Chapter 286: Dungeon Boss (1)
"He's here."
"Seriously? The rumors are true?"
"Don't push me. Who the hell pushed me?
Morning arrived early for adventurers.
The sun had already risen a good amount of time ago, so it wasn't exactly crowded with active adventurers.
Note that since we were on the 1st Floor of the Dungeon, the light of day was also an illusion created by Digragni.
The crowd started forming when an adventurer saw my friends and I enter the dungeon five days ago.
A rumor started that day, and the next day, many adventurers learned that the rumor was true.
And adventurers who had learned the truth spread the rumors further.
Over 10,000 adventurers lived on the 1st Floor of the S-class dungeon.
Those adventurers began to rustle loudly.
Dwarves drank with each other quite often, and a party member of Admiral Galara confirmed that the rumors were true while he was drunk.
Prince Zew had thousands of beastmen followers.
It was because Prince Zew took care of the beastmen who were sent from the Beast Kingdom every month so that they wouldn't suddenly enter the dungeon and die.
The beastmen who Prince Zew was taking care of, boasted in the bars about what was about to happen as if it were their own achievements.
Adventurers had long since stopped thinking of S-class dungeon as something to conquer.
The reason why even the new people didn't try to conquer it was because immediately after or before entering the dungeon, they heard from experienced people of their own race in bars and such that the S-class dungeon was unconquerable.
It was just a place where one had to struggle to survive and make money.
They were taught the reality that they wouldn't be able to fulfill their hopes and dreams.
Adventurers who had doubts soon forgot about trying to conquer the dungeon and adjusted to the situation.
But the rumors they had heard made them have doubts about that situation.
So, everyone had gathered that day.
It was the day when the S-class dungeon would be conquered for the first time.
Many adventurers crowded in front of the temple to confirm that what they had heard in the rumors and legends were true.
And the adventurers realized that the rumors were true.
The people at the center of the rumors were walking right in front of them.
There was a sea of more than ten thousand strong adventurers who were qualified to enter the S-class dungeon in front of the temple.
Such a sea of people naturally cracked, even though no one had told them to, and a path was formed there.
The adventurers watched with bated breath as my friends and I, along with other parties, numbering more than forty, made our way towards the temple.
"The rumor really was true. Admiral Galara has really teamed up with Hero Helmios to defeat the Dungeon Boss. It's amazing. It's going to be amazing!"
The dwarves' eyes sparkled as they watched Admiral Galara's, 'The Stinger' walk by.
The eyes that were filled with despair at the last Dungeon Festival had hope in them at that moment.
Then the human beside the excited dwarf interjected.
"Yes."
"Because people want Heroes."
Doberg spoke to Dogora while looking somewhere far away.
"I see."
The brief words of Doberg, who had lived for decades on the battlefield, echoed through Dogora.
"Dogora, you are one as well."
"Huh, really? I can be a Hero too!?"
Dogora's face lit up at once when Doberg praised him.
Kiel, who was watching the situation, sighed while looking at Dogora.
No one blocked our way.
We didn't have to stand in the queue as well.
Thanks to that, we were able to move to the 5th Floor faster than usual.
"So, this is the 5th Floor."
"It's just as I've heard. We should just keep moving forward, right?"
Prince Zew replied to Helmios' words.
Helmios and Prince Zew had never been to the 5th Floor before.
(Should I have brought them here during practice? No, that would have just wasted our time.)
Upto 4 parties at once could challenge the Dungeon Boss at once, but only one party at a time could challenge the Bronze, iron or Mithril Golem.
There was a way to dissolve our individual parties and form a brand new party, but everyone discussed and decided that it wouldn't be that big of a benefit.
I had shaken off that thought the moment it came to my mind.
In addition, even if we failed, I was confident that we could try again.
I had told Helmios that if we couldn't succeed at once, I would give up, but I changed my mind when Admiral Galara told me about the Dungeon Boss.
To me, any promises made before hearing the information about the Dungeon Boss were invalid.
My thoughts aside, the group all moved forward with Prince Zew at the lead.
"Hello. I am the Dungeon Boss transition system S505. You have 4 sets of Medals on the pedestal. Would you like to challenge the Dungeon Boss with the four parties here?''
"Yes."
''Then, the leader of all the four parties is Zew-Van-Albahar, leader of the party 'Prince Zew and the Ten Heroic Beasts', is that correct?"
The cube confirmed that Prince Zew who was speaking to it would be the leader of the four parties.
"Yes."
"Do you want to go to where the Dungeon Boss is now?"
"Yes."
Then everyone's view changed once.
I could hear the sound of something moving in the distance.
There was a vermillion glowing Golem standing more than 100 meters away from us.
(Okay, it's exactly as I have heard.)
The Dungeon Boss was a Hihiirokane Golem that was about 100 meters tall.