Chapter 114: Rank C Dungeon - Part 1

*Thump, thump, thump...*

Jana's heart beat so fast she almost lost control. She opened her lips and her face turned red.

Breno was delighted. He had seen many of Jana's expressions, but this one was a little different from her usual flushed face. There was a sparkle in her eyes that made her look even more charming.

"Umu, now let's continue." Nero liked what she saw, but still wanted to go to the dungeon and interrupted when the couple was about to kiss. "You can kiss after we get back, now let's go to the dungeon."

"..."

"..."

Breno was paralyzed, Jana was shocked, everyone was shocked!

"I wanted to see them kissing, degozaru..." Jingu muttered under her breath, but she was afraid that if she spoke loudly, Nero would hear and start teasing her.

"Did you say something, Jingu?" Nero looked at her and asked.

Not wanting to be teased as before, Jingu shivered slightly and said to the gang, "N-No, I was talking to myself, degozaru!" Her voice thinned on the last word.

"Hehe~ So weird." Nero laughed and said as she looked at them all, "Okay if there's nothing else, let's leave." 

Turning around, she walks towards the exit. Choko and Yui run after Nero. Elsa also started to leave. The rest looked at each other and then left. This time Breno was braver and took Jana's hand of his own free will.

'Nero is right, I can't always be passive…' Breno muttered in his mind.

Jana looked a little surprised at Breno and smiled shyly right then, happiness overflowing in her heart. She felt sweet as if she had eaten a liter of honey.

Jair avoided looking at her. Even though he accepted the two's relationship, she was his best friend and his sister. It was still a little weird to see them show affection in front of him, although he was happy for Jana, especially since he'd known her feelings for Breno for a few years.

After walking a little, Nero was confused as to where he should go and turned to Elsa. "Elsa, where is the dungeon?"

"Was I walking without knowing where it was?" Elsa smiled when she saw Nero's confused expression, which was very cute, and said, "It's right behind the Hunter Association."

"Oh, that's why I couldn't find it before," Nero said, "Now that I know, let's get going."

Nero continued to lead the way with Choko, Elsa, and Yui beside her.

"Oh yes, Nero, let's sell the items we got before and buy potions first," Honda said as she stopped walking when they arrived in front of the Hunter Association.

"Mm, let's do that." Nero agreed and they went into the Hunter Association.

After some time, they finished everything they had to do, and although many looked in their direction, mainly for having Elsa, the city's savior, beside them, no one was bothering... Or almost no one. Some girls still approached Elsa wanting an autograph.

After leaving, they went to the dungeon; it was like a cave of a dragon living inside. It was big and quite scary. On the side, there was a sign indicating the Level of the Dungeon and the levels of monsters on each floor. In this dungeon, there were 7 floors in total.

What was frightening was not the level of the monsters, but rather, the amount. On the first floor, it had about 3,000 Goblins from level 13 to 15, and the boss, the Goblin King, was level 16.

It appeared that on the next floor there were about 5,000 tarantulas, ranging from level 17 to 19, with the boss being a Queen Tarantula at level 20.

"I hate... hate tarantulas, degozaru...," Jingu said in her shaky voice.

"Well, you don't have to fight if you don't want to. We can clean the floor without you~" Honda teased as he said this with a superior look.

"... I accept!" Jingu was really scared, and even accepted Honda's provocation.

"Are you that scared?" Honda didn't remember seeing Jingu act so fearfully. It was fun for her in a lot of ways.

"Yes, degozaru," Jingu said while sighing, "I have a spider phobia."

"All kinds?" Honda asked.

"All," Jingu agreed.

"Okay." Honda, although she liked to tease Jingu, knowing it was a phobia, she wouldn't do something extreme, although the thought of seeing Jingu trembling with fear left her feeling... well...

"Before I start, I need to tell you something," Elsa said when they were paying attention to her, "Each cleaned floor represents 3 times more than the dungeon can pump out. If you clear the first floor, you can go back and do it three more times, but if you can't clear floor 2, the monsters on floor 1 will not reappear."

"Basically, if we want to do it multiple times, we need to beat every floor and win 21 times a day?" Jana asked.

"Yes, in total, if you pass all the floors, you get 21 chances to challenge the dungeon." Elsa nodded and liked that Jana understood quickly.

"Okay, let's get going," Nero said when she saw that everything had already been resolved.

"Yes!" They all agreed.

"100 coins for each group," the guard said as they approached.

"Here." Although she didn't need to pay in the other city, that amount of coins didn't even make her blink and she handed the money over right away.

After Nero and the rest entered the dungeon, Elsa created a pair of wings and began to fly towards the sea. She still hadn't forgotten Nero's promise, and she wanted Nero to call her older sister again.

Walking through the door, it was as if they had walked through a mirror and entered a totally different place.

"They seem to be separated into three different classes," Jana said as she watched the Goblins, "Archers, mages, and warriors. Let's go with caution. Although their level is not high, they are many."

"Me, Honda, and Jana can use long range attacks. I'll take with me Choko and Yui. Jana go with Honda; Jair, Breno and Jingu are together," Nero said, picking up her bow and arrow. "Let's take it easy and learn about them."

"Yes!" Although Nero would practically do the work of 2 people, considering her strength, it was reasonable to think so.

By the way, Nero then summoned her monsters. 11 monsters appeared. They were all level 20.

"Don't act rashly. If you do... I'll scold you later," Nero said with a menacing look at her summons.

Unlike before, she looked less lovable. The monsters summoned by her trembled and dared not to disobey.

