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Chapter Twelve
Dungeon Crawling for Newbies
"Welcome to the dungeon! For me it's like a home away from home, filled with ravenous monsters that what to tear you limb from limb and feast on your living flesh!" Naruto said excitedly holding his arms out for dramatic emphasis of the plain forest that the dungeon had taken the form of. The forest had enlarged trees that looked like they were on the verge of dying and the sky was a sickly green color. Sharp bramble and blood red vines covered the trees and formed natural barricades to block off the places the dungeon didn't want the three player to be.
But there was still a lot of space left over for them to explore and to battle in. Sayuri didn't like the blood red vines and Sasuke wanted to avoid the thorny bramble. Naruto however look indifferent to it all and simply smiled before counting down silently with his fingers so that the siblings could see. Three... two... one... a deafening roar shook the area and caused many birds to fly out of the trees in terror.
Naruto grinned when both Sasuke and Sayuri turned as pale as ghosts, when they realized that there was a high chance that they would have to fight something like that. Naruto took joy in their suffering, because he would probably be suffering when they got out of this. Naruto also remembered that neither of them had the abilities that he had, much less the Gamer's Mind which allowed for him to be calm in situations like this.
Or to restate that, it was impossible for him to panic or go insane anymore and he learned that he just had to deal with that. Naruto also had a plethora of other abilities that would come in handy during dungeon raids, but the siblings didn't and Naruto formed some items out of crystals. A large crystal katana formed out of the green crystal of his Crystal Release, and he tossed it to Sayuri while Sasuke pulled out his malachite sword and caught a large rounded shield of crystal made from Naruto.
"Why would I need a shield Naruto? Couldn't I just dodge most of the attacks?" Sasuke asked, ninja and samurai didn't use shields because most of the time they could either dodge, parry, or counter an attack. Naruto began explaining, "In a dungeon most of the monsters we will be killing will be very strong or very fast, either way I want you to have some sort of protection that doesn't include dodging because some of the monsters will be faster than even me and when they can get around your speed and make it so you can't dodge you need some sort of extra protection. And the shield doesn't weight that much so quit complaining you big baby."
"Then why don't I have a shield?" Sayuri asked before Naruto put his hand on her shoulder and formed a set of crystal armor over her and then did the same for Sasuke. Both of the siblings looked like knights in the semi-transparent green armor and Naruto stopped to admire his handy word, "That should last until the mini-boss and I'll renew it afterwards but don't try to take to many hits. I found that these higher level dungeons are very tricky to deal with since the monsters are capable of cracking and eventually breaking my crystal armor."
Sayuri nodded at the logic, higher level dungeons would have stronger monsters and so you'd never higher level things to deal with. Sasuke just admired the cool armor that he was in, because he looked awesome in the armor. He was slightly jealous that Naruto could do that but he didn't mind, he just needed to unlock the Sharingan and then he could find other moves as cool as the ones that Naruto were performing!
"Let's see, do you see the bars in the corner of your vision like their hover a few feet from you?" Naruto asked the siblings before they nodded, and with that the three set off into the forest to explore and get through in one piece. Naruto took the lead, his crystal armor forming on him after they left the spawn area. Two claws formed on his hands instead of taking a sword and Naruto explained that he liked using claws instead of swords but he would use them in battle when against an opponent who also used weapons.
"So do you take Sora and Aurora with you on dungeon raids?" it was Sasuke's attempt to calm the nervousness that he had, small talk was wonderful for that.
"Of course I do, but this time I'm taking you two because one, you two need the practice and reason two is because I figured since you had an awesome sword I would find Sayuri something nice. I know that she likes swords such as tanto's and katana's but maybe find something like armor or a nice modifier for her."
"Modifier?"
Naruto sighed, "Did you even do a tutorial? It's in the help menu I'm pretty sure." Naruto said, his eyebrows furrowed in confusion over why his two surrogate siblings wouldn't go over a tutorial.
