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Chapter 261 - Insane Plan (Merry Christmas, everyone!)
🕑 Added 2024-12-24 13:04:17 +0000 UTCThe labyrinth began to shake more and the frequency of the trembling also increased. Glacien worked hard to make sure that she wouldn't pass that to Alissandra who was sleeping, but I wondered if that would change anything… the break would be pretty hard to hide, after all.
“I am not sure that I heard anyone trying to deal with a dungeon break while inside a dungeon or labyrinth… Do you have ideas like this often?”
“I will leave that to your imagination.”
Roswald was starting to get a bit tense as he watched me working. I could understand his concerns, even though he was supposed to be fast enough to outpace the monsters, the distance to the exit was still pretty far away. Nothing says that he would be able to keep that pace until the end. If he has to run for it.
From his perspective, I was fine since I could just use my bike to move pretty fast without worrying about stamina, he didn't have that luxury and while the bike had a seat for a passenger, that place already belonged to Alissandra.
Eventually, the aura all of a sudden began to change in the entire labyrinth and even I was able to sense something. In the next moment, it felt like an invisible wave zapped me. Glacien looked more tense and Roswald raised his guard.
“Huuuuuhhh.”
“It is okay, it is okay… nothing happened, continue sleeping.”
Alissandra felt that too, so she almost woke up, but I managed to calm her down. I should have made something for her to sleep that could muffle the sounds around… things will become quite noisy, after all.
Finally, the whole dungeon began to shake and it felt like the whole place was going to collapse. I checked the ceiling to make sure that nothing would fall on us, but that part of the labyrinth had no stalactites and the ceiling was firm enough.
The rumbling kept going for five minutes and then eventually ended… but soon we began to feel the ground shake, it was weak, but it was getting stronger.
“Here it comes… can't believe that I am following this insane idea.”
“I didn't expect that you would be the worrying type.”
“I am not, but even I have a limit.”
The sound of wings flapping began to echo in the area and soon a massive wave of Frost Imps emerged in the distance. In a frenzy, they began to laugh while flying faster toward us.
“Your plan isn't working!”
“I didn't prepare for them, after all.”
I unleashed a barrage of arrows that pierced the wings of the Frost Imps and then they fell on the ground and over each other since the holes in their wings were too big… I didn't count on that and thanks to it, the ground exploded.
You received 50 experience points.
You received 50 experience points.
You received 50 experience points.
I clicked my tongue in annoyance, even though the Arcane Trap burned to a crisp ten of the Frost Imps, they were quite weak against fire, or my magic attack power was just that high. Arcane Trap wasn't that high level, after all.
Arcane Trap Lv 08: Place a magical trap at a location that triggers an arcane explosion when an enemy approaches, dealing elemental damage based on your magic power and dexterity. This explosion can apply status effects such as burning, freezing, or stunning based on the chosen element. Cost: 100 Mana
I had an amulet for this skill, but it took a full day to make since it costs a ton of mana. I used the mana cores that I got in the dungeon to make countless of those. That is why the skill reached level eight, even though it was level three two hours ago.
The heat wave stopped the other Frost Imps, so it took a while for the others to come to us… which we used to move away from the area.
“So, are we going to keep doing this until we reach the entrance of the labyrinth?”
“If you have a better idea, I am all ears.”
I decided to use all my mana cores to keep spamming Arcane Trap. I was going to get all the cores of the fallen monsters later, after all, so it was fine. The amulet was made of magic iron, so it could last for a while longer thanks to the repair hammer, but even that had limitations.
After taking a few stops along the way to create some Arcane Traps, I looked over my shoulder when I heard some weird sounds and soon found the Frost Imps crawling on the ceiling. Others soon approached while flying… It looked like they wanted to split our focus.
“Take the ones in the ceiling.”
Roswald grabbed his knives and then charged toward the enemies flying… I hesitated for a moment in buffing his weapons. I didn’t have to do that so soon, but it was better to make sure that his energy reserves would always remain full, so I used Dreadful Enchantment on his daggers.
