At 6AM in the morning Ryan and Alex were waking up by the Ryan’s phone alarm.

Alex and Ryan grunted together at the fact it was morning already. Feeling sore from walking all day yesterday, they power through their soreness and walk out of the tent. Ryan as he walked out into the open takes a deep breath and smells the rejuvenating air that was coming off from the mountain stream below them. He proceeds to walk over to the nearest tree and pee on it and empty out his bladder while looking at the sun starting to come up in the horizon.

He looks behind him and sees Alex 15 yards away squatting down and relieving herself as well.

“I have it easy being a guy, woman have to take extra steps to pee” Ryan thinks to himself as he puts his member back inside his pants. He picks up his two spell blades and straps them to his side and braces himself to be ready to defend Alex while she was at her most vulnerable stage.

As he leans on a tree looking away from her he remembers that mine area he saw on the map from when they killed that moose. As Alex pulls her pants up and begins putting her plate Leg armor on over her pants he pulls out his phone and takes a second look at the area.

Alex approaches him and as a joke steals one of his blades its sheath and pokes him in the ass with it. This catches him off guard and prompts him to jerk forward. He takes his eyes off his phone and glares at her. Alex looks at him and puts the sword back in its scabbard on his hip and just playfully smiles at him as she walks toward the tent. She begins breaking down the tent and Ryan walks over to her and assists.

When they were done folding the tent up Ryan shows her how to slide everything into the magical box contraption and then hits the big red button on top that shrinks everything down. They throw the compact size tent assembly into his backpack and then Ryan pulls out a bag full of fruit and pulls out a peach. He hands one to Alex and they both eat their quick breakfast.

When Ryan was done with his peach he throws it off the cliff’s edge and Alex copy’s him.

“There is a mine area like an hour away. This looks like a good place to start looking for that weapon Simon wants us to bring him” Ryan tells Alex while he hands her his phone.

Alex wipes her sticky hands on her backpack and then zooms out of the area and quickly looks for an easy way there.

“I Agree this is a good place to start” Alex said while tracing a route to there on his phone.

“Ryan It looks like if we follow the river below us upstream, I’ll take us right to it” Alex told him.

“Is that want the suggested route on the App says?” Ryan asked her.

“No. Here let me look at the suggested route” Alex said while hitting “Go” on his phone.

Before her the phone generated a path that drew a line that redirected them 10 miles back the way they came and a 3-mile winding maze that took them down to the valley below to where they currently were standing Then begin the trek 8 miles south west of where they currently wanted to go.

Alex’s face put off an annoyed look and Ryan picked up on her body language and looked at the phone with her.

“What the hell why do we have to backtrack?” Ryan expressed with shock.

“It’s telling us we need to descend the Canyon first. See those “S” curves on the map over there? That’s a clear give away sign of a decent route. Alex explained to him while running her figure along the screen.

“Wait how do you know that?” He asked her.

“Well in South Carolina, I lived in the mountains for a little while. They carve huge “S” like paths on a mountain to make the roads less steep. It’s meant to disperse the steepness of a hill by spreading it out over a longer distance there by reducing the amount of work to get up or down it” Alex explained to him in a nerd like tone.

“Well that’s good to know, But I’m not backtracking to get down a Canyon” Ryan told Alex while putting on his backpack.

“Well I don’t think we really have a choice. There isn’t a closer path to get down there” Alex told Ryan while putting on her backpack.

“Hey wait a minute you have that kite thing. Can we use it as a parachute?” Alex asked him.

“No we can’t. Kites aren’t parachutes. The line and airfoil set up is completely different than that of regular Parachute. On top of that it’s too small. It’s only a three-meter wing” He told her while looking over the edge of the cliff at the valley below.

Well I don’t have any “Slowfall” like abilities in my arsenal and I don’t think you do either” Alex told him while preparing herself mentally for the long backtracking journey ahead of them.

When Alex said that Ryan had a Flashback of his gliding trip at Mount Cheat with the girls and his narrow escape from Metourum after he had his kite shot down.

Without any warning, he grabs Alex by the hand tight and pulls her off the cliff with him.

“Ryan!!! What the Fuck!” Alex screams while fearing for her life and getting a tight and fearful grip on his waist.

