58 Undead Corruption
[Day 38]
We were woken up by the constant yells from Crina. It seems that she fell asleep with us last night. She seed to be in a big hurry so we quickly packed our things and had a light breakfast.
Crina floated around while we ate our breakfast, yelling with anger.
"Hurry up already! Weren't you going to do my request?! Hey! Stop eating! Why do you mortals always eat? And Brontes! You don't need to eat either!"
I just tried to ignore Crina while I sipped on my tea. However, Brontes tried to explain to Crina why she eats.
"But sister Crina, I like to eat. It's very yummy and makes happy. It also makes my body grow stronger. My body is not fully ethereal like you, I'm not a High Spirit"
It seems that the big difference between Spirit Classes is if they are ethereal or corporeal. Corporeal is most of the living beings in this world, made of mass, any type of mass, flesh, sli, minerals, plants, etc.
While Ethereal are beings composed entirely of elents or pure magic. Crina is a pure ethereal being, while Brontes is both corporeal and ethereal. This is why she can recover even from lost limbs so easily just by absorbing magic from the environnt.
Well, it's not like Crina can't eat things, as she ate a lot yesterday. It seems that she can absorb the energy on these foods and digest it with her water body, similar to slis, but not really. It's weird… Brontes needs constant food to maintain the energy on her semi corporeal body, she can replenish so from the magic on the environnt but it's usually not enough.
Most of iji spirits are semi corporeal. Only two of them were purely ethereal, being Hypnos and Aether. These two also result to be the strongest. I wonder if they were revered in the past.
On the way towards the fourth floor, I decided to drink an [Antidote] and a [Strengthening Potion] from the rewards of the previous two bosses. Antidotes can cure most weak ailnts like Poison, Paralysis, and Sleep, they tasted like a very sweet honey with so herbal hints. On the other hand, Strengthening Potions buff your Strength stat by 20 for 30 minutes, it tasted like a very spicy liquor.
[You learned the following Skills]
[Antidote Secretion]
[Antidote Flesh]
[Muscle Reinforcent]
My special blessing ended up making the buff effect of the Strengthening Potion a passive effect and permanently reinforced my muscles. While it absorbed the healing properties of the Antidote and gave my flesh such properties. Alongside my Poison Immunity, I have a very high resistance to Paralyze and Sleep.
My wives and Gaby ended up doing the sa, obtaining the skills. anwhile, Crina watched us with a surprised face while saying "Geeeehh".
"H-How can you do that?"
I glanced at Crina with a confused look.
"Hm? What do you an?"
"That! You just absorbed the essence of the items into your own body! How did you even do that? You are a mortal! Only the strongest of spirits were even able to do such things!"
I still don't have much trust in this spirit. I should keep my mouth shut for now and pretend to no understand.
"I don't get what you're saying. Anyways, you already got tired with your pointless ramblings. Let's keep going"
When my wives and Gaby saw my response, they also played dumb. They are very smart girls.
"H-Hey! Don't ignore ! Wait a second! Don't leave behind! Fueeeehh!"
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What I noticed from the fourth floor is that alongside all the previous floor monsters, there were more things than just slis. Now there were two new types of non-sli beings. These were Red Cyclops Frogs and Ferocious River Lizardman. These lizardn seed to have very basic intelligence and weren't as complex as the surface species. They only carried very ragged clothes and weapons made out of bones and stones. They tried to attack us the mont they saw us.
Red Cyclops Frogs are big frogs of around 3 ters tall, they have a big spherical eye on the center of their faces and their skin is completely red. They attack with their powerful muscular tongues and can shoot boiling water.
I really wanted to taste this new type of at, so I joined the hunt myself, annihilating most of the living beings on the entire floor in less than an hour. The Lizardn seed to have a small cave where they protected their won and children. The mont I saw the small Lizardn kids and their mothers trembling in fear, I decided to leave them alone. However, I had no rcy against the warriors that tried to take on. I drank their blood and ate their souls, however, so sneaky souls managed to run away.
After drinking this new type of blood, my blood finally evolved.
[Your blood has successfully evolved: Ancient Aquarian rfolk Bloodline > Ancient Lizardman Tribe Bloodline]
[You gained 10 Blood Strength]
[Ancient Lizardman Tribe special Class tree has been successfully unlocked!]
I thought about enslaving them and adding them to my Kingdom so they can enjoy better living conditions, but it wasn't the ti for that, maybe when I get back. The Lizardman looked with surprise as I left their hideout intact.
