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Retry
Michael stepped up to the door of the dungeon and stopped, looking around. The Sleeping Knights and Kirito's group stood behind him, all ready to go. with them stood Eugene. Michael grinned and looked at Yuuki.
"The moment you get low on health, get distance and wait for Asuna and Siune to heal you," Michael said.
"I know," Yuuki said rolling her eyes. "It's not my first fight since being saved you know."
Michael smirked and rolled his eyes, nodding.
"Alright," Michael smirked. "And just remember, if I can't summon one after this, I'm going to be very angry."
With that, he drew his sword and sprinted into the dungeon, the others following. They all ran until they reached the room with the waterfall and the two Fatal Scythes emerged from it. This time, the thin pathway extended into a full floor and the door sealed behind them. Michael turned to try to open it but it wouldn't budge.
"Oh boy," Michael gulped. "That can't be good."
He turned back around, summoning his doppelganger as Eugene summoned his along with the Day of the Dead boss, Yuuki summoned the twenty seventh floor boss, and Leafa summoned the gorilla she had gotten a while back.
"That might be enough," Michael grinned. "Yuuki, hang back for now. Just keep resummoning yours when it dies."
Yuuki nodded and all of the summons, along with Kirito, Michael, Eugene, and Klein charged at one of the Fatal Scythes while the others charged at the other one, along with the gold minotaur Asuna had killed in Thrymheim, Yuuki, Asuna, and Siune hanging back so they could heal anyone if needed and not worry about Yuuki being killed.
Michael flipped over the scythe and it tore through Yuuki's summon's legs after splitting his doppelganger in half. Michael rolled his eyes, flipping and activating his OSS from one side as Kirito, who had been using SkillConnect, did the same with Excalibur on the opposite side. After a moment, both stabbed the Fatal Scythe and it roared in pain, grabbing both and beginning to squeeze. Klein's sword tore through it, followed by the spectral arm's, and it released them. Michael landed on Yuuki's summon's hammer and leapt off, activating his OSS again, this time on the Fatal Scythe's skull. It eyes rolled around and around as it shrieked in pain. When Michael finished, its health was barely a sliver. The Fatal Scythe reached up for him just as one of Michael's long unused knives began to glow red.
"Only two uses is fine with me!" Michael growled, slashing the Fatal Scythe and spinning, knife tearing through the Fatal Scythe three times before he spun the other way, stabbing it and sending flames exploding out the back of its head.
The Fatal Scythe backed away, shrieking in pain and slashing through the group, launching everyone except Yuuki's summon. That lost its legs and fell to the floor, roaring in rage. Michael stood as Kirito sprinted forward, meaning to finish the Fatal Scythe.
"No way," Michael growled pulling out his bow and drawing it back with his sword. "It's mine asshole."
He let go of the sword and it streaked past the others, slipping past Kirito and hitting the Fatal Scythe just before Kirito's sword, forcing the Fatal Scythe back and out of the way of Kirito's slash. Kirito landed and looked back at Michael, grinning and rolling his eyes then running to help the others as the Fatal Scythe Michael had shot shattered. Michael chanted a spell and fired at his sword, using the same spell Sinon had caught Excalibur with to retrieve his sword. Then, he also sprinted at the other Fatal Scythe.
The others reached it before he did, and began to attack it. However, as it reached the red zone, it began to glow red as darkness as thick as smoke began to curl off and hurled them all away, reducing all of the Sleeping Knights to Remain lights, along with Agil, Lisbeth, and Silica, and leaving everyone else who was within reach at a sliver.
"Damn," Michael growled as Siune and Asuna's spell began to heal them.
Yuuki's summoned giant charged past, crashing into the Fatal Scythe with its hammers and Michael stood, summoning his own Fatal Scythe. It charged at the other, attacking it with the giant but the now glowing one seemed to have grown much stronger than Michael thought it had, since both summons died after a minute.
"Kirito!" Michael shouted. "Excalibur!"
Kirito slid the sword to Michael as he pulled his bow out and he lifted it, pulling it back.
"Too heavy for me to wield huh?" Michael smirked. "Fine then."
He released it but just before it hit, the Fatal Scythe slashed it out of the air, making the sword stab back down beside Kirito's head. Michael stared at it for a moment before standing and switching back to his sword. His doppelganger rose beside him and both sprinted forward.
"I hate Fatal Scythes," Michael growled.
He leapt to the side, his doppelganger going the other way as the Fatal Scythe's blade crashed down between them. Then, they stood, leaping at it, Michael activating his OSS. His sword tore through the Fatal Scythe's skull rapidly but just before he could finish it, it backhanded him and his doppelganger, launching both away. Then, Silica leapt up in front of it, driving her dagger into its skull, ice exploding out of the back of its head, killing it. She landed on her feet and smiled as everyone cheered. Then, she summoned it and Michael did a facepalm. It was still glowing, and had its power boost, unlike his, making it stronger than his.
