"Irina": i will take care of these golems but you will have to take care of the dragons alone, and I won't be able to move so try to keep dragons away from me
He says, How much time will it take for you to take care of the golems?" She responds, Just a magic spell will suffice." He starts attacking the dragons with his shotgun and dragon breath. He dominates one dragon with brute strength; the other dragon, meanwhile, starts making a large fireball. Ryuji releases water chains on both dragons and releases a water serpent on the fireball dragon and rapid-fires ignition on the weakened dragon; after 18 fires, it dies, and Ryuji's mana capacity goes down. Meanwhile, Irina creates a spatial and gravitational magic mass eater and sits down at the corner of the room. The dragon breathes dragonfire at Irina while Ryuji is recuperating his mana. Ryuji uses quick step and appears in front of Irina. He blocks the breath with his body. She stands up and holds Ryuji from falling down. She puts him under a magic barrier and takes his guns. She starts firing at the dragon. She mumbles, I can't let him die; he freed me from that eternal seal. I still haven't repaid him for that. The dragon breathes dragon fire at Irina. She barely dodges, and after several attempts, the dragon fire burns Irina, but she stands again. protecting Ryuji, suddenly Ryuji appears in front of her and says, You should rest and let me take care of it." His hair starts turning white, and he takes out his black sword. He unsheathes the AKUJUKI and uses a 1-sword instant kill strike. the moment the sword touches the dragon, it devours the whole dragon with ebony black strings of energy enveloping the dragon; he holds irina princess style and goes somewhere safe rest and recuperate
after several days he and irina goes to the next floor
at 91st floor, theres a stone giant; Ryuji slashes straight through the rock giant and goes on higher floors
after several days of killing sprees, both of them have created a bond of trust and familiarity with each other; they enters the 98th floor, where they sees a higher demon At a rank peak stage comparable to S rank , the demon strikes them with a catastrophic thunderbolt. Both of them look at each other's faces and certify they have gained the natural energy of a thunder source somehow. Ryuji uses quick step and appears behind the demon and fires at his head. The demon falls down; he starts eating the flesh of the gross demon. Irina asks him, Why are you eating it?" It doesn't look that good to me
Ryuji: "you know what? I can absorb energies and skills of the demons or demonic beasts I eat."
irina shows a surprised face, so you mean you can absorb his natural energy of a thunder source that way but there is still a thunder source at the end of the room? Shouldyou be absorbing it as well
Ryuji goes to the source and puts his hands inside the ball of purple-red lightning. the lightning bolts flickering out of the ball starts merging with Ryuji; his status panel pops up: "Chaos thunder detected." , He starts absorbing the energy, then his body gets electrified by the thunder, and he faints. When he wakes up, he sees he is lying on Irina's lap and the lightning isn't flickering from his body anymore. He feels like he can control all the natural thunder energy around the world
They both get up. Irina asks with concern etched on her face, Are you feeling alright? That wasn't a normal, natural thunder energy; you should check your body first ,if it has any harmful effects on your body
They both enter the 90th floor; there's a man holding a katana; he slashes at Ryuji with precision. Ryuji barely dodges. The man says, You are strong, but your sword skills aren't good enough to challenge me yet." Ryuji stabs at the man with his old knife; the man sidesteps the attack and remarks, Too slow. Suddenly, Ryuji turns his trajectory to the side where the man is standing; instantly, the man gets serious. But the knife in Ryuji's hand disappears, and a long, gleaming black blade is placed at the man's neck. the man instantly notices the aura surrounding the black blade and surrenders. He ties the man and leaves with irina to see the spoils of the dungeon
He moves into the room, but there is only one katana with a majestic aura. As he draws the sword, the entire katana blade appears as a crimson crystal.