Sotis I wonder if I'm really doing the right thing, I should just kill them and make myself stronger, right? But when I saw my wives looking at with happy faces, I understood that I did the right thing.
However, Crina seed to not like my decision.
"Eeeh? Why didn't you kill those pests? They are just using my precious shrine as a place to live and leech on our magic! You should have killed them!"
Once again, everyone ignored Crina.
"H-Hey! Where are you going? Wait for !"
Even Nereid wasn't as annoying. No. Now that I think about it, they are equally as annoying.
[You gained 263280 EXP] [The rest of your servants gained so EXP]
[You gained two levels!] [LEVEL 38/70 EXP 48940/180000]
[Your servants gained tons of levels!]
We went to a small open room and I cooked the at into a delicious hot pot. I added the leftover Walking Mushroom alongside veggies and spices. A delicious fragrance of seafood and mushrooms began to erge.
The Red Cyclops Frog at was very tender and creamy, almost lting on my mouth. It tasted like chicken for the most part, but had a distinctive seafood flavor on it, alongside a small spiciness. The Lizardman at was way harder, but every ti I munched on it, delicious juices would enter my mouth. These Lizardman seem to survive by accumulating grease on their bodies, this is why their at was so juicy.
[You obtained the following Titles]
[rciless Amphibian Killer]
[rciless Lizardn Killer]
[You and your servants learned the following Skills]
[nacing Eye]
[Enhanced Muscular Tongue]
[River Lizardman Physique]
[River Lizardman Scale Formation]
[Piercing Thrust]
Not so many skills, however, the food was delicious. My wives enjoyed the comforting al and everyone asked for seconds. Crina ended up joining at the end and enjoyed the food too.
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When we entered the fourth-floor boss room, we found out it was the big boss of all the River Lizardman. It was a massive Lizardman of around 30 ters tall, it had muscular legs and arms but a big belly and was sitting on a throne. I noticed that most of the room was filled with food. He probably takes it all from the weaker Lizardman. His weapon of choice was a big aquamarine-colored Axe.
Although it was rather fatty, it moved around the room with masterful techniques. It was a rather tough nut to crack. That, until my wives, went serious. Brontes decided to slap the Lizardman on the face with her Red Thunder enhanced Club. Blowing its entire face into minced at, killing the boss instantly.
[You gained 205700 EXP] [The rest of your servants gained tons of EXP]
[You gained one level!] [LEVEL 39/70 EXP 74640/190000]
[Your servants gained tons of levels!]
[Everyone on your party have received a [Reward Gift (Rare )] x2 and [Speed Enhancing Potion Pack (3)] on your Item Box]
Brontes looked over the big ss that she made and began to clean the blood over her body.
"S-Sorry… I did a big ss…"
All of us ended up being covered on the Lizardman Emperor's brains and blood, so I had to clean everyone with my [Hydraulic Manipulation].
Due to my recent skill fusions, I obtained a strange abnormal status nad [Insatiable Appetite], so I used this as an excuse to cook the Lizardman Emperor and we ate once again a bit hot pot. I also fried so of its at into delicious crunchy slices. Crina was already accustod to this as she watched us from the back.
The Lizardman Emperor at was even more greasy and juicy than before, it even reminded of Earth's bacon from ti to ti. Its body was rather massive so we ended up storing a lot of this delicious at. I also managed to consu his soul and got a small buff on my Soul Stats.
[You gained 20 to every Soul Stat]
[You gained 5% Soul Mutation]
[You and the rest of your servants learned the following Skills]
[River Lizardman Emperor Mighty Muscles]
[River Lizardman Emperor Aquamarine Scales Creation]
[High All Water Resistance]
[Mighty Triple Slash]
[You learned the following Skill]
[Forbidden Summoning Magic: River Lizardman]
"Ah! Another summoning magic?"
The Lizardman summoned were quite strong, as strong as the ones we encountered earlier. And they also had the potential to evolve and beco stronger on their own, however, they didn't have any intelligence and seed to act like undead most of the ti. They also lacked a soul and their at tasted like paper, without any nutrition. I didn't get any skill from them either.
Before leaving the boss room, we made sure to take anything that the Lizardman Emperor had around. I even took his big throne. He had several chests full of gold and gems, and there was a big pile of monsters and Lizardman bones around. He probably ate its own kind.
We ended up obtaining around thirteen thousand human gold, around 12 Spirit Gems and 3 [Rare ] magic weapons.
On the way towards the fifth floor, I opened the two Reward Gifts and got a weird Item on my first gift, it seed to be a golden ticket with a rainbow luster every ti I moved it.
