Fynn tapped Amelia a few times on the small side of her neck. For a few seconds, she held on strong, her cheeks so puffed they looked like a squirrel's. Then she laughed.
"Stawp!! That tickles!"
Fynn smiled as he said, "Good. I need you to get attacked by monsters for me." and then grabbed her arm and jumped to his feet, yanking her with him.
She finally let out the pent-up squeal, "AHHHHH!!!" Landing on her feet safely, she gave one meek look at the 2 new members of her team before turning away in embarrassment.
The second she turned, her armor changed back to her original armor–exposing her nearly bare butt to everyone.
'Well, if I'm not allowed to swear, at least I can still have this.' Nick the pervert thought, noting how weird the game world's censorship was.
Swearing? Nope.
Dismemberment, blood, gore, and mountains? Absolutely.
But who could complain with the way her hips swayed when she walked...
"Hmmph."
A cautioning grunt from beside him pulled his gaze from Amelia–who he was sure he didn't remember from Aether Babes. He looked into an angry Juliana's eyes.
'Shet.'
He was expecting a kick to the groin or a zap of lightning, but all she did was twirl her hair and place her other hand on her side.
"I don't know why you wouldn't bind her. She seems useful. If nothing else, she can distract you and all our enemies while I do the real work."
She said the last part almost teasingly, slightly biting her lip. Why did she have to be so hot?
The third member–Fynn–slapped his back, saying, "Well, when Yck recovers from the sudden lightning cloud, we'll be ready."
Nick nodded and Yck groaned.
...
It turned out that Amelia was the breadwinner of the group and covered the entire cost of the dungeon all by herself. Nick still couldn't fathom paying to enter a dungeon rift but chalked it up to game mechanics. It was a bit nicer than assuming political corruption or something crazy like that that obviously didn't exist.
Amelia gave the guard the entrance fee–1,000 gold. She was still in her gamer-friendly armor, so the guard was blushing as he escorted them to a blue rift: D-Rank. Apparently, Amelia was completely oblivious to her current situation because, thinking that she messed up somewhere causing the guard to blush, she gave him additional gold as a sorry.
Of course, he continued blushing. Her butt was very plump...
Even though the guard was the one escorting them, it almost felt like Yck was because he did his absolute best to keep himself at the front of the line. Of course, he wasn't very successful because the guard was an actual fighter.
Yck probably just carried that huge broadsword across his back to look intimidating.
'Well, we'll be thrown into a life-or-death situation soon enough. Maybe he'll surprise me. Or maybe I'll have to go out of my way to save him.'
Juliana stayed close by, staring at Amelia the entire journey. A small part of Nick was wondering if she was secretly Lesbian. That would suck.
Somewhere behind them Fynn was following in the shadows. Scary archer business.
Overall, Nick felt safe. They were just starting their journey after all. The first dungeon shouldn't be too bad...
...
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[12 D-Rank Fallen summoned]
[8 warriors; 2 mages; 2 healers]
'Fallen? Like the-'
As if to affirm his suspicion, the ground beneath him began shaking. He planted his feet into the ground while studying it, waiting for any bony hand to fly out. None did, and instead, the earthquake only intensified.
Clank!
Somewhere behind him, Amelia had fallen. Her armor clanked again as she struggled to her feet.
He felt the light touch of Juliana's shoulder pressing against his as they covered each other's flank. Somewhere in the distance, he heard Yck swear and Fynn draw an arrow.
Nick steeled his grip on his sword as he became acutely aware of his surroundings, especially the ground.
Then the smell of death filled the air as 12 corpses entered the land of the living with clacking bones and groaning laughter.