As they fall 3 for seconds to the ground below Ryan quickly starts burning his spell [Ball Lighting] in flame mode with all he’s got and directs it toward the ground which slows their decent speed down by quiet a lot. Right before they hit the ground Ryan amplifies the Mana consumption rate he was using and doubles it which puts out even more thrust slowing them down even more. They both hit the ground at 13 miles an hour and take a tumble.

They both get the breath knocked out of them, but Ryan gets up first feeling accomplished.

Alex remains on the ground terrified that she survived this unsuspected drop but takes 5 deep breaths and clears her head.

“What the hell is wrong with you Ryan! Were you trying to us?!” Alex screams at him while getting onto her feet.

“No, I was just saving us a lot of time” Ryan told her while walking over to the river’s edge.

“I don’t care! Why didn’t you give me a heads up you were going to pull me off the cliff with you?” Alex screamed at him.

“Because I didn’t know if you would be on board with my plan or not. I just wanted to descend this canyon quickly and get going” he replied to her with a calm head.

“What do you mean you don’t know if I would be on board with your plan!?” Alex screamed while stomping toward him.

“I… Didn’t know if my Ball Lighting spell Burn would make a safe landing spell. I had to try it out. He told her while trying to get to his feet.

Just then a memory hit him hard and makes him cringe with regret.

“Oh my god, I just remembered… My phone, has a slowfall buff widget app on it.” He admitted to her with painful humiliation behind his voice

Alex rolls her eyes at him and drags him 8 feet to the riverbank and throws him in the mildly strong flowing stream. He enters the cold water and immediately wakes up from the cold shock. The rivers medium strength gets ahold of him and carries him downstream 20 yards into some rocks and bruises him up. With the water at a moderate speed, and Ryan pinned against some rocks he stands up and manages to stagger over to the riverbank and get out. Alex who was waiting for him by the bank crosses her arms and smiles at him.

“Don’t do that again, if you do I will kick your ass” Alex said while casting her [Amber Light] spell on him.

The Spell heals up his cuts and his bruises and she grabs his hand and starts walking with him.

“Look I forgot I had my own spell on this thing. I promise it won’t happen again” he told her.

“Wait what do you mean?” Alex said while grabbing his phone from him.

“Go to widgets I have some pretty useful spells on there I totally forgot about” Ryan told her.

Alex opens up the widget screen and sees what he was talking about. She scrolls through and looks at the healing, night vison, slowfall, and curse/disease removal widgets on his phone.

“Whoa, these things are useful!” Alex told Ryan seeming intrigued.

“Why don’t you use these things all the time?” Alex asked while handing the phone back to him.

“Mainly because of the cooldowns on them are pretty long” He told her as they started to walk around a large curvy portion of the river,

“Well the next time we have to descend a big jump I’m reminding you have this spell” She tells him while stopping in her tracks. Ryan who was looking at her sees her stop suddenly and look around.

“What’s wrong?” Ryan asked her.

Alex doesn’t say anything and draws her sword out in front of her. Ryan who now could hear disturbed rubble from behind him quickly turns around and fires [Ball Lightning] in electric mode. He then detonates the spell, and it hits a Stealthed rogue nearby him. The man appears in front of them and Alex charges at him and lands the first strike on the man. The rogue then dodges one of her attacks and swiftly gets behind her and lands a blow behind her knocking her to the ground and stunning her. Ryan who didn’t take to kindly of this man hurting Alex fires [Detonate] on him and blasts him back away from her. He then rains down [Black Rain] on him and punishes him. As he was doing that Alex gets back on her feet and charges in and finishes the man off with a might blow with her sword.

Ryan who sees Alex kill him immediately turns around and casts [Ball Lightning] again in stun mode and detonates it. The spell doesn’t hit anything and he carefully looks around the area for more threats.

“What are you trying to hit?” Alex asked him.

“Just clearing my Six, Rogues generally prowl around in groups. I was just making sure no one was sneaking up behind me while we were killing that one guy” Ryan replied to her while walking over the dead rogue.

“Oh no. This guy is Palmlandian” Alex said while pointing to the patch on his arm.

“Wait what are they doing out here, I thought this is Faterrian territory” Ryan asked her.

“He looks like a scout of some sort” Alex said while pulling out a map from one of his pockets.

