After the light flash that signals we reached our destination, I get ready for the Dungeon Invasion.
“All right, let’s get ready for this…”
Right next to , Marta asks an obvious question. “Are you really going to use that…? Aren’t you exaggerating quite a bit?”
She’s right, it’s obvious I’m going to use this. ‘Why obvious?’ you ask. That’s an easy thing to answer, my friends. It’s because I don’t want to see ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING of what’s to co next.
So I’m obviously putting a blindfold on myself. This way, I won’t see anything, even if I feel the urge to open my eyes at so point.
But this isn’t all I’ve prepared for today. No, it isn’t. I still have sothing else…
The next thing I take out of my ‘Inventory’ is earplugs.
“Oh, co on, Andreu! We’re supposed to play together! How am I supposed to test Clara’s dungeon if you’re like this!?”
“I don’t care,” I say. “It’s your fault I have to co here, you forced to do it. So I’m going to do everything I can to avoid suffering.”
“Ugh… If I had known…” She mutters.
Hah! Serves you right! You were the one who practically forced to invade Clara’s dungeon, even after whining the whole ti about how much I hated it. Now, you must face the consequences of your decision! Hahaha!
After yesterday’s psychological and physical torture, also called battle training with my little sister’s Champion while Marta taught us, I couldn’t sleep. And I already decided a long ti ago I wouldn’t enter an Abyss dungeon ever again…
Since I have no way to avoid coming here, I’ll do everything I can to prevent myself from suffering today too.
What are we doing here? Isn’t it obvious Marta ca here today to check up on Clara’s dungeon and tell her how to improve it?
As for … I got dragged against my will into this ss. These kinds of things happen sotis, especially when your sisters decide things without taking your opinion into consideration.
Anyway! Let’s move to my last protective asure.
I take a heavy fur coat to cover my whole body in it. Followed by thick gloves and so other protective clothes. They will prevent from feeling almost anything. Things like slimy tentacles, for example. Or slimy tentacles.
Did I ntion slimy tentacles…?
The only spot the thick clothes don’t cover is the eyes, but there’s the blindfold there… It’s the perfect defense against disgusting things! Hahaha!
“Oh, co on. You’re kidding now!”
I hear sobody complain near , but I ignore it. Did you say anything, Marta? I can’t hear you with the earplugs on… Fufufu! Hahaha!
Oh, and by the way. These are just costic elents. DMA has a lot of personalization so that players can make their Champions look as they want without preventing them from playing the ga properly.
It’s possible to make a blind monk, for example, similar to what I’m doing right now, but still be able to see.
What will prevent from actually seeing, hearing, or feeling anything aren’t the blindfold, earplugs, or thick clothes, but the ga options. I lowered all sounds and feelings to the minimum possible without actually turning them off, as well as disabling the sight completely.
And as I put the protections on my Champion, I also modify the ga options appropriately.
It’s fun that the ga allows for so much customization while not limiting gaplay, but at the sa ti has options to impose those sa penalties if you actually want to. Penalties like being blind, or deaf.
I turned on the blind mode but didn’t activate the deaf mode because I still want to be able to communicate with my sister. Instead, I turned the volu to the minimum.
What the ga doesn’t allow is to completely turn off the sense of touch. I suppose it’s sothing about player ntality. Sothing like not wanting players to play as if they were invulnerable to damage and then think it’s the sa in real life…
“Did you say anything? I can’t hear you.” I shout.
Hmm… It’s kind of weird to almost not hear my own voice when I’m shouting. I’ll need so ti to get used to it.
“Don’t shout, you jerk! I’m right next to you!” Oh, I can hear her properly now. I’m sure she’s shouting too.
“Is that so? I can’t see you, so I don’t know where you are...”
“I didn’t move, and neither did you, so of course I’m next to you. And I said don’t shout at !”
I’m sorry, but I can’t stop. If I don’t shout, I won’t hear my own voice. “I can’t!”
“Ugh, you really… You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you!?”
“Uh… maybe?”
“Aaagh! I hate you!”
I feel sothing hit , and then I hit sothing hard.
Heh, this is fun. I’m sure she just kicked and I fell to the ground, but I almost didn’t feel anything.
“Hey! Why did you kick !?”
“Just because I wanted to!”
“...ok. But I’ll need your help to stand up. Here.” I extend my hand for her to grab and help up.
“...”
She doesn’t say anything but still grabs my hand and I feel myself flying for a mont before finding myself standing up again. Hahaha, her Champion’s strength is the real deal!
Oh, by the way, she’s using her main account for this, so she’s using the Seraphim champion. It’s a matter of fact her STR stat is monstrous right now.
Now that I think about it… I’m glad I didn’t fall into the void because of her previous kick. I’m sure she must’ve controlled her strength. She can be ‘nice’ too.
