After thanking Sheila and Sylvia, we leave for the Duke's mansion to meet with him. I open a gate to outside his mansion and show our Guild cards to the gatekeepers and asked him to inform the Duke of our arrival, if he is busy we can just come tomorrow or just look for any other Noble.
After 15 minutes of wait the gatekeeper came back running and showed us to the Butler of the Duke who told us to just show the tokens with the seal of the Duke which he gave us last time to gain a rapid entry. We reached the meeting room and bowed to greet the Duke, when he said to sit down on the sofa in front of us to discuss what we wanted. We showed the Duke our Gold and Silver Adventurer's Guild card and asked him if he had any special mission done in order to confirm our promotions.
He seemed very happy and said that we have come at the perfect time, He said that an envoy from DevilKin was going to come seeking a friendly tournament of just the best fighters in this generation of both teams, if they win they can determine the greater position in any further deals.
I looked at Abberon who was furious but told her now is not the time we will defeat them and show them our strengths. But I was curious as to why he had chosen us, he said that he has done some investigation and found out that I am the Heir son of the Zero Family and also being an A-class adventurer at this age is also a wonder in and its own making us the fastest at each ranks and also the youngest.
We agreed to it and drafted a personal contract with the Duke about representing Dracrys Empire against the DevilKins and hopefully find a way to release the Demonkind from the oppression of DevilKins who are most probably trying to claim peace but will stab us in the back afterwards. The date for the match was decided to be for 15 days from today and we decided to visit the Dungeon of Sunset in the meantime to train as well as see how our growth is helping us in conquering the dungeon and unlocking Abberon's seal.
We leave for the Dungeon of Sunset because our goal has been achieved in a shorter duration. I open a gate to the Dungeon and register with the guard and enter.
There are undead soldiers and undead knights from the first to the 10th floor. These were easy to plow through with my light magic and Abberon's halberd enchanted with light Magic, we decided that these won't help in anyway so we plan to go as far as we can today and then continue from there tomorrow. After raging through these we met an elite undead soldier who didn't last for even a few seconds as we go ahead.
The next set of enemies were the defensive types who acted as tanks and could absorb most of the damage dealt to them, most of whom were strong undead monsters ranging from fanged bear to an Earth Dragon. The exploratory party and the other adventurer's haven't gone beyond this set, the next set has all of the agility types from meerkat to snakes and to star wolves all A-ranked monsters with each possessing enough strength to defeat a company of elite soldiers although the number's were less there were still a total of 50 in that set. It is almost dinnertime so we decided to check the next set once and then go back to the inn, to have dinner.
The next floor which was floor 41 raised caution signs all over despite us not being able to see anything, so we increased our senses and could feel invisible monsters hiding everywhere these are probably wraiths they are difficult monsters because they use stealth so they are hard to detect and kills everyone before them finding out how they died, but because of that their senses are lacking as a matter of speaking so if you know how to find them they will cease to exist but these ones here appear to be a stronger kind which even our normal passive detection is unable to detect.
After detecting and killing all of these wraiths on the 41st floor although Abberon wanted to stay and clear some more floors, I told her not to overdo it because if we face a strong opponent exhausted and without food we might have a difficult time so we decided to head back to the inn and come back tomorrow. I open a gate to the inn, we enter and ask the innkeeper for some paella to fill our stomachs and souls with some energy. When we began eating my caution alert started to buzz, and [World Map] started displaying multiple unfriendlies, red dots which are coming towards the inn. I lock them in a barrier and finish eating my meal, I told Abberon about the situation and she decided to come as well. We informed the proprietress about it and left to take care of it.
When we come out we see 7 hooded figures fallen exhausted after trying to break free from the barrier but failed as a result of not being able to do anything. I then project my voice inside the barrier and ask them in a clear voice, what are you bunch of clowns trying here?
They refuse to say anything and look at us in anger, despite coming to us with a killing intent being beaten they still appear to look down at us. I did what I always do in an interrogation I closed off their voices and connect their audio input to a cave which always sounds like chalk scraping on the board and growls. After about 5 minutes of wait they looked like they were foaming from their mouths, during that time something was revealed their hoods came off and we could clearly see two distinctive horns indicating DevilKin.