Chapter 315 Exploring The Dungeon Once More, Now It’s Buffed Up!

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Emeraldine conjured a powerful seal magic. She was able to do that thanks to her amazing affinity with Holy Magic and the help of her Light-Attribute Spirit (Damn, I really want a Spirit for myself as well!). She conjured a ray of light into the Dungeons’ entrance which spread out like a white and gold membrane of light, covering the entrance. The toxic miasma stopped coming out of it just like that. After that, she put several seeds around the entrance and with her Nature-Attribute Spirit she made them grow into many roots that began to surround the entrance, reinforcing her seal even more, and creating a wooden door as well.

I had asked her before if she could do the same to let us easily grow plants back in our village, but just as she told me, the cold temperatures will make the plants die very quick. Also plants that are grown instantly like she did often die after 24 hours, withering and then dissipating into ashes. So it is also not really possible for her to create a sustainable source of wood… unless she uses her powers partially, helping the plant grow instead of forcing its metabolism to grow instantly. Of course, her powers had been enhanced several times now that she leveled up a lot form yesterday’s fight, so maybe she can still do some incredible things.

“A-Amazing, a barrier!”

“She’s… an elf?”

“Indeed, she is!”

“She’s such a radiant beauty, and she radiates such a holy light, like a Saint!”

“Hahah… Y-You don’t have to praise me so much, I am more of a hunter than a magician.” Said Emeraldine rather embarrassed. She was indeed good at the bow, and combining it with her magic for great effects.

“Come on, let’s get in.” I said, ignoring the soldiers as we walked inside the dungeon. The wooden door quickly closed almost automatically behind us, as we were greeted by the darkness of the dungeon we once visited in the past with Partner.

“Damn, this bring back some memories…” I sighed.

“This is where we meet Lucifer… And also Kuro!” Said Partner.

“Kuro is protecting Julia right now, but I bet he would be happy to be here with us.” I said.

“Hm… It has expanded.” Said Lucifer. “I don’t remember the dungeon being so big before. Even the stairs were very stretchy and big groups of adventurers had a hard time walking down the stairs, but now it has become a rather big dungeon… the first floor is also massive.”

We reached the first floor to find absolutely nothing… For now. However, within my Mental Map, I was seeing dozens of red dots slowly approaching towards us from all three corridors surrounding the big first floor. Monsters were coming rapidly to confront us!

“The Dungeon mutated after absorbing all of that miasma and the souls of the innocent slaves alongside the negative dark energy…” Sighed Emeraldine. “I never thought that dungeons could be manipulated to grow stronger in such a wicked way…”

“Well, there’s no point in lamenting it now that it happened. We better work hard and hurry to complete this place!” I said.

“Yeah!” Said Partner.

“I am with you.” Said Lucifer.

I quickly summoned a band of Undead to support and cover our backs. They were mostly high-leveled Skeleton Knights, alongside Pyro and a band of the five strongest Zombie Giant Spiders I had.

“You summoned Undead- Ah, there’s a lot of monsters coming!” Said Lucifer, quickly realizing the presences of monsters were approaching!

From all three directions that the first floor branched into, monsters emerged. They were all slimy and colorful… Slimes! I do remember that the first floors had a few handful of slimes… but aren’t these way too many? Dozens of high-level slimes at that!

[Darkness High Slime: Lv23] [Rank: C+]

[Holy White Slime: Lv28] [Rank: C+]

[Great River Slime: Lv25] [Rank: C+]

[Acidic Poisonous Slime: Lv19] [Rank: C]

[Blazing Fire Slime: Lv29] [Rank: C+]

…

There were many of them! And they were of almost every color of the rainbow. Seeing them all together really was cute, as if a sea of rainbow was running our way. But when you realize they’re acidic creatures that dissolve things to digest, you quickly grow scared of getting caught up in that sea of dangerous slime, especially because they can even dissolve phantasmal essence!

“So many slimes!!!” Cried Partner.

“Let’s form a barrier to stop them from charging, they’re too many!” Said Emeraldine.

“Alright, let’s work together!” I said.

With Emeraldine behind me, we quickly formed a large barrier of darkness and light, materializing it into a solid point and then generating and replicating more barriers over it, making several layers of it.

FLAAASH!

The slimes quickly reached us at long last, hitting the barrier strongly and making a few layers crack instantly. However, Emeraldine kept making more layers with me, as I used this opportunity to refill my Mana by absorbing the Mana from the slimes surrounding us, weakening them in the process.

This was the best way to deal with waves of so many monsters at once, just sit inside a barrier and absorb their mana all while the others fight them! We made the barrier so our attacks can easily trespass it and reach the slimes outside.

“RAAAAAH!”

Lucifer roared, as he opened his mouth and unleashed a powerful blazing phantom flames breath attack, flaring through the slimes surrounding us and dealing direct damage to their souls. Several of them suddenly began to explode and splatter over the ground one after the other, as Lucifer broke through their Slime Cores, their weak point.

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!

They made the sound of balloons exploding each time they died, and splattered over the ground. However, more swarming slimes came one after the other, working together like a giant hivemind while trying to dissolve our barrier.

“Thousand Scarlet Spikes!”

Partner also attacked, as she used her spear to fight. She unleashed the power of her Spear Techniques combined with her Blood Magic, unleashing constant piercing attacks that created after images that also dealt damage made out of Blood Aura, a new power she had developed as a Lesser Vampire!

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

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