Reborn Zombie Chapter 2: 33, a 13 tzameti fanfic

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"Those two." Victor said while casting a quick glare at them. Though not intended, his eyes carried a certain look to them that always felt threatening to the other party.

'It's still the best option to avoid them.' Victor thought, as he moved backwards and out of their sight.

Just like he had predicted, the two humans didn't pursue him any further and just allowed him go away. There was truly no need to engage in a fight at that moment.

Just then, while Victor made his way back through the path he came from, a system reminder came into view. While facing off against the fire-imps, Victor was superior in the aspect of physical strength, but the fire-imps dominated him with magic and he had to keep dodging since fire magic did extra damage to him. During that time, Victor may have received a system notification that he brushed off for later in order not to break his focus.

After ordering the system, the notification he had missed popped up at that exact moment like that was its first appearance.

[Evolution of Fire-Imp complete]

[Fire-Imp has evolved and gained a new skill].

[Level of Fire-Imp has increased]

"Oh? It really did gain the skill. I wonder if it's the invisibility skill." Victor said after looking at the notifications.

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Victor still couldn't see the stats of his legion members, so it was impossible for him to see what their stats and skills were, amongst other things. His best chance at knowing at this point was ask them. Something he couldn't really call an option. Though he could communicate with them to an extent through feelings and a deeper connection he shares with them, there simply was no need to do so. He wasn't going to need them in a fight anytime soon, so it made little difference.

"Come forth, Pyro."

Just like others, the imp emerged from a cloud of black smoke and before Victor. The fire-imp hadn't changed much, and still looked like it did, with the only noticeable new feature being the light scales that had appeared on its skin.

Victor unsummoned it and continued moving around. At this point, Victor was sure he had spent quite the amount of time on the current floor, and wanted to move to the next. First of all, he wanted to find another minotaur and complete the number of evolution material needed to create his new form. Then he also needed to find more fire-imps for the same reason.

Sending his legion out to train wasn't an option since the probability of one of them running into the humans wasn't low. "Let's retrace then." Victor said.

Since the monsters respawned, finding more was possible, the problem was the time it took for these monsters to respawn had increased, and it seemed to be taking longer. Victor had traced his steps back to where he fought the first imp, and still didn't find any. The bones along the way did do a pretty good job of leading the way though.

'The second minotaur might just have been my luck. I don't think it was the same one I fought the first time.' Victor thought to himself as thought of how much time it was taking for the fire-imps to respawn.

He had no other choice than to exercise patience. After what must have been a few days, Victor's wait paid off, and the imps began appearing once again. Victor was sure the minotaurs would also have respawned by that time.n0𝐯𝐞𝑙𝐮𝑠𝚋.𝑪0𝗆

Just like he was doing before, Victor walked through the dungeon floor, finding the fire-imps and collecting evolution materials from eating them. Good thing these monsters' skin weren't on fire, if not he would get damage from eating its flesh.

Some hours passed by, and after that time, Victor was able to collect the required amount of fire-imp evolution material needed to form a new body. "This is enough." Victor said, as he stood up.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

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-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 10,000

-Minotuar – 850,000

-Fire-Imp – 210,000

"This is truly becoming too much." Victor said, while looking at the list of evolution materials. By now, Victor had come to realise something important concerning this evolution thing.

If he wanted to produce a creature or form with significant enhancement, having just a little evolution material didn't do the trick, and if he was going for the skills, just incorporating some parts of a monster into his body wouldn't work. Maybe in this regard, the whole process of evolution went past just being a super chimera. Creating entirely new species was possible, and was the best option if he wanted to maximize the benefits. After getting a good form, he could then incorporate other aspects of different creatures into himself.

'What if I incorporate the parts before undergoing a major evolution? That's also possible I guess. This just points out that my second form is needed.' Victor said in his mind. This may be the first thing he tries out.

After finding a relatively secluded area to stay, Victor spoke to the system.

"System, begin creation of my second form." Victor said calmly.

Beep Beep

[Starting creation process]

[You will lose consciousness during the creation process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

[You will now lose consciousness as creation process begins]

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[Creation of new form Fire-Imp complete]

[Gained new skill Fire Breath]

[Received 7 stat points]

[Agility 1, Magic 5]

[In this form, your weakness to fire is eliminated]

[It will take 24hours to completely adjust to new form]

Victor read the system notifications and fir a much known reason, the angle from which he was reading it felt so weird and different, it was disorientating to say the least. Nothing was out of his expectations, except for the fact that he hadn't gotten any skill that increased resistance to fire and fire magic.

Of course, this fire-imp form of his had a high level of resistance to fire and fire magic, and because of that his weakness to fire was alleviated. But, when he changed back to his zombie form, this bonus would no longer be in effect. What Victor was looking for was something that would grant him this benefit even in his other form.

'Looks like my plan didn't work, but I got something out of this. It's all good.' Victor noted mentally. His new plan was to find another creature with natural affinity towards the element of fire. Maybe then he would be lucky enough to get the skill that would suit his goal.

In this form, the capabilities of his zombie form transferred into this new form. There were things that became different, like his physique and toughness of his body, to how his stats affected his performance. Apart from things like these, all his skills were still available, though something like 'spearmanship' was probably out of his control..

Victor gradually tried to move forward, but it just wasn't happening. After about one minute, some information flowed into him. It didn't feel like information or something abstract, instead it felt like a part of his mind that was closed had opened up to him, in his very soul and being.

When that happened, he tried to walk again, and without much of a hitch, his movements became as natural as a normal Imp. He still walked gradually and slowly, but he wasn't experiencing the same difficulty as prior to the sudden realisation. To say the least, the feeling was weird and at the same time familiar, all at the same time.

'Good thing I don't plan on staying in this form.' Victor thought.

Another thing about his new form was that his ability to speak was no more, and if he tried, all that came out were animal sounds that made no sense. In an instant, he had returned to his initial predicament when he first got to this world. Victor could not help but thank his luck as he only needed to wait for 24 hours.

Victor wanted to come out of the small space he was in, but the thought of facing other monsters kept him from doing that. If he were to meet a minotaur after he came out, although not realistic since he was in Fire-Imp territory, he would die instantly. If he met the humans, his fate would be the same. Victor couldn't just imagine combat in his current form.

'Status.'

Status

Level: 32 (1,645,000/2,100,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 2,215/2,215

Mp: 2,000/2,000 2,050/2,050

[Stat]

Strength: 135

Agility: 130 131

Sense: 110

Vitality: 50

Magic: 20 25

Intelligence: 58

remaining stat point: 40 47

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-1, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max, Fire Breath lvl-2

[Innate Ability]

[Undead Body]

As an undead, you do not require sleep or rest, and you do not require any sustenance nor are you held back by the need of bodily functions. Your stamina is limitless, and you do not accumulate fatigue. Any injury aside from a critical or fatal head injury will not kill you, and will not hinder your mobility or bodily functions, but damage will still be taken. You are able to survive in extreme conditions of cold and heat, and radiation, up to a certain limit. You will naturally heal your injuries after a period of time, but cannot regain lost body parts. Foreign Body parts can be attached.

-Necrotic/Negative energy is converted to healing/mana supplementn0𝐯𝐞𝑙𝐮𝑠𝚋.𝑪0𝗆

-Healing/Holy magic is converted to damage (Penalty lessened)

-Complete Immunity to sickness and disease

-Complete immunity to psychic attacks

-Complete immunity to poison attacks

-Complete immunity to curses

-(20%) damage from fire type attacks (Penalty alleviated)

-(50%) damage received from Holy/Light magic attacks

-Can enter holy grounds.

Victor wanted to test the new skill he just got to see its strength. He was very well familiar with this skill as he was attacked with it quite a lot, and when faced by a group of fire-imps, it can be very annoying to deal with.

Victor walked to the opposite side of the small room space that face the entrance, and just like when he activated any other skill, he thought of it, or more accurately consciously commanded the skill to activate, and it did. He kept his mouth wide open creating way for the fire to come out of, and in that moment when he commanded the skill to activate, he felt a bit of energy swell in his chest, and the next instant fire came blasting out of his mouth.

Unlike what he knew, the fire wasn't as much as the one used against him by the fire-imps, relative to those, his was like a baby flame without control, as it had no definite direction and just blasted everywhere before him. Victor wasn't stupid, and immediately realised what he had done wrong. The thought of fire passing through his bare skin and mouth might have caused him to be too careful at first. There was no reason to hold back now.

Victor breathed in and out first, somehow readying himself for what was to happen, then he commanded the skill to activate. At the same time he activated the skill and the energy started swelling within his chest, Victor simultaneously took in a huge ball of air through his nostrils and mouth, and as he did it felt like the energy within him was amplified in a way. The moment he felt it was ok, through his mouth, he poured out the air and energy he had built up within his chest forward towards the entrance directly before him, some metres away. What he saw was just in simple terms amazing.

A blazing hot flame shot from his mouth as he continued to breathe out, until he had run out of breath. The flame he spat out was very strong, just like the one he was attack with, and it burnt through 3 metres of space separating him and the entrance, and may have even reached outside.

'This may come in handy later.' Victor said mentally as he observed the range of the skill.

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Quickly, 24 hours past while Victor hid himself in the small room space, and he could revert back to his zombie form once again. He hadn't achieved what he wanted, but the results he got weren't bad either. With a thought, Victor began changing back into his zombie form.

[Switching forms into Zombie Lord form]

Victor's lizard like body started moving in weird and unnatural ways, as he switched forms. His arms and legs elongated, and while other parts of his body also stretched out and new muscle fibers grew, other bones broke and restructured themselves to match his new form which he was transforming to.

The entire process took nothing more than a few seconds, and Victor was back in his zombie form. There was no pain felt, not that he could to begin with, so the process moved along smoothly without discomfort. There was only one small problem though. His only piece of clothing had been ruined.

'Should have taken it off first. Another thing to note before changing forms.' Victor made a mental note.

He walked out of the room-like space, and out into the fire-imp territory. Of course, the special benefit he enjoyed in his fire-imp form was gone, and he was, once again, vulnerable to flames. At that moment, a fire-imp appeared at the scene, and without much calculation, Victor picked up a piece of rock about a handful and tossed it at the imp, killing it instantly. Their skin and physical attributes were just too weak and inferior.

"I also need to level up one of my skill. I might want to add a minotaur to my legion." Victor said..

Immediately while also walking along the pathway, Victor pulled out the status window and looked at his skill. He then asked the system what it would cost him to level up a particular skill. "System, how much skill is required to level up the skill Legion of the Dead?" Victor asked.

[30 stat points]

The cost was high, but at this point there was nothing Victor could do. Following the system, he traded 30 stat points and instantly levelled up the skill to level two.

Victor wondered what had changed about the skill's usage now, after he upgraded it. He knew the number slot for legion members would increase, that much was obvious fact and basis. What he wanted to see was if he could now see the detailed information of the members of his legion and not just the level. This would help him better plan and use them well and more effectively.

Victor, using his consciousness expanded the information on the skill he just levelled up.

[Legion of the Dead]

Call forth an army of undead to do your bidding.

Level: 2n0𝑽𝑬𝓛𝓊𝑠𝒷.𝑪0𝓜

Mana cost: none

Legion: 5/7

Arac: Level – 40

Konda: Level – 40

Gurok: Level – 40

Amadon: Level – 45

Pyro: Level – 50

Victor tried, but it was simply impossible. The change he was hoping for didn't come, and he could only see their levels at most. It was no big deal for now, Victor thought, as he put it aside for the moment.

A few more days went by, and Victor still couldn't find the path that lead to the next floor. He was starting to believe he was in a labyrinth and not just a cave as thought previously. The more he tried to find his way out, the harder it got. "I'll remain on this floor if things continue like this. " Victor said while thinking for an alternative.

"System, isn't there a way to map out the layout? Or do I need a skill for that?" Victor asked. Surprisingly, the system's answer was positive.

[There is a map function in the system] The system answered.

"…"

Just then, an option box appeared beside the other boxes at the top of the status panel. Victor was speechless about this, but there was nothing he could do. It was relatively all in the past at that point. "Always inform me of important things such as this." Victor said before opening the system panel and moving to the map section.

Immediately, a square panel appeared before Victor, and on it was a graphical layout of the floor he was in. With the new map, Victor was able to spot the places he was yet to explore, and it was clear why it seemed like the floor was bigger than it actually was. If Victor was to be asked, he would probably say the floor was at least as big as a town, but in actuality it wasn't. The way the entire floor pathways were connected helped give the impression of a bigger floor.

"Good architecture of the place, really good design." Unlike the previous map he had, this one didn't indicate where the entrance to the floor and where the exit was located. Those he would have to find on his own. Now that Victor had this, he was going to go back in attempt to find a minotaur and get the required amount of evolution material to create a new form.

Even without the map, Victor could trace his steps back to the spots he found the minotaur previously. His memory was pretty good after all.

On his way to find the minotaur, he sprinted full speed through the little journey. It didn't take Victor that much time before he arrived at the second spot where he found a minotaur, and sure enough, the minotaur was there patrolling around. Without stopping, Victor continued his forward charge and into the minotaur he ran.

[Minotaur Level 90]

The minotaur managed to dodge the sneak attack by moving its upper body to the side, but that was just what Victor wanted. Victor had the advantage of knowing the minotaur's play and trump cards. He wasn't there to play or test its capabilities, so he got down to business right away and pulled out his axe behind the Minotaur, before burying it deep into its back on impact.

As he pulled out the axe, he rushed towards the minotaur, and consciously, activated his skill 'Touch of Death'. The moment his hand came into contact with the minotaur, it fell to its knee, and then it couldn't hold its self up any longer and collapsed on all fours. Within the span of a few seconds, the minotaur collapsed on the ground as it died instantly.

Victor noticing that the minotaur had died moved in on it and began throwing chunks of flesh into his throat as he ate just enough until the exact amount of evolution material was gotten.

"This is enough."

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500.

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 10,000

-Minotuar – 1,000,000n0𝔳𝐞𝓵𝓊𝔰𝔟.𝗰0𝑚

-Fire-Imp – 2000 (Can be further evolved)

– Fire-Imp – 2000/400,000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – High Fire-Imp.

"Hmm?" Victor had opened the evolution panel just to see the numbers, but unexpectedly, he found out something that was interesting. The Fire-Imp form he just gained some days ago actually possessed the potential to grow stronger. Originally, Victor was going to replace the Fire-Imp form with a minotaur, but now he was eager to see the benefits he would gain after evolving.

Once again, for the another hundredth time, Victor had to change his plan. Though exaggerated, he had altered his original plan so many times at this point.

He was on a new mission now to gain more evolution material from the Fire-Imp and advance its evolution. Needless to say, ever since Victor came to this world, he hadn't really had a moment of rest. He headed straight to the fire-imp territory and started killing imp after imp as he ate their flesh after their death.

As he headed deeper into the territory, he started to notice the strange absence of monsters in the area, and since he hadn't gotten past their territory, he could immediately see that something was wrong. Instead of turning back, Victor continued forward. If there was something that could kill the fire-imps, then it was only beneficial to him. While advancing forward carefully, Victor on the inside couldn't shake the possibility of the ones responsible for the absence of the fire-imps to be the humans he had seen earlier.

"If it's them, it might be better to just turn back." Victor said to himself. Death wasn't his problem. Not only did he not fear death, he also was sure of his resurrection after he died. The issue lied on the fact that the possibility of him being reincarnated back on the first floor was above 90%, not something he wanted.

Despite this, Victor kept walking forward, and by the time he had gone a few minutes into the fire-imp territory, he picked up something with his ears. It sounded like someone breathing heavily, but a bit subtle. With no doubt in his mind, Victor could tell who the breaths belonged to; it was the two humans he encountered earlier. The thing this time was that they seemed to have just gotten out of a pretty hard fight.

Victor continued down on the path, and the thought he had at the back of his mind was the possibility of him winning the fight if he engaged them at that moment of exertion and exhaustion.

The closer he got, the clearer the breathing became. Now he was just one corner away from appearing before the humans and he could already feel their presence, as he also predicted they could. Victor without pausing, as he had no fear in him, took the corner, but what he saw before him was a bit unexpected.

Different from the image he had in his head, the humans before him were in a totally different predicament.

The mage lady was lying on the ground, while the warrior sat just beside her, and from the exposed part of their skin, he could see just how darkened it had become. The colour of their skin like a mixture of purple and green, and the colouration was deep. Without a doubt, they had been poisoned, but what monster could produce such strong poison.

Victor didn't need anybody to tell him that his enemies were in a weakened state, he could see that and was going to end them quickly, but then, when he looked at then, he couldn't help but hesitate a bit. He looked at them a little more as he walked closer, and immediately confirmed his suspicions. They weren't as weakened as they seemed, it was most likely bait.

'Oh? They want to play huh? That's all good with me.' Victor said in his mind.

Victor immediately knew what to do. He took in a little breathe, and as he poured out the built in air, he consciously activated his skill 'fire breath', and aimed it at the humans by the side. They were well within range, and he was sure the skill would do some damage, since he had experienced it himself. Though the skill sounds like some magic that grants natural flame throwers to the wielder, it was pretty strong, and the flame really did damage. The moment the fire reached one metre away from the humans as it had merely left Victor's mouth, the warrior lady jumped backwards a couple feet avoiding the magic, while the other lady must have used some magic that protected her form the flames, possibly a shield.

'Well, not dying now, are they?'

"It didn't work! Get behind me and ready for a fight!" The warrior lady shouted.

The mage must have used a magic to hasten her movement as she dashed behind the warrior with a speed that far surpassed what a mage should be able to show. The mage lady held out both hands with one palm facing the staff she was holding and started mumbling to herself as she casted different spells that seemed to be support magic, and plenty at that.

"Get rid of that thing! I don't want to spoil my eyes with the image of a naked monster. How does one even exist?" The human mage said. It was then Victor remembered that he was naked.

This didn't faze him though, it wasn't like it mattered to him. The warrior dashed towards him immediately with some of the light surrounding her body still slightly glowing. She came in fast as her movements were fast, and so were her strikes, carrying power in them. It was taking quite a lot to protect himself and dodge the lady, and he had to be careful as he could sense a strange energy around her body and sword.

This energy was strange, but at the same time oddly familiar. He could tell that what he was feeling was holy energy, and for that amount, the other lady hiding behind was sure to be a holy mage that specialized in holy magic.

"Its compulsory now, this might be tougher than I thought."

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'This might be tougher than I thought.' Victor thought.

Holy magic was basically an enemy to all undead and demons, and right now the lady facing him had it all over her. Just a scratch on the skin would damage him very well. If she was above level 80, it only stands to say her weapon would be equally strong and high grade.

There was no way for Victor to confirm just how much damage he would suffer from the lady's sword, and he wasn't about to receive an attack just to find out, that was just a stupid idea. Victor waited for the perfect opportunity, and when he was able to dodge to the side, he squeezed in a strong punch as hard as he could into the sword lady's armour.

Victor was sure the punch he just landed would be strong enough to reach the lady, and he could clearly see the spot he punched had gotten a little dent in the area. The punch sent her tumbling into the dungeon wall close by, and Victor used that break to gain the upper hand. He waited for her not, and rushed at her with his palm.

Just as she the lady had forced herself up ignoring the pain all over her body, Victor appeared before her and grabbed her face, as he placed his entire palm on it, and then slammed the back of her head back into the wall, and then into the ground. He was sure her skull had cracked and if possible several vessels had busted within her skull. As he took his hand off her face, he immediately turned towards the one posing the most danger, the holy mage. .

Just as he turned to face the mage, several swords shot from the ground and pierced into his flesh, or at least the swords aimed at doing so. Seeing this, Victor knew it was a kind of binding spell that was most definitely used by the warrior, and that meant she was still energetic enough to activate a spell. 'I slipped up.' Victor said.n0𝔳𝐞𝓵𝓊𝔰𝔟.𝗰0𝑚

Now that he was looking at the mage, he could see that the magic she cast at the beginning of his fight with the other lady wasn't just a onetime thing, she was continuously channeling mana towards the warrior lady, and it was to continuously heal her. The warrior lady was now up and standing behind him, and with the failed attack, he kind of still had the upper hand. This he used well.

At that moment, Victor's mind was racing, processing every single thing happening around him at super human speed. From what he had observed, the mage wasn't moving at all, and hadn't moved from where she stood ever since the fight began. From Victor's knowledge, this meant she had activated a defensive skill around a limited area space and could not move pass the spot. That or she couldn't move while using the magic she was using to continuously heal the warrior lady. And it was accurate to say the second one was more plausible.

Victor couldn't attack her now since the warrior lady would just attack him from behind, so he had to face her and find some way to kill her before the other lady would be able to heal her.

As he turned to face the warrior that was already on her feet, he appeared before her in an instant, and using the best plan he could come up in such a scenario, which was also very sadistic, he grabbed her face again with his palm and threw her up a few feet, then jumping into the air along with her, Victor wrapped his hands around her legs then delivered a perfect power bomb, instantly causing a little crater on impact and raising some dust.

