Chapter-9: knocking out and tying Robert with iron chains
Time ticked slowly and she carefully heard for the movements from the corridor. When 5 minutes are up she slowly walked over to with control over her movements making very less sound.
She put the smoke creating thing into her space directly. She made this smoke using a basin with dried leaves in it. The time in her space is stagnant and she can preserve it to use it later in another place.
She put it away and walked into the safe room that lost its safety function. She saw Robert on the ground was knocked unconscious after dragging his body to a corner lying down with his eyes closed. Ratika did not believe that he is knocked out completely.
But no matter what the muscle relaxant should work after so long. She went over and found that he was sound asleep. She went to him and took out iron chains to lock his hands and neck carefully before sighing of relief.
With the chains on hand she directly dragged him behind her all the way to the end of the corridor and left him there. Now it is time for the important thing that is to clear the dungeon floor.
She started to clear the dungeon from the side of the Robert. First she went to the room on the left side of the corridor. The monster inside the room is a simple slime. It is a very weak monster and also the tricky one too.
One has to know how to deal with it to solve it. If not it would consume your stamina really quickly without any result. All slimes are slightly acidic and if the human body or meat is in contact with for a long time it would start causing burning reaction.
It is like acid falling on the hand. Water based spells are useless against slimes. Fire based spells if they are stronger has some use. If the slime becomes more viscous because of fire spell then its corrosive power increases causing more damage if they are splashed.
The slime can only be killed in two ways one either pulls out its core or the second is to shatter its core. The core of the slime occupies only a tenth of its body size and it moves without a standard location in its body making it hard to find the core and destroy it.
There is a way to solve it that is to use a simple plastic net. Not all plastics can be corroded by acidic things. So she just bought such a simple net before coming here. She simply spread the net on the slime and pulled it out hard.
The liquid matter was left out and the core fell into the hands of Ratika. She put this core separately. This core has other uses. It can be exchanged for dungeon coins and even in crafting some things.
This core is not the main material but a binding material that is used in crafting materials. It would increase the durability of the crafted item and there are more benefits to it. After the slime was killed she got a notification and a simple sack that fell in place of the slime.
"Cling…"
"You have gained 10 experience points for killing a monster slime of level 1"
She took out the sack and opened it. She found that there a bottle of mineral water (1 L), a bun placed in the sack and 10 dungeon coins. She doesn't know what material this dungeon coin is made.
But it is almost indestructible even if there is a full power attack of a level 100 monster. It would not block the attack but the attack would pass through it without any damage. If it can block these people would have made defensive equipment out of it.
She took the money and it cannot be put into her space. She can only put them in a sack like thing and tie it around her waist or put somewhere on her body. Also the dungeon coins have special nature.
You can only keep 10 coins in a sack and where there are more than 10 coins one of the ten coins absorbs the other 9 to become a 10 coin denomination coin. It can also be separated as well by the person speaking out the number that is required.
It is quite strange and one of the mysteries of the dungeon. After taking care of the slime, she did not see anything like a treasure chest in the room. There is nothing but she is not willing to give up because there are secret hidden places in the dungeon that are hard to find.
She would make a clear search after she clears the floor and send Robert out of this place. Robert that was knocked by her would not wake up immediately and take at least 6 hours before he can wake up. That is considering his protagonist aura and luck at play.
Ratika went quickly to the next room and there is a simple skeleton guard walking. It looked scary but it is not strong enough. Even a kid can kill it with a kick breaking its bones. If it is a level 10 skeleton then it might have stronger strength and has chance of fighting back.
So Ratika simply kicked it hard and the bones are broken. There is only a sack that is dropped along with few bones. The remains of the monsters would take few hours before they disintegrate into the dungeon ground.
Before that adventurers can dissect the monsters and take the things they wanted to take. The taken things would not integrate back into the dungeon. The things that are not integrated can become new treasures and new monsters would appear to guard them.
That is if they are left behind accidentally or intentionally. Ratika did not have any interest in these bones and they are of no use. So only took the sack that fell other than bones and the notification that appeared.
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