In that fraction of a second, as Soro came thrusting his dark-lotus leaking sword at her, a lot of regret filled Ria’s heart.Just a second ago, she thought she was in a safe position. She thought the lava wouldn’t affect her because she had the divine shield, but she should have known better. Even when someone like Soro who was much stronger than her had moved away from the lava pool, she thought she could stand in the lava. And she did. However, a simple burst of poisonous lava vapors disoriented her and made her knees go weak.All she could do was watch as Soro came at her heart. She couldn’t even move her wings this time. It was definitely over. She was going to die, she thought.But then a faint voice whispered in her mind: Don’t give up.Ria didn’t know how, but her arms moved fast and cross-blocked just in time. Soro’s sword struck her arms. Two powerful forces clashed. Hundreds of dark petals on one side, and an ethereal wall of energy on the other side.Both of them got repel
Dimitri the Overeating Dragon.This was a name that both Justin and Biskie had heard about, not in the wolf city but back in their home city. Many years ago, Dimitri’s name became widely popular after he defeated a swamp dragon and ate its heart crystal. This gave him the ability to eat anything. He could eat vegetables, wood, metal, and even energy attacks. He was known to have an unending appetite, but his name spread across the world when he had eaten an entire mountain full of man-eating plants.Currently, Dimitri turned into his small humanoid dragon form and was smiling at Justin and Biskie. He could hear their heartbeats and tell that they were extremely anxious.“If you aren’t going to come, then I’ll attack both of you,” Dimitri said.Biskie, knowing Justin, forced herself to step forward.“Letting a girl come forward,” Dimitri was disappointed at Justin. “You should be ashamed of yourself.”Justin’s gut twisted.“Shut up. You know nothing about Justin,” Biskie barked.“Ho…”
Papa Bear was born in the wolf city and was known for his ridiculous strength and endurance, but he was even more infamous for his ruthless killing ways. Instead of giving quick death, he would torture his opponent and enjoy their cries. He also enjoyed fighting and getting beaten and bruised.He was very intimidating to look at, but size was never an issue for Justin. He straight away turned into his hybrid mode and viciously clawed at the opponent. “Toxic Smoke Strike!”Instead of flames, he released smoke and poisonous fumes through his fists. Not only Papa’s vision was clouded by this attack, his vision and senses were also affected because of the gas that had seeped into his nose.Justin clapped his hands. “Azure Fire Fracture!”All the fumes and gas around him exploded, including Papa who had absorbed the gas.It looked like a devastating attack, with blue flames spreading about like a cloud in every direction.“Huhoo…” Soro was impressed by what he saw. “Causing the blood to ex
Thanks to the healing injections given by the Manglers, Casey, Biskie, and Ria were healed. Not just their wounds but also their fatigue was gone. Casey now put on a new pair of clothes she had stored in Myles’ spatial ring before entering the dungeon.The 51st floor was known for the nether blood ants, the crazy ants that lived inside lava. Each of these ants were as big as house cats, and their bite could paralyze a person just from the sheer shock it’d inflict on one’s nervous system. And it would take only a dozen of these ants to completely deprive a human of their fluids in a matter of seconds.Casey and Biskie were currently fighting a large number of these ants together, whereas Ria assisted them whenever they got into trouble. This was done so that Casey and Biskie would improve in their fighting ability rapidly because they were facing not one but dozens of ants that would keep on adding endlessly. It was a good shooting practice for Casey to improve her bow skills. Biskie,
Justin came to a different spot on the 51st floor so that he could have some peace.The strange voice still kept bugging him with this theory and that.He slapped himself, but it didn’t stop.“I know I should get strong, just let me be at peace for a fucking minute!” he screamed, and then voice was gone.“Whew…” he sighed in relief.However, he soon saw a mage fighting the nether blood ants in the distance.This female mage had the flame ability, but it was not at all effective against the nether blood ants. So she was having a really hard time to defeat them and was barely keeping herself alive by using the explosive power of the flames to keep pushing the ants away.“She isn’t half bad. Normally, such explosive power should blow the ants into bits, but these nether blood ants have such hard shells. If not for the divine weapons, Casey, Biskie, and even Ria wouldn’t have stood a chance against these ants,” Justin thought while observing the female mage. “If this keeps up, she’s going
Justin screamed, but not for long. The first thing the seven commander ants did was bite his flaming armor at seven different places. Just one bite would be more than enough to paralyze his nervous system, so seven bites was an overkill.Justin was completely paralyzed as his flaming armor wasn’t effective against these nether blood ants.And then the ants began fighting among themselves to see who would get to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the human. It wasn’t a fight to the death but just a competition to see who would win. In a couple of minutes, the winner was decided. It was the ant with the biggest butt. It began to dance in excitement, spraying lava here and there, all of which frustrated and scared Justin.“Am I going to get eaten by this ugly thing?” Justin’s heart raced as the ant did a strange ritual around him.Just as it was about to bite Justin’s head off and begin its meal, Myles flashed next to the ant and kicked it in the butt, sending it flying into the distan
Because of the power-up the nether blood ant crystals gave Justin, he had completely forgotten about the other things. And his butt size was one of those.“Hey, Justin… are you using butt pads?” When Biskie said those words, Justin’s heart trembled.His hands immediately touched his butt, and behold, it was bigger than before. It was big enough that it fully fit in his pants and made the shape of his butt all the more perceptible.Justin looked at Myles in utter shock.Myles looked elsewhere and acted like nothing wrong happened.Biskie came up to Justin and touched his butt. Her jaw dropped. “Whoa… there are no pads? Does that mean, this is all real fat?”“It’s not fat! It’s all muscle!” Justin hurriedly said. He was right. It was all elastic muscle.“H-How did you get this?” Biskie looked at Justin with envy. She didn’t have big breasts or butt like Casey had. Though Casey was a bit on the chubbier side, her body slimmed down a bit because of her recent journey, and she looked even
A few days later.A tall, sturdy man with a long braid was standing at the entrance of the Tail Cave. He was also dressed in a red uniform and a red mask covering the lower half of his face. He also had a black pleated waist sash that had attractive patterns designed on it. This was Bryant, the head of the Red Blade squad. He also had the executioner’s red sash now.Behind him were the Red Blade squad members and many mages gathered from the nearest wards.“Boss, why don’t we just attack?” one of the squad members, a guy with a double-chin, asked. “There’s enough of us to conquer the Tail Cave.”Bryant, however, stayed silent. (You guys who are not within the top 100 mage rankings must not know what happens inside this cave. If you do, you’ll become part of the experiments.) He had already lost one of his friends in the past that way, so he stayed outside now.After much waiting, a bald-headed man stepped out, wearing nothing but a loin cloth.“Who the fuck are you?” one of the member
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