The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

On the second floor of this dungeon, Rein's group found themselves inside a large hall which was decorated lavishly with paintings, furniture and more expensive things.

By taking a simple look at it one might find this place to be very well decorated but by taking a long and careful look, one would be able to understand that this was actually decorated without much consideration.

Suddenly dust particles floated up from all of the hall and they condensed in the middle of the hall and took a humanoid form. Then a perfectly dressed butler appeared inside the room. There was a claw-like weapon in his hands and the powerful aura he was giving off put him at the peak of yellow rank.

Rein, Tasha and Stella immediately became battle ready. But instead of attacking them the butler gave them a bow and started to talk.

"Welcome, foolish challengers of my mistress' dungeon. I'm Sabastan, a loyal servant of my mistress and please allow me to take all of your lives for the crime of disturbing my mistress' pleasant nap."

Only after introducing himself that way he attacked. He was quite first and he immediately closed his distance between him and Stella who was his first target of elimination.

But if he had thought that Stella was an easy target because she looked like a mage, then he was completely wrong. Immediately a brown coloured shield appeared in front of Stella which blocked Sabastan's claws.

Then a flaming sword appeared in her hands and Stella started to fight the butler like a warrior. This battle would have been very close before Stella got her power ups, but now she was able to fight this person even while not using her full strength.

Rein took out a comfortable chair that looked almost like a bed and leisurely laid down. Tasha did the same and pressed her body against Rein.

Kagura also turned back into her humanoid form and then used her new transformation ability to become a fox beastkin and then she also pressed her body against Rein bravely. Just like that three of them enjoyed the show of Stella fighting like a warrior while cuddling with one another.

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Stella was trying to get a bit of practice with a weapon other than a bow while fighting against Sabastan. And as Rein liked swords a lot, she wanted to get better at this. But even for a genius like Stella, it was not easy. That was mostly because Stella had no talents for sword arts.

She was an incredible genius when it came to magical arts. And in terms of alchemy Rein was sure that she would be one of if the best best talent to ever appear in this world.

Rein had dedicated one of his whole life to alchemy and had also managed to gain a significant amount of knowledge in this field. But he had to spend several thousands of years gaining that knowledge.

On the other hand, in just a decade Stella had managed to surpass Rein in the field of alchemy and she left him behind by a large margin. In front of her Rein truly felt how less talented people felt when they met a person who had real talent.

When Stella truly surpassed him in the alchemy field, he was depressed for quite a few days.

When Stella finished her battle she was quite upset after seeing that her sisters were cuddling with Rein while using her as an entertainment. So she demanded to be cuddled for a longer amount of time than the other two and Rein accepted her wish with a smile.

As soon as Stella had pierced that butler's heart with her flaming sword, the only door present in this room glowed with light for a moment. Rein was not sure if only defeating that butler was enough to clear this floor or not.

And it turned out that this was not so easy. Just defeating one single opponent was nowhere near close enough to clear this floor.

The door led to a bedroom where a second opponent was waiting for them. This time the opponent did not appear before them easily and instead was larking in the shadows to surprise attack on Rein's party.

But Tasha had already noticed that person and she herself also went into hiding. Rein just created a super powerful barrier around themselves and sat on the same chair. This time it was Tasha who was giving the others a show about how her fought against an enemy who had the same type of job as her.

Seeing two expert assassins fighting was a very unique and interesting experience. This battle was not flashy at all and there was almost zero clash between the battle participants. But when they finally clashed, it was to deal the finishing blow to each other. Tasha was one step faster and she won.

Her opponent was at the same stage as the previous butler, in the peak of yellow grade. So that person was weaker than Tasha. But when it came to assassination arts, that person was an expert who was probably even better than Tasha in that field.

The short battle that they had was a very important learning opportunity for Tasha.

Tasha was actually from that underground organisation whose strongest was just at the orichalcum rank. So techniques developed by that organisation were also limited to the humans who had not broken through the limit.

All the techniques that Tasha used were mostly thought and created by her. She had either altered a weaker technique to suit herself in the higher ranks or had thought of new techniques. But she did not get a long time for that so her development process was just in the early stages.

That was the reason why Tasha was quite undeveloped when it came to assassination.

Just like that Rein and his group visited the various other places on the second floor. They found themselves in a library, a kitchen, a dining area, a garden and even inside a bath.

In all those locations they found themselves against an enemy whose power was at the peak of yellow grade and all of them had a different job and fighting style. These fights were quite a good practice for Rein's group.

Rein especially liked the fact that most of the people they fought against did not look like combat specialists but they were just so good in their respective fields that combat was easy for them. A good example of this would be the cook, gardener and maid that they fought against.

After defeating nine such opponents, instead of a door another bottomless hole appeared in front of the conquerors. Finally they were able to clear the second floor and it was time to challenge the third floor.