A whole 1 month passed by after clearing 20th floor, Currently I was on 24th floor Sleeping soundly on my bad after clearing this floor that was filled with monsters.
Anyone could see the dark spots that was below my eyes, Clearing saying that I was not getting enough sleep in here, lower the floor I was going the more it was getting bigger and bigger, and it was taking me quiet a bit of time to kill the monsters that was roaming in groups.
Even if I kept killing the monsters on the particular floor for two days straight without any sleep, I was not even getting halfway through the floor, So I kept taking some small nap now and than after killing some monster and making sure that their was none around me for a while so that I could take a nap.
After sleeping for whole day I woke up and prepared myself to go toward next floor 25th floor, but before that I checked my status,
Name:- Ray Smith
Race:- High-Demon
Rank :- (24)
Strength:- 4300
Agility :- 4000
Stamina :- 2200
Vitality:- 2200
Magic :- 4400
Energy :- 4640
Stat point:- 0
(Demon eyes!) (Demon Aura!)
Unique skill :- (Creation!)
I sighed,"I still didn't reached 25th rank even after I cleared the entire floor, but if I went to next floor and killed them I would definitely get extra stat point every time I kill the monster one rank above me, that way I would be able to farm more stat point and in return I would get more powerfull by this,"
I have learned one thing this entire time was that when I kill someone who is ranks above me I get some bonus stat points.
But I didn't fear from going to next floor even though I knew I would encounter rank 25th monsters, because I was able to kill 24th rank monster without taking any damage. I just needed more time to kill them nothing else.
I entered the next floor and started walking ahead, After walking for 3 mins I encountered three Flame Apes monsters,
"To think I would encounter three of them at once, Just at the start of 25th floor,"
I quickle went to battle position, while they soon spotted me, With a roar two of them ran toward me to attack while one started charging Fireball with his mouth, I was queit impressed by this,"Ohhhh, They are working in team I think there thinking power is also getting more proficient the lower floor I am going, I need to be carefull," .
I used my sword with wind mana nature and attacked them with multiple wind slashes that I released from the sword,
I used Wind Slash 5 times continuesly and it connected, leaving some deep cut on their body, While which I targeted on their head they blocked it with there big hands, From 23rd floor thay kept blocking my attack with their hand whenever I targeted their vital spots, still damage was done to there hands but they knew that if my attack connected to their vital spots they would get more damage.
My Sword Slash didn't had that much attack power that it could cut their arms off, I also knew they would do that, All this time when I was fighting with them I knew what where their pattern of attack and when they would block my attack if targeted on their vital spots.
And I to wasn't hoping I would be able to do that, I was trying to bring their hp down as much as I could by this, And in just 10 seconds I unleashed my Sword Slash 5 times, And because of my attack their movement also got slow. Three hit one and other 2 to another one, I didn't bother to attack the third one, I planned to deal with him afterward till than I would just dodge his attack, So I would keep my eyes on him while I fight this two in close combat.
Since they got so close to me, I didn't continued with my Wind Slash, Canceling my wind mana nature in my katana. I used it instead in my entire body, increasing my reflection speed. I ran toward both of them.
The one Seeing me coming toward him used his arm to punch me, I easily dodged it moving little sideway than, Slashed my sword at his stomach, Since they where 4m big, it became easy for me to attack them creating some space for me, While they had hard time dodging me or to connect their attack.
I made a distance from him after attacking him, While he growled in pain. Another one didn't stay still In the meantime he had covered his entire fist in flames and attacked at me. This was one of the way they could cover their hands with fire magic to fight in close combat but it takes some time for them to do that, I knew I can't dodge this attack moving little sideways than attack him like I did with other one, Because they can spread those flames, that could burn my skin if connected, So I moved toward my left making some distance from him to dodge.
The fist connected the walls behind me, Cracking it a little, This just showed how much brute strength they possessed. And fire magic just provided more damage on their fist, As soon as the fist connected to wall its Fire to vanished. They couldn't control their fire magic for too long on their body, Even I can't, I can only use my wind mana nature in my body for 10 seconds not more than that.
I used this chance and attacked on his back with my katana leaving 5 to 6cm deep cut on his back, And quickly Made distance from him after that. Feeling my attack on his back the Ape swinged his hand to attack me, And I already knew he would do that, So I made the distance from him, This where what 80% of Apes did when I attack them same way.
Creating a distance from both of them, I looked at the third ape that was little far from us, I felt strange seeing him still charging the fire ball because he was doing that for last 20 seconds, because usually they take only 4 seconds to charge their magic and attck me but he was taking more time than he should have, I activated my Demon eyes, "Whatt!! Mana inside that fireball is way more than it should have, And he is still charging that fireball with his mana," I exclaimed in little shock.
It wasn't like one can't create fireball with more mana, Even I could do that, What shock me was that his fireball was still same size as before and it wasn't expanding like it should have been. I was getting bad feeling from this, But I couldn't do much about this, Because this two where still on me and blocking my path from reaching to him, So that I couldn't disturb his concentration.
I kept fighting these two Apes, Since they where not allowing me to pass through them I could do nothing about the third one and could only wait for what gonna happen next.
We kept fighting for 5 minutes straight,
I dodged the fire punch of the Ape by making a distance from one of them while another one was little behind him, there whole body was fully covered in Cut marks, while I didn't took any damage even now, I was going to move to attack one of them but heard a roar,
"ROOAAAR" Seeing the third one who was roaring, Than watched him realesed his fireball, While I exclaimed in shock "Whattt that's," But didn't spoke further, I quickle moved backwards trying to make a distance from both this two Apes.
I quickly touched the ground with my both hands and used the Earth mana nature, Manupulated the earth and made a wall 2 m long and 2m width, just 2 cm away from me, Soon the sound of something hitting the wall came and fire came from all side of the walls, but it didn't touched me this continued for last 10 seconds than finally it stopped.
I finally sighed in relief and thought to myself ,'Thanks to God I have learned Earth mana nature, Or else I would have burned to ashes by those flames, I didn't expected that they could also use fireburst move. Ofcource they could if I could learn than why can't they.' That right that Ape just now used the fireburst move that's why I was shocked seeing it.
I knew fireburst magic was AOE type of magic the farer it to, The more wide range it would cover, And this dungeons was already not that wide in length, So I won't be able to dodge it but can only block it.
And what was the best way to protect myself but to use earth mana nature.