Chapter 275

Chapter 275

While all of the strong people in the room had a very good poker face, the same thing could not be said for the royal family's younger generation. Besides Xavier’s jealous glance towards Ajax the king’s granddaughter was also looking shocked at the statement.

“Why you?” Duke Manashaper asked.

“You’re going to be busy looking into this new potential discovery, not to mention that so long as he wears a little bit of a disguise before he enters the dungeon nobody will question it and they will just play it off as one of my whims.” the king’s oldest son said. “Besides I also want to see what he can do in the dungeon.”

“Hah...” the crown prince let out a deep sigh. “In terms of power and cover he is indeed the best candidate to let you have your training without anyone else finding out.”

“Also one of the best to analyze anything I might have kept to myself.” Ajax responded.

“I am fine with signing a contract about no revealing anything I find out about you.” the excited prince continued.

“And what happens if you break it?” Anna asked, knowing full well that there anything he might guarantee that might harm him could be counteracted by a good enough skill.

“His family gets a hundred million gold coins.” the prince said offhandedly

‘Ack’ Ajax choked when he heard the number. Not even a decade ago Ajax had become the richest person in the village he grew up in because he had received a hundred gold coins, a hundred million would be enough to rocket his family into contention for the title of archduke Goldmancer.

“Monetary deals are the best to make.” Anna murmured. “No skill will let him skip out on the tab.”

“So it’s settled then.” the prince clapped his hands. “I’ll come get you in two days.”

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Two days later Ajax found himself standing in queue for the dungeon alongside the king’s oldest son. Even with a few days to discuss this with his family he hadn’t managed to find a better option.

The sole limitation that Ajax put on himself for this delve was that he was going to be keeping Void mana concealed no matter what happened. The plan was for him to delve all the way to the sixth floor of the dungeon and no further. Despite having delved even as deep as the eighth floor as part of a team, solo delving was a lot more risky and required different skills. for new novels

“Finally.” Ajax said as they entered the dungeon and he removed the mask from his head. “This thing is so stuffy.”

“You’re going up another floor?” despite the questioning structures the princes tone made it clear that not only was he not against the idea but that he was a strong supporter

Ajax took his time on the fifth floor hunting for a suitable archway. He made sure to play it off as a luck based skill to the prince, that turned out to be a splendid idea as the prince himself had a luck skill and it was one he relied on whenever he went delving in deeper floors to pick a good floor theme.

“A forest?” the prince asked as he took in his surroundings once they got to the sixth floor.

“Forests are my best biomes.” Ajax said with confidence.

“Oh how come?” the prince asked.

“I spent five years training to be a hunter and an adventurer in a forest before my leveling speed really picked up.” Ajax shared.

Besides the much stronger density of mana in the air the forest seemed exceedingly normal to Ajax as he started exploring it. That is until he almost bumped into a eight foot tall hairy bipedal monster that seemed to resemble some descriptions of Big Foot from back on Earth. Unlike on earth however this specimen wasn’t a solitary one but instead traveled in packs of five.

Oddly enough the forest was dense enough that the space between trees was small enough to give the large monster issues when maneuvering. Ajax took full advantage of this as he quickly made short work of two of them. His sword and hammer were finding their mark and easily made it past the thick protective layer of fur they had. Or is that just thicker body hair?

Despite their apparent intelligence the remaining three Big Foot’s didn’t try to escape and instead focused on attacking Ajax. Their plan was quickly foiled as Ajax used his Ice mana to no only slow them down with the cold but to create a very slippery surface on the ground resulting in the monsters not able to keep their footing while also attacking him.

Once there was only one monster left, the survivor decided he had seen enough and tried to make a run for it. Unfortunately for him he followed his instincts to get away from Ajax as quickly as possible. Even with the tight spacing of the trees this meant that he had taken off in a straight-ish line away from him. This made landing a headshot with an arrow almost too easy for Ajax.

“That wasn’t so bad.” the prince said as he inspected the bodies Ajax left in his wake. “They don’t really have the agility needed to fight you in a place light this. Let's hope that there is something interesting for you to fight on this floor.”

“AAAAAUUUUUOOOOOO.... GRRRR....AAAAUUUU” Ajax didn’t get a chance to respond as a strong howling and growling filled the air. More than that Ajax could tell that this howl didn’t come from a wolf and that was making him second guess his life’s choices.

“No need to look so scared.” the prince waved him off. “These are wendigos, not a werewolf boss.

Ajax did let out a sigh of relief at that reassurance, he still remembered well the power that the kitsune had wielded and didn’t want to end up facing another floor boss just yet. With that he swapped out his sword for his axe as he prepared to engage with the cannibalistic creatures.