After I dealt with Gastbo and got a decent shield for fifty gold, we collected Mei and said goodbye to my father. I was starting to feel the cold now, whatever it meant, it couldn't be good for me, and even my covered skin was starting to get cold. Lesha was getting concerned about my color, and I couldn't blame her, Mei was even behaving and staying quiet; her hand Lesha was holding hands as we walked, I could give frostbite at the current moment.
We stopped and quickly grabbed some BBQ meat sticks then headed straight for the dungeon. We lived and worked on the dungeon side of the city, and I hardly ever found myself even needing to go anywhere else. Not that I hadn't been around the city, this was just the place I spent the most time and...my mind was a wonder, not good.
'Stop messing around, girl. You need to refill or you will go feral, and you don't want that! Pick up your feet!' -Drania.
She was right, the cold was starting to really get to me, and no part of feral sounded good for anyone. I ate my two meat sticks fast, the food was good, but not what I needed. I tossed the sticks in the bin, and then looked at the girls.
"Let's move a bit faster, I need to get into the dungeon before something bad happens. Come girls," I said, starting to pick up my pace, and the girls agreed and started to move at a jog.
The dungeon wasn't that far from the city, but the five-minute jog felt like an eternity. I wanted to run ahead, but then I would just have to wait anyways for them to catch up, if we didn't go in at the exact same time, then we wouldn't be together. That was not what I wanted, I should be able to hold on; I thought the system was supposed to help me, this seemed like quite the disadvantage.
'This is a safe protocol placed in the system for if you are to be captured. You will switch to a mode called The Blood Queen, and then you will turn midnight black, and then kill everyone within your range for thirty seconds. Nothing short of a god could stop you, but the only ones safe from your wrath will be the girls, everyone else will die. Later you will learn to control this, but for now, it is too dangerous and should never be used; if it happens, it should be because it is your last resort. Don't think that being in a dungeon will be alright either, the system prefers human blood over a monster, and a dungeon will not hold you inside.' -Drania.
'So, a bit of a disadvantage.'
'Only to start out with, and you need to be more mindful of your supplies. The last thing you want is to go feral in the middle of the city, or in your Guild Hall. This is your system, you will learn how to use it.' -Drania.
We were at the shimmering wall that was the entrance to the dungeon, and the girls and I didn't hesitate to enter. Once inside, I made sure they were both through the portal and with me, and then I ran as hard as I could ahead. I could see the first room's entrance up ahead, so I redoubled my effort, and charged into the room that had four massive Dire Wolves waiting for me.
As one, they all lept, but the girls were close enough, and I pulled, then everything happened in slow motion. The second the blood hit my tongue, I started to warm up, and instantly all four were pinned together from every angle by trunks of trees a third of the size that hit Healia. Next was Lesha, and ever in slow motion, it was hard to follow her with her blinding speed, as she lopped off the four heads.
The blood didn't spray, instead, this time, each body leaked one red and a thin clear stream of fluid. I pulled them directly into my body, not being able to wait for the balls to form. My body finally filled with warmth again, and the trees dispersed in blue smoke, dropping the husks of the dead wolves.
"K, are you feeling better now?" Lesha was, with still a tint of red in her eyes.
"Much better, now we can go at a normal pace, but you guys did really well! I didn't do much."
Lesha just laughed at me and gave me a shove.
"Oh yeah, nothing? You just didn't make it so we could do that? You're the tank, you rushed them and distracted them, we are the damage dealers. I think you did your job well," Lesha said smiling at me.
"Do I always have to go crazy to make the trees? I mean, it's fun, but can't I grow a tree, just cause I want to? Or does it work only if I'm crazy?" Mei asked, coming up to my side, look at the ground.
"I don't know, but I will find out from Healia since I have no idea how to even use my own magic. Don't worry, we will figure it out," I said while ruffling her hair.
'It is time to create Gobby. Place your hand forward and call out Blood Gobbler.' -Drania.
'That's a cute name, but what is it?'
*silence*
I deserved that, I was the queen of giving people shit for asking stupid questions, and low and behold here I am stepping on my own toes with Drania. Fine, I will summon whatever this thing was.
"Girls stand back for a minute, I am going to try something with some of the blood I just got."
I stuck out my hand in front of myself and called out the weird name, no wonder It had a cute nickname, the first was horrible!
"Summon Blood Gobbler!"
