Re:Monster - Volume 6 - Chapter 28

Chapter 28: Day 236 ~ 240

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Day 236

Today we passed through the forest of lava pillars, home to the [Volcanic Ape General] we defeated earlier. Before us lies an enormous lava lake where the next dungeon boss lives.

Judging by yesterday’s observations, there were absolutely no signs of movement from the center of the lake. Fighting the field boss in his native environment was likely to bring us a variety of problems, as was the case with the [Volcanic Ape General].

The gigantic lava lake, which was sure to become a battleground, has a circular shape with a diameter of about 8 kilometers. The surface has somewhat cooled and was covered with a black crust of hardened lava, but due to the high heat below, there are fissures and cracks from which gases leak and red flashes of lava can be seen.

In daylight, this place is very beautiful; but at night, this place took on the illusory image of a hellish frying pan.

I think it is a fantastic sight, but it appears that fighting there will be far from easy.

And not just because of the extreme temperature, against which even our special equipment paled. There was also lethal gas forced up by the enormous pressures and here and there geysers threw fountains of magma across the surface. Very dangerous indeed.

In addition to this, the path to the center of the lake was in the form of countless small and unstable lava islands; with a great chance to lose your balance or, in the worst case, even overturn the whole island.

Finally, regardless of our position, we were under attack by countless monsters from all sides, against which it was necessary to make your best effort or be defeated. Conquerors that came before us usually gave up half way or died on the road.

In this cruel place I went forward with Minokichi-kun and Asue-chan, forming a group of three.

Because I decided that the rest of the fight over the lava lake would be especially hard, I had the remaining eight generals stay by the shore of the lake so that they can gain precious items by fighting the monsters there. Under normal circumstances it would be pretty stupid to split our fighting forces apart.

However, including the Burasato-chan who serves as the vanguard, Kanami-chan and Irofu-chan as rear guard and despite the overlapping weaknesses of Supesei-san, Seiji-kun and Kugime-chan, the balance is not that bad. In this area, even if we’re not together, they are quite capable of fighting on their own.

Ed Zak: Added previously omitted Demons, and changed negative balance into slightly positive, so it makes more sense.

So they take care of their work and we will deal with our own.

Thus, after passing through many difficulties, we made it safely to the center island of the lava lake and began to fight.

The local field boss [Lava Ammonite Sapendia], was basically a huge hundred meter long ammonite.

With its huge body and cowardly character, it was hiding at the bottom of the lake and attacked adventurers that comes to the central lava lake island, that had a fifty meter diameter, by using countless tentacles which resemble snakes. A very serious and nasty opponent.

The tentacles, whose total number exceeded one hundred, have two kinds. One was thick and long with brute striking strength that shook the surface of the lake, and others that were short and thin as a woman’s body, with something resembling a snake’s head which emitted chunks of lava or heat rays, every one with a different attack method.

In order to counter all of their attacks at the same time, we fought covering each other's shortcomings. Minokichi-kun took on most of the attacks with his shield, using a powerful swipe of the axe to cut off the ends of the tentacles with Asue-chan who fought with him side by side, allowing their combined range of attack to extend farther to distant tentacles. I acted as support for both of them, destroying as many tentacles as they did.

We already knew our habits and fighting methods, so we avoided taking much damage at all.

Here we observed that the [Lava Ammonite Sapendia] had quite the high regeneration, because new tentacles grew in place of severed ones immediately.

At this point I got tired of this nonsense and activated [Unhealing Cursed Wound], but it only slowed the regeneration slightly, which was very irritating.

Usually in such cases, defense is not particularly effective and the best option is to aim at the main body. In this case however, the main body was at the bottom of the lake and we only continued to cut the endlessly regenerating tentacles.

Even a few minutes later we can’t see a difference. Wherever we cut a tentacle a new one grew in its place. There was no trace of the presence of the main body, hidden deep beneath the lava.

