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Damage numbers were appearing left and right on the crew member Bella and Enzo were focusing on.

She may have been a level lower than the crew member at the moment, but was still much faster than it. In just 30 seconds there were many cuts on the body of the zombie pirate.

If it was just Bella fighting it, the monster would not have allowed itself to lose so many health points so fast, but it had to worry about Enzo as well.

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Enzo shot the monster with an arrow through its hand as it tried to swing its cutlass at Bella.

"Skreeee!" The monster turned to Enzo and screamed in both anger and pain.

While Bella was placing tens of shallow cuts throughout the body of the monster, Enzo focused on dealing big damage to it.

The monster dropped dead within just 10 minutes.

The rest of the group had similar results, other than Vincent who needed help from the rest to finish off his monster.

"You know, I think it's getting a little bit too easy for us to defeat monsters a level above us." Ivan remarked.

"Yeah, nothing has challenged us in a while to be honest." Juliet said with a thoughtful look on her face.

Enzo face palmed.

"What?" Ivan asked.

"You both just raised the biggest flags possible…"

"..."

"My bad…" Juliet said.

"It is what it is, let's check out the door and hope there isn't a level 20 monster behind it or something. Sigh." Enzo said.

After Hephaestus and Enzo looted the monsters and split up the loot between everyone, the group then moved towards the ominous door.

At first glance it looked like any other normal wooden door, but once they got closer they noticed its intricacies.

'What are these symbols?' Enzo thought.

There were weird looking symbols carved all over the door.

Enzo decided to use one of the new features to take a picture of the door just in case the symbols could be used for later.

That's when he remembered about all of the new features that were recently added.

Enzo turned to the group, "Hey, why don't one of us stream this?", he asked. It wouldn't hurt to stream it, and there were benefits as well. Bringing popularity to their group could make it easier to sell things in their respective businesses and it could make it easier to find good players to join their faction if they successfully complete their bloodline quests. Enzo never planned on being a lone wolf in this game, he always knew it would be a team game, so he had no problems with trying to expand their group as soon as possible.

Everyone in the group got thoughtful frowns on their faces, because it wasn't a bad idea. Revealing where they were shouldn't be harmful anymore as they have already gained many hours worth of a headstart over the rest of the players in the dungeon.

Kenny raised his hand.

"I wanna stream it."

Enzo had no objections with him streaming it. Out of all the members of their group Kenny was probably the most eccentric, which means he would also be the most entertaining to a crowd of people.

No one else had any objections either, so Kenny started up the stream.

"You go through the door first, Cereal. You're the closest thing we have to a paladin right now." Enzo said.

Enzo believed that the person with the highest vitality and defensive abilities should be the person to go first when entering an unknown space. That person in their group happened to be Kenny.

He slowly pulled the door open before stepping through the doorway.

Enzo followed right behind him.

The doorway led to a revolving staircase with torches on the wall, lighting the way down.

The group walked down the staircase carefully. It only took a few minutes to reach the bottom.

They then stepped into the new room that they were led into.

It was a small room that barely fit all of them in it. There was a small chest in the middle of the room, and nothing else. The walls were made of stone and damp. The room felt cold and stuffy, so none of them wanted to stay there for too long.

"So, who wants to open it?" Hephaestus asked.

Everyone looked around at each other for a few seconds.

'Sigh.'

"I'll do it. I'm supposed to be the leader of us, so I should take on the risk this time." Enzo said.

He was about to volunteer Kenny to do it again, but figured he should take on the role of risk taker this time. He didn't object to being the elected leader of this group, so Enzo felt that it was his responsibility to take on tasks that a leader should.

Enzo bent down and opened the chest quickly. If it was booby trapped then there was no reason to open it slowly.

The whole group went on full alert, looking around the room, as soon as the chest was opened.

Enzo stared blankly at the object within the treasure chest.

"A.. Fruit?..." He mumbled.

"DIBS!" Jane screamed.

"Dibs?" Ivan asked.

"Yes, I call dibs. I know exactly what that is.

You all already have your cool little bloodline quests, so please let me have this at least." She begged.

Enzo picked up the fruit and gave it to her before anyone could question it. He didn't know what the fruit could do, but he decided to trust Jane as she said she did know what its purpose was.

The fruit was big enough to fill Enzo's palm. It was an icy blue that was almost transparent and the closest comparison Enzo could think of was a large blueberry. It had weird swirls all over it that told Enzo that it was not a blueberry.

"Thank you!" Jane said.

She then took a large bite of the fruit and chewed a few times before taking another large bite. In just a few seconds, the whole fruit was gone with the only proof of its existence being the juices that flowed down her chin and onto her robes.

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