Infinite Dungeon Evolution in a Game-Like World
Chapter 36: Shadow
[System Requirements to Complete Dungeon Break]
[Attack Location: Raven Town]
[You are required to cause 20 percent damage to the town]
Kael looked at the system. For the first time in a very long time, it did not actually ask him to kill. All he had to do was attack the town and cause some damage.
"Twenty percent should not be too hard, I think," Kael muttered.
"Alright, how many monsters do I have the right to take out?" he asked.
[You are to release a minimum of five hundred monsters. Each floor can only release a hundred monsters at max.]
"Shit, I knew you would find a way to make this difficult," Kael muttered. He knew what the system wanted. It wanted to find a way to still tie his hands down a bit and ensure that he killed humans.
"Sigh, there is no other route to this. I’ll have to attack with a hundred from floor one down to floor five. I’ll ensure that there are no special monsters or any guardian monsters."
He paused for a moment to scan the floors and know which monsters actually filled each of the floors properly.
The first floor carried the lowest monsters: slimes, kobolds, and goblins. Kael would have gone with the slimes, but the amount of slimes that spawned on the first floor was somehow even lower than the others.
For every ten goblins he saw, he would see a slime. There were simply not enough of them to use. There were barely up to twenty slimes at the very moment.
"Tch, fine. The slimes will still have to go. The rest can be a mix of kobolds and goblins."
When he was done with the first floor, he checked the second. Only goblins and kobolds again, only this time they had gear and weapons on their bodies.
"Sigh, there is really not much that I can do about this floor. It has only two monster types, which are stronger versions of the goblins."
He moved on to the third floor, and what was there was simply goblins, hobgoblins, and evolved kobolds. But he could get away with using the ones that had not yet evolved because there were still a lot of them.
"I guess that works," he said and then moved to the fourth floor, and this was where everything changed. He could no longer simply pick.
On the fourth floor, hobgoblins, evolved kobolds, goblin champions, skeletons, and a few more monsters lurked there. Their strength was vastly higher than anything on the lower floors. There was no escaping it; this floor would for sure cause issues.
"I’ve tried my best to limit the blow, but there is sadly a limit to what I can do," Kael muttered and moved to the fifth floor, and the air, as usual, shifted.
Undead skeletons roamed with weapons in their hands and flames in their eyes, eager to take down whatever came their way. Goblin champions were there in high numbers, and so were kobold generals, a step above the evolved ones.
There were barely any hobgoblins in sight, but he saw a few minotaurs in different sides of the floor.
"Shit, this floor will definitely cause a lot of issues."
He wished that he could somehow manage to change this and make it better, but there was really no way to do that.
Now that he had the monsters that he wanted to take out, the next step was to find out how the attack would work.
As he was about to start that phase of the planning, Violet and William walked into the dungeon.
"They came back? I hope they don’t hate me now," he muttered to himself as he opened a passageway for them and helped them find him. But the moment they walked into the passage, he also sensed a shadow follow them in.
"What the? I’m sure I saw something there. Are they being followed here? And they don’t know?
I should help them out, but I can’t even sense the person that’s following them properly. This person is far too good, managing to escape even my view."
Violet and William walked into the place they normally met, and immediately after they arrived, Violet initiated the spell faster than she normally did.
"Are you there?" she asked.
Kael did not reply to them. He was scanning his walls for the person that had followed them, and when he finally found them, they were somehow fused into the walls.
"Someone followed you," Kael said.
The person heard as well and immediately moved fast, trying to get away. Kael tried to attack and stop them, but like before, they vanished into the walls, and the farther they went, the harder it got for Kael to track them. They managed to escape right before his eyes.
’Shit, I allowed them to get away,’ he thought to himself.
William and Violet were still stunned by the fact that Kael said someone had followed them. Both of them were extremely high-level, and it would be extremely difficult for someone to trail them without them knowing.
"Are you sure there was someone?" William asked.
"There was, but they are too good. They managed to get away from even my perception. That’s not something you can do easily.
Whoever that person is, they are definitely not simple, and I think both of you should really watch your backs," Kael warned.
William and Violet became tense.
"Did you see their face or what they looked like?" William asked.
"No, I couldn’t. Either way, they seem to have left the dungeon, so you can rest easy for now.
I’m guessing that you came back because there was something you wanted to say to me or something you wanted to hear from me," Kael said.
"Yes. Also, I’m sorry for leaving the way I did. I could not wrap my head around what could possibly be the reason for you to do this. I still do not understand the reason, but I’m willing to hear you out and see how I can help the town."