- Chapter Eleven -
It's now been four days. Four days of literally fighting to stay alive. There have been rumors going around that another guild found a dungeon on the north side of floor one with a chamber deep in the back that no one has been able to get to. Speculations say it's the boss room, but there have been two other false alarms in the past couple of days so I'm not going to get my hopes up. Everyone thinks this is the one because the monsters are all level 15-20 and hardly anyone is at that level yet. Parks and I are both level 13, Ronin is level 14 and the twins lost their leveling streak at 12. I personally think it's because Cherry's head is stuck so far up Ronin's ass that she can't think straight, but she swears that's not the case. Either way, it's none of my business. They both seem happy.
Sampson has grown to level 10, and by grown I mean he doesn't fit on my shoulders anymore. He now walks beside me like a guard dog, but I wouldn't call him that if I were you. His talons are at least 4 inches long now.
Ronin learned a new, VERY useful skill called Shadow Walk. He can literally disappear into his own shadow and reappear in any shadow within 20 yards and he's been using the FUCK out of it. He's constantly not only getting the First Hit bonuses from shadow walking to the monster first, but also the Last Hit bonuses as well most of the time. Now you know why he's a higher level. The dude's a savage.
Parks has become the sharpshooter from hell with his new bow. If he can see you, he can put at least 3 arrows in you every second. He also got a new perk: Eagle eye. It allows him to zoom in his vision up to 5x for five seconds. I've personally seen him shoot a bird out of a tree from 100 yards. He's earned his new alias, The Hammer Of God. Oh, and he finally got rid of the Robin hood outfit after the 20,000th time I called him and Ronin 'Batman and Robin of Loxley'. I guess he didn't appreciate my Men In Tights reference. Oh well.
He, and everyone else in the guild for that matter, got new armor courtesy of me. My blacksmithing perk finally paid off and I made the entire guild their custom armor. Black iron with gold trim, a gryphon head on each shoulder and our banner on the chest. The hardest part was acquiring the rubies for the eyes, but it was SO worth it. And I can also upgrade weapons now. My Iron Sabre has been upgraded to level 3 (higher than everyone else's) and is now called The Gryphon. Yes, I named it. Yes, there is a gryphon head on the handle right before the blade. Sue me. It's fucking badass. I upgraded it with the same black iron, gold and rubies I used for the armor. And the best part is my blacksmithing is also drastically improving my strength and agility. I can now swing The Gryphon as fast as anyone with a one handed sword or katana. Except Ronin...
The twins actually both got unique skills: Dual Midnight Blades. Apparently if you kill 500 monsters, in a row, with both of you landing at least one hit, you get a unique skill. Impressive? Yes. Excessive? Absolutely. But they're also slacking. Cherry may be stuck up Ronin's ass, but Firefly has been having her own problems as well. She's the only one of the twins with a child. A 6 month old. And I'm almost 100% positive she's going through post partum depression. She's constantly falling behind us on the hunting grounds, curled up in a ball crying. I hear her throughout the night crying herself to sleep. Now, I've had very bad separation anxiety from my family since we found out we're stuck in here. But she's a new mom. I can't imagine what she's going through. So we just try to fight it together as best as we can.