Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Simon was watching the receptionist all this while, seeing that she had no reaction whatsoever after checking his adventurer's card surprised him a little.

"Did the adventurer's association not find my identity as a provisional adventurer yet? No there is no way that can be true" Simon was confounded, the more he thought about it, the more confused he became.

After taking their adventurer's card, Bolan discussed his commission with the receptionist before moving towards the dungeon. Unlike the last time he had left the dungeon, there were too many changes there now.

The size of the tower was so, but even the carvings and paintings around the wall of the tower was more detailed and dynamic.

A flood of adventurers could be seen going and coming out of the dungeon. The six of them entered the huge tower and were met with a huge hall at the end of which was an enormous open gate that led towards the dungeon underground.

The hall was populated with adventurers, huge monster corpses, loots and various other things. Even after that, the place was still so enormously big that it could still contain dozen times the population there was now.

Simon was a little amazed, the entrance to the dungeon had grown so much bigger than before. Misunderstanding his emotions, Bolan declared boisterously.

"Is this your first time entering a dungeon? Don't ye worry newbie, our team is powerful enough to tackle the lower floors… Hahaha".

Although Simon found his constant chattering and boastful words a little annoying; Bolan was a punctilious person and paid attention to the mood of his teammate. This little joke from him, raised the morale of his team and at the same time uplifted the atmosphere around his team. Though it cannot be said he was good yet, he was a decent leader.

With that, the team descended the stairs and arrived on the first floor of the dungeon, a huge maze that kept on changing and messed with your sense of direction.

"Hehe, this is the first floor of the dungeon, the maze. The walls and the floors around here are ever-changing so if you don't have any navigation skills like pathfinder, you will just roam around in circles and take a long time to find the exit or hope to stumble upon a different adventurer team and hope that they take you with them".

"Well the case that they take you with them is very unlikely though. Fortunately, we have an assassin in our team with the navigational skill. Normally, this floor is for newbie adventurers like you since the monsters that spawn here are all around level 50"

. Bolan explained, it seems that he really believed that Simon was a Novice adventurer.

'So she already sensed me huh' Simon smiled, the moment he stepped inside the dungeon, it looked like his aura had been locked.

The group didn't take long to navigate through the maze and arrived on the second floor in an hour or two. The monsters that spawned on the first few floors were goblins and hobgoblins, the ideal monsters for newbies to hunt.

There was no way, it could stop Bolan and his team which had years of experience hunting them. Although it took their team a while, they slowly but surely proceeded towards their destination, the eighth floor.

"All of you brace yourself, the White Horned Rabbits are coming. Attack on my mark" Bolan said, taking out a simple-looking shield and sword. Around him, were his teammates who were similarly warriors with the exception of one assassin.

where is a mage? There was no way they who barely earned their keep every day would be able to afford the cost of employing a mage in their team. After all, a warrior can take only a few opponents at once whereas a single mage's spell is powerful enough to sweep through a horde of enemies.

Anyways, Bolan's team did not have a mage and was mostly comprised of melee warriors. [Forward Slash] executing a warrior's basic normal skill, Bolan managed to cut the last of the five white horned rabbits down.

HUFF… HUFF… sprawled onto the ground, Bolan and his teammates huffed. The corpse of the white horned rabbits lay around them. Currently, they were on the Seventh floor or otherwise labelled by the adventurers as the mining floors.

Floors sixth to eight were cavernous floors with a dense amount of mystical energy filling every corner of the place. Thanks to that, it grew ores such as WhiteSilver, and Bronze inside them.

The commission that Bolan and his team undertook from the adventurer's association this time was to mine the whitesilver ores on the eighth floor.

Why the eighth floor? The reason for that was simple, the deeper and the more closer the floor is to the dungeon core, the more dense the mystical energy it is exposed to. It was common knowledge for the adventurers of this town that the quality of ores was far better on floor eight than on the upper floors.

That is, if one could fend away these pesky white horned rabbits and the albino spiders that hide inside the mist. Even Bolan and his team were quite wary of these monsters which could really injure them given that their guard was down.

"Haa… that should have cleared the area of monsters, we can relax for a while. Take your potions if ye are injured, we will soon descend onto the eighth floor" Bolan said, the average level of the monster here was above level 80-100, something that they cannot afford to look down onto.

In a dungeon, the deeper the floor one descends to, the stronger the monster. The group nodded their heads and took out potions from their bag. Since not everyone can afford to buy a space ring, they bring their own bags large enough to store their equipments and any moderate size loot they find.

However, this time, their job was to mine the ores from the eighth floor thus the bags they brought with them were quite big.

As the group was resting for a while, one of Bolan's teammates came near him and whispered something near his ears.

"Hey Bolan do you see that? Don't you find the atmosphere around the newbie a little strange? He is not even tired after reaching the seventh floor and from that time, he had been grinning and taking it easy for some reason".

Bolan did not have to hear it from his teammate to notice the provisional adventurer's unusualness. That guy since the moment he entered the dungeon, he acted carefree and undisturbed as if he was out for a stroll.

Although he was a little strong, capable enough to hold a horned rabbit or two on his own, he was just acting way too casual. A typical mistake that all newbie did and which led to their untimely demise.

Being a full-fledged adventurer and all, Bolan felt it was his responsibility to make the greenhorn aware of some of the rules of the dungeon.

"Oi newbie… why are ye acting all dazed? Ye do know where we are right?" Bolan asked approaching the provisional adventurer who was silently sitting on the floor looking at the air in a daze.

In reality, Simon wasn't in a daze, he was just looking at his [Main Menu] and the changes that have occurred to his dungeon. Being called out, Simon snapped out of his thoughts and stood up.

When the provisional adventurer stood up, he almost dwarfed Bolan who for a human was quite tall. Seeing the intimidating stature of the newbie, Bolan coughed once before shaking the thought of his head.

"Listen here man, ye can't act like you own this place. Do you even know what this place is? This is a dungeon, a place filled with dangers at every step, if you are not careful enough, you will become its food. I know this is your first time and the reality might not hit you, but act a little more carefully will ya?" Bolan said patting him on his shoulders.

After resting for a while, Bolan and his party prepared to descend to the eighth floor. On their way, they defeated a few more monsters before finally arriving at their destination.

A thick white fog lingered endlessly and hampered their vision. Bolan took out the commission parchment from his bag and looked all around him.

"According to the commission, we need to go a little more deeper to get the best quality WhiteSilver ores".

The team nodded, then proceeded forward amidst the mist and culled down any monster that approached. When they finally arrived at the location, they saw a few teams already mining that place.

Since this place was a dungeon, the ores grew here many times faster than in any other mines. However, it did not mean that there was no friction among the parties that wanted to mine the place.

This was the first time that Bolan and his party arrived on this floor, naturally, they were fazed by the crowd which was already there. But since there were plenty of areas for them to mine the ores from, they did not mind the presence of other parties much.

"Hoh isn't that Bolan and his team? So you guys finally reached the eighth floor... huh" Out of nowhere, a person from one of the teams already presents here started talking with them.

It seemed that Bolan knew the other party but from how his face was twitching with irritation, it was clear that he wasn't very fond of the latter.

"So it is you Harris… I did not think you would be on this floor too".

"Haha, you are right, our team has already reached the ninth floor. The complexity of the floor and the strength of the monsters there isn't something that your team can tackle right now. Well, I guess by the time we clear new floors you will be able to reach the ninth… hahaha" the man named Harris said with a smug face.