Earthling in Uncharted Dimensions

Chapter 174: Wyverns, Minotaurs, Safrogors & Ghouls

'Okay, noted. Intelligent and dangerous.'

Glancing back at the Map, Lee rotated it around and saw a bunch of 17 Minotaurs guarding a specific region in the second floor. They were wielding double edged axes and had a full scale armour and helmet on them. Their very stance yelled out that they were protecting something. Moving the Map a little forward, the situation was clear for him.

A bunch of weapons and ornaments were placed like a heap in a corner of the cave. Zooming in on the heap, Lee found that those weapons were belongings of the adventurers and cultivators that were able to enter to the second floor, but could not leave alive. There were rusty swords, blunt spears, broken axes and many more in it.

'D, if I can provide materials, can I experiment in the Workshop with a reduced Essence cost?'

[Certainly. The Workshop can be used for inventions, without the fear of explosions and consequences. There is an assistance algorithm that would help you to simulate your experiments.]

Lee decided to make sure to take that heap of metal objects when he sweeps clean the floor. But he still needs to find a way to avoid the Minotaur's keen sense of smell and acute hearing ability.

The Safrogors were sharing the Aluminile's body among themselves. A few Wyverns tried to scare them for some meat, but an elder Safrogor stood up and raised his club onto his shoulder. It was a warning to not mess with them.

The Ghouls were agile and thus managed to survive among these larger monsters. They were less in population and fed on the leftovers of the other's meals. At tough times, they would attempt an attack over other species, and would mostly end up in a one sided slaughter.

'No matter how much I perfectly disguise, their sense of smell would detect me. I cannot use any other substance to mask my smell, because that would alert them all.'

According to D's explanation, Lee cannot kill any one of the monsters, or he will be the target for their coordinated attacks. If he managed to kill them all, the Dungeon Crystal would step forth like a mega boss character. Thus his only chance was to defeat them without literally defeating them.

Lee was also aware of the benefit of taming theWyverns. He would be glad if he could get the Minotaurs as a bonus. If the larger two are in his hands, then Safrogors are his puppets. But he decided to leave at least one boss level species on the floor, which was Ghouls. Their agility and adaptability to situations would help them to easily grow into major boss categories.

Looking for a way, he opened his stats panel and went through it. While skimming over his elemental affinity panel, Lee saw a specific word that lit a bulb in his head.

'Idea!'

Lee immediately summoned the Workshop and started to design some new kind of object. The design was quickly completed as the use and function was precise and concise. When he paid Essence to manifest the first one, it cost him 4970 Essence.

'For a greater good.'

10 more copies of the object were made and a total of 54670 Essence were used up. Without any delay, the pale pink coloured metallic spheres rose into the air and dashed into the cave.

The moment the flying balls entered the cave, the last two ones to enter inside, exploded with muffled a-

*puff..*

A faint pink coloured dust was scattered throughout the entrance of the second floor and Safrogors and Minotaurs heard this faint sound. Before they could register what that was, the left 8 metallic spheres were divided into four parts and two pink balls shot forward, towards their targets.

A series of muffled explosions resonated through the second floor.

*puff.puff...*

The air attained a faint pink colour as the monsters tried to stab and bite the flying particles. Before they realised, the monsters began to fall down one by one. By the time the monsters recognised the property of the dust, the entire Minotuar and Safrogor population had been knocked out.

The Wyverns tried to fly up into the air, but the dust particles were added with homing function. Even though they reached a safe height, the sedative dust had gone inside their noses. Some of them sneezed violently while trying to put up a desperate fight.

*Roar*

The moment Lee was waiting for, arrived. He was eager to see how his calculations about the Snow Wyvern had gone as planned. Through the map, he saw the Snow Wyvern raising its wings and flapping vigorously, which did not keep the dust at bay. Without wasting a second, the beast spewed out fog and snow.

Against all invaders to date, the Snow Wyvern's breath attack was effective. Since the wind could not stop the weird dust from coming closer, it guessed that the breath attack can do the trick. But contrary to its assumptions, the next instant was marked with confusion and roars.

The moment the fog touched the dust, it instantly cooled down to solid fog and settled down on the floor. If it was only the shape, the Snow Wyvern would not have freaked out. But the colour was completely unexpected.

The fluffy solid fog was pink in colour! The Wyvern which was accustomed with pale blue snow, cried out loud when the snow formation began to pick up pink colour. More it spewed out snow and fog, the more the quantity of the ice formed. And from the snow, a strong and penetrating smell arose. It rose up into the air and enveloped the beast.

Lee had considered every possible chance through which the beasts could resist the sedation attack. He thus had to create a very strong sedative that is powerful enough to knock down the beasts in a single inhaling. The spheres that were loaded with compressed amounts of sedative dust, was attributed with Flight and a simple code.

Lee had predetermined the position where each and every one of the sedation balls is to explode. He considered the chances of Wyverns flying up into the air, so he added a homing function for dust particles. His major concern was Snow Wyvern, for whom he prepared special effects.