Dungeon Tour Guide 1 by Aaron Shih

Author:Aaron Shih [Shih, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-05-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

“I need cover and time!” Troy shouted. “I can read it, but my [Detect Magic] isn’t high-level enough to tell me what it does!”

“Got it,” Ryan said, drawing his blade. “I’m good on mana again. Let’s go. Rose?”

“Ahead of you,” the [Bard] said, beginning her [Song of Strength].

Troy knelt down next to the carving of a rune that would respond to fire magic, procuring a pen and paper from his cloak’s pockets.

“You just carry a set of those around?” I asked him.

The [Apprentice Mage] made a vague noise of affirmation before laying the paper on the floor and scrawling something I couldn’t read on it.

Six constructs were slowly emerging from the walls, each of them large enough to nearly completely block the path around the goblet. I stayed sitting where I was, ready to dissolve the monsters if necessary and ready to heal when someone got hit.

“One within ten feet of Troy,” I called out. “Might want to—”

The bone-shaking clang of magical metal against mana-shaped dirt and rock interrupted my sentence, Ryan’s [Agility Boost]ed strike making contact before I could finish.

Despite the [Song of Strength], it wasn’t enough to take it out in one blow. Not even close. There were cracks spreading out from where the hit had connected, but not having Troy to soften them up with a strengthened [Fireball] or just straight up dismantle them with [Create Water] meant that those cracks didn’t amount to much more than that.

“Ah, fuck,” Ryan said, withdrawing a step or two to avoid the slow, lumbering swing of the earth construct’s punch. “Can’t get enough of a windup in here for a proper hit.”

The muted crack of Anderson’s pistol sounded off, his [Eagle’s Eye] guiding him to an accurate strike in the center of the same monster.

Unfortunately for him, it seemed like there was nothing super special about his weapon or its ammunition. While his shot was perfectly aimed, a single bullet didn’t really do much to the construct besides making it stumble a single step back.

It was more than nothing, at least. Ryan struck at it again, a solid hit to the side that once again saw cracks propagating from the point of impact.

“Hundred seconds left!” Rose shouted, pausing the [Song of Strength] to do so.

Huh. She had another spell going at the same time, one hidden away enough that I had to stretch the dungeon senses to their limit to perceive it. A [Metronome]. Haven’t heard that one before.

Whatever it was, it seemed to give her a solid grasp on the time because nobody questioned her.

Another pair of bullets struck the construct, the [Sharpshooter] firing two guns at once. An average feat for a level 2, for sure, but not one that was adapted to the room that had been built to challenge the stupidly overpowered level 4s that Minus One were.

Still, it bought time, and it looked like Troy was getting somewhere.

Ryan was alternating between using his [Knight’s Shield] and his sword, and it was working for the time being.

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