Chapter twentythree: Dungeon

Dungeons in this world a large and ancient structures lost to mankind and now house lots of monsters and hidden treasures. Due to Monsters constantly going in and respawning due to high magic particle density, makes it a great place to train or make a living off. Inside are large ore vines of mana crystals and high rarity items. It´s lucrative as businness because you can hunt monsters again and again and with hunters there is a need for supplies and the amount of treasure and rare items reward hunters for taking risks in going into deeper levels. And getting stronger and learning new skills is easier due to the density and quality of magic particles allowing one to practice as long as they need to, but this is also the case for monsters. "Let´s go in!" Hi tells Aria. "Alright you lead the way, i´ll support you from behind!" she tells him. As soon as they open the large stone doors the flow of strong magic particles hit them. "The magic particle density sure is dense in here. It´s a great opportunity for you to work on your control over your magic. It would be a danger if you overdo it in here you have to more careful than usual." Aria tells him. "You´ve got a point there." Hi answers. "Careful there´s a trap where you are standing get out the way!". "A trap? Ah i´ve found it. It really is well hidden." Aria says looking at the ground at a pressure plate right of her which is very similiar to the ground. "Soon we´ll arrive at the first floor." Hi tells her as they make their way through the hallways lit by magic lights. They find a dense jungle inside teeming with wildlife and monsters. "There´s a jungle in here? How is that even possible?" Aria wonders. "The magic in here is dense and artificial lights mimic the sun." Hi says continiung along looking at the map. "If i´ve got it right there should be a river that leads downstream to a waterfall." Hi says searching around. "Let me help out." Aria says concentrating a little. She finds the water source and leads a thin line to her. "How did you do that?" Hi asks. "Well i´m the bearer of primeval water magic. of course i can sense water. It was more difficult than usual because of the dense magic particles in the area." Aria explains. "Damn. You really are better at sensing and controlling magic." Hi says. "Better than your ability to locate monsters. I can do it to locate anything in a matter of seconds." Aria boasts. "You may be right but i know what kind of monsters it is you don´t have the experience i have hunting." Hi says. They follow the line and surely they find it. A small river leading downstream. Monsters are observing them but not a lot of predators. On a turn of the river hides a monster camouflaging as a log in the water. Hi notices a faint presence and finds where it is. "There as a crocodile over there be careful." Hi tells her. "Allow me to deal with it." She says raising the water around the crocodile and bringing it to them. Hi responds in kind and slashes the crocodile killing it. Behind Aria the rest of the pack arrives and snaps at her. She dodges it just in time. "Whoa! I didn´t notice them behind us." Aria says turning around with her spear to keep them at bay. "Neither did i. Predators have to ability to almost completely mask their magic from leaking out to sneak up on prey." Hi explains supporting Aria at defending. The crococdiles snap at them but don´t reach them. Aria tries piercing the crocodiles skin with her spear but it just ends up getting caught in it and she loses her weapon. "Oh no it got my spear!" Aria says. "Get behind me and ready your bow and fire at my signal!" Hi says jumping in front. "Put your energy into the arrow to strengthen your attack it will pierce their skin with ease if you compress your water and coat the arrow in it!" Hi explains. "I´ll try!" Aria says doing as he says. The crocodiles approach closer and closer. A crocodile opens it´s mouth but Hi puts his sword in it so it can´t close it´s mouth. The crocodile tries to destroy it but cant. "Now!" Hi tells Aria. She fires her arrow into the mouth and it flies at great speeds through the crocodile killing it. Hi grabs his sword with his left hand jumps on a crocodiles back retrieves Aria´s spear with his right and throws it into a crocodile next to him the spear is coated in fire and accelerated by the fire´s energy it kills it in one hit. The other crocodile is slow to turn around and gets it´s tail grabbed by Hi who tosses it into the air so that Aria can take a clean shot. She kills it in the air. "We make a great team!" Hi says grabbing the spear and tossing it back to Aria. "We do!" She says catching it. "Next time you lose your spear use your ssword or magic and if you´re far away use your bow." Hi says butchering the crocodile he killed with the spear now evenly cooked. He takes a bite. "Not half bad it´ll be enough for now!" Hi says munching on it. Aria packs up some meat and has a bite. "Ew , gross! But i could make soup if i find some herbs." Aria says. "You can make a meal with it? That´s amazin master couldn´t even figure out how to cook something like that on the fly." Hi says. "He´s a dragonkin of course he only knows how to cook meat he´s the last person to eat his vegetables." Aria says. "Could it be apart from meat he´s really bad at cooking?" Hi asks himself. "Even though he posesses vast knowledge on a variety of things." "Some monk diet perhaps!" Aria says twitching her shoulders. "Maybe. The waterfall is just ahead." Hi says. They approach the edge and look down. "That´s a really deep drop are you sure we need to be here?" Aria asks unsure. "Of course!" Hi says jumping down. "Huh?.... That idiot! He´ll get himself killed!" Aria says using water to transport her down the waterfall using her magic to stand on water. "Are you fine?" Aria asks. "This is a shortcut." Hi says. "What? You scared me you idiot! I thought you´ll die!" Aria tells him hitting him on the head. "Ouch! What was that for?" Hi asks. "For making me worry!" she tells him. They make their way to shallow water and find themselves in a stone canyon deep under the jungle and some caves in there. They travel further down to find some totems on the way and a large stone door. On the door is written. "You are now entering the domain of death!" "Well that is the least bit menacing!" Aria says sarcastically. "Come on it´s just some skelletons and necromancers nothing crazy. If anything the necromancers would be the scariest cause they are or were humans exiled from the land." Hi says opening the door.