Having decided that this was taking too long, I activated [Exoskeleton: Thunder Shark Dragon Scales] and [Lava Swimming] and then dove into the lake of lava.

With these abilities I was free to swim through the lava lake. Though it was a strange feeling swimming in lava it was not bad, but its properties were more viscous than water.

Slightly used to this new way of moving, I pulled up the main body of the [Lava Ammonite Sapendia] to the surface, activating [Unreasonable Adamantine Strength].

After pulling it out I grabbed securely onto its body that was protected by a shell, like a snail, that was roughly twenty meters long and began biting it to absorb it alive. Naturally though, [Lava Ammonite Sapendia] didn’t make for easy eating.

Having received direct damage to its body, it went into its [Frenzy] state by emitting a piercing shriek and began attacking incessantly with all of its tentacles.

Under this attack, like a huge waterfall of blows, I activated [Thunder Shark Dragon Scales], [Black Demon King's Laminated Dragon Armor], [Physical Damage Resistance], [Black Undead Knight's Cloth] and [Endurance].

Who knows what might have happened if I hadn’t? If this is what a field boss is like, then what can be expected from the Dungeon Boss?

On the one hand I’m getting a little excited, but on the other, it’s kind of worrying.

In any case, for now I decided to fully enjoy the taste of [Lava Ammonite Sapendia]'s main body. As I did, I caught the envious look from Minokichi-kun. His jittery and drooling face reminded me of the days when we were still goblins.

Well, despite being half eaten [Lava Ammonite Sapendia] still remained lively. Since I couldn’t really share the body with them, I cut for them the still writhing tentacles, which they roasted and ate on the lava.

While eating, I noticed they were looking at me as if to say “If these tentacles are so delicious, I’d like to try the main body” but it’s just too bad; next time we come here, I’ll be sure to feed them properly.

[Dungeon Boss [Lava Ammonite Sapendia] successfully eliminated]

[As a bonus for being first to eliminate, treasure box [Tomb of the Spiral Shell King] will be sent]

[Ability learned: [Predisposition to Seclusion]]

[Ability learned: [Lava Stealth]]

[Ability learned: [Snake Tentacle Banquet]]

After eating, what remained was a previously hidden ring, a part of the boss’s spiral shell, with walls encrusted with precious gems. The gems alone were worth many golden plates but the material from which the shell was made was of a high quality. I placed this together with the treasure chest into my [Item Box]. 

Following the slaying of the boss, and bringing along a few dozen severed tentacles as a souvenir, we returned to the site where Kanami-chan and the others awaited. The company boasted a tremendous pile of trophies which were immediately dispersed.

Afterwards we enjoyed together a meal of tentacles. Although they’re inferior to the main body, their strangeness somewhat made up for it.

As expected, things are tastier when eaten together.

Day 237

Today we are again having fun hunting dungeon bosses.

Picking up our fighting spirit, we went to the next dungeon boss, but to get to him we had to deal with climbing a mountain.

At half way up the mountain, Asue-chan suddenly removed the pickaxe from her back. Seeing the weaknesses in the stone formation, she mined a tunnel in a very rugged black slope.

And after she mined 50cm into the stone, a bright light suddenly enveloped everyone and two enormous ingots began to appear.

At first I was surprised, but apparently Asue-chan sees through the land and sees areas suitable for mining.

As expected from Asue-chan, we all praised her. She got flustered but did not mind and continued digging until the mine was exhausted.

The mines here are difficult to find because of the terrain, not having any kind of difference from the surroundings. But once production started, it's easy to get a lot of rare minerals. I was pretty interested in why the extracted minerals were already ingots, but I decided to put it off for now.

While we were waiting for the end of mining operation, we decided to try out the effects of [United Attack [Face of Emptiness of 8 Demonic Generals]] against local monsters. While the power of [Flash attack of 8 Demonic Generals] was enough to take out [Volcanic Monkey General] in a single hit, there were still a lot of mysteries.

