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A wide grin spread across my face and I stepped into the room. My foot steps thundered through the room due to how heavy my armour was and the monsters all stopped feeding, whipping around to look at me, and a split moment later, growls, howls and roars resounded through the room, eyes a glowing crimson red with rage glaring my way before they rushed me.
My eyes were on the golden rooster though.
It was about forty or so feet away-
It moved.
Something seemed to shimmer around its thin legs and feet, before a split moment later it sped forward, a blur to my eyes.
Fast!
Even with my stats in the D-five hundred range, I could barely track it with my eyes and if it got passed me there was no way I was catching it!
I don't think I'd be able to hit it right now at all physically either way.
It's a good thing I have options. And that I'm standing at the entrance so it needs to come towards me to get through me.
With my face guard still up, I took a deep breath, drawing upon my magic energy, compressing it within my chest and then exhaled, throwing my head forward and releasing a wide spread wave of flame from my mouth.
The flame breathe ability I received from the first Infant Dragon magic crystal I devoured. I could use it in two ways, a weaker area of effect style like I am now, or a stronger, more narrow compressed version.
The Jack Bird's speed wasn't great enough to get to me and passed me before the flames swept out over the room, washing over the golden feathered bird, the goblins and kobolds alike, howls and roars of agony filled the cavernous room, but were soon to die down.
I licked my now dry lips and admired my handiwork when the flames sputtered out. Dozens of charred and steaming monster corpses littered the floor of the pantry room.
"Yes!" I pumped my fist into the air and cheered when my eyes landed on one very specific monster corpse.
That of a now charcoal black feathered corpse.
I quickly made my way over, ignoring the smell of burnt flesh as best I could and picked the corpse up. The gauntlets I wore, were made with clawed fingers and so I used them to rip the corpse open and pull out the magic stone.
As I did, the corpse burst into black smoke and a golden coloured egg fell towards the ground which I caught before it could.
The golden egg, the guaranteed drop of the Jack Bird. I don't know what exactly it's good for, but the guild will buy it for a full million valis!
I eyed the golden egg with a massive grin and excitement thundered in my veins, 'With this, I'll be able to buy a bunch of monster crystals and still have loads left of cash left over.' I thought gleefully.
Hell, I could probably use the money from this egg alone to buy a decent house for me and Hestia.
I don't think I will though. I think I'll save up for now until I have enough to purchase a big ol' mansion.
Call it personal pride, but Bell won Hestia a massive luxurious mansion, formerly belonging to Apollo.
I need to get her one at least on par with it or better, or I'm a failure as the captain of the Hestia Familia, right?
'That's what the store is for.' I thought. He'd keep some of the valis from the egg back for personal things for him and Hestia to make life more comfortable and entertaining, and use the rest to buy monster magic stones to power up with and for renovating the store when he got it.
Grin on my face widening, I chowed down on the Jack Bird's magic stone, stowed the golden egg in my loot pouch and then started pulling the magic stones from the rest of the charred corpses littering the floor of the pantry room.
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When I was done with looting the corpses of the monsters within the pantry and devouring them, I left it behind. While I was super stoked about the golden egg, I still had plans.
So into the deeper floors I ventured.
I stayed in the fourth floor briefly to kill a few dungeon lizards. Huge brown scaled lizards the size of a standard dog that could cling to any surface. I'd killed a few before already in the last few days, but got my magic stones mixed up and ended up trading all of theirs in and not eating any.
I rectified that before I moved on down to the fifth floor, where things in the dungeon began to change a bit. The first to fourth floors were blackish brown and there was little light.
It was a lot brighter on the fifth floor and the walls shifted into a shade of light green.
It wasn't really a bother to me with how dark the upper floors were, since I had night vision, but for others, even if the monsters got a bit stronger, it made fighting a bit easier.
The fifth floor while brighter, didn't really have any new monsters, it just spawned goblins and kobolds, albeit, larger and stronger than the ones in the above floors.
And so it didn't take me long to arrive at my real destination.
"This is it." I found myself standing before a staircase leading down to the sixth floor. I looked at it for a moment, before shrugging my armoured shoulders and making my way down.
When I reached the bottom, I immediately found myself in a wide spread square shaped room, despite it being just the entrance to this floor, it was already wider than the largest room of the first floor, the pantry.
Crack!
Crack!
Crack!
As I was observing the room, I heard the familiar sounds of stone cracking and the walls broke apart to reveal three shadowy figures.
They were tall and thin, with inky black jagged claws and one singular glowing red eye each. They looked like the Getsuga Tenshou had formed into near humanoid shapes.
'War Shadows, they can sink into shadows and can't be hurt by physical attacks.' I thought, remembering what I read of them from the information book I got from Ron.
Well, they could be hit physically in one spot. Through the eye, where their magic stones were held. If he punched through there and destroyed it physically, it would kill them all the same.
But that would defeat the purpose.
Since War Shadow's had one of the abilities he wanted the most. Really, the only ones he wanted the stones of more than a War Shadow right now, were of a Blue Papilion…or the Goliath.
The ability to create healing powder, which I could heal others with and make a killing from and the power of regeneration.
Enough said.
Thank fuck for Infant Dragons.
I took a deep breath just as the trio of War Shadows rushed me and then exhaled, releasing a burst of flame from my throat that swept over all three of them as they got close.
Piercing shrieks echoed through the room for all of a second, before disappearing entirely.
When the flames died down, it was to reveal a trio of small magic stones laying on the ground.
I wasted no time in picking them up and devouring them.
"One down, four to go." I mused.
Three of them I could find on the seventh floor, a Killer Ant, a Purple Moth and a Blue Papilion. But, the last one I could only find here on the sixth floor.
A Frog Shooter.