Chapter 59 First Round
Rishi and his other guild members went to participate in the guild tournament. They named their guild All STARS; this was because Rishi wanted a simple name and a name that represented his guild. Before participating, they had to register their team for the first round; Dev went to register them as he was the captain. Dev was also asked to spin a wheel three times by clicking on the big screen where a button was given.
This was the process of selecting the Dungeon they wanted to challenge. Dev clicked the button, and the wheel started spinning and stopped. After stopping on number 9, Dev was asked to spin it again twice to choose the other two dungeons.
Dev clicked the spin button again and got numbers 15 and 23. After this, an instructor followed Dev, who would record the time they took to clear their dungeons; Dev told the other teammates about the three dungeon numbers.
They all went to challenge their first Dungeon after they were ready, there was a rule in this competition, and that was that the incharge would count the time when the guild entered the first Dungeon and stop it when the guild exits the third guild, which means they had to challenge three dungeons back to back.
When they had prepared enough, Rishi and the other team members entered the Dungeon while Ajit and Manu waited for their guild members at the entrance of the Dungeon.
Rishi saw that it was a dungeon with a cold climate, so he and his teammates took out their warm clothes and wore them; they decided to clear this Dungeon faster as they were uncomfortable inside it.
The primary opponents in this Dungeon were snow leopards; they were magic beasts that were very hard to defeat in snow as they had one skill that let them blend in snow, Which made them very hard to deal with.
Dilip’s magic beast used fire attacks to melt the snow around the enemies, which helped them defeat their enemies quickly. The Boss monster was also robust, but low-level magic beasts were harder to deal with for the ‘All Stars’ guild.
Rishi and the team came out of the first Dungeon and looked at the time; it took them five hours which was two hours more than they had planned, “Let’s go; time is running out,” said Dev.𝔫𝑂𝗏𝑒𝐋𝑵𝑒xt.𝑐𝔬𝑚
The instructor was impressed by Rishi’s guild performance because this Dungeon was one of the hardest ones to clear in less time; he now looked forward even more to their performance in the next Dungeon.
They all summoned their contract beast, started approaching the next Dungeon and entered it.
The second Dungeon was Desert, and it was also tough to clear fast, but this time, Rishi and his team used a risky strategy.
They directly rushed towards the boss’s Room, ignoring every other monster in their path; this was a hazardous strategy because they would need to defend the Dungeon Boss and leave before they got surrounded by other monsters chasing them.
They all used their beast to outrun the monsters chasing them; Dilip gave Lalit a lift as his contract beast was very slow. They soon found the Dungeon Boss, A giant monster named Scorpion Queen.
Rishi and his guild members didn’t waste a second and started attacking the dungeon boss with their most potent attacks giving it no chance to survive and exiting the Dungeon as fast as possible.
“That was close,” commented Lalit.
“I was scared for a second when I saw a huge wave of endless monsters approaching from all sides; we could escape because Rishab attacked its eyes and made it blind, which made it very weak,” said Jay.
“We all did well; it was Dev and Dilip that dealt the most damage; Lalit defended well while Jay also annoyed it, which gave another opportunity to attack it,” said Rishi.
They came out of the Dungeon and noticed that they had cleared this Dungeon in just two hours, “Dev, only one more dungeon is left. You did great this time; all the best for the last one,” complimented Ajit to increase the morale of his teammates.
They soon entered the third Dungeon’s entrance; Rishi and his teammates realized that they were in a cave when they entered the Dungeon.
“Careful, this one looks more dangerous than others. There is no place to run away in this Dungeon, Lalit stand at the front and always be prepared to defend from an incoming attack,” said Dev. Lalit nodded at Dev’s suggestion and got even more careful.
They started exploring the Dungeon carefully to look for their opponents, One hour passed, but they had not seen a single monster which confused them because something like this had never happened.
“What should we do? If we can’t defeat the dungeon Boss, then we will not be able to leave and will be out of the competition,” said Lalit.
