chapter 6: The salamander dungeon part 1

I stayed quiet for a few seconds as I decided. Within the second I opened up the mission panel with the mission containing each of the dark guilds mission so I contacted Serana and Delphine and assign them all the missions related to the c-ranked dark guilds to exterminate together into take everything they own we'll also assigning all of the lower class mages of the guild to help them. And I decided to assign Diablo to watch the girls leave the guild into battle and if someone's about to lose their life he will interfere. For these assignments I made sure to put in the description to be at peak condition for each consecutive fight. No you're probably wondering why I send Diablo a bona fide A-rank mage to play babysitter. It's because I want to make sure I do not lose any guild members. Especially at this early stage. Though it is true that I could just go and clear out a few more goblin dungeons to retrieve more members for the guild but it's not always a guarantee to find the same quality of members nor could I possibly find those who would be easily manipulated into joining after all some people are just that cruel to not care if someone else is going through the same pain as they went through. 

Hell some people would even be happy that others are understanding their pain. I shook my head lightly as I discard this thought as I looked at the dungeon list and chose to head to the salamander dungeon which unlike the goblin dungeon which has three floors to explore and clear the salamander dungeon only has two floors that you could go into at the beginning of the game there was a third floor yes just like every other starter dungeon though that one is full of lava so you had to obtain some form of heat resistance or fire immunity to actually explore it without taking heavy damage 24/7. The reason why you couldn't access the third floor in the game was because the developers wanted you to explore more variants of the dungeon; the salamander dungeon actually has more than three floors unlike the other two starting dungeons; the salamander dungeon in total has five floors. The first two are just like the goblin dungeon we're open to; the only difference was this dungeon had splotches of lava everywhere and small lakes that only got bigger. By the third floor there are giant rivers of lava separating different sections of floor 3 and below with the fifth floor being what I had to had my character maxed out at SSS to reach because the developers thought it'd be a good idea to place a special Easter egg which was the bonfire from dark souls. And once you reach that Easter egg you would gain a unique guild upgrade for your guild members and they could use that bonfire that will be placed in the guild to teleport around and create wherever they want a bonfire.

So yes there are only 4 other Easter eggs like the bonfire from dark souls and they are in completely different dungeons that are locked behind the guild level. And those two Easter eggs are the goblin slayers armor which would let you have an instant one shot ability against goblins and their various evolutions. Even if you're level one and you're facing a level 100 goblin world boss you could still one shot it. The second Easter egg was Excalibur and it was placed in a wild dungeon called the ruins of a kingdom. And when you first find it you would see a notification saying you have found the sword in the Stone. And that would be it and this Easter egg could only be obtained if you were playing a good aligned guild and you had slain at least 10,000 undead creatures. Which mind you these undead creatures you could find instead in The wild dungeon or in the skeleton or zombie instant dungeon. When you met these two conditions you could draw the sword from the stone and then receive the god tier item Excalibur. Which just having it placed inside your guild would give all your guild members a passive advantage against undead or unholy creatures such as demons.

In this advantage was a damaged buff of five times your base damage. So for example if you're doing 500 points of damage you're then with this buff against unholy creatures and undead will become 2,500 points of damage. And this was a flat multiplier not something that was based on stats meaning no matter what you would always be doing five times damage to undead and unholy creatures. Now time for the 3 Easter egg which was the sword frostmourne to obtain this particular Easter egg you either had to do 1 of 4 things along with knowing necromancy. Those two things either became a lich or a death knight. Those two things are particularly isolated and aren't possible in being a good guild. So if I wanted the guilt of having this Easter egg I would have to do one of the other two things, which is to bring the harvest soul of a lich to a wild dungeon called the undead labyrinth and find the secret room and it. Or the last method which is to find the world boss inside of a level 100 wild undead dungeon and be defeated while holding 10 souls of 10 different death knights which you would have to defeat in said dungeon and the effect you would gain from frost more being in the guild possession would be that everything that has a soul upon killing it you would get to have one point added to one of your stats as well as having a multiplier of two times damage to anything that is counted amongst the living. Now for the last Easter egg.

And this last Easter egg was three swords from the devil May cry game which were the Yamato the rebellion and the Sparta. You would have to defeat one of three enemies to obtain one and typically you were only meant to fight one but you could fight the other two MPCs which hold the two other blades allowing you to obtain all three blades. Mind you by defeating the first enemy the other two would get stronger so by the time you do face the last one he would be about three times stronger than he normally would be. And he and his other compatriots wear level 50 characters and with each consecutive power-up they would gain an additional 50 levels. So by the end of this dungeon where you could face all three of these enemies you would be facing at the end of it after defeating two of them a max level character at level 150. Which in this fan game was the max level who both zareth and acnologia would be at. So yes this last Easter egg was extremely hard to get the full benefit out of and typically only when you were playing New Game Plus for your third time would you be at the max level and have corresponding gear and equipment to face these guys. 

