Ch. 26 Rules

In the outside world, the Scholar has been waiting for the Mana Song to end. "Thirty minutes left, soon I'll personally punish this insult to our Mage Academy." Although Sir Knight will not allow me to destroy you, I can still rip your soul out and make you suffer.

One hundred mages started to gather around the Dungeons entrance, two hundred soldiers behind them. The scholar looked over them and said, "we have failed, again and again, I shall personally lead us to destroy the boss and bring back our honor, as for you," he turned to the soldiers, "do your job and protect our scholars, failure will not be tolerated."

The soldiers were angry but kept their mouths shut. The scholar looked over to where Sir Knight was standing, a squad of about five hundred Beastmen and Half breeds a short distance away. He simply ignored them, "as if they have the gall to do anything on Sir Knights Watch."

The Dungeon stopped its Mana vibrations. with a cruel smile, the Scholar ordered his troops to quickly march inside, many thoughts on how to torture a soul going thru his head.

A short distance away, Sir Knight Avanlo and Sergeant Major Satra were staring down the uninvited guess. "Beastmen, you have entered our Holy Nations lands, return, we are currently dealing with a dangerous Dungeon." Avanlo lay his gaze on the Fairy, "as for our Fairy guess, this dungeon is the possession of the Church."

Avanlo ignored the filthy beastmen and the elves, however, the fairy's aura was nearly as strong as his. With over a hundred and fifty mages he can easily deal with them, but the beastmen would send even more if these are killed, so it's best to mind our own business, not that the fairy would agree though. The fairy's next words shocked Avanlo.

"Greetings, I am First Tree, U'ziq Oak Magnolia, you seem to have lost over half your forces, I shall not stop a commander from seeking justice for his troops. In exchange for my understanding," the fairy's voice quickly turns cold, "I have now claimed this Dungeon under the Fairy Army, I am sure the Beastmen and Elfs would also love to join in the fun and are on their way here. As is custom, we fairies will not interfere with Dungeon divers, as long as the Core is not harmed in any way."

"As is written in the Fairys Army peace Contract, we shall not interfere with or punish, the first visitors of the dungeon. My presence here is to prevent you from calling reinforcements. You are allowed to attempt to claim or destroy the dungeon with your remaining troops and. No. More. If you were to disagree I am sure I can keep you busy till the beastmen and elves arrive, don't you agree?" The fairy smile innocently.

Avanlo fumed in rage, "are you aware his Holiness considers this Dungeon as his and as send me to retrieve it? Do you dare insult our Holy Nation any further!" Avanlo stirs the Mana inside him trying to intimidate the Beastmen and Elfs to back off or start a war, they, however, are only suppressed by the Mana but don't back down.

He had realized by their attitude that a war will happen, either way, these filthy creatures will help the fairies and use it as an excuse to carve a piece from our Holy Nation of Heavens Chosen.

Although the church is very strong, starting a war between both elves and beastmen would not be agreed upon for a single Dungeon, no matter the rarity. As a lower noble, he was aware that the higher-ups would much rather make excuses and keep the Dungeon alive draining its mana and unique products than destroy it, and appease the commoners, wasting a valuable treasure.

The Knight snorted and replied, "One of the Scholars of the Mage Academy is currently retrieving the core for his Holiness, if you're here as the dungeons management, I can be assured you will keep the peace." The Knight signal Satra to retreat back to the church and report the situation. "I'll be sending my soldiers to report back, I believe there be no complaints?" He said staring at the beastmen in mockery, taunting them to attack if they dare.

"No complaints, you may do as you wish." After replying U'ziq had his troops set up camp. Turning his attention to the Dungeons entrance, he whispered to himself, "show me, Prismatic Core, are you truly worth protecting, or just another lunatic?"

While the beastmen and elves send messages for reinforcements to their base in their own way, Satra was already on his way to the nearest fortress.

Calming down, Avanlo could see their plans. Forcing the church to compromise due to the threat of war on all sides, they can only send 'adventurers' from the commoners, as long as the fairy's play along and the Dungeon does not kill too many, we can happily pretend to struggle.

The real problem is the beastmen and elves. The Fairy Army doesn't get involved in politics or the outside world unless the Dungeons they guarded are attacked, even then, they are realistic and only protect the strongest ones or those with potential.

It will be for the best if the Scholar can deal with the dungeon quickly, soon the Holy Army would be here to keep the beastmen and elf's behavior in check. If somehow the dungeon can still survive, I'll personally deal with it.

Inside Malpetios Dungeon, the three-hundred man army was surprised by the changes the dungeon when thru. "This... an Element Domain?" The scholar looked grim, "all soldiers are to stand on guard for any surprises."

Marching further they could hear the strong winds, a strange sound of rocks hitting each other was coming out of the now lowered middle ceiling, taking a look, apart from the ceiling nothing seem to have changed.

"Freeze the water, split in half, and march slowly, mages try to find out what the source of the noise is." After giving orders the Scholar began to slowly check each part of the dungeon, due to interference from the Element Domain, Mana Field was crippled to only a few feet.

Nothing happens, even after making it halfway thru the river rooms, no surprises came, the only strange thing was the constant strong winds lifting the mage's ropes, and the sound of rocks constantly hitting each other from the lowered ceiling in the middle of the hallway.

Suddenly, a sound was heard from the front, a soldier saw that the ice under him was glowing, next thing he knew an ice Lance had skewed him piercing thru is armor like paper. The scholar was stunned, he had never seen a Dungeon use any ice Element traps and did not know what to do for a second, not that the Dungeon would wait for him.

Suddenly the very beginning of the frozen river starts to glow, in the next second, a giant ice wall blocks the entrance before the mages can even wonder what is happening. From the holes around the lowered ceiling, many orange-black metallic balls start to escape falling on top of the ice hissing and making steam.

The scholar thought the Dungeon was trying to melt and crack the ice making use of our fall into the dangerously uneven floors, however, around the steam he saw the movement of the balls like it was folding unto itself, then it Stroke him!

"METAL SLIMES! RUN!" Looking in horror as the slimes were nearly red with so much kinetic energy the scholar's face turn pale. But it was too late.

AHHHHHHH!!!