After heading for the next floor which consisted of monsters at LV 20 mark Zash, Sylphia and Serena made sure to hide their auras and energies properly this time as this was also an practice of sorts which would be important to them later while Sylphia was a bit lacking as she constantly kept her energy leaking throughout her body while it was only 1% she was a tier 6 Dragon so it was enough to anyone with a keen sense make a run for his life on the first instance.
The good thing was the low-level monsters from LV 200-300 above only had these senses as such they weren't worried about terrifying the monsters much and could go around clearing monsters more normally.
" The terrain here's more rocky and harder to fight on no wonder it's a dungeon with higher difficulty standards." Said Zash while Serena and Sylphia agreed that any common LV 19-20 would die undoubtedly die from a single mistake.
After getting familiar with his surroundings Zash went looking for monsters in the surroundings he noticed a group of 14 Giant Lizards which had metallic skinny plates for skins which had a giant lizard for a boss and spotted many such monsters in similar groups.
[ Metallic Lizard LV 16
HP : 12100/12100
MP : 25000/25000
[High Metallic Lizard LV 18
HP: 15000/15000
MP: 27000/2700
[ Herd Leader Mersian Lizard LV 20
HP: 20000/20000
MP: 30000/30000 ]
While it wasn't a boss it wasn't far off either as just this single herd of monsters were enough to make anyone flee from their spot in just an moments notice. Especially in this rocky and unstable terrain which could kill anything while pointed rocks and holes filled the ground and loose boulders fell moment after another with the monsters making it harder than ever.
After Making another Sword for himself he leapt off and went towards the herd at his top speed and let of enough presence which made the monsters aware of them about his presence not enough to frighten them of course.
As the monsters caught up to Zash approach towards them they set off groundshaking tremors which set debree and boulders fell from the mountains and ridges from above as the lizards had high hides they were practically safe from the ongoing onslaught while Zash was struggling quite a bit to reach the herd of monsters before him.
After dodging the rocks in succession Zash landed on a metallic lizards back and impaled his legs and used him as a ladder to jump on top of the other lizard and slowly but steadily kept on causing damag in a slow but steady pace while the lizards made use of whatever opportunity to attach him but Zash always wanted this outcome as he was perfecting his moment ability and experience with his Swordsmanship to fill remaining gaps and what better place to do so in experiencing it first-hand by himself in real life battle.
As the monstera were 15 levels higher than him with even one serious strike from being fatal while his body was nearly undistructable it wasn't so for his difference in levels.
After a full 30 minutes Zash dealt with every metallic lizards leaving 3 High metallic lizards and a LV 20 Mersian Lizard on the ground who were the most difficult to deal with.
Zash jumped after slashing and killing the last metallic lizards and leapt for the 3 High lizards while they launched every attack in their arsenal Zash had levelled up to 6 and switching the in AGI gaining more highlighted senses and fared off better than before as Zash was quite happy he was cut off by the leading as he could sense the Herd leader getting impatient and knew his end was near if he didn't took action quickly.
The leader commanded the high lizards to follow suit and summoned rock attacks and impact which summoned a walley of boulders and sharp pointed attacks towards Zash from the front and above. The girls were quite worried about him and wanted to help but stopped when they saw Zash signaling them with a Thumbs up and laughed it off as it was a good training for him.
And dodged whatever he could and used the terrain for his own advantages and wanted the lizards to exhaust their mana reserves and take advantage of this exploit and continued to party attacks which fared off rather close to him and finally as seeing their MP drain with each attack Zash amplified his weapon with augmentation he learnt from the research from God of literature's secret abode.
The moment he slashed at the 3 lizards the lizards were cut in half with no Hp left Dead in a single slice ! Even Zash was surprised by this result and after a moment of silence saw his experience bar he was 50% at LV 7 with only needing half the amount for reaching LV 7 and as such wanted to play with the boss lizard more but saw his sward growing unstable the next moment and wither away at the sides due to the aftermath of the augmentation as proper balance was needed between weapons with materials and the weapons augmentation matching and synchronising with each other. Shaking his head he made a new sward discarding his old one and made the sward disassemble itself.
