Alaric nodded and swung his whip again. The baby turned towards him and screamed heading for him.

" Perfection...perfection," that was the only thing Alaric heard through its screams.

The others shot their powers at it but only a few landed. The baby turned towards them but Alaric wrapped the whip around its waist and the red ones in the whip started to glow.

This time the baby lifted Alaric up and threw him against the wall. Alaric didn't unwrap the whip, he pulled the baby with him. It narrowly avoided hitting the wall.

Alaric despite the pain swang the whip out trowing the baby towards the others as it screamed. The sound was truly horrifying. All their ears were bleeding but they didn't have the luxury of earbuds.

The others showered their powers and this time the power all landed on the baby, they managed to injure it on it's stomach. Blood splattered from its wound as the castle walls shook and started to crack.

Alaric swung his whip towards the crib and wrapped it around the leg. The baby who had been hurt appeared in front of him the moment he touched the crib.

Alaric was stunned but he rolled to the side and kicked the baby's back. It slammed onto the wall. The baby had so many openings so Alaric could assert that it didn't have any fighting experience.

He stood up and ran towards the crib while it was still disoriented. He was about to touch it when it appeared in front of him again it's hand outstretched.

Alaric barely managed to escape the attack and protect his face. He was thrown against the wall hard, he could feel some of his bones crack from the repeated impact.

" The crib, it's protecting the crib," Alaric shouted to the others who were attacking the distracted child.

Snowy shot ice towards the crib. The moment the ice touched the crib, the baby screamed louder than the last time. They had truly pissed it off.

Plant vines shot out of the ground under the crib and tangled around the crib and started to tighten around it. Alaric could hear the wood cracking.

Alaric swung his whip towards the baby in front of the crib and wrapped its leg. He pulled it towards him and smashed it into the ground.

The sharp edges of the whip managed to cut through the already injured skin pulling some of the flesh.

It still didn't stop screaming and teleported before the crib again. Ruby appeared above it , and stabbed it on its shoulder. She twisted the knife digging deeper into its body.

The walls shook . Alaric wrapped his whip around the baby's neck and pulled it away from the crib.

Hailey was having a difficult time breaking the crib but she had managed to break apart half of it.

Everyone had been busy distracting the baby from Hailey but it proved to be difficult since Hailey was struggling and wasting time.

Alaric looked up at the floating baby and ran directly to the crib. He wrapped his whip around it and the whiter lines started to glow.

" Add me some more," he shouted to snowy.

She turned and shot a block of ice that fully froze around the crib. The baby shivered it seemed to have noticed the full attack on its crib.

" Guys why didn't anyone wake me up?" John's shout vibrated through the hall.

Alaric smiled. He wrapped the whip around the crib's leg and swung it around in a circle to create momentum. Hailey and the others kept the baby busy.

" John, how about this wakes you up," Alaric said and released the crib. It catapulted in the air and straight towards John.

John raised his fist back and punched towards the oncoming crib subconsciously. A burst of fire hit the crib sending back across the room towards Alaric.

Alaric swung his whip and wrapped it around the oncoming crib and turned halfway around with it before smashing it into the ground hard. It broke into pieces as ice and wood scattered all around the place.

The baby's screams came to an abrupt stop. It fell from the air its arms flailing and hit the ground with a sickening crunch.

Everyone watched it vigilantly but it didn't get up, it lay there as the pool of blood spread under it.

Alaric looked around at the hesitant crowd and walked towards the dying baby.

The baby looked up at him with eyes that seemed to be losing its shine. It smiled ,a smile that Alaric assumed was a smile of relief.

" At last, let's just finish it?" It whispered as blood flowed out of its mouth.

Alaric pressed the button on his whip and the blade appeared. He stabbed the baby on its head his hands shaking. It twitched for a second before it went silent.

Alaric released his breath. He cut through its head and pulled out the skill card and awakener stones. With blood in his hands he turned to the others.

( (Boss defeated: Memorial child.)

"I think this is the only loot and there are no more awakener stones," he said.

The others look at him with widened eyes.

" What?" He asked confused

" You just killed a baby, that is so fucked up" John said before a laugh slipped out.

" What you wanted to raise it," Alaric retorted and chuckled. None of them noticed his trembling hands.

" Eww no that thing will kill me in my sleep, " John said and leaned against the castle walls.

" Look! the dungeon stone," Ruby said.

They all turned towards the destroyed crib. The dungeon core was floating in the air as though inviting them.

" How?" Alaric bluttered out.

" The crib and the baby were probably in a symbiotic relationship. This is a dungeon where even a rock can be very much alive, " Hailey said and picked the dungeon core.

" Is everyone ready to leave? "

Everyone nodded.

She broke the dungeon core and the portal appeared. She stepped through the portal and the others followed. Alaric was the last one in the group.

He was just about to enter the portal when he noticed something shining in the broken crib inside an obscure piece of ice.

He walked back to the crib and picked it. After bringing it near his eyes, he noticed it was an elemental stone . He looked towards the others but they had disappeared. Lucky him, he stored it in his storage space . He pushed the ice around with his leg just in case they missed something again.

That was when he found under the ice and wood was a skill card and three awakened stones . He stored them directly and ran to the almost closing portal and stepped through.

" I thought you were stuck, what the hell were you doing in there?" Snowy asked the moment he stepped out.

" I thought I saw the baby move again so I ran to confirm," he came up with a random hoping it would fool them.

" Were you that scared of that baby that you started seeing hallucinations," John said in a mocking voice. Alaric felt like hugging the annoying man for once.

He nodded. The others didn't question any further.

" Hey guys you're back, it seems like no one died congratulations," Sacrat's voice came from behind them. He must have come at the very moment since he had not been there when Alaric arrived.

" Were you praying for our deaths?" John asked and walked towards Sacrat who was also backing away.

" Your's would be a dream come true" he said a smirk on his face.

" Hey,, " John said following behind him.

Alaric smiled and looked at the place where the portal had been one last time before he followed the group.

I need a bath , Alaric thought to himself .

...

" So are you guys planning on leaving tomorrow or are you staying here?" Alaric asked the others.

They had gone back to the hotel that day and rested. It was dinner time and all of them were famished so they all came down for dinner.

Sacrat had told them they had spent almost fifty hours in the dungeon. To Alaric it felt shorter than he had expected .

Maybe he had started to get used to the dungeon life, Alaric mused.

" Alaric the loot, let me see?" John said extending his arm to Alaric.

Alaric put the clean cores and skill card, from the baby,on his hand. He hadn't expected to get anything from the dungeon hunt since he was being carried and had come to just get some experience.

" Here, take the awakened stones we don't really need it but I'm sorry but we can't give you the skill card, " Sacrat said.

" It's okay, the stones will be useful to me, " Alaric smiled and took the five stone.

He really didn't care since he had gotten an extra skill card. They didn't know there were two bosses and the crib was also a body, maybe he was just lucky.

Alaric understood why the dungeon boss had protected the crib very much. From his guess it was probably related to the illusion creation but had no fighting power.

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