“Ugh… I hate this… It was Clara, not , who wanted you to co, you know? I would have preferred to co alone if I knew it would be like this…”
I think I heard Marta say sothing, but I’m not sure. This minimum volu thing is kind of annoying. But it’s indispensable to protect my ntal health, so there’s no way I’m going back to the normal volu.
“Did you say anything?”
“No, I didn’t!”
She didn’t? It must have been my imagination, then.
Like this, we start our dungeon invasion.
“You’ll have to protect from all the dangers, ok? Also, guide so I don’t step into a hole and fall into the void, ok?”
“Sure, yes. Whatever… I’ll take this as an extra handicap to train myself…”
“Did you say anything?”
“I said yes! I’ll protect you!”
“Thank you! I love you! Hahaha!”
“Ugh… You… you!”
I feel myself falling to the ground yet another ti. Did I trip over because I can’t see where I step?
Or… did she kick again?
*Sigh!* This Dungeon Invasion is going to be hard on several levels…
“Marta, are you there? Am I still following you, or did I get lost? I can’t see anything…”
This is weird… it’s been so ti since I’ve last heard her say anything. I don’t know where I am, nor do I know if there are any enemies… And I don’t know where my sister is either.
Of course, it’s my fault that I can’t see, and also that I can barely hear or feel anything. Mich makes completely useless. Scratch that, it makes worse than useless. I’m the worst baggage I could possibly be right now.
But she’s a ‘pro player’, isn’t she? She should be able to carry even in this situation, ain’t I right?
That’s why I find this situation weird. It can’t be she’s dead, and there’s absolutely no way she got lost. So… does this an it’s who got lost?
“Hey, are you there? Did you leave alone…?” I wait for an answer, but I hear nothing. “Hmm… did I fall into the void? …but I should have felt like I was falling if I did, right?”
I didn’t feel like I was falling. Nor flying, like when Marta kicked before. So it shouldn’t be.
“Then, did I take the wrong turn and we split up?”
That’s… possible. I an, I can’t see where I go. If she told ‘go right’ and I went left instead, she might be sowhere else. Obviously, it's her fault for not guiding properly.
, you say? I’m the victim here!
Ok, so we all agreed I’m the victim and it’s definitely not my fault. But this doesn’t make the situation any better.
“Should I… leave the dungeon?” For blind people, or for people who disable the sight sense like , or for anyone who wants to do it, it’s possible to control the ga through voice commands. This ans I can surrender whenever I want. “I could do it, but then Clara will be sad about it. Let’s stay here for a while…”
I anxiously turn my head around a few tis. I can’t see anything, but what else can I do? It’s scary being here alone, not knowing when an Abyss monster can co and attack .
“Hello? Marta…?”
…how long do I have to wait?
This, this is oppressing… it’s so dark, and I can’t see, feel, or hear anything… It might be even worse than having to suffer one of those horrible hugs with the slimy tentacles or having to see one of those mind-shattering horrors… I have to admit, I didn’t think this properly.
I can’t stop myself from imagining the tentacles dragging into a giant eye with teeth as I struggle to survive.
You know what? I take it back. This oppressive feeling is waaaay better. At least, I won’t get nightmares from this.
Just at this mont, I can feel sothing touching my arm and slowly crawling upwards. Since I have the feeling sense set to the minimum, I can barely perceive it. Maybe… maybe it isn’t real? I was fantasizing about this exact situation a mont ago, it could be my imagination.
“I-I can’t feel anything. This, this is just… my imagination. Y-yes! I-it’s my imagination!”
Stupid imagination! I hate you so much! Why did you have to be so good at it, Andreu?
“This isn’t real. Nothing is touching . I’m safe…”
Wait a mont… This shouldn’t be possible! I should be surrounded by my Good Followers right now! And they should take care of everything near ! It isn’t possible for an enemy to reach unless… unless I’m completely alone…
Oooh, shit. OOOOH, SHIT!
Am I actually alone? Did all my Good Followers die and now I’m alone!?
The feeling continues to go up my arm until it reaches my shoulder. Then, it trails up my neck.
It isn’t disgusting, don’t misunderstand. Since I turned it to the minimum, I only feel a gentle touch that goes up my arm and my neck. The problem is with ‘what’ might be causing to feel this.
O-ok. I think the ti has co. It’s ti to surrender.
“I-I surre-”
I try to speak, but the ‘sothing’ that’s grabbing reaches my face and prevents from talking.
Aaagh, shit! Like this, I can’t talk. And if I can’t talk, I can’t give the voice command to surrender and leave the dungeon! This is very bad…
I struggle the best I can to free myself, to no avail. Whatever’s grabbing is stronger than I am.
