"Haaa.... We did it!" Damion sat down to check his stats while his minions gathered the drops from Dante.

"Now let's see how much I leveled up."

[Status Scroll open]

Class: Necromancer Level: 217 Magic Affinity: All-rounder Vitality: 420 Strength: 460 Agility: 450 Defense: 440 Magic: 422 Skills: Heightened sense, Iron skin, Shadow step, Greater strength, Concealment, Death Glare, Mana Grip, Dark Blade, Dagger Rush, (Combined Combo)* Special Skills: Poison Strike, Appraise, Telekinesis, Mind-read, Telepathy, Pathokinesis Magic Skills: Heal, Fireball, Elemental Enchantment, Mist, Illusion, Poison roots, Earth Wall, Ice Spikes, Wind Vortex Class Special skills: Reanimation, Bone repair, Necromancer's presence, Mind Over Body Familiar: Alvollas (Mind Demon)

"Hey Tsubuki how many levels did you jump?" Damion was happy with the amount of levels he had got in the labyrinth.

[Rewards have been given to adventurers of the labyrinth]

[Blood Of Dante received]

[5x Mythril Ingots received]

[Ancient Relic: Blood Necklace]

Blood Necklace: 5% chance lifesteal of enemy, grants user additional attack buff of +100 attack

"Oh ho what's this? Not bad, got a good relic too. This will be coming in handy." Damion had checked his inventory to find mythril ingots and the blood of Dante as the rewards from the labyrinth. Mythril the rarest type of ores in the world, it is said that one can craft a legendary sword similar to the swords that could pierce the heavens from the heroes of the past.

"This is quite the rewards but the real reward is right here!" Damion went to the corpse of Dante, he still could feel the chilling aura.

"You're going to be useful to me." As soon as Damion was about to make Dante into a loyal minion of the undead, a spear of light had pierced its way through Dante's corpse burning it up in half in the process

"Ara, what do we have here? A necromancer and a magician how facinating to see!" A woman in a dark cloak came out of the 4th level gate.

"I didn't notice her presence! Was it because of Dante's aura? Damn, I forgot other people could still enter the dungeon." Damion was gathering all his minions and Tsubuki close to him while observing the person that could be much more powerful than himself.

[Appraisel activated]

[Unable to identify level, interference from magical source]

"Tch, her level is higher than mine."

[Telekinesis activated]

[Alvollas you think i'll be able to take this one out]

[I'm afraid we might have to escape first my lord, you haven't recovered from your battle with Dante]

[Shit]

[Tsubuki, listen we're going to have to run for it. You run to the exit while I distract her]

[and i'll destroy this place, slowing her down in the process]

"And you'll destroy the place, slowing me down in the process right~?"

Damion glared at the mysterious woman.

"Who are you?" Damion walked cautiously around the woman.

"Who are you is what I should say?" The woman replied with the same question.

"I just happened to come across this place." Damion stopped in his tracks and faced the woman.

"Just came across huh..." The woman looked like she was contemplating about something.

"You're quite unfortunate. Damion, that's your name right? Look at it as an honour to be killed by me Diane!" Diane rushed toward Damion with her spear, Damion dodged and kept away all his warriors.

"Fast but not fast eno-" Before Diane could finish her sentence, Damion gave her a hard blow to the liver.

"You talk too much." Damion removed the bit of blood from his cheek.

[That should incapcitate her for a while]

"Too bad! You got in a good one there but that ain't enough for me!" Diane stood up from where she was blasted off to.

"This is such a pain." Damion summoned out his dragon who swooped down and took Tsubuki to the exit.

"You're not going to escape now!" Diane quickly caught up to Tsubuki and the dragon.

"You may know what i'm going to do but let's see if you can stop it." Damion was blocking Diane

[Mind Over Body activated]

[Greater Strength activated]

"Don't ever think a weak attack like yours will ever hu-" Once again Diane was blasted right back down to the arena with a much greater force by Damion.

[Ice Spikes activated]

[Wind Vortex activated]

[Earth Wall activated]

A massive array of ice spikes started to spin around rapidly in the arena and a giant earth wall started to close the Labyrinth's exit.

"Can't forget about you!"

[Telekinesis activated]

Damion grabbed Dante's corpse which only had its upper body left.

"Damn you!" In the distance, Diane was seen coming out of the debris

"Its a shame, I wont be able to get experience since the Labyrinth is the one who killed her. At least I got this guy."

