7 Chapter 7: The Unknown Past!
After the stupid elf stopped acting, the group stood before the huge doors; Vincent was at the back of the group with Silvari floating around his head, while Odette was to his right with her eyes watching him in secret.
Felia to his left, her face serious as she checked her bow.
Nobody cared what Dirk was doing, but he led the party with a glum face; not only did his arranged fiancé show more attention to another man, the elven princess fawned over him, causing his mood to sour.
'Damn it! Why does everyone love that little cunt? Years... I've spent years acting as an upstanding perfect young man, studying magic, combat... I've done almost everything to the top 10!' Dirk lamented, grasping his spear tight and moving forward.
Violette gave the group a final reminder about the boss, "It's just a beginner level, so don't be too stressed, although you can still die, so don't learn bad habits either! Good luck!"
Her lips showed a rare smile, catching even Dirk off guard as the huge stone doors began to open, with a strange blue translucent bubble swirling in the centre.
They all took a deep breath before pushing forward and entering inside; following a large rumble, the doors began to slam shut behind them.
Odette and Felia touched the stone wall, realising they couldn't leave until they defeated the boss or died.
'What an eerie room.' Vincent thought, looking around.
In the distance, a dimly lit spherical room, with dark stone walls and several braisers with flames and torches hanging from the walls, was something like a throne surrounded by several goblins.
Sitting on a throne was a goblin with blue skin and large horns; although it didn't order an attack from the moment they entered, it watched them silently.
The blue goblin's eyes trailed over the party of four, seeing Dirk; it just sneered before spitting on the ground.
However, the moment it looked at Odette, his deformed black tongue peeked from the strange purple lips, sliding along them with an excited look; the moment he saw Felia, the small cloth pants formed a tent from seeing the voluptuous elf.
This seemed the most extreme reaction possible until his eyes met with Vincent's; his body shuddered as the tent soon vanished, and anger filled his ugly face, the black veins bulging from his forehead and upper body.
The goblin pointed towards Vincent with a furious expression.
"How dare you, a spawn of that treacherous slut be here!! Do you know no shame!"
Its powerful voice caused the entire room to shudder, a resounding shockwave blasting from his body, knocking down the goblins and causing the party to stagger.
As if by nature, Vincent held Odette's waist, stopping her from falling as she suffered from a massive income of static shocks that no longer harmed her but began slowly changing her tastes.
'It feels good... He's holding my waist!' Odette thought as she began to breathe heavily, ignoring the goblin threat.
- Warning
- Triggered Danger Event!
- Dungeon difficulty increased!
- Please take care!
"What!?" Dirk exclaimed before looking towards Vincent with an angry look.
'You damn fucking jinx; I swear to make you suffer for this! If it wasn't for that slut threatening to kill herself no matter what trick we used if you died, I would kill you right now!' Dirk's anger began to seethe from his body.
Taking a deep breath, he tried to hide it from the others, but Silvari and Felia both noticed.
Ignoring the commotion, Felia peered towards Vicent; there was no blame in her eyes, only worry for him.
She knew he wasn't human long ago, thanks to her mother's friendship with Verda.
'I don't care what your origins are; we are together until death!' Her eyes narrowed, facing the blue goblin, tightly holding her bow.
The truth was that Vincent wasn't "born" at all; he was found by Verda and her husband, John, inside a high-ranking dungeon classified for only Dungeon Lords to enter.
He was sleeping soundly in a pool of blood, countless dead monsters seeming to have been devoured and now formed husks around his body, like a small crib and mattress.
John chose to keep him, naming him Vincent after the tag left around his ankle, a strange piece of paper similar to when people visited the infirmary.
Thus his true birth was always a mystery, labelled as a half-elf to protect his identity thanks to his adoptive parents' Dungeon Lord rank.
'Whether he is the saviour or an enemy, I will stand by his side, just like he did for me all those years ago.'
The blue goblin's anger stopped before he laughed loudly, almost mocking the party.
"Hey, how does it feel to be a monster born from that whore's womb? No father, created like an abomination? Making that "Infernus" a cuckold, hahaha! How dare you enter our domain, you filthy half-blood!"
"Laughable!" Thud, the blue goblin's huge body, stood up from the throne.
"Idiotic!"
The ground rumbled as his body was covered in a huge wind with a tremendous magnitude as it burst through the small boss room like a hurricane.
"Come on then, you filthy little hybrid!"
The goblin's anger, hatred and spite grew with each insult, his body growing to over 300cm tall, his muscle bulging out with thick, throbbing veins as he held a humongous axe over 250cm long with a black shaft before pointing it towards the party.
- Boss Battle Commence!
"You idiots have intruded upon my domain while bringing this filthy abomination with no right to exist along with you! The only punishment...." The goblin said with a deep husky voice.
"Is death!"
All the emotion and anger vanished, like a joke or some dream; even the wind vanished.
Vincent's eyes widened as he realised it wasn't that his anger faded, but he became serious about the fight.
"Hurry! Get back; prepare for battle!" He tried to warn the party as if lightning struck, a loud boom.
The blue goblin jumped from his throne as the several goblin warriors around him grew, seeming to become empowered.
