Lady Boss Of The Unpopular Dungeon

Una had finished prepping the runes on the doors in the bedroom and calmly announced to Alexa and Rune that everything that ready for the three of them to go confront the monster that had intruded on Astral Descent. As soon as the trio had found out what the monster was, Alexa was already making plans to convince the unknown creature to join Astral Descent as one of her subordinates. The three friends approached the doors and Una touched them which activated the their transportation abilities and soon a bright golden light began to radiate around Una, Alexa and Rune. The golden light lasted a few seconds and then it slowly began to turn white and eventually the now white light faded away, leaving the Una, Rune, and Alexa in a new cavernous room.

The room looked like a stereotypical cavern with dark grey walls of stone and very high ceilings complete with numerous stalactites. As Alexa took a closer look at the walls and ceiling of the cave, she noticed that they were covered in numerous glowing crystals of various sizes and colors. As Alexa stared at the beautiful array of glowing crystals, she felt Rune nudge her legs in an attempt to get her attention and she lowered her head to look at him. Rune gave her a big grin and began talking "Boss, those crystals are the reason this dungeon is called Astral Descent, they dimmed quite a bit from the dungeon being weaken but thanks to you, they'll be glowing brighter that the sun in no time. We also need to find the intruder so at least try not to get too distracted." Alexa rolled her eyes and began taking in other details of the cave. The floors were made of gray stone that was so dark colored that it was a few shades away from being pure black. There were also faintly glowing crystals embedded with the nearly black stone floor but unlike the ones on the walls and ceiling, these crystals were similar to clear quartz and they emitted a faint white glow. There was also a multitude of stalagmites of various sizes and an assortment of different cave dwelling plants and fungi and Alexa could hear a slight trickle of a stream nearby.

Alexa stopped looking at the scenery and turned towards Una who had been quietly observing any movements in the room in order to locate the mysterious monster who had entered Astral Descent in order to escape the small storm that had occurred outside the dungeon. "Hey Una, are any these plants edible, maybe our unexpected visitor got hungry?" Una stopped what she was doing and thought for a moment and soon she gave Alexa a reply. "Yes Mistress, two of the plants and one of the fungi in the cave is safe to consume. Let me describe them to so we can check." Una told Alexa the name and the descriptions of the plants and the fungus but grew a bit puzzled by Alexa's next request from her. "Um, Mistress, why on earth do you want a storage stone?" Alexa smiled and cheerfully said "Well before the intruder alert from the dungeon system went off, I never quite finished my renovations for our room." Una was still a little confused despite Alexa's answer but she decided to go along with her request and handed Alexa a storage gem and quickly instructed Alexa in using it. Alexa walked closer towards the plant life and began to look for the plants that Una had previously described to her. It wasn't long before she came across the one of the plants which was a cl.u.s.ter of long wall-clinging vines with small cl.u.s.ters of pale purple and pink berries which faintly glowed. Before attempting to touch the berries, Alexa decided to field test the analyze function of the dungeon system on the berries to make sure that she could make full use of them and the other plants that Una had told her about.

Alexa took out the mirror that she had placed in her pocket before they had arrived at the entrance and accessed the dungeon system. "Dungeon System, access the analyze function now." A few seconds after Alexa said this, the system responded with "Analyze function activated", and the mirror began to faintly glow with a pale pink light. The light envelopes the mirror and soon Alexa was holding it in a manner similar to when she would take a photo with her smartphone back on earth. Alexa then tapped the glass of the mirror and then a small beam of pale pink light began emit from from the back of the mirror and then she directed the light onto the hanging ivy with the glowing berries. Alexa could hardly contain the bright smile on her face when she heard the sound of the Dungeon System's first successful field test of the analyze function. The Dungeon System had responded to Alexa's scanning of the plant with "This is the Lunar Cherry, a edible fruit that it often found in or near dungeons, it has a sweet and mildly tart flavor and is occasionally used to make wine. A ripe lunar cherry will be purple in color and have a faint glow." Alexa slipped the mirror back in her pocket and activated the storage gem, picking at the cl.u.s.ters of cherries and then storing them. As soon as she had gathered what she felt was a suitable amount to work with, she began looking for the other plant and the edible fungus. Alexa soon found a group of medium sized leafy bushes from which a very pleasant smell wafted out. It ended up being the second plant that Una had mentioned and quickly scanned it using the enchanted mirror. "This is a rare plant called the Silver Spear Bush , it is known for having long silvery leaves and a pleasant calming scent. The leaves can be used for scenting candles, and can chewed in order to freshen breath."

Alexa plucked a leaf from the bush and sniffed it and gave a quiet squeal. It had the exact smell of what was considered high quality mint back on earth. She began carefully taking and placing leaves in the storage gem when She began hearing some shuffling movement from within the silver bushes so she bent down a bit to get a closer look at what was making the noise. All of a sudden, something similar to a small needle shot and nearly hit Alexa in the face, and then all she could hear was a shrill hiss.