Ball of Nothing Chapter 82 Below Endow Hill

Chapter 82 Below Endow Hill

"We’re going hunting today."

Hearing the ’h’ word made Zero pump his fist into the air joyfully. Treun was finally able to stay awake for half a day after the ticulous care of both Sage Gods over the past week. However, he hasn’t regained his strength both physically and magically. The elf was worried but with rlin as Zero’s guardian, Truen held his tongue.

Hua Tuo handed Zero a basic first aid kit with all the dicine he would ever require. In the past week, Zero had fully mastered basic first aid and healing magic. He’d also morised majority of the dangerous plants and creatures to avoid or deal with when he encountered them. Of course, there were more but Hua Tuo only taught Zero what he needed to know for now while he was on Endow Hill.

On the surface, Endow Hill was simply a mountain with a dragon rumoured to be guarding it. However, what many didn’t know was how Endow Hill had a dungeon beneath it. The dragon was simply the dungeon’s original guardian. This dungeon was a little special as it was also the portal to bridge between the dead and the living in a ti-space dinsion. Adventurers who died there remained as trapped souls to fuel the dungeon’s magic. It had many branches linking to the outside of Endow Hill, luring unsuspecting adventures in. The dungeon was essentially alive and the only way out was to defeat the dungeon boss on each level.

"Rember, stay close behind within five steps. Do not touch anything that I did not touch. It’s not only a place filled with monsters; it is also a place full of traps."

Zero nodded with seriousness in his eyes. He hadn’t learnt any form of combat apart from so basic magic spells. rlin forbid Zero to use any offensive magic in fear of destroying the dungeon and trapping them in it. However, Zero was free to use any form of defensive magic and support magic.

As it was the brunet’s first battle experience, he was excited. Mii told Zero to add rlin to his party. The boy was clueless but after a demonstration, he invited rlin with a smile who accepted the invitation without questions. After all, it was rather common in this world to send temporary contracts to each other for mutual benefits. rlin wasn’t bothered about sharing the rewards. They were going in the dungeon for Zero’s benefit in the first place. However, the new contact on his communicator intrigued the magician.

"Oh, Mii is a strawcherry fairy who helps a lot. She’s very knowledgeable but grumpy sotis. She needs ’experience’ to be able to stay out longer here that’s why you don’t really see her."

rlin had never heard of such a strange system. Fairies were creatures that used the magic of their contracted masters to materialise. Why was Mii such an exception? Perhaps she wasn’t really Zero’s contracted fairy and was simply acting so by the orders of soone else. Whichever the case, rlin agreed to help Zero get Mii so ’experience’ by completing the dungeon. It was a weird criteria for becoming stronger but rlin wasn’t going to question it. If one could beco stronger in necromancy by sleeping in the graveyard, who was to say clearing dungeons weren’t a legitimate thod of becoming stronger?

With everything ready, rlin opened a portal that led them straight to the entrance of Endow Hill’s infamous "Sleepy Cave" dungeon. Although it was nad "Sleepy Cave", the dungeon was always bustling with life. The na was only to indicate how tranquil it was to unsuspecting victims. The dungeon starts out mild but as adventurers get deeper, the dungeon will move and shift, trapping them in a maze. Monsters will start appearing in vicious waves of coordinated attacks. With each wave successfully dealt with, the next becos stronger and smarter. Adventurers who cannot overco this trial will die miserably, becoming a source of food for the living dungeon. Adventurers who survived the waves will be faced by a final dungeon guardian. Many falter at this stage. However, those who survive will be teleported out of the dungeon instantly with special items, usually boss monster loots, ant to discourage the adventurers from trying again.

Strangely, adventurers who successfully cleared the first round tend to return to the dungeon. The living dungeon, having experienced defeat the first ti, would increase the difficulty of monsters, attack patterns and boss monsters. So of these adventurers would survive the increased difficulty but many will fail. However, as the item drop from monsters in the living dungeon were rare and highly valued, many brave adventurers risk their lives doing it.

However, today would be the first ti "Sleepy Cave" would be visited by a Sage God and an unknown entity. It didn’t know what kind of karma it would reap and continued to plot evilly when the duo entered the maze.