Eight miles into the dungeon, Myles and others were fighting the poison swamp frogs. Myles wasn’t actively fighting and only took care of the frogs that came at him.Casey pierced the eyes of the frogs first and restricted their movements before riddling their bodies with holes using her hair. She looked menacing to Biskie.“She looks much stronger than when she entered the dungeon,” Biskie thought. Unlike Casey, Biskie couldn’t use her powers yet. The dagger wasn’t quite responding to her thoughts. She wanted to cut the frogs in two halves, but the dagger didn’t even come into her hand. Myles told her to think of her hand as a dagger, and it would be enough to make the divine dagger act. Biskie tried, but it still didn’t work.“You should erase doubt and worry from your heart,” Myles advised. “Don’t be anxious. You can’t control anything divine if you worry. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the divine power.” He grabbed her hand and waved it horizontally as a frog came hopping a
The blonde guy closed the distance in a quick few steps and thrust his palm at Ria’s defense. Ria was sent flying across many burrows, but she somehow managed to land and slide on her feet.The blonde guy felt some vibrations in his arm, which surprised him. “Ho… you’re better than I thought. A hawk ability, is it? You almost remind me of Hawkins, the warden of the hawk ward.”Ria glared at the mention of that name.“It seems you have some history with him,” the blonde guy amusedly smirked. “I heard he’s a pervert. Did he perhaps put his hands on you?”“Shut up,” Ria scuttled forth. “Don’t mention that trash’s name in front of me.” She leaped into the air and spun axially. “Thousand Terrors!”All the feathers on her wings flew toward the blonde guy like a spear. “Hmph,” he sucked in a breath and blew air out, blasting the feathers away and also Ria along with it. “With my wind ability, I can beat you with my eyes closed. I can feel every moment of yours pretty clearly even with my eye
Many hours later.At the entrance of the dungeon, the guards were playing the bone-biting game, where a random creature’s bone needed to be crushed between one’s teeth. Whoever crushed all the bones given to them first would be the winner. The woke-dogs that were the guards were enthusiastically playing the game.However, they all stopped playing and assumed their positions as the four manglers walked out of the dungeon. They looked quite bruised and beaten. Their faces were also off-color.The guards began murmuring among themselves.“Wow, they look like they’ve been through hell and came back.”“Yeah, I’ve never seen them this tired.”“They went into the dungeon more than a week ago, so of course, they’ll be tired. I’m sure they’ve been fighting on the 65th floor.”“If more of the top mages actively raid the dungeon, I think we can force our way into the 66th floor sooner rather than later.”“But we’ve been stuck there for almost five years. There’s no progress whatsoever, as the ce
In the police station, Bjorn was talking with a young human lady who said she wanted to marry her group member, who was a male woke-horse, and he was standing right next to her. “I love him. Why can’t I marry him?”“That’s because you’re a human, and he’s a horse,” Bjorn was getting angry because she kept asking him the same question. “Our laws do not allow interspecies sex or marriage. Anyone who breaks that rule will be put to death. Don’t make me repeat this, or I might lose my temper and hit you.”“When will the laws be changed?” she asked.“Are you kidding me?” Bjorn growled at her, giving her shivers and making her step back. “Take her away before I snap her neck.”The police, who were all woke-dogs, hurriedly took the woman and the woke-horse away against their will.“These people are insane,” Bjorn shook his head. “Even if they fuck each other a thousand times, they wouldn’t be able to procreate, so why do they want to marry? For sex? That’s stupid and disgusting.”Experiments
Justin and others reached Penny’s shop. When they put the sack of crystals down, her heart leaped into her mouth. She jumped from her seat. “Let my grandmother be sleeping peacefully in her grave!” she exclaimed as she riffled through the sack. Every time she saw a rare crystal, she gasped and looked at the five customers in shock. “An elder spirit crystal? A black wyern’s crystal? And even a nether yeti crystal?” she raised her arms and shouted in joy. “God is smiling on my side today! Grandma, I’m going to pour a costly wine on your grave tonight!”Her cries attracted attention from many people, both customers and shopkeepers.They began gathering around her shop and observed the crystals that were up for view.“I see blood baboon crystals. They live on the 27th floor, don’t they?”“Are you kidding me? Isn’t that red spiky crystal of a kobold knight that lives on the 31st floor?”“And that spiked gray crystal with fog around it must be the crystal of Black Crocodile that lives in th
Ria’s instincts made her jump just before the chill got to her feet, but Casey and Biskie got completely neutralized by it.Kong used his brute force to break his way out of the freezing effect, whereas Justin released flames from his legs.Both Kong and Justin rushed at the twin mages.One of the twins struck the ground with her staff again. “Ground Break!” This time, the ground all around them cracked and caused both Justin and Kong to stumble.The second mage pointed her staff forward. “Bubble Blast!” A volley of air bubbles burst out of her staff and blasted in the faces of both Kong and Justin, sending them packing. Kong’s nose was already broken after his fight with the blonde guy from the mangler, so this air bubble attack worsened his nose wound.Justin also felt like the insides of his body took damage from the sheer pressure of the explosions.“How can trash like you acquire a nightwalker’s crystal?” one of the twins spoke. “That makes no sense.” The nightwalker crystal alon
“Fighting in the main market…” Don, the warden, was staring at the seven humans, most of whom didn’t show any guilt in their faces. “You do know that each of you is fined a million dollars.”“What? A million dollars?” one of the twins barked. “That’s too unreasonable? We can’t pay that much money.”“Then you shouldn’t have broken the rules,” Don indifferently said. “You twins are ranked in the top 10,000, so I’m sure you’d make good money as prostitutes.”“What? No! We will pay!” the twins hurriedly said, though the one with the broken jaw couldn’t speak all that much.“Good decision,” Don’s gaze then shifted to Kong and others. “What about you guys? Can you pay 5 million?”“Why should we pay when we were attacked by these two women?” Casey reasoned. “Does that make any sense?”“What’s the proof that it’s them who started the fight?” Don asked. “Do you have any witnesses outside your group?”“You can ask the people at the market,” Justin suggested. “They will tell you what happened.”
