For the most part of Ruby''s following tactic for information of where is he leads to little results with mostlyjust information of thisplace, this place is called ''the underwater cave of poll'' with it being adungeon that consists of one bigroom that is estimated to be over 300 meters squared.
(3 and a half football pitches longby 6 and a half football pitches wide equaling the estimated area of 23football pitches)
When Ruby heard this, she felt shocked from the fact her birthing place was a dungeon but this just gave her a new goal, to escape the dungeon.
While Ruby was tailing the trio she kept there status screens open, in-front of her so if they become super weak they she would attack without notice, luckilyby doing this she finds a weakness to them,
(Ruby): -Their helmets are what seems to allow them to breath underwater but for it use it there mana is drained, this means if they don''t turn back before hitting the halfway point ofthere mana they would beeasierto killthenwouldn''tthey-
literallyright after realized she thought this she contemplatedof why in the world was she thinking like that, was it her inner monster, or was it just that she sees the trio as large lumps of EXP, but there isalso the fact there in a dungeon so maybe it has the natural effect to make anything you see as food, who knows but at this time Ruby''s first and only objective is to level up to become stronger.
As she was contemplating this the mana of Lucas(of the trio) just went past the turning point signalling that they shouldretreat.
But they did not.
. . .
After a while Henrietta''smana did the same but they still didn''t turn back. still curious to why they won''t turn back ruby follows them closer,while following them.
. . .
as the mana of ''polos''was about to reach histurning pointthey walk onto an area that had darker sand below them, when ruby tries to follow them into this area, signals of fear shock though her body telling her to turn back and that there isa monstrous creaturebeyondthis point, but to ruby this just makes her smile (in her mind since only clown fish smile)as this means she''s found what every dungeon should have a ''boss'', as Ruby swimming into the darkened sand area a message appears in-front of her.
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you are entering the boss room of''The Underwater Cave Of Poll'' dungeon
boss: ''The InfectionAlgae,Poll''
victory''s against: 548 / 753
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(Ruby): -the boss is a plant? , that seems a bit weak for a dungeon boss isn''t it?-
as she thinks this and followingthe triotill when she sees a series of 5pillars that form a square with the fifthpillar in the center thatreaches from the darkened sand to some where up abovewhile the other 4 pillars join onto the main pillar creating a series of archways, nearly every point of the 5 pillars arefully covered in agreen andpurple moss like substance with large bubbles of both colors floating thoughtthe archways forming a floating ring, and on the sand the moss is spread between the pillars sparingly creating a patch work of moss, and on the moss patchessome purple leaf like plants have grown to the size that they are about the half that of a human.
From seeing this Ruby is in awe at the monster in-front of her, but she regains her senses as one of the leafy plants tries to reach for her, seeing this Ruby backs away and focuses her eyeson the middle pillar till a message appearsto Ruby.
<table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>The InfectionAlgae,Poll</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''1''>Level: 10</td><td colspan=''1''>health:2000/2000</td><td colspan=''1''>Mana:0/0</td><td colspan=''1''>stamina:0/0</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''1''>Strength</td><td colspan=''1''>50</td><td colspan=''1''>Intelligence</td><td colspan=''1''>0</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''1''>agility</td><td colspan=''1''>0</td><td colspan=''1''>endurance</td><td colspan=''1''>50</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''4''>Boss skill: Fermentation
''Fermentation'' is the skill that isuniqueto '' The InfectionAlgae,Poll'' were if any part of polls body touches living tissue, poll will infect it and will give astatus effect at random from the following list;
poison, silence,paralyze, toxic, hallucinations or ???.</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>The effect of''Fermentation'' lasts till''The InfectionAlgae,Poll'' is defeated.</td></tr></tbody></table>
As Ruby looked at this stat screen she was just in awe that her heath isn''t even a hundredth of the bosses, but also she was confused with the fact it has a lot of stats at 0, but when she contemplates that its a plant underwater, it won''t need intelligence to think or agility to move.
(Polos): "ok,lets get this thing so we can leave with its loot, becareful of the leaves and those bubbles if they hit you, you''ll get poisoned or worse, CHARGE!"
