CHAPTER 28: CLASS AWAKENING QUEST 2

Before leaving, I left a note for my siblings, explaining that I would be gone for a few days. I knew they wouldn’t take it well because we were still trying to settle in this new city, but they would eventually understand that I needed to work extremely hard.

The mysterious system guided me from the very minute I stepped my feet out of the house till I landed at the designated location.

The location was close to the capital city, in a woodded area with lots of trees and bushes. Reapers wouldn’t obviosly have found out about this specific gate because of its location. It was eeriely silent, with swirling dark energy whirlpooling behind a tall oak tree.

This was the sign that a gate was about to open right in the middle of space and time. And immediately I set my eyes on it, it ruptured and the portals borders spread wide allowing the vortex to open ajar emitting a strong anti-arcane energy surge.

I didn’t waste time, I had to complete this gate before the Reapers located the source of the magical energy and found out that an unauthorized individual had made his way inside.

I stepped through the gate and world around me immediateyl warped into a spiral visual illusion as my body spagetified and my essence crossed the event horizon into the dungeon gate.

On entry, I immediately noticed that the air was thick with magical energy, and the ground beneath me was unstable like as if it would collapse under my weight.

Just then a system notification flashed across my peripherial view.

Ding!

~Welcome to the Class Awakening Quest~

~You will awarded accrodingly for completing this quest~

~Objective: Clear the gate by defeating the boss monster~

~Time Remaining: 59:40~

~59:39~

~59:38~

"What the hell, im supposed to clear this gate in less than an hour? Is that even possible!!"

Ding!

~If gate is not cleared within the set time, you will not be able to reap any of your rewards~

~All rewards will be stripped except for Rebirth!

"Tch!" I hissed with a grimace. This was the worst possible scenario, to complete a mid or lowlevel dungeon gate a one man army like in my case would need at least three hours max to achieve such a feat. But now I have to do it in less than one hour.

"Haahh! This system can be very pesuasive, are you trying to purnish me or something?" I muttered to myself as I stretched my right hand to the side, opening a small glass shard-like rift in space and pulling out a weapon.

Ding!

~Inventory has been opened~

~Item retrieved~

~Bone-White Daggers~

"luckily for me I am not a one man army," I smiled briefly and dashed into the terrain of the dungeons territory.

The territory looked very much like the outside world around the exterior of the gate, a wooded area with lots of trees and shrubs, but insdie the dungeon was covered with a purple-black sky and lots of dead trees.

I skided along a chain of loosened, wet earth as I bent into a corner that gave rise to a narrow way between rows of trees. Standing right there were two shadow creatures glaring at me with their red, beady eyes.

They were ordinary spider-like WebFang shadow creatures, which werent strong and were probably E-Rank at best, so I wasn’t going to wast my time with such small =, weak fry.

"Your in the way!"

"Elemental Dogs..."

~Your pet Elemental Dogs has been released~

As the system’s notification faded from my peripheral vision, I conjured two different hand signs, focusing my mind to channel my Arcane energy outward.

Subsequently, two portals ripped open in the spaces beside me, their edges swirling with black and purple coloured clouds laaced with frosty mist and lava cracks respectively. From each of the prtals, stepped my trusted companions cryo and pyro, my elemental dogs.

Cryo emerged first, its lseek, silvery fur glistening like frost under moonlight. Its eyes glowed a pale blue colour and every step it took left a thin layer of ice crackling on the dungeon’s loamy ground. Its breath came in visible puffs and the air around seemed to drop tens of degrees below the normal temprature.

Pyro followed, with its molten mix of red and orange, flickering like a living flame. The eyes burned with an intense amber glow and small sparms danced along its flanks, scrorching the earth where it stood. The two dogs stood side by side, their contrastign energies clashing in a beautiful and chaotic harmony of ice and fire, ready to tear through anything in their path.

~Elemental Dogs~

~Level: Grade 3 [Intermediate]~

"Feast!" I muttered with malice as I stared at the WebFang shadow creatures skittering towards me with their red, beady eyes glinting with malice.

Cryo let out a low, guttural growl and a blast of icy wind surged from its maw, freezing the nearest webfangs’s spindly legs in place. The creature hissed as its shadowy form struggled against the ice encasing it.

Pyro didn’t hesitate, it lunged forward, jaws snapping as flames erupted from its mouth, engulfing another webfang in a roaring inferno. The air filled with the acrid scent of burning shadow and the sharp crackle of ice shattering as cryo pounced, tearing into the forzen creature with claws like icicles.

I didn’t stick around to watch the carnage. Those e-rank pests were no match for my dogs, and the system’s timeer waticking down in my head.

~59:35~

~59:34~

~59:33~

Less than an hour to clear this gate? I had to move as quickly as possible.

"Handle them!" I shouted over my shoulder, already sprinting deeper into the dungeons’s twisted terrain.

The ground beneath my boots was slick and uneven, a mix of wet earth and gnarled roots that threatened to trip me with every step I took. The purple-black sky loomed overhead, casting an oppressive gloom that made the dead trees around me look like skeletal hands clawing at the heavens.

My bone white daggers gleamed faintly in my hands with their sharp edges humming with the arcane energy infused within it during the hammering process. The system had screwed me with this time limit, but I wasn’t about to let it win.

I skidded around another corner, the narrow path between the trees opening int a clearing. My heart pounded, not from exhaustion but from the thrill of the chase, the rase againt time. The air grew thicker with magical energy- Anti-arcane energy, so dense it flet like wading through molassess. Somewhere ahead, the boss monster was waiting, and I had to reach it before the Reapers sniffed out this gate or the timer hit zero.