She unravels the map and it reveals a big red circle of Edough, Ala-Ash and some yellow and black lines that depict a route through Faterra and out and around behind Edough.

“It looks like Mriya is planning to invade Edough sometime in the future” Alex said while pointing to the map.

“How do you know?” Ryan asked her.

“Because you see this Yellow and Black line That treks right on through southern Faterra and loops behind Edough? This guy is apart of one of two teams that’s tasked with planning a Flanking mission on the town. I need to report this” Alex said while folding up the map and going through the man’s backpack.

She finds a journal and puts it in her bag and then smiles.

“No way! This guy has Zefir!” Alex said while removing a container full of white marshmallow like treats.

Alex takes a bite of one and jumps in joy.

“Ohhh this is good!” Alex said while offering Ryan one.

“No thanks” Ryan replied

“More for me!” Alex shouted with her mouth full.

The two then get up and walk away from the body of the dead rogue they just killed.

“We need to be careful, if he’s apart of a unit there should be more around here” Alex said while swallowing some of the Zefir she had in her mouth.

“Hey hold on to this, I want to make room in my bag for this kickass Russian Dessert” Alex said while handing Ryan the Journal. He takes it and throws it in his bag. They both then continue walking toward the mining area with caution.

30 minutes later the two begin getting bored and start talking about random subjects to pass the time.

“So what happens if you get sent to hell, and a demon eats you. Do you die in hell? And if so where do you go?” Alex asked Ryan in a hyper tone.

“I don’t know? I don’t think you can die in hell” Ryan replied to her.

“Well lets say you CAN die in hell where do you go from there?” Alex inquired.

“You go to Mega-hell I guess?” Ryan said while shrugging his shoulders at her.

Alex stops moving and laughs at his response from him.

“Mega-hell, ha that’s a good one” Alex replied to him.

“Speaking of hell, you do know that if I die here without purgatory on I’m getting sent straight to hell right” He said to Alex.

Alex who was laughing stop and looks at him with concern.

“No I didn’t know that” Alex replied to him.

“Ya, I died by suicide. Alexandria, the woman who judged me told me I have one chance to make up for my Sins by playing in this RPG realm. If I redeem myself and kill Yulee all will be forgiven, and I may earn another chance at life or something like that.” He told her.

“Wow talk about pressure” Alex told him while giving him a huge hug.

“I’ve died several times already but all with purgatory on. When I first died, I thought it was over and I was in hell. I thought Arcadia was the “Devil” at first. But boy did she calm me down and comfort me. I learned a lesson on my mortality that day. But I would also learn more about how the world works and soon to learn about my mom. It was a fucking disaster for me” Ryan explained to her.

“Wow, it sounds like this place is your very own little “Mini-Hell”. If you do die, You DO get sent to “Mega-hell” Alex said while beginning to start rubbing his back in a kind caring way.

“I’m sorry for bringing up this subject. Hopefully you don’t hate me” Alex said to him.

Ryan looks over at her and thinks about his recent brushes with death smiles at her.

“Its okay. Dark humor about my mortality and my fate doesn’t bother me. Dark jokes sometimes make me laugh and brighten my day up sometimes, you know?” He tells her.

“Oh okay. I didn’t want you to secretly hate me by bringing up that touchy subject I had no clue about” She said while grabbing his hand and pulling him forward with her.

“Its all fine. Just do a good job at tanking and defending me while I’m here in “Turbo Hell” or else I have to go directly to “Mega-hell. Where I cannot pass go and cannot collect $200” Ryan said humorously.

Alex laughs at him and now feels a deeper connection to him now.

The two walk up hill around the river they have been following and sees the entrance to an old abandoned mine. They walk up a once heavily used path up and out of the canyon and when they reach the top they see the entrance to the mine.

“Sword” Ryan tells Alex as he Enchants both his swords with [Black Plasma].

Alex pulls out her sword in the glimmering sunlight and the two touch their swords together and Alex’s Two-handed blade starts to glow black. They both than proceed inside the mine.

“Let’s Stay close to each other and check around every corner. Let’s not have any more ambushes” Ryan said as they both walk inside the mine with their glowing black swords still emitting a strange orange glow onto the walls.

Alex smiles at him and nods.

As they walk inside the mine they see a rotten warning board with Painted skulls and Exclamation marks on it that was meant to catch their attention.