Immediately, the mage lady seemed to have increased the amount of mana she put into the spell to increase the rate of recovery, and Victor could already see the power of that spell increase as the parts of her skull that had openly cracked began repairing itself rapidly. 'Perfect.' Victor thought. For that moment, the warrior lady was immobile and just laid there like a huge target.

Victor placed his hands above his head, and instantly Victor's great axe, the one he took from the minotaur appeared in his hands, and without hesitating even a bit, he smashed the axe into the warrior before him, splitting her into two halves like wood.

[Killed Human Level 83]

105,000

Seeing what Victor had just done, the holy mage stopped using the magic she had been using, as terror surfaced on her face, and the next moment she fell into rage and panic and she had instantly entered a primal state of survival to fight against the threat before her, but that, was too late. Victor vanished before her eyes, and before she could even blink, his right palm was over face, and at that exact moment he touched her, she collapsed, and her body became motionless, she died.

'But I didn't do anything though.'

[An enemy has been affected by the skill Undead Aura]

[An enemy has died due to the skill's effect]

[Killed Human Level 80]

95,000

"Ah, I actually forgot I had such a skill. Have all the monsters that I have faced up until now really that strong hearted?"

[Undead Aura]

Inflicts fear, terror, hallucination on any creature that shows fear towards, you in your presence. Duration and strength varies depending on target. This status effect cannot be cleared with external skills or magic.

Level: MAX

Mana cost: none

[You have levelled up]

Status

Level: 33 (105,000/2,700,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 2,215/2,215

Mp: 2,050/2,050

[Stat]

Strength: 135

Agility: 132

Sense: 112

Vitality: 50

Magic: 25

Intelligence: 60.

remaining stat point: 22

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max, Fire Breath lvl-2

After the fight with the humans, Victor left the bodies there where they lay and continued on his way. Before he got to the door that led to the next floor, he had to gather some evolution material to evolve his fire imp. So far, that plan of his wasn't looking very time friendly, and it meant he would have to waste more time on this floor than originally planned.

After killing the humans, Victor didn't bother eating them since humans were pretty useless in the train of evolution. They had many disadvantages and weaknesses that disqualify them instantly. There also no need to join one of his monsters with a human, as in the end the cons overshadow the pros. Of course, he was sure to help himself to the spoils of the battle, and took every valuable thing they possessed, both those he needed and those he didn't.

Similar to the humans before, Victor also found a pouch hanging from the mage's waist, and like a reward for a quest event, he snatched it from her waist, and opened it up. Inside he found an abundance of different crystals, some brilliant, and others murky and dull. If there was one thing Victor was sure about, it was that this was money, and he had just become a little rich in another world, depending on the value of these. Victor also took a few other things from the pouch before dropping it back on the ground. Who knows, he might need money after exiting the dungeon.

The warrior lady's upper body armour was pretty impressive as it not only granted extra 7 points in strength; it also increased defence by a lot. Safe to say it was a defensive equipment that granted some strength. This piece of armour, Victor equipped using the system, so it didn't appear physically, but it still acted like it should.

As for clothes to cover his nakedness, Victor couldn't wear the leggings worn by knights under their armour as it didn't quite fit his style, so he turned to the mage. Her overall dress was torn until waist level from above, then Victor used the torn part that resembled ropes and tied around his waist to hold the entire lower part in place, then the battle robe he tied around his upper body across, from one shoulder to the other side of his body. At this point, Victor was unmistakably a descendant of an Egyptian god, as his dressing went well with culture. Well, except for the jewellery, his whole attire was on point.

In addition to his great axe, Victor had also added two new weapons, the warrior's great sword and the mage's staff. "More choices now." Victor said.

Victor had managed to go around looking for more evolution material, having to slow down sometimes to allow the fire-imps to respawn. After an entire day had passed, Victor was able to gather enough evolution material for the next fire-imp evolution, and since he was a bit far from where the room he stayed in last time was, he found a good corner in the dungeon floor and sat there.

"Come forth Amadon, Gurok." Victor said as he sat.

Before him appeared both of his legion as they emerged from the black smoke that moved like mist clouds.

"Both of you keep watch and guard my body." Victor said.

– Fire-Imp – 2000/100,000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – High Fire-Imp.

"System, begin the evolution."

Beep Beep

[Starting evolution process]

[You will lose consciousness during the evolution process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

[You will now lose consciousness as evolution begins]

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[Evolution complete]

[You have evolved into a High Fire-Imp]

[Gained new skill Fire Ring]

[Skill Fire Breath has advanced to level 5]

[Received 20 stat points]

[Agility 3, Sense 3, Intelligence 5, Magic 10]

[Max HP has increased by 100]

[Max MP has increased by 200]

[It will take 48hours to completely adjust to new form. Till then, evolution is impossible, unless under favourable for dangerous conditions]

After Victor woke up, he read the system notifications before his eyes, and looked in front to see that Amadon and Gurok were still there, and possibly, nothing much had happened. "Not bad."

Status

Level: 33 (105,000/2,700,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 2,215/2,215 2,315/2,315

Mp: 2,050/2,050 2,300/2,300

[Stat]

Strength: 135 (7)

Agility: 132 135

Sense: 112 115

Vitality: 50

Magic: 25 35

Intelligence: 60 65

remaining stat point: 22 42

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max, Fire Breath lvl-max, Fire Ring lvl-1..

After seeing the changes, Victor moved to the evolution side of the system to check his evolution materials, but to his surprise, he wasn't done yet. There was another evolution for the fire-imp.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 10,000

-Minotuar – 1,000,000

-Fire-Imp – 2000 (Can be further evolved)

– Fire-Imp – 2000/950,000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – Inferno Imp.

…

Victor seeing the information only confirmed how much longer he would have to stay at the current floor gathering limited fire-imp evolution material. Waiting for them to respawn took plenty of time on its own, getting that much evolution material was just too time consuming. Victor had no choice-

Several days later, long enough for Victor to consider it to be close to a week or past that, Victor sat at a random corner and summoned two of his legion to stand guard.

"System, begin the evolution."

Beep Beep

[Starting evolution process]

[You will lose consciousness during the evolution process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

[You will now lose consciousness as evolution begins]

[Evolution complete]

[You have evolved into an Inferno Imp]

[Skill Fire Ring has evolved into new skill, Inferno Ring]

[Skill Fire Breath has evolved into new skill, Infernal Breath]

[Received new Innate Ability, Infernal body]

[Received 30 stat points]

[Strength 5, Sense 5, Intelligence 10, Magic 20]

[Max HP has increased by 400].

[Max MP has increased by 500]

[It will take 48hours to completely adjust to new form. Till then, evolution is impossible, unless under favourable for dangerous conditions]

After Victor woke up, he was greeted to the amazing information the system displayed before him. This time, he had even gained another ability, and he knowing how great the last one was, Victor was anxious to see the effects of this ability. He scrolled through the notification before switching to his status screen.

Status

Level: 33 (1,365,000/2,700,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 2,715/2,715

Mp: 2,800/2,800

[Stat]

Strength: 140 (7)

Agility: 135

Sense: 120

Vitality: 50

Magic: 55

Intelligence: 75n0𝔳𝐞𝓵𝓊𝔰𝔟.𝗰0𝑚

remaining stat point: 72

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max, Infernal Breath lvl-max, Inferno Ring lvl-1..

[Innate Ability]

Infernal Body

You have an incredibly high affinity towards the fire element. The energy of fire is around and with your body, and it empowers you. Though you thrive in extremely hot environment and habitat, you are not any weaker outside your natural habitat.

-Immune to heat and fire.

– Increase in attack and defence in hot environment/conditions.

-Natural and high affinity to the fire element.

-No weakness to opposing elements equal or weaker than yourself.

-Damage taken from opposing elements only if it is considerably more powerful than yourself.

-Your body is always strengthened and supported by the fire element.

[Undead Body]

-Necrotic/Negative energy is converted to healing/mana supplement

-Healing/Holy magic is converted to damage (Penalty lessened)

-Complete Immunity to sickness and disease

-Complete immunity to psychic attacks

-Complete immunity to poison attacks

-Complete immunity to curses

-(50%) damage received from Holy/Light magic attacks

-Can enter holy grounds.

[Infernal Breath]

Pour out a scorching breath of fire that carries immense heat and burns like a diamond furnace.

Level: MAX

Mana cost: none

Range: 10m

[Inferno Ring]

Form a ring of intense flames and burning area around yourself.

Level: 1

Mana cost: 20

Duration: 10secs

Radius: 5m

Seeing the new skills and ability he gained this time around and confirming that the fire-imp had no other evolution further, Victor was sure it was time to advance to the next floor after his legion advanced in levels a bit.

After gaining the infernal body, Victor's appearance also changed quite a bit. Victor now had black lines that ran through his entire body in weird but strangely orderly patterns. These lines looked like tattooed lines, but at the same time resembled something akin to birth marks. It really gave him a mystifying look, as these lines would release a glow that would seem like molten lava was running through them constantly.

These lines were only as wide as two centimetres in its widest areas, and didn't clog all over his body on every spot, so it wasn't too weird looking. On the contrary, it was quite the fashionable look. "This look isn't bad." Victor said. At first, he thought the lines would be hot or maybe he might burn the clothes, it turned out to be alright. He's body however, was not as cold as it was prior to acquiring the ability.

Victor went on to spent some days in that same floor allowing his legion to grind their levels while helping them whenever he had to, since the monsters in the floor were relatively stronger than his legion.

After graining for some days, non-stop and Victor was satisfied with the results, it was finally time to advance to the next floor. This was the floor that had taken the most time to clear.

Arac: Level – 40 43

Konda: Level – 40 43

Gurok: Level – 40 44

Amadon: Level – 45 49

Pyro: Level – 50 52

Getting to the next floor, Victor saw it similar to the one he had just been on, the only difference being the moist environment with water poodles here and there. Seeing this environment, Victor could only wonder what kind of monster he would encounter on this floor, though he already had a pretty rough idea.

After walking deeper, the answer was presented to him, and just as he expected, he had entered a floor dominated by amphibians.

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"Just like I thought." Victor said.

Before him, was a creature that he needed no identification to recognize. If anything, it was one of fantasy world's mystic creatures.

[Red Back Salamander]

This creature needed no introduction as Victor already had a good idea of what it was capable of. Having red in its name mostly meant it would be associated with the fire element, so it was not a threat to Victor. What bothered him however, was the other monster just some metres behind the salamander.

Victor couldn't really tell what the creature was supposed to be, but for the most part it reminded him of something from his past life.

"Is Great Gamamaru the ruler of this floor? Or do inhabitants of Mount Myoboku exist in this world?" Victor said as he studied the monster.

The other monster looked like a giant toad quite alright, but it stood on its two back legs, completely giving the vibe of some great warrior.

[Red Back Salamander Level 50]

[Poison Frog Colony Level 40].

'Colony?'

Seeing their levels and the fact that their specialties had no effects against his body, Victor wasted no time and attacked the monsters before him. The Salamander fell relatively easily. Its physical defence was low, and with Victor's strength, it took just one slash with his newly acquired sword to cut it in halve, but when he moved in to kill the frog, it did something surprising.

[You have killed Red Back Salamander]

65,000exp

The huge body of frog instantly collapsed in on itself and split into different smaller separate bodies. Victor seeing this knew instantly that chasing the separate bodies one after the other was the wrong way to go, but then he still wanted to see how these creatures attacked. His choice of course was to confirm whether he would be incorporating it into himself or one of his legion.

The smaller frog bodies that had split from the originally 3 metres tall monster frog immediately jumped towards Victor and once they landed on his body, some bit his skin, while others just jumped off as soon as they touched him. Those that tried to bite were completely unsuccessful as Victor's skin was just that strong, while the others that jumped off immediately just ended up intriguing Victor more.

"System, what are these things?" Victor asked.

[These are Poison Frog Colony original bodies, and is also why they are called a colony as the giant body is just a fusion of the different bodies]

[Just like their name suggest, they are monsters that use poison to attack]

Going by what Victor had already gathered, their poison is most definitely all over their entire body and mouth, and is potent enough to impair their enemies after a single touch. Unfortunate for them to meet such an opponent like Victor who has complete immunity to poison. Their greatest attack and trump card was useless.

'Inferno Ring.'

As Victor activated the skill mentally, a circle of fire immediately spawned around where he stood while most of the frogs gathered, following that and in an instant, each of the frogs burst into fire like an internal combustion had just happened, and sure enough they died. Following that, Victor followed that skill with another skill Negative Burst that had a wider range, and the remaining frogs died after some seconds.

'Not bad indeed.'

[You have killed Poison Frog]

[You have killed Poison Frog]n0𝐕𝐞𝑙𝓤𝒮𝒷.𝒸0𝚖

[You have killed Poison Frog]

[You have killed Pois

[You have kil

[…

The frogs were all level 40, and after they joined together, though they remained the same level, they would have grown physically stronger and compensate for their weakness.

45,000

…

'That wasn't bad.'

Victor made sure to feast on the salamander and the frogs that died by the second skill he used. The others were just too burnt to extract anything from them.

This floor was the perfect floor for his legion to level up if he used it well. Unlike him, his legion as zombies still had a terrible weakness to fire, so they would be at a big disadvantage when facing the salamanders, but the frogs were a different case. The frogs' poison was useless against undead, and that made Victor and his legion the perfect enemies for them.

Victor decided not to be too greedy with the prey, as they will respawn later anyway, so his plan was to leave the prey to his legion for now, then he would return for their evolution material later if needed.

Using the system map that scanned the area around him, he started a little marathon from the spot where he stood and ran towards any direction that was open, allowing the system to scan wherever he had been to and the area around them until he got a good map of the entire place. After doing that, he returned to the beginning of the floor where the entrance was and summoned his entire legion except for a few. Konda and Arac were to big to fit some spaces, so he left them out this time and focused on the others.

The plan was for them to follow behind him and kill every monster they encountered except for the salamanders. As Victor dashed through the cave like terrain of the floor killing every salamander he encountered, he avoided the frogs and left them for the others to deal with.

When Victor had gotten to a certain point, he stopped and using another route went back to the start to pick off all the salamander bodies he had killed along the way. It was a way to do two things at once. While he gained evolution material from the salamander bodies, he left the other legion members to grind experience points to level up.

'Such a good way to do things ehn?' Victor thought as he sat before the next salamander corpse.

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Following behind his legion, Victor gathered evolution materials from each of the salamander corpse one after the other until he had caught up to his legion summons. They seemed to be doing alright, and thanks to the sheer number of the frogs, he had received some system notifications of two of the summons levelling up. Truly, this method was the most efficient.

[New sample detected. Analysing sample]

All together, Victor had managed to gather up to 30,000 evolution materials from the salamanders, and 8,000 from the frogs. With the new materials, Victor could very well determine that he wouldn't be needing any of the ability these monsters have, as they just were not useful to him, or he already had them. As for the poison, Victor preferred to still be able to touch some things without killing them, and he already had fire so the salamander was a bit useless.

There wasn't much need to incorporate the salamander into the fire-imp either since they were practically the same type of monster in the majority of ways. The only other possible evolution Victor saw was the fire-imp and the Poison Frog. Seeing that something here was possible, Victor just had to wait for the system to analyse the samples and then evolution would follow.

Some minutes passed after Victor got the idea of incorporating the poison frogs, and by then, he had received the system notification telling him that his legion summon, Pyro had advanced in level and was now level 54. That same time also..

[System analysis complete. Red Back Salamander has been analyzed]

[System analysis complete. Poison Frog has been analyzed].

Victor seeing these system notifications was about to call back his legion, but then he would just allow them to finish the task at hand. Levelling up was equally as important as making them stronger through evolution. After an hour or so, Victor's legion summons had finally completed their task of killing every monster within the path Victor and set.

Arac: Level – 43

Konda: Level – 43

Gurok: Level – 45

Amadon: Level – 50

Pyro: Level – 54

By the time they returned, each and every one of the legion he sent out had completed the task and added some levels. Victor was sure it was time to begin the evolution. There was absolutely no doubt the salamander was very compatible with the imp, and although their principles were basically and fundamentally similar to the point of being identical, Victor still went on to commence the evolution process in hopes of Pyro gaining a new skill.

"System, begin the evolution on Pyro." Victor said.

Beep

[Starting evolution on the Pyro]

[Evolution will now and will take 30 minutes]

[During evolution Pyro cannot be summoned]

"Alright, I'll leave this be for now." Victor said.

Although Victor had collected evolution materials from the poison frogs, he still didn't see it advantageous to add it to the evolution of Pyro, as he wasn't sure if the fusing and splitting of their bodies was a skill, and if it was, he didn't want such a skill in Pyro, at least for now.

'In that same light, Konda would be a better option to fuse with the frog, but the kind of the creature that would be born…'

Victor thought about it for a while, and after a minute, he made up his mind. There was absolutely no reason for him to even stress himself too much on this kind of thing.

"System, what are the possible options for evolution of Konda with the poison frog? Eliminate any form that will cause an obvious change to Konda's physicality."

[Showing all possible evolutions according to your specifications]

Immediately, the system panel before Victor enlarged, and two choices appeared before Victor. Victor checked the two options, and as he could see, the second one looked better. There was a chance that Konda would inherit the poison the frogs possess all over their body, while it said nothing about the splitting and fusing of the colony.

Victor went with this choice, and immediately told the system to begin the evolution.

Beep

[Starting evolution on the Konda]

[Evolution will now and will take 30 minutes]

[During evolution Konda cannot be summoned]

With that out of the way for the moment, Victor continued deeper into the cave-like floor ultimately, to find the exit out of this floor and into the next. The more time Victor spent in the current floor, the more he began to think the floor had an amphibian theme. All the monsters Victor had encountered in this floor were amphibians, and all attacked in numbers, as their levels were below 60.

Killing quite the number of these amphibian monsters, Victor levelled up once, and just as he feared, the experience points kept increasing by bounds. Thirty minutes came by fast, and the system sent out a notification just as the time was right.

[Evolution of Pyro complete]

[Pyro has increased in level]

[New skill have been added]

[Evolution of Konda complete]

[Konda has increased in level]

[New skill have been added]

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Status

Level: 34 (65,000/3,400,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 3,215/3,215.

Mp: 3,300/3,300

[Stat]

Strength: 143 (7)

Agility: 135

Sense: 120

Vitality: 50

Magic: 55

Intelligence: 77

remaining stat point: 77

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max, Fire Breath lvl-max, Inferno Ring lvl-1..

Victor took a quick look at his status panel, and he quickly saw how much extra stat points he had gathered again. He was pretty sure that these stats were not the stats of a level 34, but for now there wasn't much he could do. If he had to go with the system, which was his only reasonable and believable companion at the moment, the world he was in now would look a bit different.

Victor continued moving deeper and deeper into the cave system of the floor, and even after going for some time with the help of the map, he still hadn't found the path to the next floor. Seemingly so, this floor was much larger than the previous floors.

"Some things off about the monsters. They've been acting, sort of weird." Victor said, as he knelt down before the corpse of a salamander.

The salamander had a spiral drawn on its forehead, and the colour was a bit hard to notice since the salamander had reddish skin, and the spiral was also a similar shade of red. To confirm his suspicions, Victor looked at more corpses, and by the time he killed a frog colony that was yet to split, the spiral was sitting clearly on its forehead, and Victor confirmed his suspicions. If he had to use the knowledge from playing lots of games and reading fantasy manga and novels, he would say that the monsters were being controlled.

Victor had no particular reason to go looking for the monster responsible for the mind control, so he paid it little attention and just kept moving forward, towards his goal.

"Hmm? What is it going to do about it?" A voice spoke from a dark room.

"I should set up more to make things a little more harder. I wake up, and the next thing I find is that it has gotten this far. How lucky?" The voice said, as its voice shook a bit.

"The next batch of monsters should be arriving soon."

Nothing much showed up in this floor apart for the monsters Victor had encountered so far, and as for the mind control monster, he never found it. After running around for a while Victor finally found the path to the next floor, and unlike what he thought, he hadn't encountered the rest of the adventurers that entered the dungeon before he began his descent.

Victor was sure that the two ladies he met before were both part of the adventuring party before him, but as for the rest, they seemed to have just disappeared, or if not so, it meant the ladies were left behind. This also wasn't Victor's concern, so he kept it aside. After his mind started changing, he suddenly had less interest in everything that didn't concern his main goal, and at the moment, his goal was to clear the dungeon and get out of it.

Just like that, Victor went through the 44th floor and then the 45th, entered the 46th and then the 47th. On the 47th, the entire was different, and resembled one of the lower floors as the entire floor was filled with water. Like the other floor that was occupied by more water than land through out the cave layout, Victor thought this one would be the same, but it was quite different. Unlike the previous one, this one had no single dry land and was entirely filled with cold water. There was no space to catch a breath either, as the cave system was filled to the ceiling. Luckily, Victor didn't need to breath, and his sight was good even under water, so he had little difficulty.

