In Tymposia, Alex and his team stood in its admin room in wonder of what just happened as they received a system message
After a moment of silence, someone spoke, “was this man the final boss?”
“I mean, I think all of us received the same message from the system after Alex… you know, decapitated him.”
“Yeah, but isn't he too weak for a final monster?”
Alex said, “it doesn't matter, we destroyed this dungeon, and they won't be able to hurt anyone anymore, let's get out and give the good news to the people.”
…
As the team went out of the dungeon, the gate behind them started to disappear little by little into sparks of light.
After reporting everything that they went through in detail to their respectable governments, they went on press conference after another, everyone of the remaining 9 became heroes of humanity, saviors.
And their egos inflated more than the prostate of an 80-year-old man, especially Alex, who practically described himself as the messiah.
After a few days of fame, they were retuning to Ravenswood, while Sylvan was training another patch of hunters, the one that trained here before with slimes, after the original team left for three days.
When Raven Hart saw them returning, he grinned as he remembered
The original team returned to Ravenswood after the 3-day break, sylvan told them that they will be invading a gate in two weeks, and gave them all the possible information during this time and also assigned Alex as the team leader.
And so the training continued for another two weeks, during which Raven applied his plan to pull Alex to his side.
The first thing was, make him team leader, let him feel important.
The second, it was Sylvan informing him that he is a special man, and the only one capable of saving humanity, as his title doesn't only represent his strength, but also future potential.
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He already thinks of himself in this way, so let's just enforce this idea in his head. And for why sylvan know about the title, isn't it obvious, the 9th primordial god gave him the title.
And most importantly, this gate, this training, is all for him to rise as the strongest and lead the army to save humanity.
-What a fucking idiot, but at least he is useful, I just need to make him feel important and that would be enough for him to do what I want.-
-Jung Ji-woo is also important, but she isn't showing any signs of betraying us, so I didn't pay her much attention, but if she wants to do something stupid, we have to kill her.-
-After all, she doesn't look as easy to fool with sweet words as Alex, anyway, she is good for now, so no need to worry.-
After they left for their fist dungeon invasion, I was worried that they might all have a miserable death, but sylvan was sure that they would be more than fine.
So I focused on my dungeon and bought four dungeon size increases for 1530 points, and had 607.2 left which I saved to buy something special later on.
Moreover, instead of the 18 possible invaders at once now it's 25, and each one can leave whenever they want because others can enter even though there are people inside the dungeon thanks to the Dungeon entrance system.
Everything is going perfectly.
-But why are they back?-
…
When sylvan saw the 9 returning to meet him, he was as confused as he could be.
-Why are they back? Didn't I train these shits for long enough.-
Sylvan took a deep breath as he said to the 15 people that he was beating up, “take some time to rest and use the internal energy pathways you've been taught”
Sylvan moved from his training room at an unimaginable speed toward the team that just entered Ravenswood, the team that just returned after more than two weeks was surprised to see Sylvan right in front of them.
Sylvan asked in a neutral tone, “why have you come back so soon?”
Alex was the first to say, “sir, we have destroyed the dungeon you've ordered us too; however, we lost Zhu Song.” he said in a sad tone.
-Alex Watson, actually giving a shit about the death of a comrade, I almost believe you.-
After that small thought, Sylvan said, “along your journey, you will lose people, and you'll gain anew, this isn't a game or a fairy tale, you will lose people, this is the price of having the future of a race on your shoulders.”
After a moment to wait for what he said to settle in, he continued, “There is nothing more for me to teach you now, go and destroy as many dungeons as you can and level up, then come back if you feel yourself falling behind.”
“Now leave, every dungeon you destroy is thousands of lives saved, when those under training are ready, I will send them to you for help.” after saying that, sylvan left as fast as he came
The nine team members looked at each other confused, as for what to do now, the reason they came back actually was because of government orders.
After all, who would want to stay here and get tortured, by the sadistic Sylvan shade.
“Everyone, what he said is true, this is bigger than us, let's get ready.” Alex said, in a serious tone, as he turned around to leave.
Everyone wanted to roll their eyes but couldn't, they knew that they would probably be ordered to do the same.
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-ohhhh, yeah, go and get me more points please.- Raven laughed maniacally as he thought of all the points he would be getting, while lily was giving him a weird look.