After 10 minutes he had dealt with the herd Leader swiftly and went looking for his next prey excitedly as 90% at LV 7 and a few more monsters is all he needed due to them being high levelled then him as such Zash went on a killing spree and soon reached LV 9 after 10 Hours of entering the 2 nd floor of the dungeon.
As his level got higher he started to notice the exp required double and soon triple after every level up as such he fulfilled quality with quantity and reached LV 9 and after cleaning the surroundings of monsters Zash went towards the Boss's room and scouted for dangers and prepared himself.
[ Rhino Lizard LV 20 Boss
HP: 30000/30000
MP: 45000/45000
[ Guardian Lizards LV 20
HP: 20000/20000
MP: 30000/30000
After scouting he saw 10 Guardian Lizards with a quadropeddled Giant Rhino Lizard which seemed to be the boss and seemed pretty strong and agile which made it a living nightmare for anyone who entered the dungeon as there wasn't a mountain or environment holding adventurers back there's the boss to make up for this as such this dungeon was called the most cursed one which took lives regularly on a daily basis as if eating snacks.
As Zash was prepared he created a diversion and arrived before the guardian Lizards and slashed at its tendons and seperated it from the rest of the group after 2-4 minutes the lizard layed it's final breath as it failed to catch a hold of Zash and fallen victim to Zash's taunts and died off while his next victim came if front of Zash and hissed at him and after repeatedly killing guardian Lizards Zash was 50% towards LV 10 and quickly dealt with the last guardian Lizards and went towards the Boss's room.
The boss noticed Zash's presence as Zash entered his territory and shrieked and called for his guardian Lizards but to his dismay none turned up as Zash had already dealt with them.
He dashed towards the boss which in turn sped towards Zash with all its speed poking it's horn towards Zash and wanted to kill the intruder which had invaded it's territory and charged with full speed ahead with his quadruple limbs as anchor.
Zash seeing his simple yet deadly attack pattern went straight for front face off and mustered all his strength and partied the hit with all his might quilt covering the hit with his sword and making up for the power gap of 10 levels with his Cultivation which unexpectedly launched the boss a few feet in air and made him stumble backwards quite a bit and look at Zash in horror a unique trait which is rarely seen in monsters while Zash too marvelled at his own strength.
Whilst Wh had only used a little of his Cultivation which was at nearly Elementary Ruler First stage standards. This result got even beyond his understanding.
Whilst the difference in power was obvious Zash still charged at the boss this time without his Cultivation and continued slicing and tearing up it's scales and chopped off its flesh and arms again and again as they kept regenerating due to its mana and regeneration power greater than any lizards throughout the dungeon after 1 hour Zash had finally finished off the boss with a quick slice at its neck and was done with it and noticed the system notification of level up with a few equipments and items along with other materials speed all over the ground which bursted out from the boss after its death like a pinata.
Zash shifled his attributes points to
STR: 20> 40
VIT: 25> 30
" Congrats on getting to LV 20" said Serena and Sylphia who were both happy for Zash.
" Thanks, and should we go towards another dungeon ? The exp isn't enough for me I've noticed every level requires more expensive than the previous Level and as such I see close to no chance of getting to LV 20 in less than a month" said Zash somewhat annoyed by this
" Haha don't worry we have all the time we require aren't we all immortals in a sense? What's the need to hurry? Let's keep enjoying things as them may come " Sylphia said which made Zash thinking about his impatient attitude for a while
" Oh come on ! Let's go shopping later we can also sell these materials in the Adventurer's association right ? I really want to go out and eat those stuff we are the last time " said Serena as she really enjoyed their ventures in the streets previously.
" Let's go with 24 hours Being passed in the dungeon it's common knowledge for 1 hour in outside world is 24 hours within a dungeon experienced by the body and mind as timescales of certain dungeons are mixed up with other worlds and whilst there are many speculations why none knows and the ones who know are too high Tierd and won't bother telling others or maybe are prevented by some unknown force or reason" Sylphia said and helped Zash tidy up the loot and the trio covered their faces in layers of Quantombots making their faces " Normal" once more and exited the dungeon as after a dungeon gets cleared a party can exit the said dungeon easily by just a wish of mind or heading towards the teleportation gate.