My Beginning After the End

The Iron Tombs Pt. I

We were currently in our base, there were twenty of us, each team had two tents located around the base.

The base had two doors, the first one was the exit to the dungeon, and the other was a door that led deeper into the dungeon. Teams were given times during the day when they had to guard the doors. There was one larger tent in the middle where there was food for everyone, and Samantha and I used our water magic to create a stream of water people could use to wash off at.

Our team was about to enter into the dungeon for the first time, we just unpacked everything, and the team that went in first came back moments ago. Everyone was putting on their gear, I was already ready, I had my black cloak and mask on. I was wearing grey shorts with black leggings underneath with armor on my quads, shoulders, and chest.

"You guys about ready?" Victoria asked as she slipped a wand into her waist band. "I have the teleportation device that we can use in case we find anything."

"I'm ready." Samantha said she had on a silver chest plate.

"Same." Callias had armor like me on, only the pieces of armor were longer and covered more, his sword was on his back. I was planning on keeping my sword in my mana ring until I needed it. "Let's go then."

We all started for the back door, the one that led deeper into the dungeon. "Remember what we discussed, Callias and Veer in the front, Samantha and I covering you from behind." Victoria repeated our plan for attack. I didn't know what to expect with the Flukets, the mana beasts that travel in numbers in this dungeon. "We're heading out." Victoria told the two people guarding the door, and they opened it.

As the doors opened, I noticed it led into a tunnel system, there were three routes we could take. "Which one are we going through?" Callias asked as we stepped past the door, and it shut behind us.

"It doesn't matter, the first team took the right, so let's just go to the left." Victoria told us, and we started for the left tunnel. Callias and I leading the way, I activated "Blood Oath" and started to sense for mana beast.

"Samantha pull out your lighting artifact." Victoria ordered. "Veer, you said you could sense people's blood, how about mana beast?"

"Already on it." I replied. "I can sense mana beast ahead, but way further down." There were about fifty mana beasts gathered together ahead of us in a big cavern.

As we walked down the tunnel cautiously, Samantha activated the lighting artifact, and the dark earthen tunnel became easier to see. "Let's just be smart, we don't want to rush into anything." I still didn't have my sword out, but since I did feel mana beast in the distance, I decided to pull it out. I then covered my blade in a deep blue of sapphire fire. It also helped with being able to see around us.

"Show off." Callias said as he lit his sword with a dark red fire. "How far ahead?"

"I don't know, maybe one hundred yards." I just guessed that number, but as we continued to walk, I noticed that the adrenaline I felt during the attack at Xyrus was returning. The Serpent wanted to be let out, or just wanted to feed on blood, I don't know, but it felt good. This was exciting, the urge to kill grew more and more as we got closer to the beast, not my doing, but the Serpents.

"Stop." Victoria said as the entrance into the cavern appeared in front of us, I could see that inside of it was lit up, which made fighting easier for normal people, even if I couldn't see, I could still sense them. "Everybody get ready, Callias and Veer you guys go in first, and we will follow you with support." I was fidgeting, my first battle, even though it was a very, very, very small one. "Alright, let's go."

Callias and I started to move a little faster, and as we got to the entrance, we launched ourselves into the cavern, in the middle were the Flukets, they turned to us. I noticed that they had some sort of armor on their shoulders, they were covered in white fur, and reminded me of a Gorilla like animal.