Alexia

“Your Excellency, Lady Reaper, we have been expecting your arrival and welcome you warmly,” a giant says while bowing down the moment I appear in front of their city. They then stand up again to their full height, dwarfing me in the process, who was already short for human standards. Or I guess reaper standards? “I will now take you to the dungeon should you wish.”

Reaper or human standards aside, I nod my head back at the polite yet very big giant and answer, “Works for me.”

Then we head off through the island, with them keeping up with my teleportation through simply running. His size making his running pace a lot faster than a human running pace.

Although I’m not teleporting all that fast right now, so that’s largely why. I can’t lose him after all. He’s my guide.

We continue moving through the island until we come upon what I’m looking for.

A large graveyard with what looks like a mausoleum at the center, with statues of gargoyles in front of it.

I identify the purple portal that I find after the giant opens the doors to the mausoleum.

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Dungeon – Death Mausoleum

Description: Enter the Death Mausoleum at your own risk, for should you get lost within its walls, you may never find your way out.

Monsters: The Primary monster type in this dungeon are death-aligned undead-type monsters, with the secondary type being abominations.

Requirements To Enter: Be Tier 3 or above.

Dungeon Tier: 3

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So not much in the way of a description. Not that it matters, considering that I’ve already gotten the rundown of what’s in it from the giant over here and Varsac.

The mausoleum is mostly full of undead, largely zombie and skeleton type undead. It should also have some special, higher Class undead and a lot of Chaos monster undead.

In fact, most of the monsters there were Tier 2 Chaos Monsters. So monsters on par with Class B users in terms of stats.

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Meanwhile there are five bosses spread through the dungeon, with each one using death magic. But three of them use it spiritually focused while the other two use it physically focused.

The final boss uses it spiritually focused, thankfully.

Since spiritual attacks are often considered much worse than physical ones.

Makes me glad that I don’t have to deal with spiritual attacks.

Luna squeaks from her place on my shoulder, making me reach over to scratch her under the chin. An act that she seems to approve of, considering that she’s purring like a cat.

Adorable.

Actually didn’t know bats purred until Luna started doing it.

Anyways, I turn to face the giant and nod my head, saying, “Thank you for showing me here. That’s all I need.”

He nods his head and begins to walk away as I face the dungeon entrance.

Time for my Tier 3 dungeon.

I’m level 285 right now, so it shouldn’t be as bad as the Tier 1 and 2 dungeons were, when I started out at level 1 after entering them.

I also have Luna this time, since she chose to join me instead of staying at the base.

At this point the city doesn’t really need a protector. Not with all of the defenses and my mercenaries there.

They can still use my name to protect themselves should a Class S or other powerful person appear though.

Even the Cataclysm Class monster is gone now, so there isn’t a large threat looming anywhere nearby anymore. Unless you count Ethan, but I really can’t see him attacking the city.

Also can’t see him defending it.

He just doesn’t care about the city one way or the other.

Unless he decides to defend it for me that is, but even that I doubt.

I glance at Luna once more before facing forwards and stepping into the dungeon.

And the very first monster I find after entering the dungeon is a fallen one. A chaos monster.

More than one actually.

{Fallen Ancient Bones – Level 252}

{Fallen Ancient Bones – Level 251}

The two skeletons – and that’s basically what they are if I ignore the green flames in their eyes and the black and green armor they’re wearing – are standing on the sides of a door at the end of a large hall. And neither of them are moving, just standing in place at the door. Even if their attention turned to me after I identified them, the two clearly being able to tell when others identify them.

They don’t look very strong, and are over thirty levels below me, so…

Luna suddenly opens her mouth and sends a Quantum Breath attack at the two skeletons from all the way on our side of the hall, making everything the breath touch glitch out. And as I’m blinking, vaguely surprised by her sudden attack, the breath attack clears up, revealing nothing but a slightly glitching floor and wall without any skeletons.

I glance at the bat perched on my shoulder that is now looking at me as if searching for praise.

And I can’t help but snort before bursting out into laughter.

Luna tilts her head in confusion, making me laugh even harder as I pet her. Which seems to content her enough that she starts purring again and straightening up with pride.

“You’re the best, Luna,” I manage to get out after laughing my fill. My first real long laugh in a while.

I don’t normally laugh like that after all. Normally it’s just a simple snort of amusement, or maybe an amused exhale of breath.

Really wasn’t expecting Luna to just kill them as I was trying to figure out how strong they were.

I scratch Luna a little before stepping further into the room.

And just seconds later, I feel my foot sinking slightly into the floor along with a tile of the room, making me frown and then glance at Luna, who just squeaks once.

Then the floor falls out from beneath me, leading to me falling.

Until I remember I can teleport and simply teleport back to the top, where I was standing before setting off the trap.

Hmm.

Okay.

The floor returns after several seconds.

Take two.