Chapter 141: A Dungeon

Chapter 141: A Dungeon

Early Morning - Early Spring : Dungeon of Christopher

During the night, Hannah and her elf friend couldn't sleep. They both sat there in total silence for the beginning of the night.

A couple hours after the sunset, the elf woman finally asked if she could go tend to Jack, the dumbass from earlier.

Not long after, she came back, dragging a muscular man with an extremely broken arm and chest across the sand and dirt.

-Wow, he actually lived.- He was truly lucky that his shiny and expensive looking armor absorbed most of the impact.

Once she started treatment though, I stopped paying attention and focused more on my magic.

After that, the night passed in what felt like a mere second. I ended up getting pretty absorbed into my magic and lost track of time.

Once sunrise came around, I got up and brushed the sand off Ilios and I.

“Good morning Ilios..” I lightly petted him as he stretched.

Looking over at the group of adventurers, I noticed that Jack had woken up.

His arm and entire torso were heavily bandaged but he was still in pain. He kept wincing from even the slightest movements, but that wasn't surprising.

The part I found most shocking was that he was still angrily glaring at me.

Seeing my look of disappointment, he went to say something but the elven woman quickly covered his mouth. "Sorry sir.. he still isn't in the right state of mind.. please forgive his arrogance.." Her face was pale and covered in worry.

"You know you’re free to leave right?" My irritation started to show a bit. Findd new stories at novelhall.com

I was sick of seeing Jack's face, his angry glare made me want to punch him but I held myself back. -Without armor to save him, a tap would kill him..-

Looking away from them, I noticed Hannah wore an anxious look. "Haah.. Well, Hannah. Shall we go?"

She immediately hopped up to her feet hearing me talk. "R..right away.."

As we walked towards the cave entrance, Jack and the elven woman finally stood up and started leaving in the opposite direction.

As they walked away, I noticed that Hannah gave Jack a look of disgust.

It was so genuine that it caught me off guard. -Aren't they adventuring in a group together?- "What's with that look?"

Slightly shocked that I noticed, she turned back to me a little embarrassed. "Sorry.."

"What are you apologizing for?" My confusion was genuine.

"Sorry.. it was just out of habit.." She looked down towards the ground out of embarrassment before continuing into the cave.

As soon as we walked in, she mumbled something to herself and formed a small ball of light in front of her.

"So, what do you know about the monsters in this dungeon?"

The impact completely obliterated the lizard. Its body simply exploded when it hit the wall.

To my surprise the wall didn't shatter, but instead stayed firm with only a few of the lizard's bones digging into it. -That's some really sturdy rock..-

Coming back up to my side with a happy trot was Ilios wearing a look of satisfaction.

“Haha, good job buddy.” I reached down and patted his head for a second.

He gave me a smile as his tail continued to wag.

-He’s so cute..- A warm smile slowly crept onto my face till I noticed Hannah.

Behind us, her face was completely pale and covered in fear.

“Is something wrong?”

She immediately stiffened up as if she didn't expect me to say anything. “N..no s..sir..” Her voice was shaky.

“Good, let's continue then.”

Not long after that, we finally started seeing other monsters, the issue was, they were all dead.

There were simply hundreds of mangled monster corpses lining the ground of the cave.

As I stepped over a mutilated corpse, I raised a question. "Is it normal for monsters in dungeons to fight each other?"

Hannah's face was covered in anxiety and worry. "Well.. yes.. but not like this.."

Pretty much all of the monster bodies on the ground were covered in similar, random wounds meaning they fought each other in huge groups.

It made less sense the more I thought about it, but as we got deeper into the dungeon, I started noticing a pattern.

The big piles of corpses were at the back end of each 'section' on the map.

According to Hannah, these sections marked the territory boundaries of each type of monster.

What seemed to be happening was that the monsters in each section tried to run deeper into the dungeon, entering other monsters' territories and getting killed before the monsters in that section did the same.

-What were they running from then?- It wasn't until I thought back to the rock lizard from earlier that it clicked.

-Are they running from Ilios and I?- It felt like a bit of a stretch but it was entirely possible.

Continuing further into the dungeon, we were finally approaching the end of the mapped sections.

The mana density had been steadily increasing as we walked deeper, but as we entered the unmapped section, there was an extremely sudden increase in it.

-Are we finally getting to the bottom?- I was honestly getting sick of stepping over endless corpses and wanted something interesting to happen. Luckily though, through the dense mana, I sensed several fairly strong auras.

A smile slowly crept onto my face as I noticed more and more. -Great timing..-