It looks like the effects can be triggered when at least 2 of the 8 demons work together, and the power of effects depend on number of demons that are participating.

Depending on the specialty and position of each general in formation, such as attack, defense, stealth or detection, [United Assault [Face of Emptiness of 8 Demonic Generals]] can take different form and effect.

As we try out various changes to the combination, we found out many different types of attacks and defenses, and that this ability was quite easy to use.

We were able to simultaneously conduct research, raise our levels, as well as collect a large quantities of dropped items. We are all spending our time quite usefully.

Asue-chan finished mining after only an hour.

Although she could have finished in about ten minutes after finding a vein, but as it turned out there were some other veins near the first one, so Asue-chan wanted to dig out every vein that was found. As a result it took more time, but gained a lot of minerals that were quite rare, with good quality and great quantity.

By bringing ambient heat and compressing it in one place, using the ability of the silver hand [collecting a ball of flame] I was able to absorb several minerals mined today into the silver hand. This catch would obviously please Blacksmith-san and company, strongly stimulating their creative process, from which different kinds of inventions are born.

Ed Zak: This paragraph, it do not make that much sense... it should be something along this lines: "I absorbed many minerals that was mined today, and gained [Fire Spiting Steel Ball](?) that can be released as a compressed stream from [Silver Arm], and used in smithing. Blacksmith-san should be pleased, and it might lead to some inventions and stimulate creativity of others.

We are moving forward, with all sorts of expectations.

The next dungeon boss is located on the slope of the Fire Dragon Mountain's Volcano, which is covered in countless volcanic stones, but it is unknown if it is active right now.

The tongues of lava are cold and hardened, so it is very easy to proceed, and compared to the previous place it was not that hot.

However, as we go forward, and as it is a [God] class dungeon, monsters are stronger than those that attacked us previously. In addition, most of them have higher intelligence, making them dangerous opponents.

They attacked together in fairly large groups. In this place where there were a lot of blind spots, surprise and even pincer attacks weren't uncommon. As expected of local monsters that were raised in such a hostile environment.

We made our way to the dungeon boss without stopping, fighting off opponents on the way as they come. Although the number of attackers was lower than usual, the number of injuries increased significantly.

Although I and Kugime-chan are detecting incoming ambushes, and Seiji-kun quickly tends to our wounds, we are accumulating fatigue from constant battle and a hostile environment, which makes continuing ever more difficult.

Our pace slowed down tremendously, but in exchange it increased the inflow of experience, thus increasing our levels.

Slowly but surely moving forward.

In the evening we finally found the third field boss.

The third boss [Golden Heffalump], if you were to describe it, is a giant golden elephant soldier that walks on two legs and is armed with a battle axe.

Its height is barely under 25 meters, surpassing even the body of Balor, in truth he looked like a moving hill. His whole body was pretty thick, especially his large torso and seemingly abnormally wide legs that allowed him to steadily support the entire weight of his enormous body.

He was almost nude, except for a durable black and silver loincloth. His natural armor, his golden skin, didn't have a single scratch on it.

Any weak attack wouldn't be able to hurt him. In addition, in order to destroy the supports of his huge body, bones and muscles, you need to use something really destructive.

He has a trunk that is so long, it already reached his feet. It acts as a third hand and was wielded like a mace to attack the enemy.

While moving he swings from side to side, occasionally touching some of the surrounding stones by accident and easily crushes them. It becomes clear how destructive he would be if he were to attack at full force.

On either side of his huge trunk grows four tusks that have the size of a battering ram and were completely unscathed.

Of all the creatures we've been fighting, without any doubt, he has the highest attack and defense powers.

Just looking at his body, he looks like a very problematic adversary. He is so huge that even his axe is bigger than Minokichi-kun, and that is very troublesome.

I was not too eager to fight him, and the power of the swing of his battle axe was so strong it even split the dust in the air, but luckily it seems like it doesn't have any corrosive effects or anything of the like.

