Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

While they were deciding how they were going to fight the Crypt wight, the being himself stepped forward and his form appeared before everyone. Towering over the other monsters, the crypt Wight was a dark giant more than five meters tall.

Its form was shrouded in tattered robes that billowed without the presence of any wind and concealed its true shape from everyone. Underneath the cloak, its withered frame gleamed with an eerie light and ominous powers that coursed through its veins.

Its head, adorned with an ancient crown was encrusted with jewels, that bore the visage of a long-deceased king. Long, bony fingers extended from its hands, each tipped with razor-sharp claws that seemed capable of even rending boulders as easily as flesh.

As it looked at the three kings with its empty eye sockets two greenish fire appeared inside them. Immediately, Gil-Garna and the others felt a little uncomfortable.

"It's using some kind of skill"…

"Who cares, it's not like it's gonna effect us anyways"…

"Hmm, so who is it going attack first? I can't wait to pierce it with my harpoon"…

The three of them laughed completely negating the effects of the Crypt Wight's [Corrosive Gaze].

The latter did not stop after it used its corrosive gaze, it activated a few more skills and a black coffin appeared in front of it. Next, it wrapped the bandages around it and carried the coffin with one hand like a huge heavy sword.

BANG… the coffin was swung down and three black sword lights cut through the air and targeted each of the seven kings.

"Hehe, it looks like it has chosen me as its opponent" Yverza grinned crushing the sword light with just a swing of his arm.

Although the Crpyt Wight swung at all three of them, the first one to be targeted by him was undoubtedly Yverza. The latter moved and dropped down from the mountain of corpses he created.

As for Gil-Garna and Shasurna, they sat down cross legged and observed the confrontation.

BOOM… a powerful shockwave spread and the Crypt Wight was sent flying back to the opposite end of the hall. In just the first move, the Ivory Terraquake Rhino had already established its dominance.

"C'mon, I know that you are far more powerful than this. Show me your most powerful attack" beckoning his finger, he taunted.

The fire within the eyes of the Crypt wight burned brightly seemingly enraged. It then in front of the incredulous and confused eyes of the three begins present, opened the lid of the coffin and slid inside.

"What?!!"

Seeing this, Yverza couldn't help but open his mouth wide in shock. Did the monster really just run away from him and hide in the coffin like a turtle?

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Main Floor, Simon observed the scene with an amused brow. His posture was languid as he supported his head with one of his hands on the armrest.

"So it felt the danger from its opponent and is going to use that ability huh. It is quite intuitive for a monster that is".

He turned towards Bea and asked in bemusement "You have fought with it previously and have personally witnessed that skill of its right? I am not hoping for it to beat one of the Seven Kings. However, do you think there is a chance it can injure one with that skill?".

The Valkyrie who was asked the question shook her head decisively without even needing to think for even a second.

"As master said, I have personally tested the strength of that thing that was created by Sir Coleus myself. It was quite a surprise, seeing it slip inside the coffin, even I thought it was running away. That said, as unusual as that skill is, the power it bestowed is nothing to scoff at"

"That drastic power up would even be able to severely injure those brats under Sir Mars' command. However, against a Seven King… it might have been one thing if it was the other two. There might have been a slight possibility of them getting injured a little if they underestimated it. But against an opponent like that Rhino King, its like the worst matchup. Breaching through that armour would need some grit even for me".

That was the true assessment from Bea.

"You heard her Coleus, it looks like one of your masterpieces is going to be dismantled here".

If even Bea said that she would have to put her strength into it to breach that armour of the Rhino King, then the creature in the crypt had no chance at all.

Coleus had a grim look as he nodded his head "It appears that opponent on the likes of the seven kings of the forest is still too much for the mutated monsters as of yet".

Just like he said, the monster that one of the seven kings was facing was no ordinary monster that was spawned using the [Spawn] function of the dungeon but rather a unique monster that was created through the mutation crystals.

And he was not just talking about the Crypt Wight, even the normal Crypt Scarabs inside that ruin were also mutated monsters created through this process. Though for them, the crystal's effect had to be diluted to one tenth through the process of dilution.

The same went for the other monsters the three clans encountered periodically on the other floors. It was no wonder that the seven kings were unable to recognise them. it was because other than in this dungeon, there was no known record of such monsters appearing in anywhere else in the world.

These monsters were something unique to the Dungeon Laplace.

"If I recall correctly, this creature was the strongest Crypt Wight among its peers right?" Simon suddenly asked a strange question.

"That's right my lord, this creature who was once a crypt wight, emerged as the victor from the pit. Not only that, it had even defeated a Crypt Wight that was tens of levels higher than him"

"Due to its uniqueness, it was able to assimilate with one medium grade mutation crystal and one low grade, becoming one of the handful few monsters who managed to assimilate with two mutation crystals".

Simon nodded his head. Although he had delegated all the work related to mutating, rearing and breeding monsters for the dungeon to Coleus, he still keeps track of his discovery through the report the former sent.

As such, he knew some of the processes and recent successes the other party achieved. The former crypt wight in question was special even among its race from the fact that it managed to emerge victorious from a pit that was full of spawned crypt wight.

This process was something he liked to call the Selection of the Best. Instead of using mutation crystals on each and every one of them which would result in extreme wastage of resources, effort and time if end up failing, he concentrated all of that effort and resources into a single being that managed to appear from the Selection of the best.

The greatest thing about this process was that the being that emerges from this, has the greatest survival possibility and affinity with the mutation crystals.

The process resembled an ancient method from his previous life and was something he had casually mentioned to Coleus. Who knew the other party would really adopt such a technique?

Anyways, the creature in the ruin was one of the few beings who survived all these processes.

Coleus looked at the window depicting the scenes in the ruins and mentioned "Since it cannot even injure its opponent, it cannot be called one of my greatest masterpieces. It getting dismantled by its opponent is only the natural outcome, it would just mean that I still have a lot more progress to make".

He wasn't bothered by the failure of his, but instead was learning from all the mistakes his creations made so that he could improve even further. This attitude of his, Simon liked it very much.

Continuous improvement without fearing failure, he hoped that others could also adopt this attitude. In that regard, Fey and Maya came at the top of his head.

It was the former who came up with the idea of installing a special area on the 86th floor. She was the one who created the numerous ruins, mirages and all that and came up with the request to apply the newest feature of the dungeon, [The Story] in all of it.

As one could see from the numerous windows depicting the scenes of various places and special areas of the floor, installing [The story] was too DP consuming and the returns weren't well worth the expenditure.

Of course, these things had to be fine tuned and he brought the invaders on these floors precisely to find out what other areas the floors were lacking in and what adjustments needed to be made.

It was just that Fey who came up with all these ideas was unable to accept the fact that she took a loss when the enemies didn't fall for her traps and deftly avoided them.

"Failure and success come hand in hand. It is only natural to make mistakes; however, what mattered was what one learned from it. Look at Coleus, he is not bothered by the fact that one of his greatest creation is being toyed with like that. Far from it, he is already calculating and making plans for his next creation. You should learn from him"

Yang Chen spoke looking at Fey.