[Dungeon Monster Gacha Ticket (Unique and above increased): Exchange this ticket in any dungeon that you possess for a chance on getting a random monster for your dungeon with increased rates for [Unique] monsters and above]
So that's was what it was… I should give this to Zehe, she liked a lot the dungeon managent.
The second item was a strange pin with the face of the Lizardman Emperor, the pin had a cute Lizardman Emperor face winking at . It was rather hilarious.
[River Lizardman Emperor Lucky Pin (Rare ): The Cute River Lizardman Emperor will help you on your travels with this stylish and hilarious pin!]
[Effect: Grants 5 Luck]
Although the Luck stat was tempting, I would never wear such a ridiculous thing. The rest of my wives didn't like it either so I ended up gifting it to Gaby, who found it extrely cute.
"Ooooh! Thank you for the gift, Master! Hehehe! How does it look?"
"I-It looks beautiful in you, Gaby. Very fitting…"
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When we finally reached the fifth floor, we were greeted by an imnse number of monsters. There were so many that they could barely move around. Most of the monsters making this floor were Undead River Lizardman and River Lizardman Skeleton. There was a stronger variant that was covered on a sli reinforcing its power nad Slimy Lizardman Lich.
I had to use various of my Blast related skills to make so space for us. Using [Red Beam of Annihilation] and [Divine Punishnt], I ended up blasting around hundreds of the smallest ones until the floor finally beca more peaceful.
[You gained 278560 EXP] [The rest of your servants gained tons of EXP]
[You gained one level!] [LEVEL 40/70 EXP 163200/202000]
[Your servants gained tons of levels!]
Crina began to inspect the monsters.
"Hmm… There are too many undead, it shouldn't even be possible for the undead to be born here, this is supposed to be a holy place… Perhaps, the corrosive magic essence made this place rot faster than I anticipated"
Suddenly, Crina began to tremble. She had a bad feeling about all of this.
"K-Kireina! Please let's hurry to the boss's room! There must be sothing wrong!"
"I also felt it, let's go"
We quickly rushed through the dungeon rooms as we slew the imnse hordes of undead coming our way, it was as if it would never end.
When we reached the boss's room, my wives and Gaby decided to keep the undead at check while I kill the boss.
As Crina rushed at my side, I used all my strength to open the door.
BOOM!
We were et with an interesting sight, however, Crina seed to begin panicking in fear.
This floor boss was an imnse Undead Sli made of countless bones, it possessed several cores of various sizes and colors, and on its center, one colorful aquamarine-colored core shined brightly. It was the one with the strongest magic.
"I-Impossible! This monster has successfully unsealed one of the spirits, and decided to use it as its core! Kireina! That spirit is in grave danger, if the monster keeps feeding on her power, she will quickly dissipate into nothingness!"
While Crina was shouting like a maniac, I was already reading my powers. I quickly activated my [Four-Ard Crimson Wyvern Magic Reflecting Armor] as my body was covered on a thick layer of red-colored silver armor, I also gained two new pairs of arms and two wyvern heads at each of my shoulders. I also summoned my three weapons, Demon Sword Ollathir, Wind Bow rcedes and Flaming Axe Vulcan.
After noticing such a strong presence, the massive Undead Sli beca aware of us and quickly regained its original form, compressing itself into an almost perfect spherical ball. It used magic to order the bones inside of it to combine, forming six large bone arms. Without a second of delay, it rushed towards while enhancing its bones arms with a powerful magic spell.
Crina shouted telling to avoid the incoming attack.
"Gyaaah! Dodge! Quick!"
"There is no point in dodging"
BOOOM!
The powerful attack from the Undead Sli was suddenly stopped by both my sword and axe, using them on a cross position. The boss began to question why such a powerful and concentrated blow didn't even generate a hole on the dungeon floor.
I let out of a powerful intimidating aura. Which made the whole Sli body tremble as it quickly tried to take out his skeleton hand from my weapons. To his surprise, the whole arm was stuck tightly on my weapons by a powerful slimy fluid.
Feeling its impending doom, the Sli detached its whole skeleton arm as it flew at a good distance and began to cast countless magic circles, throwing a myriad of magic spells, most of them being of Shadow and Dark elent.
Flash! Flash! Flash!
I decided to test the magic reflection capabilities of my Wyvern Armor as I stood up and received all of the magic attacks. Several explosions filled the room with smoke.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Just as I thought, with each magic attack, a thin, transparent coating reflected most of the magic damage dealt to my armor.
