Your worth

Everyone stared down Reilly, she had been at the back and neither Jack or Saduras attack worked. The quickest thought that came to them was " We need magic!" Though none of them voiced it. They simply gave a glance at Reilly and looked at her timid posture, she reeked of fear.

Teyo had yet to encounter the slime, however he could see across the water the battle Dorian faced was grave. As there slimes bounced towards him one finally pounced. With a slam of his shield he sent the slime flying back into the water. Teyo smiled an idea went off in his head. The few slimes that had pressed them backwards kept on coming. Teyo put away his knife, dumped the meat in his pan and held his pan with both hands in a firm grip. He looked at Jack " Get her to use spark once they get back in the water. "

Teyo charged forward. With a few steps in front of the slimes he widened his stance and raised his elbows. " Batter up!" PUNG! He sent a slime clear into the middle of the pond. The others kept bouncing forward. Their lumionous clear form gave hardly any clear idea of where their senses came from. Nevertheless they bounced right towards Teyo. With a few swings he sent them back into the lake. Dorian on the other side adopted the same strategy seeing how easy Teyo mad it look. They began to notice the slimes that re-entered the the pond hadn't come back only those by the shores continued their assault. " Discern Ingredients"

Teyo's ability helped him notice that the slimes in the water we're amalgamating upon themselves. In the center of the pond a form began to rise. A huge slime was being formed! Teyo held off those on the shore he looked back to Reilly and yelled to her " Reilly Spark NOW!"

Reilly stepped forward behind him. She look toward the large slime that became a mound of gel in the center of the pond, it may have gotten big but it became extremely slow. She took a deep breath,

" Spark!" Her staff drew upon the earth from the bottom to the top of her staff an arc of electricity shot into it's tip. It stopped there and Reilly simply waved her staff towards the slime. A concentrated beam of white and yellow light shot out at the pond random arcing offshoots swiped out and coiled around the beam. Once the beam touched the water the entire pond sizzled and steamed.

Reilly was sent flying backwards onto her buttocks, she hadn't prepared for the recoil. Jack and Sadura's mouths were left wide open. Reilly stood up and looked on to the slime that seemed to be slowly sinking into the water. She jumped for joy, Jack and Sadura ran over and joined in and began to ring around the rosey with their hops. Dorian across the pond finally stopped holding his guard, he dropped to a knee in the puddle of sweat he made.

" Damn these shields are heavy." He wiped the sweat from his brow. " How are you guys!" he yelled from across the lake.

The three dancing teammates all stopped and ran towards the edge of the water. Running past Teyo who had been standing there ever since Reilly used her magic. Jack stopped and look back at him. His hair was on end and he seemed to shiver his eyes locked on the water. Reilly inadvertently hit him with her attack! When the beam was sent out she was blown backwards and as the trajectory changed to her left Teyo reflexively put his pan in front of his chest to protect himself, a majority of the attack ricocheted into the pond but his entire body jolted at the current running through him. If he had not had a firm plant on the sand that was on the ponds shore he would have taken more damage.

Jack stood in front of Teyo with a wide mouth inhaling though his teeth. " hssss Shit! You good man?" Sadura and Reilly turned around to notice the situation. Reilly immediately became flushed with rosey cheeks. She then quickly used her Bless spell to make amends, even though Teyo was seriously hurt. Sadura just put her hands on her hips and muttered under her breath.

Teyo had be congnant the whole time but his muscles and joints ached, he heard his party members but his eyes stayed locked into the water. His ability had yet to deactivate. Slowly his mouth began to grin. In the water as the slime melted he noticed that a golden hue began to form in the water and then sink. It seemed to be in the shape of a cube. Teyo came to his senses. " Cc cccc cccccc..... Q.. Cube" He raised a finger and pointed to the water. Jack and Sadura became alert and turned around brandishing their weapons. Teyo jerkily began to walk, eventually into the water and then down into it. Everyone grew puzzled expressions. Teyo dove down near it's center. He could no longer see but his ability allowed the cube to shimmer in the depths of the pond. He popped back up out of the water holding a small box. He then walked to the other shore where Dorian sat holding himself up by a shield.

" Guys come take a look at this!" Dorian yelled he seemed to notice Teyo's current affliction as he tried to stutter something to him. Teyo held a small chest in his hands and sat down next to Dorian. Everyone else made they way across the water.

Teyo held the box in his hands and began to pry it open in front of everyone. Everyone huddled in front to see it's insides. It was full to the brim! On the underside of the lid was a parchment, inside the box was a handful of experience gems! There were also 5 grey colored gatcha capsules! The inside of the box also had a string attached to it's sides turning the parcel sized box into a sling. Everyone became giddy in excitement! After handing out the gems to everyone, now each of them having three Jack opened the parchment.