The only problem Victor faced was the speed at with he was able to manoeuvre his way through the water. If nothing else, the floor was bound to be as large and wide as the previous one before it, so Victor could not waste time on swimming all the way there as that would take just too long.

'There has to be a way to go through this easily.' Victor thought to himself.

Victor knew that the best monster for this job was Konda, but Konda wasn't too good underwater either, as he wasn't a particularly a water snake. The best option Victor saw at that moment was to add an aquatic monster to his legion temporarily and use it as a vehicle. In the end the solution wasn't hard, and it wasn't as if Victor hadn't thought of it, but he was mainly looking for a way to also level up his legion while going through the floor, and Konda was the best choice, since he was the most grounded for it, besides Pyro.n0𝐕𝐞𝑙𝓤𝒮𝒷.𝒸0𝚖

'Guess that'll have to wait too.' Victor thought. There was no need to turn Konda into an aquatic monster just because of a single floor, and Pyro was weak to water and cold, so Victor left went with the original fish plan.

So far though, Victor was yet to run into any monster in the water, so the plan could only wait until he found one, but that was short lived, as a suitable monster presented itself to Victor.

'I like monsters that just deliver themselves into my hands.' Victor said in his mind, as he halt his movements and just floated in the water.

Vhooooom

The vibrations emitted by the monster travelled through the entire water and unto Victor's body, bouncing against the walls and back into the water., giving its whole form a mystic feel.

'This octopus looking fish monster will do just fine.' Victor thought in his head.

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So far though, Victor was yet to run into any monster in the water, so the plan could only wait until he found one, but that was short lived, as a suitable monster presented itself to Victor.

'I like monsters that just deliver themselves into my hands.' Victor said in his mind, as he halt his movements and just floated in the water.n0𝑽𝑒𝓛𝐮𝗌𝔟.𝒸0𝓜

Vhooooom

The vibrations emitted by the monster travelled through the entire water and unto Victor's body, bouncing against the walls and back into the water, giving its whole form a mystic feel.

'This octopus looking fish monster will do just fine.' Victor thought in his head.

[Calipus Level 40].

The monster didn't seem the least bit threatening as it swam by, and it paid no attention to Victor. The monster before Victor looked like a mix between a shark and an octopus. It had eight arm like things that came out of the sides of its head, and that part of its head seemed a bit jelly. Apart from these parts, the rest of its body was of a milky colour. The monster was just the right size to navigate well through the cave layout of the floor, as it was the size of two hippopotamus.

Victor swam as fast as he could, which wasn't very fast, until he got to the slow swimming monster fish. With his mind, he activated his skill 'Touch of Death', and before the monster could even struggle, it had died.

'Arise.' Victor commanded mentally.

A couple second after the monster died, it twitched a bit, then as though nothing had happened began swimming again as it swirled its body round Victor.

[You have acquired an undying soldier that will forever serve at your side with unquestionable resolve]

[Calipus has dropped in level due to effects of being reborn]

[Calipus Level 35]

'This guy should be enough.' Victor thought. Due to Victor's infernal body, his body was constantly giving up heat that kept the water around him warm is he stayed in one spot for even some seconds.

Victor got on top the monster and with it he rode deeper into the cave easily and much faster than he could ever with his current self.

After going about for some hours, Victor finally found the path that led to the next floor, and after using it, he finally reached dry floor once more.

'Much convenient.'

During the time Victor spent looking for the path to the next floor, it is accurate to think he didn't do so without any sort of confrontation or encounter with other monsters.

Because of the constant heat coming off of Victor's body, he became the perfect target for the monster fishes that were attracted towards heat sources. At that side of the floor the water was extremely cold and well past freezing point but still liquid somehow, which would make normal creatures to function at a lower capacity, unless they were at a much higher level where their bodies were though enough, or had very high cold resistance.

The monsters in this part of the floor thrive in these environments as normal, and would hunt any creature that had even the slightest higher temperature as it was kind of a way for them to also find their way around. When not attacking, they would just remain at a particular spot/position without much movement unless necessary.

The problem with this place was that even though Victor had a very high resistance to cold due to his undead body, his infernal body still reacted normally disregarding the fact that he wasn't really affected by the environment that much. Because of this, his body was releasing plenty heat that in turn was plenty enough to warm up the surrounding waters, and even if the monsters in the vicinity didn't have good vision, the tattoo like lines on his body lit up quite well.

With the situation like this, the monsters in the area were all attracted towards him, but fortunately the monster weren't of higher levels, so using his skill 'negative burst', he was able to take care of the monsters easily. Eating these monsters wasn't in anyway beneficial, so Victor would just leave the bodies as he moved forward.

At some point, Victor had reached a part of the floor where the light inside was completely zero, making it almost impossible for Victor to see even a few metres away from himself. The little light emitted from his dim tattooed lines only gleamed in the darkness as it seemed to be sucked away by it, almost as if the water was saturated with ink.

Eventually, Victor was greeted by the monsters that lived in that part of the cave floor, and for the first time in this floor Victor stopped to eat the monster in order to gain evolution material.

It was impossible for Victor who had night vision to see in the darkness of this cave side, but the other creatures could still see him. From what he could think of the situation, there was definitely something that was enabling these monsters that lived in these parts to hunt and move around. Since they could see, it either meant they had a skill that allowed them to see in the dark, or they had something that enabled them to sense the movements in the surrounding waters, be it a skill or biological capabilities.

Whatever it was that enabled them to see in this environment, Victor was sure that he wanted it, and that it would be important to him in the future.

After reaching the next floor, Victor disbanded the fish monster he had added to his legion and the number of monsters in his legion returned to five out of seven.

"The forty eight floor, huh?" Victor said as he stepped into the forty eight floor.

It was clear how different the current floor would be, as just from the point of entry, Victor was faced with various monsters that just stared at the path that led into the floor.

'Geeze, if I didn't know better I'd say someone was plotting against me.'

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With the current situation before him, Victor couldn't help but have such a thought. 'If I didn't know better, I'd think someone was against me in this dungeon.'

Victor was not going to waste any time with the monster before him, neither were they as they rushed themselves at him. While he was on the previous floor that was filled with water, Victor couldn't exactly use physical strength as it was less effective under water, so relied on two skills, touch of death and negative burst. At this moment, Victor simply activated the skill negative burst, and simultaneously the monsters attacking fell to the ground. As they touched the ground, the rest of the monsters behind the once that attacked also fell to the ground, while Victor's form stood behind all the bodies.

Victor continued onward with confidence without turning behind to check on the state of the monsters he just had a run-in with, he realized they wouldn't survive his attack. From this floor, Victor could feel that there would be trouble for him, as he felt a similar atmosphere similar to the one on the floor where he faced Arac and Konda.

'It's like something is trying to make my life hard,' Victor said in his mind. He just couldn't shake away the feeling.

Sure enough, he wasn't granted a chance to think, as he was constantly being attacked by monsters from time to time. It was as if the monsters knew where he was going at any point in time, and would position themselves for ambush or just gather to attack him. Normally such behaviour wouldn't be suspicious, but the sole fact that different types of monsters that wouldn't get along normally were ganging up against him, Victor could tell something was up.

'As I'm getting close to the boss, it seems the real big shots have started to show themselves.' Victor thought.

It was normal for monsters with commanding capabilities to appear the closer one got to the boss' room. This Victor knew from playing some games back on earth. His goal right now had been divided. The primary goal remained to advance through the floors, but he definitely was going to find the monster messing with him like this. The coward that wouldn't show itself and just send minions had to be dealt with specially.

Amongst the monsters on that floor, none looked any special, so Victor wasn't really keen on gaining their material. He just killed them and gained some experience points in the process. According to the adventurers, he killed way back on the first floor. The monsters on the last floors were powerful and high levelled, and although they were partially accurate, they weren't all correct. From what Victor could see, these monsters were just high levelled, and not anything special. It was like carrying a wolf and increasing its level and then nothing else. All the wolf would become is a stronger version of its former self. In the end, it was still a wolf.

Some time passed, and the monster attacks were endless, and because of this occurrence, Victor had actually ended up spending something up to three days on that floor. He also had to check his use of his skills, so that he wouldn't run out of MP, though levelling up helped him regain his MP and HP, the requirement for level up was doubling and tripling every single time, the next level up was becoming harder and harder to reach even though Victor was to kill 20 minotaurs.

[System analysis complete. Dark Incarpos has been analyzed]

"Good, though the question whether I should put it with the imp… That combination might not be bad. It doesn't matter in the end since I won't be using that form anyway." Victor said as he thought about it.

...

"Good thing my stamina is infinite, if not I would have been done in by now. Was this floor meant for zombies from the get go?" Victor said to himself. With the possibility of him being fatigued even in the least being zero, Victor could continuously fight the wave of monsters without breaking or slowing down. Victor was sure that most creatures would be unable to do the same unless they were undead or something similar.

'When is the master mind going to show itself?'

Victor kept moving forward, and after much more time had passed, he finally found the path to the next floor, and unfortunately for him he never found the mastermind behind the unusual floor. He thought some incredible monster would be stashed away somewhere just like Arac and Konda, but it seemed his luck couldn't be so good every time.

Despite the annoying attack of the monsters that never seemed to end, Victor had also gained plenty from that, and had levelled up some levels.n0𝑽ℯ𝗅𝓊𝚜𝚋.𝔠0𝓜

'Status.'

Status

Level: 34 (65,000/3,400,000) 37 (1,605,000/7,500,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 3,215/3,215 3,365/3,365

Mp: 3,300/3,300 3,600/3,600

[Stat]

Strength: 143 150 (7)

Agility: 135 138

Sense: 120 122

Vitality: 50

Magic: 55

Intelligence: 77 80

remaining stat point: 77 92

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max, Fire Breath lvl-max, Inferno Ring lvl-1..

Victor had checked his stats and the changes in his overall attributes, and though the changes weren't much, it was still much. It was also clear that levelling up from this point on would just be hellish. While Victor was on the system interface and about to move to the evolution side since he planned to begin the evolution process to incorporate the sea monster he got materials from in the previous floor into his second form, a couple of monsters appeared before him, and this once were the real deal.

Before him were three Minotaur level monsters.

"This is… good." Victor said while the system interface disappeared from his sight.

The creatures before him looked like chimeras, and ones made by a crazy person at that. They had a draconic head, and body that looked like the combination between three other monsters. The head was probably from a lizard creature, but the size and dense scales on it gave it a fearsome draconic look.

"System."

[Chimera Level 90]

"Thought as much."

Seeing as these monsters were chimeras, Victor was not sure of what to expect in a fight against them, as their abilities and fighting style would vary greatly from the norm, and their abilities might be mixed. It didn't matter much either way, a guerilla fight was always an option.

Victor could wait for the monsters to attack first, but it seemed the monsters were also waiting for him to attack. 'Monsters with intelligence. Let's just go with it for now.' Victor said in his mind.

If these monsters possessed intelligence, it would only make the fight easier for Victor, since he would be able to play with their intelligence. 'At times, an intelligent man is easier to predict than a fool.' Victor said in his mind, as he stretched out his hands a bit to his side, sort of as if he was making a claw.

He rushed at the monsters, and in an instant had gotten within them. Standing in their middle, Victor released his 'Inferno Ring,' and with it came a pillar of fire that shot from the feet of the chimeras, consuming them whole.

The way this skill worked was quite simple. Anybody within a specific distance from Victor would be consumed by a pillar of intense fire when the skill was activated. With this fire came intense heat, and only those with high resistance to fire magic could come out with brief injuries.

[Inferno Ring]

Form a ring of intense flames and burning area around yourself.

Level: 3

Mana cost: 20

Duration: 10secs

Radius: 5m

Just as he had thought, the chimeras had a good resistance to heat, and the skill still at level one could only do so much damage to the monsters. Victor was sure that the fire was a little effective since the level one inferno ring could cause a little damage after 20 seconds of burning the monsters. Before trying any other thing, Victor wanted to try out his other fire skill that was of a higher level than the one he had now to see just how much damage it would deal.

As the pillars of fire subsided, the chimeras emerged from it and with a few burns visible here and there, but nothing serious in the least, the shook off the pain and were about to gorge at Victor when he activated his 'Fire Breath' skill against one the chimeras and focused his attack on it while moving behind it and away from the others attack. The results would tell what he had to do next and going forward.

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If this floor didn't turn out to be some kind of special floor with special conditions, it would mean that the monsters roaming around would be at most four types, and the chimeras may or may not be the highest levelled. Victor wasn't sure if he would be seeing the chimeras often, but in case he did, the test of how much was enough would help him a lot.

Victor avoided the chimeras' attack as he moved behind the third one while still breathing out a massive breath of flames, but at that moment he cut out the fire coming out of his mouth, as if he wanted to keep it up, it would only be disadvantageous to him. The chimeras were fast, the only thing being that they lacked explosive speed, but within a close range, they could still move well. Standing just a few metres away from them was still within range of them manoeuvring easily behind Victor and make an attack.

The test however of whether his fire breath could deal any substantial damage was partially a success, and from what he could see, the skill seemed to affect it a little, but only enough to cause pain in the arm for at most a second before adrenaline or whatever was the equivalent in such a monster kicked in.

Though Victor could move and fight a level 90 relatively well, going against three at the same time was a different case. He would have to put in some extra work to scale through. From what he had noticed, the chimeras' skin was very tough, enough to protect them from a strong collision, but the thing this time was that Victor was not going to entertain any prolonged battle. n0𝑽𝖾𝓵𝑈𝓈𝐛.𝒸0𝑚

'Touch of Death.' Victor activated his skill mentally.

As he did, both of his hands seemed to be covered with faint blackish purple haze of smoke. From then on, Victor could feel his mana being drained rapidly, as the skill took 10 points of mana per second while activated. Normally, Victor would activate it after he had made contact with the enemy, or just before he does, but this time the plan was different. He was against three strong monsters; there was no need to waste brain power on calculating the time to activate his skill and the time not to, so he would just leave it active for the time being. His mana reserve was sufficient, so it was no big deal for now.

Mp: 3,600/3,600 3,590/3,600 3,580/3,600 3,570/3,600

...

As time went on, Victor's mana kept reducing by the second, making him even more determined to end the fight quicker.

Victor, with a light touch of his feet on the ground shot forward towards the chimeras to attack, and since his speed was greater than their reaction time, he was able to hold an upper hand in the fight and get a few touches on them.

The period of time between his attacks and their reaction was only something of milliseconds, but these milliseconds held the ground between victory and defeat. The skill didn't seem to do much at first since it was still at level one, and the chimeras seemed to have a high magical resistance, but as time passed, the effects became greater. The various injuries started piling up and each little one made the other greater and weakened the vessel overall until the chimera could no longer ignore the damage being done to them.

The next thing Victor saw was one of the chimeras, the one he had the most contact with which was also the most damaged at this point heaving its chest. The other two momentarily increased their attacks, succeeding in blocking Victor' view of the last one, though not completely, it was enough to stop him from monitoring it effectively.

By the time the two chimeras putting pressure cleared the path between Victor and the last one, its chest was pushed up, and seeing this, Victor knew something was coming. The other chimeras retreated behind the third one to make way for it to do its attack and went behind it immediately.

The third one that had been preparing an attack for some seconds at this point opened its eyes wide while its mouth was opened as wide as it could be. Victor seeing this stopped using his skill touch of death as he saw no need to waste his mana in such a situation. Though Victor had no defensive skill, his body was extremely tough, so that in itself was a good defence, besides, with the offensive skills he had, saying a good attack is a good defence wasn't out of the question.

From the chimera's mouth came a blanket of greenish soapy liquid that spread and covered the entire space before it leaving no open space, and also blocking Victor's vision. The attack was one with a wide range, and poison was one of the most terrifying things in battle, but unfortunately, against a zombie, it was completely useless.

'Is that, poison?' Victor thought to himself.

Seeing the poison come towards him, there was only one thought in Victor's mind, push forward. He completely ignored the poison attack and just leapt through it. The moment he went through the cover of poison, the next attack that followed was fire, then ice, all in similar fashion, covering the place. Of course, none of these had any effect, and Victor landed right before the chimera in front. With one single punch, Victor aimed at the spot just below the jaw, between the jaw and the throat, and-

BAAM!

Victor drove one in as he drilled his hand into its throat, his eyes widened a bit, then the other hand went through before tearing apart its throat leaving its head to hang from the remaining flesh.

'Shit, I should be more careful.'

[Chimera killed]

85,000

From what Victor could see, the more damage the chimeras took, the more their attack and defence reduced. He had done this same attack before but only managed to shut the thing's mouth, but now his hand actually went through.

Victor saw a straight path ahead from this single kill. He pulled out the great sword from his inventory and planted it into the floor through one of the chimera's foot, then again with the same motion he tore the chimera's throat. While he hung from stabbing his hand into the chimera's throat, the last one was able to land a perfect hit on Victor, sending his body flying right into the cave wall by the side, and then the chimera rushed with its palm and slammed it unto Victor's body.

[Chimera killed]

85,000

Though it seemed like the attack was strong, it actually was, and the area of the wall around where the chimera slammed its fist against the wall completely shattered into chunks. Even with such strength and viciousness in the attack, a hand emerged from behind the chimera's palm and grabbed onto the sides of the palms. Two to four seconds later, the chimera simply collapsed to the floor and remained there, then Victor fell from the small dent that was made on the cave wall unto the ground.

[Chimera killed]

85,000

'Unnecessary trouble.' Victor said in his mind, as he looked at the chimera corpses before him.

Now that the monsters were dead, it was time to do with them what he wanted.

It was evident that Victor wouldn't even consider getting any evolution material from the chimera corpses as such a mess was something he would want to stay away from to begin with. "Such a nasty combination of creatures should be avoided. Isekai 101." Victor said to himself. The only difference this time was that he wasn't laughing to his jokes like he normally would. The effects on his mind were solid. A trace of smile did appear on his face for while, but it disappeared just as soon as it appeared.

"Ok, the first one is useless, unless I wanted the evolution material." Victor said as he turned his eyes to the last chimera he killed.

"Arise." Victor said.

[Failed]

[Monster exceeds the level range]

"What?"

"Arise."

[Failed]

[Monster exceeds the level range]

"System, what does this mean?"

[You cannot raise undead 50 levels above yourself]

"Oh, I see. Then there's no need to carry-on with the plan then."

Victor was going to minimize damage on the the chimera's body to raise them later, but now that it was impossible, he would just kill them for the experience.

Victor wasted little time there with the corpses and moved deeper into the cave. Unlike the other floors, this floor seemed to go direct through a single route, and so far there had been no other way. The was it looked, it was as though Victor would be having a lot of group fights where he would have to face more than one enemy at a time, so that had to be kept in mind.

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The deeper Victor went, the more group fights he got in, but unlike the first time he faced off against the three chimeras, the other times were different. At first Victor wanted to add at least one of the chimeras to his legion, so he had to keep the bodies in good condition as the undead will remain the same as before they were reborn back to the world, sustaining any prior injury before it they are were reborn. But now, since Victor could not revive the chimeras due to specific conditions, he had no need to keep their bodies preserved.

"Killing these guys is becoming easier and easier." Victor said while standing before five rotting bodies of chimeras.

The monsters might have been level 90, but it seems his rot bite was still stronger. There were some cases of chimeras that could regenerate themselves, and there was one with a very high immunity that reduced the effects of the rot bite.

This entire floor was unlike the rest in many ways. Unlike the ones before this, it was a direct path forward without branching out in any parts. The only thing that stopped someone like Victor with excellent vision both in the dark and in lit areas was the single fact that the elevation varied from place to place. If it wasn't so, he would be able to see far into the floor and know what awaits him.

Unlike what Victor had thought, the only monsters in this floor were the chimeras, and they themselves were like four creatures in one, so it made sense that they were the only ones present.

It took a while, and about a couple hours in Victor was approaching the end of the floor, and to his surprise after descending the plight, he arrived at the foot of an enormous door. It was clear, this was the boos room.

'There isn't even going to be a last floor? Just straight to the boos room I see.' Victor said in his mind as he stared at the door for a while. There was sure to be preparation as he was about to face the boss of the entire dungeon.

"So it has finally arrived at the last floor? Hmm." A voice said from a dark room as it thought to itself in solitude. Whatever was in the dark room was beginning to think to itself that it had allowed Victor too far into the dungeon without doing much to obstruct his way. Though it did a bit to alter the difficulty of the floor for him, it seemed it didn't matter in the end, as he was still standing before him.

"Seems I've been only moderate before. I'll actually try a little now. Besides, no one is stronger than I am. Not in this dungeon."

...

Victor stood before the large door not opening it and before his eyes was his status panel. It was evident that he would have to empower himself as much as he could be entering the room.

Status

Level: 37 (4,605,000/7,500,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 3,365/3,365

Mp: 3,050/3,300

[Stat]

Strength: 150 (7)

Agility: 138

Sense: 122

Vitality: 50

Magic: 55

Intelligence: 80

remaining stat point: 92

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max, Fire Breath lvl-max, Inferno Ring lvl-1..