Ah, the feeling of oppression from before is now getting worse. I can’t move. I can’t talk. Nor see. Hear. Feel. The last three are on , but still…
In this absolute darkness, the only thing I can do is wait for death. Will it co soon? I hope so. I can’t even see the HP bar because I disabled the sight completely.
Wait a mont… I can’t talk!? The ga’s monsters shouldn’t be able to gag a player unless it’s by accident or with a skill that allows them to do so. The only ones that can do so freely are the other players.
This must an… ARE YOU FUCKING WITH !?
“Pfft! Ahaha!” Right at this mont I hear sobody laughing right next to my ear.
It must be… It MUST be… My sister Marta!
“Hahaha! Your reaction was so funny, Andreu! Ahahaha!” While laughing, she releases . “I’m sorry, but I HAD to do it. After annoying for the whole dungeon invasion, I sohow had to make you regret your decision to turn off the sight, hearing, and touch.”
“Are you fucking with !? You know the reason I disabled the three senses, so why are you making scared like this!?”
She strikes on the back a few tis as she continues to laugh. At least, I think she does.
“Hahaha! Fuu…” She slowly breathes in and out to calm herself. “Co on, it wasn’t so bad. I’m sure you couldn’t feel almost anything anyway…”
“That’s true… Still, this doesn’t justify your actions!”
“It doesn’t? Do you know how annoying it was to guide you through the whole dungeon? Andreu, step to the right. Andreu, there’s an enemy in front. Andreu, beware the hole. Andreu this, Andreu that… I’m not your babysitter! Also, you brought it upon yourself! You could always say no to Clara and be done with the Abyss stuff.”
“...”
I hate to admit it, but she’s kind of right. I brought it upon myself. If only I could say no to my little sister when she asks…
And it was who proposed to invade Clara’s dungeon. Sure, it was to avoid Marta’s teaching session, and it didn’t work anyway, but… It was who said it first. And if there’s one thing I’ll always do, is to keep my word.
Only when I want, or when it cos to my little sister. But I’ll always keep my word.
“...it isn’t funny.”
“You’re right, it isn’t. Guiding you through the whole dungeon wasn’t funny.”
“You know I’m not talking about that.”
“Huh? I’m sorry, did you say anything? I think I disabled my hearing sense too, so I couldn’t hear what you just said.”
You, you’re doing this on purpose…
I sigh. “All right, let’s forget about this… should we continue? How long do you think it is until we reach the end?”
“Don’t you listen to what I say? We’re almost there. I said ‘guide through the whole dungeon’, didn’t I?”
“Does this an we’re done with this?”
“Not yet. But I can see the dungeon core from here.”
“Nice! I can finally leave this horrifying dungeon behind! Fufufu! Hahaha!”
I’m not sure if I’m making the proper laughing pose or not because of my limited senses. But I hope I do.
“I see you recover quickly. If I had known, I would have stayed quiet until the end… Well, what’s done is done. Wait here, Andreu. I’ll co look for you once I finish this.”
She wants to leave behind. Again, alone, in this dark space where I can’t feel anything… I shudder.
“C-can you not b-bring with you?”
“Didn’t you hear ? I’m not your babysitter.”
“P-please, I beg you. Can’t you guide as you’ve been doing all the ti?”
“No. I’m tired of it. And there’s no reason to because we’re almost at the end.”
“T-then… Can I… no, this won’t work. Umm, please? I beg you, don’t leave behind!”
“What are you complaining about now? Weren’t you scared of the monsters here?”
I do. But I hate this dark isolation too.
I try to make puppy eyes at her. I’m really worried if it’ll work or not… After all, I’ve got this giant rat head. This, and I can’t see. Maybe I’m not even looking in her direction.
“Sigh, fine. You can co. But don’t hope for to give you instructions. You can, I don’t know... Just grab onto one of your Best Followers of whatever they’re called and make it follow . This way I don’t have to look out for you.”
“Ok, I’ll do it.”
And it’s Good Follower, not Best Follower.
I stumble around until I grab sothing. It doesn’t react, so I guess it’s one of my Good Followers. I really hope so, because if it’s one of the monsters I’m going to cry.
Good Follower, it’s ti to switch our roles. This ti, it’s who’s going to follow after you!
We walk like this for what feels like a minute or two, though it might be less. It’s hard to keep track of ti when I can’t see the ga’s clock.
We… couldn’t have we done this from the beginning?
“If I had thought of this before, I would have had an easier ti… Tsk! Damn it!”
Looks like both of us are thinking the sa thing.
This was the second ti Andreu invaded an Abyss dungeon. In the future, he would avoid them the best he could. Clara’s dungeon included.
In fact, from then onwards, when he got randomly paired with an Abyss player in PvP, he imdiately surrendered. Even before the match started. This was the reason he never reached the top PvP rankings.
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