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Chapter 17 - Demon Labyrinth

RESUME

"What.. d-do you plan t-to do to me now? Victor in a scared voice slowly backed up while shaking and stuttering.

"I'm gonna free you from here? You said you want to eat right?"

"A- Are you… really going to do that?"

"Yeah, come on let's go I'll tame the others when they respawn."

"Respawn? What do you mean you killed them!?"

"Oh! You didn't know that you are immortal in this dungeon?"

"We are immortal?! In this place?"

"Yeah, You guys didn't die before at least once?"

"No, we vampires leave for thousands of years and our lifespan increase every time we sleep for a long time, we can only die if we are killed."

"Hahahahaha." Pon burst out laughing after hearing that they are basically immortal.

After waiting for a minute the second vampire boss respawned. Pon called out to him saying hello.

"Elder Brother! HUMAN I'LL KILL YOU THIS TIME." He was angered after seeing his brother on Pon's side he controlled the bats and attacked Pon.

"Vincent, STOP!" Victor said as he used his cape and blocked incoming bats.

"Brother! Why?" The vampire asked curiously worrying about Victor.

"This Human is going to free us."

"You want me to believe that? I thought you'd be the last person that will submit to a mere human. YOU HAVE BECOME WEAK MY BROTHER, I'LL KILL THE BOTH OF YOU." Vincent was furious after hearing his brother siding with a human.

"YOU ARE MY FOOD!!!" Victor said activating the skill and scaring Vincent.

"AAAAH~" Vincent screamed from terror and loses his breath passing out."

"Hum- I mean Master, You can tame him now while he's unconscious," Victor said while carrying Vincent in his hands.

After taming Vincent he unsummoned him for now and they continued to the first boss room.

"No! I'm Sorry!! GET AWAY FROM ME!!! DON'T GET CLOSE!!! BROTHER HELP!!!" The Vampire said screaming and yelling in terror while covering his head in the corner of the room.

"Vince, Don't worry he is here to help us," Victor said to calm Vince but Vince was still in the corner shaking and covering his head while still trying to back up.

"Master, Lets Put him to sleep for now." Bite suggested to Pon.

"Yeah, let's do that."

"Uhmm…" Victor muttered.

"Hmmm? What is it?"

"Master, I understand that you killed them and Vincent is mad about me joining you."

"And?"

"But Vince is not like that he is the second child and he has a massive ego and it's not normal for him to be like that. What did you actually do for him to be in that state? It's my first time seeing him like that."

"Actually, I don't remember." What did I actually do? he thought to himself as he look at Vince in that terrible state.

"He has experienced many near death experiences before from our father's harsh training but he never became like that."

After taming Vince they left the dungeon and continued their expedition.

When the red moon came out they looked for the nearest cave to use as a shelter for the rest of the day and found one close to a waterfall.

Pon summoned the other two vampires Vince and Vincent and Vincecen this time calm and asked for forgiveness for everything he said to his brother and Pon for not believing him in the dungeon while Vince remained terrified to Pon.

"Older Brother!" Vincent called out to Vince worried about his brother's current state.

"AAAAH!!" Vince cried out loud.

"What happened to you my older brother?!" Vincent asked Vince as he hug him and try to calm him down with no effect.

"What did master do to make him this way?" Vincent muttered as he looked at Pon also feeling terrified.

"Here, Take this scroll it's a skill that fits you that's the reward for clearing the dungeon." Pon said handing out a skill scroll to Victor and he replied "Thank you, You Master,"

"Victor, You use Ki, right? Pon asked and Victor nodded.

"Can you teach me some techniques?"

Pon asked Victor who is proficient in using Ki despite his skill not able to increase because of the bound before. Pon and the Vampires taught each other techniques they knew. They did it without rest until the red moon disappeared and continued again on their expedition.

They reached a mountain and because of the hooves that the jackals have, they easily managed to climb the mountain. In their village, there is also a mountain just behind them but because of the monsters flying around, they didn't explore behind the mountain. This mountain they are on now are different monsters are avoiding this place.

Hisses hissed and snakes came out their shape and size differ from each other. The snakes are attracted to Pon they want to attack him but Hisses are on their side so they can't do anything. After Hisses talked to the others they went down the mountain on the other side where there is a bridge connected to another island.

From up the mountain peak, the island can be seen fully the trees and terrain are different, and the monsters are much bigger.

For hours they couldn't find any dungeons and caves, monsters on this island are not strong but much faster than the monsters back on the previous island. Because of the monsters and their speed they can't continue their expedition.

They created a bunch of earth walls to block off the monsters and dig on the ground to go in. "Master, We should've brought Ukarza with us, HAHAHA." Bite said to Pon laughing at their unpreparedness.

"I focus too much on my aura and ki, it's a waste if I don't use the effect of that magic learning scroll," Pon said to himself and started training his mana, He tried to not let his mana go lose because of his inability to regen mana.

