21 021 Struggle.
[Author's Note]
This will be quite long but don't worry because the length or the number of words of this chapter hasn't decrease at all. It's still more than 1600 words.
Allow me to nag for a moment. For me to let out some steam. (Not the smelly one.)
For starters...
This book has now more than 6000 collections, 6200 to be more precise. Meaning, there are more than 6000 people out there who had put this book in their libraries. It's amazing.
But here's the case.
6000 people. (Assuming there are only 6000)
On average, let say there's 2 to 3 powerstone each person have. That means 12 000 to 18 000 power stones! And that's per day!! Weekly, that's about 126 000 powerstones max! That was a huge amount of stones wasn't it?
Now, I know that not all of you here are, how to say this... (an avid reader?) of this book so you are probably unwilling to send your powerstones to this book or perhaps you already have a book or two that you are giving your powerstones to.
There are probably also some who only put this book in their libraries but haven't read it yet as they are still stack piling the chapters etc.. I can understand that much.
But come on, I'm sure that's only a small percentage of people.
Oh, and me too, sometimes I wasn't able to publish new chapters everyday for several personal reasons. I admit that.
But for this book to only get a few hundred of powerstones in total for a week..... wasn't that a little too much? I really believe so..! And that's when I'd published everyday.
Imagine 400 - 700 compared to 126 000. T-T. It's very saddening.. Sigh..
Don't get me wrong.
It's not like I will earn any money from powerstones. I don't. Even you guys won't. Whether you use it or not, it will disappear everyday( for readers) and weekly (for authors). It's actually pretty useless. And as you noticed, I never really asked for powerstones ever since I started writing this book.
But still, more power stones means higher ranking for this book. I'm sure you all know that already. And again, there was no prize to it either, nothing at all.
Aside from rubbing my Ego of course (which is not that bad). That's the only benefit I can think of. For my ego alone. That was after all, an achievement. I'm not sure but I think it will motivate me more to continue writing this book if it got higher ranking if not the top. Probably.
So if possible, just put your powerstones here rather than wasting it or let it expire everyday. To put it simply, 'Let's rub each other back.' I will do my work and you'll do your work.
That's all.
And don't worry because this will be the last time I'll be talking about this topic no matter what happened so don't worry. This will be my last rant. Hope you will enjoy this chapter. And again, if you ever see some typos or any other error, feel free to point it out.
Thank you.
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" Shit!! Dumb! Ugly! Crap! FUUUUCCCKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRZZZZ!!! "
Bell's sword didn't stop swinging in arcs ripping fleshes and bones of the monsters in front repeatedly. As expected of a sword created by a world-class smith like Hephaestus, it's very strong and sharp. And as it was a customized weapon, this sword really suits Bell ----like it's part of his body.
Swish! Swoosh! Clang!
Slash after slash, the sword slices small category monsters in half while leaving deep and grave wounds on the larger categories like orcs. Bloods and corpses are everywhere, even Bell's clothes and some parts of his body has some fresh blood and meat granules on them. It's very gruesome.
Bell's taking advantage of the terrain, the clusters of crystals that's surrounding him. It makes a zigzag corridors preventing these monsters from ganging up on him at the same time. This way, he only has to face three monsters at a time which he can still managed.
But....
That doesn't mean Bell's having it easy either. He definitely wasn't!
These monsters are not any less crazy than him. They are a lunatics. And now that there's a ride of these monsters in front of him means that Bell was fighting against a tide of lunatics!
Disregarding the still fresh blood flowing on the floor soaking their feet and the still warm corpses of their fallen brethren, these monsters are very determined to get Bell. This intruder that was trying to invade their paradise!
They want nothing more than to rip him, tore him to pieces and to grind his bones into a very fine powder!
They are intensely pushing forward from back to front leaving Bell no other choice but to keep stepping back from time to time as he fights them. He was already trying his best here but even so, his kills still cannot catch up to the seemed to be endless number of monsters at all.
Even as the bisected monster died, a new one will arrived, crushing its brethren's corpse underfoot in pursuit of the white-haired boy who responded with more curses.
" You shameless bastards, that's was dirty! At least let me take a breather, this is so unfair!!! " he shouted in complain but his movements didn't stopped at all either.
Two sword slashes or stabs.
That's the average attack that Bell needed in order to kill a single large category monster or to immobilized them at the very least. To let them bleed or to be crushed to death by their fellows. That's already very amazing considering that he's only level one and these are all twelfth floor monsters he's battling against. But that wasn't enough.
Still, despite his already dire situation, Bell still refused to one-hit these guys by destroying their magic stones because he think it's a waste of money. What a stingy man! He's already on the verge of dying here at any moment but he's still thinking of selling all the magic stones here later.
"MRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
At this time, another metallic how of orcs came from his left side. Looking at it from the corner of his eyes, Bell saw around ten or so orcs that were about to come out from the walls.
" You're kidding me..... A monster party right away??!! "
The orcs quickly joined the fray after freeing themselves from the wall. Holding their land form weapons in their hands, they began attacking the thick crystals that separates themselves from Bell.
