Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 176: 31st floor

A threat from the silent Lucian may seem like any ordinary threat you hear in a bar fight or a street brawl, but if we factor in the gentle manners of Lucian and his scarce precious words, that threat becomes more terrifying than the god of death himself.

Yunan was grateful for Lucian, although he knew that his family would not betray him, the point of betrayal is that it is always unexpected, if you expect it then it becomes treason. Moving this out of his mind Yunan was very glad for the last week, he consulted the Black Fate about his new status.

"All attributes: 4600, skills: plenty, spells: plenty, notes: that is some good growth, don't burn out too fast. Armor: evolutionary (6th evolution), new abilities: sound attack (focused sound waves from echolocation), symbiosis (armour and user are now connected on a higher level, each empowering the other), mana immunity (thanks to the mana saturated flesh of the titanic shark, the armour now is able to use pure mana to shield from all spells, the full saturation takes time to achieve and part of it would be shaved off with each blocked spell).pets: Drogon and Sapphira are full of vitality and can be summoned to fight any monster up to level 50 without any trouble. Notes: the obedient gentle cat and the adolescent dragon can be a good team."

"Explain symbiosis please!" Yunan ordered Black Fate, "the user sacrifices 10% of your mana pool at all times to be used by the armour, the armour can use that mana to operate at maximum capacity and store the rest of the mana in cooperation with the genie from the private dimension, the armour would be able to cast spells instead of the user and the user would be able to use all of the armour abilities without invoking the power of the armour. The user will have reinforced growth and ability while the armour would get enough mana to evolve to its next phase without relying on unpurified mana."

It was hard not to like these new abilities he got, but the thing that got him worried was the probability that the symbiosis with the armour would lead to some sort of complications or side effects that can result in some unfortunate events, but for now, it was beneficial so he let it slide.

In the treasury, Yunan looked at the mountain of empty chests and the mountain of pearls beside it, he made the genie put them away in a storage room to be accessed only later on, before he left, Yunan made 4 more stargazer chokers each unique in their look, he sent one that was made fully from stargazer pearls to Fortuna.

He sent Reina one that was made from the skin of a white snake and a black pearl, a white pearl, a sky blue pearl and a blood pearl surrounding a stargazer pearl. Lili got a choker made of polished coral and a stargazer pearl at each direction the last one went to Fae, it was made from elder wood, carved into the shape of a climbing vine with different coloured pearls like hanging fruits and the stargazer pearl as its origin.

As for Ophelia and Kitty, he still didn't know what would look good on them, in his eyes that is, so he postponed making something for them until he had that image in mind.

After leaving the house, Yunan headed for the guild to buy a map for the next floors and ask about the bosses of underwater floors, he was surprised to find the map denoting only the descent route and nothing else, as for the boss, they said that there was a group that killed a 100 meter long shark but there was no chest in the location as for the map who would want to roam shark-infested waters.

Yunan wanted to laugh, if a 100-meter shark was a boss, then this floor would have an endless number of bosses, the same for the other floors, the biggest thing they fought was only a few miles away from shore and not far enough to reach the boss cage.

Yunan thought for a bit then headed to the 31st floor, on the way there he met Sarah and her friends struggling against a 30 meter long shark, they again asked for some help reaching the 39th floor where one does not need to fight to gain attribute points, according to them, but Yunan was busy and he only killed the shark with a well placed a lightning ice spear into its forehead before proceeding to leave the floor, the 31st floor had much lower land mass than the 30th and was populated solely with adventurers camping there, the place was a large cave with a small pool that works as an entrance to the floor, the stairway down was across the small pool.

Yunan dove into the pool after activating his echolocation and the detect danger new functionality added thanks to the pearls, diving down slowly with the help of his tail and wings as rudder and pedals. After leaving the cave system Yunan swam upward to the surface where he found the floor fully submerged with no signs of shallow water life like the previous floor, and he only encountered his first target by going to further away from the entrance location.

The first monster was a killer whale, an orca, a black and white mammal that is the best hunter of the seas, the floor also had some variety of large prey fish like tuna that served as a spice for those relying on the dungeon for food. The orca Yunan found was a 10 meter long and was not aggressive, so Yunan left it alone, however, it still attacked after Yunan turned his back, fortunately, he was prepared for this and fought off the monster and killed it using his swords.

Not long after the orca was killed, a pack of them surrounded and attacked Yunan, most likely because the orca were pack animals and always lived in groups except when hunting. Although they had a better experience in hunting underwater, Yunan could still limit their numbers to keep them in the challenging spectrum.