ED: The lines above were super confusing so please, if you understand please edit those stupid lines. ED: Got you bbycakes. Ed Zak: I think that in russian version are some thing added here and there, that multiply the confusion.

Due to the huge muscles of [Golden Heffalump], it could strike with incredible speed, contrary to his huge size. At this level, Minokichi-kun or I would barely be able to block it.

That conclusion was reinforced when we saw that the [Golden Heffalump] cut off the head of a [Magma Lizard] with a swing of its battleaxe.

[Magma Lizard] is a cousin to the drake, it's about 10 meters long and starts its hunting from a hillside. Its combat abilities are comparable to that of a drake so, to be taken down by a single hit, the attack power of [Golden Heffalump] must be considerably high - and that says a lot.

Without a doubt: a terrible enemy. If you drop your guard at all it will cost you your life.

Naturally we did not run away from fear, but to observe it for a while. It was decided that we had a chance to win, but it was not decided immediately.

[Golden Heffalump] is certainly strong and fast, but because the enemy is unusually heavy, it has almost no special attacks. If we act with care, he wouldn't be able to do anything.

With its defense power even Minokichi-kun attacks will not do much, but under contentious barrage the damage will accumulate and will take it down.

If we were the same as before we arrived here, it would be a much more difficult fight. But thanks to the previous battles our levels increased, and as a result our fighting force had risen as well. That increase in strength was a significant factor in the battle.

Due to this fact we should be able to subjugate [Golden Heffalump], and after the battle we should be left with some strength.

But the reality of the situation is that it did not progress so smoothly.

This was not our best moment, or rather, during the battle with the field boss we were disturbed.

If this were the usual monsters it would not hurt us so much. It would have been alright even if it was an intrusion by [Magma Lizards].

But here it came: the [Demon Boar Orc King] that lived in a volcano, cutting his opponents with a huge butcher knife with two blades.

His remarkable body with a height of 6 meters bears the marks of many battles. He only wears the minimum amount of cloths and trinkets. Although he looked barbaric there is a charm to his wild look.

His name is Combat Hero [Demon Boar Orc King]

One of the pinnacles of orc evolution [Demon Boar Orc King], here is [Volcanic Blue Orc King], which is a 4 fold stronger boss than the one we are fighting. That would make us fight two field bosses at the same time.

In such a situation, it is likely that there will be casualties on our side.

This time, if we lose anyone it will exceed any benefit that we can get here.

Fortunately, Kugime-chan was on guard and noticed approach of another [intruder].

Good thing we noticed before it was too late. Leaving [Golden Heffalump] to the 8 demon generals, I went to deal with the [Volcanic Blue Orc King] alone.

Although [Golden Heffalump] is far from dead, if they are all together, they will finish it I'm sure.

I then hid my presence and came behind [Volcanic Blue Orc King].

After donning [Red Bear Beast King's Prestige], the exoskeleton most suited for land battle, I activated [Three Steps of Destruction] and added to that [Surging Destructive Fists of Flesh Crushing]. With these multiple attacks, I was able to crush several drakes, and made an attack directed at his spinal cord.

Ed Zak: Those drakes there makes little sense, but i leave it there.

Although his back is stronger than his front I definitely felt the crushed flesh, shattering of the spine and organs rupturing on my fist.

The fur and skin of [Volcanic Blue Orc King] that shine like a dark red metal were deeply depressed into body. Under my attack his big body was thrown forward and violently rolled on the ground.

If all this had ended here it would have been an easy time. But apparently, it's not.

After [Volcanic Blue Orc King] vomited a large amount of blood, he slowly got up on his feet, emitting anger from his entire body.

All of his muscles bulging and out of his mouth came blue flames.

Rising with such fury after receiving such a strong blow, the title "field boss" was not just for show.

