In an instant Eren's senses spread across a 5 km radius.
Countless numbers of presences were detected in an instant.
Unlike inside the dungeons, monsters in the wilderness were of numerous types.
'Mm?'
Unlike his previous presence detection skill, his current senses even allowed him to sense the strength of monsters within this range as well.
'This is interesting!'
This new ability made him completely ignore weaker ones and directly aim for the strongest in the range.
'Wait! Can I combine this with my concealment authority?'
Thinking of that, Eren mustered his spiritual energy and spread it around his whole body like layer upon layer.
In an instant the gigantic, terrifying and majestic silver wolf that stood in the middle of the forest slowly dimmed and completely vanished within a few seconds.
'Wow!'
Eren couldn't see his own shadow anymore.
The whole world surrounding him lost its color and became black and white.
Even he couldn't see his body despite sensing every part of it.
Light directly penetrated his body, erasing his existence from visibility.
'This is how it works!'
Growing more curious, Eren started to run towards the direction of the dungeon while constantly sensing if any strong monster was nearby to test his skill.
Eren passed by countless monsters in a very short span of time.
[Ironhide Boar Lv.10]
[Thornback Lizard Lv.12]
[Razorleaf Mantis Lv.15]
[Bloodfang Hyena Lv.16]
[Stoneclaw Badger Lv.19]
[Embertail Fox Lv.21]
Countless monsters were on the way, completely oblivious to Eren's presence.
'These monsters really can't sense me!'
Becoming more satisfied with the new authority, Eren's attention shifted to a monster that had a bigger presence than anything he had sensed.
When he got closer to the monster, he saw its appearance.
A massive ten meter long snake with heavy scales covering its entire body.
Faint purple-colored vein-like structures could be seen within its scales.
Its head was triangular in shape and its mouth was filled with long serrated rows of teeth.
Eren could immediately tell how dangerous it would be if he was bitten by it.
[Voidscale Basilisk
Strength: 65.0
Agility: 57.0
Spirit: 75.0
Constitution: 73.0
Beast Skills: [Void Gaze] [Abyssal Venom] [Voidscale Armor] [Tail Devastation] [Abyss Breath]]
'It's an area boss!'
Eren immediately recognized it.
He had already gotten very close to the monster but it still couldn't sense him at all.
"SSSSsSRRRSS!"
The Voidscale Basilisk was currently preying on a monster.
[Dreadhorn Bison Lv.18]
But it had no idea that another predator was eyeing its whole neck at that exact moment.
Even its tongue, which could pick up the scent of all creatures, seemed to be not working, failing to alert it to the immediate danger.
At the very moment the Voidscale Basilisk was about to launch its attack, its own neck was perfectly caught by the huge predator that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
Two huge fangs that emitted a strong golden light easily penetrated its tough scales that had protected it countless times before.
'[Heavenrend Bite]!'
Eren used more than 20 spirit points in a single attack.
It was the first time he had put this much spirit energy into a single strike.
Blood immediately splattered all over the place.
Crackkk Crackkk
The bones of the monster were instantly crushed without even giving it time to move its body and strangle its enemy.
[You have slain the area boss [Voidscale Basilisk]...]
[Gained 2800 Life Essence, Voidscale Fragment5, Abyssal Serpent Skin 2, Basilisk Eye Crystal1, Mid grade spirit stone100]
[Random reward Multiplier triggered...]
[Random number 314...]
[You have gained 879,200 Life Essence, Voidscale Fragment1570, Abyssal Serpent Skin 328, Basilisk Eye Crystal314, Mid grade spirit stone31400]
'It's already over?!'
Eren blinked in confusion.
It was a Level 25 boss monster, yet it went down in an instant.
The blood of the boss monster slipped into his mouth, giving him a strangely tasty sensation on his tongue.
Without even realizing it, he drank some of the blood.
'It was too easy...'
Eren thought at least the area boss would try to put up some fight before it died despite the attribute difference since it was a boss monster.
But he was wrong.
Eren even felt kind of let down realizing how absurdly strong he had become.
'I don't feel the excitement I felt before. Is it because the prey is too weak?'
'Then I should stop wasting my time on weaker ones and aim to finish off the boss. I believe a nightmare difficulty boss should put up a decent fight.'
Having decided, Eren stored the corpse of monsters into his ring before marched towards the dungeon's location.
The wind was cut through by his sheer speed as he ran.
The surroundings moved way too fast.
Eren estimated his current speed to be around 120 km per hour, which was the maximum speed of a cheetah in his previous world.
What's even more astonishing was that he didn't feel tired at all.
Surrounding monsters let out frightening cries as a terrifying wind passed by them, yet they still couldn't see him at all.
In no time, Eren arrived before the massive circular wall that had been built around the dungeon entrance.
Although the dungeon was located deep in the wilderness, it didn't mean that it was left unguarded.
Inside the wall, watchtowers were positioned every hundred meters.
In total, eight watchtowers were keeping an eye on the surroundings.
No alarm or warning appeared as Eren entered the range.
Eren returned to his original form and entered sneakily, following a random group.
There was only one main gate built into the wall that allowed everyone to enter.
Everyone orderly submitting their details before they moved into a long narrow corridor called the Detection Passage.
"Tsk, each and every time we come here, we have to pass through this..." One of the party members complained.
The leader of the party consoled him.
"It can't be helped. The association being wary of external threats is perfectly reasonable... There are countless people out there with ill intentions who try to enter dungeons without getting noticed."
"They have also done a lot of damage in the past. That's why these Detection Passages came in handy. They can detect presence, spirit, sound, and everything to identify unauthorized entry. Using this, the association prevented a lot of damage in advance."
Eren broke into a cold sweat as he passed through the corridor, but let out a huge sigh seeing that no alarm was triggered the entire time.
'My concealment authority really worked well!'
After passing through all checkpoints, a long reinforced tunnel led directly towards the dungeon gate.
When everyone arrived at the location, they saw four groups of people sitting on the floor.
"Hey, Roderic!"
A burly man from one of the groups stood up and waved towards the leader of the party Eren was currently tagging along with.
"Cedric!"
They exchanged pleasantries with each other before Roderic asked,
"So, do you know how many people are ahead of us?"
Eren perked his ears as he listened closely.
"Hard difficulty, right?"
"Yep, as usual..."
"You are lucky. All of us are waiting for our turn to raid normal difficulty. Three teams are ahead of us currently, but for you guys, you can enter the dungeon once the current raiding party exits."
Eren understood what they were speaking about.
Every difficulty of the dungeon only allowed a certain number of people inside at the same time.
The four teams before them were all waiting for their turn to raid Normal difficulty, while Roderic's party came for Hard difficulty, and another party was already inside raiding the dungeon.
About Nightmare difficulty, no one spoke about that.
Eren instead went towards the dungeon gate, waiting for someone to enter or exit from nightmare difficulty so he could sneak inside.
The color change of the dungeon gate would easily point out not only the difficulty someone chose, but it could also alert everyone that someone had entered the dungeon.
So he waited calmly, but no one came out or entered the nightmare difficulty.
The third team that waited for normal difficulty already entered the dungeon.
'Come on! Why is no one choosing nightmare difficulty?'
Eren became frustrated as he waited more and more.
Then suddenly the dungeon entrance changed into the color of deep blue.
Four people walked outside of the dungeon one by one.
Their clothes and armor were worn out, their complexions were extremely haggard, yet every one of them wore a huge smile on their face.