LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 141 “Conquering the tower.” Part 2
Chapter 141
“Conquering the tower.” Part 2
Koden was worried.
The rotten smell hit his nose long before he could notice the large number of dried bloodstains staining the walls on either side of the stone corridor.
But that wasn’t the strangest thing of all.
What really bothered him was the sudden change in Kalysto’s attitude. He had already seen her during a summons and knew that that could not be the reason for her strange attitude.
Something else had to be going on.
And while Koden was internally debating what was really going on, he noticed that both the hair and the eye color of the captain of the athletics team were much darker than usual. He frowned at the strangeness of it, but just as he was about to ask Rita about it, Kalysto created a wall of ice almost two meters high and jumped over it.
It was when he saw her run over the ice with a huge axe in her hand and get lost inside the corridor, that he realized that while she continued to freeze the path as she advanced he began to see how little by little where he thought there was only frozen air, a group of humanoid figures dressed completely in black and with their faces covered appeared inside the ice, holding a dagger in each of their four hands.
“An ambush," Rita suddenly whispered. “They had set up an ambush for us...hence the large collection of blood on the walls.”
The saliva in his mouth felt thick and heavy all of a sudden.
Once again, they were safe, thanks to Kalysto.
And Koden decided it was best to stop worrying about her sudden change in attitude. Whatever it was that was bothering her, it was best to leave her alone.
By the time Koden and Rita were finally able to carry the bodies of the other heroes up the ice road and reach the boss’s room, worried that being unconscious they might be left behind, Kalysto had long since defeated him.
“Let’s go to the next floor!” She informed them, grabbing Emanuel and Gideon by the belt of their pants and pulling them to the other side of the blue portal that opened after the boss’ defeat. And while Rita and Koden carried Edward and Oscar respectively, she carried Gabriel.
[Warning! The user has entered the 22nd floor of the dungeon!]
A plethora of flowers and giant mushrooms welcomed them to a colorful open field whose sky was beginning to be painted with the colors of sunset.
“Map!” A huge red dot glowed in the distance of her violet window, while some red dots scattered well over the wide valley remained motionless several meters away. “Stay here! You know what to do in case someone approaches!”
“Yes!" They both said in unison.
With her axe bathed in the blood of the previous boss, Kalysto ran along the path surrounded by flowers and mushrooms, seeking to approach the red dot that she knew was the boss of the floor, suspecting that if she got rid of him, the portal to the next floor would open even if she didn’t waste time killing the rest of the monsters.
It was after she had run about fifty meters that the mushrooms lining the path began to spew a grayish-green gas which spread rapidly in all directions.
Without giving her time to escape.
“Ezhil Purification! Ezhil Purification!” She immediately conjured several times, inwardly grateful that she was far enough away so that the other two could not see the golden light of her skill fading that mysterious gas. “Ezhil Purification!” She conjured again as she ran, increasing her speed until she reached a giant flower more than fifteen meters high, whose colored petals had the same shape as the lilies but whose proud leaves moved like whips beating to the rhythm of a music she could not hear. “Ezhil Purification!” She tried, but the mysterious flower was unaffected by her spell. “Inventory!” She switched tabs and put away the axe she had taken from the Minotaur and pulled out a mana crystal.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 5000 MP!]
“Fire blast!” And she proceeded to set the flower on fire.
Immediately, the leaves on the flower’s thick, long stem began to try to whip her, but she was far enough away that they couldn’t reach her. And the flower changed its strategy as the fire bathed its trunk and delicate leaves, and from its center began to spread a grayish-green smoke, much darker than that of the mushrooms she had seen on the road.
Holy crap!She she thought, seeing that soon after the few mushrooms that were in the vicinity also joined the flower’s attack and began to spread their poison.
Kalysto redirected her fire at them, but it was too late. A coughing fit engulfed her just before the smoke touched her feet.
Ezhil purification! Ezhil purification! she thought. And she immediately pulled out a small bottle of holy water and drank it on the spot.
“Ezhil Purification! Tundra! Ice creation!” She conjured right after running in the direction of the gigantic flower to spread her ice several meters beyond it and freeze even the surrounding mushrooms and other plants to avoid future surprises.
Then she took the axe out of her inventory.
First she cut off its leaves, which left more room for her to cut the stalk.
“Purification Ezhil!” She continued conjuring as she cut the frozen flower, which finally fell apart. Its petals shattering into ice shards after hitting the hard ground.
[The boss of the 22nd floor of the dungeon has been defeated!]
[You have gained 3500 experience points!]
[The user has acquired the skill ‘Poison Resistance’ as a reward and it has been added to her stats!]
[The user has gained 1000 bonus experience points for participating in the defeat of the boss!]
[The user has acquired +5 vitality points and they have been added to her stats!]
[The user has gained +5 stamina points, and they have been added to her stats!]]
“So that was poison...” while she checked what she had gained, the rest of the heroes were teleported to where she was and the portal to the next floor opened.
It was another two and a half hours before they reached the thirtieth floor.
[Warning! The user has entered the last floor of the dungeon!]
Several lit torches illuminated each side of the wide and very spacious corridor. Several meters farther down, ten chimeras and five minotaurs guarded the double doors to the entrance of the floor boss’s room.
“Rita, keep an eye out in case one of them gets away from me! Koden, keep your shield up in case something goes wrong!” Kalysto, mace in one hand and axe in the other, threw herself into the fray.
She threw the mace at the face of the nearest chimera at the same time she leapt at the face of a Minotaur and buried the axe in its head.
[You’ve gained 3000 experience points!]
And as the monster fell to the ground, she held the axe with one hand and one of its horns with the other. Then she conjured.
“Fire blast!” And after burning two Minotaurs and a chimera, the rest of the group threw themselves against her. Tundra! -Before the chimeras recovered, Kalysto chopped off their legs and with the opposite side of the axe’s edge, split their heads, still frozen.
Then she ran to where she had thrown the mace and hit the heads of the four remaining minotaurs with force.
[You have gained 3000 experience points!] x4
“Ice Manipulation! Earth Manipulation!” After melting the ice that covered the ten chimeras and from which some of them were already melting, Kalysto softened the earth underneath them, turning them into wet quicksand from which rock puddles came out and buried themselves in their bodies. “Water creation! Lightning!”
[You’ve gained 3500 experience points!] x5
“Earth Manipulation!” After electrocuting them, she made one of the walls transform into sharp spikes that pierced through the remaining chimeras’ bodies.
[You have gained 3000 experience points!] x5
Then, after waiting a couple of minutes while her skills cooled down, she drank a revitalizing potion and took a mana stone from her inventory.
[Does the user wish to absorb this mana crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought and advanced to the double doors of the last room that would lead her to freedom.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 6000 MP!]
[Warning! The user has entered the boss’s room on the top floor of the dungeon!]
Only a six-meter-tall creature was waiting for her inside the spacious room.