To say that Dilan was pissed off would be an understatent. He was furious about the stupidity of his Ascenders.
It had been obvious that so idiots would enter the Pagoda of Ti together with more level-headed Ascenders, who knew what they were doing.
However, Dilan had never expected that the Ascenders, whom he had expected to be sensible, would push forward and try biting off more than they could chew. He found this behavior of his trusted warriors to be truly enraging.
So of the Ascenders had co forward to him to report what happened in the Pagoda of Ti.
By the ti everyone, who was still capable of speaking, finished saying whatever they wanted to reveal, Dilan’s entire deanor changed as he released an aura that has never been seen before.
Nobody dared to look into his eyes, not even Kathrine, who had nothing to do with the situation.
She clearly knew that she had beco greedy after receiving all the gains they had made just in a single raid of the Pagoda of Ti.
Thus, she felt bad and hung her head low as if Dilan’s chilly and furious presence was sothing that targeted her as well.
Everyone took a few steps back the mont Dilan took a single step forward.
The Ascenders looked away from him as rage and wrath waved off of him. They feared facing the brunt of his anger despite knowing that Dilan wouldn’t kill them just like that.
Yet, for so, getting killed or punished by Dilan might be a blessing in disguise. They would be able to atone for their sins, for the mistakes they did and they would be able to lift their heads once again..
But instead of saying anything, and punishing the Ascenders, who had recklessly motivated others to keep going, and clearing just one more floor to gain more so as to beco stronger, he kept quiet.
They had been tasked with the responsibility to protect others, nad had felt the need to support him in any possible way.
Yet, in the end, it was exactly this desire, and their greed to gain more treasures that killed them.
While more than 300 Ascenders had entered the Pagoda of Ti, only 85 had co out alive until now.
15 Ascenders had been reported dead, and more than 200 were still missing.
Even if the death rate would remain the sa, a total of 45 Tier-1 Ascenders would have died, uselessly…
It was not even as if they died protecting their group from a monster tide or while valiantly fighting evil human Ascenders who had attacked them
Their death had been entirely useless because it could have been simply avoided by accepting that they had reached their limit and should retreat.
To Dilan, giving up on raiding the Pagoda of Ti was not sothing shaful. As long as one learned from the mistakes one did, one could fix them, beco stronger and try again.
However, the requirent for this was… to stay alive.
Dilan didn’t look into the eyes of any of the Ascenders cowering in front of him. He didn’t say a word for the entire hour he had been waiting in front of the Pagoda of Ti’s entrance.
A few more Ascenders had erged from the Pagoda. Two of them were carrying corpses, while another Ascender carried a heavily injured female Ascender.
They looked devastated and desperate but froze in place the mont they noticed that Dilan’s eyes were trained on them.
His eyes were ice-cold and he took only a single glance at the corpses of his Ascenders before he moved his head to the heavily injured woman.
“Mike, Rachel, Irvan, heal her.”
That was the only ti Dilan said anything before he averted his attention once again.
If Dilan had been quite happy and satisfied with the Pagoda of Ti, his group, and their new life a while ago, his current opinion was the exact opposite.
He had warned the others about the dangers the Pagoda of Ti harbored, and painstakingly detailed his experience to them. Hence, everyone who had chosen to enter the Instance Dungeon knew what awaited them.
It was not that much different from two days ago when Mason had begged to be allowed to join him on his quest to the Sun temple. Mason had been aware of the dangers but he still had willingly chosen to follow him.
Yet, he had died that day. Now other Ascenders had died once again.
However, Dilan didn’t feel the slightest bit of guilt in his heart. He knew that this ti, it was not his fault.
Instead of lashing out at the wrongdoers, he waited patiently for the missing Ascenders to arrive and several hours passed.
So Ascenders from their base had co to the aid of the traumatized and injured Ascenders. The dead bodies that they had sohow managed to bring outside were also taken with them.
They would be buried together soon enough.
When the other Ascenders left, Kathrine decided to help as well. She had lost her earlier smile that had uplifted her mood after conquering the Pagoda of Ti with Dilan. Right now, her heart was just aching, she felt bad and unsure of what to do or say.
Her sister had not yet returned, but Kathrine knew that Yvonne had entered the Pagoda of Ti in the mode. She was the last person who would let greed consu her.
Yvonne was also not soone who would overestimate her capabilities.
That was why Kathrine was not too worried about her sister.
In the end, only Dilan and a few Ascenders with healing abilities were left behind.
They spent the entire night without saying a single word and simply continued to wait for the other Ascenders, who arrived one after another.
Every now and then batches of Ascenders erged in front of them but Dilan never moved a muscle. He remained glued to the spot with his feet firmly planted on the ground. He looked no different than a stone statue, as he looked around coldly.
There was not even the slightest change in his expressions the more Ascenders erged with heavy injuries with so of them carrying their comrades’ dead bodies.
Yvonne had walked out of the Pagoda of Ti a bit later as well. With the help of her special trait [Wings of the Fallen Angel], her occupational abilities, and her Origin Ability [Angel of Death], it was possible for her to wear out the Gold Tier-1 Minotaur on the 15th floor.
If not for the ceiling of the final floor is more than 10 ters wide, and Yvonne’s Agility exceeding 60 with her agility-boosting ability activated, she would have never dared to fight the Gold Tier-1 Minotaur Leader and the Silver Tier-1 Minotaurs.
It was simply too dangerous had she not been equipped with her ability and high stats.
However, owing to the fact that she could control two bodies of monsters around her level by now, she could kill two Minotaurs before starting to control them.
With that, she could continue to kill more Minotaurs until the corpses she controlled would be completely destroyed.
But by then she could switch her focus to controlling other corpses.
In the end, Yvonne might not have broken any record, but she had survived and earned a huge fortune in terms of the number of Essence crystals and other loot she had gotten her hands on.
Her stats had increased quite a bit as well.
Yet, even Yvonne had clearly understood that the Pagoda of Ti was extrely difficult and that a single mistake could kill her, and her entire group if she were to enter the Instance dungeon with others.
That was also one of the reasons why her Origin ability kept notifying her about the dangers of this place. It felt just like a graveyard.
Her Origin acted up as intense as it was the case whenever Dilan was about to wreak havoc, killing hundreds of monsters, and evil Ascenders just like when he had eradicated the Sun temple.
Thus, Yvonne was not actually surprised when she saw a few heavily injured Ascenders, a few dead bodies, a bunch of Ascenders, who were focused on healing, and Dilan coldly staring at the situation ahead.
It didn’t require much intelligence to understand what had happened, and Yvonne could only pat his shoulder reassuringly.
She was still not comfortable with n around her but Dilan was different. It was hard to describe what made her feel safe around him and even Yvonne could not co up with the correct answer. However, he was different and she didn’t mind patting him in a consoling manner.
“You know, so people learn how to be careful the easy way, others learn it the hard way…and others die before understanding that they made big mistakes.” Yvonne rely stated.
And it was at this mont that Dilan sighed deeply, moving for the first ti in a while as he spat his words in disgust.
“Then these bastards should learn on their own by sacrificing themselves, not by pushing others to their doom…”
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