Chapter Size: 2452 Words.]Third Person POV32th Floor, Dungeon.
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He tinued on to the thirty-sed floor, staying alert as he explored the dark and mysterious corridors. With each step, the presenonsters became more intense on each floor. Through his life dete spell, he could see the corridors filled with them in the darkness of this pce. Lucius advanced cautiously, relying on his skills and spells to face the immi dangers.
On the 32nd floor, darkness was the theme of the pce, a panion shadow that enveloped every passage when Lucius chose not to summon his Fme Atronach. The enviro was marked by a sinister silence, broken only by the subtle murmurs of the numerous monsters gathered in siderable groups, ranging from 20 to 40 creatures. A small impending horde that required caution.
Lucius, aware of the immi danger, advanced with ing. Suddenly, shadows began to materialize in the ter of the room, revealing the presenohat detected him through the magic emitted by his Magelight. Without hesitation, the wizard was ready to respond with agile movements and summon his new magic.
*Lightning*
*Lightning*
*Lightning*
*Lightning*
*Lightning*
*Lightning*
*Lightning*
*Lightning*
*Lightning*
*Lightning*
In the instant the monsters rushed toward him, Lucius acted quickly. A series of lightning traps, skillfully positioned when he saw the first movements of the monsters, began to explode in sequence, illuminating the corridor with bursts aric sparks. The sound of thunder roared, eg throughout the floor, alerting the mohat something was wrong; no mohat fell into the trap survived.
But Lucius didn't stop there. Again, strategically distributed lightning traps created an imperable electrical barrier for the monsters approag after the initial attack. The corridor became a flickering battlefield, with the crackles and bursts of lightning cutting through the air. Lucius, firm in his position, used the itent lighting to monitor the movements of the hordes.
As the monsters advahe corridor lit up with fshes of electric light, revealing an impressive spectacle of dang lightning. The horde of monsters, posed of Vios, parasitized Power Bulls, Grand Treants, Worm Wells, Spartoi, Barbarians, Lizardmaes, Obsidian Soldiers, Skull Sheeps, Loup Garous, and Furry Ones, was hit by a devastating series of lightning traps.
The lightning danced frantically, burning skins, bones, and scales. The corridor filled with the spectacle of thundercps, apanied by the agonizing screams of the monsters. The pulsating and shimmeriricity hit the horde, creating a chaotic se of destru.
Vios and Power Bulls were struck by lightning wheraps exploded, burning their skins aroying them to death. Grand Treants, even though immobile, trembled uhe iy of the rays, while Worm Wells tried to dodge but were caught by the traps in their path without being able to react.
Spartoi, Barbarians, and Lizardmaes, sidered dangerous warrior monsters, were enveloped by lightning, their agile movements and bat abilities proving useless against the electric force. The Obsidian Soldiers, with their solidified va bodies, were also affected, their defenses diminished by electricity. Skull Sheeps, Loup Garous, and Furry Ones, each with their unique characteristics, succumbed to the thuorm.
Seeing that the electrical traps kept the monsters at bay and were very effective, Lucius kept a smile on his face. "This is really useful, and to think that all the monsters on this floor are ing here..." He tio summon more traps, filling the corridor with purple runic circles with a myriad of lightning ready to explode. The spectacle of light and thunder tiurning the battle into aric symphony eg through the dark corridors of the 32nd floor.
The corridor, once shrouded in darkness and sinister shadows, became arified battlefield. The st of burning flesh permeated the air, and the sounds of monsters beirocuted echoed through the corridors, creating a symphony of magical destru. Lucius watched, always maintaining the rhythm of pg more traps to repce the previous ones, especially wheire floor was verging in his dire. He withe spectacle of the electrical energy wave sweeping the enemies in front of him.
While the monsters attempted to advahrough the electrified corridor, Lucius didn't just keep throwing more traps. Using his newly acquired spatial ability, he swiftly swept all the magic stones from the floor, st them in his small dimensional arsenal along with his belongings, adding the soultrap effect to them.
It was only after dozens of mihat the onsught subsided. With the battle won and the 32nd floor explored, Lucius decided to tinue his jourhe goal was to reach the 37th floor, fag new challenges and gaining more experience along the way.