"7 hours of Magic training and my mastery increased approximately 0.0524%." Pon said to himself looking at his profile.

This goes on for 4 more weeks until they reached their destination. A cave located on a small island just behind the island where their village is located.

The monsters came out of the cave after being attractive to Pon and jumped on them but all of them died after Vincent and Victor drained the hp of the monsters and created their petals and bats.

[Fight Yourself]

[A Unique Skill where the User drains the HP of his opponent and used the drained HP to make something like a clone or anything the user think]

[The Drained HP cannot be used to heal]

[The Created Item can only be used by the User to only attack the Player the HP was taken from]

The monster's roar activates its taunt skill but Victor overpowered the monsters and kills them. Hisses rushed inside the cave and split itself. "Bite, follow him with the lizardmen!" Pon commanded Bite and Bite replied with a nod and went inside the cave.

"The rest guard the entrance Vampire Bros follow me." Pon said as he went into the cave and They replied " Yes, Master!" following him inside.

Pon used a fireball as a light inside the dark creepy cave. Inside they can hear loud hiss echoing in the cave and water drops, the smell of blood reeks inside the cave while the corpses on the ground with the monster's necks have snake bites with their poisoned blood pouring out.

Deeper in the cave they found out that this is not a normal cave but a labyrinth that monsters found and used it as their den. There were a bunch of goblins sitting on the floor. Pon stretches out his sword to the monsters.

The monsters panicked and ran away. "Master, They seem a little different from the monsters we fought before. Are they like us stuck in here?" Victor said to Pon curiously.

"If they are really like you, I can help them," Pon said and ran towards the monsters but he lose them. While running around the labyrinth they heard another hiss and followed it. Following the sound lead them to a room full of gold.

"Master! There is so much gold here can we take it." Vincent asked as he hugged the gold. All of them got a window popped out saying. [Do you want to keep my treasure?] [Approval 0/2]

"Yes!" Vincent said instantly without hesitating.

"Wait, Victor don't answer yet." Pon said as he pick up a gold coin.

[Heart of Crafting Appraised the Item]

[Gold]

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[Pyrite]

[A Material that looks similar to gold many many people have been fooled by its appearance and gaining a nickname of 'Fool's Gold']

"I knew it gold coins this many in a dungeon?" Pon said and Pon thought to himself "Yeah, I got a bunch of money too in the tutorial dungeon but this much just lying around? "

"You knew?" A voice said in a high voice.

"What's this," Pon said while the door moved and shaking the room and showing a hidden room.

"A Human?" Said by a person with a high voice in the shadows.

When Pon cast another fireball the room was filled with skeletons. "What's this place?" Pon asked questioning the purpose of the hidden room.

"Master, In there the corner," Victor said to Pon pointing at the corner.

Pon went inside the room and walked closer to the corner. "Wait, this is not a skull!"

[Heart of Crafting Appraised the Item]

[???]

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[Three Headed Anaconda Snake Eggs]

"Ah, This is why he brought as here," Pon said smirking and summoning and summoning Hisses.

"Hiswsws?" Hisses hissed happily and tore up after seeing its egg again.

The other monsters came barging and started attacking them. "Master, we are hungry from all this fighting can we take care of them?" Victor asked as he jumped and charge towards the monsters and using his cape he released bats and sucked their blood.

"Ah, you didn't even let me answer!"

"My apologies."

"Older Brother monster blood tastes awful!" Vincent said with a disgusted face.

Pon and the others looked around to find the monsters inside for Pon to save.

[Tame 'Bite' has died]

[Showing Tame 'Bite's' Death Location on your Map]

"Right, I have this skill, I always forgot my skills," Pon said as they went to the Bite's location, on their way Pon tamed the monster that are trapped in the labyrinth.

"Master, You can tame us why not the monster's outside?" Vincent asked.

"Well, Monsters outside are much more powerful than monsters that are trapped in a dungeon or labyrinth, and it's much easier to bring someone on my side if they are in need of something like you guys 'Freedom'."

"I see, Thank you for enlightening us."

"Why do they talk like that, it feels weird. Ack" Pon thought.

"Grugh? Grugh! Grugh!" A giant monster roared and their stats decreases a little.

"Master, What is that?" Said Vincent asked as he look up and stared into the eyes of the monster.

The monster is a giant monster with two horns as its ears and a big task on its face, the monster is wearing a ragged out the cloth on its body and a giant metal ball connected to a shackled on its foot.

"Be careful that giant is fast despite its size." Bite said as it vanished and reappeared behind them and smashing both its hand to the ground creating an earthquake that sook the labyrinth.

The vampires use their skill to drain the giant's Hp and created giant bats. Due to the size of the created bats, they are unable to control them.

The giant roared again and punched at them at a fast speed digging a hole in the ground causing most of them to die. The giant then lift up its feet and stomp the ground but Pon created an ice spike on the ground. The giant roared in pain and again it vanished and this time appeared above them. "Master! Above!" Bite screamed to Pon.

PAUSE