From Polos''s speech both Henrietta and Lucas let out a battle-cry before charging at the algae with polos, quite stunned from there actions Ruby justfloats there watching them fight a entity that they could never defeat.
she though this till Lucas did something that ruby never though of happening.
He set the moss on fire , whileunderwater!
When the trio charged the algae Ruby though that with his stats Lucas would be the first to die by he reversed it instantly by using the blue burning bush in his off hand on a pillar of the algae, it was extremely effective with the pillar being engulfed in mere seconds turning the once green archway into burning ring, also it seems the bubbles hovering around the main pillar thought the archways seemed to become smaller but a constant ring of bubbles as still maintained.
Once ruby looks at the status screen again, it shows that the original health of 2000 has bean decreased to 1700, so burning the pillar did 300 damage.
After the pillar was fully burned to the MP(main pillar) a loud '' SSSSSKKKKKKKKRRRRRRRR'' is heard coming from the MP, with the scream the leafs start to grow larger and larger till there human size with them flailing about trying to find some prey.
After a while of the trio traveling to the second pillar, setting it on fire like the first and moving ontothe 3rd pillar a problem arises from one of the leafs grazing Henrietta on the ankle, the leaf cuts thought her armor like butterand she stops moving with her arms dropdown to her sides making her sword and shield fall onto the moss floor before she herself collapse to her knees, whileimmobile on the floor Henrietta starts rambling on about something involving ''pink pixies for her porridge''
(Ruby-Polos-Lucas) -yuphallucinations-
With there ally incapacitated behind them and only 2 of the 5 pillars gone,the trio were in a bad situation but after they realised Henrietta was just in a sense of hallucination the 2 forged on to defeat the boss.
But for Ruby this was a chance, slowly Ruby swam to Henrietta to not surprise her, then as Ruby was face to fish-face withHenrietta Ruby said a simple sentence in human language.
(Ruby): "ple-ease remo-e hal-met."
In her delusion Henrietta nodded before placing her hands on the turquoise helmet and taking it off.
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As water filled her lungs Henrietta could only gargle as she drowned, while she drowned Ruby swam back to out of the range of the trio''s, sorry duo''s view when a 5messages appear in-front of ruby
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congratulations you gained 5 levels
access the status screen to allocate stat points
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you have gained the title ''manipulator'' for tricking someone tocommitsuicide.
when''manipulator'' is your title, its easier to trick people,
you will gain 5 points inintelligencebut lose 2 stat points in endurance
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due to the title''manipulator'' and the varianttrait ''red eye sight'',
''red eye sight''has evolved the sub skill ''red eye hypnotism''
skill description: when eye to eye with a subject''red eye hypnotism'' can be activated making the target become hypnotized to yourcommand but this only works on thementallyweakened, there is also the chance the hypnotism breaking duringyour command if they areinterruptedor the spell''clear mind'' is used on them.
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from killingof person you have followed without being spottedyou
have gained the title ''silent stalker''.
when''silent stalker'' is your title, it is harder for people to notice you,
you will gain 4 points in agility and 3 points inintelligence.
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Since reaching level 10 as a red-eye goblin-fish(variant)
you now have the access to the evolutiontree.
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as the last sounds of Henrietta disappear ruby thinks while she goes back to hiding.
