"Oof!"
Landing in the concrete floor face first, Vanoss grunted before he recovers for a few moment. He looks around his surroundings and realize his still in the dungeon, he remembers Nogla shakes some crystal and the next thing he knew, he is somewhere around in the Dungeon.
He expect he would meet his other friends who got teleported with him however he couldn't find them anywhere which seems they are separated.
"How unfortunate this is."
Moving forward around this large maze, he suddenly saw one party of Adventurer passes by, seeing some adventurers, Evan decided to follow them.
Peeking from the corner, Vanoss saw the Adventurers were up against large numbers of zombies and skeletons with enchanted armor and weapons, except for a few, which they... weren't wearing any clothing. And you can see the micro dicks they have.
While they are outnumbered, these adventurers seem experienced in fighting, and based on their tags, Vanoss guessed they are these F-ranked Adventurers.
Well, he is not planning to watch the fight, he can just kill-steal from these losers since watching his friends killing thousands of Ohmreckers in a matter of minutes and watching the performance of his friends, he couldn't waste any more time lazing around
Channeling the mana inside of his body, he activated one of his spells [Drifting Steps], a 2nd tier spell he just bought in the market, it is not cheap, but quite useful. And this is the first time Vanoss used it.
Thereafter, as he moved forward, with each step he took, the mana beneath his feet would intensify.
Shortly after he activated the spell, he found himself freely running across the dungeon as his speed increased by small increments with each step he took.
"Yeeeeeeee...!"
Wooosh!
"W-What was that?" One of the F-rank adventurers exclaimed in surprise.
"Huh?"
Like a streak of light, Vanoss quickly and swiftly run surpassed some of the Adventurers who were running ahead. Though he was still far from the first placed people, he was confident that he would soon catch up to them.
Clank! Clank! Clank!
As he moved forward in a Naruto run, the loud sound of Adventurers fighting against monsters appeared everywhere, mostly from highly armored skeletons riding skeleton horses, and more... naked zombies.
Moving his body slightly, he managed to somewhat dodge the battles, but he knew that avoiding fights wasn't an option.
...and he was right.
More than ten to twenty monsters soon appeared before him. Both F to E-ranks obstruct his path.
Because he was moving so fast, he didn't have enough time to stop. Hence, briefly glancing towards his surroundings to make sure no one is going to take his kills, he lightly tapped on the sheath of his netherite sword.
Click! Shing!
Thud! Thud!
Soon after, sixteen monster heads rolled on the ground. It all happened so fast that even if anyone were around, they wouldn't have been able to pick up what had happened.
Instantaneous.
Right after the heads of the monsters hit the ground, ten meters ahead of where they were, Vanoss managed to finally stop his body from moving.
As soon as Vanoss stopped his tracks, he checks out his kill count.
[VanossMC: 36]
'Alright, 10,000 more to go to surpass everyone.' Vanoss thought as he grinned widely, now he began to move but rather than activating drifting steps, he jogged forwards but his speed was still faster.
The roads of the cave had become narrower, moreover, the ground wasn't flat making it hard for him to gather enough momentum without doing anything unnecessary.
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Like that, for the next hour, Vanoss either passed Adventurers and steal-kill from them and hunted down monsters that tried to ambush him as he moved forward.
"This is a good pace."
As he jogged, he check his kill counts and shows he has 5,591.
How did he get that much kills? Easy, on the 100th floor, finding monsters is like finding humans in a village. Or finding a cheap prostitute in normal streets. Monsters somewhere at D-rank or above can be difficult, it's like trying to find a worthy, skillful, and experienced prostitute in the streets.
But still, regardless of them being weak or strong, Vanoss got a lot of monster kills. Though it was a lot, it was still far from the likes of the rest of his friends. If he had to guess, the highest kills would be either Brian or Wildcat with over 20,000 to 30,000 kills.
Therefore, Vanoss' current goal is to reach 50,000 kills or kill the boss. They already say that killing the main boss of the floor will surpass everyone.
Though hard, it wasn't impossible. Especially since it was told that the 100th floor was a special type of floor than any floors the dungeon had, filled with various different dungeons, countless different rooms and worlds in one floor. This floor was literally an infinite dimension, filled with more infinite dimensions.
After a bit more hunting, Vanoss soon arrived at a fork road that separated into three different directions. Without even thinking about it hard, he quickly moved towards the right area
'Alright, let us go this way then.'
Just as he was turning towards the right path, he heard a deep voice coming from the left side of his ears. Glancing towards where the voice came from, he soon noticed a tall individual with a buzzcut and thick glare. It was evident that he had purposely waited for him
"There you are."
Turning towards the voice's direction, Vanoss sees four men, in the middle is a young man with very handsome features, he has green buzzcut hair and blue eyes. Vanoss instantly remembers him; he is the leader of a group of D-ranked Adventurers known as "Everlasted Jinns" or something.
"Ah, howdy doody. Never knew it was you there, A. A. Ron, I presume?"
"It's Aaron, you brat!" One of his party members angrily yelled at him.
Raising his hand, the latter silence his party member. Without responding to him, with his arms crossed, Aaron moved towards the middle of the cave. Obstructing Evan's path.
