The Dangerously Cute Dungeon Volume Two [A Dungeon Core LitRPG]

2.26 Saving The Best For Last

Ironically, Tobias's party wasn't aware that they had gone in the direction with the hardest challenges first. As the first two rooms had neither [Monsters] nor challenges to complete, there was no need to use the garden meadow room for rest. Thus, they skipped leaving a tribute in the well and continued on to the next room.

Unfortunately for Matthias, the only path forward went through the slime parkour room. He debated returning to the garden meadow room, but decided that would be a foolish choice. The last thing he wanted was to be separated from the rest of his party in a dungeon that had recently had major renovations. Besides, if their group came across the boss room, they would need his corrosive acid and Thodin and Tobias would have to work in tandem to take down the boss. Since Mirabella had to go everywhere in the dungeon to map the first floor, that meant there would definitely be no way anyone could remain behind.

Tobias grimaced at Matthias, knowing that he wouldn't be able to make things easier for his fellow party members. He had said that Matthias wouldn't have to do the slime parkour challenge, but he couldn't do anything to change their current circumstances.

Stretching, Tobias prepared to jump across to the first platform. As he did so, he noted that the room's environment made things much easier this time around. It was like they had been playing on hard mode previously and now things were a breeze. There was no longer pitch darkness nor slipperiness from the constant rain pelting down on them.

As the first aqua slime jumped out of the water towards him, he easily struck out at it with his fist. Thanks to his ability to harden his body to be as strong as metal and just how weak slimes tend to be, in general, the slime easily dissolved as its core was destroyed. Assuming there were still just five of them in this room, that meant they would only have to worry about another four aqua slimes.

Tobias easily crossed the room, effortlessly jumping from platform to platform until he finally reached the end. He had already managed to complete this challenge once before and he had been practicing for the last month or so on their makeshift obstacle course at their rental property. All of that combined with the new, easier difficulty level made it easy enough for him to complete the challenge in one go.

Mirabella was a lower level and rank than her brother with no real skills to contribute to her ability to complete physical challenges. However, her long legs, thanks to being a half-giant, made it easy enough to follow along. She almost ended up falling over due to a stray slime, only for Thodin to save her at the last moment, falling into the water in the process. However, in the end, she made it to the other side.

After swimming over, Thodding pulled himself out of the water. Then, guffawing, he noted

"I likely wouldn't have been able to make it over anyway. I just don't think I'm built for jumping such great distances."

Mirabella smiled down at the dwarf, grateful for his kind words. She did feel a bit bad about him falling into the water like that, but she supposed it couldn't be helped. Luckily, they had stuffed his armor into her magic bag, which she had made extra space for, so he wasn't wearing it when he fell into the water. Leaving it on the other side wasn't ideal and they had known it was likely they would have to complete this challenge again sometime this week. Luckily, now that they had, she would be able to repack her bag when they returned home tonight.

Matthias was not prepared at all for such a challenge. He was nervous about the first leap and then ended up tripping over his long robe, falling into the water right away. He looked much like a wet cat, none too happy about his circumstances, by the time he reached the other side. With all of their party members now finished with the challenge, Mirabella and Tobias accepted the reward for the challenge.