Lucius could hardly believe how he cleared the entire floor using only traps from his new spell, so effective without needing to leave a single corridor—just deploying magical traps. Now, having explored the altar on the 32nd floor and renewed his strength, he decided to test his new spells on the growing challenges of the dungeon. With fiden his newly acquired abilities, he advao the 33rd floor, where the darkness seemed dense and pulsating.
Upoering a wide corridor, Lucius noticed subtle movements in the shadows, as expected. Without hesitatioivated his [Lightning Trap/Rank 3] spell again. An invisible magic circle was drawn on the floor before him, ready to discharge its electricity on any intruder.
The experience gained on the previous floors allowed Lucius to adapt quickly to the new nuances of the 33rd floor. He faced groups until the floor was cleared before advang into the darkness of the 34th floor.
The 34th floor posed a different challenge, requiring not only the power of his spells but also his ing and strategy. This floor featured a series of intricate and challenging chambers, each with traps and puzzles. Lucius, now familiar with creating magical traps, used his skills to overe the obstacles.
The stant sound of traps being activated echoed through the corridain as Lucius advanced, dodging physical traps aivating magical ones with precision. He faced clever creatures, such as Goblin Trapmasters, who tried to surprise him with ing ambushes, proving that the deeper you are in the dungeon, the smarter the monsters bee.
Oh floor, Lucius found an area filled with magical illusions challenging his perception. Illusory creatures appeared and disappeared, fusing the mage's senses. Using the spell he had bee specialized in through thousands of deaths on the previous floors, [Lightning Trap/Rank 3], he strategically created magic circles to reveal the hiddeures, zapping them before they could hide again.
Each floor presented a new set of challenges, but Lucius, with his adaptive ability and his new arsenal of spells, persistently pressed on, achieving a solo raid that no one else could at level 2.
Upon reag the 37th floor, Lucius felt something new, something arising within him, simir to when he was oermediate floors and developed the charged attack ability. Lately, he had been focused on Riveria's notes and began to prehend a new cept that maed as an ability, among his existing ones, a new one emerged.
---Abilities---? Blessing of ?????? (es Any Mana Cost)? Charged Magiagic for 2 Times its Cooldown and Release 4x Strotack)? Mana Zone (???????????)-------------------"This...?!"In addition to already iing with the magical threads present oh floor, it was wheered the deep floors that he began to get a better sense of these abilities. On the 32nd floor, while Lucius faced hordes of monsters using his electrical traps, he began to notice a subtle ge in the magical currents around him. The magical energy seemed denser, as if waiting to be accessed and shaped like he had never seen before. fident in his abilities, Lucius decided to iigate this sensation.
As he focused his attention on the magical currents, Lucius noticed that his ability to sense mana was improving at that moment. He began to perceive subtle patterns in how magical energy flowed through the enviro, fueling the spells around him. It was a glimpse of the hidden potential that Riveria mentioned in her notes.
Fag the monsters and maniputing his traps, Lucius experienced a deeper affinity with the ambient mana. He felt as if he could extend his magical awareness beyond the limits of his internal magic pool, toug the vastness of the surrounding magical energy.
This gradual uanding of "Mana Zone" began to crystallize in his mind during enters on the 32nd floor. The sensation of maniputing atmospheria tthen his spells became an intriguing and challenging idea.
As Lucius progressed through the corridors and faced the challenges of the 32nd floor, he tio explore this new magical perception. Upoering the 34th floor, he reached a crucial moment in his journey. With deep tration and firm i, he sciously attempted to ihe "Mana Zone" he had felt bubblih the surfaagical reality.
Oh floor, fag two battles, Lucius eled his magi a unique way. He felt the magical currents around him responding to his call, verging to create a magical zone around him. The atmosphere responded, and the "Mana Zone" maed, transf the ambient magical energy into a resource accessible to Lucius.
Feeling the intensification of his magical power, Lucius uood that he had successfully unlocked the "Mana Zone." Now, he could draw mana from the atmosphere tthen his spells and cast magic that reviously beyond his capability.
"But the skill is still inplete... I o enhance my knowledge..." He said, looking at the skill identified as ?????? in its effect; he could even summon magical particles, but the ability was still inplete.
