738 Chapter 738

At the same time that Marcus, Mrazivy, and Roxene were taking on the challenges on their own eleventh floor, so were the other groups.

Unlike them though, the team that James was leading did not end up separated from the start and were instead brought into a large circular room with multiple doors in it that each contained a serious of different trials for them to overcome.

In order to clear the floor, they would have to complete each of the trails which forced them to work together.

Some were similar to Marcus’ trail where they needed to learn a new skill or skills to get through. While others focused more on leveling up skills or increasing their application of one.

It was certainly difficult but working together they managed to complete most of the trials, and only had one left before the large door at the front of the room would open and allow them to proceed.

“So, what do you think this one is? Another test of skills we already have, or maybe we will have to fight off another group of endless zombies while one of us figures out how to obtain the skill to disable the magical device that was spawning them?” Lyra said as they stood in front of the last trail they needed to complete.

“I highly doubt we have to do something so similar to anything we already have. Everything has been at least a bit unique.” Quillon pointed out.

“Well, it does not really matter what it is. All we have to do is get through it.” James said before opening up the door.

Once he had, the trail started, and all of them let out a sigh of relief when they saw what it was.

Before them was six different monsters, and all they had to do was defeat them within the allotted time of five minutes.

Certainly not easy, but it at least would not be as tedious as some of the other challenges they had been put through.

“Lyra, can you tell us anything about them?” James asked.

During one of the other challenges, they had needed her to appraise a creature that had a peculiar ability they did not understand. And since Lyra could just purchase skills using her skills points begin a reincarnation, it had been left up to obtain annoying skills to learn in a short amount of time.

“I can tell you that they are all level sixty-five but that is it. Unfortunately, at my current level of six, I cannot see detailed information about creatures higher level than me.” Lyra said while shaking her head.

Tch!

Everyone else clicked their tongues when they heard this. This meant they would have to figure out their opponents’ abilities while fighting and under a time constraint.

“Something tells me this is not going to be easy.” Quillon said as he readied his sword.

The four of them then jumped into action and started the fight, since thankfully the six monsters did not begin the battle until they initiated it.

Blasts of mana and bursts of fire soon littered the room as the four of them bombarded their enemies from afar.

They were hoping to simply blow them away in one quick fell swoop, but things were not so easy.

Once of the monsters which was the largest of all of them stood in front and had created some sort of ink black barrier that absorbed all of their attacks.

It was a horrifying creature that stood on four legs and had a large bulbous torso that did not end in a head but a single giant red eye

Surrounding this eye were four large tentacles that were spread out and somehow creating this barrier.

“Guess we will need to move in. Everyone proceed with caution.” James said.

With that the four of them jumped into the fray and began engaging their enemies.

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“Damn it. What they hell are those things!” Lyra shouted as she slammed her hand into the ground.

Sadly, their first attempt had not ended very well.

Each of the monsters they were up against had unique and powerful abilities that made them difficult to deal with.

They were very well balanced and made it hard for them to kill them within the five-minute time limit.

In the end, they had only managed to kill one of them before time ran out and they forcefully shunted from the room.

This was not the first time they had experienced this as some of the other trails they had were time based, and if they failed, they would have to start all over.

Nevertheless, while it was frustrating, but now that they had a better grasp of their opponents’ abilities, they put together a new strategy and got back to it.

“Finally. We managed to win.” James said as he fell over onto his rear.

It had taken them two dozen tries to finally figure out the best attack pattern for dealing with their enemies and wipe them out in the five minutes they had.

They had to get forceful to do so and use a majority of the powerful abilities of Quillon’s supreme skill, but they got through and eked out a win when they put their all into it.

“Now we just need to open up that last door and see what is behind it?” Fallon said as she rubbed James’s back.

As the one with the most experience, he had been leading their team, and it was starting to take a toll with how frustrating things got at time.

“Yeah, hopefully it is not too difficult.” He said.

The four of them took the next day to simply recover, and honestly, they would have taken longer if not for the fact they only had limited supplies and did not know how long they would be stuck fighting their way through the dungeon.

When they finally moved to open the final door, they all had hardened expressions on their faces and prepared for the most difficult challenge yet.

Except, what they saw in this last room completely baffled them. There was no challenge to be had, simply five chests waiting in the room with a teleportation circle in the back.

It seemed that there was no final challenge and that they had already completed everything and simply needed to collect their rewards.

All of them started laughing when they saw this, as they had steeled themselves for some other brutal trail.

“I guess we should see what we all have earned as our rewards.” Quillon said before moving over to his chest.

Each of them had their names on it and soon they were lined up and open them simultaneously.

Inside they each found three different natural treasures that would raise one of their stats by fifty points.

This was a fairly mundane reward, but unlike Marcus and Roxene who had the supreme skill Greatest Potential, everyone else needed stat boosting items to reach their peak.

In this regard, these natural treasures were pretty good rewards. At their current levels, James, Fallon, Lyra, and Quillon were hard pressed to find compatible items.

Once anyone reached a certain level, lower grade natural treasures stopped giving stat boosts, and past level sixty it became much harder to procure compatible natural treasures.

“Damn, I guess we should have tried hard.” James said as he kicked his chest.

When they had opened them all of them received a message detailing how the rewards for this floor were calculated, and if they had done better, they would have gotten more valuable items.

“No, I think we made the right decision. No point in rushing ourselves and someone ending up dead or crippled.” Quillon said.

In the future they could always continue to strive for strength, but if they died that was the end.

After receiving plenty of encouragement form everyone else, James who felt like he had failed as a leader, calmed down and realized he was overreacting.

“Okay, I get it. You’re all right. We still have nine more floors to get through before we finish this set, and there will be plenty more rewards. Now since we are rested already, we might as well keep going.”

Turning their gazes towards the now active teleportation circle. They all nodded their heads and walked onto it. Ready to take on the next floor.