Chapter 15: Traitors

He ran like if his life was on the line and not the short magician's. At the last second possible, he reached him. Nick laid his hand around the shorter male's waist to push him near to himself. The Tank put his shield, just like an umbrella above those too. In fear, the magician, pushed himself nearer to his best friend. The ice spike shattered into thousands of chips. The crash was loud and intense. Darryl squint his eyes in fear, pressing his head onto his defender.

When everything was over, everyone was silent. Nobody said a word, just looked at those two. Daryll shook a bit in fear. His sobbing was the only noise which distracted the silence. Sapnap looked down to these fluffy brown hairs. He let his shield fell with a lout shatter and hugged the magician. "Shh is okay" he said with a smile. The short male looked up with red eyes.

"I am sorry, I couldn't move-", he said with a crying voice. Nick just smiled at him. "Every day for you" Bad's face god a bit red after Nick's words but started to smile again. I just noticed that their faces were close. Almost like-

"Let's go further. I guess someone should babysit that magician." Distracted the leader the atmosphere. Bad and Sapnap rushed apart in just a second. "I-I'll do that" the tank said. The leader nodded. "E-Rank come to the front" I nodded and followed his order.

Soon, after killing a lot of those scorpions and nothing interesting happened, unless my leveling ups, we arrived at the door which leads to the boss room. "Everyone we'll take a break" The leader said. I was about to return, to my two new friends, when the leader stopped me. He held me back by his hand. "I want to talk to you" he said. I nodded and followed him towards the door separating us from the group. I had a bad feeling. "What is it?" I asked. He leant towards me and whistled in my ear. "Do you really think you can do something, you E Rank?" I opened my eyes in shock.

The leader opened the door, everyone stood up surprised. "If you really think you can do something. Just kill it" He grinned and pushed me into the boss room.

Bad an Sap immediately tried to help me but were blocked by the other teammates. I wanted to run out of the room, before it was closed, but I saw my two friends in danger if I do so. They had a knife on Bad's throat.

"Yeah, yeah! Well-behaved. If you stay, there we might not hurt your friends" he smirked ugly. "Fuck you!" I swore cold and the door closed.

I wasn't not only mad at this dude, but also mad at myself. I should have trusted my senses. Ugh. I turned around and saw what will face me. The room was made from ice. There were a lot of shiny crystals. Now I knew why they sent me in. The boss 'sleeps' after one attack round. If I die here this would count as one round, because every enemy would be killed. Then they can enter and loot the boss, even though they didn't kill him. But this wouldn't count as an cleared dungeon. Someone has to kill it, or it will break in our world.

I don't have a choice. I'll kill this beast, even if it's an C Rank Boss and rescue my friends. They trust me, they hope I'll come back. And I know I can kill it.

I went deeper into the room when I saw it I didn't even shock in fear. I was a giant scorpion. Above its head it said: [Queen of the scorpions] I took my dagger and bow out of my inventory. I put the bow onto my back. This thing slept. I smiled. "Let's wake you up. ", I used my bow to shoot one of the arrows right into his left eye. This creature screamed and I guess the others could hear it outside this room two. A message popped up right in front of my eyes. I have to kill it, or I'll die. This will get interesting.

This creature crawl towards me, his tail ready to sting me. I used a doppelganger to sting that thing and not me while I sprint right behind me. I got the ability doppelganger from this elf in the D Rank Dungeon. Of course, it focused on the other me while I sprinted soundless behind him. My doppelganger cost me 100 MP. I jumped onto its ice blue carapace. While it killed my other self, I stinged this creature in its back. It screamed in pain. It used his sharp end of his poisonous tail to sting me. I dodged it without any problems. I ran towards the head of this monster and jumped up, using the momentum to get more strength and break its head armor with my dagger.

The beast yowled again und got angrier. His stings were getting faster. I used my sprint to run away from it. I jumped from it onto the walls of this room. Just to jump off from it again to be as fast as possible. I rushed towards the counterpart wall. In my flight path was its head. Therefore, I cut it, landed on the other wall and did the same repeatedly. The creature screamed disgustingly, but couldn't hit me, I was just to fast. After some time, I knew it was almost dead. I landed in front of his head on the ground with a somersault. I grinned. "Now you are dead." I smirked. I swung my dagger into its skull, and it collapsed. I pulled the dagger out of it. Its blue blood sticked onto it. "Disgusting"

Some messages popped up again.

'You killed the Boss [Queen of the scorpions]'

'You finished the quest [Emergency Quest]'

'You obtained the dagger [Ice Scorpion poison dagger]

'You gained the ability [Poison resistance]'

'You obtained the potion [Scorpion poison]'

I turned around while pulling out my new dagger from the inventory. The blade had an icy blue like color. The grip was wrapped by a light brown leather. Between the blade and the grip was an aquamarine. I spun both of my knifes in the air and caught them again while turning around. They will think I'll be dead, because this creature doesn't make any sounds anymore. So, it is just a matter of time until they open the door again. I waited for that.

