[You have entered the 4th Level]
Unlike the 3rd level, this floor was completely subrged in water. Unfortunately, when I checked this room, there were no hidden rooms. At least, as far as I could tell. Neither had there been a monster. That ant they was only a boss in this level. The sa way there were only mobs in the previous room.
Almost like the creator hadn’t expected anyone to pass through those floors. Also, it was big. Like ungodly massive. So much space I could fit a mountain in here. I’m not trying to exaggerate its space, cause golly.
It was smooth sailing till it wasn’t. A dragon appeared before . A little smaller than Goliath was, but a dragon nonetheless. That was terrifying in my opinion. The beast looked just like a snake, but big and with those weird fin ears sea dragons always had. Its eyes were a simple white and it was staring at intensely.
Its physical stats were even better than Arisu’s though it wasn’t A rank like Minerva was.
‘Devil. What brings you here?’
It spoke to through telepathy. A dungeon mob that could talk? That was oddly interesting.
‘You can talk?’
‘Of course. I was created by the great Makrov after all.’
‘The great Makrov?’
‘Yes, the strongest devil in history. Are you here to free him of his binds?’
This guy was awfully chatty, wasn’t he? That was good for though, since I could get a bit of information out of him while plotting the perfect chance to kill him. Scanning through his defence and skills, it was looking highly unlikely that I could kill him. Maybe if I stole so of his skills like [Dastardly Bite] or [Sea Dragon’s Rage]. The latter gave him a 50% boost. The forr dealt a whopping 5000 damage, ignoring any defence one had on. If combined, that was 7,500 damage done. But that was no where near enough to kill soone like him. Even if I said this though, there were multiple easy ways to kill such a beast, but thinking up more creative and life-threatening ways was fun.
There were other skills I wanted though, such as the [Dragon Scales] which nullified external magic on the body of the dragon or [Dragon Breath] which was a beam of pure raw energy that dealt damage equal to the amount of mana or aura the dragon put in.
‘Uh, yeah.’
‘That so? Excellent. Let take you to his throne room.’
Throne room must have ant the place the dungeon core resided. If I could get there, couldn’t I technically be done with this dungeon?
We started moving through the room. Then I asked the dragon a very stupid question.
‘Who’s the boss of this dungeon?’
‘Boss? What do you an? I’m the boss.’
‘Eh? But I got no notification.’
‘Don’t you lie to . Obviously, I’m the boss. The others can’t be the boss. I, the great Castil, am the strongest dragon to ever exist!’
He began boasting loudly. But he’d confird that there were others in the dungeon that I simply couldn't see. Where they just out of reach of [God’s Wisdom]?
‘Where are they though?’
‘I don’t know. We promised to never see each other so ti back.’
‘Oi, is this place so big that monsters your size haven’t seen each other in quite so ti?’
‘Yes. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger.’
What? What? What? I knew dungeons could expand, but so big that other dragons the size of this guy could roam about and not see other for so ti? That was way too big. Did that an dungeons weren’t actually in the real world? Maybe they were gateways to other dinsions.
‘Stop coming up with whack theories.’
‘Ow.’
‘Speaking of… Where are those bastards now?’
The sea dragon halted and started to think about it for a mont, before shrugging and continuing as if that wasn’t important in the slightest.
We ended up reaching a gate where I t four dragons, each bigger than this guy, all being A- in rank.
‘Shit.’
‘Castil. Why have you brought an intruder here?’
The biggest one amongst them, the white dragon asked. She was easily five tis as big as this guy. I gulped, feeling tiny in quite a number of ways. This thing’s physical defence stats were far higher than Minerva’s, playing about in the 60,000s.
‘Shut it, Castillo. Open the door so I may pass through.’
‘Disrespectful little brother. Do you wish for punishnt?’
The red dragon, who was the second biggest hissed at him.
‘I see your breath is still as bad as ever, Castor. I’m not here for you.’
This guy was beyond rude. Way too rude. Especially considering they were his older siblings.
‘Why should we even let you pass?’
The green dragon, began to shake violently as it grew closer to .
‘Did this intruder trick you into letting him enter?’
‘I am not as simple minded as you idiots to be tricked.’
Except you sort of are.
‘Insolent brat!’
‘We should have killed you instead of banishing you from this place.’
‘Indeed. Co for your new punishnt.’
The three siblings threatened him, but he scoffed at them.
‘Oh, shut it, you oafs. Bow before my greatness. As if you could ever banish . I tricked you all so I would never have to see your faces again.’
These dragons and their pride was starting to get out of hand. I wasn’t sure how to react, because I was getting the feeling that they were going to start fighting, and I the literal insect standing in the way would only get in the way.