Day 238

The [Volcanic Blue Orc King] turned out to be unusually strong and we ended up fighting throughout most of the night. It was extremely exhausting.

The Volcanic Orc King was extraordinary to be able to survive my surprise attack to his back. During our night long battle he was spawning his subordinates with magic items. This was an attempt to chip away at my stamina while allowing himself to restore his own.

I would like to keep him from recovering but his subordinates have surprising teamwork and seem to be able to attack me as though they were a single organism.

Fighting them as a lone Demon would be too taxing, I will fight numbers with numbers so I used my ability of [Lesser Summoning: Giant].

The Volcanic Orc King seemed to have the ability [Greater Summoning: Demonkin].

He started to call [Orc Mage]s and [Orc Knight]s with great intelligence and high quality armament one after another, so to match him I generated many [Black Fomorians] and equipped them with [Human Bomb] to even the odds.

For a while this turned into a battle of subordinates, where neither side was stronger then other. All that ended when the bodies piled up into a stack over 10 meters high.

The Volcanic Orc King continued to call subordinates and at the same time he lunged toward me, trampling the mountain of corpses under him, which was in itself a problem.

The [Volcanic Blue Orc King], like the [Golden Heffalump], specialized in close combat.

With its double bladed butcher knife able to pierce enemy armor his continuous attacks were like angry waves, each of its blows powerful enough to kill a [Drake] on the spot.

Most likely he was close to [Physical Attack Immunity] and had the [Body Restoration] ability that makes him unable to die unless his head is cut off or crushed. Aside from that it seems like he has a near-endless stamina that allows him to fight continuously at full throttle; indeed a really strong opponent.

With something like [Intuition] that allows him to respond to every attack, even from various directions, his movement was like that of a boar, but much faster. His huge frame was filled with strong muscles, and despite having the appearance of a fat body, it moved with ease.

Repeatedly accelerating, he reduced the distance to me and when I threw a red spear at him he avoided it with an airborne spin, then attacked me with his butcher knife aimed at my head.

Sometimes thanks to his high perception and the unpredictable movement of his entire body he managed to bypass my defense, ramming his butcher knife into my exoskeleton several times.

Even with strengthened defense, I have received damage beyond my expectations, most likely he had [Penetrating Physical Damage] or a similar ability.

Although he slightly loses to [Golden Heffalump] in terms of attack and defense power, [Volcanic Blue Orc King] has superior speed and mobility and other fighting abilities; he is far superior to the group of the war-hero veterans.

If we were to make an evaluation, the [Volcanic Blue Orc King] makes good use of its tremendous endurance and ridiculous physical strength in order to survive; it takes a long time to defeat him.

((Ed Zak: Tried to make sense out of it, but last two paragraphs still irking me. If anyone has better idea in making sense of GT below, please do.))

You can crush his head or rip out his heart, or try to eat his internal organs and destroy his body to kill him. In the long process you get weakened, but finally... He dies.

At the same time, the [Golden Heffalump] came within a step of dying and released a hidden reserve of force. His body began to emit golden wave of energy, but Minokichi and others used [United Assault [Face of Emptiness of 8 Demon Generals]] on him, sealing the deal and thus snatching victory at the last call.

Somehow we have managed to subdue 2 dungeon bosses, at the same time, but as a price we were very tired after the fight and had wounds everywhere.

In particular, everyone suffered a backlash after using [United Assault]. The 8 Demon Generals were fatigued beyond measure.

Even Minokichi could not move, and Seiji and Kugime had fainted.

[Dungeon boss [Golden Heffalump] successfully eliminated]

[As a bonus for the first elimination of the boss a treasure chest [The Coffin of Elephant Soldier] will be sent]

[Dungeon boss [Volcanic Blue Orc King] was successfully eliminated]

[As a bonus for the first elimination of the boss a treasure chest [The Mausoleum of a Boar] will be sent]

The 8 Demon Generals lay motionless on the ground, unable to move and slowly being roasted from geothermal heat. If I leave them as they are, they will suffer serious burn marks.

