Chapter 22
The four of them were now standing in the 10th floor of the Dungeon lair of Cronus
Lisa
"This time it's a Karst cave design"
Sreya
"But, i don't see the gate, and this floor is huge"
Lisa
"I dont sense and type of illusion magic or anything "
Riley
"THEN THAT MEANS"
Merlin
"Yes, its a boss room"
Boss room: under normal circumstances it's impossible to know the number of total floors in a Dungeon. One would need to resch the boss floor to discern the number of floors in a Dungeon, although every dungeon is unique, they still have fundamental similarities in the boos room
Riley
"There's nothing here, not even a single monster, let alone a boos"
At that very instance the floor started to shake
Merlin
"YOU JINXED It ❗️"
The floor beneath their feet started to crack as something started to dig out of the ground far from where they were standing
As the boss surfaced, all four of them were shocked completely
"Is that a....." said riley
"Thats a earth dragon, and ancient one at that"said merlin
"Ancient?, is that a bad thing" asked sreya
Merlin
"From the previous floors,its easy to interpret that this Dungeon was made 3 centuries ago and was recently discovered"
Lisa
"Which would mean that this dragon has lived for 300 years
Dragon's are the only species that have their magic sources situated in the head, these are the only creatures who can use pure natural mana. After a dragon reaches maturity, it will keep getting stronger every year,
There are two types of dragons, aerial and earth dragon, earth dragon are the wingless dragon and the weaker one of the two
Merlin
"No way, we are supposed to fight that thing"
Riley
" its not fair"
Lisa
" I can defeat that dragon"
They all looked at lisa for confirmation
"If i get 2 minutes for preparations, I can defeat that dragon"
Riley
"Are you sure"
Lisa
"Completely sure"
At that instance the dragon rushes towards the group
"Alright.!, you heard her" said riley as he too rushed towards the dragon with his sword in hand
After the dragon got closer to him, it used its talon to strike at him, which riley was able to parry
Riley
"Damn,.my hands are shaking"
The dragon immediately went for another strike with its other talon, which was faster, stronger and riley didn't have enough time to react to it
A shield was formed just in time to protect riley and stooped the other talon
Taking the chance riley jumps back to make distance,but, the dragon follows him with its talon
Riley
"Merlin !!"
Merlin rushes in and deflects the strike of the dragon, resulting in an Shockwave putting merlin off balance
" d*** it*
She gets tailed whipped into the wall.Force of impact was so immense that the wall was shattered and she suffered many injuries
Riley leaped towards the dragon, but, the dragon opened its jaw to crunch at riley with its sharp and strong teeth,, he was moving towards the dragon midair and couldn't change his direction
"SHit"
"Peeeeeeeek !!!!"
The dragons open jaw was closed suddenly due to the kick of the ostro, merlin and sreya exclaimed in shock
"What?"
"It cant be!?"
Riley taking the chance slid across the dragons face and thrusted his sword in an eye of the dragon, before jumping back to makes some distance, ostro too ran away from the dragon and stood beside riley, who was completely impressed by the ostro say as he pats him
"Amazing!!"
The dragon groaned in pain as it screamed, it charged up for an attack, merlin notices the odd behavior and alerts the others
"That dragon is going to use SAND BREATH!"
Sreya
"NO WAY"
SAND BREATH is an dragon breathing attack which creates a deadly sandstorm, a sandstorm so dangerous that it fills the lungs and organs with sand in a short amount of time, causing death
Merlin screams as she advices everyone to cover their mouths and noses no matter what
The whole floor gets consumed by a sandstorm which causes blindness and everyone covers their noses and mouths, which made breathing heavy for them
The gushing sandstorm was soo strong that it rendered them unable to even move
At that moment due to mana burst the whole sandstorm subsides revealing that they were now standing in a different place from the floor they were on before the sandstorm filled the room
The group was now standing in a place where the ceiling of the floor was replaced by a black night cloudy sky and a blue moon shining
" Source Expansion magic "
All three of them looks behind to see lisa enveloped by mana, and couldn't believe what they were witnessing
Merlin
"What, happened to you lisa??"
Riley
"Soucre magic!? What's that "
Lisa remained silent and quietly walked towards the dragon. Her focus and concentration was soo deep that neither the fear of the dragon, nor the confused and unsure faces of her friends was enough to break it
She came near the dragon with such speed that it was difficult for eyes to follow. After taking a firm reverse grip on her spear sceptre Vongeruzroa! With immense concentration of mana she calls out the name
"Death Stinger"
As soon as the death stinger makes contact with the dragon it completely evaporates the whole earth dragon and Shockwave continuing to destroy everything in its way
Riley, sreya and merlin were render speechless, they couldn't believe their eyes, the first time they saw a while dragon being wiped out. They ran towards her as the night sky dissappears replacing the ceiling
Merlin
" lisa !! What was that!?"
Lisa
"I dont know how to explain it.."
Merlin
"Oh girl you better!"
Lisa
"Fine! Actually I've recently stumbled upon a type of magic at einvalla library which was new to me, so i gave it a try and it worked! But, it turned to be quite powerful, even i didn't expect this"
Says lisa as she looks at the now destroyed wall
Sreya
"Do you mean, you don't understand this magic completely "
Lisa
"Yes, but, death stinger is a technique combined with my mana..."
The whole floor shook up and collapsed before they could react to it
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They were lying unconscious somewhere that seemed like a pit and the ostro was trying to wake them up, but they didn't so it
"Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!"
They started to wake up after hearing ostro's scream of love and used illumination magic to light up the place
"Whe-re the heck are we, merlin,riley. Sreya sre you ok!"
Merlin
"Yeah I think so"
Lisa
"Let's me heal you guys first"
As lisa was healing them riley looks up to see where the fell from
"Damn, I can't even see the end, just how far did we fell"
Merlin
" and how are we gonna go back?"
"Hey, there's a path over there"
Says sreya after she looks around and sees a path
Riley
"We have no other way, but to take the path, you guys got any suggestions "
Merlin
"Its practically impossible for us to climb back up"
Lisa
"We can only take this path"
Sreya
"But i sense weird mana coming from there, its a given but we need to treat as if our lives are at strike every second "
Riley
"Its settled, let's go"
The all went with the dark path as they had no other choice, the path was unsteady with their feet hitting stones, after a while of going through the path they stumble upon a door
Riley
"What the!"
Sreya
"What's a door doing here"
Merlin
"This could be part of the Dungeon"
Lisa
"It could, but then again it couldn't, we need d to be careful, very careful"
"I'll open it"
Said riley as he goes and opens the door, the door slowly and carefully opens revealing a large room with a gigantic tree with its vines and roots overgrowing everywhere
At the bottom of the tree a head of a man with its hands were coming out as if he died stuck in this tree