Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

"In that case, I have a task for you…" Simon discussed a few matters of relevance with Irene before using the [Teleport] function to move away to a different place.

Irene saw him off with her eyes before moving to complete her own task assigned to her.

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[Grand Lightning Slash] a huge broadsword covered in red thunder came slashing down bisecting a monster that looked like a huge rat covered in crimson furs.

"What the fuck are they?" a man with a body filled with scars said. He had the build of a warrior, kept a shapely brown beard and was taking the charge for his teammates.

"We have no idea Guild Leader Morgress, this is the first time we came across a monsters called the Fire Eater Rat" Sable the [Crimson Scorching Sage] and also one of the sevens swords said. Beside him were the other members of the seven swords and also a few other people whose levels were not below them.

"What about you guys? Don't you have any information on these monsters?" Morgress asked cutting another mouse and stopping the others from encircling them.

The people he was talking to, were members that were sent here by the Sea God's Trident guild to aid them on their conquest to capture the forest Spring Spirits. Obviously, they weren't the members of that guild and were people that were hired by them.

Morgress had no idea who they are but from the heavy bloody aura lingering on their body and their rough characters, he could tell that they were no adventurers but criminals. For what reason they were following the orders of the Sea God's Guild didn't matter to him. As long they are useful or could be used as a meat shield, he had no qualms to work with them.

"KuKu… you seriously think when adventurers like you don't know what these monsters are, we will know that? Besides, I'm more amazed that you all call yourself adventurers when you can't even recognise the race of these monsters without the aid of your skills" one of the people holding the charge with Morgress in the frontlines said.

"Is that so…" Morgress made an irritated face and quickly disposed of one of the mouse that was trying to get past their defence.

"How long do you idiots want us to hold the front lines for you…" he shouted out towards the backlines where the mages were currently conjuring their spells.

Right after his words, sounded out, various spells and magic took form in the air and flew towards the hordes of crimson mouse surrounding them.

Currently, they were on the thirty fifth floor, inside a gigantic pit that was filled with these monsters. The entire place was dark and hot with nay a light to be found anywhere. The pathways were narrow and the entire place was like a labyrinth, difficult to navigate.

The only illumination this place had were the monsters who released a scorching fiery energy. They had fought these monsters on the thirty fourth floor too but their numbers and levels weren't this high.

Additionally, they wouldn't have been in this pinch where they were surrounded from all sides had they not fallen inside the hole that was the lair of these monsters.

There were all shapes and sizes of monsters surrounding them. Some were as small as a few inches, while others were as big as the entire pathway. Leaving the big ones aside, the small ones weren't that much of a threat but what made them obnoxious to face was the heat that surrounded them.

Each of these mouse released a huge amount of heat which made it all the more difficult to bear in these narrow pathways. Not to mention when they die, they burst into fiery cinders damaging everything in the surrounding.

If things went on like this, they would be dead tired before they even reach the thirty sixth floor. It didn't matter that their team comprised of all elites, it was all the same if they were all out of energy fighting thousands of these monsters.

It was the worse move one can make in a dungeon. Therefore, they needed to find an exit out of this pit soon. Fortunately, they had many people with assassin class for the job.

In fact, their sevens swords also had one but that person was a betrayer and Morgress didn't want to associate that person with the seven swords any longer. The fact that he didn't kill the person yet was because they needed his might for their current mission and because the person himself was strong.

The assassin he was talking about was none other than Boris who was being ostracised by his teammates for selling them out.

Currently, he was on the frontlines tanking most of the damage. Nonetheless, he did not make any complaints and skilfully did his job. But it did not mean that he was okay, right now his eyes were burning with anger and his body filled with hatred which he was taking out on the monsters.

The reason he was here was different from the others, Boris was here to avenge his brother Laris who had died at the hands of the demon who was the master of this dungeon. The scorn filled eyes of his former teammates and their glare didn't matter to him anymore. As long as he can kill that demon with his own hands and settle this grudge, he was fine dying here.

What's more, given the years of partnership he had with them, he knew that they were planning to leave him here to die anyways.

Activating his skills and abilities, Boris brandished his dagger killing any mouse that tried to get past him.

Mages from the backlines would provide timely aid with their magic and like this, the team of fifteen people in total progressed. They would stop from time to time and switch places to recover their energy and drink potions to restore their health.

But not Boris, he was being constantly pushed to be on the frontlines and rapidly deplete his reserves of potions.

"Kuku… your teammates are really callous, they don't care about your life and death" a guy who was an assassin just like Boris, said. He wielded two short swords instead of daggers and tied his hair back into a ponytail.

"The name is Bryan" the assassin said trying to initiate a handshake. Nevertheless, he was ignored and shown the cold shoulder by Boris who didn't even bother to look at him.

Bryan shrugged his shoulders without minding it, from his perspective he was bored of constantly fighting monsters and thus initiated a conversation. It matter not if the other party was being cold to him or not.

A few big spells came from the backlines and took the big ones down which were always a pain to face against. Each of them were all above level 300 and had multiple skills at their disposal. The thing that made them annoying was not their levels or numbers, but the heat they radiated.

Whenever they killed one of the big fellows, it would burst apart in an explosive fashion and radiate enough heat similar to a bomb. In this narrow pathway there was no way to escape it thus it made it a very irritating ability for the warriors.

The team depended on the mages to take them out whenever a big one showed up.

Bryan just finished taking care of one of the moderately sized Fire Eating Rat when suddenly one of his skills [Guide], acted up.

[Guide] was a skill exclusive of his rare assassin class [Templar Assassin] that gave him a few instructions every now and then and was a skill he always relied on to get out of any difficult or pinch situation.

Additionally, [Guide] was also a Rare Ancient skill that took him quite the effort to learn.

Reading the instruction provided by his skill, Bryan turned towards one of the pathways and strained his senses. It was then that he felt it, the feeling of wind brushing past his skin. The feeling was so light that he would have otherwise missed it had he not paid enough attention to it.

However, that was not the point here, the presence of wind here could only mean that this pathway was connected to an exit that led out of the pit.

"I found the exit" he said out loud immediately gathering the attention on him.

"It's this way" Bryan pointed out with his dagger.

"Alright let's move" Morgress declared acting as the proxy leader. He didn't trust the outsiders; however, he had no choice but to do so this once given the situation they were in didn't look good.

The fifteen of them turned around the corner and fought the monsters for a while before an exit finally showed up. The group got out of the pit, took a rest for a while before marching forward.

The ground above the pit did have monsters roaming around but the numbers were far less than what was inside the pit and even the heat that they released when dying could be avoided.

It didn't take long for these elites to explore the current floor and soon found the entrance to the next floor.

"I must say, when I was asked to do this mission by Benny, I thought it would be an easy task to conquer a [D] rank dungeon. But seeing that we have descended all the way down to the thirty fifth floor and have yet to meet a single powerful subordinate of the Demon Noble , makes me wanna reconsider if this really is a [D] rank dungeon or not" one of the people sent here by the Sea God's guild said.