When The door opened, I already stood there. My cold breath shaped a new cloud. One of the leader's henchman opened the door. All of them locked irritated. I kept silence. My blood lusty eyes searched my friends. If they just trimmed one of their hairs, I would let them suffer. Finally, I noticed them. They were in the back. These bandits threw their weapons onto the ground. They were cornered by one of the henchmen. Both of my friends tied up. Everyone was confused, that I made it out alive.

"You are ali- "said the magician relieved but was interrupted by the leader. "Fuck you. You aren't an E Rank, are you? "I didn't answer. "Kill him!" he screamed. I looked towards the message which popped up.

'[Emergency Quest]

Kill all opponents or die

0/7'

I grinned. "With pleasure." The first one who opened the door walked towards me with a confident smile. He didn't even see me come. I sprinted past him, cutting his throat. His blood splashed everywhere. "Nasty" I just said. I heard the dead body collapse onto the floor behind me. Everyone gasped.

Two males ran towards me and stabbed into me. Well not really. In my other self I have just made. Therefore, I stood right behind them, throwing both daggers into their backs. Before they could even fall, I pulled out my daggers out of their bodies. I licked my lips. "Only 4 left" I smirked.

The next one wasn't confident anymore. It was a magician using his magic to burn me. I walked right towards him. "Too slow" I said while he mumbled nonsense. Like the first one I cut his throat. A bit of his blood landed onto my hoodie. "Ugh, Annoying" I said.

The fifth one tried to sneak attack me. Thanks to my senses I shot him down with my bow without any trouble. I felt him right left behind me. The ability sharp eyesight, which the elf gave me was useful. Therefore, I couldn't miss my target. I shot him right into his forehead. Some brain slobbers came out of it, while he collapsed.

With my bow, I killed my second to last target. The one who stood before my friends. His spear was near enough to blackmail me, so I won't kill any other person. But before he even says a word, he already got a shot into his heart. Some blood splashed onto my friends. I looked towards my last target. The leader.

"No- please, this was a misunderstanding!" I walked towards him with bloodlust. He walked backwards, tripped over a stone and fell right onto his ass. I stood above him, looking down on this nasty insect. "You can't kill me, please it's – I am- ", He couldn't even finish his sentence. His life faded out of his eyes. I had thrown my dagger right into his heart.

'[Emergency Quest] successfully done'

After I pulled out the dagger from the still warm body, I turned towards my new made friends. I noticed their look. They looked at me in fear and a bit disgust. Darryl had some blood on his cheek. "We- we aren't like those" He said intimidated. I walked towards them. Their eyes got wider. "No please don't kill us- "he sobbed. I hunker down right before them. My dagger ready to cut the rope to let them free when I got distracted by Nicks question.

"A-are you one of the killer hunters. I-Is that why you wear a mask? To hide your Identity?"

Killer hunters are an awful type of person. They love to kill hunters and are hunters themselves. They are kind of psychiatric. Like a psychopath. Some of them even enjoy the taste of human blood. Most of the time they mask with a lower Rank license, so no one would suggest they are killer hunters.

I let my dagger drop. My hand trembled while I lead it towards my mask. I didn't show my face but pulled it up so they can see my mouth. My lips shook as well. With a soft smile, nothing bad to be noticed, I just said. "No, Nick. I just wanted to save you two. I didn't mean to kill them if I could prevent it" I let my mask sink again. "The mask is just... Identity issues" my voice got quiet.

I took my dagger again and cut the ropes. Those two didn't ran towards their weapons, like I suggested. Bad was the first one who hugged me. "I am so glad you are alive" he sobbed. I was so surprised, that I didn't even move. My hoodie got a bit wet. I still crouched, therefore he was bigger than I am, because he was onto his knees. After a few seconds I hugged him back.

Nick looked towards me distrustful. "Then why are you an E Rank? Are you one?" he asked. I looked into his brown eyes and nodded. I mumbled. "I am really an E Rank- ""But you are- ""Nick, come you know, if I trust him, you can trust him too!" Bad interrupted. "And I know you trust him, too."

I didn't say a word. Nick sighed but hugged me. "Warn us before you do this stuff again. Okay?" I smiled. "I don't hope a next time will ever come"

They didn't ask me more questions, which I didn't expect. We looted the boss room and left the dungeon. We split the loot into three, even though Bad complained, because I was the one who killed it. But I didn't mind. This was enough money for a long time. I hope my family is now proud of me. 

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