Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Raven who had been keeping to himself all this while, asked sceptically.

"Guild master, do you think what that assassin told was the truth? Can there really be Forest Spring Spirits in that dungeon?".

The conch went silent for a while before Benny Beckerman spoke from the other side of the transmission.

"While I cannot be certain, the story does indeed make sense if the forest spring spirits are involved. Ask this to yourself, why would a guild that has a solid foothold in their city, be willing to take such a risk and send most of their forces to the Ghastly Winding Forest if they weren't searching for something?"

"I don't think there is any guild in this entire kingdom who is willing to make us their enemy… even if they do they must have some extraordinary reason like the forest spring spirits. In any case, I feel like Morgress didn't have the intention to embroil our branch guild in all of it from the start. the situation turned into this mess because of the incompetency of one singly subordinate".

"Is guild master saying that Chuck got caught in the trap that was laid for that demon?" Raven asked.

"Right. Anyways, even if this whole thing is just a lie, we can still use them to probe and see how dangerous that dungeon is. Once they are done scouting it for us, finish them off. That demon is sure to be hiding inside his dungeon. Send a few adventurers to monitor that newly formed town in the Ghastly winding Forest".

"Additionally, keep all of this secret from Godwin. Since his character is too upright, I don't want him to get involved in this".

After saying all that, Benny Beckerman cut the call.

Raven thought for a while as to how to proceed before directing the assassin subordinate beside him.

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<strong> BOOOOMM…</strong> <strong>ROOAAARRR…</strong>

A huge crimson blue dragon made of magic, opened its mouth and roared towards the heaven. It was so powerful that the space around it was distorted and the mana around the area turbulent.

Facing it were a couple of Carnivorous desertivines that had a crown made of leaves around their petals marking that they were a little different from the ordinary Carnivorous desertivines.

Nevertheless, in front of the might of the crimson blue dragon even they were trembling.

Simon who was hovering in the sky, extended his hands and willed the huge Crimson lightning dragon to proceed forward. Immediately with a loud thundering noise, the thirty meter long dragon charged forward and towards the Carnivourorus Desertvines that were spraying needles, acid and doing everything they could to stop the magic.

However, everything was useless in front of the might of his powerful amalgamation magic of Flames and Lightning. There was no point in mounting a defence, even with their [Hyper Regeneration] and [Root] skill, the magic was able to destroy them from their very foundation leaving not even their ashes behind.

The crimson lightning dragon continued forward and just like that evaporated four more Carnivorous desertivines in the distance.

More than a month had already passed since Simon had entered the forbidden trial grounds. By now he was already used to seeing the same view again and again and fighting the same monsters day and night.

During this period of time, his level had seen a drastic advancement and he was only a few levels short of reaching level 400. Countless numbers of carnivorous desertivines and zombies had perished from his hands and countless more were being added to that number.

It wasn't like he wasn't making any progress with the trail, currently, he had successfully cleared two of the tombs and had gained two glistering gems from them. And right now, he was proceeding towards the last tomb to find the remaining glistering gem and complete Yela's crown.

Although his progress might be slower than when he was with Lucine and Denzel, one should also know that he was alone right now. He was clearing the trail all alone using nothing but his own powers.

Well, the circumstances and fate was also favouring him so if he counted that factor, it was quite a good speed.

The reason for him saying that the circumstances was favouring was because after the second tomb, Simon was sure that the curse energy of the being names Ozymandias couldn't harm him. On the contrary for some reason, he was able to harness that power and use it in his favour.

Simon was quite sure that the trial did not mean for any challenger to be unaffected by that energy much less use it in their favour. In that accord, it could be said that he had broken some of the rules but since even he did not why this was the case with him, he did not think it as him deliberately breaking the rules.

It just ended up with him being able to benefit from that energy along with the trail monsters.

Knowing that the curse energy cannot harm him, Simon was a lot more confident moving forward, he felt like he was a gamer who suddenly found a cheat.

The second tomb was cleared by within a week of clearing the first tomb and now he was proceeding towards the third tomb that was deep within the territory of the King Carnivorous Desertivines.

This species was the evolved form of desertivines with more hideous-looking features and power. If the levels of the carnivorous desertivines he had fought until now ranged from between 407-450, the king Carnivorous desertivines levels were above 480 with some even reaching 495.

His most powerful single target magic which was the amalgamation of flame and electro was far less effective on them.

If previously he could kill four to five of them with it, against the king carnivorous desertivines which could utilise the novice tier water magic to attack and defend, he could hardly defeat even one.

However, just like the previous times when under pressure, Simon would rise up to the challenge. After many unsuccessful attempts and tries which ended up harming himself, he was able to finally managed to combine his two most destructive intermediate tier attributes and create a more powerful spell that could even turn a powerful king carnivorous desertivines into nothing but ashes.

Yes, he was now finally able to amalgamate his two intermediate tier magic of flame and Lightning allowing him to create a much more powerful and solid magic.

If one wanted to know the reason for him being delayed for so long, it would be because Simon was busy learning and experimenting his two intermediate tier magic. Although it had ended up taking a lot of time, if one looked at it objectively, the befits he got far outweighed the cons.

In any case, without learning the amalgamation magic of flame and lightning he would be able to defeat these evolved species and proceed forward. After resting for a while, Simon conjured his crimson Lightning dragon magic, took out a bunch of them before proceeding forward.

The levels of the king carnivorous desertivines kept on getting higher and higher indicating that he was close to the last tomb.

After spending more than a month of time here, Simon was becoming a little impatient to get back to his dungeon. It has been a long time since he left the dungeon and given the rapid increase in his DP, he sensed that more and more people were diving inside his dungeon now.

During this period of time, the growth of his DP was so absurd that it had reached half of the total DP that he had accumulated up until now and that number was still increasing. Even if he left his dungeon Laplace in the care of Irene, as a dungeon master how could he not be concerned for it?

Especially after he created such a ruckus outside, he knew that many powerful would be targeting his dungeon now. Aside from that, he wanted to know how they were doing and what the situation of his dungeon was.

Since that was the case, Simon involuntarily increased his pace. Creating another Crimson lightning dragon he cleared a few more of the carnivorous desertivines and finally in the distance he could see the vague figure of a stone structure.

Simon immediately ran towards the structure and in a couple of seconds, he was standing in front of it.

[You have discovered the last of the tomb of the depraved. Find the Glistering gem and insert it into Yela's crown before Ozymandias' subordinates destroy it. Warning, once entered you cannot leave it until you clear the trail or become one of the depraved].

A prompt window appeared in front of him, Simon skipped most of the content of it since every one of them were mostly the same. If others saw his attitude right now that was making light of one of the trails of the forbidden trial ground, they would have called him a fool, a conceited person that was digging his own grave.

However, there was a reason for Simon being so full of confidence and that was none other than the presence of Ozy's curse energy. As long as the trial had that, Simon was certain that he can clear the fourth trial.

To confirm his theories, Simon had allowed the timer to run out on the second trail but instead of being defeated like the trail intended to, he was able to overcome the obstacles with the help of the curse energy.

That is to say, as long as he did not play by the rule, the cruse energy would invade the tomb as intended powering all the monsters inside it.

Simon took a deep breath of air before pressing the Yes button in the window [Do you want to enter the trail now? YES/NO].

The land trembled and a part of the tomb that was buried underneath surfaced.