" It's a map! It's a map of this cave! It shows the entire floor! We have to go up and there's a checkpoint, there's two more before where it shows a level 2 door!!!!"

Everyone was super excited Jacks eyes then blinked quickly and he rubbed them. As he held the torch something began to take form on the page. He then stood up and walked over to the crack in the wall where the stream of water flowed into the pond. He reached his hand into the mouth of the crack and pulled something out. Before he turned around he looked at it.

" Holy shit.. "

Everyone stood up. Jack walked back to them with another item in his hands. He held in front of his another gatcha capsule that was blue. Everyone then waited for him to open it. As jack opened the capsule a flash of light popped up out of the capsule with the number 32! The capsule then turned to smoke in his hands until it disappeared and he held a pair of gloves.

" Whoa awesome haha." He then put them on. Everyone else looked at their capsules and then did the same, Jack also opened his other grey one. After a few seconds every held a surprised look. Dorian's capsule spat out a mask, it looked like a plain white phantom of the opera half mask. Sadura received a backpack. Reilly opened a necklace. Jack got a pair of boots. Teyo opened a hand axe.

Novice Axe - Shame tier

+ 4 Attack

Has a fifty percent chance to doup a section of chopped wood. Applicable to one piece of wood per day.

Everyone shared in the details of their items. Dorian's mask gave him dark vision! Sadura just got a regular backpack. Reilly's necklace gave her an additional 2 points of mana! Jack gained 2 points of defense from his boots and the gloves allowed him to never lose grip of his weapon. Teyo was a bit saddened by his reward in comparison, but due to him never using the knife as a weapon he seemed to be fine with the trade off. The group also opted for him to keep the sling like wooden box so he can gather ingredients.

That became immediately effective because whilst he had his ability activated he noticed quite a few different shades popping up around. While his D.I ability was on again he began to search one more time before they headed up. He bagan to grow more accustomed to keeping this passive activated, he could toggle it off as he wished but the shades of color that could be seen gave him sometimes a hard time defining depth.

Teyo saw almost everything in some shade of colored hue beside regular rock or dirt. Even inorganic material gave off shades of color, he began to notice that only the specific density of the shade gave forth a sense of quality. As he came across a bit of moss he noticed some were a pale green whilst a more grown thicker patch of the same moss was much deeper a darkness. He had also found some small mushrooms next to a few larger ones which had a likewise darkening of color, yet again green. The hue they gave off was most visible at the edges of the things that shown like a sort of Aura and only really tinted a shade over it's entirety. Teyo harvested a few mushrooms and a small handful of the moss and then threw them in his box. Unfortunately he had to toss the meat in his pan when he faced off against the slimes, currently the party didn't really have anything to eat. It was fine outside of the fact that he was low on Health at a 5 points from his earlier shocking and the quick bless Reilly gave. No one else required any real healing. Teyo himself wasn't all that hungry so he decided to test something.

Teyo went to the waters edge and began to drink some of the water from the pond. Surprisingly the water didn't taste all that bad so he continued until he was sloshing about. He wanted to see if being full on water alone would kick his other passive ability into motion. The other members of the party looked on at him like a weirdo after guzzling a slime filled ponds water. The next dilemma everyone faced was getting to the next floor. The ledge to the opening in the ceiling above them was at least fifteen feet higher.

Jack decided he would make an effort at getting them above. " Dorian, Let me jump off your shield above. Afterwards let Teyo and Sandra stand on you, Reilly climb up on them, and then after that we will try to pull you up." Afterwards Jack stuck the torch they had into the dirt by the wall in the soft sand. Dorian obliged Jack. With a running start and a good heave Jack made it up to the ledge and then pulled himself up. Teyo climbed on Dorian's shoulders and then Sadura climbed atop both of them and was able to hold onto the ledge. Just barely keeping their cheerleader style ladder from wobbling down. Reilly in her small stature climb over all of them with ease to the next floor. Sadura then gripped the edge tightly while Jack and Reilly held her arms. Dorian then climbed over Teyo and up to the ledge. Teyo held on for dear life as the Group then began to pull the two of them up the ledge.

Teyo was almost up the wall when he felt something crawl on his arm. A large spider on the wall promptly bit him on the forearm and he freaked out and went to smack it off of him. Falling all the way back to the ground on his back. With a loud thud and a few gasps. Everyone looked over the ledge in horror.

" Teyo! Teyooo!!"

"Shit he's a gonner."

" Ohh noo I feel so guilty *sniffle* "

" Guys I barely held on there's no way I can do that again. He can just re-que and do this level again..."

Teyo heard these things as his eyesight went black he saw his health fall to one and blacked out.