The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak
Chapter 44: Ch 44: Eighth Floor (1)

After reminiscing about the past, Celestine fell asleep while putting her head on Rein's shoulder. After that incident, she trained under Rein and was able to control the summoning of that calamitic monstrosity after six months or so.

Actually the calamity that she summoned was not the strongest form of the calamity and was actually a weakened version. With enough time, that calamity would regain more and more powers, so Celestine also needed to train more and more if she wanted to still control it in the future.

That was why she was a perfect match for Mona as both of them had the needed determination and free time to train all day long in order to gain powers as fast as possible.

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Then the next day Rein, Tasha and Stella bid goodbye to Mona and Celestine and went back to the city of Lentearia and decided to stay here for the time being. The next item on their agenda was clearing the hard dungeon they were facing.

This dungeon had a total of 18 floors and they had only managed to clear 7 of them so far. So they were not even halfway through it.

All the members of The Conquerors took out their tokens and teleported to the eighth floor of the dungeon immediately. After teleporting, they found themselves in the middle of the vast desert.

But this desert was filled with yellow sand like a normal one, but the sand making up this place was pitch black.

There was also a vast sky over them but unlike the normal sky, it had no stars or anything else and was completely dark. So, the whole floor was covered in darkness and it was very hard to see anything here.

Rein, Tasha and Stella all had eyes that could see perfectly in the dark. This was a very basic thing most individuals were able to do after reaching a certain level of power. So this darkness was not supposed to be anything problematic for them.

But for some weird reason all three of them were having trouble with the darkness here. Rein judged that the rule of the dungeon was probably responsible for this. But when he used her eye of Truth and Stella used her Eye of Clairvoyance, they were able to see everything properly again.

So, even though the rule of this floor restricted regular vision, abilities related to vision were not affected and were a perfect counter.

So, only Tasha still had a limited vision here and with Rein and Stella continuously updating the network about the location, she was very much capable of shrugging it off.

This black desert floor was extremely large. Rein also noticed that this floor had a time dilation effect. If they spend 5 hours here, that would only be a little over an hour outside. So the difference in time between this floor and the outside world was almost 5 times.

So, the conquerors decided to take their time exploring all the nooks and crannies of this floor. As Rein had expected, the monsters attacking then were all specialised in stealth and tried to take advantage of the darkness to sneak attack them.

If Tasha was facing this dungeon alone, with no counter against the vision restriction law, then she might have faced a tough challenge, but with Rein's and Stella's detection skills making all the hidden monsters visible, their progress was very steady.

All the monsters that that had found so far were at the level of being a purple grade transcendental monster. At the very bottom of the transcendental rank. They also did not have any special abilities except for their ability to hide in the darkness.

After making some progress in the desert, they came across a village-like structure in the middle of the desert. That village was not empty and monsters that looked like black lizardmen were living inside.

It was also a fortified village and from their observation, all the lizardmen living there were at least indigo grade transcendental monsters with 10 blue grade transcendental and one green grade transcendental leader.

So with the village fortification, they would be a tough enemy to take on in a frontal attack even for the conquerors.

For that reason, instead of attacking head on, Rein and his lovers decided to use a roundabout method to destroy the village's defence first before attacking it head on.

Tasha took the lead for this with her assassination skills and Stella was supporting her by using her Eye of Clairvoyance to tell her about all the things surrounding Tasha.

While that was happening Rein was busy preparing a delay light magic spell that would attract the attention of the lizardmen when the conquerors would actually begin to attack the village.

This plan went super well and Tasha eliminated the guard posts one by one and planted some explosives for a nasty sudden surprise. When everything was ready, all three of them attacked from three different directions at the same time.

Immediately the calm lizardmen village became noisy. They had no idea how their well guarded defensive line was broken and the enemies were able to enter their main base. But all these lizardmen were brave warriors and they fought back without any fear.

Ten lizardmen who looked bigger than the others were leading them. Not only those 10 were larger, they also had dragon-like wings on their backs and were capable of flight. This gave them a good view of the battle situation and they were able to give precise orders.

Yes, the law of this floor only affected the challengers and the dungeon monsters were still able to see perfectly.

Rein took on four of those blue grade commanders and Tasha and Stella took on three each. Very soon they started to kill them one by one.

When Stella killed the fifth commander with her spirit arrow, a loud roar came from the centre of the village. Then the large house present in the middle was broken and an extremely large 12 meter tall lizardman came out from it.

This lizardman was very bulky and filled with muscles. Its body was also filled with spikes and horns. It looked more like a bipedal dragon than a mere lizardman. The power emanating from its body was also immense.

The five remaining lizardman commanders grouped up with their chief and the first attack that the chief made was a full powered dragon breath of the darkness element. Rein used a light elemental barrier to nullify this attack.

As soon as the lizardman chief joined the battle, the conquerors had to slow down their rate of destruction. But that was all. The lizardmen were still getting destroyed and were not giving Rein's group any troubles.

Rein started to fight with the lizardman chief and focused only on him. While he was doing so, his beloved lovers were taking care of all other opponents.

Very soon, Rein had cornered the lizardman chief. He then used "Sword King Art: End Horizon" to cut off the chief's head. At that exact moment, Tasha also used her "Dagger King Art: Blink Severance" to decapitate all the remaining lizardmen in front of her.

Stella was also not be outdone and used "Bow King Art: Rain of Arrows" to wipe out all the lizardmen of this village. With that this lizardman village was completely destroyed.

All the three of the conquerors showed off their weapon mastery while winning the battle. Then they started to search the village for any valuables.

After thoroughly looting the village, Rein, Tasha and Stella left it happily. The amount of loot they were able to replace was insane and they were very happy about it.

Not only that, but Tasha was able to replace a map that indicated that two more villages were present in this desert with the same power level. So they would be able to get such good loot two more times.

They were also able to replace a triangular shard and after analysing it with his Eye of Truth, Rein was able to replace that they needed two more such shards in order to get the access to the next floor, which he was sure they would be able to replace in the next two villages.

So their journey continues on the eighth floor.