The Undead Sli realized that my presence never faded as it began to shot more magic attacks, and even detached its other bone arms as it commanded them to attack with all their might.
While reflecting the rain of spells, I intercepted the five skeleton arms with my weapons, masterfully using the techniques learned from my previous foes. Slashing a skeleton arm in half, shattering another with my axe and making so explode with powerful wind arrows.
Although this boss was very powerful due to the spirit that was feeding it magic power, if I compared it to beings like Herbell or the Undead King, it would fall very short.
When I finished testing my skills around, I decided to end the fight with [Divine Punishnt]. I saw as the Undead Sli struggled in pain while a powerful holy light slowly disintegrated its body. This holy light didn't damage its cores and the spirit, as it only targets Undead or monsters and spirits aren't certainly monsters. Holy magic has always been very interesting.
[You gained 214270 EXP] [The rest of your servants gained tons of EXP]
[You gained one level!] [LEVEL 41/70 EXP 176270/214000]
[Your servants gained tons of levels!]
[Everyone on your party have received a [Reward Gift (Unique)] x2 and [Defense Enhancing Potion Pack (3)] on your Item Box]
Crina looked with amusent as the thing that she feared so much quickly died at my hands.
"K-Kireina… Just how strong you are…?"
I pointed at the aquamarine-colored core that contained the spirit.
"Weren't you worried about that?"
Crina saw as her precious companion tried to break free from the crystalline core.
"Awawawa! L-Let help you!"
The spirit inside the core seed to still have so energy left, as I helped it slowly feeding it my MP. The spirit seed to be a small sapphire, when it regained enough magic, it took a similar form to Crina, looking like a small girl made of sapphire.
The new spirit na was Saphirae, it had a calr personality and wasn't as annoying as Crina. When my wives and Gaby finished killing all the undead outside, we made a quick al using the ingredients that I already had on my Item Box. I wasn't going to cook so bones and cores.
However, while waiting for the al to be ready, I slowly dissolved and consud the bones of the Undead alongside the sli of the Sli Lizardman Lich because the sli that made the boss was completely vaporized. I also ate its cores, well, most of them, there were over one hundred. All of them exuding with strong magical power. Zehe told that they could be used to make strong weapons and armor.
[You learned the following Skills]
[Sli Lizardman Lich Core]
[Undead Sli Emperor Core]
[Undead Bone Manipulation and Combination]
[Unseal]
[Spirit Sealing]
[Absorption]
I obtained a lot of weird skills from these beings, especially the boss. It seems that it used [Unseal] to easily unseal the spirit, and then imdiately used [Spirit Sealing] to seal it again inside its body. Afterward, it used [Absorption] to absorb its magic and easily replenish itself with almost infinite MP.
Crina told that if this boss has been left alone for so more ti, it would have grown out of proportion and easily take over the whole dungeon, probably taking even more spirits to beco even stronger.
Also, Saphirae and Crina doesn't seem to be friends at all, probably being born at different tis, they never had the opportunity to et each other in the past. Sephirae also told us that she didn't rember how the monster unsealed her. But that one day she woke up inside it. She's probably suffering from temporal amnesia due to the severe damage that she took from the monster sucking her magic.
Because spirits are Ethereal beings, if one absorbs too much of their power, they may begin to lose their own mories and even emotions, this is due to their entire body being made of magic, they can only store their emotions and mories inside their whole bodies as they lack a flesh brain.
I can already see that the next bosses will probably have more spirits inside them, reinforcing their power.
After having a quick al to recover Stamina, we proceeded towards the next floor.
On the way down, I decided to open my two [Unique] Reward Gifts. The first gift gave a [Undead Sli Dark Adamantine Ring], it gave so extra stats and the skill [Forbidden Summoning Magic: Undead Sli]. The second gift gave weird [Unique ] Potion… It was nad [Affection Potion]. If I give it to anyone, it will increase their Affection towards . I don't really like the manipulative nature of this item, although I'm quite manipulative myself…
I decided to just drink it alongside the other Potions I had. It had a weird liquor flavor with an alluring womanly fragrance.
[You leaned the following Skills]
[Affection Enhancent]
[Skin Reinforcent]
[Enhanced Speed]
Wait a minute, [Affection Enhancent]? This is dangerous…
[Affection Enhancent: Enhances the affection that others have towards you. Cannot create a sudden affection if the subject previously hates you or holds a grudge against you. After reaching a certain value, affection cannot increase by the use of this Skill]
[Cost: 190 MP]
Even when I found this skill incredibly dangerous, I couldn't contain myself from using it, as I silently chanted its activation and used it on Sapphirae. I tried to camouflage the spell with my Illusion magic.
