Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

After removing the notice, the receptionist announced in a voice that was audible across the entire hall "Everyone, the red notice, had been removed, areas starting from thirty-first floors are now good to explore again".

CHATTER CHATTER…

People started chattering the moment she said those words, some even ran out to relay the information to others, while some ran up to her to bombard her with questions.

In any case, the adventurers association was extremely shaken right now. The notice that was removed by the receptionist from the quest board was about the peculiarity of natural orders inside the lower floors of the dungeon.

It was stated by some of the elite adventurers that the lower floors was shrouded with a crimson haze that made the monsters on those floors extremely aggressive and violent. That was not all, the disorder even affected the state of mind of humans if they were exposed to it for a long time.

The rumour came up around a week ago and was further confirmed by many other guilds and parties. Naturally, the adventurer's association took note of it and asked the adventurers to avoid those floors for the time being seeing that the number of casualties was starting to pile up.

The red notice detailing the peculiarities of the lower floors posted on the quest board was now removed. People were bound to be curious as they asked the association for the cause of such peculiarity.

Bolan and his team after finishing up their meal went up to the quest board, since whatever was happening on the lower floors was of no concern to them who were just [D] rank adventurers. They checked the commissions post in the quest board trying to find a suitable one for their team.

As Bolan was looking at the quest board, his eyes inadvertently went towards one of the freshly placed parchments. The job was to seek and report of any sighting of the no named team who have disappeared inside the dungeon for more than a week.

The task was commissioned by the Adventurer's Association themselves and the rewards were not that bad. Since it was just to report any sighting of the no named team, it wasn't a difficult mission even by their standards.

However, the no named team was a powerful group of adventurers who always covered their faces with masks and robes and mostly delved on the lower floors unlike them. It is unlikely that, Bolan and his team whose strength can only take them to single digit floors be able to find any clues about them.

'Come to think of it their disappearance strangely coincides with that disorder that was going around on the lower floors and that newbie's mysterious disappearance too' Bolan thought internally before shaking his head.

His team members found themselves a suitable commission from the quest board and started making preparation to dive inside the dungeon once again. Perhaps if Bolan thought over it a more, he might have been able to unveil more clues and approach closer to the truth.

In any case, the news about the no named party getting massacred inside the dungeon will soon find its way to the adventures causing huge waves around the tower town.

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Main floor of the dungeon Laplace, inside one of the halls of the white palace.

Simon was seated on a sofa, standing in his front not far from him, was Coleus who was currently giving a report.

"I see so you have removed the crimson aggression stalk. How is the situation with the adventurers now" Simon asked resting his head on his hand that was on the armrest.

"Yes, because we have removed the crimson aggression stalk that has been stopping the adventurers so far, they have started their exploration from the thirty first floor once again. Currently, they have reached the thirty third floor and seemed to be from a guild called tyrant mountain" Coleus reported.

"Hmm? Tyrant mountain you say?" Simon narrowed his eyes and asked mid-report.

"Is there something wrong my lord?" Coleus asked perplexed.

"It's nothing, continue on" while Coleus kept on reporting about the various activities of the adventurers spread over the various floors of his dungeon, Simon tried to recall where he heard the name before.

'Tyrant Mountain' as he repeatedly uttered this name in his mind, it finally came to him. The battle of the finest, in that tournament one of the big guilds that came from the southern region was precisely called the tyrant mountain.

'To think that they would come all the way here to the northwestern borders. It seems like my infamy is starting to attract all of the big shots from the kingdom' Simon thought internally.

The distance from here to the southern region of the kingdom was quite large thus it made no sense that they came all the way over from there just to dive inside a [D] rank dungeon.

'Their goal should definitely be me. In that case, it wouldn't be long before even they arrive here too' the ones he was thinking about were the top five guilds of this kingdom. Whether it be in terms of strength or fame, the top five guild far surpass all the other guilds in this kingdom.

Simon had seen a good chuck of their strength during the tournament. Frankly, he did not want them to come over here right now. However, it was only a matter of time before they knock on his door.

Now that he had taken care of Morgress and his team members, other big guilds will soon target his dungeon. Soon was an understatement since it had already started. Tyrant mountain, one of the big guilds from the south was already here trying their strength on his dungeon.

A week had already passed since the defence of the thirty sixth floor. To counter the constant flow of adventurers in his dungeon Simon had added ten new floors and had restructured the lower floors a little.

For example, the current thirty sixth floor was no longer the floor inhabited by the lightning draconic serpent and was instead home to Blue lizardmen and terodactayl both of which are the evolution of the monsters inhabiting his upper floors.

Their power level were around level three hundred and their colony was in the thousands. Of course, it took quite a lot of DP to spawn so many of them but currently since his DP income was more than his expenditure, he could easily afford it.

Also, Simon discovered that the individual cost of spawning these evolved monsters was more than their post evolved form. Well, the cost may be high, but one also had to account for their combat strength and levels which was higher than the post-evolved monsters.

Until now Simon did not spawn these monsters since the cost of these monsters was higher than his income earlier. Now though with so many adventures constantly flooding his dungeon, it would be a miracle if his DP did not increase.

At the same time, with the increase in quality and quantity of adventurers it was crucial that he spawned monsters that had the ability to stop them or somewhat resist them. Thus it was necessary to spawn the evolved species of the monsters to halt the progress of the adventurers.

That being said, dungeon Laplace was still a [D] rank dungeon and the monsters that could be spawned by him using the [spawn] option right now was limited in race and levels.

Simon had the DP to summon ogres, soul catchers, Blood hounds and other superior races of monsters, he knew that they would easily be able to handle the current level of adventurers.

However, a [D] dungeon was extremely limited with the type and species of monsters that could be spawned inside it. Nevertheless, it was not like Simon had no way to go around this restriction. Especially given the cheat that was Cecilia and the pond of serenity, it was only a matter of time before stronger species of monsters could be seen roaming in his dungeon.

During the passage of a week, Simon had dived inside the serenity pond and had unveiled many mysterious items growing at the bottom of it. The Crimson Aggression Stalk, Cerulean Mutation Crystals, Viridescent Mutation Crystals, and Attribute Blossom Moss were some of the things that he had found.

Of course, since the pond of serenity was also in its growth stage, there were many other things still in their initial stage of formation and are still not usable yet. In any case, Simon was happy with the harvest he had from his trip to the bottom of the pond.

The crimson aggression stalk just like its name, was a stalk that later grew into a burning tree when planted. It had the effects of releasing a substance that induced any entity to go berserk. The effects of the crimson aggression stalk had a fixed period of time and was a one-use item.

The Crimson Aggression Stalk was the thing that stopped the progress of the adventurers for the past week.

Cerulean and viridescent mutation crystals on the other hand, were condensed crystals whose effects were similar to the crimson mutation crystals.

Unlike the crimson mutation crystals which induced a fire elemental mutation on an entity, making them able to use the attribute of fire, Cerulean and Viridescent crystals on the other hand induced water and wind attributes of mutation respectively.

Just like the crimson mutation crystal, he found growing on the bottom of the pond at that time, the cerulean and viridescent crystals he found were of the same Grade [1] rank [C].