Nero, The Legendary Hunter

"What is this idiot doing?" Honda frowned.

"She\'s not an idiot," Jana said, "Jingu is trying to kill several at once."

"Nero, Jana, Honda, get ready to shoot, degozaru!" Using her speed, Jingu did something risky; she brought many skeletons chasing her, creating a multitude of them.

Nero sighs, then she smiled and drew three arrows at the same time and used *<Wrath Of The Valkyrie>!* The three arrows hit three skeletons from the front, stealing their life force, and going from one to the next until each arrow destroyed three and exploded.

*Booooom!*

The explosion caused a chain reaction, devastating the skeletons who were soon bombarded with fireballs and explosive arrows.

*Boom! Boom! Boom!*

"Heavens, it\'s all gone to hell~!" Honda celebrated.

"That\'s good, but... do you want to learn something new?" Nero said. Then she looked at Jana and Honda and smiled.

"Need to ask the obvious?" Honda puffed out her breasts, and then gave a smug smile. "Didn\'t I say before that I\'m the princess apprentice of something new? Maximum I\'ll fail 100 times, I swear. After all, I\'m the apprentice princess."

"Honda?" Jana looked at her strangely. "Don\'t feel ashamed, Hahaha. Look, if it were me saying something like that, I\'d be now digging a hole to hide in~"

Jana continued to laugh out loud, and Nero laughed along with her. Honda blushed pink. She scratched her face in embarrassment.

Nero\'s eyes turned serious again. "Okay, enough of that. Look! They are in trouble."

Nero pointed. Jair and Breno were surrounded by skeletons. Back to back, they had defeated many, but they seemed endless.

In the sky, Nero conjured a mass of black energy. The energy mass changed shape and transformed into an ancient Chinese dragon. When it started to fall, it was like a jet of very fast petroleum.

*Roar!*

The black dragon roared. Falling on the skeletons, it was like magma, falling and spreading, looking like it was melting the skeletons. But the reality was that it was acting corrosive, like acid. Half of the group of skeletons surrounding Jair and the rest were ravaged by the black dragon.

"Nero!" Jana was so excited she almost jumped on Nero. She said full of excitement in her husky voice, "That was fantastic! I need to learn this attack, what\'s it called?"

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[Notice!]

[Your actions created an Ability: Name It!]

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Nero was thoughtful for two seconds, then said, "I can choose the name since I created this technique. Do you have any good suggestions?"

"You created it yourself!? Amazing, as expected from The Goddess." Honda raised his thumb unconvincingly.

"Black Sea… Yes, that\'s a good name!" Jana snapped her fingers enthusiastically.

"I was going to say Wrath of the Black Dragon, but Black Sea seems to fit better," Honda said.

"Then it will be Black Sea." Nero smiled. "If you two can use an ability, you can name one if you\'re using your element as it\'s very unlikely that it\'s already been created."

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You created the Skill: [Black Sea]: This skill is currently at level 1.

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"Very good. Don\'t get distracted for too long." Nero conjured another.

*<Black Sea>!*

In the air, her conjuration started to appear in a flashy way, but the skeletons didn\'t even notice. They had a very peculiar advantage, but their lack of fear made receiving any attack without dodging a very serious problem.

Most of the skeletons on the east side were killed. Nero pulled the bow with a serious look, and she started shooting arrows like an automatic machine gun. There were so many arrows that the whistles the arrows caused almost became a tune to a beautiful song of war. Half an hour later, almost all of the skeletons were exterminated.

"Amazing, Nero!" Choko approached her with long strides, almost running. Standing in front of her, she hugged Nero. "As expected, there\'s no one better than you. Look at that, so much skill and power. My God, I think I\'ve fallen in love again, really, in addition to being gorgeous enough to die for, you\'re fantastic at everything you do. Seriously, can you be more perfect?"

Nero smiled. "Thank you, Choko. I\'m afraid you\'re a great flatterer."

Yui finished collecting the skeletons and came back.

"Nero, only the boss is missing," Yui said while piling all the skeletons into a pile.

"Mm." Nero nodded, then smiled. "You can cooperate and kill it yourselves. It will be a good challenge for you all." The boss was a skeleton warrior with a shield and a large one-handed sword. He wore dark gray armor with a helmet.

"Any of you there, want to use a shield?" Nero asked. She had gotten a shield by using <Plunder> just now on some skeletons.

Everyone was silent.

"Well, I expected that." Nero smiled, "Maybe it\'s a good idea to try to find a tank for our group. However, you can go and take turns with each other to defend against the boss."

Jana and Honda prepared to carry out long-distance attacks. Jair, Breno, Yui, Choko, and Jingu approached the boss. When they entered the boss\'s space, he rose from the throne he was sitting on and ran towards them with his sword suspended in the air. Choko was the fastest. She raised her left arm over her head and like a crab hook, she defended herself.

*Beng!*

A metallic clang rang out when the impact connected, causing red sparks and a blue glow.

Nero backed away, and Breno pierced the boss with his spear. The boss defended with its shield, and Jair attacked from the right, but the boss was agile. Despite not having eyes, he had something similar that shone in a glowing neon green. He defended himself with his sword and was even stronger than Jair, making him retreat. Jair spun in the air, and went down in a crouch with his sword thrust into the dungeon floor.

Jingu, with all her agility, attacked several times, but was repelled by the boss\'s shield. She retreated and fireballs and wind arrows began to bombard the boss.

*Beng! Beng! Beng! Beng!*

The boss got some splinters in its bones and armor, but it still held its ground. Soon its eyes lit up and it started attacking faster like it was going into berserker mode.

Yui, who was the strongest of the group in terms of defense, came to the front of the battle and used brute strength to kick the boss\'s sword hard in the hilt. The boss spun around and got back on its feet and started attacking non-stop.

Choko often defended herself, but was bad at counter-attacking. As the boss was almost 300 cm tall, with long arms and legs, it was difficult for her to get close.

"Stand back!" yelled Jana. Fireballs covered the sky. Falling on the boss like a meteor shower, fireballs railed into the boss and propelled by wind arrows they hit even harder.

*BOOOM!*

The boss was fidgeting and attacking randomly. The smoke generated by the flames blocked his view. Jingu and the rest started attacking in every way using their best attacks. The metallic sounds, along with the hollow sound of bone being crushed, echoed like a soundtrack as they continued to attack relentlessly.

"Ahhh!"

Jair screamed in pain. As he retreated, the boss\' sword had cut a little into his belly. Taking a stamina pill, he swallowed. Soon the cut started to regenerate, but the speed of regeneration wasn\'t that great, though it was better than nothing.

Breno and the rest attacked even faster while supporting Jair to recover. When he recovered, he went back to helping the group attack the boss.

Almost half an hour later...

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(!)Mission: [Conquer the Third Floor of the Rank C Dungeon] Complete!

Reward: [Goddess Spear] +550 Strength, +510 Agility, 400 Energy, +100 Charm, +150 Luck - Rank C- has been added to your inventory.

Reward: 4,000,000 Essence Coins have been added to your inventory.

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Nero saw this information appearing on her retina, so she smiled charmingly.

"Okay guys, we stop here," Nero said with a gentle smile, "We\'ll rest and distribute the rewards, then we\'ll go back to farming on the 1st floor."

"Aren\'t we going to try to go to floor 4?" Choko asked.

"No, for now you are still too weak for this. We don\'t need to take more steps than necessary. Better to play the best way, which would be to farm the 1st floor and get stronger, then we can go to the 4th floor," Nero said.

She started using <Plunder> on the boss, then she distributed the monster cores to the rest of the party.