Epic Of Caterpillar

Chapter 254 - [Forsaken Labyrinth Conquest] 46/69; Skeleton Dinosaurs & Phantom Foxes

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After the massive feast that was our everyday breakfast, we packed things up and then proceeded through the Dungeon, this time, crossing the empty boos floor, which was the floor 77, and entering the floor 78.

On floor 78, the atmosphere was still that of a phantasmagoric graveyard and there were plenty of evolved forms from previous monsters. Specially Dinosaur Skeletons, who had evolved and become incredibly strong, now covered in several coats of Black Miasma, they had incredibly thick bones and each step created powerful tremors through the dungeon floor. They were named Black Raptor Lich, some of them had brilliant scarlet spheres as their cores, inside of their sturdy ribcages.

Some created a symbiosis with the Sentient Dark Matter monsters, these beings lived inside of the Dinosaur Lich ribcages and enhanced their strength by fusing themselves with their cores. These ones were quite rare but held immense power and magic capabilities, however, they lacked the speed of a Sentient Dark Matter. Still, nothing that some Fire, Light, and Holy magic couldnʼt blast away, however, I tried to maintain their bodies intact so I could eat them, so I mostly ate them with my Aura or body, shapeshifting it into a Red Slime.

As we walked through the entire floor, we came across big groups of these Dinosaurs Skeletons, and each time we found a new group, they would be even stronger and have even sturdier bones and cores. To the point that even Valentia wasnʼt able to break their arms or legs with her punches, so all of us had to get a little bit more serious, after some time, some Dinosaur Skeletons covered in black flames would show up, these were named Hell Dinosaur Lich and could spit soul-melting blue flames, they also were immune to Fire and not weak to Light, only Holy remained as their weakness, and it was still difficult to beat them with it if they werenʼt very strong Holy spells.

I had to use my Aura enhanced only with Holy, and when I did, it shined incredibly bright, as if it were about to make us all blind for eternity. However, with it, I managed to deal great amounts of damage in these raptors. Immobilizing them while destroying their limbs was the best course of action, as my wives and children did this, we were able to easily finish them off by ganging on their cores. Their cores were especially delicious, so I ate plenty of them.

These beasts were ”rare”, according to Geraldine, but they were coming in big numbers now, and the Dungeon was obviously plotting against us once again, it really doesnʼt want to give up. In a race, we rushed through the floor and only commanded the ghost obeying us to bring us the loot.

Afterward, I blasted anything following us with a powerful Ray of Holy Magic made by my Aura. Their bodies vaporized but their cores were especially resilient, so they remained on the floor, alongside some small dropped items and equipment, I then devoured the hundreds of cores, and shared a big amount of them with Amiphossia, who benefited the most from them.

[Calculating EXP gained…]

[Kireina] gained 316.882.593 EXP]

[Kireina] gained one level!]

[LEVEL 046/250 EXP 0.239.294.389/2.100.000.000 EXP]

[Kireina] learned the following Skills]

[Dark Miasma Enhancement]

[Infernal Core of the Blazing Dinosaur Lich]

Reaching floor 79, the mist of the dungeon became thicker, and the monsters were being affected by this environment, growing stronger and more tenacious. Alongside the previous floor monsters, who were different subspecies of Dinosaur Skeletons, there were evolved Phantom Foxes, the previous Phantom Foxes only had two tails and were small and cute, but their evolved forms had three tails and had stronger, bigger bodies were agile and get very ferocious, instead of the playful nature of the smaller foxes.