Raised in Dungeon

After an hour of struggling, Allen finally defeated all the spiders. Spider remains splattered across his shirt and stained his skin, some spidey blood dripping off his body. Since the crystal inside the bag had already run out, Felicia gave the bag to Allen to clean the sticky blood on his body.

"Are we going back up through the water? Maybe Reig can catch the crimson bird again?" Felicia asked.

"No, that's impossible. The crimson bird has already flown up, they're probably afraid of the monsters on this floor, and I don't think going back to the water is a good idea either. This floor must have a way to the upper floors."

"I saw a path on the left. I saw some spiders coming from there," Felicia pointed to the dark path on the left.

"Okay, let's go there."

Felicia walked back to pick up the large crystal and carry it. By then, Reig had already returned to a normal scarf to save his mana, so their lighting now depended on the crystal.

"Is that heavy for you? I can carry it," Allen pleaded when he saw Felicia's face, which looked a little troubled.

"Are you stupid? You have to protect me. How could I let you carry this thing-"

But suddenly, the crystal's light dimmed.

"Eh?! WHY?! DID I MAKE A MISTAKE?!" cried the panicked Felicia.

"Calm down! What if you called the other monsters here?! The crystal's light disappeared because the spirit is no longer here!"

'Damn, this is the worst scenario I can think of. We'll have to use Reig for lighting if there are no spirits. What if we encounter a strong enemy?'

Reig then turned into a crystal and shone.

"Shouldn't we go back into the cave first? For some reason, I suddenly feel like it's getting colder," asked Felicia, who was getting scared.

"I'd like to, but if we go back in, I feel like we'll lose our chance of survival. Besides, we might starve to death there."

"We don't have to fear starvation because Reig can create the rabbit meat many times over, and he can also create the rabbit's horns for lighting," suggested Felicia, who remembered that Reig could create anything.

"However, that would consume a lot of mana. Reig absorbed my mana to make those things. If we delay the trip, my mana could run out just to make food, which would make me unable to fight monsters anymore. Remember, there's no mana in the dungeon."

"Why don't we just wait for help in the cave?"

"Help? Are you sure anyone would send help to someone they thought was dead?"

"What about the other dungeon explorers? We probably could meet them here."

"That's what I was hoping for, but at least we're currently on the 6th or 7th floor. Lavinia said that this dungeon had been completed up to the fifth floor. We needed to get to the fifth floor if we wanted to meet the dungeon explorers. And I don't want to waste my mana creating food and other weapons. We better use it efficiently, especially for lighting."

They then began to walk a little...

Yes… just a little...

Just a few meters from where they had been standing...

They were still inside the spider-infested room...

They just walked a few meters, but their eyes immediately caught an apparition that stunned them.

"A-a-a-a-a"

Allen and Felicia fell silent.

Reig's light was barely able to illuminate the monster that now stood in front of them. Its face was distorted and intimidating, with large horns protruding from its head and a nose that seemed almost as large as their bodies. Its piercing nose bore a hefty piercing, and its lips were thick and slightly lolled. The mere sight of it was enough to send chills down their spines. Whatever it was, it was immense. Even Reig's light could only light up a portion of its head. They remained frozen in horror and terror, unable to move or speak. Every second felt like an eternity as they stared in, terrified of the creature in front of them.

[ILLUSTRATION]

"Sta-stay calm," Allen said not only to Felicia but also to himself.

Allen tries to reach Felicia's hand so he can pull her out at any time.

-THRUST

Without Allen realizing it, something sharp came from the darkness, piercing his body.

"BUAKH!" Allen immediately vomited blood. It turned out that what stabbed him was the fingernail of the monster in front of him, which was almost as big as his hand. The monster slowly withdrew its finger again.

Felicia looked at Allen, who was in pain, blood was coming out of his stomach very quickly, and it made her realize her fear.

"GYAAAAAAAAAaaaaAAAaAAAaAaAaAaAAaaaaa!!!" Felicia immediately screamed with a trembling voice.

But at that moment, Allen jumped straight to Felicia, picked her up, and ran away from there, back to the cave.

"SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?! WHAT THE HECK IS THIS FLOOR?! ARE DUNGEON'S MONSTERS LOOKS LIKE THAT?!" thought Allen, who became very panicked.

"ALLEN! YOUR WOUND?!"

"HEAL ME WHEN YOU GET TO THE CAVE!"

-RMMBERU RUMBLE

But the monster punched the cave entrance when Allen was close to the cave.

"SHIT!"

Allen immediately returned to running in the other direction.

'At this rate, our only option is the path that Felicia mentioned earlier! But that means we have to get past the monster! I'll have to do a fusion with Reig to defeat it, but if I do, where will we get the light from?!'

Allen's blood continued to flow out, and Felicia could feel the warmth of Allen's blood on her.

"ALLEN! YOU MUST BE HEALED IMMEDIATELY! IF YOU DON'T... YOU WILL DIE!"

"TCH!"

Allen could feel his body getting weaker and weaker. He used everything in his head to think of a way out of the situation.

He ran to the shore of the water where he had first fallen, then placed Felicia right in front of a large rock.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" Felicia shouted.

"QUICK! ACTIVATE YOUR GOD'S BLESSING! I'LL GO INSIDE THE GARDEN WHEN IT STARTS GLOWING! I'LL DISTRACT THE MONSTER WHILE YOU ACTIVATE IT!"

"BUT WILL IT WORK?!"

"WE HAVE NO CHOICE! JUST TRY!"

With trembling hands, Felicia took the knife from her waist and sliced open the vein of her right hand.

As quickly as possible, Felicia made a circle of blood.

"GAH!!!"

Suddenly Allen's body was thrown back very quickly, and as a result, Allen crashed into Felicia, who was activating her god's blessing.

"AKH!"

There was a rock behind Felicia, so they both hit the rock very hard. At the same time, Felicia's god's blessing activated, and now they were right above the garden Felicia had created.

The garden glowed, healing Allen and Felicia simultaneously, and the glow allowed them to see the monster they were facing clearly.

"Mi-minotaurus?" muttered Felicia when she saw the monster in front of her. But it wasn't a minotaur.

It just had a head and body similar to a minotaur. Its mouth was slightly forward, like a horse's. Its horns turned out to be six, with cow ears.

Then its body...

Was black and very large... 10 times? No, Maybe the whole body was 20 times bigger than the Queen Orc. It was Allen's first time seeing a creature bigger than his mother.

And it wasn't the same minotaur that Felicia saw in the book. The minotaur's body was only up to the waist, while from the waist down, it was a horse's, like a centaur's. But it also had six white wings on its back, like a pegasus.

"ABARE! REIG!"

Allen had no other choice. He could feel the monster's aura, and he knew they would not be able to run away from it.

He had to defeat it, and it had to be fast! Because they lacked light.

Felicia didn't have time to be surprised by Allen and Reig's change. She didn't even think that Allen could win against the monster.

Allen jumped quickly to the minotaur's neck, but even with Allen's speed, the minotaur managed to shift its head back a little. But that didn't mean Allen couldn't hurt it; he managed to injure its neck a little.

"D*MN! NOT DEEP ENOUGH! I LOST MY ONLY CHANCE TO WIN! AT THIS RATE... THE LIGHT WILL GO OUT."

But no...

The light that had started to fade once again became bright.

"ALLEN! LEAVE THE LIGHTING TO ME!" Felicia shouted.

Allen looked back and nodded. He once again jumped onto the minotaur to attack it. Fortunately, Allen was faster than the minotaur.

Felicia tried to calm herself down; she had to support Allen and do something so that Allen could fight well. And that was by using her god's blessing.

"I didn't expect to use my god's blessing just for lighting," Felicia muttered.

'Smaller and smaller,' Felicia thought as she made her garden.

Felicia tried to make the circle of her garden as small as possible. As a result, the smallest circle she could make was the size of her fist. If it were any smaller, her god's blessing wouldn't activate. And the room would glow for five seconds every time she used it.

"Allen, I won't last long. Hurry up and kill that thing."