Aftermath

After a while, multiple days had passed the festival was soon to reach it's end as the little tournament had ended with a dragon knight coming on top, not a draconic knight, a dragon knight, despite the similarity in the name, they were very different, the dragon knights were following the path of becoming dragons while the draconic knights wished to slay the dragons.

It may seem ironic since their style revolves around using draconic elements but as it turns out draconic elements are what are most effective against dragons and their kins, dragons get elements to slay one another, this is how a dragon truly gains strength.

This kind of things barely mattered to Vlasfimia for the moment though, he was focused on two things right now, paying attention to the presence of his brother and selling his chickens, the time had come after all, the buyer were coming to get their products.

He managed to amass quite the sum with the festival done and since he had gathered more than enough for his quests, it was time to focus on the minotaur he had captured and he was also thinking on doing something else as well.

'Tomorrow though' he thought to himself, tonight was a night of party for everyone including the knights and Vlas was very keen on seizing this opportunity.

He wasn't one to lock himself into a single tactic to get what he wanted, he explored every way available to him, mixing them up if necessary.

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After an eventful evening and night, Vlas woke up feeling refreshed, he wasn't one to drink much and he was a fair bit resistant to it, so no hangover for him, it would not be the same for everyone though, some had drank as if their stomach were on another plane.

Vlas was in a room, on a bed, this was an inn that had been reserved by him, he couldn't just bring people to his actual home.

Flanking him on both sides were two pretty women, two fetid knights, so the smell wasn't the greatest but it was to Vlasfimia's liking.

Steathily slithering outside of the bed with remarkable proficiency, Vlas dressed up and made his exit through the window, after all the room had yet to be paid and he wasn't one to avoid saving money.

Walking through the streets, he felt like he was back at the headquarters of Infamy with all the living carpets than were swimming in vomit, it would take a while to clean up more than a day for sure since the ones supposed to clean it were definitely also swimming in it.

Funnily enough, when the entire city was a shithole, Infamy wasn't one, all of the drunkards usually populating the building were outside touching some dirt.

Vlas walked to the only table with someone and sat across of them.

"How's it going, Numquacaptus?" he asked as he sat down.

"I am v'ry much fine, if 't be true excluding the s'rrow yond fills mine own heart" spoke The Blind in a way very few could replicate.

Both of the men stared at one another for a while, no words were exchanged but words were going through nonetheless.

"Okay, okay, if you insist so dearly" said the well dressed murderer as he started speaking in more normal manner, not even nobles used as much formal words as he did.

"So, when would you want for that secret area to be installed?" asked the grey masked man.

"Well, as soon as it is available of course, they have already conducted multiple searches but these foolish fools found nothing" said Numquacaptus as raised his cane in the air in a heroic fashion.

"I'll start today and it will most likely be done by the end of the week" said Vlas.

"That is quite fast" remarked The Blind.

"You got the things I asked for?" then asked Vlasfimia.

"Of course, they are already prepared" responded the fake noble.

"Then it will only take a week, I am an expert after all" uttered Vlas.

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"Listen very closely, you pull that, wait four to seven seconds then push this, wait ten to fifteen seconds and only then hit this part of the wall three times in quick succession" explained Vlas, who was currently looking very much like a construction worker with his overalls.

"The door will then be opened but remember that you need to push it as if you were trying to push a boulder up an hill, if you don't it won't budge" Vlas finished his explanation of how the secret door functioned.

"Bravo! That is quite the work of art!" exclaimed Numquacaptus clapping his hands.

"Thanks, now it is time to pay" said Vlas, not forgetting what was due to him.

Numquacaptus may be a fake noble but he certainly had the money to pass like one, he pulled a pouch out of his pocket and gave it to Vlas.

"Glad to be making business with you" said the grey masked man as he tipped his non-existent hat and left the house.

It was late during the night, so he headed to the little house in the woods to enter the dungeon from there, as the normal entrances closed a bit after night fell.

There was nothing that changed when night fell on the first floors of the dungeon, so Vlas had no issue making his way to the imprisoned minotaur, removing the dirt that covered it and opened up the cage, letting a minotaur out, it didn't even seem to be particularily angry at its predicament just angry that a human had the galls of being in its field of view.

It once again did the one thing that had made it lose last time and charged at the human, however this time instead of simply hitting the wall and turning around to see its target further away, it received a punch to the face knocking teeth out of its mouth in a single hit.

It definitely wasn't the kind of minotaur one imagined when hearing the name, its horns were grabbed and he received a knee to the face repeatedly, fracturing bones in its face until its horns broke off and it was thrown on its back.

Only to then get clubbed all over its body, in particular its joints with its very own horns, the beat down lasted for five minute before Vlas decided that it was time to stop, the first floors really were not a challenge for him anymore, the thrill of combat was nowhere to be found on these floors now.

This was why, he had in mind to fight against a boss monster, he had already fought a few of them.

In the world dungeon, bosses could be found in multiple places, some guarded entrances to the next floors, some roamed the floors but were usually refered to as 'mini-bosses' as they tended to be weaker than others, they were also random bosses that could be found behind locked doors, at the ends of pits and other places and lastly there were hidden bosses, they were usually located behind walls, completely cut off from the rest of the dungeon or hidden behind a riddle.

Vlasfimia was aiming at a boss that was simply located further away on the third floor, the third floor had pretty much the same things as the previous floors in term of monsters but the floor was a thick forest making traversing it much more difficult and located far from the entrance to both the fourth floor and to the second floor, a boss could be found behind a heavy door.

The boss was quite known for being stronger than one would expect considering the floor he was on but that was pretty much the only info that was told about him, adventurers kept their secrets and the guild did too, the only other thing known was that he could sometime drop a one time use scroll that taught the user a spell.

There was also one last thing to be known about bosses in the world dungeon, something would change if only one person fought against a boss.

It was usually higher rewards or a sometimes a bigger challenge, however it didn't occur to someone who had defeated the boss in the past with a team, so it was exclusive to people who defeated them by themselves on the first time.