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"Hmm. Open Menu."
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"Hmm I didn't check the Community tab yet."
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<-Public Talk-> (Empty)
<-Lobby->
"Seems like it shows the number of the players who are in the lobby"
<-Public Talk->
"...Wow... I guess they weren't kidding when they said that we'll die when we die It's absolutely terrible though that someone died and people will see their death and say, 'R.I.P. Poop Shooter… Hope it wasn't a kid at least."
"Okay, enough resting. Let's get back to the dungeon."
Leroy walks back over to the portal, entering it like before and ending up in the same hallway.
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[Yes/No]
"Yes."
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As soon as he landed back on Floor 1, he kept his guard up. When he tried to walk forward, an arrow came at him, targeting the same position as before.
Bang!
Leroy hit the arrow with his sword, blocking it from piercing him again. But he couldn't handle the force of the arrow that much, which made his sword tremble a bit.
"Just like I thought... It follows the same pattern. But the force is too much for me"
For a few silent minutes, no projectiles came...
'I guess I can go forward now,' Leroy thought, taking a few small steps forward.
After some walking, a sound interrupts his thought process.
He turned to the side and raised his shield up, ready to block whatever was coming. Two arrows flew toward him, ready to attack, but hit the shield instead.
"That was close.." Leroy whispered to himself, looking down at the shield. While looking at it, he notices the cracks from the arrows growing larger and larger until the shield breaks. Big pieces of the shield fall onto the ground, landing pathetically.
Something came into his vision then...
"The hell is that..?" Leroy mumbled, squinting his eyes to get a better look at the thing.
When he gets closer to it, it doesn't appear to be anything like a monster... but rather a Crossbow.
"A Crossbow?"
And it has finished reloading an arrow into it...
"Shit-!"
Leroy rushed towards the Crossbow, running left and right so that he could dodge the arrow's trajectory, making sure the arrow can't and won't hit him.
Slowly, the arrow was aimed at Leroy, and was released. It flew through the air, cutting through the wind so fast that he barely managed to dodge it.
As the Automated Crossbow was in reload condition...he took the opportunity to get closer to it. Once he got closer, he jumped right above it. Using his full strength, he pushes his sword through it and slices it, destroying it.
"Alright! Leveling up, already!" Leroy celebrated, doing a small victory dance. Mid-victory dance, he paused, thinking about the Crossbrow's name.
"Entity-FE1, that's some weird way to name. Hmm, what if 'F' means Floor, 'E' meaning Enemy, and 1 being the number of the floor"
Leroy thought about it for a small while, then carried on with the game.
"Open Status Info!"
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[level: 2]
[Strength: 14]
[Agility: 24]
[Stamina: 31]
[Mana: 35]
"Hmm, everything's pretty decent so far, but at least we're making progress in this hell-hole."
He begins to move forward once more after closing his 'Status Info' window. The hallway seemed pretty empty for a while. Everywhere Leroy would step or look at, it'd be pretty chill. It was just a totally empty hallway until, in his sight, he saw a gateway.
'Must be the second part of this room,' Leroy thought to himself, walking over to the gateway with caution.
When he reaches the gateway, he stands in front of it, peeking through the inside and noting the two Automated Crossbows on both the left and right sides.
'I don't think that they can hit me outside their designated area. If they could, they would've shot at me already, since I'm within their vision.'
Leroy takes a couple steps back, taking out two daggers, one in each hand. He sprints forward and as soon as he enters through the gateway, he sends the daggers flying out of his hands and into each Automated Crossbows.
Swoosh
The daggers damaged the strings and the arrows that were already loaded in it, preventing the Crossbows from firing.
"That was simple...now I'm at level 3." Leroy sighs, a bit relieved.
He starts to investigate the area carefully, making sure to assess everything in the room since it was quite big. He saw that the room had three small hallways, two of which were empty.
'If the other two were empty…wonder what's in this hallway..' Leroy mentally questioned.
Approaching the third hallway, Leroy sees a large, shiny chest up ahead. He checked the area around the chest just in case there were any traps, walking around it cautiously.
'There seems to be no traps.'
Leroy put his hand on the chest's door, feeling the dark, polished wood under his fingertips, sighing softly before gently lifting it open. Once he got the chest open, he noticed a single item inside. At first he was quite disappointed that there was only one item in the whole chest.
"...Well, that sucks."
The single item in the chest was a crystal. The crystal shined beautifully in front of Leroy, sparkling more than a diamond would. Its shininess and beauty speak volumes just by its looks alone. It was shaped like a flower and twice as beautiful as one.
Leroy stared at the majestic flower crystal, staring with awe.
"Wonder what this does... It looks valuable either way." Leroy thought aloud. Once he obtained the crystal, a message appeared in front of him, reading,
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[Grade: Unique]
[Quality: Excellent]
[Increases Agility by 20]
[If the enemy is more powerful than the user, some extra bonus might be added to close off the gaps as much as possible]
[When attacking an opponent with any type of weapon... have a 1/2 chance to apply burn effect or poison effect]
"Seems like I hit the jackpot..."
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"Hell yeah! Absolutely a yes!"
