Chapter 2: The Dual Dungeon

Part 1

Kazuya Sai look around as he hear of someone calling he and found another path, without hesistate he run toward the path.

"There really is another path?"

Just as that Sai said, there was an entrance hidden within the dungeon itself.

"A dual dungeon, is it... So, such a thing actually exists for real...."

Sai looked into the hidden entrance and displayed how surprised he was.

The interior of the hidden, cave-like passage was dark and nothing could be seen. Sai activated his low-grade magic, fire ball magic, and tossed it further forward into the passage.

The fire ball flew forward and illuminated the interior. The passageway seemed to go on forever. Soon enough, the fire ball lost its forward momentum, fell to the ground and smouldered for a bit before flickering out of existence.

The passage was shrouded in darkness once more.

"Hmm..... if this path can make me strong i beat any challenges"

"As i know, a Dungeon will not close unless the palace's boss is killed. Since the Dungeon itself is still intact even though we took care of all the monsters here, that can only mean that the boss is beyond that passageway

"Now normally, i supposed to relay this information back to the Association and wait for their decision first, but... But, if i do that, i might end up handing over the task of killing the boss to other Players, I need to be strong that why i came here."

Sai stand brave and take all guts to him and step to the Palace's Boss.

At this rate, there'd be no meaning behind him risking his life to become strong.

Since this was a low difficulties dungeon, then the hidden dungeon couldn't have been that difficult, either.

Actually, Sai was worried inwardly as well. Now normally, he would never try to take on any unnecessary risk. Not only did he lack the abilities to do so, but he was also not brave enough, too.

'I've no money saved up....'

Currently, Jin-Woo was twenty-four years old.

He was at an age where he should be concentrating on his academic pursuits, but he gave up on that dream because, well, he had no money. He saved up all his money to cure his brother diseases.

Right now, every cent was precious to him.

Part 2

The passageway went on and on forever.

Sai walked to the Palace's, He try his best to stay calm in this situations.

Sai still recovering from his wound previously, If it weren't for the presence of the outstanding Healer ranked B, Yukine Ai, Sai wouldn't have been able to carry on living unaffected, never mind working as a Players. It was a small wonder why such high ranked and hard-to-find Healers were valued so greatly within the halls of the Association.

Yukine Ai was a Healer-type Hunter, a rarest of the rare breeds.

Not only that, she was a genius ranked at 'B' as well.

"I found it!!"

"It's the boss chamber!"

Sai saw a huge stone door blocking the passage.

Sai immediately surrounded this door.

"What is this? Why is there a door at the end of the cavern?"

"Have i ever encountered a boss chamber with a door before?"

"This is definitely the first time, I'm sure of it."

Sai began to express his doubts and fears one at the time.

Since Sai own lives were on the line here, Sai had to be cautious and meticulous.

However, if Sai were to become too cautious, Sai would end up failing to grasp the heaven-sent opportunity in the first place. Sai figured this was one such case.

"Am i all planning to return empty-handed after coming this far?"

Sai placed his hands on the door.

Suddenly there a voice of male

"Became Strong"

"If that's what you want, I'm pushing ahead, even if it means I'll be going to sacrifice my own life."

Sai pushed the dungeon's door and it creaked open.

There must've been some sort of mechanism installed on the heavy-looking door, since the physical strength of a my strength was enough to easily open it.

Slam!

Now that the door was wide open, the huge open interior revealed itself. Sai hurriedly rushed in.

As soon as Sai sat foot inside, flames erupted on the numerous torches packed tightly on the walls all at the same time. Thanks to that, the interior brightened up considerably.

"First time seeing a dungeon like this one."

Sai cautiously studied their surroundings. The overall atmosphere of the place was similar to that of an ancient temple.

Not only that, an old and somewhat decrepit temple, something that might be buried and hidden beneath the ground; moss and weed could be seen sporadically on the floor, walls and the ceiling.

However, one couldn't help but feel that it was still inadequate.

The interior was nonsensically huge. The chamber was shaped like a giant dome. It was as large as several Olympic stadiums, the one found in Denmark, were put together – no, maybe it was even bigger than that.

The reason for that was rather obvious.

"N-no freaking way that thing's the boss, right?"

In the deepest part of the dome, something so logic-defyingly humongous sat on a throne just as big as itself. It was none other than a huge stone statue of a god!

Well, Liberty was a woman, while the one sitting on the throne was a dude, though.

'No, hang on. Maybe it's even bigger than that...'

Sai's began nervously swallowing his saliva near the foot of the god statue. The taut and heavy apprehension and anxiety were clear to see on his faces as he worried about this statue being the dungeon's boss.

However, the statue did not budge an inch.

What a fortunate thing that was.

"Whew...."

Sai spat out a sigh of relief.

The chamber of the stone god statue might have been massive, yet its actual inner structure was on the simpler side. On the walls, countless torches could be found there. And in front of these walls, more stone statues, slightly taller than a human being, stood tall and unmoving. There were lots of them here as well, found at a certain distance from one another.

"They are all rather beautiful, aren't they? It's like, they are works of art"

Objects held by each of the stone statues were varied and different.

Some held weapons, there was one with a book, some carried musical instruments, and even torches.

"It's as if.... They are like statues of a holy temple or something."

"Mm?"

Then, Sai found something beneath his feet.

"This... Isn't this a magic formation?"

He found a magic formation that he had never seen before located in the middle of this temple.

"Look like something written here"

Sai discovered a statue that was different from others.

Only this statue featured a pair of wings and carried a stone slate. What the Sai focused on was the letters carved into this slate.

"It's Rune alphabet."

Words that could not be found anywhere on Earth, and found only within dungeons; only the Players who had 'awakened' the magic-related professions could decipher them.

"The laws of the Kargantua temple."

Sai read the very first verse.

However, someone suddenly tugged at his arm.

When he looked back, he spotted Yukine Ai, who have been followed him all the time.

< Chapter 2 > Finished.

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