"I've been waiting for you..." Slowly approaching in his direction, Aaron smirked, "I should've taken care of you shortly after your little chat with Draila, but dealing with many other things going on with my life, I completely forgot about an insect like you. But worry not, now that I've remembered. I'm going to make sure you suffer..."
Crack!
Cracking his neck, Aaron disdainfully looked at him, "Let's start by beating the shit out of you. Physically and mentally."
"Oh ho! You fucked up now, Bird man! You can't escape the great Aaron Horman!" The other party member cheered.
Watching Aaron walking in Vanoss direction, raising his hands, slowly backed off. Smiling wryly, Vanoss said, "Ah, Mr. Rich boy, let's talk things out. I have no idea why you are so pissed. Let's not get physical shall we?"
"Yes. We will talk. But not with our mouths."
"Ohh~ So you wanna do a handjob instead of a blowjob, not my style but still kinky." Vanoss joked with a teasing grin on his face.
"..." Aaron could only look at Vanoss weirdly, before his expression suddenly became fiercely infuriated. "Are you messing with me?! Enough jokes!" he roared.
Boom!
Finished with what he wanted to say, Aaron tensed his calves and propelled his body forwards. Fast as a bullet, he quickly appeared before Vanoss
Noticing his actions, as he watched him appear before him, Vanoss couldn't help but curse out loud.
"Oh come on man! Why must people always resort to violence! I know I did that sometime but not ALL the time."
"Shut up, you brat! Now Die!"
As Aaron arrived a few meters before him, Vanoss saw his huge halberg heading towards him. But he's not the only one as three of his party members surrounded him doing the same thing with their weapons.
Sighing, moving his body side to side at incredible speed, all of the blades flew past him.
"Huh?" Aaron and his men were left dumbstruck.
'Impossible! He's just a mere Rank 4, I am ranked higher than him!' Aaron exclaimed in his mind with a look of confusion.
True, Aaron is a Rank 5 fighter while his men are all Rank 4. Dodging them at the same time in point blank range means their talent is considered as monstrous!
Before you readers call it bullshit, Vanoss drank a potion of Swiftness and used the skill [Drifting Steps], it made Vanoss even much faster that could move at tremendous speed.
"Arrogant. Listen here, A. A. Ron, me and Draila don't have any chemistry each other. We're just friends-... nevermind, I don't think some simp will ever listen to some reasons from what I have heard."
Before Aaron could react, he hears a clicking noise and in an instant, his men fell unconscious on the ground.
"What?"
Soon after, before Aaron could make out how his men just passed out, clenching his fist and concentrating his mana there, Vanoss threw a punch towards his right upper area.
Bam!
A shockwave swept the surroundings, collapsing a few walls and ceilings around the Dungeon. The punch is very powerful enough to decimate a large building. The reason the Dungeon still stood was because the special power in the surroundings prevented it.
"Wh-khuuuaa!"
Before Aaron could even have time to react, Vanoss' fist connected to his liver. Soon after, he found himself on the ground kneeling.
"kkhhhh..."
As saliva dripped from the corner of his mouth, Aaron tried standing up, but it was a futile effort on his end. His legs refused to budge.
As he tried to move, it felt as though a jolt of electricity coursed through his body from his liver down to his right leg and up to his brain system. Within about half a second of when Vanoss' fist connected to his liver, Aaron found his body paralyzed on the ground. He was in complete agony, unable to breathe, stand, or think clearly.
No matter how much he tried to stand up, he couldn't
"Don't try to move, man. It's pointless. I concentrated a bit towards your liver area."
Staring at Aaron squirming on the ground, Vanoss slowly walked up to him and said, "If you've paid attention in your class, the liver is one of the largest organs in the human body when faced with a stimulus, the liver releases both the body toxins it tries to filter and a very large amount of blood back into the body, resulting in your body completely shutting down as a means of self-preservation."
Holy moly, Vanoss says something smart, how rare. He is among the a group of idiots but that doesn't mean they are literally dumb, his a smart idiot nonetheless.
Squatting down, at Aaron's eye level, Vanoss grabbed him by his short hair and slowly added, "So regardless of how much you want to stand up, your body refused your brain."
Regaining some clarity, staring at him with wide eyes, Aaron couldn't help but mutter
"Y-You, h-how?"
It had to be noted that despite the fact that he was caught off guard even though he never took his opponent seriously, Aaron shouldn't have been this hurt from a simple punch.
Especially since he specialized in strength and defense. Unless his opponent had higher stats or faster than him, it was impossible, even more impossible for somebody who has lower stat than him.
He trained all of his life to become stronger to surpass his childhood friend, Draila. Trained by an expert fighter and desperately trying to increase physical abilities and rank, he is now confident to fight her head on. But seeing the girl he likes with that beastmen pissed him off.
And recalling the fact that the same person he hated who was only ranked below him, he didn't believe some peasant actually damaged him a lot.
It was impossible.
Moreover, the blow came too fast and too precisely. Almost as if he had been waiting for that moment since the very beginning. Slowly he came to a realization.