The knife struck Myles’ eye, forcing his eye to move deeper into the skull, but then it pushed the knife back.Bjorn felt the force being applied on his hand, and the knife bounced off of Myles’ eye. “What in the world…” Bjorn and everyone else was left in utter disbelief. “Even the eyes are indestructible?”“I think you guys are out of tricks,” Myles twisted his wrists and broke free from the shackles.Everyone swallowed their salivas in trepidation and began to flee.The knife in Bjorn’s hand dropped. “No way, you broke the shackles made of stardium? That means… your ability is made out of power crystals?”Stardium could seal the power of the star crystals, but it wasn’t effective at suppressing the strength of the power crystals.“J-Just how many power crystals did you absorb for you to be able to gain such strength?” Bjorn stepped back instinctively. His body was backing away on its own, which he didn’t like. The other guards might have run away, but how could he, the vice-warden,
Aero’s attack was deadly enough to easily kill a group of individuals without them even realizing what happened.The table where Myles and others were sitting was utterly destroyed.However, nobody was harmed because Myles had warped them a few meters away at the last moment. The only being he didn’t warp was Dusty.Dusty took the attack head on and was injured just a little. “This is…” he didn’t take more than a second to understand who it was. “Don’t say anything and just run away!” he shouted in ant language.“What nonsense are you talking about!” Aero attacked him with his spear-like limbs. “Her Majesty trusted you and sent you on a mission, but here you are, eating sugary things!”“You idiot! I didn't have any other choice!” Dusty defended himself. “I was forced to work for these humans!”“Shame on you! How can you work for humans?” Aero grew all the more aggressive. “You surely deserve to die!”“Who is that bastard?” Sercy asked angrily because part of the cafe was destroyed by
General Aero of the Battle Ants leaped toward the two old timers and used his jelly-like body to set himself on fire, causing a nasty explosion that covered almost a hundred feet in every direction.It was so hot the ground cracked and the metal melted.Aero used this opportunity to fly away fast. Some automated machine guns recognized this intruder and shot at it, but Aero was able to easily slip past the bullets and flew away into the distance, covering a mile per second.Wise Servant and Sweet Beggar stepped out of the explosion, and Wise Servant sucked in the explosion and contained it in her single hand and squashed it into nothing. The compressed flames no longer existed as a candle light would turn off.“Are you going to go after that thing, or do you want me to go instead?” she asked him.“You’re the wiser one,” Sweet Beggar picked his teeth. “So you should go, since you decided to let that little ant go.”“I thought he might lead us to the one that escaped last time,” she rep
Outside the forever S-rank dungeon where the Battle Ants were present, Wise Servant and Sweet Beggar stopped playing chess and started drinking a strong tea made out of boiling many potent green herbs.And both of them felt energized and relaxed right now as they sat laid back in their chairs.Wise Servant lost in chess once again. She had been trying to win just one game of chess against him for so long. She grew experienced enough to be easily called a grandmaster of chess, but still, she was not able to win against Sweet Beggar just one more time. All she wanted was for him to forgive her and say ‘I love you’ just once more.Both of them had long crossed 100 years of age. So, they weren’t thinking of sex or anything like that. They were purely thinking about each other’s souls.Wise Servant had already beaten him 999,999 times, but she really wanted to win another game; however, Sweet Beggar didn’t make it any easier for her. He remained ruthless all the time so that she couldn’t e
In the dungeon swarming with ants of all kinds numbered in trillions, with more of them joining the ranks as seconds passed by, this dungeon was becoming more and more of a threat to the very existence of not just the Venture city but the very existence of humanity.The queen of all ants, Queen Wiggles, was currently crunching on wafers and looked to be in bliss.“Mm… these are the best things I’ve eaten in a while,” Wiggles looked at the captain ant that brought her a single packet of wafers. “What are these things called?”“Wafter, Your Majesty,” the captain ant kept his head and antennae lowered.“Water… it’s crispy, sweet, and easily melts in your mouth,” Wiggles was drooling. “I think I can eat a mountain of these. Why did you bring only one of these?”“The guy that entered the dungeon had only one of these in his bag,” the captain ant replied.“Oh, I thought you managed to leave the dungeon and then come back inside,” Wiggles said. “But some fool entered the dungeon, huh. Did you
