"He's our last member…everyone meet…" the silver-eyed team leader Kizo said as he swung his hands dramatically towards Kishio in a bid for him to introduce himself.
"Kishio" replied to Kizo's gesture as he looked at the other three.
"Well Kishio, this is Sasha," Kizo pointed at a short red-haired girl, "Yash" he continued pointing at a tall huge man "and Lisse." Kizo said pointing at an average heighted female that had a white veil over her face, "Fellows meet our last teammate, Kishio* Kizo said to the team.
There seemed to be a bit of hostile air in the group, but Kizo ignored, he knew once they entered the dungeon they will all be watching each other's back like eagles, he led the way to a small green transport vehicle, the five of them entered as Kizo started the engine and zoomed off
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'So this is how a dungeon looks like' Kishio said, it was an E-ranked dungeon a month and a half old, dungeons usually stayed about three months before they exploded, although some stayed longer, some shorter.
The beasts inside were called silver ghosts as they possessed an ethereal-like body, but could still receive damage, Kizo simply said to be extra careful as they could appear randomly, while some were speed based, the rest they would find out inside.
Kishio stood in front of a small whitish grey building, the building seemed like a haunted house out of the movies except it seemed to be of an ethereal kind of structure, it was about thirty feet above the ground as it hung motionless in midair making it seem more like a haunted house out of some fantasy.
Yash the huge man held a huge axe in his hands, his face appeared serious, Kizo's parasite detached from his finger turning into a long silver sword, "You all know the normal formation" Kizo spoke to the team and everyone but Kishio nodded.
"Wait, what about Kishio," Sasha the red haired girl asked suddenly and everyone froze, it was something they hadn't even bothered to think about.
"He'll remain with the supporters," Kizo replied without looking at anyone, it seemed he had already thought of Kishio's role.
"Let's go," Kizo said as he made a small cut across his palm and a drop of blood dripped down onto the floor, a weird disruption in space occurred as Kizo suddenly vanished.
Kizo looked around, the place seemed to be a kind of abandoned city as if a zombie apocalypse had happened.
The rest of the team spawned, Kishio being the last, Yash gave him a look of disdain before looking away.
Kishio already knew the team's line-up, Kizo and Yash being the main attackers, Lisse being a long range support and Sasha being the healer, he planned on testing out the boom bugs, buy he wished to do so unnoticed, he hadn't even equipped his kogami as he wasn't planning on fighting.
The team leader had invited him and Kizo had said the loot would be splitted evenly, an E-rank dungeon could earn about ten to fifteen thousand gold.
Kishio looked around, run down buildings, some broken vehicles, dark clouds in the sky making it difficult to determine if there was even a moon or sun in the place "Be extremely careful, the silver ghosts can blend with shadows" Kizo gave a last warning.
Kishio suddenly turned his head to his left, he could feel a presence there but he couldn't see it, it was approaching slowly, when it was about five metres away a ghost-like figure appeared, Kishio looked at it curiously, it almost looked like a ghost out of cartoons, hollow eyes as the entries figure was a greyish-white colour, it hands were shaped like claws.
The sound of a sword cutting through air was heard as the ghost's head swollen rolled onto the floor, its entire body turning into a pile of ashes that came together to form a white small crystal, only after Kizo moved did everyone look in the direction, they didn't even notice the silver ghost until after Kizo striked, they gulped as their spines rattled, they tightened their grips around their weapons as they increased their focus on their environment.
Kizo turned his head to the back to look at Kishio, but Kishio simply stared like he knew nothing about the approaching silver ghost, Kizo turned to face the front and continued leading.
Kishio knew Kizo's gave was questioning why he didn't call out attention to the silver ghost, but he knew if he had done so it might become a wonder to them how he sensed it before everyone especially before Kizo who was of a higher rank than them, and he didn't want to draw attention to himself, at least not yet.
The team advanced slowly, Kizo estimated the boss to be about a thousand metres ahead, Kishio sensed about a dozen silver ghosts approaching from both left and right, he looked at Kizo who was leading and could see a frown appear across his face, he seemed to have noticed it too and these silver ghosts were faster than the first.
Kizo halted his tracks as everyone halted almost immediately too, they knew something was up so they all readied themselves "On both sides" Kizo informed the group.
Kishio summoned thirty D-rank bugs when everyone was distracted and commended them to fly into the darkness to prevent being noticed, he wanted to know of their combat abilities, he commanded five to attack the silver ghosts approaching on the left.
Others couldn't see what was happening, but he could, his perception was heightened to all about life and death, he knew the exact location of the silver ghosts and the bugs' actions.
The silver ghosts noticed the approaching boom bugs as they changed their path of trajectory, fifteen silver ghosts went to attack the boom bugs flying towards them, on entering the bugs proximity, the silver ghosts swung their claw hands towards the bugs.
–Boom–
Before contact was made, four of the small gold bugs exploded creating a flash of gold light, Kishio's eyes widened and he almost smiled widely 'Boom bugs' he felt like facepalm for not understanding what it did from the name, but he kept an aloof face.
"What was that?" Lisse asked, caution in her voice, Kizo and Lisse had faced the left to kill the silver ghosts approaching from there, while Yash, Sasha and Kishio faced the right.
The small gold explosion had occurred on Kizo's end, he had a confused expression on his face because all the silver ghosts presence he had sensed had vanished, but he had no time to waste, he simply commanded Lisse to quickly face the right to support Yash and the others, the silver ghosts had just began to appear in their end.
Kishio was facing the right, but his full concentration was in where the fifteen white crystals had dropped, there was still a boom bug that hadn't exploded, he could feel it had a faint urge to do something to the crystals, but he had no idea what and since it was under his control, the bug hadn't acted out.
Kishio permitted the bug curious to see what it intended to do, the boom bug suddenly sprinted forward towards the first crystal on the floor and gobbled it up, like that it proceeded until it ate all fifteen crystals, them it proceeded to lay on the floor, a small gold glow in its belly, it didn't seem to respond to any command.
Kizo and Yash were still combating the other set of silver ghosts so he decided to observe a bit.
As the last silver ghost was killed, Kishio was already planning on sending another boom bug to pick up the one on the floor, but then suddenly it began to move, its gold colour spread a bit covering more of its body as it shrunk a bit in size.
Kishio's eyes widened "It evolved"