Ch 19: A Hard Dungeon (3)

The first road only had a few rank 1 monsters so it was a cakewalk for the conquerors to clear. After clearing this road as they had expected, they were able to reach the bottom of the mountain.

As they were unable to fly for the time being, so if they wanted to reach the top of the mountain from here they would need quite a lot of time. But they also noticed that the mountain itself had no monster so they would not face any danger in their journey to the top of the mountain.

From this it was easy to guess that choosing the easiest road would take the longest time to reach the top of the mountain and choosing the hardest road was also the fastest way. But Rein had already checked with the Eye of Truth that clearing this floor faster would not give them any special rewards so he was not sure how being quicker to reach the mountain peak would be useful.

So to see what was going on Rein and his lovers decided to clear the hardest road next. This road had many rank one monsters in it with three of them being at the peak of rank one.

So clearing it was a bit tougher. But the members of the conquerors did a perfect teamwork. Rein faced all the monsters from the front and attracted their attention. When the monsters were distracted, Tasha used her assassination and Stella used her long range sniping to kill them. Any monsters that faced Rein were also killed.

As for the three rank 1 monsters, the three members of the conquerors faced off against one of them alone. Rein took on a four handed ape that was quite good at free handed martial arts. Rein also did not use his sword against it to test his own martial arts out.

As that ape had two extra limbs he was able to make more attacks and the angle of the attacks were also quite tricky. But that ape was mostly using punches and kicks, but Rein also knew techniques related to grappling and holds, after a short bout lasting about two minutes, Rein was able to throw the monster to the ground and followed that with a knee strike on its head which killed the monsters.

Stella did not face her opponent from the front like Rein. Instead she took quite some time to create a magical trap and then lured the monster she was facing into that trap. She had already made the trap to release extremely destructive spells on contact and that was enough to kill her opponent.

Tasha used an even sneakier option. She periodically attacked the turtle like monster she was facing but everything she left immediately after just making a scratch. That turtle monster had a very strong defence, so after some time when it noticed that Tasha's attacks were not doing much damage to it, he immediately tried to ignore her.

But all the attacks Tasha had made before was done with a dagger that had the inherent ability to strengthen any poison and Tasha was capable of creating extremely powerful poisons with her Black Dark magic. So in no time, that turtle got badly poisoned and died soon afterwards.

These three monsters also had special abilities like the peak rank 1 monsters they faced on the previous floor. The ape monster had a special ability to detect any and all kinds of magic. It was not just simple magic detection but she was able to even see through the structure of a spell. Rein was also able to do something like that with his Eye of Truth but it was still quite an impressive ability.

The monster who died tragically in Stella's trap was a monster that had extreme acidic properties. It was able to melt most of the things that came into contact with it, even magic was no exception. Stella was able to kill it so easily only because, she completely dominated it with her extreme magic firepower.

As for the last opponent, that turtle not only had an extremely strong resistance against both physical and magical attacks, it also had an extra ability to save its life in critical situations with only one hit point. This ability did not get activated only because he died due to poison and not by regular attacks. They would have been almost impossible opponents for even the strongest of orichalcum ranks.

After reaching the top, Rein and his team were able to observe the boss of the floor and also found out the reason why time was an important factor for this floor. They saw a humanoid made of stone sitting on the top of the mountain and absorbing some kind of power. His overall strength was increasing a little bit with each passing second.

The extra power of this monster was covering the main body like a veil and so Rein was able to judge how much strength it was able to gain. After calculating everything, Rein judged that at the very beginning, this monster was only at the peak of rank 1. But after Rein's team entered the third floor, it started to gain a little bit of strength with time. Now its powers were equivalent to a half step transcendental monster.

There was no system to divide the power levels of individuals who were above the orichalcum rank. But Rein had created his own system to categorise the powerhouse of that level. He was only able to do so because of his Eye of Truth.

So he divided the level above the orichalcum rank with different realms each represented by one colour of the rainbow. In this power system, a violet transcendental person was the weakest and a red was the strongest. Rein had used the strongest creature he had ever seen as the benchmark for red. If she came across something even stronger in the future, he would then rethink the system.

In his own power system, Rein was between the Yellow and Orange rank in his opinion. Stella and Tasha were both solidly at the yellow rank. Rein was even confident that as a team they would be able to defeat something that was in the orange rank.

So he was willing to let this boss take his time to get as strong as possible before challenging it. He had quite a lot of time in hand and judging by the rate it was absorbing the mysterious powers, in just a day or two it would be able to reach the yellow grade. But Rein would definitely challenge it before it reached that point. He was curious to see how much this boss was capable of growing.

So in the meantime, Rein and his lovers went to clear the remaining two roads and then just waited for the boss to reach its peak strength. But after a few hours all of them were disappointed as this boss stopped growing after reaching the genuine transcendental rank. After reaching that realm was became unable to absorb any more of that mysterious energy.

That was quite a letdown and Rein's group challenged it immediately. This boss was definitely extremely strong and could use the whole mountain as its weapon. So fighting it in this location was like fighting it inside its domain, very disadvantageous. But the three of them in their disappointment used a heavy handed approach to kill it very quickly with very strong spells that also destroyed half of the mountain.

After defeating the boss, the teleportation circle that led to the next floor appeared and the conquerors left the third floor and went to the fourth one.

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Current Location: 4th Floor

Time passed inside: Over 2 days

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