Unifates

They finally make it to the dungeon. 

The entrance to the dungeon is a archway, with a solid marble door, the overgrowth makes it look like an accent structure. 

Kaito can't wait to get in there and he starts walking up. 

Max grabs his shoulder. "I need you in the back, it's the safest place for you." Max tells him. "You don't have to worry about me." Kaito tells him. 

Max rubs his eyes. "This is serious, you've most likely have never been inside of a dungeon before it's very serious." Max stresses this to Kaito. 

Kaito sighs and agrees with a nod.

Terra pats his shoulder. "Don't worry about it too much lil buddy, when you learn a bit more, you'll gain more trust." She tells him. 

Kaito rolls his eyes. Late this point Kaito was now here for a chance to get a sacred arte. If what they're saying is true, he can get one from this dungeon. Anything's possible right. 

"Ray stay in the back with Kaito, make sure no one gets hurt, Terra you're up front with me, and Kaito guard Emma." Max instructs.

Kaito raises his hand. "No you can't be in front." Max says and Kaito lowers his hand.

The dungeon doors are pushed open by Max. Kaito in the back smiling ear to ear with excitement oozing off of him, what will the inside look like will it be a grand magical place as he's been imagining all this time?!

The doors fully open and they walk inside.

Kaito's face drops as he sees the inside. 

Kaito is greeted with cold and damp walls, the smell of mold wafting through the air. Dim unimpressive lighting made by tourches of adventurers here before them.

Kaito is extremely underwhelmed. He was expecting something more grand, and not so dingy.

They continue forwards. "It's a recently appears dungeon, the information guild came in looked around and left, they didn't discover any monsters inside." Max explains. 

The sentence confuses Kaito. "How does the dungeon just appear?" Kaito asks. Max shrugs. "There's multiple theories for this phenomenon, but most are just speculation." Max responds, he looks over and notices Kaito's confused face. 

He shakes his head. "I don't know, we're just here to clear it so monsters don't wander outside of it, disturbing the town folk." Max dumbed it down for Kaito. 

The ground around them begins to rumble and Kaito's excited for some action. 

Sprinting down the corridors, dog sized spiders sprint at them. 

Max summons a blade getting into a fighting stance. Terra follows quickly pulling a sword from a portal. 

Terra and Max sprint forwards and slash through the beasts with ease. Before Kaito can even join the fight, all the monsters were already defeated. 

The monsters turn into crystals and Emma quickly begins collecting. "Why'd they turn into rocks?" Kaito asks. "Those are not rocks, they're chunks of raw "magic" you could say, monsters born in the dungeon are comprised completely of magic so when slain they revert." Max explains. 

Kaito scratches his head. Max squints at him. 

Kaito groans. The dungeon is actually boring him. 

Max shakes his head. "Don't get too comfortable in here. This was supposed to be dangerous, I don't know why it seems so harmless, but it's unsettling." Max says. 

Terra nudges him. "Relax a little Max, you're always just so uptight." Terra says. 

Max sighs and they all continue walking. 

After walking through the corridors, they only encounter small beasts. Which are easily defeated, but the ease of the dungeon unsettles Max and makes his skin crawl. 

Terra sees no big deal in the quick and easy job. Ray is just happy everyone is safe. 

They encounter the treasure room. "This is strange, I can clearly see the chest but there's no monster in sight." Max says. 

Ray starts to notice the obscurity of the situation now as well. "Yeah there's usually bigger monsters guarding this stuff right?" He asks. 

Kaito runs past them. "I call the chest!" Kaito shouts and he runs towards the chest. 

Terra is shocked by his boldness and gives chase. "It won't be that easy to snag the treasure!" She shouts as she runs.

Max doesn't budge but instead is lost in thought. "How come we didn't encounter any dangerous beasts, the scans of the dungeon indicated danger, even now in this treasure room there's nothing so how come...." Max face is suddenly flushed with fear. 

Max summons his blade. "Stop don't open that chest!" Max shouts but he's too late. 

Kaito tosses open the lid of the chest and a scroll flies into his hand. The roof of the room begins falling in. 

Kaito narrowly jumps out of the way of a giant boulder that crushes the chest he was just opening. A hole opens up behind him and he falls in unable to react to it. Emma falls down the hole with him. 

"Little buddy?!" Terra shouts trying to go after him but she's swallows by another hole.

Everyone is split up by the sudden cave in. 

As he's falling Kaito goes to reaches into his bag and grabs lucky waking the cat up. He also manages to grab his book, before his bag is ripped away by the force of the wind. He holds lucky close and he's knocked unconscious upon contact with the floor.