Blood poured out of my hand and some clear fluid that became white, forming a disk on the front of the blob of blood. It grew a pair of finger width legs and arms and little cute hand and feet, then a red dot formed in the center of the white disc. Finally, a mouth opened filled with white teeth like some torture device, then it started to make noises, flailing its arms around in the air.
"Herga blerga habsantch bibizalwozzle," The little monster complained, wiggling its little arms and hitting itself.
'Kick him, he does this every time he gets summoned! Hard to or he will want more and make sure it's into a wall.' -Drania.
The thing was just below knee-high, so I kicked hard into the nearest wall and smacked into it with a sickening slurping noise, almost going completely flat. Then it rolled down the wall and into a puddle on the ground and then reformed, throwing its legs out to the side.
"Ta-da! K! Mei! Lesha! None of you know who I am, and I have to keep my mouth shut because that's the rules, but girls! How's it been? Mei, have they been keeping all the food from you? And look it went to your chests as usual! You look like you haven't eaten in a month! I'd let you take a bite out of me, but I think I'm already past due. Oh, and Ladies how is the love life going? Any fun awkward sex stories you wanna tell you good ole buddy, Gobby? No? Anyways, what are we doing today?" Gobby asked in a series of bounces going back and forth from each of us.
"What are you?" Mei asked walking over to the Gobby.
"I'm K's number one servant minion! The strongest and bravest one of them all!" Gobby announced.
"He is pretty cute, how long does he stay around for?" Lesha asked.
"You have me forever! I'm basically indestructible, and I'm good at taking down bad guys! Where is one? Let me at him!" Gobby said while making punching motions.
"Okay, let's go then, I want to see you in action, Gobby," I said, pointing to the next hall after I had picked up the claws that were leftover.
The dungeons always had monsters, and they had some kind of small items that were valuable, but there were also traps. So if this guy could make it through the traps and let them off without dying, that alone would be worth its weight in gold. We would be able to move faster if it worked; I wonder what kind of treats he liked?
"Sure thing Miss K! I'll use the Gobby Trapcuum Cleaner move!"
Gobby ran into the hall and splattered face-first into the ground, and then began to spread out to both walls. His eye was in the middle of the hall and blood connected the walls. Then he started to move up the hallway and set off three traps, so that meant the place was a higher level!
Well, we would just have to see about the next room, but he wasn't kidding about being tough! The floor spike and fire didn't even phase him. Instead, he just kept going like nothing had happened. Once he got to the end, Gobby pulled back together and waved at us jumping into the air.
"Got them! Look! See!"
"K, what is he?" Mei asked with a screwed-up face.
"I don't know, but don't make ugly faces like that. I think he looks cute, and he is a great help so far. I don't know if you've noticed, but the dungeon is at a higher level, so he will make it easy for us. Come on, we still have a ways to go."
Mei shrugged then followed Lesha and me down the hall where Gobby was waiting. There was a stone golem in the center of the next room that looked huge and menacing, so I was curious to see what Gobby could do against something like a ceiling monster that was three hands taller than me.
"Gobby do you think you can fight something like that?"
"That pile of rocks? Piece of cake, look! Watch me, okay?!" Gobby asked as he looked up at me with a hopeful and exciting look.
"Okay, I'm watching."
What was this? Had I just acquired another child? I know you need a man to have one, but I didn't want them, yet I seem to be acquiring them like burrs.
Still, I watched Gobby run over yelling and waving his arms, and the girls came up beside me. The Golem raised a long rock eyebrow and then stepped on Gobby. We all pulled back in revulsion at the splatting noise made by Gobby getting squished under the massive rock foot.
The big stone golem looked at the blood around its foot and then lifted it. The monster started to make a grinding laughing noise that was hard on the ears, but something was happening under his foot. Where Gobby had been smashed into the ground, his mouth and eye were still in the blood and the mouth was getting bigger.
"Oh, so you think you're a funny guy, do you? You like the stone grinding laughs? Try that move again, rock brain!" Gobby called from the puddle.
The Golem didn't stop laughing, but it did stomp down again, but the foot kept going as it had just fallen into a deep hole. The golem had stopped laughing now and was trying to pull itself free, but it was too late. Gobby's mouth was getting bigger until the rest of the struggling golem fell in and was ground up.
Gobby pulled himself together and then burped out a purple gem, catching it in his hands, then running it over to me.
"K! Look! I found a pretty stone for you! Did you see me?! He was all, I'm gonna squish ha ha, but then I was like, not today rock man, I'm gonna eat you! See?! I told you I'm the best!"
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