Victor studied his status plate for a while, but he couldn't just add points to random stats. If the creature inside was a slow one, the he automatically wouldn't need to add much to speed, but if it wasn't them he would need to. The problem now was that he had no way to know what kind of creature was at the other side of the door before him. The best choice in this situation was to go to the other side first and confirm the kind of minster it was before he increased anything.

'I hope its not an irritable monster that attacks immediately.' Victor thought to himself. Boss monsters are normally calm and king-like monsters, so the one behind the door shouldn't be the crazy type, at least not at first sight.

Victor turned to the door to face it properly with a calm expression and state of mind. He pushed out his arms to push the door, and in the most comedic way possible, it remained shut and wouldn't even bulged. This was after Victor had put a serious expression on his normally plain expression, getting ready for what was to come, only for the door to be so stiff.

'Is this a Japanese TV show or something? What kind of situation is this?'

While Victor had given up on trying to open the door after testing his axe on it alongside a couple powerful punches, the enormous door swung open on its own without him touching it. It was kind of weird and angering, but Victor didn't feel much anger as it vanished after a second after it appeared. He waited for the door to open completely to steal a glance inside the room, but it was filled with darkness too much for him to even see anything.

"Mystery right out the bet. This will be fun." Victor said sarcastically as he walked into the room.

As soon as he did, the door behind him that had taken forever to open shut itself as fast as it would take one person to slap a mosquito to death. The darkness within the room became even more prominent as Victor couldn't even see his own feet, and for whatever reason, his senses weren't working properly. He couldn't hear a single thing, and his sense of position and direction was also off. Seeing as he had experienced being in a totally dark environment before, these other effects seemed totally unnatural.

'This situation just screams bad, all over.'

Though Victor couldn't see what was before him, he made sure to remain vigilant in case anything unexpected happened, but then, gems embedded in the walls began lighting up the place with dim lighting, though some were brighter than the others, the overall lighting was like that of the moon.

Victor looked around to survey the area and layout of the floor, and just as he expected from a boss room, it was enormous and spacious. The size of the room alone caused him to wonder the type of monster he would be facing, though, this thought was answered rather immediately.

While Victor walked further into the room, the first thing he saw was a tail, and a big one at that. By the time the crystals around the entire room had completely lit themselves, Victor caught site of the monster lying in the deeper part of the room. The monster was a complete vicious looking one with two heads. It was at least two metres in height while lying down, and its length complemented its size well.

'A dragon?' Victor thought to himself.

The creature before him resembled a dragon to the last detail as far as Victor was concerned. If not for the two heads and the other fact that it was wingless, he would have concluded that it was a dragon. Victor had come to a complete stop as soon as the lights revealed the creature's form before him and just studied it.

Victor had his suspicions, but regardless of what he thought, it was important to ask the system about things like these instead of just guessing blindly.

[Twin Headed Drake 'Ramok – Level 120]

'A named monster, and that level.'

Though Victor had taken on strong monsters before with levels way above his, this was a monster whose level went beyond the hundreds, and if he remembered correctly, wasn't the strongest human after the beastly one just a level 117? Or was it 127? He couldn't remember, but the point that this monster was unreasonably strong still remained.

Coupled with the fact that it had a very high percentage of dragon bloodline in it, or was it even a dragon itself? Victor knew that its strength would be doubled if not, then close to it. Big creatures like these aren't classified in the speed department, Victor thought. This meant he had to add more points to strength instead of his speed and the others. His senses were pretty sharp, so he didn't need that either, and his mana was adequate, at least it speculated it would be enough to deal with the drake.

'Why hasn't it attacked though? Do I have to trigger it first?' Victor thought.

Strength: 150 (7) 210 (7)

remaining stat point: 92 32

He quickly added 60 points into his strength, sending a rush of empowerment running through his entire body. After increasing his stats before with his strength of 150, his body had also changed in a way to accommodate that strength and make sure that it at least could bring out the full power of what it was capable of. Victor who was like a normal sized man in the lean department became quite buffed and muscular as the ripped muscles pierced his skin surface. If anything, he now resembled a human sized Hulk with a little bit less muscle mass and more toned muscles.

With the remaining 42 points, Victor was thinking an idea up in his head of how he was going to wake the drake up, but then another idea came to him.

"System, how many stat points are needed to upgrade the skill 'Touch of Death'?" Victor asked the system.

[30 stat points]

"Yeah, thought as much." Though Victor already knew this, he was wishing the amount will be lower this time.

Using his will, Victor willed the system to upgrade the skill, and seconds later the skill was upgraded to level two.

[Touch of Death]

Instantly cause multiple severe critical damages to any target touched with your hands.

Level: 2.

Mana cost: 30

remaining stat point: 32 2

Victor checked the skill and could immediately see the changes. Now instead of just one, it caused several critical damages, and it no longer consumed MP by the second, instead now it was per the number of times he touched the target. "This is quite good." Victor said. This would be a good way to wake up a sleeping monster.

With the remaining stat points, Victor added them to his agility, bringing his remaining stat point to 0.

Agility: 138 140

Victor creped behind the drake towards its tail. Making sure to make just light and delicate touched on the ground. He wasn't sure if he needed to make the first attack before the boss monster would become active, so he just had to be careful. Though he said he might have to touch it first to get its attention, this wasn't a game, and no monster would allow its opponent to attack it first before it knew to kill the enemy.

He was only using game knowledge since it seemed to apply most of the time, but it didn't mean he truly believed this was some game.

Victor got close enough to the monster, and readying himself to move at anytime, he activated his skill and placed his left palm of the drake's tail.

ROARR!! GROWL!

The drake shot into a rage mode as it swung its huge tail across the ground, sweeping the place behind it. Luckily Victor was ready to flee, so the moment the drake's tail moved, he leaped over it and pushed himself back a couple metres to create plenty of space between him and the monster.

Too bad he couldn't see the health bar of others, if not he would be able to monitor the drake's condition and know just how much his skills affected it.

"This fight is going to be tough, I can feel it." Victor said as the drake turned its attention towards him.

If he didn't know any better, he would have said the monster had a fine pair of eyes, but being an avid gamer, Victor knew that when the eyes of a monster were of two different colours, it wasn't mostly because of nature favouring it's beauty.

'Does this guy have a special skill like some type of cursed eye? Why's that eye different from the others?' Victor thought to himself.

The right head of the drake had two colours of eyes, red and purple. The left head was normal, expect for the blue lines that ran through its sides, which were also absent on the right head. Having twin heads, Victor also expected the monster to have two different set of abilities, as that was how it normally went.

Victor, while waiting for the drake to make its first move was calculating how to fight the monster before him in his head. Going according to what he knew, big monsters like dragons and such had enormous physical capabilities, and could go toe to toe with strong fighters, but it was quite known how these types fight.

Despite their physical strength, they always possessed many skills or magic spells that allowed them to dominate the entire fight like bosses. Only after some time would they start using their bodies. Knowing this, Victor was hoping that the fight would go according to the way he saw it to, with the drake using its skills first before its body. If it behaved normally also, that would be a good thing.n0𝗏𝑬𝓵𝓤𝒮𝓫.𝑪0𝓂

Just like Victor had predicted, the first attack the drake threw at him was an enormous breath of fire that swallowed his own in comparison. Since fire had no effect of Victor however, he didn't have to worry about fire type attacks. The sole fact that the drake used fire attacks was enough advantage in the grand scheme of things.

He rushed sideways however, dodging the drake's fire breath. If the drake was an intelligent creature, showing that its attacks were non-effective towards him wouldn't be the best course of action, though, there was a very high chance that it would figure that part out. Looking at Victor's body that was covered in fiery tattoo lines, it would be very easy for anybody at all to tell that he had an incredibly high affinity for the fire element.

After dodging its breath attack, Victor rushed forward towards the drake with breaking speed, and as he approached a favourable distance, he pulled out the axe form his inventory and swung it hard at the drake's front legs in attempt to cut it off. The idea Victor had was good, but the drake was very much prepared.

DUUUDD!!

The sound of the axe clashing against something rung out, but Victor could feel it in the attack that he hadn't even made a dent at the drake's flesh. Naturally, there was no uproar from the ground or dust, so Victor could see clearly what his axe had collided with. Instead of the drake's skin, it clashed with a protective shield around it.

Originally, the path to victory was mostly clear, but with the addition of the shield, things just got another level difficult. Most, of Victor's skills required touch or contact at least, so his combat capability had been greatly reduced by the single fact that he couldn't use most of his skills, and the one thing he was very good at, had been rendered useless.

Now that his fists, weapons, and most of his skills were useless, Victor only had one clear path forward. He could only use the skill 'Negative Burst' to attack now.

'I hate these kinds of boss fights.'

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"The difficulty has just been pushed to the max now if it hadn't before." Victor said as he jumped over the tail sweep of the drake.

Luckily for Victor, the drake was slower than he was, so it was easy for him to dodge and manoeuvre himself around it without getting hit.

The moment he landed back on his feet, or rather just before his feet touched ground, the drake raised two of its front legs and stomped the ground causing the entire place to shake violently as though an earthquake was happening. This caused Victor to stumble as he was unable to get a strong foot hold, and in that moment he got slammed into the wall by the drake's tail as it swept it back.

The strike, though a bit slow was very powerful, more than what Victor had expected. It wasn't the pain that got him, not like he could feel any to begin with, it was the reduction in his total HP. The HP he lost was minimal, but it still reduced in the end.

With the impact against the wall, Victor was created a dent in it enough for his body to be fixed in place for a while before his body came off it, but before he slide down, the drake's left head shot something blue towards Victor, but he was able to dodge its attack before it hit.

As he slid across the ground, he raised his head to look at the spot he was just in, and he could see that the attack from earlier was an ice attack, and the area around where the attack had hit was completely frozen.n0𝐯𝑒𝗅𝑈𝑠𝑩.𝚌0𝓂

'Fire and ice alongside other skills…'.

It was already hard enough facing off against such a hulking monster, but the number of effective skills it had was another problem. Plus Victor had to act like the skills affected him in order to fool the drake, which was limiting his choices.

As it was, there were only two ways to go about it. Victor would get close enough to the drake, at least enough to use his negative burst, then he would repeatedly try his best to break the shield around its body to see if it helps. There was the 'Inferno Ring', but that skill would have little to no effect on the drake since it is a fire based attack. There was no need to even try it.

[Negative Burst]

Send out a wave of negative energy that deals magical damage to surrounding targets. The closer the target to you, the more damage is dealt.

Level: MAX

Mana cost: 30

Radius: 15m

Victor went on with his plan, and relentlessly attacked the drake with the negative burst skill while continuously pounding the shield in hopes that it destroys, all while avoiding the drake's attacks. He was sure the negative burst was doing damage, but just how much, he didn't know. If the drake happened to have high magical resistance, then the skill wouldn't be as effective as intended.

After a while of hitting the shield around the drake, it gave up and broke, leaving the drake exposed to Victor's attack, which he wasted not the chance to attack. First with his fists, Victor fell unto the drake's back with a powerful shattering punch that caused the drake's legs to give out beneath it a little, making it stumble, then he followed with a series of direct punches, showing no technique as he poured out raw strength into the punches.

He leaped off the Drake's back, and as he went past its side towards the ground, Victor did what any person would do and pulled out his great sword, the one he took from the warrior lady and stabbed it into the drake's side, or at least he tried to do. On impact, the sword broke and was only able to make an almost none existent wound on its flesh.

It didn't matter though, since the spot Victor was rushing towards was the underbelly. It was proven fact that the underbelly was one of the weakest part of any creature, so that was where he wanted to strike at.

As Victor landed under the drake, he brought out his axe and took a wide swing at the underside of drake, and sure enough he managed to cause a big injury to it this time, but then Victor was given a big surprise.

Exactly a second after he had injured the drake, the wound healed itself, and the rate at which it did so was nothing to joke about either. It was so fast that it almost did so in an instant. Doing this all the while as the drake was trying to maybe shake him off? Victor rushed to one of its legs and grabbed unto it, before he activated his skill 'Touch of death,' but nothing still, this time the drake continued as though nothing was being done to it.

With extremely tough skin and very high defence, coupled with the abnormal regenerative capability, this drake was just way too pimped. The existence of such a creature was just insane, Victor just couldn't believe it. As far as he was concerned, killing it would be almost impossible to do with such regenerative capabilities. Despite these, there was always a way to kill something like this, he just had to find how.

As Victor had expected, the shield around the drake activated once again, and he was pushed out, and once again was unable to touch it. Now, no matter the attack he threw at it, it was futile, as in the grand scheme of things, he still couldn't do anything to it.

"The fight is going well. After studying its skills and ways of attacking, I've created the perfect counter for it. Let's see how it will do against my creation then." A voice said from the darkness that filled a room.

"There's no need to wait any further. It's clear that he can't do more. Time for the grand finale."

Victor at this point had been fighting with the drake for more than an hour, but was still unable to change anything. He still couldn't damage it.

The next time he had taken down the shield protecting the drake and tried another way he thought of to possibly kill it, the shield suddenly activated.

'What is this? This, it's similar to the shield it uses to protect itself, but this one is wider.' Victor said in his mind while monitoring his surrounding and the drake.

Unlike the other times, this shield had trapped both Victor and the drake within the shield it created. Seeing this, Victor knew what this meant. It was clear what was about to happen.

'With that look in its eyes, and the ability to regenerate at such terrifying speed, is it planning self detonation?'

Sure enough, just as Victor thought, the drake began to swell until it was at least half as big as it was originally, then something very out of the ordinary happened.

"Holy energy? From where?" Victor said in shock, before he calmed down again.

Seeing the situation before him, there was nothing he could do but say, "Ah fuck-"

BOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!

[You have died]

Drifting in a void, not going in any particular direction, absolutely still, but still moving forward. This was the state Victor found himself in. This feeling he remembered from when he first woke up in this dungeon, or something similar, he was having it all over again.

'How did this happen?… How did my life become like this?… Ahh, yes. It all started on that day.'

There were times he had died, countless at this point to be exact, but even then he didn't experience this.

'If only I left then. If only I didn't listen to her.'

'If I had been just a little selfish.'

Victor continued drifting deeper and deeper into the void not being able to move or brig forthcoming thoughts, the only thing he felt was emptiness and penitence.

'If only I didn't listen to that bitch.. This has happened before. I wonder where I'm going now.'

A bright white light shown into his eyes from the endless void, and just then Victor could feel his body jerk a little before his eyes opened. .

'This…'

From what he could see, his hands were above his face in a crossed manner as though he was blocking something, 'the light.'

[You died]

[You have been revived due to the effects of the dungeon]

[You have been revived in the first floor as it is your grounded floor]

"I died, huh?" Victor said while staring at the cave ceiling after bringing his hands down and just lying on the ground.

"It's been a while. I'm back on the first floor huh?"

Victor wasting no much time got up from the ground and found a better place to sit himself. As this was the first floor, there was need not to worry about the monsters around.

"Now, let's recap."

Victor began by analyzing the entire fight he had with the drake on the last floor. No matter how he looked at it, the drake was just the best counter against him. The worst part was it's ability to regenerate which was also way too strong for a drake to have. It was almost as if the drake was also the chimera.

"Is the creator of this dungeon a chimera loving person or something? Or is the problem coming from this world itself? Even the so called evolution system I received is ultimately a super chimera system."

From what Victor could see, there was only one way to win against the drake, and for that to happen, he would have to take full advantage of each and every floor he enters now.

"Too bad zombies don't have regenerative abilities." Victor said as he stood up. The ability to function despite the missing body part is already a great one in on itself, so it didn't matter.n0𝐯𝑒𝗅𝑈𝑠𝑩.𝚌0𝓂

After spending a little bit of his time planning his steps moving forward, Victor began by casting away his Fire-Imp form. Against such a monster, that form would be all too useless. He opened the system, and headed towards the evolution section.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 10,000

-Minotuar – 1,000,000

-Fire-Imp – 2000

Red Back Salamander – 30,000

Poison Frog Colony – 8,000

Dark Incarpos – 10,000

After careful consideration and philosophical thinking *not really* Victor was sure of the path he needed to take moving forward. The idea of creating a perfect being which he might have had before was completely stupid and archaic, or plainly, not the way he's to go. There was reasoning when wanting to create or become the perfect being. It is the natural route any one would take if given the opportunity, after all whatever being created the universe must have been a perfect being.

It might be the natural path for any being to follow the way of perfection, but when we really think about it, even the perfect being that created the universe created it with immeasurable imperfection. Ultimately, there are two sides to a coin, and the side Victor had decided to take, was the latter.

Starting with the minotaur, Victor engaged the system to begin the construction of his second form after throwing away the current one he had. He already received all he could from it, and since whatever he gains remains even after discarding the form, he could do just that.

'Whoever this system came from, they didn't grant me it to become some perfect entity. I will make adequate use of it from now on.'

Beep Beep

[Starting creation process]

[You will lose consciousness during the creation process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

[You will now lose consciousness as creation process begins]

[Creation of new form Minotaur complete]

[Gained new skill Recovery]

[Received 10 stat points]

[Strength 10, Vitality 5]

[It will take 24hours to completely adjust to new form]

Victor woke up in the body of a minotaur, and though he had gained the skill recovery, it didn't help him much as he already had the undead body, but it was still pretty good when looking at some of its effects. One good thing came from the fact that his MP and HP would recover slowly now after being depleted. As for the effects of recovering from fatigue, Victor didn't need it since he didn't get tired to begin with.

Seeing this, Victor wasn't entirely sure how the skill would work as it said recovering of HP was possible. It was possible for this to work by restoring his state back to how it was, or by recovering his HP, but the flesh wound would still need to be taken care of, and the state of the body would also affect the effects of the recovery skill.

To test this, Victor waited for some time, then changed back to his zombie form. Using his own finger, he made a small cut on his hand and watched it over time while carrying out other tasks. Just like he thought, the wound didn't heal, meaning the skill didn't affect his physical state, as in his actual body, just stats.

"A status effect skill." Victor said. The small injury he caused himself was only a minor cut, so it didn't bother him.

He continued on descending the dungeon floors once again, and while on the floors before the 40th one, he didn't care much about those since there weren't any monsters with skills worth noting, so he just browsed through each floor searching for any sign of abnormality like whether a monster like Arac or Konda will appear.

Though Victor found no abnormalities like he had hoped, he continued on to the next floors. It didn't take long before he got to the floor where he found Arack and Konda the first time around, and this time he planned on eating them to gain evolution material and gain some skills after integrating a significant portion into his form.

Victor made sure to check every corner of the floor, but surprising enough he found nothing at all, not a single spider nor serpent.

"This is weird. I sure those guys were on this floor, but now I can't find anything, and I didn't find them in the upper floors either.

Victor wondered what was going on and why the monsters didn't reappear after being killed, but after some minutes, he decided to move on. There was no reason to remain there guessing what he had no clue of, it was just pointless.

He had some theories that he thought were plausible on why the monsters didn't respawn. The first was that those monsters were something of boss monsters and only appeared once, and after being killed didn't respawn. That would be a good analogy, but then there was the fact that the adventurers he got information from didn't mention these monsters, and in fact made the point that the dungeon was popular because the levels before the upper floors was so low.

The report they gave even though they were yet to even enter those floors as that was their first time there suggested that these floors had been explored prior by other teams, and those people didn't find any strong monsters before the floors above 40. This fact was made accurate by the existence of the map device and the detailed information about what monsters dominated the floors and what their level range was.

Thinking about this and analyzing the whole thing, Victor couldn't help but think of something sinister, that someone or something was really manipulating the dungeon, and that he was being targeted, but such a thought was a bit too much at the current moment.

"I might be thinking too far. Let's forget about it and focus on what is before me right now, defeating that thing." Victor said as he advanced to the next floor.

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Through the entirety of the lower floors, Victor didn't find anything note worthy except for some humans he ran into on the 36th floor. They turned out to be within the same level range as him, but as it turns out they were very weak compared to him, and he disposed of them easily. Their equipments were nothing much, so he didn't take any with him, and their bodies were left there too. Adding a weak human to his legion was not going to happen.

After entering the upper floors, Victor made sure to allow his legion to run amok and gains some levels as much as possible. There was no need to rush to the last floor this time. If Victor wasn't sure he could at least have a chance to kill the drake on the 50th floor, he wasn't going to face it to begin with.

Victor stayed on the 41st floor for the time being since he saw signs of people being there not too long off and wanted to find them. Maybe this time his luck would be good and they would be high level players with some good equipments. Back on the 40th floor, Victor spent around three days there as he allowed his legion to hunt and increase their levels.

While on the 41st floor, Victor still allowed his legion to go about the place, but made sure to instruct them on what to do if they encountered any humans. He wanted to be the one to fight them so that he would be able to see their levels and whether they are of any help. He just sat at a spot on top a stone slab and waited for the news to reach him.

While waiting, Victor pulled up the evolution panel to check for the list of monsters whose evolution material he had.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000.

