Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

On the fourth floor in an area covered by thick fog, Gelgar walked around, suddenly he waved his hand towards his side and caught the horn of the charging horned rabbit in his grip. KIIIEEEEK... its piercing scarlet eyes stared at him unceasingly and its body flailed wildly desperately trying to evade his grasp.

"Tch, the nerve of you monsters to attack me. It seems like I have been underestimated" he gripped the horn firmly and flung it towards another horned rabbit that was trying to pincer him from the side.

[Boom] the force behind the throw was so great that both the horned rabbits immediately burst into a bloody pulp that looked rather enthralling in this white space. Gelgar just finished dealing with those monsters when more and more piercing stares focused on him amidst the mist and surrounded him from all sides. KIIIEEEEK... their shrill cries rang across the area while their bodies were hidden inside the mist.

Looking at the scene with a frown, Gelgar bent down and placed his palm on the ground "As I said it is useless Earth Magic Mastery- [Destruction Great Spike]".

A ripple passed through the ground with his palm as the epicentre. Moments later, the ground started to tremble as small cracks like spiderwebs started to appear around him and swiftly spread all around the surrounding.

Immediately after the ground burst apart and pierced the horned rabbits that were hidden inside the mist. All of the horned rabbits were impaled from the spike emerging from the ground with none being spared. Each of the earth spikes hit their marks and it was as if Gelgar knew where all of these monsters were.

The Earth Magic [Destruction Great Spike] he used could scan the area in few dozen meters around him and alert him of all the presence that have their feet planted on the ground. It was a magic that allows him to find the location of his enemies regardless of if they were visible or not. The magic also pierces the hostile entities with an earth spike that emerges from below catching them unguarded at the same time.

After defeating all the monsters surrounding him, he suddenly lifted his head and looked towards the tall ceiling covered with white mist. Other than the endlessly drifting mist, there seemed to be nothing there.

"Do you think you are hidden… snort… Wind Magic Mastery [Wind Blast]" a burst of wind bringing along a destructive might, shot forth from his extended hand and smashed on the ceiling above dispersing the mist nearby. BOOM... A shriek could be heard and a white object dropped down on the ground, the dispersed mist soon covered it and the area around.

When he used his earth magic mastery previously, not only was he able to detect the presence of hostile entities on the floor but also on the ceiling too. Though he didn't get the chance to see it, he could still tell the race of the monster from its features. Albino spiders a low-rank monster that quietly lies in wait for its prey before baring its fangs.

Turning around, he explored the areas for a while before sending a sound transmission to his subordinates "Mike, Berd how is the exploration going?... did you guys find the entrance to the next floor yet?". During this time, he was attacked by monsters many a time but none of them were even able to reach a few meters near him much less deal any damage.

Before long a sound transmission came to him, it was from Mike "Sir Gelgar after so long I believe we have explored most of the areas of this floor and will soon be finding the entrance…". Before MIke could complete his sentence, Berd sent a sound transmission "Sir Gelgar we have discovered the entrance to the next floor, I'll immediately send you the coordinates".

"Very well, I shall be there shortly. You guys organize the monsters till then" he cut the transmission with his short sentence.

Before long all the monsters gathered near the entrance to the next floor and Mike and Berd could be seen commanding and organizing them. Gelgar walked through the mist and arrived at the coordinate given to him by Berd.

Seeing him arrive, the two subordinates of his immediately bowed and called out to him. He nodded and looked at his declining monster army which had decreased quite significantly from their initial numbers. His expression was so complex that nobody could tell what he was thinking.

Looking at the direction of his gaze, Mike hurriedly replied "Sir Gelgar the monster army did not have trouble killing their enemies but since the opponent was adapt to this environment, some of them got caught up and died. However, this time we immediately took action and organised the army before launching a counter-attack to wipe out all the guarding monsters".

As if realising he was making too many excuses, MIke hurriedly kneeled and implored "your subordinate is incompetent, even though we were able to wipe out all of the enemies from their sides, our numbers were still reduced by quite a bit".

Gelgar waved his hand and said in an annoyed manner "They are just expendables, in the end It doesn't matter how many of them die. As long as they can fulfil their orders, their life and death isn't a concern. That being said it is still an unpleasant sight to see our numbers declining even before we get to see that lowborn demon. I was hoping to intimidate him into submission by just our numbers.... but that's alright once I find that turtling demon, I will make sure to pay him for all this humiliation".

Though he had suffered no real loss, it was still unpleasant for him, a Demon Viscount to fall for all those petty traps.