"So, the daggers," Karina insisted for the umpteenth ti. "They're elven, right?"
After that incident, we were fighting deeper and deeper in the Dungeon for a few days. Cedric had a Perk called {Even Experience Split} that did what it said on the tin. We all got 20% of all the kills' base Exp value and then applied our own multipliers. The asshole didn't include on the first day before I mob-trained them.
"They are ordinary kitchen knives," I deadpanned. Doing a neutral expression was the easiest thing, being blind. "You are hallucinating."
The team had no tank or healer. Cedric was a sword-and-board front-liner but he was squishy and dodged like his mom. Karina was an agility fighter and she was fancying my daggers too much. Josie used a bow, and Marta was a magician. As for , I was shooting for the jungler position.
The girls were bent on prying my secrets off of . I had to admit, this Pinocchio was still struggling to fit in with the won. Apricot had her cool groove and people gave space. Rose was treated almost like a toy by the harem trio. I was afraid they would discover the fae silk suit underneath my clothes.
Yeah, they fucked almost every night. Cedric had a perk called... I-don't-care-but-he-still-fucks-all-night that did what it did. He never fooled around again. I promised that he would discover if my not-elven kitchen knives were enchanted with sharpness. Spoiler alert, they were.
I raised a hand. "Six people ahead. Two humans."
They'd just entered my detection range of four hundred ters but the tunnel they were coming from was the sa we were going to. eting them was inevitable.
"That's scary," Marta said about my senses. "I have elven blood and I didn't hear them."
" neither. But they are coming all the sa," I replied.
"Stand to the side. I think I know who's coming." Cedric ordered.
The other adventurers' footsteps could now be heard from behind a bend in the tunnel.
"Hail there, friends! It's Cedric here!" He shouted.
"Cedric. It's Georg here," The reply ca.
"Hail, Georg. Coming through!"
"Aye. Coming through. Peace."
The six adventurers ca. They were dragging their feet, obviously tired. Probably from fighting for weeks in the lower levels.
One of them stopped next to , "New toy, Cedric? Going for the smaller size so they can feel filled?" He taunted. The others laughed.
"Hey," Cedric warned in a serious tone, "Have so respect. Rose here, she's not with . Just a mber of my party."
"Temporarily," I add.
"Is she any good?" The guy in front of asked with a funny voice. From the air current, he was doing so movent without moving his feet.
"Hey, stop that!" Karina said.
The newcors laughed. "C'mon. She's not bothered," the sa guy added.
My guess was that they were making obscene gestures. "Let them go, Karina. They are not worth our ti."
"Oh. For a level twenty, you sure have so spiff, little tyke," Another guy comnted. "Anyway, what kind of moron reaches twenty? I hope this kid fucks better than she allocates Exp."
I'd adjusted my level display to match my real level. I stood my ground, not rising to their bait.
"Hey, why doesn't this kid say anything?"
"Air is too precious underground to waste on you," I replied.
"She got you," A slap on a suit of mail.
I slled bad breath. "I could crush this kid," The rude guy said on top of .
"I could use your blood to rinse that foul mouth of yours," I replied.
A hand touched my chin. The bad breath was close. "Is this fucking halfling blind?"
"I am grateful for such small rcies," I retorted. "I don't have to see your ugly mug."
This close, I could sense the airflow around him. He drew his hand back. I dodged the slap and kicked his leg as I moved sideways. The leg didn't buckle. I climbed the guy, lodging myself on his back. He tried to grab but I dodged again. I brought a kitchen knife from storage and put it on his neck from the side.
"Yield!" I threatened. "Or my enchanted elven dagger will claim your life."
"She got you there, Malcolm," Georg broke his silence and said. "Little lady [Rogue] I pledge to wash this fool's mouth myself. Would you return him to unhard?"
"Yeah, right," I twirled the knife and pretended to palm it as I sent it to storage. Then I jumped off his back, flipped in the air, and nailed the landing.
Another guy laughed, "Elven dagger! That was a at knife."
"I apologize. To the knife. It didn't deserve to be dulled on such a thick head," I said as I walked around Georg's party to return to our camp. "Only to find it was empty inside."
"You!" rude guy growled.
"Enough, Malcolm!" Georg said. "Can I have your na, miss?"
"Rosewise Honorcoin, master Georg," I nodded in his direction. "You might want to delve with a better company. This sausage fest must be tireso."
"I thought you were with Cedric," Georg said cautiously.
"Nah. He too has hygiene issues. Seriously, a bar of soap is three copper in the market."
Jokester chuckled.
"Bathing in the Dungeon is troubleso. There's no water around," Geog said.
Except I could sense a subterranean river nearby. But one wrong hole and the city above would be without water in their wells and the Dungeon would flood. But his comnt gave ideas to make magic items.
After a few more jokes and good-natured ribbing, they went away.
After we t with Georg, we keep hunting for a whole week. The girls and Cedrid are committed to the grind of levels. Too bad it's to their {Nightly Debauchery} Skill than their actual levels. I have only two things to say. Those chicks are loud and the tunnels are almost perfect resonating chambers. Worse, it makes want to be the one to make them scream like that. I'm not sure if I could even if I had the equipnt.
That led to set my camping spot away from theirs which led them to dump the guard duties to . Which led them to indulge even more. I didn't mind because I was farming the wandering monsters that ca my way at night alone.
And just for the record, "night" ant "rest ti". We had no fucking idea of the ti outside.
After one particularly nasty group of monsters that required to use magic to kill, I sat to look at my notifications and found this on my Status page (the comnts aren't really there):
Na: Rosewise Honorcoin.
Age: 12 years
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