“Let’s increase our speed and reach the end of the cave fast; I think there will be a dungeon boss there. Maybe there is only one dungeon boss in this Dungeon,” suggested Rishi.
Dev thought about Rishi’s suggestion for some time before commenting, “Let’s do that; I can’t think of any better plan.”
They all mounted their beasts and started moving towards the end; they saw a big door that was present in some dungeons for the boss room. As soon as they reached near, It opened automatically, alerting all members of the All-Stars guild, but even after waiting for two minutes, no one came out.
The time was passing, and each minute counted. Because Rishi an,d his teammates decided to enter the Dungeon. Rishi entered Bos’s Room and saw it was huge and vast. He started looking for the dungeon boss but could not find anyone there.
One by one, another member also entered and started looking for the exit; only one minute had passed when Rishi heard a slight sound, but it was so small that even someone like him needed to focus all his attention to listen to it; Rishi figured out where the sound was coming after some time.
It was coming from the top; he slowly turned his head up and saw two big eyes staring at him, which sent a chill down his spine; the monster attacked Rishi with an attack which Rishi dodged by using his ‘Phantom steps’ skill.
The ground where Rishi was previously standing had a web at that place with some sticky fluid covering it; the others noticed Rishi’s movement and asked, “What happened?”
“look up; the Dungeon boss is there,” replied Rishi. Everyone looked up and saw two big eyes looking at them it. Attacked them too.
“Dodge that attacks,” alerted Rishi. Everyone decided to trust Rishi and dodged that attack; when everyone looked up again, they saw that many small eyes were also there besides the big eyes that they saw first.
The monster came down and attacked Rishi with its mouth; Rishi dodged his attack. Lalit came forward to defend Rishi when he saw that the dungeon boss was targeting Rishi.
The monster attacked again with an ‘acid spit’ attack to defeat Lalit, but Lalit was prepared for it. He used his hardening skill on his shield and quickly defended himself.
The dungeon monster cried ‘Sherek,’ and little spider monsters started attacking Rishi and his team; fighting the Dungeon boss with these other monsters supporting him was hard. This fight was even more difficult.
“Line up in the formation and summon your contract beasts,” commanded Dev. Rishi and his friends all summoned their contract beasts to help them, after which they formed a formation.
Lalit was the one in front while Dev and Dilip were behind him, Jay was after them, and Rishi was behind him to defend against the attacks from behind. Rishi asked Vakar to use his ultimate combo, ‘Blood Rain,’ while Jay too attacked with ‘arrow rain’ to reduce the numbers of the approaching monsters seemed endless.
Despite having huge numbers, the spider monsters were very weak by themselves, which killing them was easy; the ‘Blood Rain’ combo did massive damage and took out multiple monsters at a time, and the whole ground was filled with monsters’ blood after Vakar’s attack landed, Jay’s attack also killed many monsters.
When the Dungeon boss looked at its innocent children getting slaughtered, It rushed at Jay and Vakar to kill them and take revenge.
After looking at the impact of Jay’s and Vakar’s attack, Rishi asked him to attack with ‘Water Bullet’ and ‘Feather attack’ till it could cast the combo again; Vakar followed Rishi’s command and attacked the helpless monsters again and again due to which he recovered his mana and the cooldown of his skill ‘Rainy Day’ because of which Vakar cast the combo again reaping the life of countless monsters, Rishi gave Jay two mana restoring potions and asked him to attack with ‘Arrow rain’ again and again.
The Dungeon Boss was not able to see more of its children getting slaughtered, so it made a loud sound, ‘Sherek,’ asking them to leave the battle; the monsters were unwilling, but when the Dungeon Boss ordered them again, they had no other choice but to leave.
The fight started once again, but this time without the other monsters; it was a hard fight, and Rishi and his teammates were very tired due to back top back battles, but at last, they defeated the Giant Dungeon Boss after finding its weakness which was its big but defenseless legs.
It took them two and a half hours to clear the Dungeon, which made their overall performance excellent despite having lousy luck in getting the most challenging dungeons.
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