The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

After teleporting to the fifteenth floor, the conqueror found themselves in the middle of a grand hall. But this hall had no doors and only had sealed walls on all sides. Then the clearing condition of this floor appeared in the mind.

To clear this floor, they needed to do a very simple thing, that just needed to survive endless hordes of enemies and at the same time had to search for a special key hidden somewhere in this hall.

After finding the key, they just needed to find one of the enemy types who could use that key to open a hidden door to clear this floor.

They themselves could not open the door and if they mistakenly killed the enemy type who could get them out of here, then that needed to wait for an indeterminate amount of time for that type of enemy to appear again.

The main difficulty of this floor was the fact that they could not just kill all the enemy without thinking about anything, they needed to keep at least one enemy of each type to be alive and this was not an easy thing to do while fighting an endless war.

The Conquerors got ready and soon their enemies started to appear. All of them were actually not monsters but instead were magic lifeforms. Magic lifeforms were, just as the name suggested, lifeforms made of magic.

The bugs that Rein created were also a type of magic lifeform but normally magic lifeforms were made using magical techniques on physical objects. Golems and puppets were good examples of magic lifeforms.

The current magic lifeforms attacking them were also puppets but just way stronger than normal ones. There were various different kinds of puppets too and their strength was between purple grade to blue grade.

There was white colour puppet with sex arms and was holding six single edge swords on each hand. Then there were small puppets that looked like a wolf or a dog. These puppets were extremely fast and had a powerful bite, but their defence was very low.

There was also a type of puppet that just looked like a large tower and it was a cannon on the top and this tower was using it to shoot long distance attacks. And there were many more types of puppets other than these three.

Rein immediately gave his direction on the network. Stella was given the job to destroy as muny puppets as possible with her wide area magic spells while Rein would be securing one specimen of each type. At that same time, Tasha would be busy searching for the hidden key.

So, Rein quickly chose his targets and used his golden light magic to create a barrier around the target and then teleported them back to his side to keep them safe.

They had no idea what type of puppets would be able to use the key, so it was important for Rein to have at least one puppet from each of the types.

Stella was also using her elemental wide area spells to destroy the puppets almost as soon as they appeared after Rein managed sucure all his targets.

But other than the main previous types of puppets, some of the time a new type of puppet would suddenly appear and Rein immediately had to take action in order to secure them.

So far, this was going well but Tasha was having a very hard time locating the key without any clue. She had absolutely no idea where the key was and even after searching the whole hall once she was still unable to find it at all.

After seeing that Tasha was having no luck finding the key, Rein decided to search for it with his Eye of Truth while Tasha decided to do Rein's job.

Tasha had very good intuition and Rein had hoped that she would be able to find the key using that intuition as even after looking at the whole hall with his Eye of Truth he was unable to see the key anywhere.

Normally for this kind of mission, with just a single glance from Rein, he should be able to find the key without any problems, but this time it was not the case. So, Rein had to search through the whole hall very carefully to make sure he had not missed something.

After a very very thorough search, finally he was able to find the key. They had a very hard time finding the key, as it was not hidden at all. Instead the key was broken into several pieces and those pieces were used as a decoration throughout the whole hall.

So what Rein had to do was to find all the broken parts and then to make the key like solving a puzzle. After that he needed to use some kind of method to mend the broken key.

Fortunately, magic was effective on the key and Rein was able to use the time law of his golden light magic to complete the key. It looked like a silver key with the design of several carps on it.

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Now the conquerors needed to find the puppet who would be able to use this key. The design of carp on the key was probably some kind of clue but Rein was not interested in solving it and decided to use the brute force method of testing the key in all the captured puppets.

But unfortunately, none of the puppets were able to use the key. There was a couple of fish shaped ones and Rein was almost one hundred percent sure that one of them would be able to use it. But it turned out that it was just Rein's wishful thinking.

Now only two possibilities were possible. Either the puppet who could use the key had not appeared yet or somehow they had missed it and had already killed it. Now they could not do anything but to wait.

From this floor's obstacles Rein also understood that the punishment that the dungeon master was given was more severe than he had expected. He was still not able to recover from it and was still buying time.

But anyway, it was still a very troublesome situation for them as they were currently wasting a lot of time doing absolutely nothing important.

Just as Rein was making his mind race, he suddenly remembered that the key was fragmented and he had to piece it back up like a jigsaw puzzle and then he suddenly noticed that the fish-like puppets had a very symmetrical shape.

After seeing the carp-like decoration on the silver key, Rein had a feeling that the fish-like puppets were the true solution here. But when those two puppets were unable to use the key, he thought that he was mistaken.

But as a powerhouse, Rein had a very sharp intuition just like Tasha. So what if his intuition was not wrong but those fish like puppets were truly the solution. But instead of only one of them being a solution, what if both of them were the real solution, together.

As soon as this though crossed his mind, he immediately started to tinker with the two fish like puppets to see if his idea was feasible or not.

After a little bit of investigation, Rein found out that with a little tinkering he could perfectly combine these two puppets to create a new type of fish puppet.

After making the new puppet and taking it under his control, he immediately tried to make it hold the key and just as he had hoped, this puppet was able to use the key.

Rein had already found the hidden door almost immediately after entering this hall with his overpowered Eye of Truth and now they only needed to open it.

Everything went without any hitch and the conquerors safely conquered the fifteenth floor. Rein was really the MVP of this floor as he was the one who not only found the all important key, he was also the person who had solved the problem about the required puppet.

After clearing the fifteenth floor, the conquerors did not take any breaks and immediately went to challenge the next one. After entering the sixteenth floor, immediately all of them scrunched up their faces in disgust. That was because before them was a gory torture chamber.

Obviously none of the members of the conquerors did not know how to do torture and actually Tasha was a certified expert of this field. But the reason why their faces still got distorted was because the scene in front of them was too disturbing.

Probably, the dungeon master of this place got a bit irritated due to the conquerors quick capture of this dungeon and because all his tries to create obstacles were unsuccessful. So to vent a bit of the anger accumulated in his heart, he made a huge mistake.

On the sixteenth floor, the conqueror saw the scene of them getting tortured in various ways. Obviously it was not their true self but just puppets made to look like them. But still this type of scene left a very bad taste in their mouth.

When Rein saw the scene of Tasha's puppet with a collar on her neck and was doing pet play with several monsters and Stella's puppet inside an iron maiden, his mind immediately snapped.

So far he was enjoying the various trials of the dungeon master and was planning to have a nice talk with him as another dungeon master was his lover. But now, he made up his mind to end this dungeon once and for all.

The end for this great dungeon was soon approaching it.