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 10,000

-Fire-Imp – 2000

-Red Back Salamander – 30,000

-Poison Frog Colony – 8,000n0𝒱𝑬𝗅𝗎𝓈𝒷.𝗰0𝐌

-Dark Incarpos – 10,000

Looking at the evolution materials he had, Victor just realized the very fact that he had many evolution materials, but none of them was enough to really make him stronger. If he wanted to reap the full benefit from a creature, the best way was to evolve into that creature and make it his second form. The second most effective way was to incorporate a creature into one's form, and for this one the evolution material had to be much in order to actually make a significant impact. If he used insufficient evolution material, he would just end up getting at most a physical trait of the creature or similar, getting anything useful like a skill would be less than 5 percent if he was exaggerating.

As for now, the best monster to incorporate next was the Dark Incarpos. It was able to find its way through the water while it was completely pitch black.

"System, begin evolution." Victor said after choosing the next evolution path. This evolution was going to be for his second form, so he needed to to remain still.

[Starting evolution process]

[Evolution will take one hour]

[During evolution process you will be unable to use your Minotaur form]

After a while had passed, Victor got the signal from Arac and rushed over its location where he found four humans. Just as he had thought, humans had been on that floor, and since the map the humans had didn't reach the upper floors, Victor was sure they wouldn't be able to find their way through the floor easily, especially because the way the floors' cave system were structured made it hard to do just that.

'Sysytem, identify.'

[Human Level 60]

[Human Level 61]

[Human Level 60]

[Human Level 65]

'Not so high in the level department.' Victor said in his mind. Then again, Victor didn't need those too high a level since he would be unable to use them as part of his legion to begin with.

'I should use this opportunity to do a little bit of interrogation.' Victor said in his mind.

The problem was, if he was to act too rashly, these guys might decide to be patriotic humans and not release any information till they die. That was something he didn't want as the whole point and effort he put into capturing them would be defeated. The last guys he caught were a bit stupid, so it was quite easy to get information from, not to mention they were very low levelled.

As Victor thought about it, he realized that he might just have to kill them in the end. He had been watching them fight Arac from a hidden spot where he could not be seen, and just at the right moment he brought back Arac, as right before the human's eyes Arac vanished into the black smoky mist.

Arac was actually about to die, and he would have if Victor was a little late. Arac had been using whatever means it could to survive the attack of these multiple enemies that were of a higher level, but good thing was that Victor was quite fast too.

'Let's just go with the flow. If possible then good, if not…'

Victor came out of the corner he was in, and for the first time he was received rather better than he thought it almost threw him off a bit.

"Hey! Mr. Hunter!" One of the guys from the humans said.

From the last humans Victor came in contact with, there was one whose body proportions were similar to his, just a bit bigger, but since that human was wearing fitted clothing, it made no difference as in the end it only appeared a bit loose, like a fashion style. Victor was covered from the face to his feet. He was now wearing an old style trouser that fit at the ends with a baggy shirt, a pair of black boots, and an inner shirt that covered all the way to his upper nose like a face mask.

"H-hey!" Victor responded. He hadn't had a conversation with another person for a while, and suddenly being engaged like this, he still didn't know how to respond properly.

"What are you doing there? Come over!" The one with the highest level said. Victor could guess that he was the leader, but as he got closer and was introduced, he saw the actual leader, who was the one with level 61.

"You are alone?"

"Yes."

"Seems the rest of your team were unlucky, or did you just get separated? That's possible too." The leader asked.

Victor responded, agreeing with his first suggestion that the rest of his team was dead. He didn't know what to do in such a situation, and didn't know he looked normal before. Maybe the clothes helped, but damn! Why did the others attack him then? Was he just coming off as a pervert? And that was why he was being attacked? He was naked anyway, so that is possible.

"So you ability causes you to turn like this? I heard there were a few people who had these kind of strange abilities." The leader said.

"Yeah, cheat characters. They also tend to be stronger than we the normals. Worse is when they become higher level." Another person said, the one with the highest level.

Victor could say much, and did a good job to remain silent unless necessary. Because of the way his mind had become, he was always calm and chill in all situations, making him have an expression that looked as though his face muscles were dead or something, as he would just remain unchanged no matter the situation. He himself hadn't noticed this, but even after the others did, they just chugged it off as a side effect of his ability.

Luckily for him, they didn't pry more into where he came from and what group he was part of after asking once and he didn't give a definitive response. They must have thought that he had been in a traumatising situation for all he knew, but whatever the reason was it was to his favour, so he didn't care.

As things were now, Victor decided to get the information he needed while we them as it was the best option. If they weren't stupid, they would eventually find out that something is wrong with him, and when that time comes, he would know how to handle them. For now though, he just had to play along.

They kept going forward, and just like he thought, they had absolutely no sense of direction or where they were supposed to go. The short time he had been with them, they had already walked through one route multiple times without the others knowing. He tried his best to give out suggestions, but at the same time he didn't need them to advance so soon. And also, he was just about to start his recognisance.

"Hey Lary. What's this thing used for?"

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"Hey Larry. What's this thing used for?" Victor asked one of the people who he was now moving with.

The thing he was referring to was a device that looked like a lawn mower that had a satellite dish mounted on it, with some other technological parts. Victor could roughly guess what it's use was, but just to start a conversation, he asked any way.

"Huh? That's an area scanner. How come you don't know something like this? Whose this guy." Larry said with a funny bland expression on his face.

"Yeah, which guild are you affiliated with? You never said, and you don't have an emblem either." Another said.

'Emblem? Ah, I think I threw it away.' Victor said in his mind.

About question like these, Victor couldn't really answer in anyway, deceptive or not. He knew nothing of the world he was in currently, and so couldn't even lie. At such a critical moment, the only idea he could think of was one he saw someone use in a movie he watched while still on earth. *obviously*

'Here goes nothing.' If it didn't work, then he would just have to do away with these humans too.

"I don't know, I can't say. All I know is that we were taken from a young age and trained in isolation, and only left the facility when there was a mission. Apart from that, I don't know anything else. What the world looks like or anything outside the facility, they are all foreign to me." Victor said with a blank expression on his face.

"Is that so?" One of them said..

'Shit, did they not buy it? And our relationship was going well too. Well..' Victor ultimately couldn't tell whether or not the story would work. He had no idea how long dungeons had been in this world, but one thing he was sure of was that no matter the world, there would always be a secrete organisation that experiments on humans and does certain inhumane things. Even back on earth where there was no such thing as superpowers as far as the general public was concerned, such organisations still existed.

"I heard that an organisation like that existed where the government would take people and experiment on them, trying to create stronger hunters, but for it to be this terrible. This is really inhuman." One said, as Larry nodded in agreement.

At this point, if nothing else, they were all feeling a little sentimental towards Victor. Victor himself was quite satisfied that his little story worked. He began asking questions about what the world was like, and about certain things, and because of the story Victor had come up with for his background, they were not in the least suspicious. If anything, they were being supportive and answered his questions very well.

"So what are your abilities like?" Victor asked.

Going full in with the story of being a captive, Victor also added the fact that they were not allowed to socialize with each other in the facility and were not allowed to get close or form any kind of relationships, so information did not flow around between them. Victor himself told them that his ability was fire based, and that he had two variations.n0𝗏𝖾𝗅𝔲𝓈𝒷.𝕔0𝓜

"And I'm also physically strong."

"…"

"Pwahahahah. Of course you are physically strong, everybody is."

"Well, that is unless you are extraordinarily strong. Seeing as its the government's experiments and facility, it is expected if you are more extraordinary than us normal hunters." Larry said.

The others also said theirs, and also, from what they said, it seemed like the norm was for people to possess not more than three skills. They called them abilities, but Victor couldn't tell if what they meant was actually skills or something else like abilities. Since he wasn't sure, he just took it as skills.

Larry's ability was just like the Victor's, similar, it was the ability to control fire. The second person's was the ability to control water and ice. The third person could create illusions, and the forth could control puppets.

According to them, the level of an individual is very important, as it is what makes one stronger the higher levelled they are, but the skill rank also mattered too. A level 50 with an e rank skill would only be physically as strong as a level 50 in some cases, but his skill would fail him greatly when facing others or monsters. So ultimately, the level isn't the deciding factor, but both are. The level and the skill.

From them, Victor also realised that he wasn't the only special one around, as every hunter also possessed the ultimate cheat every transmigrator gets on arrival.

'I can't believe everyone has a system. Then, at least, I can take pride in having the evolution aspect, right? At least.' Victor said in his mind, a little defeated.

Victor's opinion of his luck was quickly changed however, as he found out that his system was still THE CHEAT system. From what they had said, and from the information he had gotten from them, the system hunters possess isn't exactly like the one he has. Unlike his system, the one possessed by every hunter only enables then keep track of their development by displaying basic information.

From what they said, their system interface would look something like;

Name: XXXX

Age: XXXX

Level: XXXX

Health bar: XXXX

Mana bar: XXXX

Physical: XXXX

Ability: XXXX

Unlike Victor, the others have a health bar that doesn't indicate how much health you have in specific figure, and that was the same with the mana. Depending on the figure one had on the physical, it showed how physically powerful they were, and the ability section showed the ability one possessed and what rank it was. The highest rank of of this ability recorded in history was the S rank, and nothing above that has been recorded. Though, there are rumours that say that a rank above that exists, and just wasn't recorded by the government.

'Seems the government in this world is no different, keeping secretes everywhere they turn.' Victor said in his mind. No wonder they easily accepted his lie without much suspicion.

If Victor got it correctly, their system didn't give them the luxury of seeing their stats or even adding extra stat points… brutal. It didn't show an experience bar either, so all they knew to do was to kill monsters until they levelled up, or if they were lucky, they would find an energy orb.

'So much information these guys have given me. I'm so happy I didn't kill them.' Victor said with a blank expression despite feeling joy and satisfaction for some seconds.

Though Victor knew the map and where they were supposed to head next, he just left them to their methods and followed. According to them, the area scanner was for scanning the environment, and could be used to make a make shift map that hunters use to find their way around dungeons and also search for monsters in the surrounding area. The reason why they had yet to get anywhere was because the one they were given was an older version that was in a bad state, and a monster ran into it before, and since then it had been misbehaving.

'Maybe I should do a little bit of work and direct them bit by bit, if not I'm afraid we would just remain here.'

Victor did his best to vaguely hint on which way they should take, and though sometime they didn't take the hint, there were times when they did. Other times, they would take the hint only to go turn round and come back to the same place, then go the wrong way. Victor got tired of repeating the same routes over and over again and just started directly pointing out where they should head next. Since they saw that he was so good at directions, they chugged it down to his luck or his natural senses directing the way.

"Truly, experimental subjects are the best, you can even do things like find the way inside a dungeon, huh?" Larry said.

"Come to think of it, he didn't even know what an area scanner was to begin with, so your entire group just relied on their bodies to find the way forward? Wow, that's amazing." Another said.

"Y-yeah." Victor responded. He could not help but find the analogy these guys were bringing as very strange. They were so easy going, that Victor felt like feeling sorry for their lack of security.

They ran into some monsters on the way, and Victor got to witness them use their powers, and sure enough it was similar to using skills, only that it was a bit different.

Unlike the skills Victor possessed that were just like that he would see in games where each did a specific thing, the ones used by the hunters before were more of a combination of skills, or simply put magic?

'It's quite interesting how different it works, huh. And they actually believe that my skill is also fire based like Larry's. This guys can freaking control fire like an extra limb and do a lot of things with it. All I can do is breath it out and create a mine field…'

"Heh…"

[Evolution complete]

[Received 5 stat points]

[Sense 5, Agility 2]

The entire times walking around on the 41st floor, the group didn't run into many monsters, at least not nearly as many as they should have. The 41st floor was the floor dominated by the mantants, and because of their way of attacking, they always came in waves and not individually, making each face off physically tasking for the humans. Luckily though, the ants had not been coming as much, and the group had more time to rest and focus on advancing to the next floor.

'Seems like it was a good idea not to recall my legion.' Victor said in his mind.

Though Victor had thought of bringing them back, he realized it would better to make them deal with majority of the ants and only leave some for the group to handle. If Victor had to fight always, it would raise the chances of him doing something that would bring suspicion on his character. Something like accidentally using more than the required strength was there, and not like he had seen the others use their actual bodies to fight, so he still wasn't exactly sure how strong they were..

Going by what they said, some people had skills that focused on their own bodies and not things like shooting fire balls or creating lakes. Abilities could be divided majorly into two types. There were abilities that allowed people to use the energy within them to do certain things (kind of like casting spells), they are referred to as emitters. Then, there were abilities that improved the users body making them able to utilize their physical bodies in battle (Basically martial arts and the likes), they are referred to as enhancers. The first group had more means to affect their surroundings and also do a wide range of things, while the second could do inhuman things using their very flesh and bones.

This would mean the lady that wielded a sword who Victor fought on the lower floor would be the second type, while the rest were of the first.

The problem now was that Victor had already said he had a fire oriented ability, and had been using his fire breathe ever since. He did say he was strong physically, but it would still be very unusual for even an experimental subject to show the same level of strength as an enhancer.

Some time passed, maybe a couple days since they had to stop and rest and also sleep along the way, and from Victor's map, they had reached the path that led to the next floor, they just had to walk for at most two hours before getting there.

These days Victor spent with the team were one of his most difficult and hellish days since he had to pretend to be asleep and just lie there for hours doing nothing, while being perfectly fine and feeling no sense of tiredness. Victor didn't have an option that would just shut down his body for some time either, so it was inevitable.

Throughout the night, Victor had nothing to do while lying there awake, so he just opened his system to check how his legion was doing, and how much they had advanced. Luckily, none of them had died.

Arac: Level – 43 44

Konda: Level – 43 46

Gurok: Level – 44 47

Amadon: Level – 49 53

Pyro: Level – 52 56

Arac was the least lucky, since he had to be unsummoned, but the rest seem to be doing very good. Amadon looked to be the highest level yet, and despite being the highest levelled, he could still advance faster than the rest. It was evident the higher one's level was, the least likely it was for them to level up, as the experience needed also increased, but Arac could still power through despite that.

(A/N: Monsters in Victor's legion will be taken as men since their gender isn't really known. Unless it's clear what the gender is, the monster will be referred to as masculine.)

Seeing as they would be going to the next floor the next day, Victor made sure to bring his legion closer and at the right time unsummoned them, just before everyone woke up. After some time past and everybody had woken up, they resumed their journey to the next floor, and just like victor thought, two hours was what it took to get to the next floor.

Victor couldn't help but notice something was different with two of them as they approached the path that led to the next floor. They looked like something was bothering them a bit, and would often look behind to cast a glance at Victor and the other who could control water and ice as both of them walked behind, while Larry as the leader walked in front.

'Something's off here, their behaviour is a little off.' Victor said as he monitored them more.

Though it was clear to him that the two before him were up to something, he couldn't just say so without evidence, and he was sure the others would side with their friends who they've known for a longer time than him who was a stranger.

'No need to involve myself.' Victor thought to himself.

They made their way through the path, and after some minutes of descending the path, they arrived at the 42nd floor. As from what Victor could remember, this should be the floor where he encountered minotaurs and the fire-imps. There was just one thing he had in his mind at this point.

'I have to separate from these guys. Tagging along is only limiting me.' n0𝑣𝐞𝑙𝓊𝐬𝐁.𝐜0𝑚

Victor could just choose to kill them and move on, as he originally planned, but after benefitting so much from them, he thought that leaving them alive was the best he could do for them. Getting away from them wouldn't be that hard. Victor didn't need to think through it much, it wasn't like he was their buddy or something as lofty as that, so simply leaving and not returning would be enough.

"I need to take a leak, I'll be right back." Victor said as he walked away.

Before that, he thought he would be a good person and at least inform the two people that were least suspicious that the other two were acting weirdly. From what he could deduce, the person most likely to be in danger was Larry who was the team leader, so he chose to tell only him about the behaviour he had noticed earlier. Good enough, Larry wasn't an impulsive person, so he was able to quietly tell him without the others finding out.

When he left to ease himself and took long to come back, Larry could roughly guess what had happened, and after making a bit of effort to search for him, they gave up and just moved on.

Victor immediately detached himself from those he was just with and began his search. The layout of this floor was very clear in Victor's head, and was something he needed not to use a map for. He had threaded this floor in various forms, so something like finding his way around was no problem at all.

First of all in Victor's agenda was to grab every single opportunity he got by the balls and not shy away from any kill. Normally he would just avoid killing low level monsters since the experience points wasn't much anymore, but now every single one was going to die if they crossed paths.

He immediately headed for the best spot where he knew he would find some number of Lycan and kill them at least for an appetiser on the way before he got to the first Minotaur.

From the group, he was able to learn that many different groups and guilds from different countries had been sent to subjugate the cave, and the number was around 15 different teams on estimate. Because of this, Victor was sure to run into more humans the further he descended the dungeon. He hadn't seen many human corpses so far, so it could only mean that they made it far into the higher floors.

'It's sure to get rowdy later.' Victor said in his mind while cutting off another lycan's head off its body.

Normally this would have been a hassle for Victor, but this time was different. After spending time with the humans for some days, he realised that they weren't as bad as he originally thought. Seeing as humans were at the bottom of the evolutionary chain, he thought they would be weak and useless, but aside from their strength, he could see that they could also have their importance.

"The days to come might be even more favourable than I originally thought. They would surely help me a lot." Victor said as he proceeded deeper into the floor.

Since he took a different route, he missed the first minotaur, but where he was headed was the spot where he had fought the second one previously, and surely enough, when he got there, the monster he came for was standing within his sight.

'Long time no see.'

[Killed Minotaur]

115,000

"Now, the third place."

Victor disposed off the minotaur relatively easy, and unlike last time where he wanted to take it slow and fight it out so he could gain some experience, this time he didn't shy away from using his skills. The first move he made, he made sure to open up the minotaur's flesh and poured a good amount of his saliva into the flesh wound. Just like last time, this minotaur had the regenerative ability, and the rot from Victor's saliva was immediately being countered. Victor moved in and used his touch of death, hastening the process of the minotaur dying.

Seeing as the minotaur could not be further advanced, and he could not add it to his legion, he had no other use for it except for the experience points it gave.

After that, Victor headed towards the fire-imp territory to do his massacre there, and on the way ran into some humans who had been in the floor prior. Just like the group he met on the previous floor, this one also didn't treat him with too much hostility, and just assumed his appearance was from the effect of his ability.n0𝒱𝑬𝗅𝗎𝓈𝒷.𝗰0𝐌

'Ah, another group of humans.' Victor thought to himself. He had been hoping to find another group. The one before was so good and impressive that it changed his perspective on humans..

[Human Level 80]

[Human Level 70]

[Human Level 75]

[Human Level 77]

[Human Level 73]

[Human Level 76]

'Seven of them, and the highest level is 80. Shouldn't be too difficult.' Victor said in his mind while walking closer to them after they beckoned.

"Hey, the names Adam, wha-" Before Adam could finish his sentence, a hand went through his stomach, passing cleanly to the other side and dragging some innards as it came out.

Victor immediately looked at the other confused faces that seemed to still be processing the situation and dashed towards them one after the other. Using the sword he picked up from the lady he fought before on the upper floors, he passed by three others taking their heads off while at it, but stopped at the fourth who managed to bring out a shield on time. The impact was still great, so it sent him flying backwards.

Victor didn't give room for any of them to relax and calm down, so he pushed forward again. Between the three that were remaining, one was a Level 80, the other a Level 70, and the last one a Level 75. The level 75 was the one who have brought out a shield to block his attack, and as that one was sent flying a couple metres back, the Victor rushed at the level 70 who was closest to him.

The level 70 seemed to be the most shaken and disorientated, but as he was about to strike him, the level 80 suddenly appeared before Victor, in between the level 70 and Victor himself, blocking his attack instead of the level 70.

CLANK!!

"Who are you! Where are you from!" The level 80 shouted.

Victor simply leaped backwards a couple feet after pushing against the level 80's body using his feet.

Victor now was facing two people.

[Target has been affected by skill Undead Aura]

[Target has died due to the effects of the skill Undead Aura]

[Killed Human]

96,000exp

The level 80 who fell down after Victor pushed him had also knocked down the level 70 behind him. He tried to get his companion to stand, but it was futile as he quickly realised that the level 70 had died. At this point, he could only think that Victor had some sort of skill that enabled him to kill others without necessarily touching them physically.

'A mental attack?' The level 80 thought. 'But if so, it means he has two abilities. He's strong.'

Having two abilities in this world is something only a few have, this Victor is aware of. Although, the abilities people in this would possessed were much more versatile than the skills Victor, so it was justified. Victor didn't care though. None of the people present would live to tell the tale of meeting anyone with more than two skills.

Already, they had the misconception that Victor had physical strength enhancement and a different attack that was probably some type of mental attack. With this, they would be working against that. The two that were left were both physically oriented fighters, as they were both enhancers.

