Chapter 232: Understanding The Dungeon
The entire party was divided into part of four as all of them began to move toward their designated directions.
"Let’s go..." Saying these words, Dhruv began to move toward the east. Azarex and the rest of the undead followed his lead as well.
Blinking twice, Dhruv quickly activates his mana. He had made sure to check his surroundings with mana vision every minute, or else he had a feeling that his fate could be the same as the monster he had killed.
Dhruv was right to do that as it didn’t even take a few minutes for them to encounter another group monster. This time the monster was of a different breed.
"Master, there in the sky..." Azarex muttered as he directed his hand toward a kettle of monsters flying above their heads.
The appearance of this monster resembles that of an eagle. Their color was so perfect that it was almost blending with the blue sky. Looking at its wings one could easily guess that this was their weapon of choice.
Their wingspan was wide each feather made out of crystalline and shaped into razor-sharp ice formation.
Pew! Pew! Pew!...
Gliding toward them, the monster attacked by raining crystalline shards on them. Sensing the attack, both Dhruv and Azarex erected their barriers around themselves.
Seeing that the attack had failed, the eagle tried to fly back into the sky. Showing its back to the enemy cost it heavily as a bone spear hit the monster directly in the chest, killing it on the spot.
Seeing one of their members dying, the others tried to escape... but unfortunately, they were in the way of Dhruv’s Serrated Blades.
[You have killed the monster, Adult Caeruleus Aquila.]
[You have earned 1500 CC]
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Looking at the notification and the monsters dropping from the sky, Dhruv whispers, "Although they are only at tier 2, I think they will be very useful in traversing our way here."
Understanding what Dhruv was hinting toward Azarex muttered, "That would indeed be a great idea..."
Saying these words he began to move toward the kettle of corpses.
Bringing his hand forward, Azarex closes his eyes—that was never there to begin with. Five seconds later, a black mist escaped from his mouth and began to cover the corpses lying in the snow.
Slowly but surely, the corpses began to absorb the mist. Within a minute, all the monsters got up from their eternal sleep and began to fly into the sky once again.
Connecting with their vision and ensuring the working, Azarex commented, "They are alive, Master..."
Nodding his head, Dhruv cast multiple fire spells and began their journey once again.
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A sudden chill ran down his spine as a cold breeze brushed against Dhruv’s face. Shortly after, snowfall began, with delicate snowflakes falling gently from the sky, the scene in front of them began to get blurry.
"Hmmm! The cold is increasing, don’t you think, Azarex," Dhruv muttered as he felt that three fireballs weren’t enough to keep him warm anymore.
"Yes, I can feel my bones getting jammed as well." Azarex nodded.
Dhruv was about to add another fireball to his collection but stopped as he noticed something abnormal in front of him. Just a few meters away from him reality seemed to get broken.
Ignoring everything Dhruv focused on the scene in front of him, it didn’t take him long to notice what was happening. The environment in front of him seems to be glitching every ten million or so per second.
Even though it was only for a moment, Dhruv understood what he was seeing. Apparently he had reached Dungeon Barrier in just a few minutes of travel.
"Hmm! Why is the dungeon barrier so close to the portal..." Dhruv muttered as he couldn’t understand what to make of this revelation.
"Huh! Barrier where?.." Azarex whispered in confusion as he couldn’t feel anything.
Because he didn’t have illusion resistance, Azarex couldn’t really see the dungeon’s barrier. The only way for him to tell if such a thing even existed is by touching them.
"There..." Dhruv pointed toward the area in front of them.
While Azarex had gone to check the barrier, Dhruv’s brain began to fill with all the questions. He was glad that he had taken the multipurpose brain or it might just pop out of existence.
’Why is the barrier so close to the portal... No, I’m asking the wrong question. Why is the portal so close to the barrier? Is something wrong with this dungeon generation... No wonder the tier of the monsters was high.’ Dhruv began to ponder over all types of questions.
"There really is a barrier..." Azarex muttered... before finishing his sentence he realized something.
Blinking for a second, he began to connect his vision with the undeads he had sent to explore.
"Master, you might want to check the group that had gone in the South direction," Azarex muttered as he connected his vision with Dhruv.
"What..?" Before he could understand what Azarex meant, the vision of one of the undead began to play in front of him.
After processing the vision Dhruv was finally able to conclude something, ’So we really had spawned in the corner of the dungeon...’
In the vision, two of the undead were blocked by something invisible, and Dhruv was sure that this something was none other than the Dungeon barrier.
"Which one is this?" Dhruv asked.
"They are the ones who had gone north, Master," Azarex answered without any hesitation.
Nodding, Dhruv opened his map and began to think about how to continue this dungeon.
’So, if everything is right, that means we have spawned in the southeast corner of this dungeon. Like others, to close the dungeon; we have to kill the boss, and the species the boss would likely form will probably be Crystallce,’ Dhruv thought.
After a minute of more thinking, Dhruv began to understand the dungeon, ’The most probable direction where the boss monster would be is in the northwest part of this dungeon.’
The reason for this conclusion of his was that the Dungeon will always try to throw as many challenges as possible. And the easiest way to ensure that is by making the distance between the two—portal and Boss monster— at a maximum.
"Azarex, call back all the undead... we finally have a target," Dhruv muttered with a smirk all over his face.