In this particular dungeon called The arena of the Father and the twins. You could only enter this dungeon once per playthrough which meant for your first time playing through you could only get one of these three blades through a playthrough. But if you did manage to obtain all three blades you could free forge them into a new weapon called the devil knights blade. A fan-made weapon combining the art style of all three weapons from the devil May cry games into one. Now there would only be one difference in the effects of all three blades if you were to obtain them separately and not combine them; the same effects they all share are a five times multiplier damage against demons and a passive bloodline called devil's blood. And this bloodline would increase all of your stats by 25%. Of your base parameters without the augmentation of equipment or artifacts.

Now let's get into the individual effects of each three blades. The first blade rebellion is the easiest to obtain out of all three thanks to its wielder Dante having the easiest to deal with skills and abilities in attack methods and having the slowest attack speed out of all of them. It's unique effect would be that in the case of your character having a demon seed which is the item or affect you would get after having demon Slayer magic would combine the seed with any other Slayer magic seed so if you had a godslayer seed or a dragon slayer seed it would fuse the demon Slayer seed with one of these two or both.

The yamato's unique effect is called separation and you could do the exact opposite of the rebellion and completely separate not just the demon Slayer seed but also the other two Slayer type seeds to prevent yourself from turning into one of these three creatures being demon dragon or God. If you chose to. And now the spartans unique feature which was called Union which only came into effect when wielded by a crossbreed of two different species. Such as human and devil which would increase their base parameters by an additional 50%. Now we get into the fusion of these three blades' unique effects. 

Now the devil's knight blade possessed all three of the unique effects of the three previously mentioned blades but also had two new effects. The first of these new effects is called ascended devil bloodline which instead of increasing parameters by 25% it would be rather turned into 75% increase in base parameters. So yeah it nearly doubled your stats. Which if this blade is wielded by a max level character you would almost have the strength level of a level 300. Now the second unique effect is unique to only this blade. It's called bloodline departure which allows you to give the lesser version of the devil's bloodline to your guild members. But sadly you cannot ascend the bloodline you gave to your guild Members only The guild Master can receive the ascended bloodline effect because of course you would give it the sword to your guild master AKA the player character to use. So yeah the developers made obtaining these Easter eggs very useful and very valuable and worth going through the trouble of obtaining them.

So all in all the Easter eggs in this game were pretty cracked and overpowered and made it worthwhile to actually obtain it. But enough of my absent minded thoughts about this salamander dungeon. After all I am far from reaching any of these depths of a third floor too the fifth floor of this dungeon which a bare minimum I would need to be at level 20 to get through and have fire resistance to get through with health potions or fire immunity and just fight the monsters which after the second floor would all be level 20 creatures. But the question is could I freeze or turn the lava into solid rock? That is a good question and that is why I'm here to test it. After all, if I could obtain the bonfire Easter egg ahead of time then it would make getting around and doing commissions all the easier. After all having the bonfire Easter egg all members of The guild could use the bonfire and create bonfires to travel around and everyone would know the knowledge of it. Of how to use it and how to create it though no one who isn't a part of the guild could actually use these bonfires and it was only unique to the guilt members.

As I looked around and walk around the salamander dungeon I couldn't help but Smurf and that's with one punch I could easily kill all the salamanders because the game classified these as extremely deluded bloodlines of dragons dragon Slayer magic had a heavy effect against them in the conflicting elements of ice and fire do respective bonus damage against each other because fire melts ice and ice eventually turns into water which hurts fire immensely. So sadly for the salamanders they all got instantly killed and none of them were even an opponent as I walked through the dungeon and killed everything up until the last creature on the second floor. Each creature had the same XP worth of a goblin. And only the salamanders on the third floor to the 5th floor could actually improve XP gain. So at most I reached level 5 which gave me my first good thing, the skill upgrade point which obviously has the names just lets me upgrade a skill and add a arrangement of effects to my skill so I picked my claw attack to upgrade since as a dragon slayer I'll be fighting hand to hand and rarely spamming my roar. And there were two options of effects that could be added to my clause. 

"Option one: add the bleeding effect to each claw strike draining 1% of the enemies Max HP per stack up to five.

Option two: add the frostbite effect to each claw strike which reduces the speed and reaction speed of the target by 2% up to five stacks."

Did you effects were pretty good and the percentage would only increase as the skill is leveled up. Each skill can only be upgraded to a max level of five. Which then its name will change to its final form which would have its name from before but before it being ascended. Kind of like how a standard dragon could have ascended to a dragon king. When all the basic skills of a dragon slayer have reached the ascended rank that dragon slayer would be considered a master dragon slayer in the game. But I chose to add the bleed effect to my claw attacks after all nothing's wrong with doing more damage.