Chapter 172: The Alpine Felwings.

Chapter 172: The Alpine Felwings.

Felgheist

A felwing who has gained enough experience and power to evolve into a giant felgheist, a beast with fangs and claws strong enough to rip through metal armor. Not only do their longer wingspan increase their flight speed, their long claws allow them to fend off other aerial competitors while making them vicious terrestrial combatants. By consuming the blood of their prey, felgheists are able to increase Health regeneration. Rank D

Argh, bladdarg! Getting attacked the moment we arrive! Grimnir shouted, although I wasnt sure if he was frowning or something under his helmet.

Griiiiiiiiiiieeeekkkkk! the felgheist shrieked once more before diving at us with its vampire-like fangs protruding out, ready to snap at us.

Despite the obvious danger of the situation, I shrugged and lazily raised my hand up with a purple magic circle ready to fire. Lightning Bolt, I announced, shooting out a yellow streak of lightning at the oversized bat at a speed it didnt anticipate. Flustered, it managed to barrel roll away from my spell, the electricity barely missing it, but the sudden turn left it unstable, forcing it to slow its descent by spreading its wings.

This small change in speed meant its end. Stygian Lightning, Saori called out right next to me, shooting out a similarly fast bolt of black lightning towards the felgheist, but this time it couldnt evade it. Shrieking in pain from having black electricity zapping its body, the monster quickly began to fall down from a lack of wing beats, but its incapacitated body was caught, or pierced, by Tasiannas floating daggers, who delivered the monsters corpse to us before it was lost in the ravine.

Ahh, shame, Saori clicked her tongue. I still need more Intelligence to make my lightning a sure-kill against D ranks. I could kill it with a single dagger stab into a vital spot.

After some testing, weve come to the conclusion that Saoris [Stygian Lightning] was pretty much similar to electric attacks or [Lightning Magic] spells, only that the electricity itself was composed out of her dark elementally aligned mana. From her recent evolution, Saoris body was now able to turn her mana into dark mana before storing it as electricity in her white fur, which she could then release as a bolt of lightning, a short-ranged electric blast, or through a punch.

However, it had its limit, though. Just as with [Dark Magic] and [Lightning Magic], the amount of damage it could do was related to her Intelligence stat, which was around 3500 less than her impressive over 6000 Strength. There was also the fact that she could only store the lightning in the white fur located mostly around her shoulders and arms, and it would dissipate relatively fast once she used it for an attack. Im pretty sure we could still do more with it by making custom spells or creating some tool to synergise with it, but we needed to experiment more.

After storing the monsters corpse, more shrieks suddenly appeared above us, warning our party of a horde of felgheists. They hadnt noticed us yet, so Grimnir suggested we avoid them for now and focus on traversing the giant ravine. After inspecting the cliffs edge, staring down into the groundless chasm and into the landless horizon, I agreed as we moved into a cave opening.

This is not good. This floor does not fit the design of the map, Saori stated the moment we decided to move forwards. Look. There should be a larger area in the start and there is no mention of a cave this close to the entrance. From the looks of it, the cliff path is also different.

When I was still attending high school, I wouldnt describe myself as a good student or an avid learner; however, if the theme interested me, I would be motivated enough to open up a book and give the boring read a try. That was why I bought a book about dungeons from the Sarlenzia company.

The book was quite expensive, as it was written by an explorer-scientist from the Empire and exported here, but it was well worth the money spent, since it gave me more insight into how a dungeon worked. More than what Tasianna and Ellaine could tell me off their memories.

In one of its chapters, the author noted that dungeons not manned by their dungeon masters 24/7 would randomly switch up the layout of a floor simply to challenge adventurers more in its pursuit to kill them. It wouldnt do this too often, as the mana spent to change a floor compared to creating an entirely new floor usually wasnt worth it, according to a dungeon master the author interviewed.

Also, a dungeon master who seeked to turn the dungeon into a business, similarly to the one we are in right now, was able to restrict the amount of floors a dungeon could create. This would make it more likely for a dungeon to change floor layouts, but due to how many more adventurers visit and then bring out monster materials, the dungeon had to be more reserved with its mana usage. In essence, these floor changes were rare.