While they are protected by their armor, they slowly accumulate damage to their internal organs; those are much harder to heal than the exterior burns.

In order to avoid this, being the only one who could still move because of my ability [Tireless], I built a temporary base using [Skeleton Centipede], and moved them all inside.

After collecting the countless bodies lying in the area and both treasure chests, putting them in my [Item Box] I've finally been able to relax.

In order to recover as quickly as possible I used several of my recovery abilities, and tried to rest for at least 3 minutes. Lucky enough there were no signs of monsters so I was able to recover much of my physical strength.

During the break we were discussing what to do next.

At the moment it was impossible to say that we have fully recovered, Kugime and Seiji were still far from the point where they could continue the journey.

There would be consequences if we moved as we are.

Here you can not be unreasonable, we had to rest.

Thus, it was decided to get to [Border Area] which can be used as a [Safe Zone].

On foot it would take a lot of time, so we used [Skeleton Centipede] and went straight back.

We will go after the bosses tomorrow, nobody will find them till then, but today I want to recover while enjoying relaxing sleep.

We decided to eat the Field bosses tomorrow for breakfast, but today we will have a party with pork chops from [Orcs] and [Orc Mages].

Day 239

Yesterday we rested the entire day, and now we're all in excellent condition.

Our injuries were healed, our physical strength that had been lost was back and our near depleted mana was fully recovered.

In addition, for breakfast we had [Golden Heffalump] and [Volcanic Blue Orc King].

[Ability learned: [Swine Lord]]

[Ability learned: [Penetrating Physical Damage]]

[Ability learned: [Greater Summoning: Demonkin]]

[Ability learned: [Elephant Hits Slave]]

[Ability learned: [Body of Giant Elephant]]

[Ability learned: [Happy Elephant Wealth]]

Upon obtaining the field boss's abilities I wanted to dance with joy, however I still needed to know what these abilities do. Later on, when I have time, I'll test them out.

Now that we are fully rested we wanted to continue our conquest from the middle of the dungeon with full strength, so we moved on the Great Skeleton Centipede.

Yesterdays descent, thanks to use of [Skeleton Centipede], was quite easy and fast. But, as we went back to the place where we were yesterday, resistance from monsters encountered on the way was rising rapidly. As such, when we finally arrived in the middle of the dungeon the [Great Skeleton Centipede] was severely damaged.

Although thanks to Kugime-chan's radar we avoided attacks as best as we could, and we're now moving at full speed, but as expected it cannot get through without taking any damage.

There was a lot of intense damage scattered all over our ride. I think I will fix it later.

With that said, thanks to the Great Skeleton Centipede that was used to reduce the time needed to cross to our destination, we now resume our conquest.

When you cross the stony slopes of volcanic rock where our fight took place yesterday you will come upon a forest of flaming trees.

Many of the trees growing in that forest have leaves that burn with constant live fire, generating heat that is at the same level as the lava lake.

If only the flames grew on several of them... However, as there were several hundred thousand of them they became a problem.

Irofu and Kanami had expressions of discontent as they are weak to the heat, but that issue was addressed with frequent use of [Hyper cooling liquid] which can be obtained quite often from all monster species living on hills.

[Hyper Cooling liquid] is the higher grade version of [Cooling liquid] obtained in Labyrinth City Radha Lo Dara, with enhanced effects and time duration.

Although it is a very expensive consumable item in high heat areas like the [Forest of flaming trees] it becomes one of the indispensable essentials.

The dungeon monsters living here had an outward appearance very similar to the flaming trees, [Fire Treant] as well as their highest kin [Lava Treant], and as such are hard to spot among them. They love to attack from blind spots with their flaming branches, as well as using magic to control the high temperatures in the forest fire of the countless trees; their attacks were very distressing. ((Ed Zak: Not so sure about this paragraph. But I will leave it like that.))