“Well this is clearly the place we want to be for a S-Class quest item” Alex said sarcastically while pointing at the warning board.

“Yep, it sure is. Now then Let’s go and find this sword” Ryan said as he marches down the chamber with her. When they walk all the way down the tunnel they turn right and see the mine carts and an old rail system that was once used to transport ore. Alex who felt bored, nudges one of the carts and it starts to roll down hill and pick-up speed. Alex and Ryan watch the cart roll down hill and out of sight then hear a horrible crash fifteen seconds later. The two rush down the mountain shaft and see the cart was derailed by an old cave in.

“Well, this is the end of the line for the mine shaft” Ryan said while looking at the cart that was laying on its side.

Ryan and Alex then proceed to walk back to the front of the mine and take another route through a different chamber. They follow this chamber all the way down while Ryan follows Alex and occasionally looking behind them and keeping an eye out for surprises.

They reach the end of this shaft and it too had another cave-in at the end. They both walk back up top and attempt to explore another chamber. They repeat this process three more times and then find a chamber that was open. When they enter this fifth chamber, they see what looks like a pile of bones in the corner of the room. They both walk over to the bone pile and see the sword they were looking for stuck in a pile of coal.

The sword had a crimson red skull on the end of the pummel and had a bunch of runes scribed into the fuller of the blade. The blade also had jagged edges all the way around it.

“Hey, I believe that’s it over there” Alex said while making a hasty course toward the blade.

Ryan looks around in this massive round Mine shaft room and starts to get a bad feeling in his stomach. He looks behind him to make sure another Shade didn’t mysteriously appear behind him and sees Alex getting ready to remove the sword from the pile of coal it was sticking out of.

“Alex Stop! This whole room is putting off a major Indiana Jones vibe” Ryan tells her with hint of fear to his voice.

Alex before she touched the sword looks around the room and starts inspecting it for traps.

“I don’t see any big giant pit that’s holding a huge round boulder. We should be fine” Alex said while grabbing the hilt of the sword and yanking it out mound of coal.

When she pulls it out the runes inscribe on the sword start to glow blue and both of them feel a strong breeze blow through mine shaft.

“We got it lets get going” Alex said while placing the Faterruim sword inside her scabbard.

As they walk toward the exit of the tunnel, they hear a roar of some creature echoing through the tunnel.

The roar scares Ryan and Alex and they freeze in their tracks. They look around them and see nothing in this room, and then hear another roar. This second roar sounded a lot closer and this puts them both in a defensive stance.

“What the hell is that!” Alex screams over the echoing roar.

“I don’t know!” Ryan replies to her as another louder roar rattles through the tunnel.

“What ever it is, it’s moving fast and It’s coming this way!” Ryan screams back at her.

They both could feel the ground shacking and another roar. Alex shines her blade into the tunnel ahead of her and they see a giant reanimated skeletal t-rex charging right toward them.

Ryan and Alex are then filled with paralyzing fear. They jump back and run away from the exit of this chamber. As the skull of this charging demon enters the chamber it hits the top of entrance way and causes a mini cave-in and causes rocks to rain down and block the exit of the chamber.

“Oh shit!” Alex screams as she starts running away.

Alex and Ryan disperse in two different directions and without even second thinking, Alex casts [Taunt] on this demonic dinosaur. The beast then charges toward her and she runs away from it.

Ryan on the other hand wastes no time and gets to work on his end. He starts charging up [Ball Lighting] in Fire mode and lets his spell go right toward it. The fire spell lands a critical hit on it and pisses it off and It breaks off from chasing Alex and heads right him. Ryan then starts spamming [Detonate] on it like crazy and shatters the right leg bone of the creature. This causes the monstrosity to fall.

Alex then positions herself behind it and lands a hit with her sword that had the Black plasma enchantment on it and causes the thing to start glowing with a light purple aurora.

“Ryan its weakened! Finish it off with another fire spell!” Alex screamed while jumping up and slamming down her two-handed sword on the undead demon.

Ryan fires up [Ball Lightning] in fire mode again and build up the spell for 6 seconds and lets it fly. The big fat fully charged fireball flies toward its target and hits the thing in the head and explodes. This sends the bones of this reanimated creature flying all over the room.