"Well..." Sasuke was about to give an excuse before Naruto had heard enough and just sighed before shaking his head, "A modifier is a item that gives you special bonuses when put on items such as accessories and weapons. Let me give you an example my sandals are specially made with a few special modifiers and a few extra items that give them cool effects. Some of the materials on the sandals give my kicks slashing damage when they aren't modified by anything like my crystals. This in itself is a neat and useful effect." Naruto then smiled and pulled out two necklaces from his inventory.
One of the necklaces was made from magatama beads and was something that you'd see a monk or a rich person wearing while the other was a regular necklace with a yin-yang symbol on it.
"The magatama beads have special modifiers on them that allow for me to absorb health for enemies when ever I strike them and the yin-yang necklace allows for me absorb chakra whenever I strike somebody and I've been dying to test them out to see how well they work." Naruto handed the necklaces to the siblings so that they could see the stats and their eyes widened when they did, Naruto must have been working for a long time to get the percentages that high.
Magatama Bead Necklace- Lv. 45 Accesory
Requirements- Lv. 45 and an Intelligence of 60
Increases Intelligence, Vitality, Endurance, and Control by 15
Materials - Demonic Plumage (100), Celestial Snake Skin (50), Lunar Wing (50), Rainbow Scale (100)
Modifiers- Diamond Tough, Steel Fiber
-Takes 50% of damage dealt to enemies and returns as health.
-Increases attack speed by 50%.
-Increases attack power by 50%
-Increases bloodline efficiency by 10%
(Modifier) Increases all armor durability by 10%
(Modifier) Increases skin durability by 5%
Yin-Yang Necklace - Lv. 40 Special Accesory
Requirements - Lv. 35 and Control of 120
Increases Chakra by 5% and increases control by 25
Materials - Grand Soul Gem (50), Blood of Ancients (100)
Modifiers - Yang Charm, Yin Charm
-Takes 50% of damage dealt to enemies and returns as chakra
-Increases chakra by 10%
(Modifier) Increases Physical damage by 10%
(Modifier) Increases Non-Physical damage by 10%
Naruto took the items back from the siblings and wrapped them around his own neck before he felt a small rush of power go through him. He'd worked hard to get items as good as the ones that he had, he wasn't going to give them up any time soon seeing as they were worth a lot of time and materials. Although after the dungeon, sometime Naruto would have to take Sasuke and Sayuri shopping for some real ninja equipment, seeing as they would need it.
"I see all of the percentages but what does that mean? Does it just take your total attack speed for example and add 50% of the attack speed or does it take the numbers from a set amount?" Sasuke asked, seeing the numbers confused him.
"It takes it from you regular attack speed, power, what ever you can think of. Durability is a bit tricky to explain but to put it as simple as I can get it without going into complicated math formulas on how every little thing can affect a items durability, the durability of an item is set on a few certain things. First of all, item material, then quality, and then how you use the item. For example and item that isn't being used for it's purpose is going to break faster than using it for it's purpose. Your malachite sword for example..." Naruto was cut off as he ordered everybody to duck.
When they hit the ground, what could only be explained as a tornado of teeth and claws flew out of the vines and bramble, almost successful in taking the heads of the three players off. An experience that nobody wanted to experience yet, all three ducked and quickly recovered before moving to slay the monster. Sasuke distracted the monster, which turned out to be a giant rat with lots of bone spikes and large scythe like claws. He held up his shield, using that and his sword to his advantage taking the brunt of the damage and returning, although a bit slower than Naruto and Sayuri were dishing it out.
Sayuri, payed little attention to defense and instead chose to dodge most of the attacks and go in for a high rate of damage with fast attacks. And Naruto, he was giggling and muttering to himself off on the side of the battle, something about being able to see the damage that everybody was doing. Sasuke struck the monster once again and Naruto could see the numbers 320 appeared just above the mark that he hit before fading quickly.
