The centaurs kept hacking and slashing, their blades cutting through the clones of the Bear Beast Man with brutal efficiency. The clones fell in droves, yet each strike seed to give rise to even more duplicates. The Bear Beast Man’s eyes glowed with fury, his roar shaking the very air around them.
"How dare you? Do you think I am trash you can simply cut down?" he bellowed, his voice echoing off the walls of the dungeon.
As he spoke, the chests of the fallen clones began to glow with a faint yellow light, runes appearing and shimring ominously. Suddenly, the rate of cloning accelerated, with new duplicates forming almost instantaneously.
The old Elf man ca to Lenny’s side, his expression grim. "It is said that the more powerful a man, the greater his pride and ego. This one does not seem to be stopping, and the bodies just keep piling up. Your centaurs are not killing fast enough. In this confined space, I really do not recomnd continuing this way. Besides, have you not realized that this Bear Beast Man is reproducing too much in so little ti? Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It must an that the power he is using to create more is not from here."
Lenny’s gaze sharpened as he scrutinized the yellow glow emanating from the chests of the clones. "A transference rune?" he muttered to himself. The rune was a complex symbol, indicative of energy being transferred over a long distance. Each clone bore this mark, signifying that the original source of power was elsewhere.
Lenny frowned, his eyes narrowing. "You claim to want to face , but you only send clone trash. Why don’t you co out and face like a man?"
The Bear Beast n chuckled in unison, a sound both eerie and mocking. "Like a man?" they echoed. "Do you even know where we are? This dungeon is a place where no one who has entered has ever co out alive. It is at the umbilical vein between the two semi-planes, Celessera and Forestera. I would rather take my chances with clones than die in this dump. After all, the rules allow the use of any and all abilities, and there is no need for to kill myself. Besides, you will definitely die in here. I am only going to make sure it happens much sooner."
The Bear Beast n roared again, their voices rging into a single, terrifying sound. Their bodies began to glow even brighter as they multiplied at an even faster rate.
The dungeon, previously silent and eerie, now buzzed with the cacophony of roaring beasts and the tallic clash of blades.
The old Elf’s face was etched with worry, his eyes darting from Lenny to the multiplying beasts. Lenny, on the other hand, wore a determined expression.
Lenny knew from the mont he entered this place that it was sowhat strange, but he had never known that it was at such an important location.
All the while, he had only been in celessera and the only thing he knew about the twin semi-plane, forestera was the fact that the Abaddon royal family ruled it.
Devil dungeons were in a lot of places, but the umbilical cord that connected two twin planes isolated from the rest of the universe with such incredible runic combination was not a coincidence.
Surely, he could feel the oppressive atmosphere of the dungeon, the weight of its connected history across two semi planes pressing down on him. But he did not know that things were far from what t the eyes.
Now, lenny was starting to wish that he had gotten more information, preparing before he got into this place instead of fornicating for an entire day straight with two won.
then again, the gift he got from them had proven to be very useful.
The walls, covered in ever-changing, moving boxes, seed to pulse with a life of their own, each color shift reflecting the intensity of the ongoing battle.
At such a ti, one of his centaurs smacked a bear beast man on the wall, and the mont the beast bear man hit the wall, the ever changing cube there, morphed into a soul devil, grabbing its prey and brutalizing its flesh into a ss before pulling it into the cube.
This new developnt made everyone pause. After all, this was a devil dungeon and they had indeed not seen a devil until just now.
This made those that were resting on the walls to take a step back.
However, another person, a woman, who had been trying to solve the puzzle of the boxes at one side managed to get it right and then the box suddenly beca a door. "I solved it!" she scread, and was just about to rush into it.
However, another man whipped out a rope, grabbing her by the leg and then pulling her back, before rushing, a smile on his face as he jumped into the box door.
However, the mont, he entered, Within the box, suddenly developed rows of teeth, and then it Slamd shut.
*DAM!*
Blood blasted out of the mouth.
The woman that had initially solved it and had been complaining that her opportunity had been stolen could not help but thank her stars that she had not proceeded with what she thought was a way out of this place.
Lenny, like all the others also saw this, and took a deep breath, his mind racing. The runes, the clones, the devil, the environnt—all of it pointed to a complex puzzle that required more than brute strength and so how obvious intellect to solve.
Of course, the sight of the man being chewed by a cube was short lived as the Bear beast man continued his attack.
lenny deceided to allow the centaurs deal with the pest that was the bear beast man while he turned his attention to the nearest cube.
This cube was just like the size of a man. It was a 50 sided Rubik’s cube. In lenny’s forr life, such a cube would have been a challenge to solve.
In fact, he reckoned that it would be difficult for anyone that had not touched upon the gifts of the universe by advancing in power.
However, solving the cube was not the problem. The problem was in the fact that the cube had one side that changed between three colors every five seconds, another side that did not change color at all, the third side that cahnged color every ten seconds and the last side that changed colors every twenty seconds.
At least, this was lenny’s conclusion on it.
Each little box retained the attributes of the initial side that they had been taken from even as they were being moved.
aning that even though this was fifty sided, he had to account for the individual difference in changing micro boxes on all all fifty.
And at the sa ti, get each one at exactly where it needed to be.
Lenny’s fingers moved, as his mind focused. One look at the solving that other woman had done and he could tell that she had solved it falsely.
He, he was different. At the level of comprehension he was, his mind no longer worked like the average person’s one.
Right now, there was no super computer that had ever been created in his past life that could beat his incredible comprehension and analytical ability.
In truth, this much had not been gotten as a result of his link with the universe, but because of his ti with the sisters of eve. In no ti, his fingers moved as if each one of them had a mind of its own and yet could predict what the other finger was supposed to do, in other to produce an heaven defying sync of perfection.
In under a couple of seconds, the cube opened up. However, the mont it did, Lenny did not step in.
He turned to the other contestants, "who will like to try their luck?"
None of them progressed. One person’s life had already been used as an example. The person had been crushed to death. No one wa sgoing to advance. This much, Lenny knew.
He waved his hand, and a young centaur, barely looking a year old proceeded from his storage and then he threw it in. No sharp teeths ca out to bite into it.
However, a host of devils rushed from within the walls and tore the centaur child apart.
This made lenny frown.
However, his mind was making incredible calculations.
anwhile, another man had already began to curse at the place, swearing that they had been brought here to die and that whether they solved the puzzles or not, it was all the sa thing.
but lenny’s brows suddenly evened out as he looked at all the boxes around him, and then at the box that the first woman had supposedly solved and then back at the one before his eyes.
And then he chuckled, "so that’s what is going on."
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