We have managed to slay the mushrooms and the big orange mushroom; our task now was grabbing a treasure chest! I had never seen a treasure chest before in this game, but this one truly looked like the ones you would always imagine. It was shiny and had some sort of sparkling aura to it as well. I looked at Rita as she had eyes fixated into the treasure chest.

"Okay, you can open it." I said.

"R-Really?" She asked.

"Yeah, you're a newbie so keep whatever's inside. Also you bought me the game and the VR set so I owe you a lot." I said with a smile, Rita's eyes sparkled brightly, as she rushed into the treasure chest. I quickly walked to her side, and the two of us saw what was inside as she gently opened it.

FLASH!

A bright light came out from its interior, and then a lot of gold coins showed up! A lot of gold hundreds of coins, perhaps? So I guess that's a lot of currency, that's nice.

"A lot of coins Eh? That's it?" She sighed, as she touched the gold, it quickly began to disappear and get added into her Gold Inventory.

However, as the gold was completely emptied from the treasure chest, something else showed up there It was a cute bronze ring with a decoration resembling a winking orange mushroom on top. Wow, so cute!

I quickly checked its information, finding out it was an accessory that could be equipped by anybody. It was pretty interesting.

[Mushroom Hero Ring]

Item Type: Equipment, Accessory (Ring)

Item Quality: E+ Rank Quality

Item Level Requirement: No Requirement

Item Bonuses: +20 HP, +50 MP, +10 INT, WIS, LUC

Item Skills: [Legendary Mushroom Hero Blessing I]: Decreases damage from Mushroom-type Monsters by -10%

Item Description:

A special ring once wielded by the Legendary Mushroom Hero. It grants a slight increase in stats, although its complete power can only be shown after wearing the other parts of the Mushroom Hero Accessory Set, which include a bracelet, hairpin, and a necklace.

Rita picked it up and looked at it while squinting her eyes, she seemed to dislike the childish design, but it was way too cute! How come she dislike it?

"U-Um, I prefer my ring" She said.

"Your Ring of Darkness? But it doesn't grant this many bonuses to stats!" I said.

"I-I know that! But I can't just go around wearing this" Sighed Rita. "I really don't want it, please take it."

"Eeeeh? But it's so cute!" I sighed, as I quickly put it on my available slot. Any player can wear rings in all fingers, so getting ten rings is quite important in late game, especially because bonuses to stats are important against boss-type monsters, or so I read on the internet.

Ding!

[You have equipped the [Legendary Mushroom Hero Ring], the [Legendary Mushroom Hero Blessing I] Skill has been activated, you will receive -10% damage from Mushroom-type monsters!]

Wow, and the bonus is not bad at all, I can get a bonus to damage reduced only against mushrooms though. But this dungeon is filled with them so that's pretty nice.

"See? It looks so cute!" I said, showing it off to Rita, as she smiled.

"Anything looks cute on you, Elayne." She sighed. "But there's no way I am wearing that ridiculous ring! It really just looks like some sort of kid's toy from McDonalds or something!"

"Geez, you're so harsh with the little ring It says it has three other pieces, maybe if I wear all four of them I'll get some Set Bonus as it says! I wonder what it could be~" I giggled.

"You're really into the game" She sighed, petting my head. "You look so adorable when you get happy Been a while since I saw you like this."

"Haha I-Is that so?" I said.

"Yeah I am happy that you're enjoying yourself." Rita said, kissing my nose.

"Geez, stop kissing me so much, perverted old woman!" I said.

"Hahaha! W-Who are you calling old woman?! You're also an old cougar!" Said Rita.

"W-What's cougar anyways?"

"You don't know?!"

"Eh? Should I?"

"No, let's just keep your mind pure My cute Elayne is cute because she's a pure angel after all."

"I-I am not a pure angel!"

"Hahaha! Compared to me we are like an angel and a devil, don't cha think?"

"Ugh You're always saying weird things like these Well, anyways, let's get going, there's some more dungeon to explore before we reach the last place"

"Right! Where do we go now?"

I showed Rita the map, and it showed two more paths to walk on, there's the straight path moving forward which we were taking before, and then another path that goes to another area, we don't know if it will led anywhere, but it might be worth investigating it quickly.

"Oh, I see, let's take that path then! Maybe we can find something interesting there!"

"Okay then! Belle, let's go!"

"MEEE!"

With Belle galloping rapidly, we rushed across the dark caves, quickly reaching the area that I showed Rita. This cave led deep into a long and straight line that deviated from the original path, and then, Belle stopped.

"Huh? Stairs?" Rita looked in front of us there was a big set of stairs going down, Belle wouldn't easily be able to carry us across stairs, so we decided to go on foot.

I had been using the small Sunlight Spirit as an illumination device, he seemed rather bored that I had yet to use him to fight, but he was nice enough to not complain it out loud.

"Hm, this is a bit suspicious. This could be a trap." Said the guide.

"Really?" I wondered. "But what could be the worst thing?"

"Being trapped inside a room while many monsters come your way? Or maybe traps that deal damage, even a pitfall or something!" Said the guide.

"Geez, you're such a worrywart" I sighed. "But you might be right Loki, go investigate for us!"