Alex who sees this thing get obliterated in front of her walks cautiously over to Ryan and give him a hug.

“I’m glad you have magic. That undead demon would have a challenge for me. Against you it never stood a chance” Told him while letting go of him.

“I know right? You need a mace, an axe, or a crushing weapon of some sort in case you must fight skeletons or super stubborn creatures” Ryan replied to her.

“You don’t know how annoying that is when I don’t have the right weapon for the job, and I’d have to spend hours on something that should have taken me one-minute tops” Alex said to him while looking at the exit of this tunnel.

“Oh no” Alex said with fear.

They both stare at the exit of the tunnel and see it was mildly caved in.

Ryan takes a deep breath and exhales and tries to remain calm.

“I know it looks bad, but we can dig ourselves out of here” Ryan said while staring through the cracks in the rubble.

As Alex and Ryan begin to start removing the rubble from the entrance way another random guest of wind runs through tunnel and the sword Alex had strapped to her starts to emitting a powering up noise and starts glowing sky blue.

As it does so the room starts getting cold and Ghostly apparitions start to appear by the pile bones they saw when they first entered the chamber. This scares them deeply and they prepare for another fight. They both then run toward the ghostly forms that were taking human shape and attempts to strike them down with their swords. As they stab through the materializing body of what seems to be of that of a woman, the apparition screams and lets out a powerful spell that knocks them away from her. The shadowy spirit then takes on a fully human form. Beside her Seven dwarfs appear and then get in front of her to protect her.

As Alex and Ryan get up onto their feet, they see something they just cannot believe.

Before them was a punk version of snow white with heavy eyeliner, Red lipstick, tattoos all over her arms, A black laced up top and red skirt with black fishnets guarded by Seven heavily armored dwarfs all armed with maces, shovels, battleaxes, pickaxes, and short length thick gauged chains

“Alex please tell me you’re seeing this” Ryan Cried out to her while attempting to get up on his feet.

“Is… is that punk rock Snow White?” Alex shouted in confusion.

“What do you think!” Ryan shoats at her.

“Holy cow, I used to draw pictures of Disney princess’s like that. Wow its like a real-life drawing of mine!” Alex said seeming exited and amused.

“YOU WILL RETURN MY SWORD!” the woman screams at them.

“Come get it, bitch!” Alex shouts back at her.

Snow White then glares at her and her eyes start to glow demonic red and then she lets out a terrifying screech that brings both of them down to their knees.

Over come by the pain of this banshee’s wail, the dwarfs then start charging toward them.

When the paralyzing wail ends Alex looks over at Ryan and yells “I second that, that’s not punk rock Snow white, That’s DEATHMETAL snow white” She said while pushing herself up off the ground.

When she hops up and sees five dwarfs running toward them and the other two standing guard by the banshee.

She readies her sword and charges in and grabs their attention.

“I can’t Believe we have to fucking fight Death Metal Snow White and the seven Heavy Metal dwarfs” Ryan screams over a loud parry.

Ryan then pulls out his swords and charges toward the Dwarfs that were coming toward him with a thick heavy chain and a spiky mace.

He runs in and casts [Detonate] on the dwarf who had the swinging chain and stuns him in his tracks. He then attempts to parry the dwarf with the mace but his small size and awkward incoming angle makes him miss him and allows the dwarf to connect him on the leg. Ryan in a fit of rage re-enchants his blades with [Black Plasma] and slams down hard on the dwarf. The plate segment he hits gets peeled off like butter due to the shear heat of his blade and allows him follow through with his other sword and stab him in his exposed spot. When he stabs this dwarf the dwarf with the chain comes around from Ryan’s right side and slams him as hard as he could in the legs. Ryan who almost falls over in pain points his spell blade at the dwarf and casts [Detonate] again on him. The Dwarf however who he just stabbed swings his mace upward and hits Ryan again on the upper thigh.

Ryan who was pissed now, drops both of his swords and picks this dwarf up and throws him at the other dwarf. The two’s armor clash together and with a pissed off look Ryan starts raining down [Black Rain] on them for 4 seconds which kill them. When he kills them, their bodies explode and turn spiritual light.

Alex meanwhile is getting hit all over the place by the three other dwarfs. A dwarf stabs her in the arm while she’s swinging her sword, which causes her to twitch. She then gets bashed in the leg by another dwarf with an axe.

