Carrying

Inside the dungeon, in the final room.

A three meters tall knight in black armor with silver borders stood with sword and shield, protecting a man who was inside a barrier.

Black Knight Aegis (Lord Rank)

Level 16

HP: 121,000/1,300,000

Dark Priest Heinze (Lord Rank)

Level 16

HP: 1,060,000/1,060,000

Both were Lord Rank monsters of the Team Dungeon, although dungeon's bosses had weaker stats than Field Bosses, their hp was several times higher.

Piles of bones covered the ground as almost all the skeleton warriors that Leroy summoned were instantly destroyed by one of the black knight party wipe skills, about 6 players also died as they didn't manage to use their life saving skills in time. Luckily, Leroy used the Shield of Heity and stopped his attack in time.

But now that it casted it's skill, once again a team of skeletons and wolves pounced on it.

"Lyche's Path" Leroy activated his luck skill

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Regardless of how many defensive skills the black knight used, he was constantly bombarded with attacks, regardless of how many enemies he killed, they kept on coming back.

The knight finally fell and the dark priest attacks grew fiercer too.

No player stood still, they had been attacking the barrier protecting the priest for some time now... With the addition of the skeleton team, the barrier that was on the brink of collapse finally gave in.

"Curse of Piet" "Nightmare"

Leroy used both his curse skill and his robe's attached skill on the boss.

The priest fell in a dazed state while his defenses were reduced by 60%. Right after he was waken up by a wolf bitting at his head.

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Inmediatly, he recovered 30% of his defense as he effect of the nightmare's robe skill disappeared, yet it was of no use still.

What followed next was a pitiful dark-grey skined old man being trashed everywhere.

"Tyche's Misfortune" Leroy used his necklace skill, increasing the chances of the target dropping its best item by 30%.

With five swords piercing his head, chest and stomach, Dark Priest Heinze died, dropping high amounts of loot everywhere.

Star-Moon City Region System Announcement: Congratulations to Raven Sanctuary for becoming the first team to conquer the Hell Mode Fallen Church. All players within the team rewarded with 300,000 EXP, two random Tier 1 Gemstones, 15 Silver Coins and 20 Star-Moon City Reputation Points.

Including the system reward, everyone in the team gained more than one Level this time.

Out of the system reward, the most welcomed one was the Reputation Points, it was one of the reasons that large guilds competed over Hell Mode First Clear in Team Dungeons. The system announcement was also the most efficient way to increase their guild reputation and attracting talented players to join their ranks.

Among the loot, there were a over twenty silver rank equipment, at least fifteen gold rank and even eight dark gold items. The most valuable without a doubt was the dark gold items, they were rare drops from Lord Rank monsters. It also dropped some precious materials for Lifestyle classes, a forging design, two potion recipes and five skill books. There was also a four quest items that dropped because some team members had a quest active.

This time, Leroy didn't command his skeletons to gather the loot, instead he let everyone take a look. Seeing the high ranking equipment everyone was excited, finally they could stop using these scraps.

Leroy took one of the potion recipes, which was a Basic Frost Resistance Potion Recipe and a skillbook.

Summon Black Knight Skill Book.

Use to learn Summon Black Knight skill.

Restricted to: Necromancer related classes.

Without hesistating he learnt the skill, he realized that Tyche's Misfortune probably had no effect on monsters after some time using it.

"Good, good, with this, we can start clearing dungeons on our own now" Ford commented with a pleased expression, he had never seen a monster dropping so many items at once.

"Well, I'll let the distribution to you" Leroy casually said and left the Dungeon.

Outside, everyone in Star Moon Kingdom was in turmoil. A nameless guild actually obtained a First Clear of a Hell Mode Team Dungeon?

Star Alliance, World Dominators, Emperor's Light, Ouroboros were just some of the first-rate guilds that were fighting for the First Clears, yet now one of them got taken by a guild that nobody knew anything about.

Among the members, they knew only one of them... "Sensations..." a first-rate Guild Master gritted his teeths, this player didn't even put other guilds in his eyes, he didn't even respond their messages, yet, there he was taking First Clears.

Different people had different reactions, some guilds could only envy their success, other guild's resolve grew stronger as they did their best to acquire stronger equipment and level up. Even the strong Adventure Teams could only look in admiration at the system announcement, whats more about the independant players.