Mutant Rat Lv. 40
Health- 12480/15000
Sayuri and Sasuke although they hadn't done much damage, both of them were relatively full on chakra and stamina working more to survive the battle that to kill the beast at the risk of wasting energy. Naruto smiled at the battle going on before he joined, forming crystal spikes in the air and running chakra through the his wires, which he kept wrapped around his arms and his legs, over a special type of bracer that he'd recently gotten to prevent the razor sharp wires from cutting his limbs off. The wires ensnared the beast and the crystal impaled it, easily damaging over half it's health. The number 8000 appeared over the mutant rat and Naruto experienced a strange sensation of his vitality and chakra being filled.
It wasn't all that bad, just a bit tingling and most likely something that he would come accustomed too over time, but for now he would have to try his best to ignore the strange sensation. A message appeared in front of Naruto, which he quickly brushed aside in favor of restraining the beast even more for Sayuri and Sasuke to finish it off. When it was dead, which wasn't long seeing as both of them said screw it to defense and wailed on the monster until it died seeing as the wires effectively restrained it, Naruto pulled up the message again and read it carefully seeing as it was part of a new tutorial.
Chakra and Health overload
Due to prevent players with the rare ability to absorb health and/or chakra to abuse this ability, the Chakra and Health overload system was implemented in the latest update. The Chakra and Health overload system allows the players to craft special batteries which store chakra and health. Settings can be modified so that the batteries will either drain when the player started using chakra and health, or when the chakra and health of the player lowers past a certain threshold. Infinite batteries can be used at once, but the batteries only hold so much and the higher tier batteries are most expensive and have higher requirements to make them.
Naruto nodded at the logic, the strange sensation now gone seeing as all the access chakra that he had, was now dissipated into the air seeing as his body rejected the access chakra due to the Gamer's Body, and the newest update working in tandem. There was a few links to other screens that let him see what he needed for the health and chakra batteries and he was not surprised to see some of the late tiers of batteries required him to be at absurd levels like 200.
But the first battery needed level 50 with sealing, one ingot of chakra metal, and a ruby. Not something that Naruto just created with the Crsystal Release but an honest to goodness ruby which he could find from dungeon drops. Naruto cursed and brought his attention back to the two siblings who were resting up against trees and counting the money that the big rat had dropped.
They stashed the money in their inventory, something that they were still getting used to and then they stood up, "What's wrong Naruto?"
"Oh, my chakra absorption and health absorption just need special items to over charge my initial capacity and the batteries are insane to make like, absolutely insane. The first chakra battery needs level 50 in sealing, a chakra metal ingot, and a ruby. It stores a total of 5000 extra chakra and health which is slowly drained from you, not enough to be detrimental but enough to fill the chakra battery at a decent pace."
"Wow that's ruff, so me and Sasuke just made bank. This is twice as much as the allowance that we get from mom." Sayuri said, tempted to pull the money out and wave it in front of Naruto, before she remembered that Naruto had been doing this for much longer and probably had several bank accounts full of money, or he just kept it all on his person.
Naruto smiled and nodded before walking off, and the siblings followed him. All of them were searching for the way to the second level in the dungeon, and Naruto got thinking on their roles in the team. Sasuke, was an obvious tank with the shield and crystal armor that Naruto had provided for him. Sasuke just didn't like to back down and preferred to take hits instead of dodging them and so he made a great distraction when the monster was busy trying to break through the shield of his leaving them open for Sayuri. The girl was a rogue, a fast high damage character who was better suited for dodging than really blocking. She didn't have a shield but the katana had a higher damage per second than the malachite sword, even if it looked cooler and was more durable than the crystal katana.
Naruto assumed that he would be forced into multiple roles, seeing as he could be a mage with his techniques and high rate of damage at the sacrifice of his chakra. But he could also be a easy rouge like Sayuri seeing as he preferred to dodge the attacks that get hit by them and he did a ton of damage when he used his crystal weapons. Naruto broke his line of thought when they hit another dead end in the maze that was the forest. So far they hadn't run into any other monsters and had mainly just been running around trying to look for the way to the second floor.