“Fucking hit me harder! I fucking love this!” Alex screams while she swings her 2-handed sword diagonally and chips off the armor on a dwarf that was swinging an axe at her. The dwarf hits her in the foot and Alex picks up the dwarf in a way that was half turned on, and half angry and slams it down on the ground. She then plunges her sword through the dwarf’s neck and it instantly turns to Spiritual light as she gets hit in the back by A dwarf with a pickaxe. Ryan who was running toward her casts [Drain Health] on this dwarf and starts weaking it and healing himself up. Alex who seemed even more turned on now smiles and takes a step bad and casts [Amber Light] on herself. Ryan then fires up [Void Blast] and sends it on over toward the other dwarfs. He detonates the spell in midflight and hits all three of them and weaking their magical resistance. He then rains down [Black Rain] on all three of the dwarfs and kills them.

Alex and Ryan then charge toward the Banshee and other 2 dwarfs’ step in front of her to defend her. Alex and Ryan look at each other and combine their attacks. They move swiftly and double team the same dwarf and kill it quickly. Ryan casts [Drain Health] on the last one and Alex attacks it from the rear and starts prying off its heavy armor. After she chipped away enough plate armor, she plunges her sword through it and kills it.

The Banshee who was now all alone now, lets out another deafening and stunning wail and brings them down to their knees for three seconds. She then starts charging up a spell and blood red circles start filling up around the room. As they get back to their feet, they see a magic ring form under their feet and Alex grabs Ryan by the arm and yanks him it out of it. As they leave the spell circle the spell effect of the area within the ring activates and everything in the radius of the circle gets sucked to nightmarish endless bottomless pit below.

“Don’t stand in those! You won’t be coming back if you do!” Alex screams at Ryan.

As she said that another round of random circles starts appearing all over the room and they see a circle forming below their feet. The two of them run out of the circle and charge toward the banshee. Alex swings at banshee Snow White and lands a hit on her. This pisses her off and she lets out yet another powerful wail and brings both of them down to their knees again. As they were down on the ground the banshee casts another spell around her and a huge ring around her starts glowing orange and it starts getting really hot inside of it. The two run out of the ring and to the other side of the room where the spell activates, and extremely hot flames shoot out of the ground.

“Banshees are hard foes to defeat, they have instant Game over spells if you’re not careful. Hey, I have an idea play your music to cancel out her wails!” Alex ordered him while charging back in towards the Banshee

Ryan summons his phone into his hand and he quickly opens up his music app and scrolls down quickly and chooses the song “Sangre Por Sangre (Blood for Blood)” By HELLYA. He then puts the song on party mode at the loudest setting to help prevent another cave in and activates the +25 Agility and 4% increased movement speed buff the song provided.

As Alex charges in on “Death Metal” Snow White, the Banshee summons forth a 2 handed battle axe and swings at Alex. Alex ducks down and dodges the attack then retaliates with an attack of her own which connects. The banshee then lets out her dreaded wail and for some reason it stuns both of them in place again. The Banshee then activates her Blood circles spell and Ryan and Alex start running and try to avoid them.

“What the hell that didn’t work!” Ryan screams over his music.

“Its not loud enough turn that shit up louder!” Alex screamed while juking out of the path of a circle that just formed underneath her.

“Its as loud as I can safely get it! If I go any louder it can cause a cave in” Ryan warned her.

“Ryan. Look at this place. This is a Boss chamber. Her screams aren’t breaking anything above us loose, So Turn that shit up!” Alex demands.

Ryan who looks around the chamber sees that she is right. He then notices a Blood ring form under him. He hops out of the way and starts running away as all the rings in the room activates and the vacuum effect takes place inside of it. He watches large piles of ore that was in one circle get sucked down below at warp speed and feels a little scared.

He then pulls out his phone and hits the volume up button and selects “Global” mode on the slider bar and the song starts really starts blaring.