<<'Prompentus Flower' has been equipped>>
"Welp, seems to me that this floor is going to be a cakewalk-"
After some time…
"Okay- I was wrong!-"
As Leroy ran with the crystal, the ground below him began to crumble, pieces breaking off and creating large, bottomless holes that could cause him fall and lose his life.
"Just-... just what the hell is this!?!?"
The ground continued to rumble and fall apart.
"How can it be this big!? Were the gods drunk or something while creating this!?"
A few minutes back…
Leroy, being the confident person he was, continued walking forward. Not long after reaching the gateway to the next room. This gateway was much bigger than the other ones, though, making a more unique stance, towering over anyone who dared to enter. He peeked into the room and saw how big and clean it was. Nothing else was seen in the room however. No other pathways to go and no Automated Crossbow to be spotted.
"That's odd..."
When he had walked through the gateway and transferred towards the middle of the room, there was still no reaction from…well..anything.
"Are they trying to scare me or what?"
After he stands in the middle of the room, a pop-up message comes up.
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"Yes...I got this, it's goin' to be like taking candy from a baby!"
Leroy accepts the fight, stumbling slightly as the whole room begins to shake badly. The once clean atmosphere being replaced with a more intimidating atmosphere.
"Okay… I'm starting to not like this..."
The tiles in the upper part of the wall of the room flipped, and an Automated Crossbow came out, but the size was three times bigger than the previous ones. Many more tiles on the walls flipped, normal-sized crossbows came out, and random small walls spawned on the floor.
"Ok... seems like I got the wrong idea of it being 'Easy as hell.'"
All the crossbows turn toward Leroy, load an arrow, aim at Leroy, and shoot arrows.
"Wait! Give me time at-EEK!"
It was raining arrows overhead, but he was able to dodge all the arrows because of the agility boost he got from the 'Prompentus Flower,' but there were starting to become too many arrows... which made him feel exhausted way more than before.
Leroy paused, huffing and panting, then went back to dodging the rain of arrows.
"Damn... they are huff not giving me huff time to rest even-"
He becomes more alert and on guard as soon as he hears the sounds of something large oncoming.
While dodging, he looked at that huge crossbow... and that was the most terrifying thing he could ever imagine. A huge and thick arrow was getting ready to be launched at him.
And it was ready.
SWOOSH
"FUCK YOU GODS- YOU ARE ALL PSYCHOS FOR SURE- EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU- AHHHH!!!!" Leroy shrieked, continuing to dodge the attacks with terror.
THUNK
BANG
The room was totally being destroyed! When the arrow hit the area Leroy was last in, huge stones flew from their original places and were scattered everywhere.
"Just... just what the heck is this!?"
Back to the present…
Leroy saw that in a corner of a room, a wall was created due to the scattering of the floor tiles.
"Awesome, that's what I need. For now, only one side will be open, and that will be fine." (do this part- ion understand)
Leroy rushes towards the corner while dodging the arrows. After he reaches it, he lays his back there, stopping for a breather.
"Damn even in this 'Impossible Mode', and after getting a 'Unique' Grade artifact, I am still having a hard time."
After some time, he calms down and starts to calculate.
"Let's see... It is almost impossible to hit them with my sword; the only thing that I can damage with these throwable daggers."
"Info Items."
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"Artifact"
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[Agility +20]
[If the enemy is more powerful than the user, some extra bonus might be added to close off the gaps as much as possible]
[When attacking an opponent with any type of weapon, you have a 1/2 chance to apply a burn effect or poison effect]
"Hmm, the worst outcome would be me getting a burn effect after 4 daggers."
"Well, I've got no other choice... that's my only solution to defeat this fucked-up boss."
He takes a deep breath, exhaling softly before rushing out and going towards the middle of the room. Dodging the arrows, but when he's about to reach the middle, the big arrows fly over and destroy the area.
"Seriously!?"
While running around randomly, he aims his dagger at that big crossbow.
SWOOSH
CLANG
It hit the gears of the crossbow but doing no damage to the crossbow itself.
"I am so bad at my aim..!" Leroy groaned irritably.
And at that point in time, only an arrow pierced through his leg.
Biting on his own tongue, he screams, "AGH!- Dammit!!"
He grabs the arrow's tail and pulls it out, almost crying from the pain.
He, again, runs around the room, trying to aim at the Big Crossbow. As he was releasing his dagger, another arrow came right at him, and he quickly moved to his left side. The arrow rubs against the skin of his right hand, leaving a huge cut. It didn't disturb his aim, but still, he barely managed to dodge that one.
While running and panting, he exhaled breathlessly, "Phew, that was a close one."
"Wait, what-"
He hurriedly looks at the crossbow. He notices that the dagger has hit the string on the crossbow, and now the string is on fire.
"Let's go!!"
Until the crossbow totally burned out, he had to dodge the arrows of the other normal crossbow.
After some minutes of burning,
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"Let's fucking go!"
Leroy literally closed his eyes, and tears were still coming out in happiness.
"I leveled up 6 times, which means now I am level 9!"
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Leroy sighs and says, "Finally, some happy moments after that bullshit I had to put up with."