Chapter 7: Chapter 7 – Yes Hard Feelings

Deep down, inside a mountain, a [Dungeon Core] was panicking. A [Bone Core] to be precise. For some reason, the intruder to his [Bone Zone]…

Was just not stopping.

“Why? Why does he not stop? What manner of invader is this?”

A gleaming blue gem floated in the dungeon’s deepest room, with only his goblin [Necromancer] lieutenants as listeners.

He could sense the intruder delving ever deeper, at accelerating speed—

And nothing was stopping him.

“I’ve tried the flamethrowers, but he just stood in them! Same with the poison gas! Throgg and his flesh horror were defeated in a matter of seconds! The welcoming skeletons even faster!”

If he had had fingers, he would have bit them bloody. But alas, all the core could do was shift color, red to blue to red, and vibrate.

And shout.

“Go! The rest of you, go! Prepare the bone abomination! And the mega-death pit! Get ready to activate it! He’s almost there! How is he so fast? Go! Move!”

His goblins finally sprang to motion, running to manipulate the complex lever and pulley system which controlled the dungeon’s many traps. The core spun in place, glaring at each subordinate in turn, panic growing as he felt the intruder getting nearer and nearer.

But most of all—the status just did not make sense.

// DUNGEON INVASION IN PROGRESS:

// INVADERS: 1
// INVADER AVERAGE LEVEL: 6

It was just one level 6 invader.

He himself was a level 19 [Bone Core], and the flesh horror had been at least 15. “What kind of ridiculously broken class can this be? A [Hero]? Please tell me it’s not a [Hero].”

“S-sir,” one of the goblins hesitantly said, lifting up a hand.

The core spun, aiming a bright red light at his face. “What is it?”

The goblin gulped. “The [Hero] left this realm 6 months ago—there shouldn’t be another one.”

The core focused the bright light into a burning red lazer, and scorched a hole through the goblin’s head. It fell down to the ground, dead.

“You fool, do you not think I know that already?”

The core almost began another rant then and there, but then he stopped—the intruder was right on the spot. He spun, red light rapidly blinking. “Now! Activate the mega-death-pit-of-doom now! He’s right there!”

A goblin pulled a lever, and the core felt a shift in the dungeon as a corridors floor fell down, revealing a 40-meter drop, straight into the mega-bone-golem’s lair.

He sensed the intruder drop down, and finally felt some relief. At least with this—

Then the intruder suddenly paused in place, midair, 30 meters above the bottom, movement slowing down considerably.

The core shrieked. “Levitation magic too?”

No. The intruder had started falling again.

“What is going on—at that speed—surely they will—”

The intruder approached the ground like a stone, and the core held the light in place, red with no blinks, awaiting the impact. The bone horror is right next, ready, this can’t go—

Then the intruder suddenly shifted, all speed transferring from vertical to horizontal in one smooth rotation, and blasted right into the bone horror, smashing it into pieces in an instant.

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“N-no… What? What was that? A [Double Jump], into a forward slash? No—it’s all wrong—”

He paused. The enemy was still moving—right here. There was only a short corridor between the pit’s bottom and this room.

He looked over his shaking minions, thoughts dark. So it’s come to this…

The core took hold of the various lifestrands emanating from it, then ripped them all apart. The goblins vanished with terrified screams, dissolving into pits of blood. Light rapidly blinking, the core shoved all the remaining life energy into the ground, in a true last ditch effort.

To summon a defender.

“Arise! Greater Rock Golem!”

A lumbering, circular figure of stone rose up from the floor like a giant tortoise, then legs spouted out from it, and it shakily got up. It loomed into place, a veritable mountain ripping itself free from the ground.

“Go! Kill the intruder now!”

The golem took a step forward, but at that same moment, the vault doors blasted open as the intruder entered.

The core’s flashing light stopped on the figure that had arrived into the middle of the room, stopping in place there.

A… stone?

“Go! Kill it!” he said, using all his authority to force the golem on the move as fast as possible.

But the golem… It stepped forward and made a gesture to the stone.

The core started losing his mind. “What are you… Don’t try to duel it!”

 

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A duel.

The rock sensed the golem’s intentions right away, a bond of kinship between those of common birth. The beings of stone.

An honorable duel with all the hard feelings.

Because was not honor a rock-solid feeling?

The rock was making many new realizations about the world. But it accepted the duel, shuffling forward and dipping forward in a small courtesy bow.

A queer blinking thing was flashing furiously in the background, but the rock did not care for it. This was a duel of stone.

And for a duel of stone… there was only one contest that mattered.

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