Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Even if they were they were an evolved race of lizardmen, they were only around level 390. Thus when they felt the aura and bloodlust of a being who was above level 400, they were immediately suppressed.

"Haha… my lord, please excuse my ignorant subordinates. Even though I told them your power beforehand, it seemed like some of them still doubted it" The Deep Sea Alligator King said.

Since it was hard for Simon to make out what expression it making, it was hard for him to tell what it was thinking.

"Guhh… you dare… you dare…" from behind him came a tidal wave like killing intent. Needless to say, Bea was at her limits seeing their arrogant behaviour towards her master.

Before she really lost it and started massacring them, Simon stepped forward and calmly declared to solidify his position.

"If they are dissatisfied, then there is only one thing I can do" Simon stepped forward, summoned his sword and inserted it on the ground.

"From now on, I am your ruler. If anyone has anything to say about it, step forward" Simon declared putting more volume to his voice. The lizardmen who heard him loud and clear, looked amongst each other.

At this moment, one of the well-built Elder Lizardmen whose body bore marks of its numerous battles stepped out of the lake and approached Simon. It stood around three meters tall and was taller than Simon, its eyes held a disdainful look as it glanced at latter.

After stepping onto the shore, it did not stop and kept on walking and crossed the area where the sword was inserted. Its action was clear, it was saying that it did not agree with Simon's rule.

Simon calmly took a breath, his indifferent crimson eyes held the figure of the approaching lizardman.

"Super Enhanced Strength, Piercing Enhancement, Body Strengthening… Lightning Magic Mastery- [Lightning Halberd]" Blue lightning that was compressed into the shape of a halberd was conjured in Simon's hand and with a deep booming noise, he hurled it towards the lizardman.

RUMBLE… the lizardman did not even have the time to react and was pierced by the halberd. Not only that, the Lightning halberd was hurled by Simon using all of his strength after being buffed by his skills.

Therefore, the magic contained enough force behind it to carry the three meters body of the lizardmen into the air and to the other end of the lake where it lay motionless after that. It had a gaping hole in its chest and its entire body was releasing black some and a roasted smell from being electrocuted by the lightning halberd.

It took place in the blink of an eye, a single attack from the demon was enough to kill one of their strongest warriors. Seeing this the other lizardmen that were thinking of jumping into the fray, had to reevaluate the power of this demon once again.

"Who is next?" Simon asked in a cold voice, his glaring crimson eyes boring down on each of the lizardmen.

He knew why the Elder Lizardmen were discontent to be ruled by him. They have never seen his power thus being told to submit to another ruler by their current king, as a beast how could they simply accept it?

The Ghastly Winding Forest is a place where might ruled supreme, there was no place for weakling here other than being the food of the powerful ones. The fact that Simon was from a different race wasn't the problem, the lizardmen would only bow down to the one that was stronger than them.

It was because Simon knew this, that he decided to showcase his power right now. Additionally, if he didn't do anything, the woman behind him might just eliminate every single one of them.

The lizardmen that witnessed one of their strongest warriors die just like that, were convinced that the demon by no means was someone they can look down upon.

'Who was going to go next?' what a joke, there was no after being shown that power there was no way that they would step towards their death.

"Haha… My lord, I believe they are fully convinced now. Also, I would like to apologise for my previous behaviour. A few words of mine aren't enough to convince them that I lost, thus I wanted my lord to show them your strength. After all, we from the beast clan will only take someone as our king only if they are stronger than us".

The Deep Sea Alligator King confessed. It bowed its head a little in apology, and the lizardmen around it followed suit.

Simon glanced at the now silent lizardmen whose earlier hostility was nowhere to be seen and recalled his sword back. Now that he was done showing his dominance over them, it was time to address the main issue he came here for.

"As I have mentioned before, I will now be bringing all of you back to my dungeon" Simon declared and turned towards Bea.

The Valkyrie knew the novice tier space magic and thus her presence was very important to execute his next set of plans.

To bring the Deep Sea Alligator King and his hundreds of subordinates inside his dungeon, he has to create a spatial gate that connected with his dungeon. It has to be mentioned that a dungeon is located in a special realm with its unique laws of space.

That is to say, if one wanted to teleport inside a dungeon they need to be extremely well versed with space magic.

Bea knew space magic however, even she was incapable of creating a gate big enough for the Deep Sea Alligator King and hundreds of Elder Lizardmen to pass through. Additionally, the distance from here to the eastern region of the dungeon was too large for her novice tier space magic to connect.

Perhaps if she was alone she might be able to use Space magic to teleport inside his dungeon. But for that, she had to be near his dungeon. The novice tier space magic of Bea wasn't enough to teleport this big of a group inside his dungeon and from this far.

However, Bea wasn't the only individual in his dungeon who was adept in space magic, Irene was also one of them. In fact, her mastery and enlightenment over space magic have reached even above the advanced tier.

It was an easy feat for her to create a spatial gate here that connected with his dungeon. When he brought this issue to her, she commented—

"It's possible, but for that, I would need another person with mastery in space magic to send their spatial axis point back to me. With their help, I would be able to create a spatial gate that connects with the dungeon".

Another person who knows space magic… Bea's image suddenly floated inside Simon's head. He send a sound transmission to the latter who immediately came to his side inside the main hall.

"Huff… huff… what is master's command? Master can ask me of anything you know" Bea said with suspicious sounding words at the end.

Simon nodded his head and made his request "It's like this… do you think you might be able to work together with Irene and create a gate?".

"No problem master, if Miss Irene is saying that she can complete it using my help there is no reason for me to say no" Bea offered her help immediately.

"Good, then take her with you when you visit the place. Also, I don't know if you are aware of it or not, but it is extremely difficult to create a spatial gate big enough for hundreds of beings to pass through on the main floor".

"Why is that so?" Simon asked.

Irene continued pointing her slender index finger at the floor; no more precisely, she was pointing at the basement.

"It is because of the presence of dungeon core. The main floor due to harbouring the dungeon core has extremely strong spatial laws that are too difficult to breach and it will keep on growing stronger as the dungeon core and the dungeon ranks up. What I'm saying is that even if it is me it would be hard to create a gate here".

If it was very much near the borders of being impossible to create a gate here, how come Adalinda was able to tear through space and arrive inside his main floor and what about the time when a spatial gate was created when the Walpurgis was initiated?

When he asked those questions to Irene this was what she replied—

"Well beings like Adalinda, you cannot measure them with the same standards you have been using against enemies of your level. She most likely has mastery over Dimensional magic, the advanced tier of space magic".

"However, I don't think even she was able to breach the spatial laws of the dungeon core and arrive at the main floor directly. She must have cut her way into one of the lower floors before teleporting to the main floor. After all, the more distant the floor is from the dungeon core, the less powerful the spatial laws of that floor become. As for the spatial gate created during Walpurgis you are talking about, since I was not there to witness it, I cannot be sure about it".

Simon had a frown on his face after Irene's explanation ended. It seemed like he needed to take precautions against the space magic in the future. Even though it was a very rare magic, there were bound to be people capable of this magic entering his dungeon in the future.

At that time, he had to take measures to counter the space magic. He didn't want beings like Adalinda invading his dungeon once again.