Thanks to Kugime in the role of a scout, with her ability to observe the surroundings, even if they tried to sneak up we found them and proceeded onward without problems.

Although we were attacked by large groups of [Fiery Metal Gorilla] two of our vanguards were fighting with enthusiasm, Minokichi-kun and Burasato-san had a great mood after yesterday's rest and easily slaughtered them.

We received a huge amount of experience and combat skills after yesterday's battle with the field bosses so our battle strength has been greatly increased.

We continued moving without any problems, arriving before a large flaming tree that stood alone in the center of a large circular clearing with a diameter of one kilometer.

This large flaming tree has a height of about one hundred and fifty meters, with a trunk as thick as six ordinary flame trees.

The color of its bark was close to black gray. Located on its trunk was something that looked like a screaming human face.

But what is more characteristic is the the color of the flame.

The branches that spread through the sky above us were aflame with a clear blue fire. It was a beautiful and fascinating spectacle, with a somehow devilish glow.

This huge fire wood was the fifth field boss [Devilish Blue Flame Treant]. And it was the last field boss that we could gather information about from the previous explorers. [ED: Calling it "Devilsih Blue Flame Treant", got a problem with that? Fine, call it "Woody" then because I give up!

Because of the lack of information from here on out, we have to wade through very carefully, but we will think about it after defeating the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant].

((Ed Zak: I will try to decipher Google Translation below, with emphasis on TRY.)) -=- Anon: I helped

The [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] can be described as a kind of [Moving Devil Treant], one of the strongest among the species of [Devil Treant].

It is difficult to stop this enemy, as it can quickly shrug off any damage dealt.

It gathers natural magic from its surroundings via its vast roots, which it uses to heal any kind of wound in the blink of an eye, and its healing magic is especially powerful in this environment.

Although its magical attacks are seemingly classified as those with minimal offensive power, it instantly creates a powerful and sustained barrage of spells; it can be a very troublesome opponent.

Even high level combatants can be destroyed with enough time.

As the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] is probably the last field boss on the hillside, it should be the fiercest opponent so far when confronted directly.

But it is fortunate that the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] will not move from its position, and as such can be attacked from afar with a preemptive strike.

So, it was decided that we will quickly obliterate it.

According to information obtained from previous explorers, the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] starts to react when opponents venture within two hundred meters.

This also seems to be the farthest range of his branches, so he will not react as long there are no loud sounds.

Since the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] is a formidable enemy, I took some time to carefully plan the strongest attack method we could use against it.

((Ed Zak: And here I finish my TRY. I'm afraid that most of it are just wild guesses))

I changed my silver arm into a gun and loaded the Starving Impaler of A Thousand Thorn (Kazıklı Bey).

After undergoing the same processes as when I killed Balor, as well as activating the abilities that I hadn't acquired at the time, such as [Penetrating Physical Damage], [Bee Sting] and [Silent Pierce], I was curious how it will work all together simultaneously.

Without much delay, after finishing the preparation, I shot Starving Impaler of A Thousand Thorn (Kazıklı Bey).

Because of the effect [Silent Injection] there was no sound made from the shot, there was only the flash of a scarlet line, which immediately struck the body of [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] with an incredibly powerful blast.

Affected from the shot, the whole body of [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] bent in the shape of the letter "r".

How flexible can it be that it does not break when bent so far, and how dense is his trunk to not be breached fully by such powerful penetrating attack at this point? Extremely shocked, as the strike reached 3 meters into the trunk, I activated the ability of my spear [Army of Blood-dyed Crimson Spears].

((Ed Zak: Spear ability copied from day 44))

As a result, within a radius of 100 meters from the red spear began to emerge countless copies, mercilessly tearing the body of the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] from the inside.

Slanting from the impact, while the inside is ripped apart by countless spears, [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] tried to heal itself with his healing abilities until his roots can no longer absorb magic.

