The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

So the first location turned out to be a miss. This was kinda expected so no one was too disappointed with this outcome. So after taking care of all the demons present there, they went toward another location.

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The second location was also a miss. There was only one node present here and it was a node to come out. The number of demons present here was smaller but all the demons here were more powerful on average if compared to the previous location.

But still, the humans were still able to get rid of all the demons without any problem. There were actually two Spiritual awakening realm demons hiding there who tried to sneak attack a group of humans, but were immediately killed by the hands of a true god.

Just like that, this human team continued searching and was able to find a proper two way node in the fifth location. This made the humans very happy and they immediately started to decipher the spatial coordinate from the node so that they would be able to enter it.

The reason why the humans were unable to do this same thing with the one way nodes was because for a one way node, all the control of the space was perfectly under the spatial rifts control. So the person who was inside the spatial was capable of restricting certain people from accessing the nodes.

But for a two way node, that spatial rift was not the only controller. The world itself also had the same control. So for that reason, it was not possible to restrict certain people from using it. To do that one needed to have control over the whole world and its laws which was impossible for the people of this world at least for the time being.

As the humans were measuring the coordinates from a spatial node for the first time, this whole process took quite some time. But fortunately it was successful in the end and the humans were able to path throughout the spatial node.

But going in just like that was not safe. So at first only one person from the traitor sect was sent to check what type of place was there at the opposite side of this spatial path. The first man was able to cross over to the other side without much trouble but still the humans were cautious and did not immediately send their main team in.

Instead they again sent a few more of the sacrificial pawns. It turned out to be a good idea as after a few minutes, that whole spatial passage collapsed and people who went in were killed. This happened in a blink of an eye and the connection that the humans were able to make was cut off.

The space in that area became turbulent from that incident and it became impossible to make a stable connection for the time being. Seeing that the higher ups decided to check out other locations as this place was going to be unusable for quite some time. Still the humans left behind three powerful cultivators to keep an eye on the node and to try making another connection.

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Again the humans and demons clashed as more and more nodes were discovered. The demons started attacking more fiercely and even demon gods started to show up. But they were very cautious and were ready to run away at any moment. They were still not sure about how their comrade and a fellow demon god was captured by these humans, so all of them were super careful.

For that reason, the demon gods did not go into a rampage and instead fought carefully. So they dealt less damage to the humans than usual, but none of them also took too much damage. They were also able to use the spatial rift as their resting spot and tried to tire the humans out.

This way both sides fell into a stalemate. Whenever a proper two way node was found, the demons immediately blew that up and made that space turbulent. This way they were also losing precious locations as a two way node had various usefulness if compared to a simple one way node. But the demons were determined to earn more time for them to grow in power and nothing else mattered to them.

In one of the locations, even the demon sovereign himself sneak attacked the humans. He was extremely powerful and almost killed seven human true gods in seconds. Fortunately Rein was able to stop him before he completely killed them.

The strength of the demon sovereign surprised even Rein. His strength was actually slightly higher than even a regular Rein without using any of this skills. So in terms of pure cultivation, this demon sovereign was actually slightly superior to the current Rein.

While fighting the demon sovereign, Rein also became sure that this demon had two skills. In the use of one of the skills, he was extremely proficient. But for the other one that was not the case. This kind of disparity could only appeared if this demon had gained one of the skills very recently.

Suzu also had two skills among which one she regularly practiced and the other one she completely neglected. But still with time, her second mind reading skill also improved alongside the rise of her cultivation. So Rein was very sure that one of the skills that this demon had was not inherent but acquired.

This was an unheard of thing for the inhabitants of this world but Rein was not surprised. If the world was trying to create an opponent for Rein, giving that person many skills was necessary. Rein was actually surprised that this person only had one extra skill as Rein had genuinely thought that the demon sovereign might have dozens of these skills.

It looked like there was some kind of restriction on how many skills a resident of this world could learn. Rein had also observed the other demons and demon gods but no one among them had the same abnormality as this person. So it looked like for the time being only the demon sovereign had managed to get an extra skill.

While Rein thought about these various things, the life and death struggle between the humans and the demons continued.