Although he's already expecting something like this to happen, Bell still find it frustrating, for a monster party to come right away. After all, he's alone here and this wasn't the middle floors either. The dungeon shouldn't be showing its fangs here yet, wasn't it? It seems like this battle will be a lot more harder than what he thought.
Bang!
It didn't take long before the group of orcs had finally destroyed the crystals and they immediately rushed in.
Not wanting to be attack on two sides, Bell can only retreat further backwards to regain his advantage in position. But as the battle continues, he can feel the exhaustion slowly building up inside him again.
Bell quickly disposed of the two orcs in front of him before jumping on top on the huge crystal behind. He didn't stop until he finally rich the top of the huge one. The monsters below can't reach him here so easily, but not for long.
He's now in a battlefield where he can't afford to get distracted even for a second so Bell quickly drunk another bottle strength potion. It was his third bottle, he's consuming more potions than what he'd expected to. Good thing he had prepared a lot before coming here.
Looking down, Bell saw the small hills of monster corpses laid everywhere along with their bloods that still pouring out of their bodies. The monsters are climbing at it desperately trying to reach Bell but failed. What a brainless creatures.
Bam bam bam!
But not all of them are like that.
Frustrated by not being able to reach their prey, the monsters soon began attacking the crystal itself. Claws, fangs and natural weapons like clubs and landform axes mercilessly crashes onto the gigantic crystal. There's simply too many of them for the crystal to handle so it soon crumbled apart leaving Bell no other choice but to jump onto the next one. The monsters also followed not letting this intruder escape no matter what.
By this time, Bell probably had killed more than a quarter of these monster already but there are still more coming from the entrance of the pantry. There are also those monsters who keep on respawning from the walls and are joining the parade.
Bell can not prevent those monsters from the outside to come here but he can do something with the those that are respawning from inside.
One after another, the clusters of crystals are being crushed by these rampaging monsters one by one in pursuit of Bell. It will not take long before this one area of the cavern will be completely flattened. If that happens, Bell will lose his advantage.
But Bell didn't mind that. It was all part of his plan to make these dumb monsters to flatten this place. He will not even mind if they will destroy all the crystals in this cavern, he will even thank them!
That way, the dungeon will be too busy repairing this place. Meaning, there willl no more new respawn monsters for the time being! 0.-.0
Meanwhile, at the seventeenth floor of the dungeon.
The Loki familia's expedition team were marching towards the surface. They had encountered an unforeseen events in the deeper floors and were forced to return to the surface prematurely.
Their group was mostly composed of second and first-tier adventurers so they didn't encounter any difficulties at all on their way back. Aside from the bickering of the twin amazons, Tione and Tiona which caused a number of helpless sighs from the other members that are with them, everything went smoothly.
" Lefiya, is that bag heavy? I can carry it for you. " said the golden haired Ais as she approaches the young elf.
" N-no. That will be absurd... Miss Ais. " Lefiya replied clumsily. Ais continue looking at her in concern but it only made the young elf to be even more nervous.
" Tsk. Don't trouble yourself over a small fry, Ais. "
" Shut up Bete. Don't order Ais around. "
Bete Loga suddenly said but was quickly reprimanded by the amazon, Tiona.
" You're the one who needs to shut up! I am not the one who dissolved her weapon in the deep floor you dope-azon! "
He's talking about Tiona's Urga that was dissolved during their battle against a new breed of monsters at 50th floor.
" Only dopes call other people dopes, stupid dog! "
They are about to continue bickering when suddenly...
*Crackling* *Crackling*
The walls on both side of the corridors they are traveling to started crumbling and...
" ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! "
"" Monster party?! ""
""" Minotaurus... """
It was a monster party solely made out of armed Minotaurs. There's about seventy to eighty of them in total, an amount that can make even a party of second tier adventurers a run for their lives!
(AN. I deliberately increased the number compared to the anime because I think doing this make more sense for some of these Minotaurs to reach the fifth floor considering how strong the Loki familia was.)
But not these group. Although some of them are a bit surprised, that was it. None of them panick or even felt nervous at all.
The busty amazon, Tione casually turned at her commander and asked. " What should we do about these guys, Boss? There are quite a lot of them. "
" Let's get rid of them quickly. " ordered Finn.
Hearing that, the other amazon, Tiona became excited. " Now we are talking! "
She quickly rushed in front of one Minotaur and with a kick, she broke the neck of the poor moster ----killing it right away. The others quickly followed and began slaughtering the monsters too.
But....
Before they can even get their second kill, they saw the monsters suddenly paused before taking a few steps backwards.
As if afraid or knowing that they are not a match against this group of first tier adventurers, the monsters scattered, running for their lives! This action took the Loki familia in surprise until they realized where the monsters are heading to.
" No.. Those passages.... they are towards the upper floors! " Lefiya showed a grave expression on her face. Not just her, but everyone in her group too. If those level one adventurers from above would encounter these monsters, they will die for sure.
" After them! Don't let even a single one them escape! " the prum commander, Finn ordered. They immediately took action after that.
0.-.0
