Abyss after successfully passing all tests amazingly qualified to be an SSS class adventurer, even so he chose to be an A class adventurer and when he chose his first mission he picked a particularly quest that had been neglected for a while.
Reason being it was S rated dungeon named hellbringer, it appeared out of nowhere and many people tried to challenge but many of them died and only a few survived . Due to its death toll it was classified as S class and hadn't been cleared in 6 years since it's appearance.
Later that day abyss appeared on a field where a single double door was standing upright at a height of six meters and a width of 4 meters. The door had many intricate drawings of skulls , monsters impaled people and all sorts of creepy shit . Instead of being intimidated abyss was excited to challenge it.
Abyss pushed the doors open and entered the dungeon, immediately after entering the doors closed behind him and torches lit up on the walls. What greeted abyss was a cave like interior with a narrow corridor with 3 different paths at it's end.
*A cave huh , I wonder what sort of monsters I'll be facing in here.*
Abyss went down the corridor and came on the three paths , he chose to enter the path on the right as it was emitting a strong aura. Not long after entering abyss was assaulted by 10 dark skinned bats. "Vampiric bats huh, this will be fun" abyss said and took his blue katana with a golden hilt.
Abyss ran into the bats and slashed the one nearest to him in half , immediately sensing danger abyss sidestepped and dodged an attack from behind, he backflipped on wall and through a quick to one of the bats sending it flying into three other bats and they went crashing into wall leaving a gaping hole on it , the force of the impact killed all four bats leaving abyss with five remaining bats.
-Fire magic: flamethrower. - abyss activated silent vast and raised his hand to the remaining bats and hot flame poured out of his hand smashing into the bats and covering the entire corridor in front abyss in flames with one last scream the bats died.
Abyss kept killing more monsters while descending into the depths of the dungeon. An hour later he appeared on the 50th floor. "This is the floor where the other adventures sent here could advance from" abyss said. He entered the floor and he was met with a hot temperature as he was in a floor filled with lava, the floor is called magma chamber , on this floor abyss had to go through an intense parkour while resisting the heat.
Abyss adjusted to heat the due his unique shapeshifting ability which allows him to adapt to any environment.*This will be fun*abyss thought and began to attempt the parkour.
He ran and jumped unto a raised platform but as soon as he landed on it, drumroll began signalling the start of the challenge, abyss didn't think for long as the platform began sinking into the lava , without wasting any time abyss jumped unto a horizontal pole attached to the wall and began rotating on it.
Abyss rotated three times and on the third rotation he slung his body jumping on a faroff ledge. He held on and began moving with hands on the wall . He reached out with his left hand and grabbed another horizontal pole attached between 2 walls , he began climbing and reached another raised platform.
He stared ahead and saw the entrance to the next floor and estimated it to be roughly 4 meters ahead. Before moving abyss saw that there was no path and only two walls parallel to each other. He looked over the edge and saw more magma and spikes protruding from the ground.
*Ok last challenge, all I have to do is run on the walls fast enough to not fall, ok 3,2,1 go*with that thought abyss ran and jumped unto the right wall and began running on it and seconds later he jumped to the left wall, he kept on jumping and running on the walls and then after 1 meter the spikes on the ground began shooting up randomly.
*Fuck*
Abyss increased his pace and when he was a short distance of the edge he shot of the right wall and backflipped unto the edge near the entrance to the next floor. From then on the floors only consisted of lava, previously the floors kept changing environments from dark caves , to underwater corridors to deserts and forest , perhaps it was was to give the Challenger a false sense of hope, or maybe it was to check their adaptivity to certain environments.
Abyss kept killing lava monsters throughout floors 51 to 98 and the more he fought the stronger he grew , he even gained some new abilities through effort.
When he reached floor 99 abyss was hyped and he took 30 minute break so he can perform at peak form. sometime later.
*Time to challenge the Guardian*
Abyss entered the floor and the doors closed behind him and vanished , what met him was an empty floor.Them a minute later the environment changed to the top of a volcano and a lava dragon came out of it.
The dragon roared at abyss and flew towards him at brakeneck speed .
"Fly" abyss muttered and cast non elemental magic.
His figure rose and he took shot towards the dragon, the dragon brought its right paw toward him abyss too responded with a punch of his own the clashed and it created some ripples sending both of them a few meters back. Abyss's right arm was missing up to his elbow but then it quickly regenerated as if it was never gone.
The dragon began charging it's racial ability dragon breath, abyss seeing this responded with an attack if his own, raised his hand and pointed his finger to the sky "Dark magic:death ball" abyss said and a black ball the size of a school appeared above his finger. The dragon roared and sent its flame to abyss , he took through the ball at the flame .
The attacks clashed and canceled each other out , abyss using this opportunity flew at an incredible speed and cut of the dragons wings, it began falling but it to the chance and grabbed abyss with it's tail and fell with him.
*Ok enough playing around, time to be serious*
Abyss's eyes turned cold 🥶,he grabbed the tail and ripped it from it's body, then he stood in the air and said weather control: tears of the sky. Dark clouds began surging and a heavy rain began pouring, "Lightning magic: divine retribution" ⛈️ purple lightning surged the sky and took the shape of a eastern dragon , with a roar went after the falling dragon, it smashed into the dragon and exploded, killing it. All that happened in few seconds.
The sooner the dragon. was killed the area returned to empty space it was before but this time 2 doors appeared, abyss wasted no time and entered through the doors.
Abyss saw a spaced filled with lots of jewelry, money and weapons and at the middle of it was a small pool of lava behind was a statue of woman sitting on a throne. Then a voice eminated from the statue.
"Finally someone worthy has been brought to me"
" Who are you" abyss asked
" I my child am know as vengeance and you qualify to inherit my legacy child"the voice said
" How come your name is vengeance and what do you mean someone worthy has come to this place"abyss asked.
" My child listen and listen well, once the was a beautiful woman who lived a fulfilling life but greed to her over wanting more she was promised fortune , she merely had to give away her soul, she agreed witjout hesitation and she vanished to the infernal purgatory where she was tortured for centuries, wanting freedom she broke free and inturn was cursed driven by vengeance she became a pile of flaming bones and fought the one who imprisoned her , she lost and swore vengeance but ahe died befor she could, but befor she died she created this dungeon and and left a piece of her mind with it sent it to find someone worthy to wield her power" the voice said.
" I see so in order to receive this should I swear to avenge you"Abyss asked.
" No that is not necessary, you may use my power how you see fit , for you child of man forced to grow up at early age have a desire for revenge that has intrigued me but if you so wish may avenge me"the voice said.
" I See , then I will gladly accept your power and I swear to avenge you and perhaps recover your trapped soul and revive you "abyss said with determination
" You have my thanks 😊 child of man take this treasure and accept my power ,my hope lies in you child of man, step into the pool of lava and rest with while the power assimilated with you being"the voice said .
Abyss bowed, took the treasure and entered the pool, It took an entire day for the power to assimilate into his body later in the night you could see a flaming black skeleton standing in a field.