Alex charges toward her again and gets ready to hit her but the banshee takes a swing and manages to make contact with Alex. The impact knocks her to the ground, but she gets up in a hurry and looks turned-on again. Ryan realizes he is just watching again and not helping Alex and charges up [Void Blast] at “Snow White”. He lets the spell fly and hits her. This makes her turn toward him and let out a send out a big, huge thick black beam out of her hands at him. Ryan starts running away while Alex lands another hit on her. The banshee then lets out yet another Wail, but this time it was drowned out by the music. Alex then jukes behind her and lands 4 quick hits on her and this pisses the thing off even more. She starts casting her blood ring spell and fires up her close-range hellfire ring spell. This sends Alex away from her and running away through the field of blood rings around her. When Ryan finds a “Clean” spot in the chamber that had no ring on it he starts casting [Ball Lighting] at her in Flame mode from a distance. Alex makes it across the mine field just in time as Snow White activates the rings and close-range Hellfire ring.

Alex and Ryan look at each other and nod, and Alex starts charging back toward her. While she does that Ryan starts channeling [Black Rain] on the demon. The Banshee then at this point has had enough of being double teamed and throws away her 2 handed axe and summons forth a one-handed war axe instead. She then starts attacking Alex with one hand and casting her Area of Effect spell in the other.

As she starts channeling the blood ring spell this makes Ryan stop casting and forces him to relocate to another area of the room. Alex meanwhile notices there are no more blood rings directly behind her and moves over there and keeps swinging on her.

Ryan moves to another zone and then starts spamming [Ball Lighting] in flame mode like crazy until a Circle formed underneath him. He would then move to another area and start casting again while Alex landing hits on her. The Banshee then hits Alex with all she has and manages to drop her. Alex grabs her stomach in pain, but at the same still manages to give this monster a horny look. Alex manages to pull herself together quickly rolls out of the way of another incoming swing while Ryan kept attacking it from a distance. Ryan who sees that she is injured runs toward her and casts [Soul Shield] on her.

Ryan is gripped by unbearable pain when he casts it and doesn’t see the demon fire that Beam spell at him. The spell hits him and flings him back toward the wall. Alex at this point stands up and gets hit by the banshee again but the shield he gave her shields her while she casts [Amber Light] on herself. As she heals up Ryan casts [Drain Health] on the demon but doesn’t start feeling “Better” while he casts it.

Alarmed, he pulls out his phone and starts running out of a Blood ring. He scans the demon and sees that it was at 0% health but was still somehow alive. He looks around this chamber and tries to figure out what was making her immortal. That’s when he notices the quest sword Alex had strapped to her back was pulsing with a faint aurora. Alex who was healed up at this point goes in for another attack and Ryan realizes she can’t hear him over the music if he told her what to do. He looks around the room and mentally draws a quick route to her. He hop-scotches through a field of freshly summoned Blood mines toward Alex. He gets behind her and grabs the quest sword and yanks it out of her scabbard and plunges it into the heart of the Banshee and then injects [Void Blast] into it. The spell gets exponentially amplified though the sword and blows her into millions of Azure colored sparks.

The sword falls to the ground and the runes embedded on the fuller of the blade stop glowing blue. Alex and Ryan then fall over in exhaustion and Ryan stops the music. The two of them lay face down on the ground in silence while they recover.

After about 7 minutes of much needed silence, they then start talking to each other.

“Well, we did it” Alex said while sitting up off the ground.

“You know that thing was in its “immortal” stage this whole time? We’ve been fighting it at Zero percent health for I don’t know how long” Ryan replies back to her.

“Tell me you’re joking” Alex said in disbelief.

“Nope. I discovered that out on that last “Drain Health” spell of mine. As I was sucking out her life essence, I wasn’t feeling better and it made me resort to scanning it and seeing what was up” He explained to her while getting up off the ground and grabbing the sword.

“Well, that’s smart. But what made you grab the Faterruim sword If I may ask” Alex inquired.

“While you were fighting her, I looked around the room to see if there was anything we could use to destroy her but saw nothing. Then I had a flashback of those runes glowing when you went to head out the entrance. I figured the runes and her immortality were connected somehow, so why not use the “Quest” item instead to attack it” He told her

“Well thanks to your quick thinking, Death metal Snow White and the seven heavy metal dwarfs were defeated. I’ll pay for lunch when we get to the nearest town” Alex said while standing up.

“Alex before we leave, I must talk to you about something I find concerning about you. I have been watching you and I’m a little concerned about you. Is there something haunting you that want to talk to me about?” Ryan asked her in a concerned voice.

“No why?” She replied.

