"Dude, I know your guts are always somewhat right and stuff, but we should be really looking for Adam, mate." – said the young man with the scar as he and his friend entered the cave.
"I know, but I really can't shake off the feeling about this place." – said the brown haired man while holding an levitating sphere of light that brighten up an area.
(Even as we went inside, there was still no hostile movements inside or anything…. Was I mistaken or-)
"!?"
"…"
"I heard something." – said the brown haired man, alarming his friend.
The brown haired man caused the sphere of light to fly above him while he took out the bow, while the man with the scar equipment and one handed sword and shield.
The two men prepared themselves as the sound of something moving could be getting closer and closer…. And then finally.
It had appeared.
The wooden mannequins.
"!"
"Wait, what are those?" – asked confused man with the scar who stopped himself from going forward.
"…. I think they are made out of wood…. But they are moving around?" – said the brown haired man who kept his guard high up.
"Hey! What are you?!"
"…"
The creatures didn't responded and instead walked towards the two men.
"Welp, that confirms it. They are monsters." – said the brown haired man.
"But be careful, we don't know what they are."
"Understand." – said the man with the scar as he rushed in, confronting on of the wooden mannequins that swinged its arm at the man, but was easily blocked by the man shield, before then he counter attacked with an sword attack and dug into the puppet wooden body.
However, the puppet didn't cared that it was attacked as it tried attacking the man again, only for him to use his shield to block the attack and then kick the creature away while getting back his sword.
"They are made out of wood and they are definitely not some living creatures wearing it." – said the man with the scar.
"As for the attacks, they don't seem too hard."
"…"
The brown haired man fired his arrow, hitting the puppet right in the head and pierced it right through it with ease…. But the puppet was still alive.
"…"
"Go for the kill this time." – said the brown haired man.
"Got it." – said the man with the scar as he rushed at the puppets again and confronted them, blocking one of the puppet arms, before then swinging his sword around, cutting in half the puppet, destroying its body.
However, he left his vurnable for the other two wooden mannequins that tried attacking the man, but both of them were hit with arrows, stopping them in the tracks for split moment and giving the man partner time to swing around his shield and bashed the puppet, knocking them down to the ground, before then using his sword and shield to bash the creatures over and over, destroying them.
"…"
"Huh…. The hell are those?" – asked the man with the scar.
"There is straight up nothing but wood."
"Yea, this is weird. What are those mon- "
"!?"
The two men observed as the puppet monster bodies started showing sings of the dungeon monster death.
"…"
"Hey… Isn't that?"
"Yea, this is definitely it." – said the brown haired young man as he began hearing something in the distance.
"Shit. We are running for it."
"Eh?"
"I SAID WE ARE RUNNING FOR IT! WE NEED TO GO TO TOWN NOW!" – shouted the brown haired man before then turning around and running away with his friend.
"…"
(Two intruders…. Escaped.)
[Sometime later – Town – Guild master office.]
"…"
*Sigh*
"Enter." – said the guild master before moments later the female guild staff entered the room.
"What is it?" – said the guild master while looking through the documents.
"…"
"Em….. An brand new dungeon had just been discovered…. Sir." – said the female staff.
"…"
"What?" – said the guild master with his eyes wide open.
"Who discover it?! BRING THEM TO ME! NOW!" – said the guild master, making the female staff quickly run out of the room before moment later the two adventures walked into the guild master office and started explaining the whole situation to him.
"Hm…. Damn, I wasn't expecting this at all." – said the guild master.
"You were supposed to look for him and now you just randomly discover dungeon like that?"
"…."
(First Arthur disappears, then dungeon breaks occurs, then fucking Adam disappears…. And now brand new dungeon…) – though the guild master as he held his head.
*Sigh*
"And its just matter of the time before those two greedy bastards finds out about it…."
"Hey, look me up any available high ranking party we have here."
"We need to do an dungeon investigation."
