The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

After entering the twelfth floor, the conquerors found themselves in the middle of a cemetery. Tombstones were everywhere they could see and the atmosphere of this place was cold and depressing.

As soon as they appeared here skeletons and zombies crawled out of the ground probably after detecting the life force of living beings. Normally skeletons and zombies were low level undead monsters with very limited combat prowess but the undeads here were not those low level undeads.

The skeletons who came out were Primeval Skeletons who were thousands of years old and the zombies were Ancient zombies. So even though they looked just like normal undeads actually all of them were transcendental monsters.

But they were only purple grade ones so for the conquerors they were not that big of a deal.

Actually after deploying two, almost three yellow grade monsters on the eleventh floor, the dungeon master would not be able to deploy any super strong monsters for the next few floors. So this floor might be easier to clear than the previous ones.

But still Rein and his lovers did not let their guard down and advanced carefully on this floor while taking out any undead they came across. For some time they only encountered skeletons and zombies, but soon other monsters started to show up.

And just as Rein and his group had expected, all of them were undead monsters.

Ghouls, Wraiths and bone chimeras were indigo grade and the undead bone and zombie dragons were blue. All in all the difficulty of this floor was equivalent to the other floor that they were clearing at the very beginning, so definitely the difficulty of the dungeon had went down by a notch.

After defeating most of the monsters, they finally reached a place that looked like a delapidated castle at the middle of the cemetary. After entering from that door they found themselves inside a large throne room like hall and a skeletal being was waiting for them on the throne.

This was one of the strongest undead creatures with extremely powerful magic and command skills. It was called an Archlich Overlord. But then again this was only a green grade transcendental monster and was nothing too special for Rein and his group.

Stella had a magic duel with it and she managed to get the victory in that duel quite easily too.

Just like that they managed to clear the twelfth floor very easily. Compared to other previous floors, it was a cakewalk for the conquerors.

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After leaving the twelfth floor, next they challenged the thirteenth. Here they found themselves in the middle of the lake. Surrounding the lake, that could see four areas.

One area was a semi-desert and was extremely hot. Another area was completely opposite of this and was filled with ice and cold. Among the remaining two areas, one was filled with flowers and looked like a paradise and the area opposite to it was barren with almost no greenery and bare trees all over.

It was a very sad sight.

The previous floor was a letdown for them but this one looked interesting. They also immediately got a message about how they could clear this floor.

All of the regions represented one of the four seasons and had a special flower inside it which they needed to find. One flower would be blooming and that plant would also have an unbloomed flower bud. The conqueror needed to find a way to make the buds bloom.

After they were able to do it, they needed to return back to the platform in the middle of the lake where they were currently standing to offer the four flowers here. Only then the gates to an underwater palace would open. Inside that palace they would be given the next set of instructions.

From the looks of it, this floor was going to take quite a lot of time to clear as all four of the areas were as large as a whole nation. Finding a flower in such a vast area was extremely hard.

Not only that but they knew nothing about the flowers they needed to find except for how they looked. And after a simple glance at the spring area, Stella was able to see at least five types of flowers that looked almost like the one they needed to find in that area.

So the search was definitely not going to be easy. And even then they needed to clear the underwater palace after that.

So without wasting any more time, all three of them separated and went to search the area they were most well suited for. Stella chose the spring area as she could discern the real flower from fake using her Eye of Clairvoyance.

Rein went to the winter area as the flower there might be covered in snow and his Eye of Truth would be useful in that case and Tasha went to the autumn area as there she would be able to put her extremely good nose to use.

Stella was continuously using her Eye of Clairvoyance to observe the whole spring area and was sorting out flowers one after another. The flower she needed to find in the spring area was a pink flower with petals shaped like hearts and unfortunately many flowers of this area had these features.

Heart shaped petals were not uncommon and the same was true for pink coloured flowers. There were also many flowers who had both of these characteristics. So Stella was really having a hard time searching here.

And as the whole region was filled with flowers, she needed to go through a lot more than anyone else. Stella had really taken on the most difficult area to search.

After searching like that for a few more hours she decided that this type of straight forward approach was not going to work. If she kept searching like before, who knew how many years she would need to go through this whole vast area. So she decided to try a few different methods.

First she decided to use a wind magic spell to collect all the different fragrances from the air. The flower they were searching for was special, so the whole area only had one single flower of this kind. So Stella decided to first detect which areas had only a single flower of one kind.

After that she needed to see if that single flower was present in any other area or not and if the answer was yes then it was not the flower she was looking for. And if she was unable to find a flower of that kind anywhere else, then there was a high chance that it was the flower she was looking for.

This method was quite well thought out and she was able to dismiss various areas where no single flower was present. Just like that, she was able to use that method to lower her options down to only three. These three were the only unique flowers present in this area.

Then Stella went to see all the flowers and to check if they were the spring special flower or not. And her checking left her extremely bewildered. None of the three flowers that she had managed to find had any resemblance to the spring special flower she was looking for.

She did not expect this outcome at all.

She once again went to all the areas, where other single flowers were located to see if she had made any mistakes or not but it turned out that she really had not made any mistakes.

Now, there were also only two possibilities why Stella was unable to find the flower. Either this was a flower with no smell or it was inside a place that stopped any scents from leaking out.

If her first assumption was correct then it would be extremely troublesome and Tasha would have a very hard time finding her flower. As for her second assumption, her job would not be as difficult.

This flower really looked like something that would have at least some kind of smell, so she was quite confident in her second assumption and she started to search for places where this flower might be.

This approach turned out to me the correct way as very soon Stella was able to find a cave that was hidden from everyone's view with a high level formation. As soon as Stella entered the cave, a faintly sweet and unique smell came to her nose.

In a corner of this cave, she saw a plant with a blooming pink flower and a flower bud on it. This cave had quite a high amount of money and other things inside too but obviously the spring special flower was the best thing she managed to find here.

But obviously she was not going the leave the other valuables behind too so she stored everything in her inventory.

Just like that, Stella was done finding the flower she was looking for.