The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

The people who had teamed up had an easier time as they were able to take turns resting and were able to stay safe. Lone wolves like Sophia and Chris would be having the most problems with this. But they were not dumb and had made preparations for situations like this.

Sophia had the ability to store a few things in her shadow so she had a good tent stored there. As for her safety, she had created a technique for this. Around her camp, Sophia was going to place many dark constructs which would warn her if any monsters got near it. So Sophia was perfectly ready to spend the night in the Ashen Barrens.

Chris also had his own high quality tent and with his powerful armour, he really was not worried about the monsters here.

Rein was also ready with his preparations to spend the night. He was planning to create a barrier to keep himself safe from the monsters. Actually, Rein was not feeling sleepy at all so he was planning to hunt for a few more monsters until it was late at night. So the amount of time he would need to spend in the barrier was not much.

But resting just anywhere was not good so Rein started to search for a good location while continuing hunting the monsters. So far he had not encountered any other participants of the championship. That was because Rein was trying to avoid them after sensing their presence with his new technique.

But suddenly he came across a fellow participant for the first time. Rein had sensed the presence of seven monsters and came to hunt them down. But after reaching the location of the monster, he found that there were just six monsters and the seventh presence that he felt was that of girl\'s who was currently fighting against those monsters. Don\'t miss chapters on m v l e m p y r

Rein knew the identity of this girl as she was quite famous. It was also hers first time participating in this tournament and she was quite young. But unlike Rein she was already famous in her nation as a powerful UR grade blessed so she was already expected to perform well in this tournament.

Rein was surprised about how his technique had failed this time. So just to make sure he used the technique again. Just like before, the presence of the lady that Rein felt was exactly like that of the monsters. Rein observed the battle between the girl and the monsters and soon he was able to find out the reason behind it.

Currently that girl named Ruby was in some kind of berserk state. In this condition, her thought process had become extremely simple without the complexity that a regular human emotion would have. As Rein was detecting based on only the emotions and nothing else he was also unable to differentiate her presence from a monster\'s.

As Rein was leisurely thinking about all this, the situation of the fight between that girl and the monsters started to deteriorate for the girl. The monsters she was fighting against were called Hogscouch and they were pangolin-like monsters. Some of their species had hard shells for defense and the others had pointy spikes for offense.

These monsters were also extremely good at team work. So even though Ruby was much stronger than any of the individual Hogscouch, she was not able to defeat them when they were working together in a group. She was doing her best, but the spikes of these Hogscouch had some kind of paralysing agent on it. So after getting hit by a few of these spikes, Ruby was having a tough time against them.

Even though there was a rule that prevented the participants from killing each other, there was no rule that said if a participant was in danger and another participant saw it, then that participant had to save the other participant who was in danger.

So even after seeing that this girl named Ruby was in danger, Rein had no particular need to save her. But obviously Rein did not want to let a young girl like her die in front of his eyes so he decided to help her out a little. Immediately Rein made his move and went to kill the Hogscouches.

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Ruby was fighting with all her might against these monsters. She had not encountered any monsters in this godforsaken place for a long time so she unknowingly let her guard down. Taking that chance, these six monsters were able to successfully sneak attack on her.

Ruby managed to successfully defend herself against this sneak attack but one of the spikes managed to hit her on her hand. After that she used her ability to go berserk and increased all her stats but the paralysing agent that had entered her body was constantly weakening her and she was having a hard time against these six monsters.

Now, after fighting these monsters for over an hour, she was finally reaching her limit. She could feel that her body was getting more and more numb. Her resistance to the paralyse was failing her. Ruby understood that in a minute or two she would lose her ability to move.

When she signed up for this tournament, she knew that there was a risk of dying. But as very few UR grades had ever died during the world championship, she was sure that she would be fine. But that turned out to be her overconfidence. Ruby did not want to die at such a young age. She wanted to live and enjoy her life even longer.

So when she came face to face with her death, she froze up and felt like crying.

At that exact moment, a person clad in fire came before her and punched the monster that was attacking her away. Then he created ice spikes and threw them toward the other monsters. These monsters were good with their team works, and those with good defense and scales came forward to defend against it.

But the power of the ice spikes were stronger than what the monsters had expected and they pierced throughout the monster\'s defense like tofu. So they immediately died. That boy continued attacking the other monsters without stopping and killed all six of them in almost no time.

This dramatic save made Ruby\'s heart to race and this girl fell in love for the first time in her life.