As the Blade of Roanoke and the thrust of Lucius came into contact, a little shockwave occured as the two of them were pushed back a little.
Eerie purplish mist were emitted from the spear that Lucius was holding, whereas Roanoke's Flesh Eater was coated in fiery red flames. With his emerald green eyes, he looked at Lucius with a cheeky smile and then dropped his guard.
"I think that is enough for greetings, isn' it?"
Roanoke smiled at Lucius. On the outside, he may look like he was the one with upper hand but actually that was just a facade. Inwardly, he was already having a hard time as he felt his arms going numb.
'He is very strong. I should have used my Family Swordsmanship....I hate that I only know a limited techniques since my master still had not taught me his swordsmanship and I cannot use my family swordsmanship'
Those were the thoughts that are going on inside the head of Roanoke as his hand trembled from that exchange of attack.
Lucius meanwhile, just narrowed his eyes at Roanoke. Roanoke's figure was reflected onto the blue eyes of Lucius because of how intense his stare was.
Then after a moment, Lucius dropped his stance and sighed with a smile.
"Sure, I trust that you have an Honor to uphold and is never hostile."
Lucius smiled at Roanoke as he extended his right hand to shake with Roanoke.
'He managed to block that attack, even though I was not serious. He still managed to take on that attack with a basic technique. I can feel that he has more up to his sleeve.'
Lucius thought so as he was shaking hands with Roanoke. By the grip on Roanoke's hands and feeling the callouses on it, He finally realized why Roanoke was stronger than he thought.
'He worked so hard'
He thought so before Roanoke then looked around more with his new appearance, and then finally saw a cave at a distance.
"Is your target that dungeon?"
Roanoke asked Lucius who just sat down and was munching on the pighead meat. Chewing on the meat, Lucius' blue eyes landed on the cave at the distance as he swallowed the meat.
"Yeah. But I was ambushed by these Piglins, so I had no choice but to defend myself and kill them all. It took me a whole day to kill all of them and I am currently taking a rest."
Replied Lucius as he offered a meat to Roanoke in which the other guy just declined because of his history with the meat, and then the two of them stared at the cave on a distance.
"Wanna challenge it with me then? To see the loots"
Roanoke smiled at Lucius as the gray haired guy also smiled at his suggestion, then once he was done eating. He then stood up and said that they should take off to that dungeon now.
"Sure, I have rested up enough anyway"
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Dungeons have loots. The way for someone to determine a place is a dungeon is to feel the magical presence of that certain place, even the temple of the fire monkeys is considered a dungeon. The Crab in the pond is also a dungeon....though I did not go back there for the loot because apparently, it already closed up. That damn master of mine did not even take the treasures in there, he just grabbed the Crab meat and he did not even leave me some. That bastard I swear.
Shaking my head out of those thoughts, I looked ahead, as me and Lucius finally arrived at the mouth of the cave where we will be exploring. Turning to look at him and stared at each other, he nodded to me as I also did the same, then we entered the cave.
Upon entering the cave, I felt the intense pressure of magic inside....and as we go deeper and deeper, light slowly disappeared and our only source of light was the flame of Flesh Eater.
The only flaw of Dungeons is that people cannot determine the rank of the monsters inside if it is unexplored, considering that we are the first ones here....this should be an unexplored place, and so we are risking our lives to explore this place. But first timers also get the best reward.
After a while of walking in darkness with only my sword as the guiding light, We then arrived at a large stone door with blue luminous crystals lighting everything up.
"This should be the dungeon....let's push it open"
Lucius uttered. Staring at him at the corner of my eye, I nodded to his suggestion and sheathed Flesh Eater back as we then pushed the large stone door open.
But we ultimately failed.
We pushed it again with all our might, but we only got exhausted and it still did not budge. I even infused Ki in my body to cheat but then I was met with a backlash and felt pain all over my body.
Damn it...what just happened?
I dove into my Core to see what the issue was and saw that my core was covered in....IS THAT A FUCKING MINI MASTER?
Deep into my core, I saw a bunch of mini master. No, like little masters swimming in the mass of energy. The leader of the goons was sitting on top of the spheric world of Ki, I call my Core.
Upon spotting me, everyone then chuckled. The annoying chuckle that my master always give me.
"Hello!"
Every mini master said in unison.
"My Foolish Disciple! We are here to Seal your Body Strengthening Ki! As what the main body instructed! Heheheheheheh"
Everyone even talked and laughed in unison which greatly creeped me out. I felt chills in my entire body as I was about to run away but then remembered I am in my own body.
AND WHAT THE FUCK?
"WHAT? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY SEALING MY BODY STRENGTHENING KI???"
Is he fucking retarded or just a piece of shit? Why the fuck would he seal my Ki? And when did that happen?
"The Main Body said that Roanoke will definitely cheat, so he will seal your Body Strengthening Ki with Acupoints before you were thrown to this place!"
The Leader of the goons replied as he then went back inside my core and swam in the mass of energy.
Whereas I just watched them there....with a flabbergasted expression. How utterly ridiculous!