Ch 21: True Dungeon

The fifth floor was a large hall with many pillars standing in the middle of it. The distribution of the pillars were random and they looked very unnatural.

Suddenly red lights lit up at the top of those pillars and a red beam of light came toward the conquerors. It was not only one pillar but all the pillars did the same and started to shoot the beam in all directions.

Rein used his light element to create a barrier covering everyone. That beam hit the barrier but was unable to pierce through it. Rein observed the seemingly random beams of light and saw a certain pattern in them. Then he also observed that those beams were avoiding the pillars, so even without the barrier if a person stood close to the pillars then the beam would not hit him.

So to try this theory out, Rein went to one of the pillars and removed the barrier. Just as he expected, the beams did not hit them. But after standing there for some time they started to feel heavy weights pressing them down. And with time the weight was increasing bit by bit.

Rein changed their location to a different pillar and noticed that the weight had not changed and was increasing at a slower rate. So that meant one could stand close to a single pillar for a long period of time and should change places regularly while dodging the deathly beams. And doing that over and over again, one would be able to close this place.

Those beams were also quite strong, strong enough to immediately kill a rank 1 monster, badly injured a violet grade transcendental monster and even slightly injured an indigo rank transcendental one. But as they were unable to pierce Rein's barrier the trial of this place became a joke to the conquerors.

After finding out the rule of this place, Rein did not continue with any more experiments and immediately left this room from a majestic looking gate.

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Beyond the room, Rein found a large book floating in the air. Seeing this book, Rein became serious.

This floating book was a very special monster called Bokasha. This was an extremely rare monster that was believed to be created by the Akashic Records itself and had the ability to use many different types of magic without any limit.

The level of power varied greatly among these monsters. Some of them could have power equivalent to the weakest of monsters with the capability to only cast weak low level spells. But it was also possible for a Bokasha to have the power level of the strongest monster. Everything depended on how much access the true Akashic Records had given to this particular Bokasha.

It was very unlikely for this Bokasha to have powers to insta kill the conquerors but just to be safe, Rein used his strongest barrier magic and Stella also used her spirit armament ability to cover Rein in an armour made of water spirit and a shield made of earth spirit. Even though Tasha was not very good with barrier magic, she also put up a spacial barrier to at least lessen the power of any spell even by just a little bit.

At the end all the preparations were for nothing. Obviously, this Bokasha could use many high level spells of many elements without any restriction infinitely, but those spells were still not enough to break Rein's barrier immediately. Bokasha needed to bombard the barrier for several minutes to break the barrier.

But several minutes was more than enough time for any of the conquerors to slaughter this monster hundreds of times. Yes, breaking Rein's barrier within a few minutes was truly very impressive. Rein was unable to judge the power level of this monster with his Eye of Truth, but after fighting it he judged this monster to be a peak blue grade transcendental monster. That was quite impressive and it was also the strongest Bokasha that Rein had ever heard of.

So, just as it was busy with Rein's barrier, Tasha used that chance to sneak up on the Bokasha and slice it into pieces. Just like that they were able to cross the fifth floor too.

This time instead of a teleportation formation, three tokens of some sort appeared before the three members of the conquerors. After taking those in their hands, they were able to understand that, now this dungeon had finally acknowledged them as true challengers.

Using these tokens, the conquerors would be able to enter the dungeon anytime they wanted from anywhere. According to it, the five floors that they had cleared were not even the part of the main dungeon. The main dungeon starts from the sixth floor and ends at the 18th floor. So the conquerors had 13 more floors to clear before conquering this dungeon.

But as now they could return here anytime they wanted, Rein and his team decided not to continue and leave the dungeon for some time. Obviously the ascension test still had quite some time left, so they were probably going to challenge the sixth floor before that, but now it was time for a little break for everyone.

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After returning to the city, Tasha and Stella slept for one whole day to freshen up their mind. They technically did not need sleep but having one was still better not having it, especially for their mental health.

In the meantime Rein went to meet his other lovers, who were living in different places. He spent quality time with them while Tasha and Stella were resting.

In such moments Rein was quite thankful that he did not need to sleep. Or she would not be able to pay extra attention to his amazing lovers.

After both of them woke up, they spent the next day going around the city with Rein and having a double date, which obviously ended with them entangling their bodies in the inn's bed.

Those activities relaxed then completely and finally they were fully energized and ready to take on any challenges. Then finally the three of them activated the token and teleported to the dungeon.

That token had a special function that allowed them to create a party and the party members would get teleportation together. So they would not get separated when teleporting to the dungeon.

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After entering the sixth floor, they found themselves inside a lash forest. Stella used her Eye of Clairvoyance and exclaimed slightly. Rein and Tasha also very soon understood why she did so, as they found themselves on a super large island in the middle of a sea.

With such a large island, if they wanted to search it properly they would need at least a few days to do it. They understood what information the dungeon sent them was true. From now on, that would be going against the true dungeon.