Kim Yong Pov
After eight hours of the award ceremony and celebration of our victory against the second years, I left Lojodon with the rest of my mercenary group.
"Hey Kim Yong"
Lilith in her cat form is laying curled up to a ball on my table, her eyes slightly open and reading all related documents for the summer holidays in three months.
I couldn't help but laugh at her worried expression. She doesn't mind me laughing and waits patiently for my answer.
"Yeah Lilith, What are you so worried about?"
Lilith remained silent, the silence continuing for a while till I finished all related matters to the specific topic she probably wants to talk about.
"Why do you want to enter the dungeon alone?"
'As I thought'
"Haaa Lilith you know I need these items, even when it is dangerous"
I don't understand why she is so worried about me, she stated multiple times that she hated me and even was the first person who agreed.
"I know... this is exactly the reason wh-"
"I go in the dungeon on my own, I won't risk that a member from the mercenary group is hurt by me"
Lilith body trembled for a split second, before she turned her eyes away from me moreover watching the scenery of snow falling on the window.
"then take someone with you who can surpress you"
I also am watching the scenery of snow falling however I am watching the snow vanishing as soon as they are close to the dungeon, the dungeon I will enter.
"You know that no one knows the limit of the artifacts especially of the weapon"
^Bam^ ^crack^
I fixated my eyes on the dungeon so I guess she slammed her paw against my table and it broke apart of it. She is angry because she is compassionate to all members of the mercenary group.
'She sees us as her family already, I thought I can leave with peace in mind'
"Don't worry too much"
"I am not"
'pretty strong tone for someone who doesn't worry'
"I am at best only 2 to 3 days away-"
I pet her head gently and see my table barely holding on, she seem to hate me petting her despite that is she letting me pet her.
"-we can talk about me losing control when it happens"
I stopped petting her head and left the room. as soon as I left the room I feel the entire plane shaking... I hope she didn't destroy my entire table now.
I used lightning traveling to leave the plane or as I name it Helli carrier, arriving in front of the dungeon.
"Wow this looks like a gateway to another world"
The dark red gate sucked any energy in the center of it, causing a vortex to the center of the gate. The drawings on it shows a kingdom with multiple people protecting it from something sinister and mortifying.
'status Identification'
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rupture created from ??? to send something or to create a new being similiar to the creator of the dungeon
3/3 of the Artifact is in it to become the new ????
Unique Dungeon: holds the past of a world of the records. Change the future of it to clear it or walk down the same path as a certain individual.
Real Name
The Shadow of the ancient warrior who hates his god
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'Who hates his god?'
I jump in the vortex not thinking much about the last part of the real name.
It feels weird everytime to step in dungeons or portals, your whole body seems to dissipate in small particles and reassemble themself as soon as you reach the right destination.
My vision remained complete black, apart from that can I feel, hear and somehow taste my surroundings.
'This shouldn't have happened'
I read through all related documents and protocols furthermore watched the videos taken by all who tried this dungeon... and not even once did happen this.
I tried to somehow open them... but my mana gets suppressed when it reaches my eyes, The phoenix fire extinguishes by contact with my eyes.
Chaorkness is now the way to go for almost everything... which i hate the most about this situation.
'I guess I should reach a specific destination without my vision'
I take step after step to reach the destination nonetheless am I still trying to use mana sense or the two unique eyes I have to regain my vision. After 15 minutes I stopped all of my efforts to regain my vision and heightened my other senses to the extreme, slowly but surely starting to feel some connection as well as feeling the path I should take.
Another 30 minutes passed and the feeling of control through Chaorkness combined with my mana gets stronger by each second, allowing me to use mana sense around me... what isn't a big range to see anything however for now it is enough.
My mana sense showed me the path I am traversing on, it is dense shadow mana forming a path to walk on, meanwhile does it shows me a lot of shadows formed from the dead or the shadows... I start to learn from it to let time go by faster.
'So that is how you make a storage in your shadow... no wonder I failed at this mysterious realm'
To make a storage in your shadow is not hard if you know the basics of it, similiar to space rings you need to imagine a room of 10x10 metres furthermore do you need to understand the physics behind while breaking them and step in the gray zone to play with them a bit.
After you have done all that, you have a shadow storage along with the space ring everyone has. The safety of your items or artifacts is one of the safest since they exist in your own shadow as well as in a space ring.