Regardless if it was a guild or a independant player, everyone knew a single truth, a new competitor appeared, and it was strong. Altough they didn't know much about the recently established guild, they put it at the level of first-rated guilds right away. Simply because no second-rate guild was capable of clearing the Hell Mode of a dungeon, even clearing the Hard Mode was pushing it.

Outside the Fallen Church, Leroy changed parties with the second team.

While the first team would be clearing dungeons and obtaining equipments, the second would only focus on leveling.

Piwer Mountain was a level 25-35 map, it was a green mountain with a variety of monsters, no player would be crazy enough to come here as the monsters would probably kill them in one or two hits. Yet a team of twenty-one man approached this place.

"This should be a good leveling location, we will try here" Leroy said and summoned his skeletons and wolves. Inmediatly the wolves departed into the mountain.

Not long after, twenty monsters appeared while trying to kill the wolves.

Piwer Bear (Common)

Level: 25

HP: 13,125/13,125

Piwer Black Bear (Elite)

Level: 27

HP: 31,245/31,245

Cyan Stripped Tiger (Common)

Level: 26

HP: 11,854/11,854

The wolves rushed past the team of thirty five skeletons which enclosed the monsters in a tight formation. The skeletons didn't hesitate and started slashing at them. From time to time, they would leave some space and a wolf would charge at the enemies at high speeds.

"Hell Fire" "Black Rain" "Dark Slash" "Dark Fireball"

Leroy didn't forgett to use his skills, even the single target one. They weren't neccessary to kill the monsters but it was the only way they would level up, once they reached the standards of a Tier 2 Skill their might would be much stronger. Fighting against higher level monsters didn't just gave huge bonus exp but also more skill proficiency.

His summoning skill however, increased much faster than any other.

As for the guild team? they just stood behind Leroy, they were Level 11-12, if they were to fight against these monsters they would be killed in a single attack. Only those with ranged attacks participated in the fight, increasing their skill proficiency too.

As Chieftain Rank summons of the same level, the skeletons made easy work of them. Altough they were not as strong as a chieftain boss, especially their hp points, their attacks and defense were high and their combat standards constantly improved, Leroy even started teaching them his movement technique and some sword techniques yet the talent of the skeletons seemed limited and their progress was very slow.

Even with twenty members in the team, with the exp bonus it was still a lot of exp points.

They walked up the mountain while Leroy killed the monsters. The higher they went, the higher the level of the monsters.

In the way there, a ranger actually found two treasure chests that were Iron Rank. Herbs and Ores were collected along the mountain by the members who had nothing more to do, while the monsters dropped good quality leathers and junk items.

One of the undead wolves rushed out from a cave while sounds of strong footsteps that made the earth tremble reached them.

A three meters tall black bear appeared in front of the formation of skeletons at the same time as dozens of other monsters rushed forward.

Bear King Scol (High Lord Rank)

Level 24

HP: 540,450/540,450

Seeing the monster, the team inmediatly grew wary and took a few steps back. A High Lord Boss was a monster capable of destroying it's sorroundings with each attack, its strength wasn't something those at Lord rank could compare.

"Summon Black Knight"

Leroy quickly casted the spell as a tall black armored person appeared besides him.

Black Knight (Lord Rank)

Level: 26

HP: 115,000/115,000

The defensive type summon had a good amount of hp, it also increased it's Tier by 1. Still Leroy was quite disapointed considering how strong the summon was inside the dungeon before.

With a command, the knight inmediatly rushed to the Bear King. At the same time, the skeletons sorrounded the monsters that the other wolves gathered and started attacking. Leroy also helped with his AOE attack skills.

Seeing the unpredicted situation, two assasins from the team took a magic scroll each and casted. Suddenly in the area of the monsters, a tempest formed and wind blades attacked all monsters in the area while a second later fire surged along and devoured the monsters.

The black knight casted two defensive buffs on himself and clashed with the bear king, he was still pushed back despite this. But now that the monsters were gone, the impact of the bear king joining the attacks was reduced. If it were to attack at the same time they were dealing with the common monsters, only tragedy would follow.

Impact after impact, the black knight lost a third of his hp quickly. The Bear King claws turned red and slashed forwards, the black knight dodged to the side but the attack took three skeletons by surprise and exploded into bone fragments.