With Ellaine back as our cartographer, we began our search for the stairs. During our travels, we learned that the felgheists shrieked a lot, like a lot, a lot. Not cause they found us or anything, but cause they were communicating with each other. Although we knew this, there was no way for us to differentiate between aggressive-talking shrieks and aggressive-attacking shrieks, since when we tried to ignore the former once, my [Detection Sensor] began ringing.

It corrected me. It wasnt aggressive-talking, it was aggressive-we-have-found-prey-time-to-attack shrieking.

Pffff. The moment a group of ten felgheists began to attack us, Saori attempted to whistle but couldnt since she never practiced it once before. However, her attempt of being cool still triggered her garms to show themselves. Uno. Song. Sarasa. Quatre! Help us.

After moving through the cave for a bit, we landed into a large space with a wall opening showing us another part of this giant mountain, although we couldnt get to it due to the large chasm in our way. That was when these giant bats attacked.

The beasts werent the most threatening, but it would be a problem if they ganged up on us here and attacked us. Saori, Tasianna, and I could deal with being caught and thrown out from the opening, but Ellaine and Grimnir would be in dire trouble. Ellaine still hasnt gained [Air Walk], after all, and no one knew if Grimnir had airborne capabilities.

So, we needed to get away first and assess the situation, which brings us to the garms. With their masters command, the four giant wolves sprang out from her shadow, now adorned in monster leather armor made by Grimnir. While the armor did reduce their coolness rating, once Saori shrouded them in [Shadow Armament], the shadowy impression you would get from them came back, along with more defenses due to [Penumbral Armament].

Mister Grimnir, get on! Tasianna called over the large dwarf, offering her hand to pull him on Sarasa. Grimnir grumbled a bit how he hated riding anything, but relented after seeing more than the initial ten enter the wall opening.

After the five of us mounted one of the Garms, we sprinted towards an open path deeper into the mountain, luring the felgheists with us.

Lightning Bolt! I shot out, eliminating one of our pursuers. Using my scale-dust while it was affected by the [Scale-Dust Size Increase] Job skill from [Crimson-Scaled Dreadgiver] would create a far more powerful explosion than what I usually have to deal with, which would undoubtedly blow up parts of the mountain. All my area-attack spells, like [Omnictus], carried a similar risk. I had enough attack options to fight more conservatively without risking an avalanche.

For example, terra spells. Ellaine, you ready?

Yes!

Once I got the confirmation, I held my hand up while Ellaine raised her hand with her catalyst ring. Terra Wall! we called out, materializing multiple walls of rock to impede the felgheists. Multiple of them crashed onto the walls, knocking themselves unconscious. Those in the back managed to avoid the same fate and continued the chase.

Ellaine, dont block the path in case we need to use it later! Shoot [Earthen Spears]! There is enough rocks around, I suggested to her while preparing multiple [Lightning Bolt]s with my parallel minds.

Understood! Although, theyre moving prett-

Ellaine! Quatre! Get away from the wall! Before Ellaine could finish her sentence, Saori shouted a warning to her and her mount, however, before Ellaine could understand what was happening, Quatre jumped to the ceiling the moment the wall right to them splintered into pieces, broken through as if a truck hit it.The debut release of this chapter happened at Ñòv€l-B1n.

Ghoooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrr! a massive creature with the face of a bat and front legs as developed as a gorilla roared.

Mana Eyes.

Felmight

A giant land-bat whose body has become more developed for land-based movement, having completely abandoned the ability to fly. With its wings turned into muscular arms, the felmight uses them to propel its heavy body forward in pursuit of prey before crushing them. Due to a special muscle in their jaw, they are able to extend it forward to consume the blood of its prey, its main regeneration method. Rank D

Rank D? Pretty sure its larger than those felgheists.

Ghooooorrrrrr! it roared once again before displaying its jaw extension ability against Tasianna and Grimnir, but Sarasa whom they were riding deftly dodged it and continued running ahead.