(Ruby): -all this from killing one human then what i get for killingthe other two do for me must be great-
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<table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''2''>Name: Ruby</td><td colspan=''2''>Species: red-eyed goblin-fish(variant) (+)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Level: 10</td><td colspan=''1''>health:20/20</td><td colspan=''1''>Mana:10/10</td><td colspan=''1''>stamina:15/15</td></tr><tr><td>Exp to next level:25</td><td>Title: survivalist (=)</td><td>Sin: gluttony</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Strength (+)</td><td colspan=''1''>7</td><td colspan=''1''>Intelligence (+)</td><td colspan=''1''>15</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=''1''>agility (+)</td><td colspan=''1''>14</td><td colspan=''1''>endurance (+)</td><td colspan=''1''>9</td></tr>
<tr><td>stat points:40 </td><td>Fame:0</td><td>skill points:75</td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>(MC)''s skill list</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>skill name</td><td colspan=''2''>skill description</td><td colspan=''1''>skill level</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>fish jaw bite</td><td colspan=''2''>''fish jaw bite'' is the skill that determent the strength of your bite for catching prey</td><td colspan=''1''> lv 11/99</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Merciless culling</td><td colspan=''2''>when fighting any opponent that has a negative status effect, your attack power increases by (0.8)</td><td colspan=''1''>lv6/99</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Aquatic mobility</td><td colspan=''2''>''aquatic mobility'' is the skill that determines how fast you travel in water</td><td colspan=''1''>lv18/99</td><tr><td colspan=''1''>Aquatic language</td><td colspan=''2''>This skill allows you to speak and understand the Aquatic language as well as communicate with some fish</td><td colspan=''1''>N/A</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Human language</td><td colspan=''2''>this skill allows you to speak and understand the human language.</td><td colspan=''1''>N/A</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>*variant special skills*</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>ruby eye sight</td><td colspan=''2''>this skill is formed from the variant trait of the red-eyed goblin fish, this skill allows the wielder to see all stats/skills of an opponent, regardless of countermeasures in place to prevent information observation(this skill levels up through evolution)</td><td colspan=''1''>teir 1</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Ruby eye hypnotism</td><td colspan=''2''>when eye to eye with a subject''red eye hypnotism'' can be activated making the target become hypnotized to yourcommand but this only works on thementallyweakened, there is also the chance the hypnotism breaking duringyour command if they areinterruptedor the spell''clear mind'' is used on them (this skill levels upwithevolution)</td><td colspan=''1''> teir 1</td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td colspan=''4''>Ruby''s skill shop</td></tr></tr><td colspan=''1''>skill name</td><td colspan=''2''>skill description</td><td colspan=''1''>skill cost</td>[/tr]<tr><td colspan=''1''>Natural Poison</td><td colspan=''2''>''Natural poison'' makes it so when attacking or when hit can randomly give a poison status effect as well as gives ''poison resistance level 2/10''as well as ''paralyze resistance level3/10'' (skill seen by the spike eel)</td><td colspan=''1''>cost: 17</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Enhanced senses</td><td colspan=''2''>''Enhanced senses'' makes it so all senses are improved by double quality (skill seen by goblin-fish swarm queen).</td><td colspan=''1''>cost:10</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Swarm call</td><td colspan=''2''>''Swarm call'' allows the user to summon a swarm of ''goblin-fish to protect them.(skill seen by goblin-fish swarm queen)</td><td colspan=''1''>cost: 20</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Basic elemental magic</td><td colspan=''2''>This skill is just the understanding of basic magic principle of the elements; earth, water, air, wind, electricity & space.</td><td colspan=''1''>cost per element: 6 (except water were its 3)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Body strengthening</td><td colspan=''2''>''Body strengthening'' is the skill that improves the strength and endurance stats by a set amount of skill points placed into the skill</td><td colspan=''1''>cost:1 or more</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Mind strengthening</td><td colspan=''2''>''Mind strengthening'' it the skill that improves the intelligence and agility stats by a set amount of skill points placed into the skill</td><td colspan=''1''>cost:1 or more</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Calm mind</td><td colspan=''2''>this is a spell is made sothat it breaksany mind altering effects on the welder and the spell target</td><td colspan=''1''>cost : 10 skill points</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''4''>*SPECIAL*</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Evolving existence</td><td colspan=''2''>This skill is the gift from the pagan god ''alphard'', this skill triples the rate of exp gained as well as allows the evolution of the skill ''ruby eye sight'' once</td><td colspan=''1''>cost: 25 skill points and 10 stat points</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Beast language</td><td colspan=''2''>This skill allows you to speak and understand the ''beast'' language as well as talk to animals</td><td colspan=''1''>cost: either 5 skill points or 2 stat points</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Undead language</td><td colspan=''2''>This skill allows you to speak and understand the ''undead'' language</td><td colspan=''1''>cost: either 5 skill points or 2 stat points</td></tr><tr><td colspan=''1''>Fairy language</td><td colspan=''2''>This skill allows you to speak and understand the ''fairy'' language</td><td colspan=''1''>cost: either 5 skill points or 2 stat points</td></tr></tbody></table>