notice a small chest in the middle of the room. Everyone stepped inside the room and looked around. It was a small, simple room; the wall didn't seem gross like the ones they had witnessed before; Ryu moved to a chest full of hopes,

'Let's see what we get,' he thought as he felt excited,

'How long had it been since I felt this way… last time was when I pulled a gacha box in that game after grinding for hours!!' he smiled at the memory, but before he could open the chest Jue who couldn't suppress his excitement any better than Ryu spoke,

"Big brother, can I open it please!!!!" His eyes shined like a puppy as he requested, and Ryu smiled bitterly as he said,

"Sure"

Jue stepped ahead and sat in front of the chest, hoping for something good as he moved his hand to open it,

-To be continued