Suddenly, a pink aura covered Sapphirae's whole body, as she began to blush a lot while looking at . When I glanced her back, she imdiately moved her face elsewhere in a shy manner.
"Haaah… It actually worked… No way… With this skill, I'm really the Realm nace of Lust…"
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We quickly reached the sixth floor and we were greeted by the previous Undead Lizardman alongside a new type of monster. They were nad Sli Bone Tarantulas. These strange beings were spiders made of different kinds of bones while covered on a sticky Undead Sli. They had a crimson orb on the center of their body, probably being their main core. There was even a Sli Bone Tarantula Empress and a Sli Lizardman Lich Emperor. Both were quite strong, but Gaby and Brontes quickly took care of them as we approached the boss room.
[You gained 195470 EXP] [The rest of your servants gained tons of EXP]
[You gained one level!] [LEVEL 42/70 EXP 157740/230000]
[Your servants gained tons of levels!]
On the way towards the boss room, I quickly consud so corpses of the monsters, barely obtaining any skill. I probably already got anything of importance from these guys.
[You gained the following Skills]
[Sli Undead Tarantula Empress Crimson Core]
[Enhanced Undead Senses]
[Paranormal Perception]
This floor boss a powerful Titan made of countless bones and covered in Slis; it didn't have an actual shape as it keeps changing to whatever it felt fit on battle. Gaby and Brontes fought it for a while as the monster showed incredible amounts of intelligence, quickly learning their attack patterns. In the end, Nesiphae, Zehe, and Rimuru stepped in and finished the abomination with a powerful combination spell, creating a powerful rainbow beam.
[You gained 221190 EXP] [The rest of your servants gained tons of EXP]
[You gained one level!] [LEVEL 43/70 EXP 148930/248000]
[Your servants gained tons of levels!]
[Everyone on your party have received a [Reward Gift (Unique)] x2 and [Resistance Enhancing Potion Pack (3)] on your Item Box]
We decided to pass the rest of the night in the boss room as we slowly began to make dinner.
Using my powerful [Cooking] skill, I took a big piece of the Lizardman Emperor and chopped it in small pieces until making it minced at. Then I made small spherical balls, seasoned them, covered them in flour made with grains from the forest, and deep-fried them in oil.
A delicious sll of fried at began to fill the room and even the spirits started to droll. Sapphirae was being very close to due to what I just did so hours ago, and I began to worry that she would beco obsessed with . I wish I could revert this, I didn't intend to make her like this. Well, it's not like I don't like her cuteness and timid nature, she could be a little sister, I suppose.
While waiting for the food to get ready, I slowly digested the boss bones and sli with my body fluids.
[You learned the following Skills]
[Sli Titan Lich Arcane Core]
[Undead Tenacity]
[Forbidden Summoning Magic: Weak Ghosts]
Another summoning magic, this one let summon various types of very weak ghosts. The cheapest ghost looks like a small face made of mist. And the ones that take the most MP looks like an amalgamation of different faces together, I could see so potential on it. I decided to eat the two that I summoned to see if I get so skills. And I did, I think I've never eaten an actual ghost before. It wasn't quite the sa as a soul. It seems that ghosts are sothing different than a normal soul.
[You learned the following Skills]
[Ghostly Cry]
[Deadly Glare]
[Ghost Language]
Ghostly Cry and Deadly Glare seem to be intimidation skills, with the last one having a chance to instantly kill its target, although very low. Spirit Language lets talk with ghosts; the system doesn't translate their language so this is convenient.
After having a nice dinner with my family, I decided to open my Reward Gifts before sleeping. The first gift was a [Unique ] Class [EXP Potion], it gives 50000 EXP and a small buff that increases my EXP gained by 20% for the next 24 hours. The second gift gave a [Unique] Class [Reinforcing Raddish], this weird item can permanently increase the potential growth of any summoned monster. I decided to save it for now.
Tomorrow we will rush the last bosses and finally conquer this dungeon, I can't wait. I hope the final boss doesn't disappoint . Before going to sleep, I decided to use 12 Subclass Skill Points and bought the [Daily Synthesis 6] bonus, now I can fuse up to 25 tis per day. This is my current limit for now until I reclass back to another Alchemist subclass.
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*I will post the skill fusions tomorrow.
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