Chapter 73: Chapter 73 – Voidmare

Astrid sat down on a rock in front of the mine. She rested her hand against her chin and she was stuck in thought. To go in, or not to go in?

A group of footsteps brought her awake. Gazing up, the faces of the Wayfaring group entered her vision. They were glancing around at their surroundings and held their weapons at the ready.

Nick pricked a nearby kobold body that lay dead on the floor.

“Worried it will resurrect from the dead?” Gloria sneered.

“Hey, you’ve got to be careful no matter what,” Nick sheathed his sword. “Who knows what bloody magic they have?”

“Nick is right,” Froderick said. “It’s always better to stay on the side of caution.”

“There’s caution, then just plain paranoia.” Gloria pointed to the corpse. “I mean, it doesn’t even have a head anymore.”

“But still!” Nick blurted out.

“Neither does it have arms.” Gloria’s brows dipped.

Nick opened his mouth once more, but Gloria interrupted him.

“Or legs.”

Nick’s shoulders deflated.

“My lady, are you okay?” Leena placed her heavy backpack down with a thump. It contained most of Astrid’s rations as well. Enough food and water to last at least an entire week.

Astrid shook her head. “There’s a dungeon deep within the hill.”

“What?!” the entire Wayfaring party exclaimed.

Gloria’s shoulders prickled and her eyes turned to venom as they pierced toward the entrance.

Calum said, “is it secure?”

“Nothing’s coming out. I made sure of it.”

“That just means nothing has come out yet.” Calum crossed his arms. “We’ll need to head back, regardless.”

“Head back?” Gloria glared. “My sister could be in there.”

“What do you want to do, go in there? Haven’t you heard what the dungeon is capable of?” Calum raised his voice. “You just need to ask the person with firsthand experience.” He glanced at Astrid.

“We would have been wiped out, if not for some luck.” Astrid clenched her fists and stood up. “But this time it’s different. There’s a level limit to this one, and only one person can enter at a time.”

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“Level limit, so it’s true then, isn’t it?” Nick stepped forward. “The System controls the dungeons?”

“Controlled, more like created, no?” Tony said as he cradled his bow.

“Wait, my lady,” Leena exclaimed. “You can’t be thinking of entering the dungeon, right?”

Astrid wryly smiled. “I can’t hide anything from you, can I?”

“Are you insane?” Calum said.

“Don’t you know who you’re talking to?” Gloria smirked. “The demon of Rebirth does what she wants.”

“Why does that sound scornful?” Astrid tilted her lips and continued. “The level limit for the dungeon is seventy-five, and I’m almost there. Who on Rebirth is as strong as I am at my level?”

At her words, everyone shifted their heads around, unable to answer the question.

“No one,” Astrid said as a matter of fact. “I’ve given it a lot of thought since you all took forever to come here.”

“Hey that’s not fair. We had to go through a mountain of wolves,” Nick said.

“You had Leena there with you.”

“She told us to deal with it ourselves, for training,” Nick shivered. “She’s scary when you’re not around, you know–”

Leena glared, and Nick took a step back.

“Anyway, I’ll need to ask for all of your mana potions,” Astrid said. “I wouldn’t ask for you to give them for nothing in return. I will, of course, split some of the loot with you all once I return.”

“You’re really that confident you’ll survive?” Calum asked.

Astrid cupped her chin, then broke out into a bright smile. “Of course. I don’t plan on dying anytime soon.”

Calum sighed. “Alright then.” He loosened the strap to his bag and handed over most of the mana potions he had on him.

The other wayfarers also did the same until Astrid’s backpack was filled with nothing but bottled blue liquid.

“Take this. You’ll need it more than me.” Gloria grasped a small badge with her hand. She hesitated for a moment before she un-pinned it and threw it over to Astrid.

“This is…” Astrid exclaimed.

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