The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Even after learning the approximate location of the other two villages, Rein did not immediately attack them. He was planning to search the whole floor thoroughly, so no matter what, he was definitely going to come across the remaining two villages.

So instead of attacking the village he decided to continue doing their investigation of the floor just like before.

Outside the village, Rein's group were unable to find any other treasures at all even after searching the majority of this floor. From this it was evident that the main challenge of this floor was actually the villages and everything else was just there to act as minor inconveniences.

But still Rein was not hundred percent sure that the desert area did not have any treasure. There was a slight chance that this endless desert was hiding a very rare and well hidden treasure. So even if it was wasteful, he was still going to search every nook and cranny of this floor.

While doing their thorough search, the conquerors were able to find the exact location of the remaining two villages but did not attack them right away. Rein wanted to complete his search of the whole floor before challenging those two villages.

So that left them alone for the time being but before Tasha laid some traps around the villages.

Just as Rein was done mapping almost 85 percent of this floor, they encountered a very strong monster. It was a giant worm centipede looking thing and was quite troublesome with its ability to perfectly conceal its presence inside the sand.

Because of the special nature of the dungeon, even Rein was unable to completely see through the floor of the dungeon with his Eye of Truth. So when the monster hid its presence completely, even Rein was having a hard time finding it.

After thinking about some time, Rein came up with a strategy to defeat it. He decided to act as decoy to bait the worm with his light magic, which literally had a very dazzling presence in this dark desert. But still there was a big problem.

This monster was also a green grade transcendental monster just like the lizardman chief. So it was not an easy target to one shot and if they could not one shot it then it would just hide once again.

And Rein would not be able to prepare any attacks while luring the monster as it was quite sensitive and if it felt any sense of threat from Rein, then it would not take the bait. So Rein needed to be mostly harmless in order to attract it.

Stella would also not be able to hide her presence well enough to fool the monster's senses. So only Tasha could do a perfect sneak attack on the monster. So Stella and Rein gave her all the buffs they could and which would not affect her stealth before beginning the plan.

Tasha could one shot this monster if she took on her true Primal Beast form, but it had a very overwhelming presence which was hard to hide. So she needed to one shot this worm in her normal humanoid form.

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When all the preparations were over, Rein sat down on the sand and acted as if he was exhausted. He was also casting a weak light magic on himself making it look like he was trying to heal himself.

Tasha at that time hid her presence with her Black Dark magic and also with several pieces of equipment. If this monster was not almost immune to poison then it would have been easy, but now she really needed to give her all.

To deal maximum amount of damage to it she needed to use her weapon art. Actually none of their party members were very good at using weapon arts. Even when they fought like warriors, they mostly used magic to augment their bodies.

It was not like weapon arts were weaker than magic but as everyone from Rein's party had high talent in the magical field, they mostly used magic as it was easier. But for a mana sensitive monster like the worm, weapon arts was a better option.

Weapon users had their own ranking system based on their proficiency in their chosen weapon. One would start their journey as a novice and then after learning the proper way to wield the weapon, that person would become a practitioner.

After that one would become an expert after understanding the true way and then a master after completely understanding their chosen weapon.

But that was not the end but just the beginning. Only a master was capable of creating new arts and after reaching the peak comprehension of the weapon, one could become a grandmaster.

After attaining even great height, the next stage was saint and finally after touching the absolute pinnacle, one would be called a king.

All the conquerors were king rank weapon users but, to be honest, among kings their proficiency would be at the very bottom as it was not their main fighting style. But today, Tasha needed to use her weapon art to do it's best.

After seeing an injured and weak looking person, the worm casually came out of the sand to swallow Rein whole. Immediately Tasha attacked. She used "Dagger King Art: Blink Severance" and followed it up with "Dagger King Art: Wolf's Claw".

These were the only two king rank arts that Tasha had created and she was able to land them perfectly.

Her worries turned out to be false and the monster died from that attack. It was actually very confident in its senses. So when Tasha attacked it, its guard was completely loose. Rein was happy that the plan was a success and hugged Tasha and congratulated her.

After dismantling the worm, Rein was able to find a treasure chest inside its belly. And from that treasure chest he was able to find a powerful item called "Despotic Venon Orb". This item was perfect for Tasha so it was a valuable addition to her arsenal.

After killing the worm monsters, it did not take long for the conquerors to complete checking the whole floor. They did not find anything significant after the worm and now it was time to conquer the two remaining villages to get the qualification for the next floor.

The first village they were going to attack was a goblin village. The goblins living here were not green like the regular goblins but instead were dark brown in colour. This village's overall strength was actually lower than the lizardman village as most of the goblins were purple grade.

But their numbers were higher and the leader of the village was also Green grade, so the final difficulty was almost the same.

Tasha wanted to try her newly acquired item on this village, so Rein and Stella did not interfere and let her do her things. The Despotic Venon Orb could boost the potency of any poison to a greater degree. Tasha was an expert in creating fatal poison, so it was a perfect match for her.

She created a poison gas, boosted it with the orb and sent it inside the village. This strategy would not be so successful in the lizardman village as the average strength of the lizardmen were higher.

But for the relatively weak goblins, it was a perfect plan and almost 70 percent of goblins died by this.

Then Rein, Tasha and Stella attacked and without the advantage of their high numbers, the conquerors were able to easily clean them up.

The final village was filled with ogres and this village was definitely the strongest among the three villages. Poison was also not very effective against them so the conquerors did not use any complicated plans and just used frontal attack.

Tasha turned into her primal beast form and wrecked havoc. Rein and Stella also used one powerful AOE spell after another. As this was their last activity on this floor, they had no reason to be stealthy and they just went all out. Very soon the whole ogre village was razed to the ground.

That way they managed to find all three triangular shards and all three of them got the permit to enter the ninth floor. Then they rested a bit in the goblin village which was least torn down and after getting refreshed with a little bit of sleep and sex, they teleported to the next floor.

The Conquerors needed to spend a total of 11 days to conquer this whole floor and only a little over 2 days had passed outside.