Ch. 18 Consequences

While practicing on how to use my Boss, I kept giving orders to the slimes trying to pick off some soldiers they however were not so stupid to give me a chance, this made me see the flaws of room four or the sand and gravel field they simply stood there and I had to like it. This stalemate was not so bad however, I started to hear notifications for Life Crystals slowly at a steady pace.

I decided to give my missions a look and saw that the legendary Mission was now 6/14. I was aware that a new element was blatantly told to me by the system that is Nature, in the other hand Ice was basically in all the magic world I have ever read or played in so that was a no Brainer. However it would seem that I can easily control Fire, Earth, Wind, Water, Nature, and Ice to the point there already marked as complete, but had no experience on what to do with Time and Space. Focusing on my Invaders, I saw the mages cross the Blender Room with little difficulty, all thirteen of them arriving at the sixth room looking like they have a plan, hehe good luck.

The mages when further to the Ivy Maze not really caring about the soldiers, as long as they don't get completely wiped out their higher-ups won't complain too much, using the six soldiers with no Elemental Mana left on them as Frontline they continued on the Maze. As they walked inside they saw that the walkways are narrow only allowing one person with his arms fully stretched out to walk safely. The walls are covered in a thick mass of Poison Ivy there leaves hiding all their vines, looking like blades, a far stronger form than those in the wild, the dungeon clearly increased their danger.

Five hours had past and the mages were starting to get hungry and tired, not really used to the continuous exercise. How much longer is this god's dam Maze, said one of the heavy-set mages sweating like a drowning pig, the mage trying to get some relief places his hand on the wall only to cry out in pain, that hand looking like a cat scratch all over it bleeding purple-tinted blood. The cry alarm the other mages turning around to look they bump into each other getting the bottom of their ropes rip or entangled by the sharp leaves, sadly for the mage he was now poisoned and attempted to drink an antidote, however.

Swish. Swish. Swish. The glass bottle fell, twenty to thirty vines uncoiled from the wall looking like snakes wrapping around there pray the heavy set mage now had slashes across his whole upper body before the mage could try to save their ally the other vines triggered by their ropes followed suit coiling around there legs some of them falling unto each other or worse the wall, more vines welcoming them with there blade-like leaves. The panic mages started to cast spells such as the second circle (Earth Armor) or for those not of Earth affinity the first circle spell (Hardened Skin), some of the more desperate ones covered in vines used Fire spells like second circle (Flame Shield) or first circle (Immolate). The worse ones however were the alert mages using mana field, thinking themselves smart cast the second circle spell (Wind Scythe) or the first circle (Wind Blade) to cut the expanding vines, they, however, forget that this was a narrow space, the large wind pressure triggered almost all the vines around them, turning the whole corridor into a meat grinder.

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The six soldiers in the front were sent to explore ahead if they saw a dead-end or branching paths there to quickly retrace their steps and informed the mages saving time. The screaming of the dying mages alarm the soldiers they quickly turned back only to gather around a newly form wall of Ivy color in splashes of red and purple, the soldiers could see the fear in each other's eyes stunned at the situation. Before panic set a burning smell started to choke the soldiers, the fire started to spread quickly eating the air but more importantly releasing a purple cloud of poison gas the potency of which greatly improved by a neverending supply of Elemental Earth.

Seven hours after the mages left, at the fourth room where the remaining 597 soldiers were keeping themselves alert, in case of an ambush or sneak attacks from the metal slimes, started to see purple smoke escaping from the fifth room, at first they thought it was a spell of some sort but they quickly notice that soldiers that inhaled the smoke Cough purple-tinted blood, a sign of poisoning. The soldiers attempted to escape as close to the River rooms as they could the smoke thickening covering half the fourth room, as some of the soldiers began thinking about their chances of escaping from the weirdly level stone slabs the smoke suddenly expanded towards them.

Cough! Cough!! COUGH!!! Three mages covered in a bubble of air pass the soldiers head, flying at a great speed, their eyes were bloodshot purple patches of skin could be seen all over their bloody body while escaping the Dungeon, in the wake of their escape a large cloud of poison spread all the way to the exit the soldiers completely submerged in it.

The soldiers panic and ran to the exit not caring about the dangers, trampling over the fallen soldiers while pushing more into the spike River in a race of mass hysteria. when all soldiers finally made it outside 86 had died in the river room or slimes, and over 100 were poison to different degrees.

The Knight send here by the Church to retrieve the Dungeon Core but was really here for his own mission, watched this show with a grim face looking at the leader of the mages and his two disciples in fury, only a few words to say.

WHAT! happened sir Scholars!