Hero of Darkness

Chapter 38: Setting High Goals

Kahn stood before the Bromnir Dungeon again. It was the same dungeon where he killed the first batch of people from his contract, hunted Kobolds, created new Subordinates and evolved Omega into a Lycan.

Unlike yesterday, Kahn did his research properly this time. He gathered information available in the Adventurer Association about all the dungeons in near 50 kilometers of Flavot city such as the total floor levels, dungeon bosses and what kind of monsters laid in those dungeons.

The Bromnir dungeon had a total of 15 floors as per the records he found in the archives. The records on dungeon boss were no longer available as the last team which made it to the final floor was nearly 28 years ago and no other team managed to go past the 14th floor despite having hundreds of people in their teams.

If it was anyone else, they'd find it an impossible task to accomplish because nobody would be able to fight for that long and would eventually get exhausted. Plus the monsters were more dangerous with each increasing floor.

But unlike anyone that came before Kahn, none had the Divine Ability called the Synthesis which would not only help him merge different skills, but create new subordinates and even evolve them further with time.

Kahn knew that he couldn't do it alone even if he was as strong as Arkham or Solomon so he was going to use his Divine Abilities to his advantage.

As Kahn entered the dungeon again under the disguise of an assassin, he headed straight for the 10th floor. After he killed the 9th-floor boss, the silver kobold; it'd take 15 days for it to respawn so there was no point in hunting on this floor. And Kahn's strength was already higher than when he came here yesterday.

As soon as Kahn reached the 10th floor, he used concealment and started looking for a good hiding place. Even though there were lot lesser people here compared to other floors, it was still better to be cautious than being sorry.

The 10th floor was completely different from the previous floor. The whole setting for this place was like a maze and walls made of stone slabs. If he walked in one direction, he would never know if he'd find a way out.

"Ronin! Jugram! Oliver!" shouted Kahn and the rogue, berserker & ranger subordinates jumped out from his shadow.

"You two go left and we'll take the right. If you find two more ways, then split up." Kahn commanded as he and Oliver took the right path while Ronin & Jugram took the left one.

Since Kahn had the Mind Link ability he got from Synthesis which allowed him to share the vision with his subordinates, he was going to use it to save time and search for the right path.

He and Oliver treaded from various turns and junctions in the maze but still failed to find a way out. Just then, he saw a path from Ronin's sight which lead them out of the maze. Kahn decided to go to Ronin's location with his other subordinates.

For the next half an hour, he kept searching and running through this enormous maze & even came across many traps. Since Oliver was a ranger who possessed skills specifically made from setting & defusing traps, he was spared of the unnecessary hassle of falling victim to these traps & wasting time to get past them.

Just an hour later, Kahn had escaped from the maze because of his shared vision through mind link and then saw a giant cave-like entrance in front of him.

MHAAARR!

could hear plenty of shrills coming from inside

activated Shadow Walk and mixed inside the dark shadows of this entrance

from this floor.. So

The Nymphs.

completely white and crawled on 3 legs that had sharp and strong pointy hooves, no different than metal pikes and spear tips; a sharp set of teeth that dropped gooey yellow liquid from the mouth. From what he read, these creatures fed on blood and flesh to live, they would even do cannibalism if it ensured their survival. Their insect-like appearance

no eyes, their senses

hid his presence in shadows, Kahn knew he'd have been

his presence, he finally reached the end of the floor and found a large space infested with these monsters. More than 200 nymphs were crawling on

the swarm of crawling monsters, stood a giant Nymph which had 8 legs, its tummy no smaller than a size of a full-grown elephant and had long

Nymph was the floor

hundreds of these nymphs.] Kahn spoke to himself with a complicated expression on his face as

numbers of total nymphs were close to 400. More than enough to wipe out a party of 50 to 80 veteran fighters. Just entering the inner parts of this cave alone was a difficult part and half the people

kill it?] Kahn questioned as he started thinking of a strategy

the heat signatures, right?] Kahn remembered and

to hide. After he came out

group of the crawlers shrieked and charged at him

spell from his palm in the

BOOM!

cave shook after this loud explosion that occupied 10 meters space and burnt the nymphs alive. And because of this, all the other nymphs started gathering to

bigger in just 20 seconds, Kahn

traveled to the

you, come out!" Kahn commanded and all of his subordinates except Rudra came out of his shadow since

keener than the others so it quickly sensed the approaching group of enemies and

attacked with his Shredder Claws and the Six

be there

mage skills as well so he throw fire spells at the Nymph boss that agitated it and caused a lot of damage. Blackwall being the tank with his skills like