The next morning...

"Okay we're off now!" Damion and Tsubuki bid farewell to Orpheus and had started their journey to the east.

Damion wanted to kill dinosaurs to add to his soldiers and search for Labryniths if possible. Tsubuki followed Damion because she wanted to examine the blood of the dinosaurs as they might contain a liquid that could boost the healing factor of a potion.

"So we should take a cart to the border first right?" Aislentor's Capital was far off the border between Khamalararian and Aislentor.

"Yeah, i'm still kind of sleepy." Tsubuki was excited to travel so she did not get much sleep last night, she has not been to Khamalararian before so she wants to explore the place.

"I guess we'll rent a private one then." Damion headed over to one of the receptionists at the guild to book for a carriage to the Khamalararian border.

Damion and Tsubuki got onto the carriage all the way to the Khamalararian border. Most people would just go from Nathaunia all the way to Zotseudan, it would take longer but it was much more safer than Khamalararian that was infested with Giant snakes, Dinosaurs and bandits.

"Hmm, Its already evening. I want to cover as much ground as we can overnight, its easier for my skeletons to scout the place without being spotted." Damion summoned out 10 of his skeletons to scout for any monster or labryniths. 

"Master Damion it seems that your soldiers have spotted a herd of dinosaurs near north-east of our location." Ezra was the one leading the scouts in case any strong foe were to appear. 

"Okay let's go Tsubuki." 

[Shadow step activated]

[Death Glare activated]

[Dagger Rush activated] 

Damion cut down the whole herd of Dinosaurs with some help of Ezra, Tsubuki examined the corpses and gathered samples of blood and scales of the massive beasts.

[Reanimation activated]

Damion reanimated 30 of the strongest of the dinos, most of them were carnivorous with teeth 10 inches long since they would also be heading for battle. Damion continued to let his scouts roam around to find anything, this time Lepan was there so they could sense any mana from dungeons better.

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"Damion people are coming!" Tsubuki spotted a group of people heading near their location, if they were adventurers it would spell disaster for them. 

"Everyone come back." Damion's skeletons were surrounded by dark clouds and disappered into thin air before anyone saw them. 

"Hey! Who are you?" A group of adventurers had walked up right to Damion and Tsubuki, they had a number of 6. Damion already had his mask on to begin with while Tsubuki put up a simple cloth covering her mouth. 

"You guys adventurers?" A man that had a holy aura came right up to the two.

"We're golden ranks." Damion had been promoted to Gold Rank Tier 1 and Tsubuki had also been promoted to a Gold Rank Tier 3. 

"Oh I'm sorry, we're silver ranks. We thought we saw some suspicious people wandering about, we also felt a strange aura." The man had apologised. 

"I'm Daitan from Nathuania, our party wanted to find a Dungeon to level up so if you want we could trav-" Damion cut off Daitan before he could finish.

"Sorry we're on our own journey, so we don't want to travel with you." Damion did not want to travel with the party as it would restrict his necromancy power usage.

"Ah it's ok, I get it. We will seperate from here, sorry for bothering you." 

[Concealment activated] 

Damion casted concealment on a skeleton warrior to tail the party in case they find a dungeon before him.

It was almost morning already, no skeleton warriors had spotted any dungeons or labryniths. Suddenly, the ground started shaking. Damion sensed a huge aura from undergorund, was it a labryinth? No, it was moving. It had a long body going in swirls. 

"A snake! Tsubuki come here!" Tsubuki rushed to Damion.

[Telekinesis activated]

The two started to levitate in the air. 

"Hold on! You might get a bit dizzy!" The two blasted up high into the air, Damion had tested this out at Orpheus's Castle but it seemed that he had gained full control on his telekinesis skill. A giant snake came from the sand underground 200 metres wide and 1 kilometre long, it launched high into the air near Damion and Tsubuki with its mouth wide open.

"Tsubuki, use your fire magic. Target it in the mouth!" Tsubuki focused her magic into the mouth of the massive beast

"Roaring Fire Dragon!" Tsubuki had leveled up a lot since the Ranking competiton, so It would not be surprising to see her magic to be more powerful but Damion was still in awe from the massive amount of fire Tsubuki produced. The snake was burned from the inside and tumbled down into the sand.

"Well done as expected of the great mage Tsubuki!" Damion was seriously impressed with Tsubuki's magic, he praised Tsubuki for taking down the giant snake

"Ah, its nothing really." Tsubuki was not used to Damion praising her, her face became really red with embarrassment.

"Master Damion, they seemed to have found a labrynith! Should I follow them in?" The skeleton warrior that was tailing Daitan's party had alerted his master. 

"Follow them. We'll be there shortly." Damion had a smirk under his mask, he felt excited.

"Tsubuki let's go, that Daitan guy's party found a labrynith." The two made their way to the location of the labrynith. 

"Ahhh!" Daitan's party had been attacked inside the Labrynith!

"Hmm, what's this?" The mysterious person caught Damion's skeleton scout and crushed its skull.

...

< To be continued >