The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1263: Wrath Dungeon

The moment that Karl stepped into the dungeon, he knew that this was going to be a good day, despite being pulled away from his work.

The Demons all turned to look at him, not lost in rage and contained by the Dungeon, just waiting in circles drawn on the stone floor of the ruins that the dungeon was set in.

“That’s not right.” The Dwarf muttered.

“What’s not right? The dungeon is full, they’re ready and waiting. Looks like we’re in the right spot.” Karl replied.

“That’s just it. Why are they looking at us? They shouldn’t know that we’re here.”

The dungeon entrance was on a platform that used to be a large building, and looked down over the rest of the dungeon. So, Karl used the opportunity to search for a trigger to the odd behaviour.

The answer was clear.

The moment that he met the eyes of the final boss, a massive red Demon with tattered wings and black plate armour on, the creature made a slashing motion across his neck, staring intently at Karl.

[Oh, it is so on.] Cara laughed.

“That’s not supposed to happen.” The Berserker laughed, but Karl could see that he was excited about the possibilities.

“Well, I think we know how to challenge the dungeon difficulty. When we get to the final boss, I will duel him.” Karl explained.

Then, the rest of the dungeon reverted to normal, with the demons appearing oblivious to their presence.

All except Carnage, who was eagerly watching their every move.

“That is just unnerving.” The Dwarf complained as they reached the first boss.

The boss was acting normally, but Carnage was still staring at them.

“I think I have an idea. Fight the boss as normal, but I will only send my Golems. Carnage will appreciate the fight more without spoilers.” Karl offered.

“Do you think that a Mythic Dungeon is so easy that you can just step out?” The Berserker asked.

Karl shrugged and swapped his Epic Golems for a pair of Demonic Apes. They were well-matched to the boss in fighting style, and they would keep it from turning on the others.

The Golems clashed with the axe wielding Wrath Demon, and blood flew.

The boss was unexpectedly fast, and he was actually winning two on one before the rest of the team showed up, and Dana’s Golems with [Auto Parry] came to rescue the apes.

The Wrath Demon Berserker was actually the best matched of them for the boss fight, other than Dana’s Golems.

Everything else that would have been an option was too weak or incapable of properly defending. Even the Dark Elven Kings would have been batted around the Dungeon by the pure force of those swings.

Then Karl remembered that he had other options.

The Naga King was just as large as the boss, but had four arms and four swords, with exceptional combat skills.

[Make sure that you put this boss thing in the arena.] Rae insisted.

She really wanted to try fighting one of these alone. She could phase in and out of reality, so most targets weren’t a real challenge, but the burns on her forelimb chitin said that the flames on that Demon’s weapon didn’t care whether she was corporeal or not.

Anything that could actually hit her when she was going all out was an excellent target to train against.

Dana just shook her head in dismay. Karl had planned to give the arena random targets if the challenger didn’t specify. What would the average fighter do if they suddenly came up against of these things?

It hit so hard that even with auto-parry, her Golems needed healing.

The Shaman was the only one of them that was in a truly great mood. He normally had to work himself to the bone to keep up with this dungeon. It might be short, but it was already one of the hardest Mythic Dungeons.

But today, not only were they taking far less damage, the group had [Greater Consecrated Ground] active, reducing damage taken, and Tian was healing the group, trying to figure out the trick to making them heal everyone when they hit the target.

He really wanted that skill.

And he didn’t care if his sisters said that he was lazy for having healing automatically trigger when they attacked.

“I hope that your plan works. Because if it was the fastest kill time, we might have just blown our chance.” The berserker grumbled as the boss fight ended.

The shaman laughed. “No, even with Karl standing off to the side, we are still nearly ten minutes ahead of our usual time. If we were going for a time record, it would certainly be a record for recent attempts at the dungeon.

Those golems do a horrific amount of damage. The Naga Kings that he replaced the Apes with are doing three times what either of you are, and that’s mostly on volume of attacks.

Every mage in the Guild is going to go broke trying to get a copy of that from the Blue Dragons.”

“Well, at the very least, we might get to do it this way again. So, there is a chance that we will be able to beat this time.”

Dana shook her head. “Both of us have huge damage bonuses to our Golems. Even if you had the same number of them, only an advanced class would stand a chance of keeping up. But look at how happy the healer is.”

That made the Wrath Demon Berserker chuckle. “I can’t argue with that. Normally, he’s sweating and swearing before the end of the boss fight.”

While they were talking, Carnage, the final boss of the dungeon, thumped the butt of his axe on the ground and made an impatient gesture.

“Dammit, you really did break the dungeon, didn’t you? Or maybe that’s how it’s supposed to go, but the rest of us hadn’t activated the System Function to enable dungeon difficulty settings?” The Shaman asked.

Remi nodded happily in her space as she looked up from her potion of the day.

[I think that he’s right. They’re a few functions behind on the activation progress. Give it like two more months, and this will start happening all over the place.

Immortal Azov will be so mad.

But at least he won’t be able to blame it all on us once it starts happening for Guilds that aren’t affiliated with our mission.] She joked.