Chapter 5
Robert saw Ashmond holding Sophia in his arms with a smile. 'He must be smiling to make Sophia flustered and make her wonder who he is?' Robert already knows Ashmond's wits because he has seen many protagonists use tricks like this to make the women they save remember him and make them curious about him.
"Hey, there are you okay?" Ashmond smile at sophia.
Red rose or sophia look up to see her savior, she see the man with red hair and blue eyes. "Yes, I am okay."
"That was close you know, you could've been dead." Ashmond warned her about facing the guardian alone is a suicide.
"I know about that... and could you put me down?" Red rose is uncomfortable she is in stranger's arms.
"What If I don't want to?" Ashmond have a mischievoues smile on his face.
Red rose see ashmond knows what he is thinking and became irritated. "Put. Me. Down. Right. Now!" She said with deep and angry voice.
"Okay, okay. I'm just joking!" Ashmond put her down because he didn't want to make her angry and made a bad impression of him.
"Red Rose!"
Andre ran into her and began to checking her if she is okay. "Are you okay?" He pu his hand on her shoulder with worried face.
"Don't worry about me andre, I am okay!" Red rose reassure him.
Ashmond who's now have darken face and glare at andre interrupting his moment alone with red rose. 'How dare this asshole touch red rose with his filthy hand!' Ashmond eyes glow and red aura color began to emerge around his body.
'Did ashmond magic just rising up?' Robert look at ashmond then look at andre and red rose. 'Wait... is he mad because andre approach sophia intterupt his moment with her and touch her shoulder?' He think ashmond behaviour is exagerated just because andre approach sophia and touch her shoulder.
Andre notice jackson on red rose side. "You must be the one who save her, thank you for your help." Ashmond glowing eyes and aura dissapeared began changed to his usual facial expression.
"Your welcome." Ashmond said.
"What's your name? My name is Andre jackson." He extend his hand for a handshake.
Ashmond shook his hand. "My name is ashmond."
BOOM!
They turn sharply to the sound where the sound coming from, they see there are explosions and hunters death everywhere on the floor.
"GAAAAKKKHHHH!"
"AAAHHH, HELP ME!"
"SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!"
Many hunters are cursing and try to survive the incoming fire balls from the guardian and his wood attacks. "Shit! We need to kill the guardian If we want to survive!" Andre grip his broad sword and shield tightly.
He begin to rush to the guardian and kill all the wood monsters on his path.
"Don't Interfere!" Red rose look at jackson with his calm face, he look didn't care about the hunter's life and death.
"What do you mean by 'don't Interfere'? We need to kill that guardian or we all will die." Red rose wants to hit this man on his head so he wake up to his sense that their position is at the edge of death.
"Trust me, I can handle it. Just watch the show!" Ashmond face red rose with his confident smirl on his face while red rose just look at him and squinted her eyes at him.
Black circle smokes coming from the floor near the hunters and at the gate where they come in.
"Wh-What is this black smoke?"
"What the fuck? Is this black smoke somekind of spell from the guardian?"
"Shit! We need to be careful of this black smoke must be some kind of trick from.the guardian." Andre who stop his advance to the guardian began to put on his guard and prepare whatever the black smoke will do.
Suddenly came out monsters from the black smokes from kobold, armored lizards, minotaur, goblins, sorcerer monsters, knights and the monsters they have previously killed from the previous floors.
"M-Monsters?"
"Shit! I knew this black smoke will be dangerous but monsters coming out from them, this is making it worse!"
"W-Wait, aren't these monsters look familiar."
They begin to see the monsters that coming out from the black smoke one by one, a hunter look at all these monsters look familiar then his eyes landed to a man wearing an assasin outfit.
"Re-Reyes!" Said a hunter stuttered to see his friend walking with blue aura coming out from his eyes, possibly another hunter in his party group.
"W-Wait, isn't that the knight we fought before!" The man pointed to the white knight from they fought from the previous floor walking normally without any damage on his armor.
"Wh-What the fuck is this? How the hell all the monsters previous floors and hunters that are dead are still alive?" Said a female warrior said, anxious and nervous looking at the monsters and hunters who came out from the black smokes.
Andre also has cold sweat looking such a scene in front of him. 'Monsters? Hunters? How the hell did they come here alive?' He look at their body and they didn't have any injury. 'Not even the injury we deal to them are exist, It's like they are fully recovered. How could it be?' He begin to stand his guard ready for another battle.
'What the fuck?' Red rose stare at disbelief at the sight she was seeing in front of her. 'How the hell all the monsters we fought and the hunters who are dead coming out here alive?' She begin to quickly think on how could this possibly happen.
She suddenly realized and wide eyed, she look at ashmond and realize this black smoke appeared with monsters coming out is because of him. 'Is this is his doing? what kind of class does he has?'
Ashmond smile walk confidently at the group of hunters who are wary of the newly arrive living monsters and hunters. The black smoke dissapear then the living monsters and hunters began to attack.
"Shit, here they come!"
"Wait, why the hell the hunters are coming towards us and not the monsters?"
"I don't knkw but If they want to kill us we must kill them back."
The hunters are on their guard to face them but what they didn't expect the now living monsters and hunters are attacking the wood monsters not the hunters. They begin to kill the wood monsters and cut the wood roots coming to them but some of them are not lucky and got impaled.
