Chapter 38: C-Rank Dungeon!

Time-Line: 13th May 2011

Two days since Morgan summoned Christopher Reed.

Author Note: I did not edit this chapter either!

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Change of POV: 3rd 

In abandoned Church, the second Church that Shidou family governed over, after the initial Kokabiel's attack on Kuoh, it was breaking point for Touji Shidou and his family, after that he decided that Kuoh was too dangerous and left the town soon after, followed by all of his apprentices.

So in this time-line, Yaegaki did not fall in love with Cleria Belial nor died, yet Shidou family still left the town in search for more peaceful area for their daughter.

In abandoned Church, five people are grouped together in front of the 'Dungeon-Gate'.

James Bond - D-Rank Tanker.

Elisa Mount- D-Rank Tanker

John Smith - C-Rank Assassin

Morgan Le Fay- C-Rank right now

and new addition to their group.

Yuri Orenai - C-Rank Fighter.

They are gpoing to raid a C-Rank Gate, and their numbers are already small and rather weak for such dungeon, but they are equipped with top equipment that is. All C-Rank equipment.

[Dungeon-Stats]

[Rank: C]

[Number of Monsters: 421]

[Boss: Giant Arachnid Buryura]

[Primary Monster: Insect-Hoppers, Ant-Razer, Spiders]

[Number of entries: 5] [Maximum 2 D-Rank and 2 C-Rank]

Morgan rubbed her chin in slight annoyance, the C-Ran Gate is big, way bigger than her room could hold, so they were forced to find another building where she could place it.

And it's a Church, It will have to do.

Bu that's not actually what worries her, but rather the boss. From what she remembers, the spider Buryura had thick carapace, so thick that [Kasaka's Venom Fang] could not penetrate it, and she could not remember properly how Jin-Woo defeated it.

It has been 10 year already, and all her current memories from Solo Leveling are forgotten, most of them are written down on her book 'from the plot and antagonists'. So it's different.

"Shall we?" Morgan opened her lips to speak for the first time today to them.

"Affirmative, ;let's end end this as fast as we can! I have date with Elisa-! Auch!" James was first to reply, but once he got to date part with Elisa he got bonked on the head by her, causing Yuri Orenai near them to giggle.

"It was supposed to be a secret! Idiot!" Elisa crossed her arms over her chest, in utter disappointment at her 'date[.

Causing James to wince internally and start apologizing.

John Smith, always and professional simply took a cigar from his pocket and started smoking as always, ignoring the world around him. But his sharp nod was everything Morgan needed to know if he was paying attention.

"Yes." Yuri Orenai nodded as she bowed too, she has appearance of early 20s woman, with long black hair, reaching her waist, wearing nothing but black coat and underneath it a chest-plate, followed by gauntlets and armored boots and armored leg-wear.

She practically wears the armor that Goto's Hunters favor to wear mos of the time.

And on her waist is strapped a C-Rank Katana.

"Ok then, let's enter." Morgan turned in sharp nod, and she walked towards the portal first. Then followed by John Smith and Yuri Orenai.

"Idiot! Let's go in or we are going to be let out of the fun!" Elisa grabbed James' ear as she started pulling him towards the gate as poor man screamed helplessly.

Yes, James is weaker than Elisa.

-Inside Dungeon-

"So another Cave-Type huh.." Morgan spoke first, as she both inspected the right and left side of the cave. And blue-flame torches are carefully placed on both sides, giving them vision to continue forward.

"Well, Lady Morgan you have told us that enemies would be primary Insect Monsters for C-Rank Dungeon, so that's to be expected." John took one more whiff of his cigar before throwing it on the floor and crushing it under his foot. "Poof.." 

"They usually have 'Holes' in the 'halfways' where Insects could attack Hunters from all sides, and usually people would not be able to discern from where they are coming from." Yuri added her own two cents as she continued walking forward till she was in front of Morgan.