"Hah!" Eugene laughed. "Even when you win you lose."
The floor began to shrink again and they all gathered on the original bridge again as the waterfall slowly stopped, revealing a room filled with treasure and armor. Michael walked into it, looking through everything until he found a black cloak with black metal splits down the outsides of the sleeves and black pauldrons. He added it to this inventory and compared it to his current cloak, whistling and equipping it. It added nearly fifty percent to his defense and twenty to his offense while adding fifteen percent to his agility.
"I like it," Michael grinned inspecting himself. "Want the old one Kirito?"
"Pass," Kirito said. "I like mine better. Besides, I don't like green."
Michael shrugged and broke his cloak down, getting three different ultra-rare materials from it.
"How do you keep getting those?" Lisbeth gaped seeing what he got over his shoulder.
"I dunno," Michael shrugged. "They're yours though."
He sent them to her as Klein turned to leave only to stop, eyes wide.
"What?" Kirito asked looking and dropping a gold sword he had been looking at.
The bridge they needed to use to leave, had a huge blue minotaur with black fur on its legs and a massive blue cleaver in its right hand.
"It's..." Klein breathed.
"Gleam Eyes," Kirito gaped. "What the hell!?"
"Um...so...about surviving this dungeon..." Michael said. "I think our chances just plummeted.
"How strong is it?" Kirito asked.
"As strong as the one on floor seventy four," Yui stated.
Michael and Silica both sent their Fatal Scythes at it but its sword split both in half instantly. Asuna sent her minotaur as a distraction but the Gleam Eyes, simply picked it up by the throat and dropped it off the bridge.
"Oh boy," Michael breathed. "Should I..."
"Probably," Kirito nodded.
Michael opened a binary code window but Klein caught his hand.
"We can take it," Klein growled. "After all. We were unprepared last time too."
"Did you see what it did to those Fatal Scythes?" Michael shouted.
"We only have to knock it off the bridge," Klein said. "And even if we die, we just need to ensure Yuuki makes it out alive. The rest of us are safe."
Michael nodded and opened the binary code window again, tapping quickly before closing it and extending his wings.
"We can fly in this dungeon now," Michael said. "Yuuki, we'll create an opening. While we do, you and Leafa need to get out."
"Why me?" Leafa asked.
"In case there are monsters in the dungeon now," Michael said. "We're going to stay here and fight this thing. Should be fun."
"I'm going with them," Sinon stated.
Michael nodded as he, Klein, Kirito, and Eugene flew at the Gleam Eyes. The moment their first attacks hit the massive creature and made it stagger back, Leafa, Yuuki, and Sinon sped past it. It spun, slashing at Yuuki much too fast for her to avoid, but just before it hit her, Jun shoved her out of the way, being split in half.
"See you outside Yuuki," Jun smiled before becoming a Remain Light.
Yuuki nodded, continuing with her escorts and Michael attacked the Gleam Eyes again. He refrained from using his OSS since he knew it would hold him in the same place too long. He avoided the Gleam Eye's sword and free hand as much as he could while Kirito attacked it from the other side and Eugene from behind it. Their attacks hit the creature every time but barely left a dent no matter what they used. Klein used his sword's special ability to blast it with a double fire-type skill but it barely did any damage. Finally, the Gleam Eyes managed to slap Michael, smashing him into a wall but not quite killing him. He pushed himself out of the wall as Siune and Asuna healed him and raised his sword again, summoning his Fatal Scythe to help out as Silica did the same. Then, he shot toward the Gleam Eyes, slashing it across the back in time to stop it from splitting Kirito in half. It spun, throwing a punch at him but Eugene shoved him out of the way then split the Gleam Eyes arm to the elbow. It roared in rage and the wound disappeared.
"I always did hate this thing," Kirito growled.
"Just wait," Michael smirked. "This is good practice for the floor boss."
He glanced up at its health bars and his eyes widened. He had forgotten the regenerative factor. They had literally done nothing because however much damage they did, the Gleam Eyes simply regenerated.
"We're not even hurting it!" Michael shouted. "It's just regenerating."
Suddenly, it spun, splitting both him and Kirito in half before grabbing Eugene and biting his upper body off before smashing Klein into a wall, killing him.
"Well, at least Yuuki got away," Asuna said.
"Right," Siune nodded. "We were so far out of our league."
"Oh yeah," Asuna nodded as the Gleam Eyes opened its mouth. "See you back in town."
Then, the Gleam Eyes roared and blue flames shot into the treasure room, killing everyone else.
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