My group prepared for a month, we were going to set a record on this dungeon, maybe even take on the final keeper. We saved our strength on the first few floors only fighting if we needed to in between other adventures battles. While we snuck through the fourth a deluded laughter resounded near the center.
A woman with sandy blonde hair, ragged black horns that grew longer and longer as she danced idiotically from skeleton to skeleton, laughed. She couldn't have been a high rank from the lack of intention behind her attacks, though we couldn't deny how she was handling herself with around thirty skeletons around her.
Her orange eyes were wide, something about looking into them scared us.
"Is she ok?" I asked.
"I guess I could try and check." Our healer said, she squinted. "Shes weak, like very weak. Her magic is at its limit yet she keeps casting spells and enhancing herself. She over doing her strength, she doesn't need to enhance herself for these guys."
"So is she some masochist?" we all let out a sigh as our mage talked.
He was also a dragon and knew magic sickness well. Our healer screamed and twisted backwards from the woman.
"What happened! what happened!?" We all frantically checked on her.
A group of skeletons jumped on top of us but right before I could draw my sword and cut them down, an insane weight pressed us all into the ground for a second. The cores of all the skeletons exploded into crimson mist. I looked back over at the women whose demeanor changed. She was more cautious and the laughter stopped, hell, her face looked flushed.
We got our healer to calm down and we continued to move quietly toward the curve.
"What happened?" I asked again.
"One of her skills, the second I looked at it…" She took a break and shivered. "It was as if looking at my own death and the death of everyone I know, along with feeling them."
We all threw another glance at the woman whose fighting went back to normal, or her normal, but she started to do something different. She cut off arms, hands, heads, legs or just knocked the core out of the body instead of destroying it. She let the skeletons revive and knock them down again. It was as if she were simply doing it for training. What's she training for to be pushing past empty?