Chapter 62 Hounds

Looking down, I didn't know how to feel. I was looking at what remained of a humanoid bipedal creature. Yes, it might have been shorter than a dwarf with green skin and a head the size of mine, yet that still did not take away from the experience of killing something that I deemed to be so like me.

"Technically the first humanoid I've ever met." I let out a sigh and walked over to the blue and green mushy liquid.

After doing so, my eyes scanned the three different tunnels. Seeing nothing in particular that might indicate what direction I should go, I closed my eyes and began walking forwards, trying to ignore the pungent smell that was trying to enter my nose.

When my foot stepped into one of the tunnels, felt 3 different dread come toward me. While the one on the right was the most powerful, the one on the middle and left had dull amounts of dread coming from them, the middle one being the weakest.

'I see...' I opened my eyes immediately and walked towards the right tunnel before strolling inside with the calmness and nonchalance of a man walking his dog in a park.

After walking to the end of the tunnel, I saw a creature, yet this time unlike the goblin that I met earlier, this one did not walk on two legs nor did it hold any weapons.

[Hound]

[Information: Agile and stealthy, making it one of the best agility-type creatures in the lower levels.]

'Seems like this dungeon is about agility.' I thought to myself while not pausing for a second to analyze the hound properly since I knew what it was already.

It had orange fur and large blaring teeth that would rip the arms of a normal person off with a single bite. Of course, I was far from being a normal person.

Finding myself 5 meters away, I took a step forward and finally saw the reaction that I was hoping for.

Seeing a jolt within the hound's muscles, I knew that it was about to attack, making me take another step forward before appearing right in front of it with a wound back kick ready to explode at a moment's notice.

*Boom*

I watched as the rock-hard floor shattered with cobweb-like cracks, spreading out and making the wolf lose footing, a timing that I would not dare miss.

Without a second's notice, my foot slammed into its face with enough power that the connection had sent a shockwave in all directions.

In the next second, my eyes slightly widened in surprise, as if seeing something that I could not understand or had not expected occur before my very eyes.

*Splurge*

Its blue blood and its purple guts turned into paste, staining the walls of the tunnel and turning them blue in the process.

My horror only increased when I saw a powerful air current pass through above the ground and decimate the floor with it, leaving random gashes and holes as before entering the next open area.

*BOOM*

*ROAR*

A sweat drop trickled down my forehead.

'How the hell did I do that? I know I have almost 40 strength now, but isn't this too much?' I asked myself in surprise.

Earlier, I had realized that this was the tunnel because it was releasing the most dread out of all the tunnels, yet my blood eyes only showed me that there was only 1 creature at the end of each tunnel. Due to the increase in dread, it was highly probable that there would be something beyond the creature at the end of the tunnel, but even then it seemed like I might have miscalculated my approach.

'While I doubt that this is like a game with easter eggs littered around the map, there is a chance that this Gaia person might have done so. I have no idea who she is but from what I know about her so far, I don't think she is bad. While she seems to be at the top of this world's food chain, she also seems to care about those beneath her. Why would someone create entire dungeons all over the world for the lower existences, if they themselves did not sympathize or care for those existences?'

My eyes narrowed after a while, realizing that I was talking to myself again and forgetting about my surroundings.

'Maybe being around more intelligent creatures is affecting me. I wouldn't really call Blanca an intelligent creature. She likes to tell me she is one but never seems to show me anything that would prove that she was more than a crappy snake that was riding alongside me for the joy of it.

"Useless." I spat to the side and flickered away, however, I didn't go forward this time but instead had moved backward.

While on the one hand, I am technically wasting an extensive amount of time going back and going after the two other creatures, I didn't really lose much other than time. I had more than enough power to kill every creature that stood in my way, and I would use it if necessary.

Moving to the other two tunnels, I quickly got over and done with the other two hounds before beginning a search where I would find nothing other than rocks and some feces here and there.

I quickly returned to my path from earlier and found myself in the open area once again, standing in front of a wounded hound, at least 4 or 5 times larger than the ones that I had fought in the individual tunnels.

"What the hell happened to you?" I asked mockingly, well aware of what the air current my kick from earlier might have caused.

"Did the cat bite your tongue?" Asked again before letting out a smile that stretched from ear to ear.

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*ROAR*

Its roar caused several rocks to shake while the tunnel ceiling seemed to drop a bit of dust and even a rock fragment or two.

'Seems like I'll have to end it quick. I don't know how strong the tunnel is and I still highly doubt that it would collapse, but the chance is still there and I am unwilling to die because of some crappy tunnel.' I frowned and immediately disappeared from where I stood.

Appearing once again, I wielded a rock in my right hand from almost 14 meters away.

Winding my arm back, I held the rock firmly within my grip, to the point where I watched several pieces of the rock fall off and crumble into ashes when hitting the floor.

"Catch!" I yelled, making it widen its eyes and try to dodge as fast as it could, yet even after trying its hardest, it was simply not fast enough.

*Bang!*

I watched as the rock left my hand, creating a thunderous clap and appearing on the other side of the open space before slamming and deeply imbedding itself into one of the walls.

The hound's eyes slowly dulled before its body fell limp onto the ground with a hole extending from its face all the way to its back side, splurging out several liters of blood and staining the cave once again

[Author's note: Sorry about today's late release. Exams are beginning to take a toll on me making it a bit hard to write. My exams finish on the 22nd of June though and I should have stock all the way up to the 23rd. This means that I will most likely begin writing 2 chapters a day on the 24th or 25th so stay tuned for that. One additional note, I won't be able to write any extra chapters until the 23rd, so if I do get any gifts I am sorry but you are going to have to wait a day or two for extra chapters.

Besides that, please vote using your power stones and golden tickets. They are very helpful and I will be shouting out the top 3 individuals who've given me my golden tickets at the end of the month.]