While the level 80 was still holding his dead team mate, Victor wasted no time and sprinted towards the level 75 that was making his way towards the level 80 and level 70 that was now dead, and intercepted him midway.

Again, the level 75 was only able to block Victor's stomp at the very last moment and couldn't make a perfect block, causing the shield to also slam against his body while he was sent flying backwards the second time.

Victor charged at him again, but for the second time, the level 80 appeared before him stopping him midway. This time, the level 80 appeared with a kick of his own, but Victor managed to block it and was only thrown backwards from the impact.

'Teleportation.' Victor noted in his mind.

There was no other way to explain the level 80's movements, and with the instantaneous change in position, Victor was sure that it was teleportation. Noting that, Victor could already see the fight becoming harder than he had originally thought. Regardless, he wasn't going to give up, he could see victory at the end.

Both parties kept fighting for a while, and anytime Victor would make an attempt on the the level 75, the one with the teleportation would interfere. The level 75 called the other captain, and seeing as the captain was so caring towards his subordinate, Victor came up with the perfect plan that he had seen others use countless times, and was also the favourite move the villain always made.

'Now.'

Victor dashed towards the level 75 after hitting away the level 80, so this time he was actually able to get his hands on him, but instead of killing him instantly, he wasted a little time and allowed the level 80 to make his move, as soon as the level 80 appeared beside Victor, Victor used his other hand to grab the teleporter on his throat, then.

'Touch of death.'

[Killed Human]

105,000

[Target has been affected by skill Undead Aura]

[Target has died due to the effects of the skill Undead Aura]

[Killed Human]

100,000exp

Victor let go of both bodies, and they collapsed, and at that moment he felt something else against his back, someone just tried to stab a sword through him, but unfortunately for the person, the sword didn't even manage to penetrate his skin.

'So this is what he planned to do, huh?' Victor said in his mind.

The one who had just attempted to kill him was the first person he had stabbed his hand through his stomach, but surprisingly he didn't die. He seemed to be the healer in the group, and though Victor had noticed him earlier healing himself, he did nothing, wanting to see what he would do. In the end, he didn't do much, and since he couldn't attack with his ability probably, he chose to use a sword, but in the end still failed.

'I don't need this one.' Victor thought, then burned him using his fire breath.

Truth be told, if Victor wanted an easy fight, he could have easily killed all of them and the fight wouldn't have dragged on for so long, but he chose not to.

"Well, I couldn't analyse all of their abilities since some died before the fight even started, but it's ok still." Victor said while moving towards the level 80's body.

As he got to where the body was, he simply sat beside it and starting with the hand began tearing off chunks of flesh and swallowing.

'I should be fast, just in case another team is nearby.'

[New sample detected. Analysing sample]

[System analysis complete. Human sample has been analyzed]

By the time was done analyzing the sample, Victor was also done eating all the human bodies around, and anyone he finished with, he would use his skill fire breath to burn the remains leaving behind only skeletons and maybe some armour.

From this group, he also gained some weapons and other items than he knew not the use of, but took them regardless..

Since this was the fire-imp territory, Victor used the fire to make it seem as if a monster was the cause of the death, and he also made sure to not take too many of their equipment. Since he was basically so different from the rest of the humans, there was always the possibility of everything being traced back to him, and in case he wasn't going to kill the humans he would encounter immediately, he would like not to walk in and begin a fight.

Victor left the area to hunt other monsters immediately, and if he was lucky he might just run into another group of humans. The main reason for him killing and gaining evolution points from humans wasn't because they were beneficial o him when it came to evolution, it was because they possessed some amazing abilities, and if everything goes as planned, he would get some skills from evolving them.

Victor quickly brought out the system panel and went to the evolution section, but first he checked his stats.

Status

Level: 37 (6,915,000/7,500,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 3,365/3,365

Mp: 3,300/3,300

[Stat]

Strength: 210 (7)

Agility: 140

Sense: 122

Vitality: 55

Magic: 55

Intelligence: 80

remaining stat point: 7

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-2, Negative Burst lvl-max, Fire Breath lvl-max, Inferno Ring lvl-1..

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000n0𝒱𝖊𝑙𝑈𝑠𝐛.𝗰0𝐌

-Mantant – 10,000

-Fire-Imp – 2000

-Red Back Salamander – 30,000

-Poison Frog Colony – 8,000

-Human – 50,000

"Begin evolution process."

Beep Beep

[Starting creation process]

[You will lose consciousness during the creation process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

[You will now lose consciousness as creation process begins]

Victor found a safe place to hide himself since he was going to be creating a new form and replacing the minotaur. He headed for the small room space he made use of previously and stayed there. This time, he made sure to take off his clothes just in case, though he had the clothes he took from the humans he killed, he still liked the current combination.

[Creation of new form Human complete]

[Gained new skill Teleport]

[Gained new skill Art of combat]

[Skills Melee Combat and skill Spearmanship have been incorporated into skill Art of Combat]

[Gained new skill Remote Explosion]

[Received 20 stat points]

[Strength 5, Vitality 5, Agility 5, Intelligence 10]

[It will take 24hours to completely adjust to new form]

After waking up, Victor was happy to see that he had gained the skill which the level 80 human was using, teleport. Apart from that skill which he got from the level 80 human, the other two he knew nothing of. From their names, he could guess what their effect was, but he still had to see the description to know for sure.

"Seems like my deduction was correct. I gained some of their skills, or abilities as they refer to it." Victor said.

He quickly went through his own physical body to see how his form had changed.

'Hmm, not much, huh.'

Looking at Victor's body, there wasn't much change the eyes could see. It was probably because of his abilities, his body still looked as pale as ever, and the marks were still all over his body. There was absolutely no difference in appearance from his zombie form as he even looked exactly the same in everything.

"There's really no reason to stay on in this form at all, is there?" Victor said.

Though his appearance had not changed one bit, his physique had not followed over at all. Though this body was still tough, it couldn't even compare to his Zombie form.

'Humans truly are useless. This is just too pitiful.'

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Though his appearance had not changed one bit, his physique had not followed over at all. Though this body was still tough, it couldn't even compare to his Zombie form.

Victor took out his clothes and wore them, then remained in the small room until 24 hours passed before he went out. He could have gone out, but the humans roaming around the floor are strong, and without his tough zombie physique, facing them would be dangerous. The danger was miniscule, but it was still present. It was not like his appearance was different, since he will still be suspected a bit, he thought.

Victor came out of the room and with his form changed back to his base zombie form, he felt more confident.

"I should try out my new skills first."

[SKILLS]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Art of Combat lvl-2n0𝒱𝖊𝑙𝑈𝑠𝐛.𝗰0𝐌

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-2, Negative Burst lvl-max, Fire Breath lvl-max, Inferno Ring lvl-1, Teleport lvl-1, Remote Explosion lvl-1

The fist one Art of Combat was pretty self explanatory, in fact all of them were, but since this one was a passive skill, he would see the effects later on. The second one was the Remote Explosion. Though Victor knew roughly how this skill worked based off knowledge from earth, he still had to try it out since he didn't know how it actually worked.

Some place away from the room he stayed was where the fire-imps resumed their territory, and were also a good target. He approached the group and holding his hand out, he commanded the skill to activate.

'What's this?'

Clearly Victor had activated the skill, but nothing happened, there was no effect. Maybe he needed a trigger? So he put out his hand one more time and with his will to activate the skill, he snapped his fingers, this time creating and effect, a magnanimous explosion.

"Still nothing." Victor said while looking at the space before him with lively fire-imps crawling around.

'What's going on?'

Victor tried out a bunch of other things, but nothing happened. At this moment, he felt pretty stupid, as he could have just checked for the information before doing anything. He thought he knew a bit about it, but it turned out like this.

Victor forgot about trying it himself and just opened his system panel to check the skill's description.

[Remote explosion]

Turn inorganic matter you touch into a bomb that can be remotely detonated. Strength of explosion is small.

Level: 1

Mana cost: 10

After seeing the skill's description, he immediately knew how it worked since he had seen something similar before on earth.

"Let's see." Victor said as he picked up a piece of rock. "Since it's like this and the explosion is small, I could say the size of a grenade?"

Victor held the piece of rock that filled his hand and then activated his skill. Immediately, he could feel a little portion of his mana been implanted into the stone, and after doing so he threw the piece of rock towards the group of fire-imps ahead of him. Victor allowed it to land and roll till it stopped, and then he waited for one of the imps to get close to the stone properly.

"Now."

BOOMMM!!

"Wha-"

Victor looked at the explosion that he had just created, and in no way was it something to be called a small explosion. He thought the size would be like a grenade or similar, but it turned out to be at least eight or ten times as powerful as a grenade.

'Well, compared to something like a nuke, this could be considered small.'

"But, to think this skill would be so powerful while it's level is only one, impressive." Seeing this skill so powerful, Victor wanted to level it up more, as he had just thought of a very interesting use for it.

'But this…'

Victor noticed something was different about his skill fire breath earlier. Since it was a skill at MAX level, he could fully control the amount of fire he spat out at a given point in time, but he felt like it became more powerful than it originally was. He actually had to adjust his normal output when he was with the human group earlier.

'It feels like something changed my skills.' Victor said in his mind, as he could strongly feel so.

He tested out his negative burst skill then, but nothing had changed with it, but his Inferno ring was now strong enough to severely harm fire-imps which were complete fire oriented creatures. If he could see their HP bar, he was sure that it would be low.

"System, is the increase in the strength of my skills due to the system's effects too?" Victor asked, a bit curious.

[No, this due to the effects of your ability Infernal Body which increases fire attacks by 500%]

"Hm? I don't remember this kind of effect though." Victor said, as he rushed to check the description of his ability.

[Infernal Body]

-Immune to heat and fire.

– Increase in attack and defence in hot environment/conditions.

-Natural and high affinity to the fire element.

-500% Increase to fire based skills.

-No weakness to opposing elements equal or weaker than yourself.

-Damage taken from opposing elements only if it is considerably more powerful than yourself.

-Your body is always strengthened and supported by the fire element.

'I really did change, huh. Or maybe I read wrong the first time, it should be so.'

After testing this skill, the next skill to test was the teleportation skill, as it was the only other active skill he acquired.

As for this skill, Victor didn't feel too safe using it, as he didn't know much about how it would work, since teleportation works differently to begin with, so he just checked the skill's description from the start.

[Teleportation]

Instantaneous movement one oneself and other things between different marked locations.

Level: 1

Mana cost: 60

Range: Unlimited

"So basically its flying raijin? Not bad at all."

Victor placed his palm on a wall, and with a thought appeared a marking on it. The mark was small and at most one centimeter on every side. Victor ran far off from it and when he was far enough, he activated the teleportation skill, and immediately appeared before the mark he just created. From his point of view, the space around him just shifted instantaneously. It was like closing your eyes for a second while in the toilet, and then opening it to see yourself in the sitting room. Only that for Victor he didn't close his eyes.

The skill was just as wonderful as he thought. With this, facing enemies had just become increasingly easier. The only problem now was the cost of using this skill which was a whooping 60 mana points at just level one. Victor seeing this wasn't alarmed much though. 'For that guy to be able to use it multiple times like that without tiring, it means the mana cost would definitely reduce as the skill's level increases.

Next was to test how he would teleport others with him. Victor moved towards one of the fire-imp corpse, and then bent down to touch it. He activated his skill, and just like before he was before the spot where he had marked, but the fire-imp was not with him, and since he was squatting, he appeared mid air sort of, since the spot he marked kept his body's position a bit above normal.

"Seems that a lot of things are just so so. I need to level up this skill first."

Anytime Victor killed a human group, he would search for their money, but seeing how nobody brought plenty of money into a dungeon, he was still very broke even after all the groups he had killed.

Whatever their currency was, it didn't mean much, as when he placed it into the system and it was converted, it would turn into system coins. From what Victor had deduced, one hundred of the human currency was one system coin after conversion, and this amount varied.

"I have gotten only 10coins so far… so poor."

To think human's would be this useful, Victor thought. To think he had even left many human corpses without extracting evolution material. When he left the dungeon, he would have to visit a human settlement and get more skills. 'But then, monsters would not be shying away either, so maybe that would not be necessary.

From what he had learnt from Larry and his group, the world outside was not as he would have ever thought. Firstly, dungeons and gates started appearing about 50 years ago, and after the first dungeon break happened, monsters had began inhabiting some places on the planet. The same thing happened with the gates. Because of this, more than 40% of the planet's surface became infested by monsters, though, this figure has reduced ever since the hunters began pushing back the monsters and reclaiming lost grounds.

"Whatever, I will deal with all that when I get out there." Victor said.

From what he was told, this particular dungeon was nearing the time for a break to occur, and since the higher levels actually had monsters as strong as level 60 (the max they had seen at the time), it couldn't be ignored at all. Though this dungeon was an abnormal one which still hadn't shown any signs of a break, not to mention the jump in levels, it could still happen anytime soon.

With this, Victor knew of two ways he would be able to escape the dungeon. Either wait for a break when whatever was keeping him inside would be removed, or do what he was doing now and kill the boss monster at the final floor.

"Before revisiting that guy, I should definitely find more humans first."

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"Before revisiting that guy, I should definitely find more humans first." Victor said while walking away.

He After that, he spent more time in the 42nd floor, mainly for two reasons. The first was to get more human evolution material, while the second was to find more money, in turn getting more system coins.

He went around killing fire-imps, and even returned towards the beginning of the floor to find the first minotaur.

'How lucky are those guys, seriously?' Victor asked in his mind.

The group he came with had passed through the route where the minotaur was, this he was sure of, but not a single corpse was there. Surely the minotaur isn't the type to eat humans, so it could only mean that they somehow evaded it.

Whatever the case was didn't matter in the least to Victor. If they were alive, then good for them. He made quick work of the minotaur and gained it's exp before setting off to the lower floor. There were stronger groups that had reached that deep by the time. Many groups entered the dungeon at the same time, and the stronger ones were able to dominate the lead and leave the rest behind. Of course there were those that just followed close behind and enjoyed a monsterless hunt, but not everyone could. Especially the floors with a lot of water, it slowed many down.

Needless to say, fighting the stronger guys was solely for the reason to gain experience points. That was their major use. Since whatever skill he got was going to be reset to level one anyway, he didn't mind getting an underdeveloped skill from the less strong people. Even a weak skill can become useful after levelling it up to max.

"Heheheh…" 'Hmm, something changed.'.

Victor had been noticing something different about himself, but now he figured out what was different. He wasn't as emotionally abstract as he was sometime ago, as the feelings and emotions he felt deep within him locked up seemed to have opened up a bit.

'It's probably because of the human form I acquired. I can't say it downgraded me a bit, since it isn't getting in the way at all.'

"But then, I would have thought that I would feel some special type of feeling after part of that locked emotion was released, but it feels pretty normal, like it has always been." Victor said to himself.

Victor's current goal was to get to the next floor and see what the humans there had to offer, and along the way he ran into another small group of three humans, all within the level of 40 and 50, and of course killed them and gained their evolution material. This group was purely made of fighters, and their skills abilities weren't anything fantastic either.

Victor had speculated this, but in the end he was right. The abilities humans possess are diverse and are like a cluster of more than one skill. This made them able to execute different skills even though they only possessed a single ability. But whenever Victor attained from their ability, he would only get a skill, and not the full range of the ability possessed by the human.

From the guy who could teleport, during their fight, he couldn't only teleport to the position of his comrades which would have made his ability the same with the one Victor got, he could also teleport around the place in a way, but after getting the skill teleport, Victor could only use the marking teleportation.

Well, in the end it didn't matter, since he could just get as much skills as the number that makes up an ability.

Victor reached the path that led to the next floor, and just then the evolution process was complete. Really, since he already had the human from as his second form, any new human evolution material was just added to the pre-existing form he already had. So, clearly speaking, he only incorporated the new evolution material he received into the one he already possessed.

[Evolution process complete]

[Gained new skill Melee Combat]

[Gained new skill Swordsmanship]

[Gained new skill Sword Control]

[Skills Melee Combat and skill Swordsmanship have been incorporated into skill Art of Combat]

[Received 15 stat points]

[Strength 3, Vitality 3, Intelligence 10]

..n0𝗏𝔢𝑙𝔲𝐬𝑩.𝕔0𝐦

After seeing this, Victor was pleased with the results, descended to the next floor. If the skill Art of Combat was absorbing all his fighting related skills, that could only mean that it was a very strong skill, so he sort of happy to see the skill's effect. The last group he killed, he hadn't fought with them as he just used his Touch of death on them in order not to prolong the fight.

(A/N: From now on, I will be adding the money section to his status screen)

Reaching the next floor, Victor continued in the same fashion as he had planned, and took care of the salamanders and frogs that appeared. He didn't need any of their evolution material as he had no need for it, so he made good use of his fire skills on the frogs, and the salamanders he wasted no time with.

Sure enough, on this floor he actually encountered some reasonably strong humans after running into a group of them. He had to go pretty deep into this floor before he even found the first humans. Along the way all he saw were corpses. Though not much, none was alive.

This group of 10 had the average level of 65, but their leader, or the person who he assumed to be the leader had a level of 95, the highest he had seen so far. Being an undead, Victor knew no fear or what that word meant. Even though he regained a sliver of his emotions, he didn't regain this one, and it was not like the emotions were at all prominent to begin with.

The fight against this group was a bit difficult, since they had impeccable coordination. The problem lied in the fact that he needed their flesh after they died, so he couldn't scorch them the slightest bit.

The only upside to this battle though, was the attitude of the leader of the group in comparison to the previous one who had the teleportation ability. Unlike the teleporting guy who cared for his comrades and rushed to aid whenever Victor tried to attack, this one just remained where he was and watched his team fight Victor. Victor himself wasn't sure what the leader was thinking, and so had to also keep a close eye on him just in case he made a move at him at anytime.

The next in strength was also beside the leader, and didn't come to attack. At times like this, Victor wished he had some type of skill that would allow him peak at his opponent's stats.

Earlier on, 'System, identify those two for me.' When he encountered this team, the leader and the other person strongest after him stood quite far away, so the system only automatically displayed the level of those that were close and left the two, but as Victor had requested for it now-

[Ark Human Level 95]

[Ark Human Level 90]

'Ark human, does that mean they have transcended human limits or some shit like that?' Victor asked himself. That would be the reason they didn't care to get involved with the fight before them. Maybe they were the type to view the weaker ones as inferior, so they didn't care for their life or death. This didn't bother Victor though, if this was the case, then he needed not to worry himself with them, as they wouldn't be interfering any time soon.

Though Victor was finding it hard to touch this group, it didn't mean that he was been pushed back or even threatened by their attacks, the only problem lied in the fact that he couldn't touch them. Most of his skills needed him to touch the opponent, or be at least that much close to them, which they prevented with the barrier around each person, much like the drake. Then their healer just happened to be someone who used holy energy, so her magic was quite effective against his negative burst, lessening its effect greatly.

'Alright, that does it.' Victor said in his mind after seeing no other way forward in this situation. The fight had been going on for at least four minutes or so, and though it wasn't much time, it was enough for Victor to know whether he was making any progress or not, and the answer was, very little progress.

In this short time, Victor was able to see the effects of the skill Art of combat, as whatever attack the group throw at him, he always easily found a way to evade it, the only problem was the fact that he couldn't touch them. He could just break their shield with strong physical attacks, but that would take too long. He had already devised a plan in his head.

Victor once again went into their midst, and though he knew he couldn't really cause them damage, he still tried attacking every single one of them, jumping about the whole place, attacking and evading. When he had made a move on every one, he jumped into the air, almost reaching the cave ceiling which was more than 20 metres high, then as he descended, the markings which were normally just glowing a faint volcanic red lit up like all over…

SIWW… DOM! BOOM!

Victor descended, the markings which were normally just glowing a faint volcanic red lighting up all over like fiery streams of fire…

DOOM ! BOOM !

The ground beneath cracked in different places, and many chunks flew into the air. Victor had literally pierced the place, them after his crash into the ground, the entire surrounding exploded again like some kind of chain explosion, one after the other.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! ….

The explosion was massive and wide covering the entire area and blowing dust, smoke and particles into the air obstructing everyone's vision. Apart from the overall explosion, each individual explosion was also powerful, and at this point, the leader that had been standing some distance away from the fight actually started showing some interest.

About a minute passed without any significant movement, just people from within the smoked area trying to find their way out. As there was no air current in the cave, the smoke and dust did not leave by itself, meaning that till whatever was going to cause it to clear come, the entire place was like an area with smokescreen, the only problem was that it was against everyone.

What Victor had done when he decided to attack the group was not just pointless and out of desperation as they had thought. Using his newly acquired skill Remote Detonation, each time he paced his hand on the ground, he would infuse it with his mana as he activated the skill, leaving that place as a time bomb ready to be detonated at any time.

After dancing around the place and leaving several tens of spots filled with his explosive mana, he broke destroyed the area to stun the group, with the hopes of shaking them a bit and possibly destabilizing them enough for their magic o be released. For this plan to work, he made sure to place more explosives near the caster of this spell, the mage type, and near the 'priestess' using holy magic.

