The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Sophia did not care about the monsters at all and did not try to avoid them. She took the shortest possible path and if any monsters appeared on her way, they were turned into minced meat by an uncountable number of shadow blades.

The more monsters Sophia encountered, the more worried she became. She had not encountered this many monsters when she was travelling toward the temporary base. Actually she had not encountered much danger except for a few monsters with decent strength.

But now with her searching, Sophia noticed that the Ashen Barrens was crawling with monsters everywhere. She was still confident that Rein should not have any troubles with these monsters but unforeseen things always could happen. So she was still getting more and more worried.

But then in one part of the Barrens, Sophia noticed that a huge number of monsters were gathering. Not only that, she also sensed that more monsters were going toward that location at full speed. This was an easy sign to see that something important must be happening in that area. And 9 out of 10 times, Rein would be involved in this.

So she did not waste any more time and immediately started going toward that area. After just a few moments, she was able to feel the familiar presence of the person she loved from the bottom of her heart. Rein\'s presence was still strong and it did not looked like he was badly hurt.

This relieved Sophia quite a bit but still she increased her speed even more as with this many monsters attacking him, Rein would have already either run away or woke have killed them all. So him staying in that area must mean something and she needed to help him as soon as possible. With that in mind, Sophia quickly went toward Rein\'s location.

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When the most above UR grade monster showed up, Rein immediately launched an extremely powerful attack that he was preparing after sensing its presence. This attack was extremely powerful so Rein was hoping that this monster would just die from it. But even if it was not dead, severely injuring it was also an acceptable result in Rein\'s eyes.

But it looked like, Rein had overestimated these monsters too much as the so-called over UR grade monster was dead with just that one blow. Not only that but the other monsters who were also beside that monster were also killed in the aftermath.

This was a very good chance for Rein as after suddenly losing their leader, all the other monsters were in disarray. So Rein used this chance to launch an all out assault on the other monsters and started killing them wantonly.

Rein was so fast in killing them that even before the other two monster groups were here, Rein managed to wipe out the first group. This gave him enough time to rest a little bit and to recover his stamina. That was a huge help for him. As for the reason why he did not try to run away, that was because, it was impossible.

Whoever was targeting him would not give him the chance to run away. The only solution to this problem was for Ruby to wake up. Until then, instead of running away, it was better for Rein to make some preparations here that would give him an advantage in the upcoming battle.

That was the reason why even after so many monsters attacked him, Rein was doing relatively well. But after the other two groups that he had sensed, more monster groups started to come toward him. So Rein was hoping that Ruby would soon wake up.

This wish of Rein was not answered but he managed to find a better solution. He soon sensed that a powerful presence was coming toward him at breakneck speed and this presence was very familiar.

As Rein turned toward the presence and gave her a happy smile, Sophia appeared before him while slashing apart all the monsters in the surroundings. They did not need to talk with one another to convey their emotion as after just a slight eye contact, both of them again focused on wiping out all the masters in the vicinity.

With Sophia\'s help it did not take much time and very soon all the monsters were dead. The other groups of monsters who were coming toward them would still need some time. So Sophia and Rein had some time to talk.

Rein told Sophia about the problem in short and asked her to carry Ruby. With Sophia\'s speed outrunning these monsters would not be a big deal. And Rein would also be able to fully focus on killing the monsters and getting away from here.

Sophia immediately followed Rein\'s plans and started to run away with Ruby on her back. While Rein went to attack one of the groups of monsters who were coming to attack him. Now that Rein did not need to stay in just one area, he used hit and run tactics and ended up killing quite a few monsters.

After making sure that Sophia and Ruby had gotten enough time to run away, he also went back to the new temporary camp.

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After returning to the camp, Rein was able to find Sophia immediately. Obviously she was unharmed and had already taken Ruby to the infirmary. There she was getting treated by a blessed with healing ability and would recover very soon.

That was a good news but Rein decided to go and meet her in the morning of the next day. It was already late at night and Ruby also needed to rest. Then Rein and Sophia also started to rest in one of the tents that they were given and there they told each other about their experience.

Rein also told Sophia about his assumption of there being a mastermind behind all this and she also agreed with this opinion. The way all those monsters were targeting Rein, it was only possible if there was a mastermind controlling and ordering them. From what Rein heard from the organisers, this was a terrible tragedy and a total of thirty seven people had died in this incident.

Most of them were the members of the organising committee who were taken by surprise with the first surprised attack of the monsters on the base. But alongside them, 13 UR grade blessed had also lost their lives. This was a terrible situation that would go down in this world\'s history as one of the biggest disasters.