Chapter 28: Illuminated Bugs
Taking a footstep into the cave, Shinto and Frey could hear the quiet echoes of droplets dripping within the cavern, their eyes turned towards the murky moss on the wall and on the moss, were small blue light bugs that illuminated a small blue hue.
"Oh...! Wow! These bugs are cute!" Frey shouted out as she locked onto the small light bugs on the moss. The moment she shouted, the bugs shrieked back as they hid. Quickly the small hue around them disappeared.
"Yeah, they''re quite cute. But you shouldn''t abruptly approach them, since they''re quite fearful of predators." Shinto answered as he continued into the cavern.
Walking a little further into the cavern, he was greeted by a system message.
[ You have entered a ''dark'' area. All attributes in the night will be active. ]
''Hmm, so even a small amount of light in dark ces still activate this attribute. I wonder what''s the amount of light needed to go back into the day attribute...'' Shinto thought to himself as he looked over towards the depths of the cavern, with his enhanced vision from the night attribute.
Quickly scrutinizing his front, he noticed the few monsters lurking within the darkness, eyeing them.
"Oh... I see! So they do that because they''re fearful for predators huh? Just what are they anyway?" Frey caught up to Shinto as she asked.
"They''re called ''Litmus Bugs'', they are present in almost everymon dungeon."
"Litmus? Like uh... Litmus papers?"
"Err... I guess? I think they''re called that because they change colours under certain conditions like with litmus paper."
"Oh, that''s cool! So we''ll see them often when we dungeon then?"
"Mhm. I won''t spoil you what colours they change to though. Since where''s the fun in that?" Shinto chuckled as he continued his advance into the cavern.
"Right! I''ll see the colour changes for myself!" Frey''s eyes brightened, "Will it be okay if I capture one of these bugs and bring it back with me!?"
"Wait... Capture one of these bugs...?" Shinto blinked at the thought, "Err... I guess you can? But that will be hard if you don''t have a beast tamer or sufficient equipment."
"We need another ss for this? Aww!"
"Not really, you just need the right equipment to capture one of the bugs, but for taming, well... good luck."
"You better show me where to get the equipment, alright?"
"Sure, sure. They should be in the yer''s market somewhere... Unless you want to journey to the intermediate towns?"
"Whatever is quicker!"
"Haha right. Now then, we should handle those monsters that have been eyeing on us for quite some time right?" Shinto said as he turned towards the steady approach of the monsters.
"Right on it!" Frey excitedly shouted out as she leapt forward initiating the battle.
Noticing the advancement of Frey, the monsters jumped forward towards her, quickly unleashing a razor-sharp leafs over to her. The monsters were in a shape of lizards, with leaves covered all around it.
"Ah...!" Seeing the fast approaching attack, Frey hurriedly moved to the side, barely dodging the attack. Following behind her was Shinto, as he unleashed a blinding light over towards the monsters.
[ Divinity Point ]
Sessfully hitting the monsters, Shinto leapt backwards as he followed up with another skill, a veil of shadows protruded out from his staff as he covered the monsters in darkness.
"Frey, go for it!" He shouted out.
"Right on it!" She replied as she rushed forward, hitting the lizards multiple times. Then, she activated a skill.
[ Blitz Fist ]
Sending out a raging force of energy towards the monsters, Frey continued with thebo, quicky she raised her legs and kicked one of the monsters out of the veil.
Quickly noticing the monster being kicked out of the darkness, Shinto hastily made his way forward, with his staff in hand, he sent multiple mana sparks over to the enemy.
As the sparks reached its target, the lizard didn''t budge. Getting its sense of bnce back, the lizard red at Shinto with bloodshot eyes as it jumped over to him.
"Argh...! Damn!" Shinto cried out as he avoided the approaching attack, soon after he began kiting the monsters.
''Tsk... Here I was hoping that I''d knock the lizards back into the veil, too bad that my basic attack is weak in knockback.'' Shinto clicked his tongue while continuing to attack the lizard, simultaneously, he turned over towards Frey who was handling the other. ''She seems to be capable enough to avoid all the attacks from the monster, alright, so healing is not needed.''
Confirming the situation, Shinto turned back to the lizard as he continued kiting, finally, the monster turned into grey ash.
"Phew..." Shinto let out a sigh of relieve.
"Alright! We did it!" Frey cheered, "Let''s continue on."
"Yeah, sure. But uh... Frey?"
"Hmm?"
"Can you not kick the monsters out of the veil?"
"Ah! Sorry, my bad... Did you struggle at the monster earlier?"
"Well, not at all. But for future battles, it''s best you don''t give me a monster unless it''s unavoidable. I can hit the monster from the distance while supporting you."
"Right, right! What does that shadow-thingy do anyways?"
"It reduces the enemies stat by 5% and blinds them when they''re in it. Simultaneously, it boosts allies stat by 5% and gives them an enhanced vision."
"Oh! That is such a nice skill! No wonder I could see clearly despite the darkness..." Frey murmured, "Say, what kind of ss is this that gives such an effect?"
"Uh..." Shinto nkly said, should he tell her his ss? He thought to himself as he contemted.
Having a hidden ss like Shinto''s meant you had to keep it a secret from the general public, or rather, try to. It''ll be bothersome if people learn that such a ss exist since information is power, especially when it is rted to Altric.
Even more or so, if hispetitors learn that he has been dropped to level one, most of them would try to PK him to death constantly to prevent his growth. So if he were to tell someone that isn''t trustable, he would have a hard time.
But in this case, it was Frey whom he was speaking to, so it should be alright... Right?
He took a deep breath, quickly thinking of the right words to tell her, "Well..."