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!

shrills coming from

quickly activated Shadow Walk and mixed inside the dark shadows of

expect from this floor.. So he wasn't surprised when

The Nymphs.

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

creatures had no eyes, their senses detecting everything based on

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

of the floor and found a large space infested with these monsters. More than 200 nymphs were crawling

a giant Nymph which had 8 legs, its tummy no smaller than a size of a full-grown elephant and

tall giant Nymph was the floor

deep without fighting hundreds of these nymphs.] Kahn spoke to himself with a complicated expression on his face

enough to wipe out a party of 50 to 80 veteran fighters. Just entering the inner parts of this cave alone was a difficult

started

the heat signatures, right?] Kahn remembered and planned

space to hide. After he came out of the shadows,

shrieked and charged at him

AoE destructive spell from

BOOM!

this loud explosion that occupied 10 meters space and burnt the

got even bigger in just 20 seconds, Kahn shot another Firestorm spell, activated Shadow Walk again

traveled to

all of his subordinates except

sensed the approaching

Shredder Claws and the Six

small nymph army that Kahn had distracted would be there in

lot of damage. Blackwall being the tank with his skills like Taunt