The two dragons, BigBlue, and two of the penguins stood for support, while Babi readied up a fifty-fifty attack: not too far away, not too close. Luna, the two gorillas, Duchess, and the Monkey King were close range and stayed on alert to attack the warriors while being protected by the others.

Nero was pleased with their coordination and put her focus on Choko and Yui.

"I am going," Yui said in her cool, soft voice.

"Same." Choko wore a pair of red dragon gauntlets and began creating two dragon heads in each glove.

Jair, Breno, and Jingu also took action. Jana and Honda stayed behind to support the three.

"Don't fly, Yui!" Nero screamed as she watched her create a pair of wings.

When Yui was about to float, magic attacks and arrows flew toward the direction she was supposed to be and were easily countered by Nero's holy arrows.

*Bang! Bang! Bang!*

Sounds of explosions echoed and then Nero said in a low tone, "Think before you act. There are many enemies here who can attack from a long distance. In the sky you become an easy target, especially since you don't have much practice in flying."

"I was wrong." Yui felt sorry. She didn't want Nero to scold her, but understood that it was because she cared about her.

"Sigh~ Just think first, no need to apologize. Now focus. Help Choko, see, she'll be surrounded," Nero warned.

"Yes!" Her hands turned into black dragon claws and she started attacking in quick slashes. She started coordinating with Choko and Nero, who fired arrows, fighting off the long-range attacks, not letting them hit Choko and Yui.

Nero's accuracy reached a frightening level; she could multiply her arrows with arrow rain and stop all attacks from over 100 Goblin archers and mages and still attack them.

The sounds of flesh being pierced by arrows echoed. Choko and Yui, who saw it up close, were panting in admiration. Nero was pretty amazing in a lot of ways, and with archery she was merciless.

Nero's accuracy has greatly improved with dexterity statuses, in addition to raising her critical chance as well. She had already single-handedly killed 100 goblin archers and mages with a bow. Besides, she had summoned monsters that had already killed more than 100 Goblins.

Nero alone was like an entire group of Hunters. It was frightening how fast she killed. Even with the five coordinating together, Jana and the rest could only kill at most 100. However, that was no small thing. In reality, they were too strong for their level. They were far superior to any other Rank D group. However, Nero was a non-presidential bug. Even Yui and Choko were a bit buggy; they both killed monsters very quickly and effectively.

The Goblins got more cautious, well, most of them, while others got angry and attacked randomly, which made it easier to kill them.

Nero continued to support Choko and Yui, even sometimes helping Jair, Breno, and Jingu. Although the attacks that would hit them didn't put their lives at risk, it was still better not to get hurt.

"As expected, Nero is fantastic." Jana took a deep breath and grew more serious. She had a new attack that she wanted to test, but at first, she couldn't, as there were so many Goblins and she needed to support them.

After lessening the pressure under her a bit, Jana created a fireball, but strangely it looked like there were arrows inside the fireball. When it was fired, in the air the fireball exploded and ten arrows of fire came out of it at full steam!

*Bang! Bang! Bang!*

The sounds of the arrows of fire falling to the ground created a firestorm, for as they fell they were spinning and growing, air currents flowing around and increasing the flames, and it exploded when compressing the flames from the wind. The explosion was strong enough to kill some Goblins outright and send others away with serious injuries.

"There!" Jana smiled and almost did a little dance when she saw that she was successful, but she got a look from Nero that made her freeze.

"Very good~" Nero held up a thumb at her.

Jana sighed in relief and smiled, "Thank you." Then she turned around and paid attention, helping Jair, Breno, and Jingu.

"Wow! That was cool, degozaru!" Jingu killed a few Goblins who were injured by the attack and couldn't help but marvel at how easy it was to kill the downed Goblins.

Breno looked at Jana with his eyes gleaming. His focus increased and he began slashing and piercing with his spear even faster.

Jair saw how many monsters Breno had killed and said, "Damn it, I haven't lost it yet!" He started attacking faster with the sword.

Jingu also became more serious. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Using <Lightning Leap>, she appeared on the other side while drawing her sword, and more than 7 Goblins were cut in two when she returned the sword to its scabbard.

Her ability <Spiral Pierce> had evolved to level 15 and her passive <Aura Blade> had become level 14. This made the smile on Jingu's face deepen, but she didn't dare relax.

Before, she was only able to inflict a maximum of 10 enemies with paralysis, but she had improved the technique by using <Aura Blade> and attacking using her own created sword drawing technique. Of course, even though she said she created it, it was a technique that was created before, but she didn't have a teacher to teach her, so she learned it herself.

As she went to attack some other Goblins, balls of water and fire were coming towards her, but then a blue phoenix-shaped streak roared across the sky like a hawk and swept away all attacks.

It was Honda. She had imitated Jana's attack of creating phoenixes and tried to create one with her arrow and succeeded. The result was even better than she thought using the water element.

"Okay, everyone come back!" Nero said.

Hearing her command, everyone returned. After that, Nero began to draw the sacred arrows using her bow and showers of arrows began to bombard the surviving Goblins.

"You are all already panting. Take some potions and leave the rest to me," Nero said, and continued attacking.

In less than 10 minutes, except for the Goblin King, the rest were killed.

"Mm, if you want, you can kill the boss, or I will." After noticing that they were rested, Nero spoke.

"Leave it to us," Choko said with a confident look.

"Oh, alright~" Nero smiled when she saw Choko's look that was very cute.

The others got up and prepared themselves.

"I'll get the corpses." Yui created a pair of wings and began to fly. This time Nero didn't stop her. The others were more than enough to kill the Goblin King.

Nero began using <Plunder> on Goblins as she walked across the battlefield.