Isran the Great

The next day Phaedra continued to rattle on about Isran’s Knight of Greatness class as they walked further through into the dungeon. Mostly sulking about the knowledge she didn’t have.

“I wish I could study more in Evelncarth, I would’ve been of more help with you class.”

“It’s okay.” Isran smiled down at the blue haired woman. “I’m sure there will be time to get more knowledge. It will be pretty cool if I could speak to the head of the council.”

“Yeah.” Phaedra mumbled frowning into the distance. “What do you think of those people?”

Elysi spotted their new companions before Isran did, and she didn’t look happy to see them.

“I don’t care if they are hostile, it’s too dangerous to take the chance.”

Isran agreed, she could almost count ten people and a lot more were scattered around.

“Sho—should we move to the second floor?” Phaedra moved closer to Isran as she asked her question.

“Yes.”

They had found several doors that would lead to the second floor of the dungeon during the time they had been inside. It seemed their plan of spending five days had been thrown out the door a good while ago.

They circled back, towards the most recent door they had found and lined themselves up. Isran in front, Elysi behind her and Phaedra in the rear. If there were any monsters waiting for them behind the doors they had to be prepared.

The stairs led into a dimly lit destroyed room. Tables overturned, glass shattered and to Isran’s surprise an old 90’s tv. The room was small and after verifying that there were no monsters hiding behind the damaged furniture they walked slowly towards the door opposite the stairs.

There were no windows, ivy and moss covered the walls, Isran touched Red lightly, asking the cape if it could sense any danger, silky fabric flicked her cheek once in response. No.

Opening the door slowly revealed a forest, much to Isran’s surprise. She had expected maybe sky scraper ruins or even a small neighbourhood, but the closest building she could see looked probably two miles away.

They all moved quietly, the forest wasn’t the thickest but it also wasn’t the sparsest. They were on the second floor and although the monsters were mostly the same on the first two floors none of them wanted to test the theory with uncharted land.

The same weird dim lighting persisted for hours till they finally arrived to the building Isran had spotted, it was closer than she had originally assumed but none of that mattered when they spotted four goblins walking around the run-down cottage. One in particular was larger than its comrades and held an axe three times its size.

“A warrior goblin.” Isran mumbled.

They were outnumbered, considering Phaedra didn’t count in combat. Isran thought carefully as Elysi crouched down, docking an arrow.

“Which one?”

Isran subtly pointed at the warrior goblin. “We have to be very careful, there might be more hiding in the cottage.”

“Cottage?” Elysi mumbled.

Isran only nodded. Cottage was probably an unfamiliar word. “The warrior goblin is double the trouble, shoot him first.”

“A trap would be a good idea.” Elysi whispered back.

Isran watched the four green monsters walk around, her girlfriend was right, but she had no idea how to set any kind of trap. She wished she had paid attention at girl scouts.

“We should head back and see what we can do.”

Isran agreed, it was good to dungeon delve with companions.

After creating enough distance that their speaking would not reach the goblins Elysi started speaking.

“They have no ranged weapons, which is a very good advantage, but it also means the kind of trap we can set is a bit limited. I’m no trap expert but my father had a trap class.”

Isran thought about how little she knew about the rest of Elysi’s life, she would have to work on fixing that.

“A pit trap then?” Isran smiled at Phaedra contributing, the healer couldn’t fight but she could lend them her big brain.

Elysi nodded. “One that will hopefully trap all off them. It will be a bit clumsy since none of us are experts but it should work.

Isran’s sword was the best thing they had for digging, so after finding a spot that seemed good enough, she dug a hole deep enough that Elysi couldn’t jump out and wide enough that three goblins could stand side by side comfortably, then with Elysi’s daggers the two of them sharpened fallen branches while Phaedra gathered small stick and leaves.

The trap was clear as day but it would work. The plan was to draw the goblins toward it while making it obvious enough that Isran—the bait—didn’t fall as well.

Isran helped both Elysi and Phaedra into the trees near the trap, covered by some extra branches from other trees.

“Be careful.” Elysi whispered her bow and arrow in position. Elysi was of more value shooting monsters that evaded the trap than running even though she was the fastest.

Isran hated the worried look on her face, she wondered if it was the same look she had when Isran had been hit in the chest by the hammer a few days before.

Isran lifted her helmet up a little and smiled. “I will.”

Getting the goblins attention wasn’t an issue, though the sight of two skeletons in light amour also holding swords wasn’t very motivating.

She stepped into the clearing around the cottage and gave one loud yell. All the monster’s heads snapped towards her before she turned around and bolted.

The goblins were the smartest of the bunch and so as she ran Isran jumped a few times, from the sounds of running behind her none of the goblins were paying heed to her jumping. That was reassuring.

It was an exhausting run, red boosted her speed stat but she was tired from walking for so long and her energy stat wasn’t the best either.

Just as she reached the trap, she felt a whoosh of air behind her as she jumped, it seemed the warrior goblin had somehow swung at her mid run.

Isran screeched to a halt and swivelled to see which monsters hadn’t fallen. To her pleasant surprise almost all of them had, including the warrior goblin, and the one goblin that hadn’t was lying dead with two arrows in its head.

Isran stepped up to the hole, the other three goblins had died and the warrior goblin struggled to move, shoving the two skeletons of it. With a particularly strong shove it launched one skeleton into the air and Isran swung at the monster like a baseball.

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS

SKELETON MOB DEFEATED

EXP POINTS AWARDED

 

The second one was crushed as the warrior goblin pushed to its feet, stepping on its head. To Isran’s surprise she received a notification she had never seen before as she picked a large rock nearby to throw into the pit.

 

 

COMBO KILL

A MONSTER HAS TURNED ON ITS ALLIES

KILL IT TO GAIN ALL EXP YOU WOULD OTHERWISE GAIN FROM KILLING

EACH INDIVIDUAL MONSTER

 

After dismissing the message Isran chucked the rock below with a light huff and was met with the sound of wet crunching, shortly after a kill notification appeared.

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS

COMBO KILL EXECUTED

EXP POINTS AWARDED

 

KNIGHT OF GREATNESS REACHED

LEVEL 8

FREE ATTRIBUTE POINTS AWARDED