"Adelle!"
"Are you okay?!"
After Eve and the others noticed what just happened, they immediately rushed at Adelle's side to make sure she's alright.
"Calm down guys, I'm fine."
Adelle stated with a small grin on her face.
She's happy seeing that the others are worried about her.
After reassuring the others that she's not hurt, Adelle faced Raven.
And with a genuine smile on her face...
"Thanks."
Adelle thanked him.
Meanwhile, Alec and the others are looking at Raven too, but with complicated expressions on their faces.
Why?
Because they saw it too, Raven's fast reaction that saved Adelle from getting struck by a poisonous arrow.
'The speed of that arrow was as fast as my arrows.'
Aoi thought with a bitter feeling inside of her.
'I saw the arrow coming, but I wasn't able to react...'
Curtis thought.
But Raven doesn't know what they're thinking.
"You're welcome."
So he just responded casually to Adelle instead.
Then Raven looked at the arrow that is in his right hand.
'This arrow was really fast huh... If I didn't expect it coming, I probably wouldn't be able to catch it.'
Raven thought and he looked at the now open rock door in front of him.
'In the novel, after applying a healing magic on the rock door to open it, a trap behind it will activate and an arrow will come flying to the one who opened the door.'
'It's the dungeon's attempt to harm or even kill the raiders' healer to slow them down.'
Raven stated in his mind.
Those are some of the information he put in his novel about this dungeon...
In the novel, when Alec and the others entered this dungeon for the first time.
Adelle easily caught the poisonous arrow like how Raven did.
But in the novel, Alec and the others entered the [Labyrinth Of The Nurturer] when they were already sophomores.
And right now, they're only freshmen!
Yep, Adelle and the others are getting stronger much faster than how they originally are in the novel...
But they're still much weaker compared to the sophomores version of themselves in the novel!
That's why Raven predicted that Adelle and the others wouldn't be able to respond to the surprise trap of this dungeon.
So he decided to intervene.
'If any of them get hurt at the very beginning, it will be a problem for me too.'
Raven thought.
Then he shifted his head to Alec and the others who are still staring at him.
The others wants to ask him a lot of question, but they know Raven wouldn't give them a proper answer.
That's why they decided to just stay quiet.
Raven know that that's the case.
But he doesn't really care.
"Let's go."
So he just suggested for them to get going.
"Yeah, we should go."
And Eve agreed to him.
The others nodded their heads as a sign of agreement.
And after that, they all went back to their original assigned position of their formation.
Except for Raven, he's at the front of the group now.
But nobody really mind as Raven can act on his own, they know he wouldn't do something that will harm the group after all.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
After the incident about the poisonous arrow.
The others became much warier that before.
But as soon as all of them entered the room behind the rock door...
CREEEAK-
BOOM!
"!"
"!?"
The huge rock door closed by itself!
"Aoi!"
And immediately after that, Eve called out for Aoi.
"I know."
Aoi replied.
Swoosh-
Then she activated her skill, <Presence Detection>.
And after a few seconds.
Aoi's face became a bit pale...
"A lot of enemies are slowly approaching us!"
Aoi shouted.
"Shit."
Eve mumbled, then she looked at the others.
"Get ready for a battle!"
And she commanded.
Alec and the others immediately took out their weapons out of their [Quick Slot].
Well, Raven already knows that this will happen, so he already got his [Emmeranne] out.
Swoosh-
He even also already have himself covered with [Celestria].
"Yuki."
Raven called Yuki's name.
-Kyuu!
And as a response, Yuki tweeted energetically as she flew upward!
"Hey guys."
Then Raven called the others' attention next.
"Huh?"
Alec and the others looked at him.
And after making sure that everyone is paying attention to him.
Raven smirked...
"Don't slow me down."
Then he declared that!
Which obviously pissed Eve and the others!
Bam-
And before the others could even respond to his words...
Raven already propelled himself to where he can hear a lot of noise.
***
[Raven's POV]
-Grrrrahh....
-Gruuuuhh...!
After going to the location where I can hear a lot of footsteps.
"Just as I expected."
I was greeted by the sight of an army of undeads marching to my direction.
I'm not surprised at all, I was the one who put them in the first floor of this dungeon anyway.
'They doesn't seem to notice me yet.'
I thought.
I was hiding behind a pretty big rock by the way.
Also, contrary to what normally they are in novels, the undeads are moving in a fairly fast pace.
I'm also responsible for that...
Anyway, looking at the undeads, I can see that some of them are missing an arm or leg. They also have many other injuries that's making their appearance hideous.
But I don't care about those details.
"They fucking smell."
I was more annoyed by their rotten smell!
"Sariel."
Anyway, I called out to Sariel.
[Got it.]
=====
[Undead]
Rank:E
Strength:F+
Agility:F+
Stamina:E
Intelligence:F-
[Skills]
<Poison Breath>
<Physical Damage Resistance>
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And Sariel already knew what I was gonna say, so he just projected one of the undead's stats in front of me.
Without saying a word, I immediately studied the undead's stats.
And after looking through it, I was relieved and my expression relaxed a bit.
'Looks like nothing changed about the undeads.'
I thought.
Shing-
Then I pulled out [Emmeranne] from its sheath.
-Kraaahh!
-Grrrr...
-Kruuuh...
After that, I looked at the army of undeads.
Then I positioned my right foot forward and my left foot backward.
I was getting ready to dash forward to the enemies.
"Let's get started."
I mumbled with a smile on my face as I tightly clenched the handle of the [Emmeranne] and I started gathering mana all over my body.
Crack-
I pressed my right foot on the ground.
"Here I ga�""
Swoosh-
Swoosh-
Swoosh-
"!"
But as I was about to kick the ground, 3 figures suddenly ran pass me immediately!
I was able to catch a glimpse of the figures and I was able to recognized who they were.
They were Alec, Curtis, and Eve.
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