Midel's POV
In just a matter of seconds, the ground broke as we dropped completely into it. Dust scattered and debris elevated from the drop's force. My health almost went fully out.
Then amidst the blinding dust surrounding us, I heard Ceil coughed from behind. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, fine." He answered, waving the dust away from his view as it also gradually faded into thin air. We both looked up and took a moment of realization on how deep we just dropped of.
"Wow. That looks far."
"Too far." If a trap like that was set in this kind of place, then that means we are gravely in danger if we can't find our way out fast. Something's moving from the side. And as I was about to warn him, he deliberately pointed his gun and fired it without looking.
The bullet its barrel blasted out passes through my ear like a flash. The darkness of the place echoed a groan from a faceless monster. "Did it die? What was that?"
He finally looked toward it, still pointing his gun. "I'm not sure. I barely hit it."
"You sounded confident."
"Well, you asked for my opinion and that's mine."
"We need to get out of here." I gripped the ring in my hand and slid it inside my pocket. "We already got the thing we've been looking for so there's no point fighting this thing out."
Despite the darkness of our surrounding, I could still notice his smirk before hearing that. "You should talk to this monster about that then. I wonder if it'll listen."
He's right.
But we don't have so much choice but to try otherwise.
"We need to get out. It's our priority right now."
He sighed. Glancing at me. "Why are you so worried about it? Let's just kil—"
"Look out!" In a string of light. Bright like blood and thin as needle with an endless length. Within a fast movement it almost cut his head off if I didn't pulled his collar down with me on time.
The red laser cut off the pillars and walls around us. Making the dark room unstable as dust gradually drops on us.
I could see Ceil's shocked face as I was still holding his collar. "This monster's too strong for us. Our chance of escaping will drop faster if we focus on fighting back."
As the laser moved again, I kicked him by the chest as we avoided it from cutting us off in a split second. One wrong move and this laser might catch us up and that's it.
The fact that we can't see where this monster is hiding, might lessen the chance of fighting back at all. And the laser's gaining more speed of cutting us both so we have no other choice but to adapt to it as much as we can.
The moment Ceil tried to stop moving just to aim almost killed him if I didn't pushed his head down. "Are you mad?"
"I'm just fighting back!"
"Well you can't! Let's just focus on finding our way out!"
Shooting while dodging is common. But in this kind of situation it's not very advisable. The fast movement of the laser could only be seen through the darkness and that alone gave us a little bit of handicapped through this fight. But winning it because of that doesn't add up to this battle and that's a fact.
We might be thankful of fighting it in the dark but that doesn't change the whole matter at hand. We are still losing this fight.
"I can't take this anymore!"
"Ceil no!" Dammit! He stopped moving.
As he aimed at the faceless monster with the strong conviction of killing it in one go, he pulled the trigger. But at the same time, right before the bullet could even blasts out of its barrel, the laser was already half-inch away from cutting his neck off his body.
With the speed of lightning, I kicked him by the side and only his ear was cut off. Totally, the bullet missed after the shot as Ceil dropped on the dusty floor with a groan.
In exchange of my heroic and sacrificing deed, my left arm took the cut as another needle-like laser appeared from behind. My dismembered arm flew and drop by the side as these now two lasers continued the attack on the both of us.
"I'm sorry!" He shouted.
I groaned, still dodging the two lasers at hand. It's really playing us. We don't know how many of them there are but they are surely taking their time to finish us.
As I dodged and dodged, I finally felt the air from the wall right behind me. This is it! With the strong grip of my fist, punched the wall behind as it cracks and opened through a worn-out tunnel. I don't know where it leads to, but these lasers couldn't let me decide for even a split second so I rolled toward it as fast as I can.
"Ceil! Over here!"
Not that long, he also dived inside the tunnel and we ran desperately out of that hellhole.
Gasping and groaning. The light at the end was already on sight. Right behind us, we can still hear the thumping of the faceless monsters, getting louder and louder as it got nearer and nearer to catch us.
But we cannot afford to stop or even look behind. Despite the lasers almost cutting us up we never fell or drop. The obstacles of the tunnel didn't matter at all. Our main objective is to escape. And that's what we must do no matter what happens.
Until at last. The tunnel ends when our bodies dropped on the outside of a grassy forest. Behind us, we can still hear the growls through the dark path below a mountain ridge.
But eventually, the growling stops, and the feeling of relief finally enters our minds and bodies right after that.
[CONGRATULATIONS! DUNGEON MISSION COMPLETE! YOU WIN!]