The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Rein uploaded the status of the Azarath in the network but even without that Stella could feel how strong this monster really was.

Even though she did not have an appraisal skill like Rein, she was still able to immediately know the true identity of this monster just after taking a look at it due to her wealth of knowledge.

To properly know the ability of this monster, she needed to do some experiments. So she started her attack with a weak spell and kept increasing its power bit by bit to check the limits of Azarath's magic absorption.

At the same time she was saying the lightning, the light and the wind spirits to boost her speed to the maximum degree in order to dodge the frenzied attacks of the golden ape.

This monster was extremely strong physically, so taking a hit from it would not be a good idea for Stella whose defence was lowest among the conquerors.

Other than altering the strength of the spell, she was also using spells of various elements and elemental combinations to see if the magic absorption had any flaws or not.

So far it did not look like the magic absorption was weak to any particular attribute but the combined attributes were still to be tested.

The only good thing was the fact that with its massive body, the golden ape was not extremely fast and was easy to dodge with decent concentration. So with her Eye of Clairvoyance and boosted speed, she was able to keep herself safe while doing her testing for the time being.

After some time, the golden ape roared in anger after noticing that none of its attacks were connecting. Then it finally started to use different kinds of attacks rather than straight physical violence.

Its golden fur started to shine as the ape activated a skill. Immediately gravity around the monster increased by a degree. The area of effect of this skill was large enough to cover 80 percent of the whole arena and in that area, Stella's speed decreased by quite a bit.

A normal Azarath did not have a skill like that so normally this move would have taken Stella by surprise but Rein had already analysed this monster so Stella knew about this skill.

So she was not taken in by surprise but still with her speed slowed down, she was having a lot of trouble in dodging the attacks now. She needed to focus more on the ape's movement so the pace of her experiment slowed down quite a bit.

But the gravity increase was not the only skill that this ape used. He also started to increase a buff type skill that increased his physical prowess for a certain amount of time. And it was using this skill with perfect timing when Stella would not be able to dodge a buffed attack.

So in the process of experimentation, Stella got hit a total of three times. But fortunately she was able to use the water elemental spirit robe and earth and fire combination magma armour to defend against those attacks. But still she was able to completely negate the attack and took some injuries.

Currently she was trying to heal them with the light elemental spirit.

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But taking the risk by focusing on the experiment was completely worth it. She had managed to find valuable flaws that would not only help her in defeating this monster but it would also be a valuable discovery in the field of monsterology.

After performing various tests, she found out that the magic absorption of this monster was really very strong. It did not have any restrictions on what elements it could absorb or the power of the spell.

Even if this ability had an upper limit, Stella was still not strong enough to reach it as even her strongest spells were absorbed.

Not only single elemental spells but all her combined double elemental spells also got absorbed by this monster.

She was not sure if it could absorb chromatic affinities or not as she did not have a chromatic affinity but other than that it looked like this monster was able to really absorb all magic.

But there was a surprise when Stella used a combination magic of three elements. That was the first magic spell it was unable to fully absorb and got hit by it. The power of the spell was somewhat reduced but even then the monster took a decent amount of damage with this attack.

From this it was evident that the magic defence of the Azarath was not very high and it completely depended on the magic absorption to take care of magic.

For a being who had the ability to absorb all magic it made sense why it would not try to have high magic defence as that stat would most probably be useless for it.

That was the reason why Azaraths developed their physic to counter other physical fighters, but did not put any investments in the magical side.

So if a mage could cast a combination spell of three elements then it was possible for that person to defeat Azarath. Then out of curiosity, Stella tried a four elemental combination spell on it.

She combined fire, wind, and lightning and darkness to cast an original spell called "Storm of Destruction" and just as she expected it immediately killed the Arcane Crystal Golden Ape.

For a four elemental combination spell, Azarath was unable to lower its power even by one percent and died immediately because of its low magic defence stat.

With her extremely good magic control and combination spells Stella was able to do the impossible and defeated Azarath with magic and got the fifth and last battle fragment.

Next the conquerors needed to fight to get the divine combiner and only then they would be able to create the battle pass. For this round the conquerors had the option to choose one of them to fight and it was not random.

After discussing a bit with his girls, Rein decided to fight in this round by himself as he was most versatile among the members of the conquerors.

The penalty that Rein was given for this fight was that he was able to use his items in this fight. So he only had his magic and normal stats for the challenge. It did make him a bit weaker but he was still confident that he would still be able to without much trouble.

As soon as Rein entered the arena, a weird looking broken mannequin appeared in front of him. Then in no time before the start of the battle it suddenly blurred like a static and took on a different form.

Now it had a very handsome face with crimson hair and its eyes were shining with golden colour. He had an amazing figure for which every female would drool for. Yes, currently Rein was looking at no one other than his own self.

This monster was a very very rare monster called Gyyanuui or Formless Doppelganger. This monster itself was extremely weak, but it had the ability to transform itself into the form of the opponent it was facing and could replicate that person's various abilities.

It was known as one of the most annoying monsters to fight.

And currently it had taken Rein's form and it should have all the abilities Rein could use. It could not replicate the items and for that reason the dungeon master got rid of them as penalty. Now Rein and the Gyyanuui should truly be at the same level.

But after just a few seconds of its transforming suddenly this monster started to blur like static once again and soon it started to deform. Then it exploded and died without making even a single move.

The dungeon master had never expected the doppelganger to die so easily so he was completely flabbergasted. But Rein had already expected something like this to happen so he just went back to his girls after getting the divine combiner.

Rein's existence was special. Even though this monster was taking Rein's form, it was not actually Rein. And the inherent special abilities that Rein had was only his and no one else could use them.

So when the doppelganger tried to use one of his inherent special abilities, it was not able to handle the backlash and immediately died.

Just like that, the conquerors combined all the battle fragments and the divine combiner to create the battle pass and got the qualification to enter the twelfth floor. But before that Rein needed to pamper his lovely wives who gave their all and performed brilliantly on this floor.

So he pampered them for a very long time by abusing the time acceleration feature and had non stop fun seggs with them for a week straight.

Then after all three of them were completely satisfied, they finally got ready to teleport to the next floor and to take on their next challenge head on.