I Level Up Dragons w Chapter 131: Attack

Chapter 131: Attack

Imdiately, alarms blared loudly throughout the building. Guards rushed back and forth to deal with the situation, but the danger to Edward had not yet revealed itself.

From the depths of the lower floors, a large number of powerful and fearso individuals rose in unison, ready to face whatever was attacking them.

Edward could hear the sound of boots pounding the floor, echoing from the depths of the building’s caverns.

He smiled slightly and looked through the fortified door. There were two staircases, one leading up and the other down.

’One to the fourth floor up and the other to the first floor down.’ Edward knew his target was on the lower floors, but he didn’t choose the stairs leading down because he would run into the guards of the Red Moon Cave. Instead, he went up to the fourth floor.

As he climbed the stairs, he began to hear the clang of swords clashing and the agonized screams of the dead as they tried to fight his n.

’It’s started... We have an hour at most. Count Hazzard’s troops should be arriving in about an hour, if nothing has gone wrong.’

Upon reaching the fourth floor from one of the corners, he saw people running down the main staircase. So were soldiers, others were ordinary civilians. Everyone was running to find out what had happened or to escape the fire and explosions.

Others were simply protecting those who were fleeing.

Edward hid near the ergency staircase and saw that many people were heading this way. So, he waited patiently for them to arrive.

As they ran through the hallways, the sound of footsteps slowly reached Edward’s ears. The mont he sensed them close by, Edward hurled an explosive magic tool toward the stairs and leaped to the other side of the hallway at that very mont.

BOOOM!

A deafening, terrifying explosion echoed instantly, and the ergency staircase was blown to pieces.

Edward found himself face to face with those trying to flee down that staircase. So were frightened, but others attacked him, having been trained for this very day.

Two beasts flew around him; they were small birds specializing in wind attacks, though their power was quite low.

Edward took a step back to dodge the first attack and then ducked for the second. He leaped forward, avoiding the two birds, and his hands grabbed the necks of the two summoners, slamming them into the ground and shattering them in a single motion.

Both beastmasters lay pinned to the floor, blood trickling down their necks, but no one stayed behind to mourn them. Edward leaped again, and his hands quickly found their next targets.

This bold move, combined with the earlier explosion, caught the attention of the n on the other side of the fourth floor. They leaped to confront the intruder, but just then, a pile of corpses ca into view on the main staircase, and two n slipped in among them.

"Kill these bastards!" roared one of the two n, who leaped forward and stabbed one of them in the neck.

Edward also followed the attack closely and approached them, managing to decapitate several simultaneously with a clean swing of his sword.

Within five minutes, the entire fourth floor had been cleared. But the sound of footsteps could still be heard coming from the stairs leading to the fifth floor.

The two n approached Edward. "Young Master," they greeted him.

They were n from Aurora.

Edward stared intently at the stairs leading to the fifth floor for a few seconds before returning their greeting. "You’ve done well. I heard that the n on the fifth floor are all mbers of the Cave... From the sound of their footsteps, I can tell they’re incredibly powerful. So be careful."

"We understand, young lord."

"I’ll go down to the ground floor. Wait for my signal to blow up the second floor." With that, Edward looked at the stairs one last ti before starting to run toward one of the rooms on the fourth floor.

They had scouted this place very thoroughly. Things like secret rooms and hidden passageways were clear in Edward’s mind, as they had already been investigating it for several days.

Thanks to that, he didn’t get lost and made it to a secret room whose door was practically invisible. Still, after knocking a few tis, it opened from the inside.

Two n were waiting there.

"Good job." Edward patted them on the shoulders. "Go help your comrades. By the way, if students from the 101 arrive, fight alongside them. They’re allies."

Both n nodded and ran out of the room, allowing Edward to leap down a half-built staircase and descend slowly.

After a few jumps, Edward hit the ground, and a blinding light flooded his eyes. His body sensed a threat in front of him. Despite being blinded by the light, he took a step back and raised his left hand.

A spear swung toward him and struck at his head, but it was firmly gripped in Edward’s hand. He pulled the spear toward him, and little by little his vision cleared. A tall, gaunt figure, with bones protruding through its rotting skin, was revealed.

He swung his right hand, sword in hand, and struck the head of the undead creature attempting to attack him with force, killing it instantly. Even so, he didn’t stop. He used the spear gripped in his hand to turn around and hurl it with all his might toward a dimly lit corner of the room, where it landed.

The spear flew at great speed and, by a matter of centiters, failed to destroy the head of a fire mage, who managed to dodge it by leaping to the side.

"Blinding fire magic, huh." Edward smiled, appearing beside the mage. "It would be a good strategy if I weren’t your opponent."

"You bastard...!" The wizard roared and sent his beast—a fire butterfly—swooping toward Edward... yet the sword struck his neck first, killing him instantly.

Edward ran to the center of the room and simultaneously struck a magical pattern on the wall. This pattern shattered after four strikes.

Imdiately afterward, a powerful alarm, like the sound of bells, echoed throughout the entire 0th floor. The n of the Red Moon Cave had been fully alerted.

One of the secret entrances was being breached!

But that was only the beginning...

Soon a second, similar alarm rang out...

Another entrance had been discovered and was being breached!

That was the mont the Red Moon Cave realized they were facing a preditated attack...

And soon, five alarms sounded. Not a single one failed. All the secret entrances were breached. The security protocol collapsed at that very mont.

For the first ti since its founding, the Red Moon Cave Headquarters was left completely unprotected by the magical patterns of Varhat. Those magical patterns, which had prevented the energy within the earth from spreading, collapsed.

A deadly energy began rising toward the Comrcial City from beneath a real estate company’s building, alerting all the soldiers, businessn, and beast masters.

It was the cursed energy of a Cursed Land!

Shock coursed through the bodies of all the inhabitants of the Comrcial City, and chaos descended.

Edward and his allies—the ones responsible for this—erged from the secret rooms.

Edward ran through the hallways, facing a variety of powerful n and managing to get past most of them. Still, there were a few who gave him a hard ti.

"You bastard! How dare you attack our holy seat?! You will die for your sins!" roared one of them. He was bald and dressed in martial artist’s garb, his torso bare.

His body was gigantic, standing over two ters tall, and the muscles in his arms and legs were thicker than Edward’s entire body.

Naturally, his body stood out among the crowd of n in front of him. But in contrast to his figure, his summoned beast was not a big guy.

It was a small sparrow. But not just any sparrow.

’Steel-Feathered Sparrow.’ Edward realized this man was going to be a tough nut to crack.

But he smiled. "Let’s see what you’re made of, big guy. All I can tell you is that your stronghold will soon be a pile of rubble, so you’d better give it your all in this fight."

The giant felt the veins bulge in his body and roared. "Bastard, I’ll kill you in the na of our gods!" he roared.

His enormous body, against all odds, moved at a speed even Edward hadn’t expected. His fists were heavy, and with the strength of several elephants, he swung at Edward.

The powerful attack shook the air, but it didn’t reach Edward. Instead, it struck a wall behind him, shattering it in an instant.

Edward’s eyes widened in shock. ’How strong!’

More than that... he was incredibly fast.

According to the laws of physics, was it even possible for him to be that fast, despite being so huge?

Edward had to focus on dodging continuously. If he were caught by one of those punches, he would surely die.