I walked through the opened gate. My hands were firmly on my staff in anticipation of a battle. The dragon looked at me and released a breath of fire. I double jumped out of its way, and a small sphere of plasma gathered on top of my staff before flying towards a dragon. It didn’t even try to dodge as it was confident in its resistance. Purple flash melted metal around the place of a hit as melted metal dripped on the ground. Its eyes blazed up in angry fire as it swung its massive tail on, which I easily dodged before casting a [Death Flame Firebomb]. The dragon moved its clawed limb and swapped away my spell. Breath came at me once again. Even a durable dungeons floor melted a little bit under the temperature of it. But I already blinked behind a dragon, pointed my staff on it, and a beam of lightning poured out of it. Dragon pivoted its head towards me and released a massive sphere of flames out of its mouth. I sprinted to the side, still channelling my lightning at the dragon. Beam coming out of my staff was now brighter and wider than ever before, leaving a trail of bent and slightly melted metallic scales on places where it hit. Thundering sounds filled a space as a metallic monstrosity rushed on me, trying to close a distance as it identified me as a magic caster. It was too slow as I simply blinked behind it again, interrupting my [Chanelled Death Lightning]. So I formed another small sphere of plasma and launched it on a dragons tail. It exploded on the place where the tail connected with the dragons bottom, tearing it away. Flames in golems bodies lightened up and grew in size. It turned towards me again and released another breath of fire. So I jumped to the side, but to my surprise, breath kept pouring out, and it rotated its head to me and hit me with flames. Flames flooded my surroundings as a colourless barrier formed around me and blocked damage. My barrier was quickly weakening, so I blinked out behind a dragon again. Someone would call it repetitive, but why change something that works and is effective?

‘Isn’t this dungeon a little bit too hard? Like I can’t even imagine some adventurer tank block such attack with shield’

My thoughts were interrupted when a massive amount of mana started to gather in dragons mounts, as I saw colourful streams of energy fly there with my [??? Astral Eyes]. Mimicking boss, I began to concentrate a huge amount of mana at the tip of my staff. A massive ball of purple plasma started to form. The whole room was covered in orange lights from dragons mount and purple light from my staff. We both finished charging as the boss fired a huge beam of concentrated fire towards me, at the same time as I sent a huge shining ball of purple plasma as a counterattack. Our attacks met midway as we both stopped our attack and just watched what would happen. Flash was so bright that I took damage from it, as my eyes were destroyed, came. The points from my barrier decreased by a decent chunk, and when my eyes finally regenerated, I could see a boss still alive but with half of its body melted.

‘How is it even alive?... I guess it wasn’t alive, to begin with.’

With its remaining strength, it swung its massive metallic claw on me. I easily dodged it as sometimes during a fight world slowed down more around me. My [Fast Thinking] probably levelled up, but I wasn’t sure as I disabled notifications during fights. Another swang came at neck-breaking speed. I dodged again before I cast [Death-infused Plasmabomb]. It flew and hit golem directly into its metallic head, turning it into a puddle of melted metal. Immediately after that, loud thuds sounded when the boss died turning into a pile of metallic trash and glowing orange runes forming a circle appeared.

Ding!

System Announcement

You killed LV 31 [Flaming Dragonic Golem]

You obtained 1341 XP (base: 447, floor 3 boss modifier: 3X)

You obtained 1760 CE

Proficiency of [Flash] increased to 3

Level of [Necromancy] increased to 4

You learned [Bound Soul I] spell as a reward for reaching level 4 of [Necromancy]

Level of [Fast Thinking] increased to 3

You learned a new skill [Plasmamancy I]

You learned [Plasmaball I] spell as a reward for reaching level 1 of [Plasmamancy]

Level of [Improved Mana Control] increased to 6

‘It looks like my plasma spell will get stronger and easier to cast with a proper magic school for it. Still, this boss was easier than I expected.’

“You are getting stronger at an insane speed.” Rose entered a room.

Chest from black material radiating in brilliant orange light appeared containing a final reward for cleaning a whole dungeon. I ignored it, but Rose rushed towards it and stuffed loot into her inventory.

The only thing that remained was to leave this dungeon.

“Let’s g. You can enjoy your loot when we return.”

She looked at me with happy eyes as we spent days down here, and we both wanted some normal temperature and fresh air. We both stepped into a runic circle. Lights emitted from runes intensified, and our surroundings warped as we appeared outside of the dungeon. I closed my eyes as I needed to get used to brights daily light. I shivered in relief as finally, after days spent in desert level temperatures, I cooled down. Rose looked even happier as her human body handles temperatures much worse compared to mine. We walked towards an exit from a dungeon grounds where we stopped in front of the desk with the young blond woman sitting behind it.

“Please state the number given to your party at the entrance”, she asked with a bored expression and head supported by her hand.

“Number 102,” Rose answered calmly.

The woman’s expression changed to a surprised one. “Wow, we already wanted to proclaim you as dead. You know, going into such dangerous dungeon only in two and without any high ranker. You were gone for days….”

With a stone face and without any sign of hesitation, Rose explained, “As you said, we are only two, and without high rank, so we took a really slow approach in an attempt to clear at least the first floor.”

After that, we paid some fees and continued back to the city. It was noon, and the sun was warming our backs as we walked through the path in the fields.

They easily let us through the gate, and we were on a crowded street. As we pushed through the crowds, I somehow got separated from Rose, but I remembered a hideout location, so I wasn’t afraid.

Suddenly a voice came from behind me “Hey! Stop right now, you evil worshipper”. I ignored it, hoping it wasn’t aimed at me, but I felt a hand on my shoulder as someone violently turned me.

‘Ohh, shit’ came to my mind as I spotted a tall man in shining silver plate armour with golden decoration and a shiny white cape falling from his shoulders. I couldn’t see his face through a basinet on his head. From his whole body, dim luminance was coming with a hint of the divine and pure.

“It looks that a Sulivan was right to invite me here. This city is really infested by evil.”