Morgan nodded. 'Next dungeon, I will need a mage, my entire group only has Tankers and Assassin + Fighter. A Healer and Mage would do nicely.'She though to herself as she waited for both Elisa and James to walk towards them into their first formation.

So Morgan's eyes fell on [Quest-Tab]

[Quest: Research Valper Galilei' material ] [Expand]

[Quest: 3,000 Faction Members] [Expand]

[Quest: Clear C-Rank Dungeon] [Expand]

[Quest: Get Issei to Train! Reach Low-Class strength] [Expand]

Yes, in exchange for 'Making contact with both Youkai Factions' she gained 'training Issei' quest, and upon summoning Christopher Reed she gained C-Rank Dungeon from secret quest, and Quest on clearing that dungeon.

She clicked expand on [Quest: Clear C-Rank Dungeon] [Expand].

[Quest: Clear C-Rank Dungeon]

[Description: Clear the dungeon with your team.]

[Progress: 1/0]

[Reward: [C-Rank Dungeon] + [Quest: Clear C-Rank Dungeon] ]

Yeah, Morgan smirked since she saw the reward, so upon clearing a C-Rank Dungeon, where she should get few levels, she would also get another same quest and another dungeon.

Isn't that too op? In her humble opinion, but she is not complaining at all!

With both James and Elisa back in formation they started their march once again.

They at first marched through the halfway, where they meet up with 20-30 or so of Insect-Hoppers but easily defeated them before continuing their march.

Insect-Hoppers are brown-like one meter tall creatures, a fusion of an ant an Hopper. It looks remarkably similar to a Zergling from Starcraft 2.

They are normally weakest monsters in C-Rank Dungeons since Insect-Hoppers themselves are D-Rank.

Without any interference, they continued their march, and soon enough they found themselves in a Large 'room' with dozens of holes, big enough that an adult person would be able to come from them.

And they heard it, the 'hissing of insects' coming from all sides.

"Prepare yourself! Think as if they are going to appear from every single hole!" Morgan ordered, despite her years of inexperience compared to them, she actually earned their respect in their previous Dungeon raids, and since getting special instructions from Goto Ryuji only improved her reputation.

It's one thing if they are forced to obey.

And it's second thing to actually learn their respect.

As expect, Ant-Hoppers started crawling from all sides. And since [Light-Manipulation] would be useless here, without light.

Morgan immediately cast a [Lighting-Bolt] spell, immediately depleting 100 MP. But since one Ant-Hopper is equal to Low-Class itself, it only worked on eliminating 8 of incoming Ant-Hoppers from the hole above.

This leaves all other remaining dozens of holes.

"Over a hundred of them are here! Eliminate them, don't worry about XP for me!" When she ordered so, both Elisa and James used [Taunt], immediately catching attention of every single monster that crawled from the holes, a over a hundred of Ant-Hoppers started their rampage at them.

But they C-Rank Hunters.

D-Rank Tankers just need to grab their attention, a dangerous job for sure but C-Rank Hunters will finish them before they can even touch them.

In tandem, Yuri, James and Morgan moved at same time, with same speed.. They slashed, hacked and gutted every single Ant-Hopper in total of of 24 seconds.

Only 24 seconds it took for two Mid-Class Peak Warriors to delete a hundred Low-Class monsters with zero intelligence.

Sound correct.

"Fuf!" I though I was done here fora moment." James complained. " I'm sorry Lady Morgan, but I don't think that I should join any further mission after D-Rank Gates." He complained as he sighed.

Morgan just smiled, it's not that she wouldn't have picked someone stronger than James, it's just that she cannot pick another C-Rank, if [System] says two D-Rank Entries and Two C-Rank Entries, then that's it, she wouldn't be able to bring another C-Rank or replace a D-Rank.

But Elisa did not share same sentiment as Morgan.

Elisa punched James head hard. " What! What are you talking about, it's just getting interesting!" She head-locked his head and started rubbing his head furiously, non-stop.

Morgan sighed. ' What would I do if I have to replace them, while Hunters really get stronger over time in this world, it's not as if they could level up. Both James and Elisa are almost low- C-rank. Almost is the key word.

