The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

In the meantime, Sophia decided to become a bit more reckless in her investigation of the All Chaos danger zone. Now as Rein and Hana were already ready with the army, even if her familiar was exposed, it would not be a big deal. For that reason, Sophia now wanted to find as many things as possible in the shortest possible time.

The very first thing that Sophia did after making this decision was to start investigating the area where her familiar was not allowed to go. Investigating that area was very important as Sophia was sure that the main force of the All Chaos danger zone would be hiding there.

So Sophia stepped foot in that area very cautiously. At first those restricted regions did not look like anything special but after going a bit further inside, Sophia started to see the difference. Unlike the other areas, this area had very clear domains which belonged to insects that looked extremely powerful. At least as strong as the monsters who were guarding the Huguocite mountain in the Desolate Plains of Gahana.

Not only these solo bugs but the mother brain and the insect queens of many bug species were also here. This was something that Sophia had already expected as she had not managed to find those queens in the other regions that she had visited before.

Sophia quickly started checking all the insect queens and mother brains to find out how many species were created by the will of All Chaos. Soon she made a frightening discovery. The caretaker was aware of a total of 788 species of bugs. Hearing that Rein and Sophia and estimated the Nest of All Chaos to have about 1000 unique species under it.

But the real number that Sophia was able to find was 2355. That was way higher than what everyone was expecting. In this case, there was a high possibility that the strength of this danger zone could be way stronger than what everyone was estimating.

But after doing a bit more in depth investigation, Sophia became a little bit calmer. It turned out that most of the insect queens and mother brains belonged to semi complete or even incomplete races. From all the things that Sophia found, it looked like once the will of All Chaos was creating many insect races without putting much thought behind them. That way it ended up creating many races which were dysfunctional and grotesque. Those races had zero combat power and most of the bugs belonging to those races were unable to even move properly.

Those races would not be too much of a problem. So if Sophia did not factor them as a combat force then the total number of useful races turned out to be 1103. This was still slightly higher than what everyone was expecting but nothing they could not handle.

After completing her investigation of the insect queens and mother brains, next Sophia started to investigate the individual powerful monsters. As the insect queens and mother brains were asleep for most of the time and had limited combat prowess, investigating them while staying hidden was not that hard. But that was not the case for the individual monsters. They all had top tier fighting power and quite a few of them also had strong sensing abilities. That was the reason why investigating them was a lot more difficult.

For that reason Sophia tried her best to avoid bugs which might have strong sensing abilities. It was impossible to perfectly know the capability of all the bugs in just one observation, but still with her experience, Sophia was able to guess correctly most of the time. As for the few times she guessed wrongly, she immediately left the area of influence of that monster without attracting too much attention.

But this strategy of hers failed when a very vigilant bug monster was able to discover her before she could discover it. Sophia then immediately tried to kill it but this bug monster was not weak and Sophia was trying to do the killing with only just one of her familiar. So obviously it was quite hard for her.

So beside dying, this monster was able to let out a screech that alerted all the bugs of the region about Sophia\'s presence. Immediately all the powerful bugs started to surround the area where she was. Just like that, the situation became very tough.

As the insect familiar of Sophia was trapped in all sides, she found that there was no other way for her to escape anymore. So she immediately used a hidden measure that she had prepared long ago. This measure would also act as the signal for the Grand Battle between Rein\'s group and the Nest of All Chaos danger zone to start.

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As the insect queens and Mother Brains noticed a commotion happening in the distance, they all became curious and woke up. Any type of disturbance almost never happened in this area, so this was a very rare situation. As those beings were trying to learn more about the situation, a very weird and unfamiliar smell reached them. Continue reading at m|v-l\'e -NovelBin.net

The area around these beings was quite nasty as many bad smells were already present here. But even among those many smells, everyone was able to sense this particular smell. The smell was not really bad or unpleasant but anyone who came in contact with it felt uncomfortable for some reason.

But before they were able to pin down the reason for this uncomfortable feeling, suddenly quite a few of the mother brains and Insect queens started to become weak and dying. Obviously the person responsible for this was Sophia. She had prepared a powerful poison which was unable to kill the really powerful insects but had no problem destroying all the comparably weaker mother brains and Insect queens.

That was how the great battle started where the Nest of All Chaos suffered a massive loss.