At 9 A.M., they were all gathered inside Alex's room, ready to challenge their first dungeon.
After making sure that they all had enough INBs to last them at least five rounds of lives, Alex told them to enter the second reality.
Inside the jungle, they all appeared at the same time near a small lake.
It was currently night in the jungle, and the reflection of the moon and stars on the lake's surface made the scene much more beautiful.
They stood there for a few minutes, appreciating the scene, and then started walking in the direction that nano had told Alex.
On their way to the dungeon, they encountered a few beasts, but their teamwork had improved so much that they even needed talking to know what to do.
Even Alex and Parisa joined the hunt, and whenever needed, Paria too joined to heal a member.
Unfortunately, they hadn't yet found a dual job book for Sid and Reyhan, so they couldn't participate and could only watch the others fight.
After going through the jungle for quite some time and fighting at least a dozen beasts, they reached a huge tree.
The tree was the size of a twenty-story building with a brown trunk and yellow leaves. At the base of the tree, in the middle of the trunk, there was a big door that could feet them all simultaneously.
"that must be the dungeon entrance," said Ryan and was about to run to the tree when Alex stopped him.
"finding the entrance to a dungeon shouldn't be this easy," said Alex and then suddenly shouted, "prepper to fight."
As soon as Alex shouted, the trees surrounding the huge tree started moving and encircling them.
"We are trapped," Kate shouted.
'it can't be a regular dungeon; we need to complete a trial to get the key to the door,' thought Alex and ordered, "form a circle around Sid,"
They had already practiced a few battel formations that Alex had taught them, so they immediately took action and formed a circle.
Not long after, the ground started to shake. It shook for a few seconds before stopping, then suddenly, out of nowhere, a small sapling came out of the ground in front of Alex.
Alex was surprised for a second, but the next second, buds started to come out all around them, and soon they were surrounded by at least two dozen of them.
"wow, they are beautiful," said Reyhan, looking at the greenery around them.
"Nobody move," shouted Alex, "they are Treant saplings; they will grow if they are touched and start attacking every living thing around them. We have to kill as many of them as we can with one hit before they grow, just hit their base as hard as you can, and that should be enough. On my mark…, start."
As soon as Alex gave the go, all of them started attacking the base of the saplings with their weapons.
Even Sid, who wasn't a fighter, brought out his hammer and hit the nearest sapling.
Unfortunately, his attack power wasn't enough to kill the sapling in one go, and the tree started to grow at a fast speed.
"oh shit, kill that one before it wakes up the others," shouted Alex and attacked the tree.
But it was too late. One by one, the saplings were touched by the growing Treant growing near them, and soon, all of them started growing.
It didn't take even a minute for the saplings to grow into full-grown Treants that started attacking them.
'if only we had that b***ch, her fire attack would kill the Treants with ease.' Thought Alex.
The b** he was thinking of was actually the original tenth member of their group. She was a powerful fire mage and the only person who was able to upgrade her job to legendary.
At the thought of her, Alex got angry and started shouting at the top of his lungs and attacking the Treants.
He slashed and slashed without thinking like a berserker who had gone insane.
With each of his slashes, a quarter of the Treant's health fell, and soon, with the help of the others, all the monsters were dead.
After finishing the last Treant, Alex stood there panting under the surprise and somewhat frightened looks of the others.
"I…don't…need…her," said Alex while panting.
Max and the others were standing there, still looking at him, not daring to approach him.
Alex was still panting when the earth shook once again, and this time, another sapling came out of the ground.
But this time, the sapling didn't stop growing like the others and instead grew until it reached six meters, twice as big as the other Treants.
"that's the boss; it must have the key to the door," said Alex.
After seeing Alex's situation, Max took over the command and started ordering, "Parisa, you start the attack with your daze skill; Ryan, take aggro after Parisa puts the monster in a dazed state. Kate, attack from behind; Leo, find its weak points. Start."
Parisa activated her "dash" skill and vanished from their view; the next instant, she was in front of the giant Treant. The Treant was too slow, and before it could even make a move, Parisa took two great swords out of nowhere and slashed while activating her second active skill daze and putting the giant tree in a dazed state.
As soon as the tree entered a dazed state, Max attacked and jumped high in the sky and kicked the Treant in the head.
Ryan, too took action and charged at the tree with full speed.
Leo, on the other hand, stood there and looked at the Treant's movement. With his passive skill "pinpoint," he could find the enemy's weak points and target them.
After the beast came out of its dazed state, it had already lost more than 20% of its HP and went straight into a berserk state. The beast moved its hands with astonishing speed and hit Ryan's shield, and made him take a few steps back.
Then as if sensing something, it slashed its hand backward and hit Kate, who was in stealth mode.
Kate was thrown back and hit the ground very hard. As soon as she hit the ground, Paria took over and started chanting her strongest healing skill and cast it on Kate and healed her on the spot.
"I got it," shouted Leo, then shot five arrows that hit the giant Treant in five different seemingly random spots and said, "those are its weak spot, attack there." Then he started preparing his own strongest attack.
"nice job, as soon as you finished preparing, signal us to clear the area." Said Max and landed another punch on the giant's body.
After about a minute, Leo gave the signal and all of them ran away with full speed in different directions.
Leo let go of the string and a blue arrow was shot with a booming sound.
It his right between the beast's eyes and took the remaining 17% HP and killed it on the spot.
As soon as the giant Treant fell, Max ran to Alex who was laying on the grown, "are you ok?" he asked with a worried tone.
"yes, I am. I just need to get one more person."