When he broke the ground and caused chunks of rocks pieces to fly around, it just helped spread the area of effect, and set a good stage for the chain detonation and explosions, though it would still have been possible even without shattering the place. Victor just wanted to throw them off a bit to begin with.

'This should be good enough, right? Wonder if it worked.' Victor said in his mind.

During the explosion, he teleported himself outside the range of the explosion, as he knew he couldn't regenerate any body part if any was to come off. With the smoke screen now, he was sure that everyone inside couldn't tell their forwards or backwards. So, he dashed in.

He made sure to leave a mark for his teleportation somewhere behind in a strategic place where the vision of their leader wouldn't be able to reach after the explosion. After that, he just quietly went into the smoke covered area, and just as he had thought, the plan was a success, and the barrier covering and protecting their bodies was gone, and they were now vulnerable.n0𝗏𝔢𝑙𝔲𝐬𝑩.𝕔0𝐦

Though Victor's vision was also bad within the cloud of dust and smoke, his senses still worked very well, and again, just like he had thought, it was better than that of the humans, so they couldn't find their way as easily as him.

Without wasting much time, he moved first to the one closest to him, and before that one could even alarm the others or even make any weird sounds, his body fell to the ground, but Victor caught him before it he hit the ground. Moving from that target, he headed to next closest one and did the same. Before a minute had passed, he had already silently killed every single member of the team that was within the dust and smoke.

"Hey, make that cloud of dust get away." The leader said to the person beside him.

"Yes sir."

The one beside him moved down, and then took out a large metal fan. Using it, she blew away the cloud of dust and smoke, well, most of it.

Victor standing in the midst of the cloud of dust just stood there like he had been waiting for sometime.

"You filt."

'Arc Human, huh? Let's see the difference they'll show.' Victor said in his mind while observing the lady's actions.

It was safe to say that they still thought of him to be human at this point. It wasn't unnatural for hunters to have falling out in dungeons and gates, in fact it would be the perfect place since it couldn't be properly supervised by the outside authorities.

Victor didn't care about what they thought though, it wouldn't matter after they died anyway. After a few seconds of staring at each other, it was evident that Victor was not going to make the first move, so the lady took the initiative to attack first.

She scoffed as she launched herself forward towards Victor with a great speed, but Victor was still able to follow her movements well, and was not at all threatened by it. She attacked him with the fan first launching a vertical strike on him, which he easily evaded.

Again, he wasn't going to scorch their bodies, so he had to use other means that would not spoil the flesh. Victor jumped back some metres to distance himself away from her. He had many opportunities to kill her using touch of death, but he wanted to see more of why they were Ark Humans.

He waited for her to use her ability, but he never saw her use anything like such, ad after a few minutes of engaging her, he was starting to think that she wouldn't show him anything. Over the short period of time they fought, the lady had used a total of seven different weapons, some of the Victor had never even seen before or knew if they were actual weapons or just custom made. At this point, he was starting to think her ability was some sort of weapon mastery or similar.

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Through out the fight, Victor had yet to speak, but the lady didn't need him to. She could tell that he wasn't even trying, and that he had been easily deflecting and blocking her attacks, and though she herself saw many openings when he could have attacked, she saw that he didn't. It was quite clear that there was no way he didn't see those openings, so-

'Is he just toying with me? Am I not enough for him to take serious?' He questioned in her mind as her facial expression spoiled a bit.n0𝑣ℯ𝑙𝒰𝑠𝑩.𝗰0𝓂

The way she switched weapons, she would be holding one weapon in hand, and the very next moment it would disappear and another one would appear in its place. Victor was quite curious how it worked, but it was not like she would tell him if he asked to begin with.

She took out her fan this time while putting away the weird looking sword he was holding. The metal fan opened up and expanded, then a sword appeared in her other hand, and she placed it upon the fan. The two weapons fused together seamlessly as though they were always part of the same piece, then she extended her hand backwards before throwing it towards Victor.

The speed the weapon travelled with was great, but for some reason Victor didn't feel the least bit threatened by it, and remained totally calm, even for himself. As the weapon approached almost immediately, he just moved sideways a bit evading it, then using his hands redirected it back towards the lady. The whole movement happened smoothly and in one fluid motion as he spun his body around like a move born out of some tai chi technique.

With the same speed, the weapon travelled back to the lady, but as it got close to her the weapon slowed down, then-

BOOM!

'That shouldn't be enough to damage her.'.

From what Victor had summed up, she had abilities that had to do with weapons. She could bring out weapons from where ever, could use various weapons, could fuse weapons, and from the actions of the fan Victor just sent her way, he could control her weapons remotely it seemed. All these didn't matter though, Victor decided he had seen enough of her show.

'Why not try asking her, she might just tell me.' He said in his mind.

The explosion was so unexpected and sudden that it threw the lady off her footing a bit, and as she leaned backwards from the explosion, Victor's face appeared from the smoke and came just before her. For her, he was so fast, enough that she felt he would be be able to land a few blows on her if he wanted. At that moment of helplessness, her vigilance rose above normal as she felt vulnerable before Victor.

"What is the power you possess?" Victor asked.

He grabbed her by the waist like some grand royal dance feast spotlight couple would, and her leg even happened to be raised to fit the pose well. Maybe it was because of the battle and she was absorbed in it, but she didn't notice this immediately, but neither did she answer Victor. She just stared at him while her body crashed down on the floor, as it went limp.

"Well, guess I'll find out later." He said.

Victor then turned to look at the leader that was still standing at the same spot. He bent down to pick a small piece of rock, and then as the leader began coming forward, he threw the rock as fast as he could, but the leader was still able to deflect the rock, but then instead of the rock, Victor appeared before him and placed his hand on his face. With one of Victor's leg behind the leader's legs, Victor pushed the leader backwards and got him off his feet because of the speed.

DOOM!

The sound of Victor bashing the leader's head into the ground rung out, but in the end it didn't matter as he used Touch of Death after the head smash just in case.

After fighting with the lady, one thing Victor noticed was that there was little difference between the normal humans and the so called Ark humans. He wasn't even sure if they themselves knew that their race had changed a bit. The Ark human would probably just live longer and become a little stronger at most, maybe have more potential than normal humans at most. Nothing too out of the ordinary.

"Whatever, heh…"

Victor dragged the body of the leader back and and on the way grabbed the lady's body also, then using his teleport, he appeared on the spot he set his mark earlier.

"Time to gain some evolution materials." He said while digging into the flesh and swallowing it piece by piece.

Before eating it this time, he made sure to take off the clothes he was wearing and wear the one the first guy he ate was wearing, in case blood got on them, it would be ok since he would abandon the clothes later. The original one he had on was just that good that he didn't want to spoil it.

After he finished taking all the evolution material he could by savaging every single piece, Victor checked his list of evolution materials.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 10,000

-Fire-Imp – 2000

-Red Back Salamander – 30,000

-Poison Frog Colony – 8,000

-Human – 220,000

"This should be good enough right? Or would it be better if I just build the form anew. Which would bring out the most benefits?" Victor asked himself.

"The last one worked, so this time there shouldn't be too any problem either, right? Let's believed that." Victor said, as he felt it good to be positive from time to time.

"System, begin evolution process."

[Starting evolution process]

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[Starting evolution process]

[Evolution process complete]

[Gained new skill Weapon Mastery]

[Gained new skill Swordsmanship]

[Gained new skill Death Curse]

[Gained new skill Plant Manipulation]

[Gained new skill Iron Fist]

[Gained new skill Double strike]

[Skill Swordsmanship and Sword Control have been incorporated into skill Weapon Mastery]

[Skill Double Strike have been incorporated into skill Weapon Mastery]

[Skill Iron Fist has been incorporated into skill Art of Combat]

[Received 20 stat points]

[Health 100 Mana 100].

[Strength 5, Vitality 3, Agility 5, Intelligence 10, Magic 5]

After the evolution was complete, Victor had already gotten to the next floor, and looking at the new skills, he was quite satisfied with what he got, though, he couldn't tell were some came from.

Victor killed the leader of the human group he met last so quick that he didn't give him a chance to show his skills, so he didn't exactly know what to expect. He wasn't expecting anything grand either since the other Arch human he faced wasn't really all that different from normal humans.

"Was he some kind of druid or something? To get something like Plant Manipulation." Victor said while looking at the skills he had, but then the Death Curse was kind of contradictory. But, since druids had something to do with spirits, Victor guessed it was possible for them to also use such magic, maybe.

"Status."

Status

Level: 37 (6,915,000/7,500,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 3,465/3,465

Mp: 3,450/3,450

Coins: 50

[Stat]

Strength: 223 (7)

Agility: 150

Sense: 122

Vitality: 66

Magic: 60

Intelligence: 110

remaining stat point: 62

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Recovery lvl-1, Art of Combat lvl-2, Weapon Mastery lvl-2

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-2, Negative Burst lvl-max, Fire Breath lvl-max, Inferno Ring lvl-1, Teleport lvl-1, Remote Explosion lvl-1, Death Curse lvl-1, Plant Manipulation lvl-1

Looking at his stats, there was only one thought he had in mind. 'The sign of growth. From such an unintelligent creature, now, I am slowly becoming a scholar… So refreshing.'

Not ignoring the rest of his stat, Victor was quite impressed. HE began looking into all the skills he had newly received to see what they were about.

[Death Curse]

Magic that affects the soul and eats away at their life force as time goes by. [Intensity can be increased]

Level: 1

Mana cost: 50

[Plant Manipulation]

Control plants in the surrounding area. Amount of mana required differs depending on plants.

Duration: 30s

Level: MAX

Mana cost: XX

Apart from these skills, the other skills were sort of self explanatory and needed not to for Victor to check the description to see how they worked.

Another thing Victor discovered was that the system also accepted gems as money and converted them to system coins. If only these guys came as some kind of excavation team to harvest gems, it would have been good. He didn't know where to get these gems, and that was something he wanted to ask the next people he met.

H even tried using the gems that lit up parts of the cave, but that didn't work. Victor kept going deeper into the dungeon, and after a day or two reached the 49th floor again. Within that time, he ran into two other human groups, and the fight with them was incredibly easy as they were either tired and exhausted when he found them, or sleeping. In the end, he wasn't able to get the information he needed about the gem, so he gave up on it.

From the groups he killed last, he gained some useful skills.

[Gained new skill Archery]

[Gained new skill 9 Blades Walks]

[Gained new skill Earth Stump]

[Gained new skill Terror]

[Gained new skill Excavate]

[Gained new skill Demon Chain Bind]

[Gained new skill Demon Shadow]

[Gained new skill Precision Shot]

[Gained new skill Sixth Sense]

[Gained new skill Hot Hands]

[Skill Archery and Precision Shot have been incorporated into skill Weapon Mastery]

[Skill 9 Blades Walks have been absorbed into skill Weapon Mastery]

[Received 30 stat points]

[Health 100 Mana 100]

[Strength 5, Vitality 5, Agility 5, Intelligence 10, Magic 10]

Over all, Victor had gained plenty from the humans, and he could beat his chest anywhere now as a former human himself and say that humanity is not completely useless. From time to time, they still have their uses.

The skills he gained weren't that strong, but they were going to be very useful when fighting and very quite the versatile bunch. The Earth stomp was just like the name suggests, it caused tremor in the surrounding area. The skill Terror induced hallucination, but at level one it only caused some mental damage nothing else, not to mention, against a strong opponent it would be useless, that is if it would even activate properly.

The Excavate skill did what it said, dig up the ground clean, basically just creating a whole on dirt and any material. From all the skills he gained, this was probably one of the most overpowered when thought through. This skill allowed the user to basically excavate the rocks in an area of hard rock, or even a wall. If he was right, it would work on other materials like metal and even something like water. Basically anything tangible could be excavated. This included human bodies. No wonder a level 60 could be the team leader. The skill was just too above the others. Even superman will fall before such a skill.

The two skills Demon Chain Bind and Demon Shadow were gotten from the same person, but for the first skill, Victor wasn't sure if it was going to be too useful against strong opponents. If he was able to break out of it after a bit of a struggle, it just proved that monsters above level 100 would also be able to do the same. The most it could do was buy some time. The second one, Demon Shadow was actually more impressive. It reminded him of several anime he had watched where someone would have something similar. Basically, this skill gave life to the user's shadow, allowing them to gain one minion that is as strong as themselves and can even use some one their skills which the user granted.

The more advanced part of the skill was probably still locked now. For now, all Victor could do with this skill was send his shadow to do common things or fight for him against the opponent's shadow. The only downside right now was the fact that dark places limited this skill, and it didn't work either if the environment was not well lit or the shadows were not well defined. He would have to level it up first before it would become very useful. By the time he increased it's level, it would become another overpowered skill.

Hot hands basically made his hands hit up at super hot temperatures enough to melt through flesh easily. This skill was immediately max level though as soon as he got it. With his infernal body, he could already do something like this, so the skill was kind of a useless one for him.

The Sixth Sense was pretty self explanatory, it gave him a whole new world as he could perceive abstract things that even his high sense stat didn't allow him to before like subtle changes in factors around him or being able to pick up some minimal changes in the waves and wavelengths around him.

Precision shot was meant to be an active skill, but now that it was absorbed by the weapon mastery skill, it had become passive, at least this was what Victor believed. Since the Weapon Mastery skill kept swallowing other skills, he was sure it would also convert those skills which it had swallowed.

Along with the skills, the last group he had attacked while they were sleeping seemed to be the greedy bunch, as they were actually walking around with their money and gems. Victor wasn't complaining, it only meant that he could get more coins. In total at this point, Victor had 1,750 coins.

Back on the 49th floor which was the floor before the last one where the drake from before was, Victor was with the bunch of chimeras that roamed the floor, and as easy as it got, he just destroyed them one after another until he got to the door that lead into the boss room.

Victor made sure to use each of his skills that he could, focusing on his active skills to see which one of the skills was most useful for the altercation that was about to occur. This time, he was going to focus on using the most effective skills against the Drake, ones that would work perfectly against it.

"System."

Status

Level: 38 (2,005,000/13,000,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Coins: 390

Hp: 3,615/3,615

Mp: 3,700/3,700

[Stat]

Strength: 230

Agility: 155

Sense: 125.

Vitality: 71

Magic: 70

Intelligence: 120

remaining stat point: 97

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body, Infernal Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-MAX, Undead Aura lvl-MAX, Recovery lvl-1, Art of Combat lvl-2, Weapon Mastery lvl-4, Sixth Sense lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-2, Negative Burst lvl-MAX, Fire Breath lvl-MAX, Inferno Ring lvl-1, Teleport lvl-1, Remote Explosion lvl-1, Death Curse lvl-1, Plant Manipulation lvl-1, Earth Stump lvl-1, Hot Hands lvl-MAX, Terror lvl-1, Excavate lvl-1, Demon Chain Bind lvl-1, Demon Shadow lvl-1

"The skills that'll be the most effective would be, remote explosion, death curse, and excavate. The rest can just remain like that for now. There are others, but-" Victor said while looking at the system panel before him.

There were some skills he knew would be good, but in the end those skills weren't the most effective ones. With the coins he had gathered, Victor could only hope that the coins would be enough to level all the skills he had to a good enough level at least. With a skill like excavate, he would be able to seamlessly do major harm to the drake and possibly counter the drake's healing ability.

"How much will it take to upgrade my skill excavate using coins?" Victor asked the system.

[70 coins]

"Ok, upgrade its rank."

[Skill Excavate has been upgraded to Level 2]

[Coins 1,680]

After this, Victor just went on upgrading the skills he had chosen to use as at the forefront.

[Skill Excavate has been upgraded to Level 3]

[Coins 1,530]

[Skill Excavate has been upgraded to Level 4]

[Coins 1,130]

[Skill Death Curse has been upgraded to Level 2]

[Coins 1,030]

[Skill Death Curse has been upgraded to Level 3]

[Coins 810]

[Skill Remote Explosion has been upgraded to Level 2]

[Coins 720]

[Skill Remote Explosion has been upgraded to Level 3]

[Coins 640]

[Skill Remote Explosion has been upgraded to Level 4]

[Coins 390]

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-2, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-2, Negative Burst lvl-MAX, Fire Breath lvl-MAX, Inferno Ring lvl-1, Teleport lvl-1, Remote Explosion lvl-4, Death Curse lvl-3, Plant Manipulation lvl-1, Earth Stump lvl-1, Hot Hands lvl-MAX, Terror lvl-1, Excavate lvl-4, Demon Chain Bind lvl-1, Demon Shadow lvl-1

[Remote explosion]

Turn inorganic matter you touch into a bomb that can be remotely detonated. Strength of explosion is increased exponentially.

Level: 4

Mana cost: 30

[Death Curse]

Magic that affects the soul and eats away at the target's life as time goes by. [Intensity can be increased]

Level: 3

Mana cost: XX

[Excavate]

Excavate the fiscal matter around a set area into void.

Level: 4

Mana cost: 50

With everything set and a ready plan put in place, Victor entered the boss room, and as he did, the door behind him closed itself. Just like before, the drake didn't even move a muscle, and this was just the exact thing Victor was hoping for. This was the only time he had to touch the drake physically, so unlike last time where all he did was use just one of his skills, Death Touch, this time he was going to do all he could, literally.

Victor approached the sleeping Drake, and for the first part of his plan, he would have to first of all have to go all the way around the drake. He could only hope that it wouldn't wake up half way before he was done.

He first went around the drake setting as many explosions as he could on the earth around it's body, then he set explosions on some of the clothe materials he had and dropped it on the drake's back and body, in at least six places where he was sure the clothes wouldn't fall off after the drake started moving.

Mp: 3,700/3,700 Mp: 3,250/3,700

The drake was truly not going to do a thing until it had been attacked. After setting everything, Victor was finally ready to attack. He moved towards its chest area, and as soon as he used his skill death touch, he kept his hand on the drake even though it started moving, continually causing it damage, but since it didn't die even then, it was clear just how strong the drake's regenerative ability was.

After the drake had stood up completely, Victor then used the excavation skill to chop out a huge part of it's entire body, and he wasn't no dumb person, so he aimed for the drake's head, which he deemed the most crucial part of its body.

Mp: 3,250/3,700 Mp: 3,200/3,700

Victor was betting on this being the killing move since the brain was basically the part of the body that controlled how the other parts worked, but unsurprisingly, the drake began regenerating it's head immediately after, and in some tens of seconds, it had completed the regeneration of its head, but not without Victor clearing the entire space around it's chest and stomach, taking its left hand too.

Mp: 3,250/3,700 Mp: 3,150/3,700

After he did this, the drake's barrier activated, cutting Victor from it. Victor did of course still try his excavate skill, but just as he speculated, it couldn't do anything with the barrier up.

Mp: 3,150/3,700 Mp: 3,100/3,700n0𝒱𝖾𝓵𝓤𝓢𝗯.𝓬0𝐌

The barrier around the drake was like a sphere that wrapped around its body keeping every other thing out. Before the drake could finish regeneration, Victor activated the third skill he prepared for the drake, the Death Curse, and once again according to his speculation, it wasn't affected by the barrier since it wasn't a physical attack. Even if the barrier could block magical attacks, Victor wasn't sure if it would work on this skill since it was a kind of spiritual attack and not a simple magic attack.

He felt a huge amount of mana leave his body at one go, that it felt like his body became a bit heavy for a second and he was almost dragged to the ground.

Mp: 3,100/3,700 Mp: 2,600/3,700

'That's insane! I couldn't even control the intensity well this time.' Victor said in his mind.

The way this skill worked, he would have to control the intensity of the curse, and compared to the intensity, the amount of mana used would also increase. He had intended for it to be intense, but not this much, and was completely not prepared for it.

Following this, Victor didn't stop there and used the trap he set some time ago before the whole thing began proper, and-

BANG!! BOOM!! BOOM!!

The entire area around and under the drake began exploding one after another, sending the drake into another state of confusion. Though the skill didn't take any mana from detonating an already set explosion, all Victor had to do was set one off, and the chain explosion took over. At time like this, Victor was happy for the existence of physics..

Because of the explosions, the drake got destabilized and confused, and in this window of time, its shield barrier disappeared, and this was while it was still in the process of regeneration, then Victor took another large portion of its body with the excavate skill.

The upside to his plan was the fact that his skills didn't take as much mana as he thought they would, even with the overpoweredness.

The drake at this point where the fight had only begun for some minutes had yet to even make a single attack of its own, as it was forced to defend it self immediately after waking up. Victor's plan was working so far, and it was a harsh and sadistic plan to burn through his reserves all at a single stretch in attempt to finish the drake before it even had the time to fight back, and so far it seemed to be working.

Now, the entire upper body of the drake up until its chest and front legs was gone, and the regeneration speed which used to be lightening fast was now so much slower that it couldn't even compare. Victor stopped for a some seconds watching the drake trying to regenerate itself, and while he watched its body trying to regenerate in what looked like a truly desperate struggle, he couldn't help but hope that this was enough to kill it for good.