As it was reaching the end of healing capabilities, while making cracking sounds like a skyscraper with its base having been destroyed, the upper part of the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] began to fall down.

Significantly losing it's height, but being still alive, it changes it's fallen branches with blue flames into the [Fire Treant] variant: [Devil Flame Treant].

The number of those was about five hundred. And with time, their number will further increase.

Although [Devil Flame Treants] as defenders of the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] individually weren't very strong, their sheer number was itself a problem.

But our attack was not over yet.

Directed at the fallen parts, Kanami-chan and others prepared [United Assault [Flash attack of 8 Demonic Generals].

Increasing it's power with the formation affect from the [Face Of Emptiness of 8 Demonic Generals], it has become a huge black flash that went on through the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] and a horde of [Devil Flame Treant], mercilessly destroying everything in its path.

All that is left are debris in the air, that flip and crash down to the ground.

(([ED: That attack is still so strong. ~wah ~Azoraxxx]))

[Dungeon boss [Devilish Blue Flame Treant] successfully eliminated]

[As a bonus for the first elimination of the boss a treasure chest, [Grave of the Diabolical Tree], will be sent]

The main body is decreased significantly, but some still remains.

There is a lot of debris, so we can collect enough material.

We began removing the remaining [Devil Flame Treants] that were not caught in attack and collecting the debris from the [Devilish Blue Flame Treant], which has stopped moving.

The united attack certainly has tremendous destructive power, but also a backlash leaving many openings, and you have to take a rest carefully, after you use it. This time however, it was done just right.

As we have no information on the area I have sent out my [Black Fomorians] infested with [Parasite] to scout out, but as they quickly died I have learned nothing.

Because of this, from here on we will need to move even more cautiously and we must use every moment of rest we get as effectively as possible.

Day 240

After passing through the forest of flaming trees, we came across a vast treasure area filled with countless black volcanic rocks.

It is a bonus for those [Adventurers] who make it here, so that they can easily mine a large quantity of rare minerals. It is a place that brings benefit greater than the hardships of getting here.

Across the territory, there were scattered ore veins. Once we got here Asue-chan, with her overwhelming mining sense, involuntarily shed some tears of joy. "This, this is surely ...... paradise?" she whispered. [ED. AWWWWW cute!]

She excitedly ran to the nearest vein and did not stop until it was exhausted completely. It was decided that today we would be extracting ores.

As it is not simple to find such places you must take all that you can take, or so it is said.

While we ask Asue-chan to point out ore veins, we started to work separately.

While I was swinging my pickaxe it reminded me of the work of extending our base in the great forest, as it was done in the same way.

Thinking about all of the things that had happened, we continued to work without rest.

Although rare and small in numbers, there are appearing [Giant Lava Golems] so we split into small groups.

Kanami-chan and Kugime-chan, Minokichi-kun and Asue-chan, Burasato-san and Supesei-san, Seiji-kun and Irofu-chan.

And it went like that. Hunting [Giant Lava Golems], mining ore, hunting golems while mining ore. As we repeated that over the day it passed very quickly.

By evening even Asue-chan was satisfied. It was decided that tomorrow we would continue the conquest.

The amount of ore that we gathered today was at least 5 times what we had since we started this dungeon conquest.

Frankly, I think we overdid it.

Or maybe not, as most of it was things that you could not afford to buy.

Anyway, we proceeded further through the crater to a rise up in it's center.

Lone field boss was what I expected, but as nothing happened we will rest and prepare for tomorrow.

Then an announcement appeared in my mind.

Rusty Iron Knight awakened to 18 Demon Warlords

[Title [Battle Beast of Steel] will be sent]

Doriane awakened to 18 Demon Warlords

[Title [Beautiful Flower] will be sent]

It turns out that those two were among the 18 Demon Warlords, which is to be expected. Anyway, I'll sleep for now, and think about it tomorrow.