Sercy found an A-rank healer, but he asked for a lot of gold in order to heal Judas and Glint because it wouldn’t be an easy task.“Instead of money, I’ll give you the spoils of an A-rank dungeon we’ll clear,” Sercy told him.“That’s even better,” the healer happily agreed to it.After forming a contract, he came to the Dawn guild to heal Judas and Glint. However, when he approached Judas, Judas attacked him by grabbing his throat and lifting him up.“Who do you think you are…” Judas coldly said. “Did I give you the permission to heal me?”“Judas!” Sercy unleashed a flaming punch and struck his face, sending him flying into the wall right next to him. His head went halfway through the wall. “How drunk are you to attack a guest who came to help you!”Judas pulled his head out of the wall and spat a few pieces of bricks out. “I’m not drunk, Sercy. And I don’t want to get healed because I’m perfectly fine.”“No, you’re not fine. You are mentally disturbed,” Sercy blurted.“Hmph, you thi
In Basil District.Sercy and Ria were heading toward a certain address.“Why did we have to travel so far?” Ria expressed discomfort without hesitation. “Couldn’t you find any healer near our district?”“I could, but I doubt they can fully heal Judas and Master Glint,” Sercy replied. “Judas has been drinking a lot. I’m sure his liver and other organs are not healthy. We need a proper health potion that can improve his health significantly. And Master Glint also needs to drink a health potion because he’s not eating properly.”“His daughter died long ago, so why is he still depressed?” Ria asked.Sercy glanced at her with a bit of a surprised look. “You lack emotional depth. Were you not raised by your parents?”Ria frowned. “Do I have to be raised by my parents to know a father’s love?”“...Not really,” Sercy said. “Some lives can be explained by pen, but some… only by pain. By emotion. If we haven’t experienced the same emotions ourselves, it’ll be hard for us to put ourselves in oth
The glass cube was torn open like it was jelly, which genuinely dropped Sercy’s jaw for a second.Dusty was also not expecting that at all, but he grinned as he unsheathed his sword, ready to attack Myles. However, just when his eyes looked up and his gaze was set on Myles, he suddenly felt invisible pressure crushing him down from every direction.Myles was not even moving his eyelids, but Dusty couldn’t move. In fact, his body was trembling slightly. (What’s this feeling?) He looked very anxious. (This regal aura he’s giving… It’s as if I’m looking at Her Majesty. No, perhaps, dare I say… he’s even greater than Her Majesty Wiggles?)“Myles!” Sercy yelled. “How did you do that? I mean, how could you do that!” She quickly caught Dusty with her hand. “What if this little monster is more dangerous than we think?”“Then why are you holding it in your hand?” Ria asked.“B-Because he’s like a little doll,” Sercy said. “I feel like squeezing him to death.”“Eeek!” Dusty was terrified by her
Myles and Ria came to the canteen while Biskie and Casey were so tired and beaten they had to take rest in the basement training grounds. Myles wasn’t the one who fought them, but they fought each other to the extreme just to test them and so wounded themselves a bit too much.“Our guild has good core fighters now,” Sercy told them while they were eating crunchy leaf burgers. “We only lack a good healer. If we can get someone who can not just heal the wounds but also boost our skills, it’d be wonderful.”“Someone who can do those things will be in high demand,” Ria opined. “Do we have enough money to recruit such a person?”“Money? Screw that,” Sercy snorted. “I want someone who will willingly work with us and share our burdens and not expect too much in return. I don’t want those types that go after money and fame as they cannot fit into anything. They are only going to abandon you when a better opportunity knocks on their door.” She then looked at Myles. “You explored some districts
Dusty stealthily entered the guild building, expecting there to be tight security. However, all he found was an old man mumbling something in his sleep.“What’s this? They have the dragon king’s item, and they’re this relaxed?” Dusty frowned. “Are they that confident in their abilities, or are they just that stupid?”Nevertheless, he kept his guard on and traveled in the hall while using the objects as his cover.He saw Sercy who was loudly talking at her reception desk.“I’m telling you that I will buy those lands!” Sercy was shouting. “Sell me those infested lands, you bastards! If you do that, We’ll become ghost-venerers for you and clear three dungeons of your choice in the next year. How does that sound?”“Five dungeons for three years is okay for me.”“Three years is too long, and five dungeons is too much,” Sercy said. “Three dungeons and one year is final.”When a dungeon breaks, the nearby lands and environment get corrupted. This would cause the value of that land to drop, e