"You know, this rabbit isn't as bad as the wolves." I say while munching the cooked rabbit.
"It all tastes the same for me." Hajime remarks. After eating, we continued further into the dungeon. After searching for several hours, we finally encountered the Talon Bear. "Yo, Talon Bear, how was my arm?" Hajime calls out to the bear.
"I'll be waiting here if anything goes wrong." I say, taking a seat on the stone floor. The Talon Bear growled towards Hajime and suddenly moved right before 'Donner' was fired. However, the battle was easily won as Hajime was fast enough to fire a second shot, blowing off the Bears head and emerging victorious.
"Looks like bear meat for dinner, hope you're hungry!" Was the energetic remark made afterwards. While the meat caused us some pain, it wasn't as bad as the first time, and we quickly overcame it. With this meal, I regained Force Push. Although it didn't do damage like Hajime's Air Claw, it could send someone flying.
"Are you planning on going further down, or to resurface?" I ask Hajime.
"I would like to return to the surface and find a way back home." He answers honestly.
"Just a heads up, considering my luck, we will probably have to complete this dungeon to be able to return to the surface. Something tells me that we are much further down than the 100 levels you said there were." I say.
"I trust you enough to heed your words, so if you really think there is no way up other than to complete this, then we go further." Hajime says resolutely. As we make our way down, I notice something shine, and following my instincts, I aim my rail gun and shoot it, causing the splattering sound of flesh to echo throughout.
"It seems I'm becoming more attuned to my powers." I say in a melodramatic voice. As we reached the corpse, we ate what we could, and our vision was improved. "I'm going to guess its Night Vision."
"You guess correctly." Hajime confirms my suspicions. We continue on. After a few hours of killing and collecting, we find another staircase. Before Hajime could walk down however, I grab his shoulder.
"Wait, this floor is covered in a tar like substance. I'm going to ignite it to clear this floor while keeping us as unharmed as possible." I warn. Once we were a good distance away, I release a small torrent of lightning, which sparked and lit up the whole floor. Due to the amount of tar, we had to wait a few hours before we could continue through the floor. When we did, there was only one beast to be found, which resembled a shark. After collected the meat for storage, we took a bite each before continuing to the next floor.
By the time we reached the 50th floor I had relearned several Force techniques such as Force Shield, Force Replicate, Force Far sight and Force Cloak. At the moment, we were outside of three meter tall double doors.
"These formula's don't seem familiar." Hajime says.
"Could it be from an old system?" I ask.
"I have no clue." He replies. "But those Cyclops statues look suspicious."
"I'll get the door, you get the Cyclops'. Sound fair?" I ask.
"How come I get all the fun?" He asks wryly, but nods in affirmation. As I touch the door, I immediately erect a Force shield to protect me from any traps. Behind me I hear 'Donner' being fired twice, followed by two thumps that reverberated on the floor. As Hajime collected the Cyclops meat, I noticed two stone sized holes on either side, and, following a hunch, I placed the two Cyclops magic stones in, which opened the door. As we entered, a voice called out.
"Who?" The voice was feminine in nature, and originated from the cube.
"Vampire." I hissed. I had previous dealings with vampires and so I was not bothered by leaving her here to rot.
"Whelp, looks like its onto the next room." Hajime says nonchalantly.
"WAIT! Please save me." The vampire whimpered.
"There is nothing here to help us escape, so its not worth it." Hajime replies coldly.
"NO! I'm not bad! I was betrayed!" She called out as the door closed. Hajime sighed and reopened the door, much to my annoyance.
"Why and by Who?" Hajime then asked the Vampire.
"I'm an atavistic vampire; I was granted great power which made me immortal, so my Uncle, who became king, sealed me in here." She replied bitterly. Even I was starting to feel her pain. Hajime then walked up to the cube and began transmuting it. The amount of power he had to put into the cube was more than he had ever done before. After some time, the cube broke and the vampire was released. Hajime, having used up his magic, hobbled over to me and sat down in exhaustion. As he and the vampire, who he named 'Yue', were talking, my instincts began screaming at me.
"INCOMING!" I shout, using the Force to push the two of them out the door as a massive demonic Scorpion fell from the ceiling. In desperation, I unknowingly summoned my lightsaber, ignited it, and rushed the scorpion. As I ran, the stinger tail began targeting me and fired a cluster of stingers. Creating a Force Shield, I deflect the stingers and leap at the now vulnerable tail. Slashing diagonally I sever its main weapon, giving me an advantage… or so I thought. From small emplacements on its armour it began unleashing torrents of yellow lightning. Holding up my right hand, I block the torrents of lightning. The scorpion, thinking its victory is absolute, emits a war cry. Looking up with rage on my face, I use my left hand to blast my own torrents of lightning, causing the skin beneath the shell to burn. With one powerful Force push, the Scorpion stumbles and I summon my second saber, igniting them both I throw them in a saber throw, slicing off its legs. I leap into the air and land on its back, impaling my blades through the tough armour before jumping back off. As it attempts to slice me with its claw, I hold it with Force grip, then lift the whole creature, crushing its armour and body before bringing it down on my blades, ending its life. Spinning my blades into reverse grip, I disengage the blades and return the hilts to my belt. Turning around, I notice Yue and Hajime staring at me, mouths agape.
"Hehe, looks like I have some explaining to do, huh?" I say sheepishly.
A/N – Ok, the last big paragraph is based off the clone of Starkiller when he fights the Terror Walker in the E3 Trailer. Hope you all enjoyed, and ill see you next chapter. Nut Out.