Vincent watched as the party regrouped; Dirk stepped forward with his shield ready, and Felia drew her bow, aiming for the smaller goblins first, with four arrows between her fingers, ready to fire rapidly.
Odette's body began to glow blue as her lips moved to chant the spells quickly.
'I cannot afford to slack! Let's see his details and help them in any way possible!'
His body began to glow purple, Vincent's left eye glowing slightly blue as he inspected the large goblin. In contrast, his hands began to conjure up several mana missiles, targeting one of the empowered goblin warriors.
- Larz The Betrayed
Level 12
Strength: 22 | Agility: 5 | Stamina: 15 | Wisdom: 9 | Intellect: 6
'What the fuck are those stats!' Vincent thought as he shared the information with the party; thankfully, it only took a moment as the goblins slowly began to move forward, Larz seeming to want to play with them as he stayed back.
Dirk seemed to tremble, his shield tapping the ground as he looked forward after seeing those attributes; Felia was stunned for a moment before she shook her head, adjusting herself, ready to fight the smaller goblins first.
Vincent didn't want to be a waste; his attributes were too low to be the ace or star, so he chose to support instead and help guide the party.
"Dirk, keep your guard and focus on protecting Odette; if anyone can kill that thing, it's her magic. Felia picked off the weaker ones, then tried to attack his weak areas; the inspection spell stated it was his eyes, armpits, neck and crotch!"
Hearing the orders was like second nature, although Dirk normally would argue; because of the fear and serious moment, his body obeyed the words, adjusting itself to protect Odette better.
Dirk's body glowed with a silver light as she dashed towards Odette, blocking the path of all the goblins that wanted to target her and Odette first.
'Let's do some big damage and let him see how wonderful I am!' Odette thought, the shock now spurring her on in battle, keeping the fear at bay.
"I seek the maiden of steel's vigorous blessing! Hone my strikes and bolster my defences! Chain Burst!" Dirk's body shot out while chanting, the goblins close to him as the sharp lance sliced through one of the regular goblins like tofu before shooting towards Larz.
Clang! Larz blocked the attack with his black shaft before throwing Dirk backwards; the other goblins rushed forward, trying to capitalise. However, the graceful voices of Felia and Odette sounded rapidly as they began their high-speed chanting.
"I am the sinful maiden of fire! Obey my call and extinguish thine, enemy! Fire lance!"
"Spirits of wind, grace my arrows with your blessing! Arrow Burst!"
Woosh! A huge flaming spear of two metres shot out, splitting into two as they pierced into the goblin's thigh, stopping Larz's advance as black blood sprayed in the air; the other goblins jumped forward, trying to attack Odette the moment she cast.
However, the wind whistle burst from Felia and Vincent as several arrows and mana missiles stopped their attack, causing several goblin heads to explode like a crushed watermelon.
Boom! The ground began to shudder like an earthquake.
Larz slammed his axe down, a huge cloud of smoke filling the area as she shouted in rage from the pain of his pierced thighs.
Vincent found that Silvari was hovering in the air, now surrounded by 12 ice lances, before thrusting her hands forward as the shimmering blue lances shot forward, decimating the goblins that remained and tearing them apart.
"Haah...." Dirk took a deep breath; he took several attacks from the empowered goblins but was fine.
"Can we win?" Felia asked, readying more arrows, waiting for the smoke to clear.
A whistle of wind sounded.
Thud!
Dirk's body shot out like a meteor smashing into the stone door, his lips slightly bloody and damaging his shield.
He fell to the ground and rolled a few yards before stopping, giving no response as Felia began to shoot towards the goblin without stopping.
'Fuck! I won't die here after I can finally confess to him!' Felia began to lose her cool.
The arrows shot through the air and penetrated his weak spots but did not create significant damage as black blood pooled from Larz's body.
Bang! Larz stomped on the ground as he approached, slamming the black axe into Odette, who produced a flame barrier and strange glass wall, which seemed to be a protective item of her family, before it cracked and sent her flying into the distance, one arm snapped in the wrong direction.
Two people were down as Vincent, Felia, and Silvari pelted the huge goblin with their magic and arrows, tearing, cutting and slicing his flesh, but nothing could stop his movements as his deep voice sounded.
"Hahaha! Little eleven whore, you look like a dark elf. Would you like to become my plaything? I can make you squeal! Hahaha!"
"My body is for one man! Sorry." She replied with a cold and fierce voice.
A huge burst of mana circled the tip of her arrow; massive threads of wind and ice began to swirl around it before she released the arrow; it trailed so fast that Vincent lost sight of it as it ripped through the air and destroyed one of Larz's eyes.
She didn't stop firing another salvo of more than five shots, and finally, she managed to cause significant damage.
"Hehe? So... Are you going to date me?"
Felia turned to Vincent with a smile before a huge black axe swung towards her back, tearing through the air with a violent arc smashing her into the other side of the room as the sound of cracking bones filled the small arena.
"Felia!!" Vincent screamed, shooting a final mana missile that gouged the missing eye's flesh socket deeper, causing Larz to stumble for a moment.
Felia slammed into the stone door with a loud crash, her back filled with a deep gash, still with the slight smile she gave Vincent after hitting her shot.