Leroy consumed a casting potion and also attacked.

"Curse of Piet" "Nightmare"

The bear aura was reduced considerably after being debuffed, yet it wasn't all.

"Unholy Domain" "Call of the Sage"

Leroy reduced it's stats further while improving his own, the bear speed slowed down considerably and was slightly slower than an average Lord Rank now.

From the area, dark mana materialized a figure clad in black robes with a staff in hand.

Dark Wizard (High Lord Rank)

Level: 26

HP: 435,000/435,000

He managed to summon a strong monster this time, he was expecting its rank to be higher though, it seems his Soul Orb attached skills worked quite differently from what he expected.

The Dark Wizard casted and huge green fireball rushed into the dazed bear king.

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The bear was inmediatly pushed back with the huge damage he received. This made the guild members on the second team pale too.

"Nether Bite" "Dark Rain" "Dark Slash"

A big snake sorrounded the bear and bited it's neck, poisoning him. At the same time, four dark arrow rained down on it from time to time and dark waves of mana crashed enterely on his body without missing.

As the bear recovered from this intense attack, it instantly left an angry howl and its fur started to glow golden, his defenses increased at the same time he casted a skill and the ground broke while huge rocks were sent flying to his enemies.

Leroy moved and casually evaded the attacks, the skeletons warriors mostly dodged it too while the black knight was a bit clumsy and could only use a defensive skill, reducing the damage received. The Dark Wizard casted a barrier in front of him and the attacks didn't manage to break it. It then casted a spear of green flames that shot towards the bear belly.

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Even with his defenses increased, he was still weakened by the Unholy Domain and the Curse of Piet and so the bear received a high amount of damage again. The green flames of the spear started spreading on his body and caused damage over time too.

"Hell Fire" "Dark Arrow" "Dark Spear"

Leroy also attacked after drinking a recovery potion.

The fight continued like this after shortly the bear changed targets to Leroy. Leroy used a Speed Scroll along his boots movement speed buff and started running around, dodging the bear attacks while no longer attacking as much as before, only when the Nether's Bite skill duration went off.

Under the attacks of the Dark Wizard, skeletons and wolves, the bear grew more and more frienzed and yet didn't manage to hit his target. He casted another skill, and boosted his stats once again and went berserk, once again multiplying his stats.

Suddenly, Leroy seemed to misstep and lose his balance.

Taking the chance, the bear inmediatly rushed and sent a claw to him.

"Shield of Heity" Leroy extended his hand and the bear clashed with a transparent force that protected his target, silver and black mana was released to the back of Leroy due to the strength of the impact. The bear was knocked back five meters but didn't have time to react at all.

"Tyche's Path"

Splash!

A huge spear covered in green flames pierced his heart from behind while a team of skeletons rushed attacking him.

Splash!

This time, a dark spear pierced his forehead from the front.

Boom!

An explosion sounded as a huge green fireball blow him into pieces.

You have level up

Dark Spear skill has improved to Tier 1 Level 0

Dark Arrow skill has iimproved to Tier 1 Level 0

Dark Fireball skill has improved to Tier 1 Level 0

He gained a level and three of his skills leveled up after the fight was over.

The Domain and Dark Wizard disappeared as he contemplated the items gathered in front of him.

There was more than a dozen of dark gold equipment pieces and even more fine-gold rank items, crafting materials and common items were abundant too. Even six skill books dropped.

He could only sigh as none of this could be used by him, he wasn't surprised too, finding equipment or skill suited for his class was very rare.

"It seems I can only return to that place after this..." He would continue to help level up the team for the rest of today and return to the Undead Realm in search to improve his power.

This time, he distributed the equipment and skill books among the team members. They were contacts of his uncles so there was no need to reserve anything from them, he could even remember a few faces from the previous Leroy's memories.

After the fight with the bear, the team continued grinding monsters with renewed vigor until the day was over... Leroy stopped just as he reached Level 22 and the team members ended at level 17, just in a single day it was a frightening leveling speed. Everyone drool at the tougth of being carried alone by Leroy, if they didn't had to share exp with each other, just how fast would they level up?

Leroy finally logged out, he sent Felicity a message to get someone to replenish the S-rank nutrients of his gaming cabin and fell asleep.