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Chapter 488
🕑 Added 2025-06-04 02:00:06 +0000 UTCAnton looked at his army of summons and knew that if he reset his Necromancer to focus on skeletons, his army would grow, and that would truly be overpowered for the twentieth level of this dungeon. He didn’t bother and just followed behind his army of ravens and wolves with two of his most powerful summons leading the pack, the Valkyrie from the Amazon and the Shadow Master from the Assassin. The Clay Golem was overpowered as well, and the Oak Sage was making each one of them extremely tanky. The Oak Sage summoned was not needed, but it amused Anton to add the spirit to the pack.
He followed behind his army riding the Dire Bear. While doing so, he started leveling up his Ladder Barbarian and only paused whenever a battle concluded, since he had to make sure that all the necessary loot was gathered by his minions.
With all the hullabaloo about, Anton couldn’t join a party and had to play solo. It would have been nice to play in a group because the leveling process would be faster.
Since all the work was being done by his summons, and Anton switching his aura from Fanaticism to Cleansing, that meant that he didn’t need to mind the summons. He knew that even if he summoned just a few of them, it would be enough to decimate the monsters on the twentieth floor, but the number of his minions meant that he was blazing through the floor extremely quickly.
He didn’t even stop at noon since he could eat while moving, and sitting above the Dire Bear was comfortable. By the time evening came, he had completed the floor. Anton knew that it was probably a record time, but he wasn’t a hundred percent sure. Again, his case wasn’t rare. There were overpowered people who came from some other place that didn’t have a choice but to delve into lower lower-level dungeon until they met the requirement to move deeper.
Anton gathered ten medium-level mana stones and just a single high-level mana stone. He also collected the quest items for twelve gold-level quests. That would bring the total of his completed quests to forty. Just a few more and he would rank up. He really wanted to do so since delving into this dungeon was boring for him. There was no challenge, so instead of adventure, it felt more like work. At least, with how easy the floor was, he could level up his characters inside his system at the same time, since if Anton wanted to be honest, his Diablo II system was still the best way for him to increase his power.
He also wondered if he would receive a new update once he leveled up the last ladder character. Anton did manage to collect a lot of minor health and mana potions that he thought about stopping since it was cluttering his inventory, but he knew that they would probably be helpful in the future, so he still retrieved his daily potion from the game and transferring them out into the real world before storing them again in his inventory.
This dive also managed to get him a couple of treasure chests. Anton still felt icky about finding treasure chests since he knew that they were the belongings of adventurers who had died inside the dungeon. The chest contained magic weapons, armors, and accessories. That meant that the treasure inside his treasure room in his house would increase.
Anton kind of liked that since, currently, his treasure room looked a little bare. He decided that he would also store the minor health and mana potions there as well, so he could clean up the clutter inside his inventory a little, even though he didn’t really need to due to how large his inventory and private stash inside his Diablo II system were.
It was almost midnight when he exited the dungeon. He did learn that the adventurer guild’s office near the dungeon portal was open twenty-four seven, so Anton headed there directly. The guild staffer who assisted in exchanging his mana stones for credit in his adventurer guild bank card wasn’t Elianah. She was probably already resting due to how late the night was.
After the funds were transferred to his bank card, the total gold coins in his card reached around 37,400 gold coins. Anton didn’t know if it was enough to be able to purchase a manor or mansion, but it would probably be better to collect more funds.
He did learn from the guild staffer that the amount of mana stones that he was collecting every dive was unusually high, so Anton thought that maybe the option for increased drop rate that was listed in his Shako contributed to that. Of course, he still wasn’t sure about that, and the only way for him to know was for him to experiment, but Anton was feeling too lazy to do so.
Anton immediately requested a portal key again, and the guild staffer who handled exchanging his mana stones with credit handled that.
Without wasting any time, Anton entered the dungeon again. He was startled to see that the biodome that was given to him by the twentieth floor was the Ancient Labyrinth again. He was hoping that it would be something else to break the monotony, but then again, because of how easy the floor was for him, it truly didn’t matter anymore.
Instead of moving forward immediately, Anton decided to rest first. He summoned all of his summons so they would guard him while he was sleeping,q1 and after that, he retrieved his sleeping bag from his inventory. After a quick meal and a bath, he slept.
Anton woke up after a few hours. He saw that it was only a little over three o’clock in the morning, but it didn’t matter. He ate a quick meal and commanded his minions to start destroying the monsters on the floor. At the same time, he started leveling up his ladder barbarian.
The monsters were back to minotaurs, cyclops, rock golems, stone pythons, and more of the same themed monsters that could be found in an ancient labyrinth, but it didn’t matter to his minions. All of them were killed without any issues.
By the time his summons killed all of the monsters on the floor, it was only around five in the afternoon. Anton knew that he needed to stop diving on this floor for at least a few days because it was truly too boring, and he needed a change of pace. He did manage to collect twelve medium-level mana stones and two high-level mana stones. He also opened a single treasure chest that contained items. He also completed ten gold-level quests.
Anton exchanged the medium-level mana stones in the guild, bringing his gold coin credit up to almost fifty thousand gold coins. His high-level mana stones went up to five.
He returned home after that, and the dwarves and two maids welcomed him. Anton brought his newly acquired items from the dungeon to the treasure room, and the number of items made the room look a little lively, at least compared to before.
He then went to the kitchen to ask Lisa or Ronia if they required more funds, and the maids told him that their budget should last for at least three more weeks. Anton told them that he would leave for at least a week, so he gave them coins that would last for a couple of months, just in case they needed them. He also gave the maids their pay for two months and did the same with Torbin and Torban.
They asked where he was going, and he told them that he would go to the beginner dungeon and help a few friends go through the lower levels, and that could take some time.