"Y-You, you've been waiting for this moment since the very beginning!"
Smiling, Vanoss didn't reply. His analysis wasn't wrong, he indeed had been expecting his attack from the very beginning. Thanks to that Asian man's warnings.
Enough time to have a conversation with Sokushi about Aaron, Vanoss learns that he had a habit of always starting a fight with the right side of his opponent. From there, it was fairly easy. With him thinking Vanoss was weak, Vanoss pretty much exploited the opening he created when he punched in his direction and hit him straight in the liver with the fastest and strongest attack he could muster thanks to his potion of Strength and Swiftness.
What he did wasn't rocket science. It was just a simple analysis.
"Hmm? what are you trying to say?"
Pretending to have not understood what Aaron was saying, Vanoss leaned his head forward.
"Let go of my head, you commoner!"
Glaring at him, Aaron with both hands on the ground tried to stand up.
Well, he tried, but it's not like Vanoss was going to let him stand up. Since he had the advantage, he wasn't just going to throw it away like that. Pulling him by the hair, Vanoss smashed his face on the ground with all of his might.
Bam!
"Khhhhhauuu!"
"Nope, stay down like a male bitch. You need to rest a little more."
"I'll kill you, fucker!"
With his nose dripping with blood, to Vanoss' surprise, Aaron's head lunging in his direction. Almost like he wanted to bite hin.
"Wow!" Vanoss exclaimed and immediately took a step back, his action caught him off-guard.
Moving his head backward, raising his hand by reflex, a loud slap resounded across the empty space.
Slap!
Staring at his hand that had turned red, Vanoss couldn't help but raise his voice at Aaron.
"Jesus, what is wrong with you A. A. Ron? There's no need to resort to biting. What are you a monkey? The only butt monkey in this world has to be Brian."
"I'll kill you!"
Slap!
Slapping him once again, a red mark appeared on Aaron's face. Looking at Aaron, Vanoss said with an apologetically look.
"Aaron, calm the fuck down. Please don't take it to heart."
Slap!
"As a friendly neighborhood Adventurer I am, it is my duty to help other fellow Adventurers who are in trouble."
Slap!
Ignoring the fact that Aaron's cheeks were progressively getting bigger, Vanoss continuously slapped him in the face.
Like that, for the next minute, loud slapping sounds reverberated across the area he was in.
As Vanoss continuously slapped Aaron in the face, he soon saw tears streaming down from the side of his cheeks. They were probably due to the pain. But he didn't care, that dude just needed to be taught a lesson. Vanoss was no longer the passive him from back then.
Although he still loved to not stand out, that didn't mean he would stand by and get abused. If his opponent was someone he absolutely couldn't pick a fight with he would endure, but if it wasn't, well... good luck.
Slap!
After another round of slaps, lightly laughing, Vanoss stopped. Aaron's cheeks were currently a dark shade of blue, and his eyes were completely hidden beneath his swollen cheeks.
Letting go of his hair, Vanoss stood up. Patting his own body as he jokingly said, "Anyways, since you specialize in strength and defense these slaps shouldn't hurt, right? Just take it as me caressing your cheeks gently."
"I'll...kkk."
As Aaron was on the ground battered, although he tried to speak, because of how swollen his cheeks were, barely any sound came out from his mouth.
Ignoring him and glancing around, Vanoss sighed in relief.
Fortunately, no one witnessed what had happened. It most probably had to do with the fact that all the stronger Adventurers were already ahead, but currently, no one saw him 'educating' Aaron.
Of course, as he was 'educating' Aaron, he made sure to not overdue it. Altough their are nearby adventurers around here, they didn't actually know what was going on.
Thus when Vanoss was 'educating' him like the good teacher he was, he had to be careful not to severely injure him.
"What's going on here?"
Just as he finished dealing with Aaron, a voice entered his ears prompting him to freeze on the spot.
"Huh?"
Soon, the same guy name Benjamin's figure emerged from the middle road of the forked paths. Glancing at Vanoss for a second, his eyesight soon paused on Aaron and his party members' sorry state.
Coughing lightly, Vanoss wryly smiled, his mouth twitched, "Cough! Cough! Errr... would you believe me if I said he tripped?"
"No-... hmmm."
Though Aaron couldn't see, his ears were working. As soon as he noticed someone coming, he immediately tried to speak. However, before he could do so, Vanoss immediately placed his foot on his face and stopped him from speaking.
"Shut the fuck up I'm talking over here." Vanoss silently muttered at the down man without losing on maintaining eye contact on the A-rank adventurer.
"..." The latter could only stand there in silence. Looking at the scene before him, Benjamin was speechless.
Seriously, it didn't take someone with a high IQ to understand what had happened.
Soon an awkward silence prevailed in the surroundings.
After a short pause, shaking his head, Benjamin proceeded to pick up both of the four adventurers with pure strength as his body glowed in magical energy.
"Forget I even asked. I have no interest in what happened but I pretty much dislike Aaron as you, Mister. Whatever he did to you, I understand..."
{Greater Teleportation}
Before the A-rank adventurer vanished, smiling, Vanoss waved at him.
"Bye now."
Vuuaamm!