"The only problem is that a master in shadow magic could probably enter your storage"
This is the last technique I learned from the shadow path since I am already traversing down the path for a day... and the small crack infront me is the entry to the dungeon.
I still can't see but with my mana sense I am somewhat able to see it, the mana leaking from the crack is at minimum B+ Rank... This makes it even more interesting to explore.
I jump in the crack and my eyes fling open... to only get blinded for a minute by the sun in the sky.
"What kind of dung-??"
I feel a weird sense of deja vu by what my eyes show me, an entire town surropunded by a wall made out of stone that radiates mana of the A Rank, a castle in the centre of the town looks to modern for its own good yet somehow fits to the old medieval houses... but what gave me the most deja vu is the mountain behind the town.
'This can't be the same mountain'
I have a weird feeling this dungeon will not be so simple as all other called it... moreover is it weird this mountain looks exactly the same as this in the world filled in deep darkness.
"I hope that is simply a coincidence and not really related to it"
I mumbled out loud, looking around to understand what is happening... and oh boy I hate it already.
Five guards on some kind of horses... or whatever these creatures with eight legs and I guess a mix of a horse and a fox head, that are all atleast three metres tall moreover have entire black body.
The merchants entered the gate by showing some kind of pass or bought some kind of entry ticket. the normal people who live in the town only need the identifcation of a piece of rock formed in a card.
'that rock has insane mana conductivity and efficiency... what kind of material is this?'
I activated my dragon eyes moreover do I use status identifcation at the same time, all kind of information is shown in front of me furthermore can I clearly see all the structures.
The gate looks ordinary as well as the walls but they all have been built with some material known as Starstones which gives it a cool black shine. The guards wear an armor made out of the starstones too however one knight wears an armor out of starstones plus red diamonds.
All buildings inside the wall are built out of normal wood and stones besides the buildings owned by nobles as well as the royalies, which are made out of marble, starstones, red diamonds, concrete and titanium.
'well even these normal buildings could block an attack of a C Rank individual'
the identifcation card is made out of Cold iron mixed with dragon bones. The people entering the city are all between D Rank up to C+ Rank, so counting the nobles and knight to it... the average power of them should be B- Rank.
The grassland I am standing on is covered in blood, I can't even see the end of it, moreover are all trees about 10 kilometres away.
'How do they get so much resuorces to the kingdom?'
Assuming that they are defending most of the time against all kind of threats, they shouldn't have so much resources to have such a high population as well as rare materials.
"Oh wow I jinxed it really bad this time"
Two giant Drakes about B- Rank are rushing towards me along with a huge army of lizardman. The Two drakes reached me in a second and release both a breath of fire in my face.
^Boom^
I blocked it with my wings of fire, causing dust to spread everywhere. The two Drakes jumped out od the dust cloud, pushing their claw down at me.
^BAM^ ^BAM^
To my surprise was it a slight delayed double attack, both attacks clashing with my wings of fire.
"Haaa I should stop test your strength"
I never intended to dodge to see my progress in mana manipulation as well as my overall strength. These two drakes seem shocked that I am unscathed, both jumping back and observe me with all their concentration.
These two drakes had beautiful sky blue scales and black eyes with a vertical blue pupil, they are 10 metres tall which isn't huge.
'They are cute and adorable... but sadly-'
I used the technique from the death dungeon, appeared behind the first Drake with my scythe.
^splurt^
"ROOa-"
^Splurt^
With my first step I took all his legs with my scythe and with my second step I took his head, I didn't need to coat my scythe in mana because my strength was enough to cut through it.
"Roar"
The second drake is terrified by what I did as well as accepting that it is the next one to die.
"You should have chosen another day to attack"
^Splurt^
I sliced through his throat with my strength alone, It feels weird to kill a Drake on the B- Rank so easy.
"But that also means I am closer to reaching their levels when I continue like that"
I muttered under my breath as all lizardman are running with all their might away from me as well as from the city.
"You foreigner state your purpose from visiting Astrodrario!"
20 of these horse like creatures morever knights with the red diamond mixed in their armor surround me.
'Well it seems to be much more simpler to enter the city now'
I feel my lips slightly rising while bowing to the leader of this knight squad.
'Simple and straightforward'
"I am here to take the noble knight exam in addition to the royal knight exam"
The knights are sighing and relaxing their tense bodies, the knight commander used his Identifcation card to talk with the king probably. He glances at me a few times before announcing the result
"The foreigner will take the royal knight exam and fights against Mr. Kruger The current strongest knight"