Before making an public statement about the dungeon, the guild master organized an research party that would go and inspect the newly made the dungeon.
"Huh…. I really wasn't expecting us to get an personal request like that as soon as we destroyed the dungeon, I mean, what are the odds really?" – asked the fox eared girl as she and her party were being by the two adventures that discovered the dungeon.
"Yea." – said the man in the heavy armor.
"…"
"Say…. About Adam…."
"No…. We didn't found anything." – said the man with brown hair without even looking back.
"…I see." – said the man in armor with an annoyed look.
"Anyway, heads up, we are about to reach dungeon." – said the man with brown hair as the group arrived in front of the hill.
"That it?" – asked the girl with fox ears.
"Yea, its stretches downwards from here." – said the man with brown hair.
"Anyway, regarding the monsters we had encountered, according to the guild master informations they are probably monsters known as golems, an puppets that are given live and more around."
"According to the books, these monsters won't die unless you damage them enough or find and destroy their cores that acts like their main organ."
"The monsters we had encountered were…."
"Weak. Very weak." – said the man with the scar.
"They were made out of wood and their attack power wasn't scary at all."
"We retreated pretty much from the get go, so we only went to the entrance."
"Hm… Okay people, get ready." – said the man in heavy armor as he equipped his shield and axe.
"Shall we?"
The group of 5 adventures entered the dungeon, with was instantly noticed by the dungeon master.
"…"
(5 intruders…. Danger… Unknown.)
(…Observe. Determine danger.) – though the dungeon master who stared observing the group as they make their way into the dungeon.
"…"
"Say, so what is our job here anyway? Deal with all the monsters in here?" – asked the man in the hood who was holding an lantern.
"Pretty much yes." – said the party leader named Mar.
"We go as deep as possible and as soon as we start getting exhausted or we feel weird, we instantly withdraw."
"Eh? Only when we are tired?" – asked the girl with fox ears.
"Yeb. Pretty much, we need only basically understanding of the dungeon danger." – said the party leader.
"We don't need to wipe out all the monsters, we only need informations, after getting informations we just get out, report it to the guild master, we get the money."
"Okay…. But what if its an high ranking dungeon?" – asked the fox eared girl.
"Well, then we can just conquer it after we report the situation to the guild." – said the party leader.
"Easy money, easy level up."
"But honestly speaking, I'm not expecting much, since here- "
"!"
"Guys." – said the man with the lantern.
"Yea, we know." – said the fox eared girl as she took out her daggers, preparing herself alongside the other party members.
"…"
The group of the wooden mannequins accompanied by the human mannequin had made their appearance.
"…"
"There was nothing about these ones…. Let me get the taste." – said the party leader as he went first on his own confronting the puppets on his own.
"?"
(Why… Again… Attack alone?) – though confused dungeon master as he saw the party leader repeating the same process as the man with the scar.
He took on the attack deliberately, from two different kind of monsters…. Before then swinging his axe and instantly destroying all 3 puppets with one strike, instantly alarming the dungeon master as he witnessed that.
"…"
(DANGER!)
(HIGH DANGER!)
With one strike the party leader easily took down 3 different puppets…. The man from before took down the puppet down one of the puppets with one strike as well as the swordman…. But the man in the dungeon took down all 3 puppets… With single strike… And it wasn't the long sword like the man used, but instead an axe.
Dungeon master worries that it though it wouldn't worry about for now had resurfaced at full swing, hitting him right in the face.
It observed as the party leader on by one destroyed the puppets on his own, without suntanning any serios injuries at all.
In the end, the party leader completely and singlehandedly wiped out, filling the dungeon master with dread and fear.
The nightmare it feared had come….
The being that strong if not stronger than swordman had come….. And not only that, he wasn't alone.
In that instant, any hope that the dungeon master had gained with the research that it though allow the dungeon survive, to grow, to evolve…. It all plumed down.
The hope had died…. And the despair had come back….
And now, this maybe really be the end.