“You seem to get turned on when you get hit, slammed or stabbed. Is there anything troubling you?” Ryan asked out of concern.

Alex freezes in fear and thinks about what to say.

“Oh, that Problem” Alex said feeling embarrassed

“I’m all ears if you want to talk to me about it. I’m a little worried you might get killed from doing this” Ryan said while walking toward her.

“I’m sort of, a Masochist” Alex admitted to him while twiddling her fingers in embarrassment.

“Why?” Ryan asked while walking behind her and gently putting in the quest sword inside her scabbard to free up his hands.

“I have a lot of trauma in here from my past” She said while pointing to her head. “I use pain to mask it all up”

“You want to talk about them?” Ryan asked while standing behind her and throwing his arms around her shoulders

“Do you want to hear them? I mean I’m willing to tell you, but at the same time I’m scared you might judge me and distance yourself from me” Alex replied while dropping her sword onto the ground and reaching up toward her shoulders and grabbing both of his hands and cupping them.

“You can tell me anything. I won’t judge you” Ryan assured her.

Alex thinks really hard to herself and digs out all of her regrets and painful memories.

“I already told you about how I died, but what I didn’t tell you was I’ve been beaten and mentally abused by others all my lifer prior to that. I’ve lived my whole life fearing for my safety because of my skin color. I’ve been used by people claiming to be my friend, and also been blamed by my own family for my own sister’s death. Then to top all off I played hero and gave my life defending some racist bitches who did nothing but bully me. Then when I came to this world, I end up getting lied to and screwed over all over again by someone who I trusted and end up losing my beautiful features. I’m so fucked up in the head due to all this trauma and torment in my past that that any physical pain I acquire just turns me on and makes me want more. Yes its dark, and yes it’s a bad mindset but it makes me do my job as a tank efficiently. That’s pretty much why I’m masochistic in nature” Alex tells Ryan in vulnerable like tone. While uncupping his hands from hers and leaning down to grab her sword.

Ryan who felt deep connection with Alex at this point turns her around in his arms and gives her a hug and doesn’t say anything.

“Well Hopefully you wont judge me any differently” Alex said while enjoying every little of comforting feeling from his hug.

“I won’t. Alex you are an extraordinarily strong and awesome girl and I’m proud to have you as an ally. I just don’t want you getting yourself killed over your masochism” Ryan told her.

“I’m not going to let myself get killed over it. I promise” She told him while looking into his eyes and wiping dried blood off his left cheek. As she did that, she looks at the exit way of the mine and pauses in disbelief.

Not being able to believe what she was seeing she taps Ryan on the shoulder and points to the cleared pathway out of there.

“Oh hey look at that it's clear” Ryan tells Alex.

Alex pops her head up and out from this much-needed hug and gets a better look at the exit.

“Wow that just saved us a bunch of work” Alex said while attempting to smile

“I think one of those of those randomly spawning blood rings may have been responsible for clearing up the exit way” Ryan tells her.

“Wait does that mean we been fighting her with an open exit this whole time?” Alex said in a teasing like manner

“I’d prefer not to pounder on that question” Ryan told her as he grabs her hand and leads her out toward the exit of the mine.

As they walk toward the exit of the Ryan suddenly realizes something and has a dire urge to tell her something.

“Alex, I don’t want to offend you since you just told me more secrets about you, but I find it a little funny that you are a masochist. Before I died, I got into an Anime called “Konosuba”. It was based on a world like this” Ryan told her while Alex looks at him and giggles.

“Ya, I’m quite familiar with that Anime. Here is another secret about me. I was quite a huge Anime nerd when I was alive. I also know what you are going to say next too and NO, I’m not like Darkness. I’m not rich and don’t have a huge rack on my chest that planes can make emergency landing on” Alex told him.

“Well not just that, but unlike her, you can actually hit shit” Ryan told her in a complementary way as they started walking around a corner while following the mine’s rail system out.

“Ya, who needs a blonde masochist who can’t hit shit, when emo girls do it better” Alex said in a giggling.

Ryan looks at her and smiles and they walk around another corner and can see the exit of the mine. As they walk outside the exit of the mine they both stop to take a deep breath of fresh air.

….. Then they both get knocked out by hidden Palmlandian scouts that were waiting outside the entrance.