"Iudex Dungeon"
"Right there!" Nameless newbie A exclaimed
there were new changes in the dungeon recently and no its not one of those changes where the dungeon fixed some boring environment like rocks that collided with each other without breaking, bridges that often look broken and scary yet is as stable as any other bridge. This change have finally interests adventurers alike, new monsters, new spawn placements, and something odd in front of the entrance of the 5th floor.
One day a party of adventurers decided to delve deeper into the lower floors in search for greater fortune or perhaps their biggest dream
As they go down the long stairs leading to the entrance of the 5th floor, in a large room filled with ruins of the dungeon, they found a large man in armor kneeling down in one knee while the other resting on its side and its other arm resting below its kneeling kneecap and to make this more mysterious, a huge axe-like scythe was directly attached to the ground in front of the armored figure along with a disgusting looking tentacle thing growing into its back.
Nameless newbie A examined the figure and as he got closer, he noticed a huge sword jabbed through the torso of its armor and body.
"Holy shit! Look at the size of this thing! Lets pull it out"
and Nameless newbie A started pulling it out but its not too easy though as blood kept squirting out and from the sounds of it, someone must've killed this thing pretty hard that they stabbed the living hell out of it through its chest.
Cling
he finally got it out
"YEAH! Now THIS looks freakin awesome im telling ya"
His party members, which they're only 3 including himself, were supposed to be proud for him until they saw whats happening at the back.
the armored figure stood from its knees back to life and pulled the axe-like scythe off the ground and showed its identity as it stood up, appeared to have a silver mask with a blank yet intimidating expression with a top looking like a crown of sorts
Nameless newbies B and C backed away from the figure while A's upset on why they're doing it so and finally turned around to see why they're so scared only to be grabbed by the large being with its free hand and lifted the poor newbie up in the air, then things get worse from here, the large being impaled NN A through its stomach with its axe scythe, resulting in the state of dying, and threw him all the way afar from the other 2 and the being itself, quickly changing his state from dying to a quick death.
it stared at the other 2 and knowing that there's no other way to escape this, if they do so then they might as well meet the same fate as he did so they're only left with one option... to fight it
The large being swiftly aggressively quick stepped behind NN B and swung its scythe supposedly finishing its opponent in half, fortunately B managed to avoid that by panickly diving into the ground away from its range.
NN C tried to charge in ahead with his shortsword held tightly in his hand ready to strike, the armored being noticed this. It made another wide slash before NN C striked it first and quickly ducked away from its range, however was met by brute force of the being, the being used its burly side to aggressively push NN C down to the ground just right after it swung.
as soon as NN C quickly regained his conciousness he looked up to the being's axe scythe up in the air, its blades facing the direction where NN C lies in preparation for execution. This was ceased by NN B's throwing knives which do a little of damage but enough to get the armored being's attention away from NN C's close death.
The armored being sets its hollowed eyes to the origin of the knives, NN B's too weak to stand again so he had to crawl away before the being reached the poor newbie. Sadly, the armored being leapt at such height as NN B crawl and stare at his life about to fade away and so it did after the axe scythe impaled his chest. NN B, with all of his strength he has left, reached his hand out to NN C in tears and faced death after the armored being plunged the impaled NN B to his death.
NN C can't bear to watch this, first NN A with grabbing the big sword and now NN B- wait a minute...
An epiphany struck NN C, if he could use the big sword on the armored being and jabbed it back into its guts... He'll go back to sleep!
while the armored being still satisfied with the execution, NN C slowly and quietly reach for the big sword that was once in the belly of the beast and wished the divines to not let anyone else touch this... armored being again.
after reaching for the big sword, he carries it two handedly for more power and prepared a stance towards the monster.
"RRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!"
NN C let out a warcry as he charged like a wild boar that hunger for its meal. The armored being turned its attention to the angry charging opponent, a faint sound of a stab was made and a lot of blood sploodged out of its torso.
NN C let out a maniacal laugh as he finally put this damn piece of shit to depths. Unfortunately...
Rather than kneeling down in near death, the armored being stared at the big sword its opponent impaled with for a brief moment and back at the suprised newbie then suddenly it started twitching and the tentacles behind its back started to bloat bigger and bigger and by the divines high above what did it do to itself!?
This is no monster... But a beast... a terrible, terrible beast that no human should bump into...
alas, his fate was met by a disturbing munch.
"So what ya sayin' is, there's this big helluva monster guardin the fifth floor?"
"Well you can put it that way unfortunately" finn sadly admitted
After hearing the stories and rumors of these new changes in the dungeon, the Loki familia has taken an interest of this new trend going on: the monster in front of the 5th floor entrance.
"Well I mean, we haven't met the thing yet until we go there ourselves" tiona said. She's right, who knows how dangerous that monster might be and it's obvious that its not black neither yet it could've surpassed the level of the city's most famous sword princess, Aiz Wallenstein.
"Why bother? We've been into like at least around 40-50 floors, whats a 5th floor guardian gonna do?" Now Bete may have a point here, but then again who knows what'll happen of them when the time comes to meet it.
"Ne Riveria, do you know anything about this new monster?" Tiona asked
"Well as far as I can tell, I heard that it indeee has a name but I can't seem to recall it, though its name does have to do with "judgement" and "battle""
"Well it's getting late around here now, i'll think about whether should we take it to a visit or not but for now get some rest."
"Hai!" everyone agreed.
note: aaaaaaand im out of ideas ,)