‘Why are you even wasting your breaths arguing with the little one? Whether he speaks the truth or not, the only one who could give us a proper answer is ‘the One’.’
A new voice entered the discussion.
I was confused by how ominous that sounded. It was even worse considering the one to say this was the black dragon who was completely quiet the entire ti.
‘The one?’
‘Yes. The One. The great king of Sea dragons.’
‘E-Eh? J-Just a mob, right?’
‘Mob? Who is that?’
‘Never mind.’
I decided to keep quiet. If he wasn’t the dungeon’s boss, then I didn’t know what was the dungeon boss. The levels only increased exponentially in terms of difficulty. How was this a B rank dungeon? An A rank would have a tough ti here. Only an S rank could ever possibly do this. I an, look at how I suffered. Of course, Daxia probably had it really easy on her first try.
The black dragon moved out from its hiding place and ca to . I really was incomparably tiny when next to these guys.
‘You sll familiar.’
‘Right? She slls like Makrov.’
‘What?’
I was surprised by that. Just then, the eyes I had been feeling on whenever I entered a dark space intensified their glares. I looked behind and I got the sense that it was smiling at .
‘Is that what you? Are you Makrov?’
Of course, I got no response from it, but I guess I could go with that for now. He had been trying to contact for quite soti now. Maybe because I was part devil, I was the only one able to notice his presence? He’d definitely tried to contact other people before. I an, if I was killed and there was a chance of coming back, I’d try anybody I saw.
Though, there was one part I was confused about. Weren’t devils supposed to go back to hell once they lost their corporeal form in this realm?
‘I haven’t heard from you in quite so ti.’
‘Oh yeah… I didn’t call for you this ti though.’
‘So, basically he was summoned here and hasn’t completed his task so he can’t go back to hell?’
‘I see.’
‘We will take it to see the one for confirmation.’
The black dragon spoke and the others looked at him, before also agreeing. He probably possessed the most authority out of all the five.
The wall behind the dragons turned out to be a gate they were guarding. They all swam into it, and I was ordered to follow after.
On the other side of the gate, the entire room was a large terrain. It felt like I was looking at the Grand Canyon and the dragons were regular sized people. There were tons of mana crystals, all blue in colour at the bottom of the vast opening that illuminated the cave.
‘What the hell?’
“Welco, to the resting room of the king of sea dragons.”
[You have entered the 5th Level]
‘What? Nothing happened in the 4th Level?’
Akira noted.
‘Yeah. We never even got to fight the dungeon boss.’
‘We never saw the dungeon boss.’
‘Alright then, good luck.’
‘What?’
Before I could react, the dragon Castil slamd into the canyon. You’d think that since this was an underwater cavern and I could swim I’d be alright, right? Right?
Well, you guessed wrong!
There was a weird gravitational pull that forced down, almost like I was falling. I hit a white silvery surface with a thud, like I’d actually fallen down from a cliff.
‘What the hell.’
I jumped up and scratched the bottom. It was hard and my talons couldn’t even cause a single mark to appear. I gulped when it started to move. Out of nowhere, a blue eye opened up before . I gulped once it saw .
[5th Level Boss “Great King Charybdis” has appeared]
[Defeat this boss to proceed to the next floor]
‘This is beyond doable. This thing can kill Goliath in a heartbeat, no?’
‘You sll like my maker.’
He started.
‘Maker? Sea Devil Makrov?’
I asked just to be sure.
‘I can sense his presence next to you. What is it you seek to do here?’
Makrov was this thing’s maker? Wasn’t that a testant to how strong Makrov actually was? And a testant to how strong the guy who beat him, is? That was the guy fighting the demon lord, right? And it would take seven days? That ant the demon lord was no pushover either.
Well, that was obvious enough.
‘I’m here to free the Sea Devil Makrov.’
The blue eye looked at . For a spine-chilling mont, there was nothing but silence.
‘You, are telling a lie.’
He saw through in an instant.
‘However, you truly do amuse . For that, I will gift you with a chance.’
‘A chance?’
[You have completed a never-before-seen achievent]
[You have received 1 Help Ticket]
‘What’s this for?’
‘This is the compensation the dungeon is giving you. Cry out to any friends you have and know that they will die by my hands. I, the Great King of Sea Dragons and my children shall fight you and your friend.’
This escalated way too quickly. However, if it ca down to a matter of needing to summon help from soone. Of course, there was only one person I could think of to summon at such a crucial ti.
In the next mont, the 5th Level’s dungeon boss would find out that giving this ticket was the worst mistake it could ever make.
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