"Awesome, brother Arkhen!" Gereld said with a laugh as he patted Arkhen's shoulder.
"We will get rewards through those beast cores we collected, right?" Arkhen said with a faint smile.
"Yep, why? If you are worried about distribution, then worry no more. Everyone knows that you will become the most valuable with your card power in this labyrinth," Jeizy said with a grin.
"Indeed," Yeezy nodded with a smile.
"I have a suggestion. How about we distribute the beast cores evenly along with other rewards?" Arkhen suggested.
"Are you sure? You can possibly gain more beast cores if we don't do that," Meya said as she raised her eyebrows.
"I am sure," Arkhen said as he nodded with a faint smile. "This will save us the hassle of distribution and dissatisfaction. Meya didn't do much, but in the end, we are all a team. So we should keep the distribution evenly."
Everyone turned silent for a second before nodding.
"You said it right! We are indeed a team. So, we should keep it even," Yeezy said with a smile before she patted Meya's head, "Although little Meya is a bit weak on the attack, her buffs and debuff skills are helpful. She is nimble to collect the beast cores."
"Then it's decided. Let's go to the 2nd floor first. We will distribute the beast cores there before using them to get our treasure chests," Gereld said.
They were the last group to enter the 2nd floor. After they jumped inside, they felt a slight blurriness as the scenery changed in front of them, and they appeared inside a dark gave with glowing flowers attached to vines.
The glowing flowers attached to the vines lighten up the cave, and they were so many because the vines covered more than half of the cave, along with the passage leading outside.
Inside the cave, they were the only ones.
To their left side was a small well filled with faintly sparkling water. It was called Treasure Well.
First, Meya took out all the beast cores she collected and distributed them evenly. Everyone got five 2nd-grade beast cores and two 3rd-grade beast cores.
"I'll go first!" Meya said as she walked in front of the Treasure Well and dropped all of her beast cores inside.
A second later, the water bubbled slightly before releasing motes that formed into a wooden treasure chest.
Everyone also did the same one by one and got a wooden treasure chest.
"Do we open this now or what?" Arkhen asked.
"No. We will open it later," Gereld said as he pricked his finger with his dagger and dropped some blood on his treasure chest. In the next second, the treasure chest turned into a beam of light and imprinted itself on the back of Gereld's hand.
Everyone also did the same, including Arkhen.
"From now on, the treasure chest will slowly upgrade depending on how much we feed it," Meya said with a grin. "Once you infuse any energy in that treasure chest tattoo, it will manifest outside with a mouth. We are supposed to feed it beast cores or any other resources we find in the labyrinth until we reach the deepest floor of the labyrinth."
"I see. So we open it at the end after feeding it to the best of our ability, huh? Interesting," Arkhen said. 'Velshi, this world is getting more and more interesting, hahaha.'
Afterward, everyone cautiously walked towards the passage leading out of the cave.
"Danger will befall anytime. Be ready," Gereld said.
Baloth stayed at the front since he had more defensive power.
Farin stayed in the middle with her boy weapon ready to shoot arrows.
Yeezy and Jeizy both were close ranged explosive fighters.
Meya was the little rabbit of the team. She was quick and provided support with her buffs and debuff skills.
As for Arkhen… He was an enchanter of sorts for the group at the time.
Everyone entered the glowing passage and slowly walked forward.
Gereld—, 'I can see the exit. However, everything is dark there. It seems that these glowing flower vines end in this passage.'
Jeizy—, 'I'll scout with my spirit sparrow skill.'
Jeizy said as he consumed some spirit energy and conjured a tiny sparrow while his eyes also glowed. His vision was shared with that of the spirit sparrow.
While Jeizy scouted, Arkhen looked at his left hand and drew two status effect cards, and then changed the deck to Metaphorphic Deck before drawing a transformation card.
1. [Burst Freezing Petrification]
2. [Sand Dune Trap]
3. [Putrid Rat]
Meya—, 'You drew three more cards. What are their effects?'
Arkhen—, 'Two cards can immobile targets, and one can transform a beast into a rat for half a second to a second depending on the beast's strength.'
Yeezy, Farin, and Gereld nodded hearing that. Now everyone was glad about bringing Arkhen here.
Arkhen inwardly smiled and thought, 'I wonder how their expression will be when they find out about my Undead Realm superpower.'
Several seconds later, Jeizy's eyes dimmed.
Jeizy—, 'Ok, so the after this passage is a bigger cave. I found three eggs lying on the right side area of the cave. I couldn't recognize what kind of eggs they were, but all of them were half a meter big and exuded a powerful aura.'
Arkhen—, 'If you could see the state of the cave, you might be able to guess what kind of beast lives there.'
Jeizy—, 'Yeah. I observed some burrows but no footprints of any kind of beasts. My guess is that the cave houses a snake-type dire beast or worm-type. However, we are very unlucky.'
Hearing that, Arkhen's eyes jumped. 'Unlucky…'
Gereld—, 'Unlucky? Why?'
Jeizy—, 'We were transported to the toughest area on the 2nd floor. The power aura coming from eggs is nearing 2nd stage of dire beasts' aura. Whoever those eggs belong to is definitely at the peak of 3rd class. If there are multiple beasts of such, this hurdle will be hard to pass.'
[You have guessed right, my lord. This unfortunate situation is because of your curse]
Arkhen frowned, 'Velshi, I need to remove this curse. It might really fuck me up in an unexpected situation in the future if I don't get rid of it. Especially since I am going to deal with that higher realm wench soon.'
Arkhen had slight confidence that he would be able to find a way and punish that wench of a fake goddess because the system gave him that emergency quest, which as Velshi said in the past, that system would only give quests that were achievable. Although it would be extremely difficult, the possibility of success was there.
Arkhen felt that the success of this emergency lay in his Realm Artifact.
'Unfortunate situations, huh…' Arkhen thought as his eyes slowly burned with maddening resolve, 'I am going to improve in this labyrinth and overcome all unlucky shits. I must do that!'
Taking a deep breath, Arkhen joined in the conversation where all of them were planning on how to exit this passage and deal with whatever that was out there.
He had an idea and he was going to risk himself for that. Of course, there was no risk of death, it was a risk nonetheless and he wanted to do that.
This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