- Chapter Twenty Four -

The second and third rooms consisted of mainly goblins with one giant spider. They were both cleared the same way. Freya's party took out the spider, Gojira's party and the archers took out the goblins.

But, the fourth room was where we started having trouble. As soon as the first person set foot inside, the arrows started flying.

All 12 tanks formed a crescent around the entrance, blocking the oncoming arrows with their shields.

I told Sampson to stay back. Those skeleton archers would tare his ass up before he could even get to them. He took that as incentive to go after one of the dire wolves that got a little too close.

Now, these weren't like those regular dire wolves we saw outside the dungeon. They were easily 2 feet taller than Sampson, but I don't think he cared. There were 4 wolves in the room, but one unlucky bastard got a little too close to the shields and Sampson attacked. Luckily, they fell and rolled out of the line of sight of the skeletons.

That's when our archers took aim. Every 2 or 3 seconds, Gojira would slightly move his shield just enough to where Parks was able to send 3 arrows back at the skeletons.

Ivy and Callisto saw what they were doing and applied a similar method.

About a minute later, Sampson was done with his kill, leveled up, grew about 3 inches then tackled another wolf. That left 6 skeletons and 2 wolves between us and the boss.

Parks, Callisto and Ivy (now under less return fire) were able to take out the remaining archers almost instantly. That apparently pissed the wolves off because their eyes started glowing blue and they grew another foot taller.

Sampson screamed in pain as the now bigger wolf bit down on his back.

Thad and I instantly charged it.

As soon as the wolf saw us approaching, it threw Sampson towards us and leapt over to join the other 2.

I knelt down next to him with a healing potion in hand. "You almost had him." I joked as the potion took effect. He looked up at me with nothing but rage in his eyes and screamed again. This time, not in pain.

He flew straight up so fast, all you could see was a brown and white blur of feathers and claws.

The 3 wolves then charged us.

A loud whistle shot across the room, then something collided with the leading wolf.

"New Skill" shown in the upper left of my vision as I saw Sampson standing in the middle of falling blue shards between the other 2 wolves.

They both tried jumping on him but he was up again in a blur. Parks and Callisto took this chance to riddle one of the wolves with arrows as the whistling started again.

Both wolves exploded into shards, leaving only a leather armored Gryphon standing in the midst.

"What the fuck was that, Zeus?" Thad interrogated.

"Fury Wind." I replied, reading the details from my menu. "He got it when he leveled up after that first wolf."

Sampson walked back up to the group and sat next to me.

"Looks like he grew some too." Gojira added.