With no light on the hallway as soon they enter the dungeon, Flame immediately lights a fire from his hand. And Stacy uses her holy power as she muttered some words as a light sphere floats around. The group seems grateful for their light source.
Lisa scanned around the hallway, looking at the structures. "This is amazing! To think this dungeon still intact after the great disaster." She observes a strange symbol that appears everywhere. "Hmm."
Kashi walking as he leans near Lisa with accidental eavesdropping "What disaster? War?"
Lisa lift her eyebrows, her glasses about to fall off as she stopped her walking. "You don't know!? I thought everyone knew about that in the academy??..
Kashi turns his head, scratching his head, and smiles. "Well, I didn't go to Knight or magic Academy. I'm just a person who likes making things. Haha."
Lisa fixes her glasses as she continues to walk after realizing she made her team hesitates to show no signs of stopping in the dungeon. "I'll make this a long story short. How do I get started…
"This planet used to be Earth. There's no magic, no sky island or anything. Then everything changes, suddenly a massive space-time corrupted the earth, multiple large natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano eruptions, massive tornadoes, and even hurricanes. Though nobody knows what's the cause. This lasted for five years, this for sure kills all life…. Luckily seven elemental crystals, that appear at the same time as disaster protected the world. However, the crystals that protected the world vanish without a trace after disaster ceased."
Kashi: "Wow, that's dangerous. But what does it relate to this dungeon?"
"That what I'm going to find out. It said this was made on Earth and what amazing that It's still here." Seeing Kashi astonishes, leaving him speechless. "Right? There's are so many mysteries in this world." Lisa then smiles, showing signs that she's looking forward to this expedition.
River then interrupts their conversation by stopping the group from proceeding.
Frank jumps in as he's very confused, "What's wrong? Monsters?" He held his bow while his right hand grabbing the arrow on his back. Readying for whenever comes by.
"Stacy, can you focus on the light over there?" River pointed the direction which is on front. Stacy, who has been carrying a light, uses her staff to move the light to float towards. The first thing you notice that there's a dead body, there's blood, and half of the body is gone. He grabs his cloth as he moves the body, multiple flies escape from the body. "Looks fairly recent… But there are no signs of battle. Weird."
The second thing to notice, there is a block path filled with multiple rocks. " Oh… nooo," John said slowly "We're… trapped. We need another way of going down."
River shakes his head and begins to walk back where we came. "Let head back for sure…we'll find the different paths"
"P'rhaps we shalt taketh a breaketh, ev'ryone is exhaust'd" Stacy suggests after walking near River. River scanned at the party. Most of them except Flame nod in agreement. Then River sighs. "Do as you wish."
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While everyone is resting, River and John trying to investigate the blocked path. Stacy sat down and praying. Kashi looking through his stuff on his backpack filled with his tool. Flame meditates, waiting for his next order, although he can't hear anything. Frank feeling restless as he shook his foot feeling anxious waiting for something to happen. Then he had enough. "This is so pathetic!!" his fist clenches, feeling annoyed. Why didn't we encounter any monster?" He grabs a nearby small rock as he threw a pebble toward the wall. It reverberated throughout the hall.
"No, you're right. This is very strange. We haven't seen any monster since we're in the dungeon." Lisa using the cloth from River, inspecting the dead bodies. "I can think of two possibilities. Either he was attacked by a gigantic monster while escaping. Or… He was murdered…" The whole room went to silence. Then she laughs, "as if it was an option 2, look at his body! He was eaten since his other half is missing."
"Don't… scared... us like that… " John lean back towards the wall with a sigh. Suddenly, John presses something as the wall shakes as it opens the door. "Whoaaahhhh" Due to sudden occurrence, everyone looks at the door staying on guard… As John takes a closer look. There's a stair leading downstairs.
"Finally! Can't take this any longer!" Frank enters first without River's instruction.
"W-wait! We're supposed to regroup!!" River tried to stop him by grabbing Frank. But he disappears into the darkness. With an annoyed sigh after he calmed down, "Let's go.. There could be many monsters downstairs. Let us be careful."
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Flame's body feeling heavy ever since they went downstairs, he felt like he enters the wrong domain. All can he do is straighten his shoulder that weighing him down.
With only two Light sources in the party, with Frank missing, they still have to tread carefully. After a while, there are no signs of monsters, Although they do not know why. River stops as he sees a body. Within a few seconds, they're able to recognize Frank due to his silvery hair. "Frank!!" River runs up towards him only to see blood and few missing parts. River still conscious as River commands Stacy to heal him.
"Nay valorous, I cannot healeth that gent. His corse parteth art all missing" Stacy after muttering some word to heal him using her holy power.
"Damn it! Stay with me!" River held on to him as he told Stacy to use all of her power. Frank whimpered some words. Frank didn't hear him as he lean closer, but only to be shocked as his Jaw dropped.
Lisa with her concerned look as he watches them trying to save Frank. ".. He's Dead."
"Tch," River stands up, "He said there's a human with the silver eyes, most likely a murderer here." Suddenly, a faint sound echoes across the hallway. Without fear, River takes out his greatsword. Due to the small area, greatsword isn't much of the use, that when he uses his ability to make his sword smaller, easier to move around. "Stacy, bring light over the sound."
As she did, as light approaches, they can see a beat up with a brown robe covered. This person is crying. Scared to move. Then this human looks at the party only to see silver eyes reflecting the light. Then Flame suddenly takes a step back, knowing that death awaits him.
Kashi perplexes as he watches two scenes knowing what might happen if we don't do anything. "River.. maybe we should leave."
River raises his hand to make him silent, "What if he killed Frank. He has silver eyes. He has some nasties scheme on his sleeve." Then River approach this silver eye murderer.
"H.. elp me.." it looks up glazing at River with it tears scared-looking eyes.
River appears unfazed. "I'm sorry, but I'm not falling for your fake tears. You have to die." He held onto the great sword, readying to stab him.
Suddenly River reduces to ash as if his body evaporates, leaving no traces, then the human starts crying. Everyone else was paralyzed in fear. Then John springs forward. "What the heck! What did you do!? He then charges forward with his shield, knowing it will protect him. Only it would be useless to him. All of his body and his weapon disintegrate as it vanishes into the air.
"Listen Kashi, after I blast him away, take Flame and Stacy away. This person is up to no good. And he can easily kill us all." Kashi nods since he can't do anything but run. Lisa shouted some words making magic flame orb shooting at the human. But it is useless since her magic just vanishes as soon it approaches the human.
Then it screams as he burst into tears as scratches its body. It easily evaporates Lisa and Stacy, who couldn't do anything. Leaving Flame and Kashi all alone. It is dark now, leaving Flame as his only source of the fire. Flame decided to fight back, knowing to die while making sure that Kashi escapes. He pulls out of his Chain dagger ready to charge at him.
Suddenly all the hallways started shaking as the ground on Flame and Kashi starts falling as the ceiling collapse. They both free-falling into the hole, knowing they'll die after hitting on the ground.
Boom!! Everything went black.