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Chapter 4 - Reaping The Aftermath of Battle

The two new rooms were finally finished. The two rooms connected to one another and was at the opposite end of the entrance. You could enter via a 5 metre high archway.

Bright decided to wait for new enemies to stumble across his dungeon. He required 50 corruption points to rank up to E+ and only had 12 in total after the many boring days lying in bed. Waiting for the new rooms to be built.

Bright decided to see where he was on the dungeon list once more.

[Dungeon leaderboard:171,231]

He was rather impressed by how fast he was flying up the leaderboard. He also wondered how strong the strongest were.

"What is the rank of number 1 dungeon on the leaderboard."

[He is believed to be SS-rank, A dungeon king]

"So there are no Dungeon Emperor's?"

[No it is very hard to become an Emperor.]

The western side of Snowblood mountain now had a school trip visit it.

"Hey let's go this way," the black haired boy said.He had red eyes that recounted the horrors he has witnessed in his life. But a sort of boredom was there as well.

"But that way is elven territory," said the ginger boy who was rather excited for the trip but now nervous.

"I go where Alex goes," spoke the red haired girl obviously fawning over her crush.

"O-Okay then."

The trio wore long black garments that wrapped around their bodies and held the Reinfall schools badge on them. A blooming rose flower.

The professor did not notice them leave and carried on with the other students. Taking them around the mountain and showing them new kinds of monsters.

The trio went around the mountain and crossed into elven territory. They crossed the undead region with swift speed and didn't come into contact with any monsters.

They ventured further into the elven region.

An arrow pierced through the air aiming at the ginger boys head.

Alex cast [Frost wall] and shattered the arrow.

The trio swiftly ran into the nearby trees and scrambled for cover.

The E-rank elf squad sent by the Queen started to hunt upon their prey.

The ginger haired boy started to cry and the red haired girl clung to Alex.

"Let's move," whispered Alex and started to walk to the left. The red haired girl followed.

"Hey,glasses isn't moving," worriedly said the girl.

"If he wants to die, let him," Alex saw this scene many times and couldn't be bothered to put up with it.

Alex was the heir to the Elysian Dukedom. He was sent to the front lines of war by his father and saw the same thing happen to his siblings.

He knew once they were like this they were even more of a burden than being a human meat shield.

They would freeze up and no matter what you said they wouldn't move.

So Alex carried on with the red haired girl.

They wanted to go back the way they came but Alex knew they couldn't.

Another arrow pierced through the air. This time Alex couldn't react in time and could only try to move but it penetrated his shoulder.

"Alex,"cried the red haired girl. The red haired girl in a frenzy tupidly ripped out the arrow. Alex began to lose blood fast.

He wanted to curse at the girl but decided to do that later. His vision was becoming blurry and could only rely on the girl to guide him.

Alex was E-rank and the girl was only F+ rank. The girl saw a place to hide and swiftly moved with Alex towards the small hole in Snowblood Mountain.

They entered the cave or so they thought and was blinded by the fog.

'Goddammit this stupid girl took us to a dungeon.'

Before Alex could say anything a 4ft figure grabbed a hold of him using [Hands of darkness].

His right arm started to disintegrate into some sort of black gas. His arm was no longer his. It quickly spread throughout his body. Alex has only been to two dungeons before and he has never come across something like this.

The red haired girl still held Alex's injured left and moved him to the wall to sit him down.

But Bright used [Clean Cut] and sliced through the middle of the girl. Splitting her in half. The girl dropped to the floor and Alex turned into darkness.

The black mist took full control of Alex and dispered into nothingness.

[Converting 32 life energy into corruption points.]

Bright now had 47 corruption in total. He then ordered the smoldering Skeleton to burn the girls body.

The only thing that was left was a brooch with an elegant design. Two lions slept on top of each other yawning at the holder of the brooch.

"What is this brooch?"

[A symbol of a duchy]

"Shit,"Bright whispered to himself.

Bright was now in panic. He killed a member of a dukedom.

[Warning! Intruders detected.]

The E-rank elf party was still hunting for their prey and came across the dungeon.

"The blood trail leads this way," a rough sounding voice said.

5 men with pointy ears entered the dungeon following the blood trail left by Alex.

"Let's leave they entered a dungeon injured and are probably dead," said a young elf Archer who shot the previous two arrows.

"Probably, not definitely," pointed out the leader.

"We need to go and report this dungeon. The dungeon could be dangerous and out of are league," said a Mage type elf who was behind the rest.

"The amount of life energy you get from a dungeon is ridiculous and there aren't any monsters in sight," carried on the leader.

Then the leader kept on encouraging his companions,"its probably a new dungeon and only f-rank."

"Let's hope so," stated the elf that was on high alert next to the leader.

The elves carried on forward.

The stealth goblin snuck behind the party with [invisible] and was about to kill the Mage.

But the young Archer reacted and shot an arrow. It missed its mark and shot into nothingness.

"What are you doing, trying to kill me!" screamed the Mage.

"N-no,sorry," the young elf was quick to apologise believing he was seeing things.

"Stay on your feet," calmly said by the leader.

The phantom only had 80 Mana left and Bright orderd him to use [Swift movement] to sneak behind the Archer.

Back at the school excursion the professor finally noticed that three students have gone missing.

"Kids have you seen Alex and the other two anywhere."

All the students looked around in confusion. No one knew where the trio went. The professor cursed in his head. He knew that if anything were to happen to the heir of a duchy while he was in charge it was off with his head.

The professor was C-rank and ordered for the kids to stay here. He threw down a Mana stone and cast a shield to protect them from monsters.

The region around Snowblood mountain was harmless with most being a D-rank monster. So the professor wasn't too worried.

The professor had short white hair and an elderly face. He wore a white robe with a red blooming rose on it.