"What do you an it worked?" William asked in confusion. He propped himself up against the wall. Her face was filled with glee and excitent, like a child who had genuinely found a treasure. She grabbed his hand and pulled him.
"Co see."
She pulled him into the magical formation that she had set up and looked up at the ceiling.
"I heard your voice. I know you are there," she said.
There was no response. A few seconds trickled by, and then a minute went by.
"Tch, Violet, did you have too much to drink today?" William asked. "I told you there was no way this dungeon had a soul."
"Yes, it does," two voices replied at the sa ti, one belonging to Violet and the other to Kael.
Violet and William were stunned instantly when they heard the voice. They turned and looked around, William in fear and shock while Violet was filled with excitent.
"Why the hell do you look so scared? You are the one that summoned here, did you not?" Kael asked William.
William panicked and shook his hands. "No, no, it was all her. She called you. I just kept her company."
"Hmmm, it doesn’t matter though. You two have managed to contact . You are the first. It’s pretty wild. It’s been a long ti since I spoke to soone," Kael said. He felt a tightening in his chest. It had been so long since he had soone to talk to aside from the system. It felt too good to be true.
"Hehe, I knew that you were here," Violet said. She smiled like a sly fox. "Especially after you ogled that day," she said.
"Cough, cough, there was absolutely no ogling." Kael denied it. "I only wanted to have a closer look at the first adventurers that had walked in for a while."
"Wait, you were the presence that we felt that day?" William put two and two together and asked.
"Yes, that would be ," Kael said.
William was visibly stunned. He stepped forward as if trying to get closer to the voice. "So dungeons have souls? This is aweso. I never knew this."
"Uhm, I’m not really sure about other dungeons, but I do have one. This massive place belongs to , kinda," Kael said.
"When you say kinda, does that an that everything is not under your control?" Violet stepped forward and asked. Her previous expression had vanished, replaced with what looked like a curious and serious one.
"Well, yeah. I can influence things here, but this dungeon does run on an automated setting. For instance, the door that opened to the treasure room for you was ," he said.
Kael was not holding back in his speaking because this was the first ti he had spoken. He wanted to get more conversations going. He did not know what would happen after they left. They might never return, so he wanted to ensure that he gave them a good reason to co back and et him.
"The treasure room was you?" William asked. He looked down with a face full of thought. "That explains why it was never found before. It was too difficult to find unless you showed it," he muttered.
’Hmm, the two of them are pretty dang smart. I don’t need to explain details, and they seem to have understood everything.
They also don’t seem flustered that there is a soul in a dungeon. Well, that makes sense considering the fact that they are in a world filled with magic and more.’
William’s head snapped up, and he looked at the ceiling as though Kael was there. "This ans you saw everything that had happened, even how our party mbers had betrayed us."
"Yes, I did. Who do you think caused their death?" Kael said, and his words dropped like a bomb on William.
"I knew it," Violet said excitedly. She turned and looked at the stunned William. "When we found their bodies, I knew that no low-level monster could have possibly done this, which ant it was at least a level three or four monster, and they could not be up here at that ti if the dungeon had not allowed it."
After she was done, she turned and looked at the ceiling as well. "You brought the monster up, right?" she asked like a kid who already knew the answer and just wanted confirmation.
"Yes, that would be right," Kael replied. He cleared his throat a bit. "I’m sorry that I had to take their lives though. I had personal reasons for that," he added.
"No, do not apologize. They deserved what ca to them, not for the artifacts but for the young man they killed," William said and then clenched his fist. "The kid had a mother and a sick sister. He wanted to beco a great adventurer and make money for them. Sure, he was cocky and stubborn, but he worked hard. He struggled to pass the adventurer exam and beco one.
Those bastards snatched the only son of a widow, and when we had to tell her this, we had to stand and watch her break before our eyes." William trembled as he spoke. Violet dropped her head.
’Ahh, it seems I had co to forget that they are not numbers but rather human lives. Everyone that has died here had soone that wished they did not, soone that would kill to ensure they stayed alive.
They are not just numbers on the system screen. They are all lives that I have, in one way or another, helped in taking.’
He paused and thought for a mont, his emotions choking him.
[You Are A Dungeon]
[You are no human]
[Death is inevitable. You died. Everyone dies.]
[Those that dare step into the dungeon are ready to face death]
The system sprang up with ssages. Kael read them and clicked his tongue in silence. He drew a deep breath as if he had lungs.
"I hope she finds peace in the fact that her son’s killers are dead," he said.
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