Determio further refihis newly discovered ability, Lucius tinued his journey into the deeper floors of the dungeon. Eater, a ce to be empowered by the "Mana Zone," offered opportunities for him to explore and expand the limits of his newly awakened skill.
"Hey, there's someone ahead of us!" Lucius heard a voi the corridor as he faced a new group with his traps. This put him on high alert; these dungeon corridors were dangerous, and although it wasn't very rare to enter a group here, it would certainly be a group full of level 3 and 4 adventurers, something that could be dangerous for him at the moment.
So he tightened his grip on his sword and pced many traps on the ground before fag the approag group. The corridor ahead was illuminated with a group of raiders, including dwarves, humans, and even some elves, appearing before him. Lucius sighed when he saw who they were.
"Hm?! I wonder what a level 2 mage is doing alone iermediate floors..." A pyful voice sounded from the group, with a person stepping out and appeariween Lucius and the others.
This was Tsubaki Collbrande, a half-dwarf and half-human ander of the most powerful on supply family in Orario, the Hephaestus Familia. Lucius already had some history with them, to the point that he was niamed an enemy of the family. Still, he sighed; Tsubaki didn't seem like someone who would attack him.
"I see... The Hephaestus Familia is returning from a raid..." Lucius ented.
"And you're doing yours... But I'm really surprised, a level 2 on these floors. I heard of your exploits in Rivira, but seeing you here in person is truly remarkable."
"Who is he, Captain Tsubaki?" Someone from the group asked, everyone was stunned seeing someone solitary on these dark floors.
"He is Lucius Drakenar, someone many of you sider an enemy of our family, but as you see, he's not just anyone. I would be careful if any of you pn to face him..." She said with the same pyful smile.
"..." Lucius remained silent.
"And those things on the ground... Very clever, he pced a bunch of traps on the floor... I don't know how he do that, but even for me, it's dangerous to be caught by all of them..." She started ughing; the traps were invisible, but surely a level 5 adventurer would detect them.
"I'm alone on these floors; I have to be wary if a group of adventurers attacks me..." Lucius replied holy; he couldn't afford to falter here.
"Uandable, clever, that helps with survival. Anyway, this sword in your hand... Welf made it, didn't he?" She had an even more pyful tone.
"Yes, he crafted it." Lucius responded calmly.
"Hehehehe. Iing. Anyway, let's take a detour around the area. The mage here filled the pce with traps, something I 't bme him for." She said ahrough the side of the room with her familia still looking at Lucius cautiously.
After everyo, Lucius sighed and tinued his path after undoing his traps.
As he advahrough the dark corridors of the same floor, now that he saw he was alone, he began to notice a ge in the architecture around him in ahe dense darkness gave way to a majestidscape, and Lucius found himself before an imposing structure.
Before him stretched the Colosseum, a grandiose stru that evoked the majesty of a Greek arenas, something created by the dungeon itself. Tall and eborate ns supported a series of impressive arches, creating an atmosphere that blended architectural grandeur with the feeling of an immi battlefield.
As Lucius approached, the resonant sounds of growls echoed through the passages, whispering about formidable challenges awaiting within the Colosseum. The mage, now equipped with his newly discovered "Mana Zone," felt the magical iy emanating from the structure as well; the pce was entirely magical.
The open gates of the Colosseum revealed a stunning sight. Monsters of various shapes and sizes faced off in brutal frontations, creating a spectacle both terrifying and fasating. Vios, Power Bulls, Grand Treants, Worm Wells, Spartoi, Barbarians, Lizardmaes, Obsidian Soldiers, Skull Sheeps, Loup Garous, and Peludas, each tributing to the cacophony of rrunts, and magical sounds.
Lucius realized that the Colosseum was not just a physical arena; it was a magical proving ground. Monsters employed various magical abilities, challenging each other in duels of brute strength and magic. The atmosphere was imbued with the magical energy released by the cshes, providing Lucius with a unique opportunity to test his "Mana Zone" in a challenging enviro.
He walked up to the pce, knowing that these monsters couldn't leave the structure, but as he approached, the system issued a new challenge for him.
[Ehe Colosseum and survive for specified times without leaving.][10 minutes – 1 million points.][50 minutes – 5 million points.][100 minutes – 10 million points.]"So many points!" Lucius almost couldn't believe his eyes.
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