Quatre! I called out to the garm Ellaine was riding, extending my hand towards him. Having understood my intention, he cast [Dark Tendrils] from his shadow armor and wrapped them around my arm, which I pulled at with all my strength, dragging his airborne body to my side.

I guess expecting only one type of monster wasnt reasonable. Of course this dungeon would continue throwing stuff at us! Everybody nodded to my statement as we continued running down the path, now with an additional threat chasing after us.

After a few moments, we made it to the end of the tunnel and decided to fight the approaching monsters inside this closed cavern chamber, seeing as there werent any hazards we needed to watch out for. Running forever wasnt an option.

The first to arrive was the felmight, its roar echoed inside the chamber like a bomb. Seeing this challenge, Grimnir shouted from the bottom of his lungs and jumped off Sarasa with his warhammer in hand. Having been informed of his intention beforehand, Tasianna blasted the stout taz with an amplified [Wind Blast], spending far more mana than was needed, to help him reach the giant beast with his hammer held up high.

Heavy Slam! Smashing his weapon right at the monsters skull, both Grimnirs hammer and the felmight crashed onto the ground, cracking and quaking the ground under them.

Grouuuuggh, the felmight groaned, letting go of its broken arms which somehow blocked Grimnirs attack in time.

Damn thing is still alive? What a tank!

By Crustacias twintails, you dimwit managed to block the attack with your arms?! Grimnir complained before picking its head up and headbutting the monster with his ram-like horns. With the felmight staggered, Grimnir had enough time to press something on his hammer.

The warhammers handle began to glow blue and mechanical parts started to move and twitch. Like a rivers stream, the blue glow began from the place the button was and flowed towards the top of the weapon, causing one of the hammerheads to automatically move up and attach itself to the handles tip, closing the gap between the two heads.

Once done, the button snapped out from the handle, forming into what looked like a gun handle Wait, a gun?

Volrun, umsleud! Point-blank, Grimnirs warhammer shot a shotgun-like mana blast at the felmights head, completely destroying it as it fell lifelessly onto the ground.

I mean, if they can make those mana cannons, then handheld guns or rifles shouldnt be impossible, right? Makes sense now why his Main Job was called [Blasthammer Gunner].

Hey, lasses! Grimnir called us out, breaking my train of thoughts and my wonderment at his weapon. This thing can only shoot once before overloading. Do something about those fliers! His weapon then returned to its former form and steam began to rise from the top of his warhammer through the gap between the heads.

The shrieks of the felgheists then became louder, our warning to get ready for the impending battle. Our blood was pumping, adrenaline coursed through our blood as cold sweat drenched our brows wet. The fear of death was settling in Which probably would be what a normal party would totally feel, but we had two B rank monsters, a fairy with a catalyst blessed by an Origin Goddess, four C rank garms, and a magic swordswoman who Okay, Ellaine was actually quite scared but she wasnt running away.

Banishment Beam!

Stygian Lightning!

Icicle Gust!

Tornado Bullet

Wrooooooooooo!

Luring enemies into a chokepoint and then blasting them with attacks, eliminating their ability to dodge since too many projectiles were flying at them at the same time. Using this strategy made things pretty easy. Imagine if the four of us were physical fighters only; that would have been dangerous.

Experience has reached multiple breaking points. [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]s Job [Crimson-Scaled Dreadgiver] has risen from [Level 1] to [Level 2]

D ranks really give far more experience than the rank Es and Fs we fought yesterday. Still, with how the experience is shared among five people and Saoris garms, we need to kill a lot of these things.

After we mowed down the felgheists in our kill zone, we collected the bodies and checked if everybody was ready to move on.

Experience has reached multiple breaking points. [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]s Job [Crimson-Scaled Dreadgiver] has risen from [Level 3] to [Level 6]

Cause that was exactly what I did.

You know, these things wouldnt exist if you could destroy them so easily, Grimnir complained at how I massacred everything in sight.

I shrugged.

As we approached the stairs, the sheer heat radiating up through the staircase from the fifteenth floor caused everybody except for Grimnir and me to sweat. It had taken us six days to get here, but our goal Grimnirs goal was close at hand.

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What an anti-climatic mid-way boss. Hestia had the audacity to hype it up even!

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