Would you like to close the labyrinth? [Y/N]

"Yes." Damion looked at Diane as she tried to catch up to the closing exit of the labyrinth, Diane reached out to Damion who saw a sign on her arm.

"A demon?" Damion and Tsubuki safely got out of the labyrinth while Diane had been trapped inside, labyrinths close when the person who conquered the labyrinth wants to finish. Labyrinth will then disappear into thin air, anything inside will be also gone.

"Hah we got away from that scary person." Tsubuki breathed a sigh of relief.

"Damion?" Damion looked at the direction of the disappeared labyrinth.

"A horned demon with flames." Damion blurted it out loud.

"What?"

"Ah its nothing, let's start heading to where we were originally supposed to go." Damion quickly changed the subject.

[I wonder what that mark was about, its none of my business anyways really]

"Luckily its night time, or else this would take longer." Damion summoned his dragon once more.

"Hey Tsubuki let's go!"

"Yeah i'm coming."

"Next stop, Zosteudan!"

Underneath the rubble of the labyrinth something moved.

"Fuck....Did not expect to encounter a necromancer as powerful as him."

"I'll kill you!"

"Kill!"

[The next morning....]

"Mhm Damion not there plea...Ah that tickl...snore

"Oi Tsubuki wake up."

"Ugyah! What i'm awake!"

"We're here." Damion had already put his dragon to a secluded spot near to the kingdom of Zosteudan which is famously known for its Pubs and delicious food, the kingdom is also close to water-based monster nests that adventurers can go to level up. Adventurers can also find Ancient Relics that can boost magical power.

"There's an artifact that i'll be needing here." Damion looked at the sun as it rose up, it was a beautiful scene. Everything was peaceful, Damion could hear the birds chirping and the distant bustle and hustle of the kingdom of Zosteudan.

"But what about the other artifact you got from the labyrinth?" Tsubuki got up from the ground and dusted herself off

"We did get one at the labyrinth but it is'nt as good as the one im searching for. We should go soon, I don't want to waste anytime."

[grumble~] Damion looked behind him and saw an embarrassed Tsubuki holding her stomach.

"Pft-" Damion tried his best not to laugh, he immediately put his serious face.

"Guess we should see if Zosteudan's food is that good as the rumours say."

"Oi, you laughed didn't you." Damion just turnde back and continued to walk towards Zosteudan.

"Hey, don't just ignore me!"

At the castle of Zosteudan...

"Master Doran! A message has come from the Kingdom of Regraegua!" A servent went to the Grand Sword Master of Zosteudan bearing a message from a fellow Grand Master of the neighbouring Kingdom of Regraegua.

"Hm? Give it here."

"Hm! What." The aura of Master Doran suddenly flared up and he clenched his fist.

"Master Doran, what happened?" The servant's legs were trembling, never has he seen Master Doran look so serious as now.

"Tell the Royal Army to prepare themselves in 2 months."

"What?" The servant was confused.

"I said tell the army to prepare in 2 months as soon as possible damnit!"

"AH! Yes Master Doran!"

"Shit didn't think the Demon army would be planning to attack."

Near Zosteudan's Famous Pub [Eat Away!]

"Damion! The Smoked Chicken is so good~. Try some!" Tsubuki and Damion were chowing down on some delicious grub.

"Mhmmf mhmff guff!" Damion was stuffing his mouth with some delicious Pork Ribs.

"After this we should probably find that artifact you were looking for." Damion nodded his head as they ordered more food to eat.

"We should also go to the adventurer's guild and ask them to update our ranks." They can check about how we cleared that labyrinth, we're probably Platinum Rank Adventurers now.

"Oh...We're Platinum rank now...Hmph I feel how do you say- its-" Tsubuki was struggling with her words.

"Accomplished?" Damion suggested.

"Yeah that's the word, its been a while but its been worth it." Tsubuki gave another bite of her food.

"Hey we're not done yet. We still have many adventures to come!" Damion announced it proudly as he clenched his fist.

"Once we're done let's rest and go for one of the places where we can find those artifacts." Damion checked his inventory to see if he had prepared everything they needed for their next fight.

[Master Damion, we should be careful about those Demon tattoos from the woman just now. Who knows they may be wondering where their subordinate went to suddenly]

"Hm, yes you're right. Let's be careful then, they seem quite tough to deal with." Damion replied back to Avollas.

To be continued...