It was ti for the second floor's rewards!
"Didn't the rewards co too early? We had to fight two rounds of battle to clear the first floor. And the second floor is cleared with only one round?"
Renar asked in confusion. Lady Zee cleared his doubts with her response:
"It's not the number of rounds the dungeon considers but the level of difficulty you have to face as a team to clear the floors. Maybe you didn't have to exert as much effort when compared to the first floor, Renar.
But Ronny and Jules had to bring out their absolute best. That contributed to the team's credibility to clear the second floor. Plus, the dungeon would do what it does best- surprise you when you least expect it. It follows the known pattern only half the ti."
Renar looked at Ronny and Jules after he heard the explanation and rembered the fights that they had to suffer through to secure their victories. As Lady Zee had said, he didn't face the burn of the second floor much. Since there were people who had outperford themselves, the dungeon's chanism balanced their hardships by putting less burden on him.
"Let's not waste any more ti. With our current performance, the third floor of the dungeon is the maximum we can go. I'd like to wrap things up after that. There are also solo towers that you can take part in.
Jules and I would part from you guys after the third floor of the dungeon gets cleared and we get out of it. You can explore the dinsion for so days and take part in solo challenges if you are okay with the risks. We'll et when Purgatory is going to close for this year."
Lady Zee said and gestured to Belar to step into the array. The usual followed and everyone had their turns. Ronny was the last to go since he had decided to practise his ranking technique so more to stabilize his condition.
Contrary to Lady Zee's grim prediction about the third floor, he was looking forward to it. He had so many insights to digest after all. Battles would be a convenient thod of achieving that objective in the shortest amount of ti.
Ronny stepped into the array and closed his eyes. Next, he sent his mana sense into his storage and waited for things to appear like they did last ti.
It didn't take long for Ronny's rewards to arrive in his storage. Just like the first floor, there were multiple items this ti as well. But his attention was drawn to one particular item as soon as he laid his eyes on it.
'Hm? An egg with runes on it?'
Ronny wrapped his mana sense around his unexpected reward and inspected it. The egg was twice the size of his palm.
The runes on it lit up when he tried inspecting it with his mana sense. But apart from sensing that the runes were there to keep the contents of the eggs safe, he couldn't find anything about it.
'Reen, can you sense what it is?'
The butcher asked his demon beast companion. The latter just seed to have shaken her head in denial before responding:
'No, Erni. The runes on the eggs are not letting get a read on it.'
Ronny seed to have thought of sothing before directing his question next to another of his partners that liked to keep her mouth shut for most of the ti:
'Alephee, what about you? If Mana Sense can't work, I bet your Soul Sense can. Would you like to help your host and friend here?
At least pay the rent for living inside my mana core.'
The butcher asked playfully while displaying his frugal attitude. Alephee seed to have rolled her eyes before making a few things clear for him.
'Haah! Pay the rent you say. If I wasn't there, you would have died by that wolf chewing on your dick. And no I can't help you.
Not because I don't want to. But doing so might affect the reward you have.
Soul Sense isn't as simple as Mana Sense, you know.'
Ronny didn't budge from that half-assed explanation. He wanted Alephee to clarify a few things for him right now. So he pressed on:
'What do you an? Does Soul Sense damage things every ti it gets used? Why didn't that happen when you used it in the battle?'
Alephee pondered for a bit before replying:
'The Mana Sense employs your mana to do things. It becos an additional sense that goes beyond the limits of the traditional senses. It lets you analyze things more deeply. But what if you could employ your soul to do the sa and then so more?
In Soul Sense, you have to spread your soul around you. That ans your soul stretches beyond the confines of your body and treats the area around you as an extension of your body.
If I do that with this egg and the eggs turn out to be alive inside the protection of those tunes, then my Soul Sense would negatively affect the fetus. A soul's interference should not be taken lightly. Especially when it is being used on soone who hasn't even been born yet.
Now you tell . Do you want to take the risk of running your reward just to satisfy your curiosity?'
'Um, no. Let's... wait.'
Ronny told Alephee and decided not to ruin his reward. He then focused his mana sense on his next reward-- an old to that had a locking chanism.
The locking chanism opened on its own when the book ca in contact with the butcher's Mana Sense. He opened the book and scanned the content written over it.
The butcher was srized by what he found inside the to. He kept on turning pages after pages, giving them a quick read. He only stopped after he finished checking up the last page and registered his surprise to himself:
'Holy moly, it's a jackpot. There are so many potion recipes I haven't even heard exist. Most of them belong to F and E Ranks.
Fuck! So of them are also in D-Rank. This to alone is worth all the effort I took to win my round on the second floor.'
Ronny was extrely pleased with getting his hands on the to as a reward. He had also found the things he was looking for in it. He had found the recipe for the miasma potion that he had found intriguing. Plus, the to explained in detail how the potion traps worked.
Plus, the to also gave him the ability to permanently strengthen his weapons using potions. In addition, a few recipes were given as examples of how the way of the elents could be used in the concoction of potions.
Ronny had high hopes for the egg after he realized the value of rewards the dungeon had granted him for clearing the second floor. He turned his attention to other rewards after he begrudgingly kept the to away.
The butcher found a stock of various vials next. He imdiately recognized a bunch of the vials. Because the content inside them had the sa tint as Edward's miasma potion when he had used it against him.
The potions seed to be 5-stars in quality too. This type of reward also put a smile on Ronny's face because it gave him the imdiate trump cards he needed to turn things around. Especially in the separate dinsion.
The butcher was never fond of making his safety dependent on the actions and reactions around him. Especially in Purgatory where he couldn't count on anybody. These miasma vials would serve as get-away passes if things started turning grim for him.
Other vials contained potions of the E-rank. They ranged from stamina potions to mysterious concoctions, carrying so known as well as unknown buffs and debuffs.
The butcher then shifted his attention to a bunch of scrolls he had received as his reward. He opened them up and saw that they were all 5-star, E-Rank variants of his ti and lightning elent spells.
'Damn. This dungeon needs to be fard for rewards. I'll have to find a way to enter the dungeon and sneak Jake and the rest in here.'
The butcher thought to himself and read through the scrolls. The first floor had given him new spells while the second floor had raised the ranks of all his existing spells. The dungeon sure knew how to keep its participants interested.
Lastly, he discovered a non-elental F-Rank spell to make his weapons levitate and attack as per his commands using the mana sense as their driver. He rembered Dom's way of handling the wooden spears and realized that the spell's potential was already laid out in front of him in the previous battle.
'This non-elental spell isn't that special. But it can give the variation I need to tackle my opponents in mid-range. Not bad.'
The butcher thought to himself and smiled. He retracted his mana sense after confirming all the rewards.. He couldn't help flash a grin to his teammates when he stepped out of the array.
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