My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1620-1622

Chapter 1620

There was a flash of light and the forth piece of the blessing appeared on each of our arms. I was still no closer to figuring out what this ultimate weapon was, nor why the Fey were after it. I also found no hint of Carmine. This was bad.

We had two more enemies to fight, yet, I could only find one more piece of the dungeon’s lore. The direction we were going put the dungeon boss room in front of the safe room, so I wouldn’t see the final lore unless I defeated the final boss, and by then it wouldn’t even matter. It was frustrating, but I already had a good idea of what the majority of the story was. We had one boss fight left, the SS boss, and then we’d be on our way to the dungeon master’s dungeon. If we were lucky, we’d get there before the fey reached the room.

The only saving grace that we had was that the Fey didn’t know we were coming. They were moving in the comfort of their fog, believing that we were clueless to their intent. They didn’t even know about the secret passage that was intended for them. The fact that it would be the enemy in the fey passage and the fey’s fighting the surface way only showed just how broken dungeons were, and how their intended story always ended up upside-down.

As we progressed, I started to realize that in some ways, this alternative path was more difficult. It didn’t have any safe rooms, so you truly had to follow it like a gauntlet, one fight after another without break. You couldn’t tackle an island and then do the next island tomorrow, or defeat all the enemies and wait for the morning after a night of rest to take on the boss. Of course, I could create a portal and return at any time, but for anyone who wasn’t a Blue Mage, it was harder to say which path was the easier path.

I had started to see this path as the true gauntlet, and the one above to be a smokescreen. Then again, it didn’t matter how you beat the dungeon. As long as you beat it, you got access to the lore at the end. The lore was the ultimate reward for defeating a dungeon. It wasn’t the treasure room as many dungeon divers thought, but the information the dungeon had accumulated that ultimately had value.

You could destroy the lore, ending the dungeon once and for all. You could copy the lore, sparing the dungeon but learning all of its secrets. You could absorb the lore, taking the dungeon’s power and forcing it to become yours. Finally, you could complete the lore, forging it into a blessing that would strengthen your soul in sometimes unpredictable ways. Each of these options was a possibility, far beyond the destroy or complete option I had been offered upon entering my first dungeon.

The walk to the SS-class dungeon felt a bit shorter than the previous ones. Was it because the dungeons were smaller and closer together, or had my mind been wandering that much? I didn’t want to think about it. To date, this would be the hardest boss I had to fight on my own. I was confident I could defeat it if I had my party of girls together, but with the church, Titan Fall, and two young tag-along, this could be a truly difficult battle.

We prepared the best we could, opened the door, and headed into the battle.

Chapter 1621

The typical boss room look, a large room with columns leading up to some kind of staging area for the monster in question, seemed to become more feral the larger you went down the dungeon. On this floor, which would have been the equivalent of the 60th floor on any other dungeon, the greenery and forest made it look like we were still outside. However, the same basic look and size existed. The underwater boss room of the last fight was replaced with a forest floor. The columns were massive tree trunks, and the artificial sky, if there was one, couldn’t be seen over the thick greenery.

As I was looking around for the boss, I heard a giant thump. It was the sound of a footstep. There was another, and then a third. At that point, I had managed to triangulate the sound. It was then that something massive burst out between the trees. As soon as I saw it, I couldn’t help but take a step back, my mouth opening wide.

“What is that thing? A giant lizard?” Anne cried out.

The monster looked in our direction, its nose letting out mist as it opened its toothy mouth and then bellowed a massive roar that shook the boss room.

“It’s a T-Rex!” I cried out. “What is with the dinousaurs?”

That was the only reaction I was able to give before the T-Rex turned our way and then started racing toward us. I honestly would have been a lot calmer if it was a dragon. At least that would have felt more reasonable. First, we fought a crocodile, and then it turned into a dinosaur. Was this so-called redundancy? I didn’t want to fight an extinct animal! What would people think if I brought this thing back to my world?

Well, I didn’t get to have my way. I grabbed the girls and jumped out of the way. After the crocodile, I wasn’t going to let one of them get grabbed again. I had a feeling the dinosaur would just swallow them whole rather than using them as some kind of lore.

The paladins seemed to feel the same way as they rushed out to meet the dinosaur. They were subsequently trampled by it. The men let out cries as one was stomped on while another was seemingly kicked away. They did manage to delay the dinosaur for enough time that Anne and her inquisitor were able to get spells off. Titan’s Fall was also able to move out of the way, where they seemed to be planning a trap as well.