And since so many years ago, when she first ventured into a Dungeon with someone, James was a solid D-Rank back then. Now he is almost C-Rank, maybe in 6 years he would reach B-Rank? Who knows.

But anyway, they continued their march, by following largest hole that is.

They soon enough found themselves into another large room like previous one, but instead of numerous holes from where they would be able to surround them from all side's, there is only one and large hole

Large enough that ten men would be able to walk through it at same time beside each other.

It surely looked like a wave of Zerglings of Zerglings.

A Zergling rush.

And as always, Tankers used their precious [Taunt] to get Ant-Hoppers attention, causing the disgusting monsters to rush towards them at even higher velocity.

But this time, they were prepared.

While Tankers remained in line, their shields positioned and their swords raised.

Morgan, Yuri and John smith moved first, while it would usually be Tanker's job to take the most damage, they would rather save Tankers for the boss after all.

And all three of them with C-Rank Weapons, moved.

John's [Kasaka's Venom Fang] was fatal, each strike no matter how small would kill an Ant-Hopper and he would go for next.

Yuri's Katana was beautiful too, while it does not have any effect beside attack power, her way of eliminating Ant-Hoppers is like a dance, a beautiful yet deadly dance as she target their vital spots.

As for Morgan, she rushed as if she was tank and used her [Kasaka's Venom Fang's Spear] to stab any incoming Ant-Hopper in straight line, with zero exception.

After they eliminated every single one, they moved once more/ After walking through several rooms like the previous ones, a large rooms with holes precisely.

They finally entered into a Boss room.

Another large room like previous ones, but this one only had one hole, the one they entered from.

And the boss, the Giant Arachnid Baryura is a giant Spider, currently sleeping in it's own web on the ceiling of the cave.

"So, how should we aggro the boss?" It was James who asked.

Morgan rubbed her chin. " I can throw one of my weapons at it from my position?" She added.

Certainly no one of them wants to get close to the boss, nor Morgan wants to exhaust her precious MP for alarming it, she will need every single drop of it after all.

So only one option remained, to throw a weapon at it.

No one complained, they shrugged their shoulders.

So Morgan opened [Inventory] and took another [Kasaka's Venom Fang's Spear] from her [inventory], the spear in question is still usable and cheap, so she bough several of them.

And one would do just do nicely to aggro the boss.

Or...

"John, you throw. Aim at one of it's eyes, you are taller and it should be easier for you to throw. The Giant Arachnid Baryura has a thich Carapace that our weapons would not be able to pierce most likely, but eyes should be universal weakness for every Magic Beast." She said so before turning around and handed it straight into John's awaiting hands.

All Hunters dispersed from John, every single one of them taking their own positions away, leaving John by himself in Beasts vision.

"Let's see, I hope I did not grow rusty since last olympics.." John spoke, he flexed his muscles for a moment, straightened himself and took the position. And then, his right arm, main arm threw the venom spear at his full force towards the sleeping Arachnid.

It happened in two seconds, spear was in John's hand, then next second it was straight in Arachnid's eye, this blow caused the beast to wake up and hiss in agony as it fell from the ceiling.

~BOOM! It's colossal size naturally creating a large amount of dust rising from the ground.

It fell and trashed, as 'Paralysis' and 'Drain' effect from venom lasted for only a second, but this was enough for Hunters to prove them, prove them that their weapons will work.

But Hunter's did not wait, James' used his [Taunt] immediately bringing Spider's attention at is stopped trashing from the ground and instead came rushing towards him with full force.

Then Elisa activated her own [Taunt] confusing the monster even further as it hissed.

"~HISS!~"

Then it decided to spit acid towards James who, while caught off guard slightly managed to avoid by Jumping away in second.

THen the beast focused towards Elisa.

Chapter Word Count: 2089

I'm saving it for another 1k word fight for another chapter + something I planned on doing before.

Liu Zhigang vs Christopher Reed!