The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

After settling down as a great mage with quite a few wives, Rein started to learn and research about alchemy related things. The kingdom where he was living was a powerful and peaceful kingdom with no enemy nations surrounding it as this kingdom was way stronger than its neighbours.

Not only that but this kingdom itself had no intention to invade other nations too. That was because this place was already ruling over almost all of the best regions and for the nobles and inhabitants of this nation the foreign lands were primitive and useless.

So they looked down on it and had no intention to conquer it.

So Rein was able to focus completely on his research and soon he became one of the best in the field of alchemy too. He was not particularly gifted in this field. But with enough time and his already high intelligence, he was still able to discover a good amount of knowledge in this field.

So much so, that he was given the title of a sage and he got the permission to create a tower for his personal use. Sages were the highest ranking people of this nation with just the king being over them in authority.

To become a sage one needed to have a lot of knowledge and a high magic capability and Rein was able to fulfil both of these criteria.

This was Rein's most peaceful life so far. He spent almost all his time either having fun with his wives or doing research on various subjects. So when his lifespan came to an end he was extremely satisfied.

He would be taking a treasure trove of important memories with him to his main body and alongside that he had also learned the importance of questioning everything and to do research.

This intellectual life of his was one of the main reasons why Rein was so curious and this also made him to utilise his Eye of Truth more efficiently and in a better proper way.

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Soon Rein started his fifth life and as soon as opened his eyes, he found that this life was definitely going to be vastly different from all his other lives. That was because in this life, he was not born as a human but as an elf.

Elves had a little different and a bit more complex power system than humans. They depended more on spirits to utilise the elements instead of doing it on their own.

There were obviously some advantages and disadvantages with this approach but for the elves, the advantages of this method vastly overshadowed the disadvantages. So almost all of them used this same power system.

But there was a problem and that was their race. Humans did not have a higher species or a race life high human or something like that but most other races did including the elves. So for a regular elf it was almost impossible for it to become stronger than a high elf.

That was because a high elf would be able to make contracts with more spirits thus becoming more powerful.

Unfortunately in this life Rein was born as a regular elf and not only that his bloodline power was at the lowest point even among the regulars. He would only be able to make contract with a single spirit of water element and nothing else. So Rein's starting point of this life was really the lowest.

The first contract was always the most important. If he was able to make a contract with a powerful spirit he would still be able to become strong and he was unwilling to miss this chance.

As for just normally developing his magic Rein did not do that. He was born as an elf in this life so he wanted to practice the system that they had developed. He had practiced enough magic in all his other lives and he did not need to practice anymore of it.

And it was also his second time getting the water element.

For that reason, he delayed and delayed his making of first contract in order to find the strongest spirit, so much so that he became a laughing stock for the other elves. The elves were not a very family oriented race.

Even though they did live together as a family, the bind between them was very fragile. But at the same time, if any of the elves were able to make a tight bond, one could be sure for that bond to be indestructible.

So, when Rein refused his father and mother's order to make a contract with a normal spirit he was kicked out of the house when he was just 45 years old. It might look like a long time, but for the long living elves, it was barely something.

For some reason, in this life Rein was able to remember a lot more of his memories, so he was not flustered at all. He would be able to make a living even without a spirit with no problem.

He had already searched all the area near this elvin village to find a spirit but was never able to get too deep inside the forest because he needed to return back home on time.

But now that he was free he would be able to do whatever he wanted. But first he needed to find a place to live. But he did not need to think so hard as even in this life where he was not really a genius, his charm was still in working condition.

One of his elder sisters and her best friend took him in. Even though he did not make any contracts with the spirits, he was still known as a very intelligent person. So her elder sister and her friend took him in as their helper.

Both of them were apothecaries and Rein had shown to have a vast knowledge about herbs and plants so he was a perfect helper for them. And both of them also had a crush on him for various reasons.

With this now Rein was able to investigate the forest in peace and his long search finally showed some results. Inside the forest he found a cavern where he was able to see a lot of spirit by just entering it.

So he was sure that this place would have a very powerful spirit deeper inside and if it was a water spirit and he could make a contract with it, then all the waiting Rein had done so far would be worth it.

So, he told his three wives that he would be out for a while and went to the cavern. By the way, Rein had already married his elder sister, her best friend and another high elf noble girl who was their regular customer. Rein rizzed her up while just having normal interaction with a regular customer.

He was really something else.

That cavern was quite dangerous, but Rein was still able to explore it by taking every step with precision. At the end of the tavern, he came across a small but beautiful lake. And in the middle of that lake, there was exactly what he was expecting.

The water of this lake was shining with bright blue colour and it was also giving off a bit of light. It looked extremely beautiful and at the exact middle of this beautiful lake, a butterfly was drifting around.

It was a butterfly whose body was made of pure water with a blue hue and just from a look it was clear that this butterfly was definitely a high level water spirit.

Now what Rein needed to do was to somehow make a contract with this spirit. Actually the only thing that Rein had going for him was that his affinity with water was very good, so it was unlikely that he would fail to make a contract with this spirit.

Actually, not everyone was able to make contracts with a high level spirit, they needed to have required affinity for that.

As Rein actually had the required affinity it would have been very wasteful if he did not make a contract with a powerful spirit and that was the reason why Rein was so persistence with his ideal.

After interacting with the spirit it turned out that this spirit was very feminine in behaviour. So Rein's insane charisma and rizz came into play and the contract making process became way easier than he had expected. Soon Rein was able to become a proud contractor of a high level spirit.

After returning back to the elvin village, he was congratulated by all his wives immediately. Soon the news spread far and wide and Rein's fame also spread. A high level spirit was truly powerful and Rein's power level went from nothing to Orichalcum rank immediately.

It was really a massive leap of power and it was possible only in the elvin power system that utilised natural spirits.

After bonding with the spirit for thousands of years, Rein was finally able to transcend the normal limits and became a powerhouse. This life was definitely the slowest life for Rein in terms of power growth but it was also a very stable life.

Rein was also happy to experience the feeling of being powerless and getting looked at as if he was inferior. Not only that but for the first time Rein also experienced the feeling of being stuck in the same realm for a thousand years.

For someone like him who grew at a rapid pace, it was a very hard thing to experience.

Those were all the very valuable experiences that Rein was able to get from this life. Other than that he was able to experience the life of a different race from his own, which gave him a new perspective.

As Rein was able to remember quite a few things from his real self in this life, he was able to use the vast amount of time that the long lifespan of an elf provided to think and contemplate about many things. All in all, it was a very valuable life.

When his life came to an end, his one and only contracted spirit who was able to get a humanoid form after transcendence, also became one with the nature alongside him. That's how his fifth life came to an end.