Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

It didn't take long for these five [Helpers] to assemble on the Main Floor as they were able to access the teleport function of the [Main Menu].

He handed the thirty seeds of Trees of Mana to the [Helpers] and ordered them to plant the seeds all across the new floor.

One of the keys to quickly increasing the rank of the dungeon was to increase the density of mana on all of the floors. The higher the concentration of mana within the dungeon, the more likely it is to rank up.

And what better way to accomplish it than having the Forest Spring Spirit who had the closest affinity to nature do it. Their role as the [Helpers] also made it so that their authority extended over the monsters and made them the most ideal person for the task.

With every preparation finished, Simon finally sighed in relief.

With the addition of the new floor, there was a total of thirty-nine floors in his dungeon. The maximum floor limit for an [E] rank dungeon was fifty floors and could only be increased further when the rank of the dungeon goes up.

The same goes with the functions that could be installed, level of the monsters and traps. Once the rank of the dungeon increases, so does all of these.

As of now, the toughest floors of his dungeon would be the 34th and 35th floor occupied by the Fire Eater Rats and the Fire fanged Mouse followed by the 31st to 33rd floor inhabited by poisonous Cactopus and Great Purple Scorpion.

Combat wise, they were not that powerful from the Chimera bears or the Savage warrior Monkeys but what made them a threat was their deadly poison which would be lethal to anyone not having any resistance or life-saving elixirs.

While it was not necessary that the upper floors would be breached anytime soon, in the off chance that they did and he was away, he could only count on Irene and the Lightning Draconic Serpent.

Simon couldn't count on the Bloodthorn Demonic Warhorse as it was on a mysterious phase of undergoing some changes.

"It seems that you have prepared quite a bit. You can leave the rest to me, be assured that as one of its Guardians I shall not allow anyone harm the dungeon core or the Forest Spring Spirits living in it" Irene's voice sounded out from beside him.

Unbeknownst to him, Irene had appeared near without even him noticing.

Simon simply nodded his head and stared blankly at her. Maybe it was because of the realisation that he wouldn't be able to see her for a while, he kept on gazing at her figure.

Irene was a peerless beauty through and through and accompanied by her noble and cold temperament, it gave her a unique charm that was hard to define.

A silent atmosphere descended as both the party kept on staring at each other without any word or perhaps there was no need for any.

Time flowed by for a while before "Ahem… sorry to disturb your intimate time but I think it's time we head out". <br/><script>ChapterMid();</script>

All of a sudden, Adalinda's voice sounded from one corner of the space breaking the silent atmosphere that the two had built.

Realising her own actions and hearing Adalinda's words, Irene finally snapped out from her daze and quickly removed her gaze away. Her full chest heaved up and down as her heartbeat pounded crazily and a red flush quickly appeared on her face.

She did not know what kind of face she was making, but one thing was clear was that her state of mind along with her thoughts was no longer calm. However, all of that lasted only for a while before her cold and icy composure once again returned to her face.

She hurriedly condensed something with her mysterious powers before sealing it with her ice seal and pushed it towards Simon.

Irene gave one last stare towards Adalinda before silently flying towards the direction of the pond.

Simon did not check the content of the item that was passed onto him and he simply kept it on his inventory. He stared at the departing figure of Irene before collecting his thoughts "Alright let's go and find that disciple of yours".

Adalinda who up until now had a lackadaisical attitude, finally wore a serious expression on her face as she cut through space once again and quickly dived inside it.

Simon glanced at the main floor of his dungeon one last time before swiftly following suit.

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High up in the sky of the eastern region of the Ghastly Winding Forest, a huge black arc silently appeared in the sky out of the vision of the average person.

The huge arc was shaped like a balloon ship and spanned for more than five hundred meters. It had more than fifty windows and three galleries on the front that gave the passengers riding on it a magnificent view of the outside.

The way it appeared in the sky was as if it had pierced through the space and went completely unnoticed by anything on the ground. There was a constant combusting noise as the huge arc operated and a distortion in space whenever it moved.

In one of the galleries of the black arc, a man completely decked out in a suit of magnificent armour that glinted a tinge of green, was at this moment looking below at the ground.

Even though the altitude he was in was very high which made it nigh impossible to make out anything down below, his eyes that were like the hawk refused to tear away from it.

"What are you looking at Godwin?" another man called out to him from behind as he also made his way on the gallery.

Godwin who was called out, did not respond and kept on silently staring at the thing on the ground with a frown on his face.

The other man was accustomed to this and hence did not press forward and instead matched the gaze of Godwin and stared at the thing he was looking at.

"Hmm? a dungeon? Isn't that the one where the incident with Chuck and the other member of our branch guild occurred? It has become quite the sensation back in the city. Look at all those adventurers gathering around it, if my memories serve right, the name of the dungeon should be…"

"Laplace".

Before the man could complete his words, Godwin who had kept his silence finally decided to speak.

"Right… Laplace. From the looks of it, it seems Chuck was right the dungeon doesn't seem to be an [E] rank one indeed. But the rumours say that the dungeon hasn't even been there for long so how come its rank has increased so fast? Do you want to stop here and investigate Godwin?" the man asked.

Godwin simply shook his head but still continued to stare at the dungeon below "No need Raven, our destination is not a low rank dungeon but a [B] rank one located at the farthest reach of the Great Dasha Desert on the Demon Continent. There is no need for us to waste our time on a [D] rank one".

Raven nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders before confirming once again "Are you sure? Chuck was one of your favourite ones among the guild members and you had completely flipped when you heard his team was met with an unfortunate event. Do you not want to examine the place where all of it had occurred?".

Godwin did not answer and simply walked inside the arc.

"Well if you say so" getting the meaning behind his actions, Raven left it there before fixing his gaze towards their destination.

The dungeon they were going to explore was one of the famous ones even amongst the surrounding kingdoms and only those adventurers visited it who are confident of their strength or are looking to increase their levels even further.

You can even find some strong adventurers diving inside to conquer it while others were there to simply seek new challenges and riches.

This dungeon had been there for more than 2000 years and according to legends and some sources, is the lair of a Demon Duke.

Conquering such a dungeon was easier said than done. Also one could imagine how difficult it would be to explore said dungeon.

Although [B] rank dungeon was by no means the highest, it is still considered as a high-rank dungeon along with [A] rank for its insane level of difficulty to explore.

The [C] tier dungeons are considered intermediate rank dungeons, [D] and [E] low-rank dungeons.

There are only a few [S] tier dungeons in the whole world and are considered Peak rank dungeons whereas [SS] rank dungeons of which only three of them existed is considered as the Great dungeons.

The dungeon they were going was by no means for weak adventurers, even the weakest monster in there was above level 200.

Not to mention the difficulty and level of the monsters goes up the deeper the floors they dived in, even the lethality of the traps there was enough to easily kill a low-level adventurer instantly.

Death lingered everywhere in a high-rank dungeon and your only hope of surviving it was your own strength.

It was not only about the difficulty, but even the concentration of mystical energy was so dense that it made it possible for precious treasures and ores to be discovered there.

Precisely because it was such a place, it was lucrative for those adventurers looking to increase their levels as well as earn riches at the same time. Their guild Sea God's trident was the same as it too sought high ranking dungeon to tackle as well as seek profit from.