"E-Eh?! They are attacking the wood monsters?"
"I thought they are going to kill us?"
"Who cares why they attack the wood monsters instead of us, as long as we are alive then it's good."
Ashmomd began to join his undead army killing the monsters. 'Now I can show them my true power and now these people will afraid of me. Also getting red rose attention to me and make her intrigued to know me more.' He begin to imagine all the new addition of undead army and getting red rose attention so he can get closer to her and make her fall in love with him.
Ashmond slice the wood monter in half and back up to see the monster began to sorround him. Suddenly he felt someone bump behind his, he turn his head to see the back of a hunter facing his back wearing a combat gear and wield sword.
'Wait, he looks familiar!' He begin to remember the man who spoke first when red rose warn the hunters be responsible of their death and give up going to the boss chamber.
"Who are you?" Ashmond ask while keep his guard on.
"I am a hunter just like you!"
"What are you doing facing your back against me?" Ashmond ask, didn't trust this man.
"..." the hunter didn't said anything for a second. "I want us to work together with you to kill the monster and the guardian."
Ashmond is shock and turn around sharply. "Why do you suddenly want to team up with me? What's the catch?" Ashmond didn't trust this man.
The man's answer surprise ashmond. "This newly arrive army of undead is yours isn't it?" The hunter said.
Ashmond look at the man and he sense this man is strong, stronger than red rose. 'Who is this guy? How the hell did he knows these army of undead is mine?'
"Yes." Ashmond said.
"Good, then tell all your undead army to kill all the monsters and cover us so we can kill the guardian." The hunter said.
"Why the hell should I follow your orders?' Ashmond doesn't like being told what to do.
"If you don't... then us and all the hunters will all die here." The hunter look back and ashmond can see his face.
He looks like he is 21 ears old, white hair and grey eyes also he has handsome face. Ashmond didn't talk and look back at all his undead.
"What's your name by the way?" Ashmond ask.
The hunter is silence for a second. "Raven, my name is raven." He said his hunter codename.
"My name is ashmond." Ashmond said, frowned. "Is that your code name or real name?"
"My code name."
"Then I want to know you real name."
"No." Raven didn't trust ashmond with his real name.
"Why the hell not?" Ashmond is irritated the man didn't tell him his real name.
"I didn't trust you and we just met. I don't trust strangers." Raven said.
"But I want to know your real name?" Ashmond said.
"Look this is not the time to ask what is my real name is. Focus your task on ordering your undead army to kill the monsters." Raven said became angry at ashmond.
"Fine, sheesh you are a grumpy one aren't you?" Ashmodn began to order his undead and raven grunted at his words. "Kill all the monsters and help the hunters." Ashmond shout to his undead army.
The undead army began to kill the wood monsters and help the hunters on killing them. "The monsters are distracted, this is our chance." Raven began to head to the guardian and ashmond follow him from behind.
Robert meanwhile keep attacking the wood monsters with his swordsmanship and superspeed.
He keep his existance hidden and lower his mana so he can't gte caught attention by the guardian or the hunters. He look to see the unknown hunter and ashmond ran headed to the guardian.
'Who is that man?' He look at the man ran in front of ashmond. 'Might as well use appraisal.'
[Status
Name : Leon Easton
Code name : Raven
Rank : S
Age : 20 years
Class : swordsman, mage
Constellation : King of Warriors
Title : The mage swordsman, knight, swordmaster
Level : 100
Race : Human
HP : 54000/57000
Mp : 50000/55000
STR : 50000
DUR : 53000
DEX : 53000
AGT : 51000
STM : 52000
INT : 40000
WIS : 30000
CHR : 30000
LUCK : 30000
Note : Stats with number 10 for average humans
Abilities : Fire magic (ss), path of the pinnacle of the sword (sss), swordsmanship (ss), aura (A), flash step (B), magic resistance (A). ]
'So he is leon, one of the main character's friend and rival.' Robert remember leon's role in the novel. 'So this is where he and mc met for the first time in the tower because they fight the guardian in this floor. He came to ashmond because he can sense strong power in him. Throught out the journey, at first become aquintances then rivals and finally they became friends. They work together with their team and friends to defeat everyone and save the world in the future.'
'He will become of the mc support and rival in the novel.' Robert thinks also while killing monsters. 'So this is the part where they first met and become know each other.'
'So he is an S-rank, It make sense because of his stats is 30000 and above although his wisdom and charm are at A-rank It doesn't effect his strength.' Robert look at raven status and his abilites.
These are the ranks of the hunter and the numbers you need to achieve to enter the ranks.
F : 1-50 (Level 1-9)
E : 51-99 (Level 10-29)
D : 100-900 (Level 30-49)
C : 1000-9000 (Level 50-69)
B : 10000-29000 (Level 70-89)
A : 30000-49000 (Level 90-99)
S : 50000-69000 (Level 100-149)
SS : 70000-89000 (Level 150-199)
SSS : 90000+ (Level 200+)
'He has many great skills that are powerful, there are two ss-rank and one sss-rank. This skill called path of the pinnacle of the sword will make him one of the strong swordsman in the human race in the future.' Robert is imppressed by raven's status.
'His constelation meanwhile...' Robert look at raven's constellation. 'That nickname... there is only one man I know who have that nickname.'