The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Immediately she looked at the direction from where she was feeling the danger and saw a massive monster flying toward her. This monster looked like a slim soldier beetle with a scorpion-like stinger on its behind. It was called Housyxan.

This monster was extremely fast and was coming toward Lauren at an extreme speed.

Seeing this Lauren immediately judged that she would not be able to run away. And from the intimidating aura it was releasing, this monster was definitely rank 2. Lauren had zero chances to win against such a monster.

She knew that even though this monster was extremely strong, her life was not in danger. Rein would definitely make sure to kill it before it could hurt her. But that would make her lose the challenge and she would not get a chance to go on a solo date when Rein.

So, she decided to do her best to run away from this monster. The only silver lining was that currently she did not need to protect Rein as fighting against a rank 2 monster while protecting someone was almost impossible for Lauren.

She needed to make the first move to get an upper hand on the monster. So she decided to start the battle with many weaker spells to judge the magical defence of the monster. It had an exoskeleton so it probably had high defence, but just to be sure she needed to check it out.

Just as she expected, this monster had a very high magical defence. This was a bad news for a mage like her. Even if this beetle had weaker physical defence, Lauren did not have the ability to take advantage of it.

So she decided to use some tricks to run away. The area where she was currently standing had become bare due to the intense battle between Lauren and the Scoriadia. So she used a wind magic spell to scatter the dust around her toward the coming monster's eyes to temporarily hinder its vision.

But her plan was unsuccessful as with just a powerful swing of its transparent wings, a strong gust of wind blew the dust away. In desperation Lauren used a spell called "Wind Strider" and small explosions on her feet to run away as fast as she could. She did her best and pushed her body to the limit.

She also used the dense forest to slow down the Housyxan.

Her plan was somewhat successful and the monster did slow down a bit but it's speed was still faster than Lauren and the danger to her did not decrease. Very soon Lauren was almost about to get skewed by Housyxan's stinger.

Immediately a sword slashed and the mighty rank 2 monster immediately died. Rein had judged that Lauren would not be able to hold on anymore so he decided to finally step in. Actually Lauren did extremely well. This monster was not just any rank 2 monster but was a powerful mid rank 2 one.

So if it was a regular rank 2 she might even be able to run away. That was something truly amazing.

Among the people participating in this rank ascension test, Lauren was definitely the strongest if we take the conquerors as an exception.

Be it the human with 10 shadow familiars, an experienced warrior or even the expert scout of a mithril rank team, none of them would be able to win against Lauren.

When Rein was forced to intervene, Lauren lost the challenge. She was fine with wearing anything that Rein wanted her to wear but she was sad that she would not get to enjoy a solo date with Rein.

Rein and Lauren had already found the items that they were searching for and now they just needed to spend one more day inside the forest to finish this ascension test.

Obviously doing nothing and just waiting was boring, so Rein created a barrier to isolate their presence and Rein and Lauren both spent the remaining time by indulging in each other's body.

Elves had a low amount of lust if they were virgin, but any mature elvin women were mostly very sexually active. On the other hand, humans were always lustful almost all the time. As a half elf with human lineage, she had inherited both of these qualities.

That was most probably the reason why Lauren was extra lusty, but like most elves, after getting satisfied once, she could last quite long without getting horny again. If that was not the case then she would not be able to focus on her research anymore.

And just like that Rein and Lauren were done with their second test.

...

The mission Tasha was given for her gold rank ascension test was to hunt down a bunch of bandits. None of those bandits were gold ranks and the only advantage they would have against even a silver rank was their numbers. Only their leader was a true silver rank.

So as an ascension test, it was quite an easy one.

The distance where she needed to travel in order to get the bandits was also not too far, so she did not bother with teleportation and went there by running. She wanted to finish the job as soon as possible so she was going to give her all.

That was obviously a nightmare for the bandits living in that area as Tasha hunted them all down. Actually the group she was supposed to hunt down was conspiring with other bandit groups of that area to create an extra large bandit gang by merging all the groups together.

So, Tasha was not sure if just killing the members of the previous group would be enough to finish her ascension mission or not. So just to be safe, she ended up destroying all the bandit groups of that area.

Stella's mission for her platinum rank ascension test was to clear a dangerous zone. This dangerous zone was not as strong as the "Dreadful Touvic Woods" as the strongest monsters present here were at most rank 4.

This dangerous zone called the Konvic plains had a massive number of rank 6 and rank 4 monsters. And if the number of monsters exceeded a certain threshold then they would overflow from the dangerous zone and would threaten the nearby settlements.

For that reason, the adventure guild sent adventurers to clear out the rank 6 and rank 5 monster population every now and then. And that the exactly the job Stella was given for her mission.

As this mission involved rank 4 monsters it was harder than Tasha's mission. But if a person was discreet in clearing away the weaker monsters without making much fuss then this mission was very much possible to finish.

Obviously as a powerhouse, sneaking around was not something Stella was willing to do. First of all with her power level it was unnecessary and most importantly she was in a hurry to finish this mission as soon as possible and sneaking around was very slow.

So, Stella went on a rampage in the Konvic plains and ended up slaughtering most of the monsters there. The nearby settlements would not have to worry about monster attacks for quite a long time after this.

This was how all the members of The Conquerors ended up finishing their mission for the second test.