I landed in a tree that was high enough that it was out of the T-Rex’s mouth range. The T-Rex couldn’t climb with those short arms, so they would be safe up here. I would have loved to just keep them in my soul world, but they wouldn’t get the blessings, and at least in Cici’s case, we wouldn’t be able to continue to the gauntlet without her. Another reason was that they wouldn’t get experience. During these boss battles, despite them not helping too much, they had gained at least ten levels each.

“I want to help!” Chance still cried out defiantly.

A paused for a second, considering just telling her no. However, I had brought them along to earn experience. If I just protected them the entire time, then they wouldn’t learn anything, no matter how much experience they gained. They might stall in their leveling if they focused too much on leveling and not enough on learning.

I looked around the boss room. At this point, the dinosaur was trampling after Anne and the Inquisitor. Titan’s fall shot a rope across two trees and then tried to use them to trip the dinosaur in its path. It stumbled slightly, but the girls hadn’t been able to bring it down. That’s when a thought came to me. I leaned toward Chance and Cici and started whispering my plan.

Chapter 1622

Anne had been running from dinosaur. It seemed to have a particular like for her, as it seemingly ignored the paladins and the Titan’s Fall girls specifically to chase her. If I had to guess, that first spell she cast was a doozy, and she had earned aggro. Aggro was a video game term. It meant very little to intelligent beings. It worked well enough fighting mobs, but when a creature was sentient, it couldn’t always be fooled in such a childish way.  However, these dumb monsters that this dungeon seemed to stick with were very prime for aggro. The party member who did the most damage and attracted the most interest was the one the boss would seek out. That appeared to be Anne.

“Get away! Get away!” She cried out as she weaved between trees trying to avoid it only for the beast to ram right through them and take bites at her.

She wasn’t prone to fighting, so the ability to cast magic while on the move was outside of her ability. The paladins who had recovered from being trampled were desperately chasing after her trying to form a defensive line, but the dinosaur and Anne were moving too fast for the heavily armored men to catch up. As the inquisitor, she had split directions with Anne before, hoping to confuse the dinosaur who wouldn’t chase after both of them. Little did she know that the dinosaur was honed in on Anne and followed her without hesitation. She could have thrown up a spell of her own, but it was clear she was afraid of earning aggro herself and being in Anne’s situation.

When it came to Titan’s Fall, they were attempting the damage the dinosaur, but they could only get a single hit in at a time, causing superficial damage as the dinosaur was stuck on Anne. This cat and mouse game continued for ten minutes, but it finally ended when Anne made a mistake. She tripped while trying to jump over a log that was too tall for her short stature, and she ended up face-planting in the dirt.

She quickly spun around, but the T. Rex was already over her. It started advancing on her, and in a panic, Anne backed up until her back hit a tree. It bared its large teeth, and she could only look up in horror as the dinosaur leaned down ready to eat her in a single bit.

“Now!” I leaped in front and grabbed Anne.

The teeth snapped shut where we had been as I picked her up and started moving. She still had aggro whether she was in my arms or running, so the dinosaur having missed his meal let out a roar of anger before following after us.

“Where have you been this fight!” Anne cried out, hitting my chest tearfully.

“Why are you hitting me?” I complained as she struggled in my grip.

It was hardly the time to fight after I just saved her and we were being chased by a T. Rex.

“Stupid hero! Stupid man! I almost died!” She whined, still hitting my chest.

“Will you stop? I’m going to drop you. Ahh! We’re here!”

I had no choice with her struggling like she did. I grabbed her and tossed her over my shoulder. She immediately started kicking again, so I reached up and spanked her behind. I had done it without thinking, and I realized as soon as I did it that she’d start complaining even more. Except, she didn’t. Instead, Anne immediately stopped fighting.

I didn’t have time to dwell on it though, as I fell into a skid, sliding just under the ropes. Cici and Chance had created a trap, lacing together countless ropes across the trees. As soon as I skidded to stop, I pointed down at a red-faced Anne.

“Stay there!”

To my surprise again, she did. She just looked up at me without saying a thing. At that moment, the T. Rex struck the ropes. It was like a web of them, and they all got wrapped around it. Unlike the single rope, Titan’s Fall used, this was wrapped around its neck and body, including its mouth which kept it from biting. It started to panic, but with its momentum broken and its body restrained, I leaped at it, delivering various attacks.

At the same time, Titan’s Fall reached from behind now that it had stopped moving, and launched their attacks. A few minutes later, the T. Rex finally fell, unable to put up resistance to attacks from every side. The SS ranked boss was defeated.