both of them leaves for the next floor while going ryuji sees it's a spirit weapon and names it crimson
both of them arrive at the floor; the door behind them closes and 5 dragons and a legion of rock giants, demonic beasts, and demons are summoned in front of them
He says, It's the 100th floor; this was expected. Irina, you take care of minors. Ryuji takes out a Gatling gun and starts rapid-firing at the rock giants and dragons; most of the rock giants and 2 dragons die in the barrage of gunfire. Ryuji takes out a sniper and aims at one dragon and fires; the dragon's head explodes like a watermelon being crushed. The other two dragons, seeing their three companions die, breathe fire together at Ryuji. He gets caught off guard and puts his shotgun in front of him to defend himself The shotgun shatters due to the high temperature and pressure of the fire; he stumbles back and falls lifelessly on the ground. Irina sees and panics in desperation; she starts shooting nuclear magic blasts at the dragon, but the dragon has resistance to all magic, so Irina starts sprinting to create distance between Ryuji and the dragon. He opens his eyes and sees her trying to protect him He tries to move, but his body doesn't even flinch a bit. Then he gets into total darkness, and a point of light appears in his observation; he stretches his hand towards it. His status panel pops up with a new skill. Overdrive activated, the user's mana increases tenfold for the time the skill is activated, and his physical strength, speed, and reflexes will increase tenfold. Ryuji deftly evades the fire and sprints towards the two dragons and fires dark lightning at them; the dragons turns to ashes, it was abnormally stronger than the normal one and faints
after several weeks
Ryuji wakes up; he is lying on a bed. irina 's voice comes from behind the door. she says, You finally woke up. it's been 3 whole weeks after you fainted
he asks, will you first tell me why we are here?" She replies, after you fainted, the exit door opened, so i took you out from there, and when i got out, there was a house. Firstly, i left you in the house to go outside to see what this place is, and it turns out there is only one more large house-like thing. he says, what are we waiting for let's go and what that house is
when they step in the house, they see a large hot water bath in front of them. They keep walking; there are two rooms. They enter the right one. the moment they close the door, 4 large magic circles start rotating in front of them, and a blurry body of a man shows up. He starts talking: You must have many questions, but i can only maintain this state for 1 minute, so ask whatever you can." Ryuji asks, who are you and why are you here?" The man says, i was one of the strong ruler in the Aethelgard continent who survived the
slaughter 13 decades ago was brought by those voidwalkers, and what am i doing here? i'm hiding from them here until someone clears this labyrinth i created. This labyrinth was a test to see if you are worthy of my abilities and techniques to be granted, and if you want to know more about your family, you should clear the sky castle, so you will have to clear other labyrinths before going there because you need the crystals to open the sky castle labyrinth. Ryuji asked, how do you know i'm looking for my parents? I know everything that is in my labyrinth
ryuji asks what abilities he replies, Like, you both have cleared this labyrinth, so i will evolve your bloodline, abilities and skills. You will also get your special skills
so you both stand in the magic circle
both of them go and stand between the circle; some unknown mist starts coming from the circle and starts by getting absorbed by their body both of their bodies enhance several strengths and agility. Five magic circles starts rotating around them Ryuji's crimson flames start evolving into scarlet flames, and his lightning source and dark lightning ability combine to form the ability dark thunder. his spatial abilities mastery also increases, and his mana increases several times; meanwhile, irina starts evolving into a proper half-human, and her demonic abilities and mana evolve too. after this, both of them go to the next room, where they find several designs of clothing for men and women . Ryūji takes a black overcoat with grey stripes over his black shirt and irina wears a white floral dress and they take a lot of food and leaves for resting and bathing
Ryūji goes in to take a bath before eating; in the misty atmosphere, he hears someone stepping in the bath; he asks, Who is it?" The melodious and charming sound of a woman comes; who can it be? He is really taken aback; doesn't she knows i'm in here? After several hours, they leave the bath and go eat food; Ryuji says we should stay here. i have to make some upgraded ammunition and upgrade my weapons with mana crystals, and i need to create more weapons too, just to be on the safe side. According to what that sage told me, we should go to Aethelgard; there is a great sage labyrinth there, and i have some doubt my parents might be related to that place. it's really a pity i wanted to meet your parents. both of them starts doing their own work he starts creating weapons and irina starts to adapt to her new body and takes care of ryuji
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