The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Rein was quite sad for another different reason too. Anneshia told him that after waking up she had stayed in this deepest part of the dungeon for the whole time. She had no one to talk to and she was completely alone.

This happened for who knows how many years and then finally Rein and his team appeared.

That meant for the past thousands of years Anneshia had to spend time completely alone. She had no one to be her companion for some time. Immediately Rein decided to spend as much time as possible here with her.

He told Stella, Tasha and Kagura about it and asked them to give their company to Anneshia as much as possible.

He also asked Anneshia if she was still connected to the dungeon and in answer she replied that indeed she was. She performed a cocoon break once every 100 years or so and each time she would be able to push a little bit of the influence of the dungeon core from her soul.

But according to her calculation, at the speed she was going, it would take her over five hundred thousand years to completely get rid of all the influence of the dungeon core.

That was a long time but as Anneshia had already waited for so many years, she was very much willing to wait for that amount of time too. But Rein had no intention to give up so easily. He wanted to find some way to make the process of Anneshia getting out of this dungeon to be faster.

So he started to observe her with his Eye of Truth. He asked Anneshia to use her cocoon break once. Anneshia told him that now her using cocoon break would not have any effect but Rein still asked her to do it as he was trying to analyse how this ability of hers worked.

He took a very closer look at her ability and was not able to figure much. But one thing was for sure and that was the fact that Anneshia\'s cocoon break was a very high grade ability. Then Rein went to the next step of the experiment.

He asked Anneshia to lower her defence and he was going to attack her.

Normally it would be an impossible request to follow but in the last few days Rein had done his best to get closer to Anneshia in order to win her trust. He had told her about all her secrets that his wives knew and had been very honest about his intentions of winning her trust too.

This approach fortunately turned out to be correct and the bond between Anneshia and Rein had improved by quite a bit.

That was the reason why Anneshia agreed to Rein\'s request. Obviously the attack Rein made was not with his full strength but it did not do any damage to Anneshia.

Rein was extremely surprised by it as even though that was not his full powered attack, it was still an attack that would kill most transcendental rank powerhouses.

Anneshia told Rein that her armour could passively nullify any attacks below a certain threshold and Rein\'s previous attack was below that threshold. So he increased the amount of strength he used and was able to fortunately deal some damage to her.

He again asked her to use her cocoon break to heal that wound.

Anneshia did as she was told and her cocoon break almost immediately healed her wounds. This time Rein was able to find out a bit more about this ability of hers. The way the cocoon break healed her was very special. It did not manipulate time or increase her healing properties.

But what it did was so adapt her body to the damage she took and make it so that it would be harder for her body to take the same kind of damage in the future.

This adaptability was also the reason why Anneshia got stronger after every cocoon break. It was almost like cheating. This ability really had almost no bad factors. But just learning the way this ability worked was not enough so Rein continued with his experiments.

Next he told Tasha to use various kinds of poisons on Anneshia as he wanted to judge how this ability was working for them. The result was just as he had expected. Some of the poison did work for the first time but after a single cocoon break that same poison would not be effective anymore on her.

She would become immune to it.

He was feeling a little bit guilty for hurting Anneshia so many times but he knew that as a warrior and knight this type of injuries were not a big deal to her and Rein worrying about her over these minor things would actually be an insult to her. So, he continued with the experiments.

After doing the same thing for thousands of times, Rein was finally able to get some good results. He was happy to declare that this experiment was a success. He had managed to find a way to help Anneshia make the process of her getting the freedom faster.

But the solution Rein came to with was very dangerous. So he was not sure if should really try this or not. So instead of worrying about it alone he told his wives and Anneshia herself about the solution and asked for their opinion.

The solution that Rein came up with was to damage Anneshia\'s soul and then she needed to use her cocoon break to heal the damage to the soul. Rein had already made sure that Cocoon Break was able to perfectly heal any damage to the soul too. So it was a possible and good solution.

But soul was a very important thing and no one had a very good idea about what its properties were. So they were not completely sure if dealing continuous damage to the soul was safe or not.

Among their group only Rein was actually able to deal true damage to the soul and that was also only with Kagura. From that it was evident how rare this was.

In the same breath, recovering from soul damage was equally troublesome. There was a high chance that Anneshia would lose some of her memories in this process.

After thinking about it for some time, Anneshia told Rein that she was willing to try this process. This was the only way she could speed up her recovery process and she was willing to take this much risk for that.

Rein would be the one to deal the damage to her soul and after spending so much time with him, Anneshia\'s trust for him was off the charts. He had always been extremely careful when he was doing the experiments so she was happy to entrust her life in his capable hands.

Actually the more Anneshia spent her time together with Rein, the more favourable she started to feel about him. She understood that this was love and her young maiden heart was planning to confess after she got rid of her shackles.

That was also one of the reasons why she was willing to take this risk to get rid of this cage trapping her.