Roswald frowned when he saw the weird energy on his weapons, but soon he understood the effects of the enchantments when his mana was restored after he slit the throats of the monsters.
“You have this kind of temporary enchantment too, huh? Nice.”
Roswald swung his knives to get rid of the blood on them… it was quite something to see that when all the surrounding monsters had their throats cut. It felt like he was holding back, like he could just behead the monsters, but he was just using enough strength to deal with the job while saving his energy.
‘I guess I could learn from that… when it comes to fighting with a bow, I always attack the monsters like there is no tomorrow with as much strength as possible.’
In any case, I used Hunter’s Rage and then felt my blood pumping faster. The temperature in my body increased and when I fired my arrows at the monsters, they pierced through them and impaled the Frost Imps against the ceiling. I just wanted to test the skill, but now I regret it a bit.
“It looks like the ones from the next floor were eliminated, but there are still three more waves of Frost Imps. It is very likely that the monsters of the next section will join the last wave.”
The monsters in the forty section were frost sentinels. Frost Sentinels, according to Roswald, were towering humanoid monsters, standing at nearly eight feet tall, with icy blue skin. Their bodies are clad in natural armor formed from jagged frost and hardened snow, giving them a nearly impenetrable defense.
Each Frost Sentinel wields an enormous greatsword forged of magic ice. The blade emits a cold mist, chilling the air around it and causing frostbite on contact. Despite the size of their weapons, they handle them with precision and efficiency.
Their fighting style is deceptively simple, but highly effective. They favor a defensive approach, holding their massive swords in a ready stance and moving with guarded steps. They raise their defenses first, blocking or parrying incoming attacks with the flat of their blades or deflecting blows with their frost-armored forearms. This defense frustrates their opponents, forcing them to expend energy and grow reckless.
“They will fall for the Arcane Traps I left on the way. The real issue will be the others. The Frost Sentinels will activate most of my Arcane Traps, after all.”
After the Frost Sentinels, there will be even stronger monsters, and that will be the real challenge, and that is what I needed. A challenge that would grant me a shit ton of experience, but I still needed to use my head and skills wisely to earn all that without messing up. Still, if compared to facing all the monsters of a break outside a labyrinth, this still would be much easier.
In any case, soon enough, the next wave of Frost Imps showed up, and I didn’t have to use anything else aside from Hunter’s Rage and iron arrows to keep the monsters at bay. Even at level one, the skill increased my attack speed enough to put two arrows in the heads of each monster and finish them off. With the extra mana, I put Arcane Traps around. Roswald didn’t have to kill many of the beasts, thanks to that.
“It seems that you are fine in killing the Frost Imps by yourself. Should we remain here until the monsters of the fourth section arrive?”
“No, we will be moving. The smell of blood is getting stronger the more the monsters are dealt with and that will eventually wake up Alissandra.”
Roswald was a bit weird by the fact that I came with a battle plan using Alissandra’s mood as a reference. I wanted to prevent the break, but I didn’t want to make a child of that age feel the oppressive aura of a bloody battlefield.
Besides, staying in one single place would mean that I wouldn’t put much distance between the traps. That would make it difficult for them to become really efficient.
“By the way, can the bosses of each section leave the labyrinth in the break?”
“Of course they can.”
“Can I get a class by defeating them?”
“No.”
I clicked my tongue in annoyance. Why not? Wasn’t that essentially the same challenge? In fact, facing them like this was even more difficult… given that they could command their allies.
“That being said, I don’t know what can happen if some people stopped a break. I heard stories that some people had special classes, and they were involved in dungeon breaks. The real ones only had ten floors or so.”
Stopping a dungeon break should be considered a trial, but would a single class granted by this be compared to three others combined?
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Merry Christmas, I hope you get some nice presents and spend time with family. I also hope Regulus gets a special class.
