Congratulations!

"Boyfriend, come closer! We don't have much time, right?"

Instead of stepping closer to her, Denny went backwards. Amellia had told him they would use the goddamned spiky creatures blood to muffle their scents but didn't tell him they would have to smear the blood all over their bodies as a part of the process.

"No! I'm not going to put that disgusting liquid on my body."

Even thinking about it...

'Yuck!'

...It was giving Denny shrills. Not only the damn liquid was blood, but also smelly in a way not pleasing to one's nostrils. That's why Denny backed away from Amellia's hands which were soaked in the dark smelly liquid.

"Argh!"

Denny had forgotten about the fact that the pile of the corpses around them had spears protruding from them. Thus, he ended up impaling himself on one of them.

"Don't be too stubborn, boyfriend! Come! Let's do this before the alive ones impale you for real. You wouldn't like to loose your muscular body, don't you think?"

Denny thought of his mom, the money he would have when he return to earth and, as Amellia said, his new attractive body. If smearing himself with the disgusting liquid was all it would take him to preserve all those things, like Amellia said, why was he being too stubborn?

'It's just blood, right? What harm could there be?'

***

Inside a marble cave, a pile of creatures with spear-like spikes protruding from their bodies lay surrounding two humanoid figures, one of them with ruby eyes smearing something over the skin of the one with glowing green eyes.

Behind the pile, a dozen of the same creatures was desperately gathering, the ones in front trying to push the pile of the dead ones aside to reach the two humanoid figures. Soon, the ones behind started climbing on those in front, creating a ladder that was soon going to help them reach the top of the corpses' pile.

Before any of them could reach the top and plummet toward the two flesh meat humanoid figures, a pair of green glowing eyes climbed on the top. Their owner put aside a long spear-like spike he had in right hand and glanced down, offering his hands to the owner of two ruby eyes.

Standing on the top, the figures observed the scene unfolding before their eyes. The Spiky Spiders were climbing on top of each other, and it was going to be a matter of a few seconds to reach them. Seconds Denny and Amellia were not going to give them.

"Boyfriend, these vile things are too close to us. I'm going to kill the ones behind so we can jump there and run out of here."

Denny could tell her plan was going to work. Because they were standing on top of the pile, their jump will cover more distance. As soon as their feet touched the ground, the vile things were going to hear it and run after them. However, if Amellia would have killed those behind, the ones alive would be stuck between corpses, slowing or restraining their movements completely.

That's why Denny glanced at Amellia and said, "Yeah! Sure! Let's do this!" He was trying to avoid staring at her damp lips.

At that moment, Denny heard Amellia's voice. "Boyfriend, we should start acting like a girlfriend and a boyfriend, don't you think? I mean, how will I be your girlfriend at the academy if you're still uncomfortable around me?"

Following her words, unexpectedly and out of the picture, Amellia leaned in and kissed him passionately.

'Damn!'

Her reason was... reasonable? Denny really needed to change his mind. However, this didn't make him feel comfortable at all. Instead, it made him frightened. He couldn't picture himself kissing Amellia in front of a crowd like the guys at the Elites Academy did.

'That's not important right now, you fool! Escape, help her and return to earth. Your mom is already missing you, I guess!'

With that thought, Denny tightened his grip on the spike in his hand. While waiting for Amellia to kill the ones at the back, he was going to try and kill one of the ones climbing. He also needed to make himself comfortable with killing, right? Yeah! He needed to. What would be the best way to do it if not to exploit the opportunity and take the Spiky Bastards off-guard?

Meanwhile, Amellia's hands were already glowing purple, her petite body taking a position to throw the javelin forming into her hands.

She side glanced at Denny.

"Step aside!"

Just like that, the first purple javelin found its way inside the glowing crystal on the Spiky Spider's forehead. The impact sent the creature backwards, prompting another creature beside it to turn around.

However, Amellia had a better view on the creature's back where another weak spot was. Thus, she threw another javelin.

*Whoosh!*

Another Spiky Bastard, dead.

*Whoosh!*

Another Spiky Bastard.

*Whoosh!*

Another.

When Denny saw how Amellia was killing them with ease, he shouted at her.

"Let's kill them all!"

The vile things were below them with no means to reach at them easily. Why did they need to kill a few and run when they had an advantage to kill them all?

Amellia nodded her head and went on with her job.

*Whoosh!*

Another Spiky Bastard, dead.

As Amellia killed them one after another, Denny waited patiently for the ones climbing to reach within the reach of the spike he had extracted from one of them that time when he was going to find the heart.

A cacophony of muffled screams assaulted his ears as the vile creatures died, making him wonder what would have become of him if he had encountered them all alone. Even killing one right now was requiring too much calculation. If he was alone e would be sure as dead if he was alone.

'Why do I need to be alone? She's my girlfriend, right?'

At that moment, one of the Spiky Spiders climbing was too close for his spear to reach it.

'Here we go!'

Denny wrapped both his hands around the spear in his hands and pushed it downward, aiming for the glowing crystal on its forehead.

When his spear reached the crystal, he pushed harder so it could penetrate deeper to reach its... wait! Was it really the heart as Amellia had told him? How could a heart be reached through the forehead? Maybe brain, right? Amellia was not being literal. Was she?

'Whatever!'

Denny pushed harder and harder until the vile creature fell backwards, something unexpected happening to him.

[Congratulations! Eliminated a Dungeon Creature, Spiky Spider.]

'What the fuck!'

Did Denny have a system all this time not knowing about it?