One reason why he still wasn't attacking was the fact that he had used the Death Curse skill earlier, and the intensity was truly not a joke, as it too so much. Going by the normal scale, a skill of that level would have taken at maximum nothing above 80 mana points from him, but this one completely went passed that. It should be enough to kill the drake.

After a minute had passed, the drake stopped its struggle to move, and the its regeneration even stopped, but Victor knew it wasn't the end as he still hadn't seen any notification that he killed the drake. Just when he was thinking about it, the notification appeared.

[You have killed Twin Headed Drake 'Ramok]

310,000

'Finally, I-' Victor said in his mind, but before he even finished what it was he was saying, something strange he had never experienced before happened.

It was similar to when the system spoke to him and he could hear the voice in his head while it still sounded in his ears, but this time it was as though a thought was being transmitted to him. It wasn't at all a voice, it just felt like he was thinking by himself, but the words of this thought was different and independent of his, and it seemed to be communicating with him.

'What is this? What, or who are you?' Victor asked. He knew he was an undead, and one of their advantages was the ability to negate all mental attacks. If even after that someone or something could still get into his head, then he wasn't as safe as he thought he was.

'Calm down human.. Or should I call you a zombie? You seem to be a mess of different creatures, interesting. I never knew such a thing was possible. Whatever it is you are, calm yourself down let's talk. I am the Drake Ramok, who you just killed.'

'Drake? What is this? Is this part of the whole illusion too?' Victor thought.

'No, I really am the one you just killed.'

'You can read my thoughts?'

'Well, the ones you let me read. We don't have much time to waste, so let's be quick.'

'Ok, I'm listening. What is it you want? Its clear that there's something, right? Get to the point, I don't think you'll last long here to begin with.' Victor responded.

'Quite calm in this situ-'

'Get to the point.' Victor cut Ramok off before he could continue rambling on about unimportant things. He wasn't sure what the drake wanted, but he could only listen in the end. It might actually turn out to be helpful to him.

'Very well. I need you to free my master from a similar predicament as you have found me before I was slain, and free him from it by ending his life.'

'What? Let's say I agree, what do I get from doing this favour?'

'All my riches.'

'Deal.'

'Just like that? You were serious when you said to get to the point. SO impatient, the younger generation.'

'Whatever. How do I find this master of yours?' Victor asked.

'Here, you will be directed to the location.' The Drake Ramok said, as it passed something into Victor, and immediately, he could tell which direction he needed to head towards to find this master the drake was talking about. 'Interesting.'

'My power? It truly is. If it wasn't for the predicament I found myself, I would have easily defeated you. Just know that.' The drake then passed unto Victor a golden key which he said would glow after he killed his master, and that is when he would be able to open his vault. He also instructed Victor on how to go about it. Victor didn't trust him at first, but Ramok assured Victor that his words were truth. Victor eventually agreed to the deal, and stashed the key in his inventory.

'Yeah, sure. Now, while there's still time, tell me about what happened.' Victor said.n0𝑣𝚎𝗅𝔲𝒮𝗯.𝗰0𝔪

'Right. Since the negotiation is through, we can move on.'

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'Now, while there's still time, tell me about what happened.' Victor said.

'Right. Since the negotiation is through, we can move on.'

After listening to Ramok's story, Victor was quite pleased about how things turned out. Truly, if he wasn't in the dungeon, Victor wouldn't have stood a chance, not even in the slightest.

Ramok is originally a creature from another world, as he put it. It all happened suddenly while he was with his master on the great mountain peaks, on the day he was supposed to achieve his transfiguration. The journey took some days, but finally on the third day, they arrived at their destination.

The world where Ramok came from had magic and various mysterious powers, and just like Victor was already aware of, he was a Drake. Victor might not have known this, but dragons are a very prideful race, just like any other powerful race, they valued their own more than any other. With the various creatures walking around with mixed bloodlines, the dragons refuse to recognise any race or creature with mixed dragon blood in them as one of their own, so Drakes like Ramok have to live a solitary lifestyle as they are not many to begin with compared to other races, and didn't enjoy the luxury of family and things like that..

In other to perfect himself more, Ramok went on a journey to purify his dragon blood, and sure enough there was no other way to do it than to battle against dragons and kill them, then use their blood and essence to advance his evolution. The only reason Ramok was able to kill so many dragons that were supposed to be stronger than him was because most of the new generation dragons had no experience when it came to fighting as they just relied on their natural born abilities. To a creature like a drake whose lives are filled with battles and struggles at each turn, such dragons are easy meat.

After a long time of living this sort of life and always running from the stronger dragons in order to keep his life, Ramok had only gotten so much further in his goal to achieve a perfect bloodline. There were no changes that could be noticeable, it was like the world was telling him to give up. In these sorts of times where he was at a low point in his life, the cause finally caught up to Ramok, and he was found by a dragon, the same ones he had been avoiding for so long. It seemed this was just a fated happening, as Ramok did not even resist.

"You are…" The dragon that found him said, as it muttered some words which Ramok barely heard.

'Huh? Take me already or just kill me. I'm fed up with all this anyway.' Ramok thought in his mind. All his efforts had been useless up until the last moment. Even after the various years, it was like he had done nothing.

"We are alike in many ways. How about you follow me. The dream you have and the sole goal you wish to accomplish, I will help you do something about it." The Dragon said.

Ramok didn't know why, but he just couldn't refuse or bargain with the dragon and agreed. From then on, they walked and travelled together, and experienced many things together through tens of years of travel.

Around this time was when the dragon, Ramok's master decided it was time for him to take Ramok to the mountain of transfiguration, he was ready.

On the mountain of transfiguration where Ramok was supposed to undergo transfiguration, just when they both were about to reach the actual place was where everything happened.

Suddenly, the entire space in the surrounding area and space seemed to have warped and was distorted at the same time, and without an opportunity given for them to even resist, he and his master were consumed by whatever this thing was, and when Ramok opened his eyes, he was in this room.

Ramok tried to break free from this strange place, but he soon realised how futile his efforts were, as all the strength he once had was now completely gone. If he was to compare, he would say he had returned to how he was in his age of adolescence. This didn't stop Ramok though.

Even though he knew it was futile to try and power his way through, Ramok thought of other ways that wouldn't require him using his strength as much, if at all, and his biggest motivation for this, was that he could still feel his master's presence. Surely though, all attempts failed, and after some weeks must have past, he was forced into a state of rest where he had little to no connection to the world around him, but at the same time wasn't completely unconscious.

What seemed to be controlling his body after he was shoved behind was this second head which he had magically gained after waking up. This was the first time he regained full consciousness, and before he entered that state, he was sure that there was no second head attached to his body, but he was actually quite relieved that it wasn't his master's.

"Even in that state, I could still sense my master's presence, though it kept on getting weaker and weaker as time passed. He was a strong dragon that had been alive for hundreds of years, to think even he was unable to break out till now." Ramok said.

Ramok was not certain, but he believed his master was also in a similar place as he is right now. Victor would have to fight and kill his master in other to set him free. The fact that his master had not escapsed until now proves that he also lost most of his original power, and with that even Victor should be able to defeat him.

"My master's name is Garmorock. Find him, and when you are able to talk to him, speak to him my name. He will understand."

"Hmm. Guess that's all huh? You can rest in peace now." Victor said, while heading towards the corpse to eat the drake's flesh now.

"Sheesh. So impa-' Ramok's voice was cut short, and with it followed grunts that sounded like he was truly struggling against something.

"Hey! Boy! SOmeth-' Again, his voice was cut short, and before Victor could respond, the corpse before him was engulfed in a purple and dark illumination that encapsulated it almost.

Victor seeing this could immediately tell that nothing good was going to come from it, so he jumped backwards to get out of the way of possible attack. The light sipped into the drake's corpse, and just then the corpse jerked hard and stood up. Without any warning or sign, it dashed forward towards Victor and swiped it's claw in attempt to snag him in half, but Victor's reaction was just fast enough for him to avoid the surprise attack.

'A zombie drake corpse? How is this even happening? Such a shitty dungeon.'

Seeing the change in it's skin and the obvious change in it's motion, not to mention the overly familiar feeling got from the drake now, it was clear that a zombie drake was what stood before him. It had not been revived normally but brought back as an undead.

Victor had some fire skills that would work well against undead which are weak to fire, but that was also if the Drake was some low level undead.

Victor immediately asked his system to identify the drake again.

[High-rank Zombie Twin Headed Drake 'Ramok – Level 105]

Seeing the information displayed by the system reassured Victor that he still had a chance to win against the monster before him. Since it was only a high rank zombie, it's weakness to fire was still present, and it's level had also dropped, but for it to become a high rank zombie after being turned…

First of all, simply using his skill excavate will not be as effective, seeing as zombies don't feel pain, and the fact that it has a regenerative ability just worsens things. The only other way was to fight till the drake's total HP was zero, and the best way to damage zombies was their head.

First off, Victor levelled up his skill Infernal Ring to level 4, which caused 310 coins, leaving him with just 80 coins remaining, but it was worth it.

Knowing of a good plan, there was no need to even allow the zombie drake attack, so Victor started his own attack with his excavate skill, cleaning off the drake's two heads in one go. After he did this, he followed up the attack with his infernal ring, and seeing as there was only one big target, what seemed like all the fire power gathered from the skill, and from below an immerse uncontrollable pillar of fire shot out from the ground and engulfed the drake's entire body.

Victor was sure that this attack would do plenty enough damage, and as the intense fire weakened the zombie drake while dealing damage, it would also weaken his regeneration, giving Victor sometime to plan his next move, and more time before it can regenerate and function again.

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Due to the pillar of fire, Victor's view of the drake was blocked, so he couldn't exactly see whether his plan was effective or not, he could only hope so. The pillar of fire kept burning up till the ceiling of the room for at least fifteen seconds before it began showing signs of calming down. When the fire subsided, Victor was a bit amazed as to how much damage the fire actually did, and in the process, he had actually achieved an unknown effect.

Victor wasn't too surprised at the intensity of the flames and the duration, his fire attacks were being boosted anyway. What surprised Victor was the effects the fire had on the drake. For one, as the drake was still a fresh zombie, it's skin wasn't dry and hard like Victor's, so the massive wound Victor created with his skill excavate that completely took the drake's head couldn't heal back, simply because it had become impossible for the moment.

With the intensity of the fire, the flesh towards the surface of the drake's wound was severely burned, and the flesh in this area was charcoal burnt and limited the regenerative ability the drake possessed. For the time being, there was no regenerative function taking place right now, so Victor could add some few extra damages to the drake's body. The only way he could think of to kill the drake now was to completely destroy it's entire body leaving nothing behind for it to regenerate.

Looking at his mana, Victor saw that it was possible for him to do just that. Even when the drake was alive, destroying it's head didn't do much against it, talk less of now that it's a walking corpse.

It took 50 points in mana to create a wound the size of a window through the drake, and Victor's plan was to completely eradicate the drake, so he calculated the cost needed to create such a big area effect of his skill, and though it required quite the number, he had to try regardless.

The worse thing he could do at the moment was to give the drake time to recover, so just like he did the second time he faced it, he was not going to give it any breathing space. Victor dashed to the side and climbed the walls of the room in an instant reaching the ceiling. From the position where he could see everything below, he used his skill Excavate, and this time instead of just aiming at a portion of the drake to excavate, he focused on stretching the skill to reach its entire body.

Mp: 2,600/3,700 Mp: 1,850/3,700.

Just the next instant, the zombie drake below was no more, it had completely disappeared. At this moment, Victor knew one thing, this was his strongest skill, and he was incredibly lucky that the team that had the person with this skill was asleep when he killed them all, if not…

It took quite the amount of MP, but he did it.

(A/N: The skill excavate is like the particle style: Atomic Dismantling Jutsu Onoki uses in Naruto Shippuden. The difference is that Excavate isn't shot from the hands, rather it just causes the effects on the target. So particle style without projection, just an instant effect.)

[You have Killed High-rank Zombie Twin Headed Drake 'Ramok]

300,000

Level: 37 (7,225,000/7,500,000) Level: 37 (7,525,000/7,500,000)

[You have levelled up]

Mp: 1,850/3,700 Mp: 3750/3,750

'It's my luck that I levelled up and regained my lost MP. Now when I exit the dungeon, I won't be in much of a disadvantage in case I have to face another monster.' Victor said in his mind. The fact that he might actually be facing humans when he exited the dungeon crossed his mind, but he immediately scratched that off. No one saw him kill the humans, and so naturally everyone would think it the work of monsters. There was absolutely no reason to fear like this at all.

"What happened just now? My consciousness was suddenly sucked away by some strange force." A voice said.

It was quite evident whose voice this was, as Victor recognized it as soon as he heard it. "I thought you would be dead by now, you actually aren't." Victor said.

Since Ramok's voice just echoed in the room, Victor had no way of knowing where exactly he was, just that he was around.

"I am still here, but it seemed I was brought back to just say goodbye, my soul is already fading."

'… Didn't we just meet? Why the need for this sense of familiarity?' "Sure."

Though Ramok would have loved to ask where his body went, it was too late as his self completely faded away not giving him a chance to converse more with Victor.

Victor on the other hand had planned on how he was going to gain a strong form and even possibly evolve his base form again, but it seemed it wouldn't be possible anymore. From the moment the drake became a zombie, Victor had lost any chance of every gaining any good drake evolution material. It seemed like once something became undead, their original essence completely changes into that of an undead. It was basically a zombie in a different form, so eating such flesh wouldn't gain him drake evolution material.

According to the human group from before, when a dungeon had been cleared, it would slowly disintegrate and disperse, and if one was still within the dungeon by that time, perhaps they would get erased along with the dungeon. For what they knew, no one has ever returned from an eradicated dungeon that disappeared.

From what Victor could see though, there was no crack in space anywhere like the guys from the group said, maybe not all dungeons start immediately.

By now, the monsters on every floor would have become increasingly aggressive and that was the sign that a dungeon had been cleared. From then, everyone on the other floors will begin heading out of the dungeon in other not to risk being sucked into the crack that eats the dungeon away. But as there was no crack yet, then maybe the monsters would still be normal? Victor wondered.

"It actually was able to clear my dungeon? Even after I tried so much." A voice said from a dark room.

'Does it really think it's that strong?' The voice thought. At that moment, something seemed to have tripped off in the creature's head, and it began acting unlike itself.

'I can not accept such blasphemy. If it's truly so, then I should not be living.' The creature said.

In that instant, something happened as the creature appeared in a large space with lighting, and before it was a humanoid figure with blazing markings on it's body.

"What the fuck is that thing?" 'A beholder? That has to be a beholder, it's just unmistakable.' Victor said in his mind.

The creature that just appeared before him was a big ball of flesh with one big eye in the centre of the ball of flesh, and a wide mouth that formed a crescent below the eye, then there were the tentacles that came out of its body with eyes at the end of each.

Confirming that the monster before him right now was a Beholder, a monster Victor knew from earth, well from games he played back on earth, he knew of some of its abilities. Basically, beholders had a very high talent for magic and always possess strong magic. The way their magic worked was a little different though. Unlike other races, their magic was contained in their eyes, and that was also the reason why they had so many eyes.

The way to know how strong a beholder is was to check the number of tentacles the beholder had. Since the eyes were connected to the end of the tentacles, the number of tentacles also represented the number of eyes a beholder had, and in turn determined how many different magic attacks one was to expect.

Another thing was that the lower the number of eyes, the younger the beholder was, and the one before Victor only had four tentacles. This might have not seemed like valuable information, but one had to consider that an adult beholder would have at least ten tentacles, and the stronger ones had more.

"You abnormality, are not allowed to leave this place." The beholder said.

Victor did not know what the beholder wanted, as he even thought he had defeated the final boss, but after listening to the beholder for a while, he realised what the problem was. Also, he found out something interesting, as it seemed like this monster was the one managing this dungeon. Since beholders were a race that hated others that differ from them, even though it be a fellow beholder, they had natural hate for other creatures, and each of them also thought of themselves as the strongest or in some cases the pinnacle of strength. The fact that he had cleared the dungeon this beholder managed had gotten to it.

'This one is certainly a younger one, and is not as intelligent and wise as I thought beholders would be, probably because of its immaturity.' Victor said as he believed he knew why the beholder was even there to begin with. n0𝒱𝖾𝓵𝓤𝓢𝗯.𝓬0𝐌

'So basically, it's a case of inferiority complex.'

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The beholders are a race with high magical affinity, and the stronger ones have terrifying magic contained in their eyes that would end a person's life once if they were to use it. The thing with this situation was that Victor was unsure what the magic contained in the eyes were. If this happened to be a strong beholder, even though it was young, it would still be quite fatal as Victor was nowhere strong enough to face one.

The fact that beholders should be at the level of powerful dragons was already a problem on its own, and if the sense of this world is similar to that of earth, its centre eye would nullify all magic, but this was not earth, and the knowledge from earth doesn't always help here. For one, there were very few people whose powers concerned magic, the majority just had their abilities, and he only possessed skills.

Victor was a little positive, and could see a way for him to win. Even though his skills were to be negated, he still had a way to win the fight. Even with the destructive magic contained in the beholder's eyes, its only strong suit was its magic, its body was as weak as any normal monster. If he could get close enough, he would be able to change the battle scaling.

'First of all, system.' Victor said in his mind while listening to the beholder talk, though he didn't exactly understand what it was trying to prove for the most part.

[Chaos Tenaise Level 100].

'What the fuck is with that level? And this thing is supposed to be a youngling.' Victor said in his mind. The level was just unreal. The thing that was not as Victor expected however was the fact that this creature before him was not a beholder, instead it was a Tenaise, whatever it was. It didn't matter what the creature was, it looked like it would be the same as a beholder, so he would just treat it the same. It was better to be safe than sorry.

Seeing as the beholders are creatures that are magic oriented with bodies that are very susceptible to physical attacks, and the fact that Victor literally had no magic for it to use its anti magic field on, he was ok to an extent. Maybe this fight wouldn't be as difficult as he thought.

From what the thing had being rambling about ever since, it was basically expressing how Victor was inferior and a worm and how it self was basically godly. The moment Victor even moved a step, one of the eyes of the tenaise shot a ray towards him, but thankfully, he was fast enough and dodged. The area where the ray had hit completely crumbled, and a hole was created in the ground.

Following that ray attack, the tenaise shot two more beams, Victor dodged the first one, while the second one hit him as he almost avoided it.

'Crap!' He screamed as the beam hit his body. Victor was sure that his body would meet the same fate as the ground a few seconds ago after the beam touched his body, but nothing happened.

[The enemy has tried to induce fear with their skill]

[You are not affected]

Seeing this, the fight had become more easy than Victor originally thought. Even with all the power a beholder held, it still had many loopholes that allowed for them to be defeated without risking too much, using some kind of cheat moves here and there. If anything, Victor himself and many other people from these worlds were cheat on their own, as they didn't have to worry about the beholder's anti magic field, and with some people possessing powerful abilities, the beholder would be an easy monster to beat. Well, as long as it wasn't an adult.

Victor moved quickly around, collecting stones, and when he was ready, he threw the stones one after the other, and when they got close he would cause them to explode. The beholder was smart and knew that it had to avoid the stone, but with its slow speed, it was useless for it to even try much.

'I heard these things had a death ray or something like that, that kill you in one strike. Well, let me show this guy my own death move.'

Victor shot towards the tenaise so fast that it must not have even had the time to react, and grabbed it with his hand while pushing it to the ground. As they fell, he used his skill Touch of death, and that was it. After a few seconds, the tenaise died, and the crack which Victor heard about appeared where the drake slept.

[You have killed Chaos Tenaise]

135,000

He picked up the tenaise corpse, and without wasting anytime began eating away and swallowing. He hurried back out of the dungeon before it completely collapsed. While heading back, Victor could not help but think about his fight with the beholder. Even he had thought that it would be a fierce fight, but in the end it turned out to be so easy. Thinking of it now, there were just too many ways to beat the creature. Alas, this wasn't some game where certain creatures were favoured. In the actual world, certain rules are not enforced, and some creatures that are meant to be powerful turn out to be like this. Besides, it wasn't a beholder to begin with, so it was sort of understandable.

[You have killed the dungeon master]

[You have been free from the effects of the dungeon]n0𝑣𝚎𝗅𝔲𝒮𝗯.𝗰0𝔪

[You have been marked]

Seeing these notifications pop up, Victor was satisfied by the first two, but the last one was a bit different. What did it mean by he was marked? That was something for later anyway, for now, getting out of the dungeon was the main agenda.

Victor hurried back through the various floor, utilizing all the short cuts he knew. The closing of the cleared dungeon wasn't instantaneous and took some time, but there was no need to be complacent. There are some cases when the time it takes for a dungeon to close is shortened, and then it leads to people dying. Victor wasn't sure he would even be able to escape if he was sucked into the crack. There was no need to test it either.

[New sample detected. Analysing sample]

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