Ch 20: A Hard Dungeon (4)

The scenery that welcomed the conquerors on the fourth floor was that of a desert. After using the teleportation circle of the third floor, all of them found themselves inside a dilapidated hut. They also noticed that for the first time, they had a different teleportation circle available here which could bring them back to the outside world.

Not only the but the inside of this small hut was a safe zone. So in time of any danger, adventurers could come to save themselves and then return back to the outside world from here without defeating the boss monster of this floor.

This meant that this floor was giving a lifeline to the people who are unable to use teleportation magic to leave the dungeon. So this floor was probably going to be pretty tough.

Rein looked at the sand surrounding them from all sides and made eye contact with his lovers. Immediately then all three of them rushed out with their weapon already drawn.

This hut which was a safe zone was also a danger zone for anyone wanting to leave it. That was because only the inside of the Hut was safe and the outside was filled with countless monsters hiding inside the sand.

Rein, Stella and Tasha immediately started the slaughter of these monsters. There were large scorpions, ugly giant worms, weird looking centipedes and more. All of them were also rank 1 at this point these were probably the weakest monsters that this floor had to offer.

Even though they were quite weak and the members of conquerors had no trouble slaughtering them, their numbers were truly astonishing. All three of them killed and killed the desert monsters like a killing machine without any emotion. They were only done after killing them non stop for 2 hours.

After so much killing the corpse of the monsters had stacked up to create a literal mountain. In those two hours the three of them had killed close to one hundred thousand monsters. To do it, each of them had to kill about 5 monsters per second and the conquerors were able to do just that, proving that their strength was really on a whole different level.

Then again, they started to scout this floor. As a dungeon diver, the very first thing one had to learn was to stay alert all the time. So to not face sudden and unexpected dangers, scouting was very very important.

After observing this floor for some time they noticed that most of the monsters here were cunning and mostly depended on ambush and sneak attacks. They were also very good at hiding and had high patience, so much so that they could stay still on a spot for hours if any days just waiting for their prey to come to them.

Other than that, the atmosphere of this fourth floor was also very bad. The air was dry, water magic was getting hampered and the heat was unbearable. Even for extreme powerhouses like Rein's team members, they also had to take out special clothes to keep themselves cool. The heat was less like normal heat but was more like a fundamental law of this particular floor.

Many high level dungeons had such fundamental rules. Just like touching a hot thing felt warm and not cool. This floor also forced everyone to experience the true environment of a desert.

But honestly, this floor was actually quite a easy one and with great scouts like Stella and Tasha, that faced no serious troubles. Soon they reached in front of a large and magnificent castle.

Rein judged with his Eye of Truth and just general experience that the teleportation formation leading to the next floor was inside this castle, so they needed to clear it next.

The very first hurdle that got in their way was a large five headed dig that was guarding the castle door. This dog was just slightly weaker than the last floor boss but was still a transcendental monster.

The conquerors faced it like a team. Rein attracted all the heads and cut off one easily. Another head was barely able to resist the same fate, but it was still badly injured. Tasha took this chance to cut off another head cleanly and also finished off the head which was injured by Rein. Stella bombarded the two remaining heads and that soon were unable to keep up with her spells and met her end. One head was burnt to a crisp and another one was charred by lightning.

After that they entered the castle. This place was filled with golems and undead monsters, so Rein was able to guess what type of creature would be the boss for this level. He had seen castles filled with undead in several other dungeons and all of them had the same monster as the boss.

But knowing about it did not make the work easier as this monster was truly quite troublesome. That would be true for any and all other people in the world. Even if they were miles stronger than it, but it was not the same for Rein.

After clearing out the hordes of golems and undeads, they finally reached in front of a gorgeously decorated door that looked like the entrance to the throne room. The Boss of this floor was definitely behind this door.

As Rein, Tasha and Stella entered the room, they saw someone sitting on a very luxurious looking throne. What was sitting there was not a living being but an undead. Not a normal undead but an undead of very high rank.

It was an Archlich. Archliches were extremely powerful magic casters and often could use multiple elements together, making them a very tough opponent. But that was not the most scary thing about them.

A transcendental rank Archlich had a special inherent racial ability called the Embracer of Death. This ability allowed it to use an extremely potent instant death magic which had a slight chance of instantly killing even people with a higher power level than it by sacrificing its life. For that reason no one liked to face off against this monster.

The chance of killing a stronger person immediately was terrifying, no matter how low that chance was. No one could be sure that they would not be unlucky and that minimum chance might kill them.

But that was not a problem for Rein. Actually Rein's Golden Light's strongest speciality was purification and against undeads it was extremely effective. So much so that Rein believed that he would be able to defeat any undead creature if it was not immune to the light element. Even if it was above the red level of Rein's power scale.

Just as any normal Archlich would do, this gorgeously dressed one also summoned a veritable army of undeads. Rein did just what he had been doing all along, he created a golden light on his palm filled with the concept of purification to the brim and immediately threw it towards the undeads.

A brilliant but gentle light shone in front of everyone and when the light disappeared there were undeads to be seen. All of them, including the Archlich had disappeared after getting purified. This was one of the easiest boss fights they had.

Then the conqueror used the teleportation formation that appeared behind the throne to go to the fifth floor.

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Current Location: 5th Floor

Time passed inside: Over 4 days

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