Looking at the shield in Sasuke's hands Naruto reinforced it by fiddling with his chakra. He'd gotten good with his crystal release over the years, but that didn't mean that he neglected his ice release or the wire techniques, he just used the crystal techniques a little more seeing as they were his main option of offense and defense. They were strong and sharp and Naruto liked that about them, and the only limit was basically his chakra and his imagination. But with the arrival of the chakra batteries, it could be possible that some time in the future, that he wouldn't need to worry about chakra and all he would need would be a active imagination.
Sure he could do the same with ice, but he only really used that when somebody using Lighting Release came along to challenge him, which wasn't that often. In fact he couldn't remember any of the dungeon's having lighting based monsters. They all used ice, or fire, some used wind but never lightning and he hoped that no lightning dungeons would come his way any time soon because it would be very difficult for him.
Pushing that particular train of thought out of his head, Naruto instead focused on where he was going and started being more active in the search for monsters and the way to the second level. It would be easy to identify by the change in the dungeon design and usually there was an indicator like "Welcome to Level 2! Here's more things to kill you!"
There was a clear indicator that another monster was coming by the sounds of loud screeching and trees being torn into splinters. "Jump!" Naruto shouted and all three of them jumped into the air, another mutant rat charged into the area where the three players once were and in Naruto hands formed several shuriken made from crystal all with nasty looking serrated edges. Throwing them down at the creature the shuriken increased in size until they were nearly as large as Naruto's torso. A dinging sound was music to Naruto's ears meaning that he'd hit and looking down at the quickly fading numbers he felt a surge of strength as 2000 extra chakra and health flooded his system for a short time.
Holding his hands in the ram seal several spears of crystal formed, not just spikes, actual spears made smooth and sturdy from the crystal and Naruto's chakra. Naruto with a flick of his chakra sent them flying into the pelt of the mutant rat, all while in the air. Sasuke held his shield below him and when he fell, he landed on the head of the rat who screeched in part pain, part anger. Sayuri came down for the stab into the creatures back before pulling out a spear stuck in it's hide and jumping away. She wanted to see if the spear would suit her better than the katana.
Jumping away when Naruto landed on the beats, the wires wrapped around the mutant rat and cut it to pieces before the left over bits that used to be a rat disappeared in little boxes of multicolored light. Naruto let Sasuke and Sayuri take the drops, seeing as this was their first time in a dungeon and he figured that they would enjoy the cash. Looking at the spear that Sayuri had taken, Naruto remade another one in his hands that was fresh and the durability wasn't taken down. The length of the spear was about 5 feet in length and the tip of the spear itself was triangular shaped and about as wide as Sayuri's head.
There was a little circular handle on the end of the spear where Sayuri could grab if she were swinging with the entire range of the spear. Sayuri spun it around before slamming the end of the spear down on the ground and smirking. Sasuke adjusted the shield in his hand and turned to face Naruto who was looking at a suspicious tree in the middle of a small clearing.
Walking up to it, Naruto was surprised when the branches lashed out at him and he jumped back watching in morbid fascination as the tree uprooted itself and formed two legs from it's twisting roots. Same with the arms and the head, all formed from the decrypted and dying branches. Eyes and a mouth split were the trunk was, the eyes triangular and narrowed in anger, the mouth wasn't fully formed and still had bits of stretchy bark covering it in spots covering parts of the mouth itself that was lined with sharp bits of wood chips as if they were teeth all adding to the horror that was the new monster.
Crypt Guardian Lv. 50
Health-20000
Naruto saw this and smirked, this was going to be fun. To bad the two Uchiha siblings didn't share his enthusiasm, and while they didn't want to fight the Crypt Guardian they weren't about to ditch Naruto because they weren't used to this stuff. They also didn't have a special ability to prevent them from going insane or basically feeling fear so they still had all those types of emotional restraints.
Naruto however wasn't bound by those emotions due to the Gamer's Mind and he found all of this super fun. Naruto rushed righting in, meeting the claw of the Crypt Guardian with his own crystal claw, allowing for Sasuke to rush behind and begin attacking the legs while Sayuri backed up Naruto with her new spear trying to get used to the length.
