Chapter 73 Dungeon of Mysteries

"Okay. Finished. Lukia kill them."

Killian said and casually walks out from the hall. Lukia raised his chaos blade.

"No. Why are you doing this. Please stop. I beg of you."

Eliza tried to beg for mercy. However Lukia didn't bother to reply. The remaining mages and soldiers rush out and attack Lukia.

"Your majesty please run.... Ahhh..."

They cannot even put a slight bit of resistance as they all fallen by Lukia's blade.

The queen is also helpless. Her mana was run out. A mage without mana is a gun without bullets. A shell with no power.

"I'm sorry Eliza. Its all because of me."

The queen hugged her daughter tightly. It is regret? No. She tried her best to save her kingdom. She didn't have any regrets for her decision.

The only regret is her daughters have to die together with her. She wants to see her youngest daughter Elena for the last time. However she knew it was a luxury for her.

Lukia expressionlessly stood in front of the mother and daughter and raised his blade.

"This will be the end of Eylans."

_ _ _ _ _

Somewhere hidden place in the palace,

Killian's main body was standing in front of a huge painting. It was a strange painting consists of five sectors.

The first sector was a field of grassland forest. Beautiful colorful flowers blossom across the grassland.

The second is was a large forest. Huge trees shrouded in the forest. The other three sectors are just blank.

"This should be the place."

According to the queen's memories, there is a inheritance that left by the magic emperor. It was located in this painting.

Killian transforms some of his chaos energies into magic mana with his magic mastery skill. He injected the mana into the painting.

"Swoop!"

The surface of the painting moved slightly. It was like a surface of the water. Killian stretches his hand to the painting. His hand enters into the painting without resistance.

"Its just like a portal."

Killian said and his whole body entered into the painting.

His senses turned blur for a second. He lost contact with his forces from the outside world. He also cannot open the portal to the outside. However Killian doesn't worry.

There is nothing that can challenge him in the whole continent. Losing connection with his minions temporary is not a problem.

His army is not only undeads anymore. The demons can act on their own and will do their assigned job without him.

Killian also believes Lukia and Devlian. He was confident that they would not betray him. Thus he planned to clear this dungeon in one go.

'Welcome to the Dungeon of Mysteries.'

"Waoh! This is really a whole new world."

Killian stepped onto a grassland.

'Welcome to the first floor of the dungeon, Paradise of Butterflies.'

Killian saw beautiful flowers across the field. There are countless butterflies flying around the grassland peacefully.

"You might think this is a beautiful scenery. But these are not normal butterflies. They are made from magic and they will attack you the moment you entered their territory."

Killian recalled the queen's memories. This dungeon can only be challenged by one person at a time.

After a person enters, another person cannot enter anymore and he had to wait for the first person to come out first.

That's why Killian was using his real body. When the queen first enters, she was almost killed in this dungeon. There are too many traps and enemies hidden.

Killian stretched his hand. A flick of chaos flames shot out.

"This large grass field. Its easier to just burn them all."

The queen wanted to perverse the land. So she didn't burn them. However Killian didn't care much about this.

The fire quickly spread. The chaos flames are many times hotter than normal fire and the whole flower field turned into a waste land.

Many butterflies were burnt to death along with the flowers. The remaining butterflies angrily rush towards Killian.

They shot out colorful beams like rainbows. Each attacks has the power of a normal mage and there are thousands of them.

Killian blocked their attack and and waved his hand. A wave of chaos flames burned down all the remaining butterflies.

Killian walks down the wasteland. He saw an enormous flower. However the center of the flower is empty.

There was supposed to be a reward for clearing the first floor of the dungeon. But it was already taken by the queen.

The reward of the first floor is the purple gem that the queen used to seal Killian. The crystal of eternal imprisonment can be considered a quasi-ultimate skill. However It did not reach the level of a real ultimate skill.

Killian saw a huge gate. He entered the gate and the scene changed. He was now in a huge beautiful forest.

'Welcome to the second floor of the dungeon, Endless Forest.'

Killian waved his hand. Waves of chaos flames shot out. He intends to burn down the whole forest like he did on the first floor.

The flames burned down the trees. However the fire did not spread like before. Killian narrowed his eyes. The trees regenerate themselves slowly.

The trees shook like they were alive. Huge tree roots burst out from the ground and attack Killian.

"So this is the part where the queen is helpless."

These roots are endless. Even if you destroy the roots, more and more roots will attack you endlessly until you leave the aera.

The queen Elizabetha only passed the first floor and didn't pass through the second floor yet.

Killian snorted coldly. The shadows around him transforms into whips like tentacles and collided with the tree roots.

Killian slowly move forward. He saw a huge tree at the end. The giant tree roots that attacking him are coming from this huge tree.

Killian knew this attack. It was the same attack back then when he sent the scouts to the elven forest. It was the attack of the tree of life.

There are several humanoid trees guarding the huge tree.

"Treants."

Killian can only thought of them. The treants are guardians of the forest. They are a part of the forest and nature itself.

When they saw Killian they immediately attack. Killian shot out chaos beams. The treants easily turned into dust.

However more treants came out from the huge tree. Killian shot out more chaos beams to kill them. But it was endless. The treants keep coming no matter how many he killed.

Killian was troubled. Not only treants are coming towards him endlessly, the roots are also attacking him.

Killian frowned. Should he use his ultimate, the god of death? If he uses the god of death's erosion, he can clear his way to the end no matter how many the enemies are.

Under the absolute power no matter ho many treants or roots, they are just dust in front of the god of death.

However this is only the second floor. According to the painting, there might be a total of five floors.

He don't want to use his ultimate too early. If not he will run out of juice before he reaches the final floor. After all the price for using ultimate is not cheap.

He don't think the brute force was the real solution. This is only the second floor and the difficulty shouldn't be this high.

Is this dungeon unbeatable? But it was not likely. Or the clear requirement does not lies in strength?

Killian thought and retreated to the beginning of the floor. He then disguised himself into a treant.

He slowly entered the forest. This time the forest did not attack him.

"As I thought, the requirement is not strength but stealth."

He arrived at the huge tree without any problems. The treants looked at him at first but they did not find anything strange and continued with their guarding.

He moved near the huge tree.

"Is this the tree of life?"

Killian thought. It was way too similar to the tree of life in the elven forest. Killian haven't seen the tree of life himself but he know how it looks like since he read Alerian's mind.

Killian touches the tree.

'Congratulations. You have passed the trial of the second floor.'

"That's it?"