She found that she really, really liked the amount of reach that they spear gave her and found that it allowed for her to hit harder, even if it wasn't necessarily faster than the Katana. Jumping over Naruto she grabbed the spear by the small loop at the base of the pole and swung downwards, gouging a deep wound into the walking tree. The wound began to fester with sickly green blood which Sayuri found repulsive and Naruto found absolutely fascinating. It was like contaminated sap but stickier and it seal the wound faster.
Naruto used his strength in tandem with his wires and used it to grabbed the wrist of the Crypt Guardian before throwing him over his shoulder and slamming it into the ground before jumping up and stabbing into one of the eyes with his large claw. The Crypt Guardian let out a howl of pain before slamming his arm into Naruto faster than he had before, surprising the blonde and sending him flying across the arena. Sasuke and Sayuri were left to deal with it while Naruto recovered as quickly as he could, shaking the stars out of his vision.
Even if the crystal armor he had on took the brunt of the damage, his health had gone down just a bit from sliding in the dirt and taking the actual hit itself. Sayuri and Sasuke were working perfectly together. Sasuke was blocking and countering the Crypt Guardians attacks and Sayuri was doing the damage. Despite taking the brunt of the attacks, Sasuke's health hadn't gone down all that much thanks to the shield. Now he could see why Naruto wanted him to have a shield.
Sayuri jumped over her brother and landed nimbly on the arm of the walking tree. Taking a large slash at the arm of the tree, she focused her efforts on the area's that she had already hit, working with the wounds that she already inflicted. Seeing as the sickly green sap was weaker than the wood itself Sayuri was hoping to sever a limb to make the thing easier to take down.
Despite what they had done to the thing, it refused to go down. Naruto looked once and saw that it was still at nearly at 14000 thousand, and so he decided that it was time for the thing to die. Rushing back into the fray, Naruto activated his wires before wrapping them around trees and sturdy roots, effectively restraining the strong walking tree. Naruto flipped through a few seals, "Crystal Release: Tearing Crystal Falling Dragon!" A large dragon formed out of the lime green crystals that Naruto used as part of his Crystal Release and Naruto hopped onto it, shouting for Sasuke and Sayuri to get out of the way.
The dragon rushed the walking tree and opened it's large jaws to take a large bite into the shoulder of the Crypt Guardian. The form of the serpent like dragon wrapped around the monster, crushing it with a combination of it's great strength and the sharp spikes that helped make up its form. Naruto grinned as he watched the consecutive damage that appeared in large numbers until the monster was crushed.
Sayuri and Sasuke collapsed onto their rears, breathing heavily from fighting the tough monster. Naruto let the chakra sustaining the dragon go and it fell apart before he joined Sayuri and Sasuke in their little break, smiling as he rested not really needing the break as killing the monster rejuvenated him. It was a few minutes before they heard rustling in the woods and when the three players turned around they saw nine Crypt Guardian's making their way toward the small clearing. Naruto smirked while the other two groaned and they all prepared for combat.
Naruto formed a three dragons to assist each of them in combat with the walking trees, and the thee of them charged into battle determined to win.
One of the main reasons why I'm giving Sasuke a sword and shield, and Sayuri a spear is because I like to branch out which is something that I don't think that other authors do enough. Like sure the one in a thousand story will give Naruto a bo-staff but is there a big difference between a staff and a spear? Not really one has a pointy end and the other doesn't.
It's Fanfiction and I think that to many authors set to strict of rules for themselves to follow when they write. There's a whole arsenal of weapons, the only limit is your imagination so use it! Sure their ninja's and ninja's use small swords and knives, and I'm going to call bullshit on that. Hidan uses a three bladed scythe and Zabuza has a sword as large as he is. What I'm saying is that I think author's need to have fun with writing and give the characters a little broader spectrum when it comes to weapons, just saying.
Just my personal opinion, and have a good day/night wherever you are.