Apocalypse Monster
Chapter 026: The New World

The extremely dark black room began to change as the lighting on the wall revealed an illuminating blue light. Seen, a monster he had never seen before finally appeared and became a 20th floor Dungeon Boss.

The lizardman!

The lizard man was green with scales, carrying a shield made of wood, an iron spear, a knife, a double-edged sword, and wearing a protective suit made of leather. Although it looked simple, but the equipment used was included in high quality, raising level 100 and this was a Dungeon Boss.

"I'll take the Boss, you help defeat his subordinates. Their level was ten levels below Dungeon Boss." Natan walked over while pulling the sword from its sheath.

Ayumi and Erina nodded their heads.

"Now!" Natan ran towards the King Lizardman along with Erina on the right, and Kuro on his left. For Ayumi, to be in the back row to provide a barrier and help from behind.

Natan ran regardless of Warrior Lizardman, Spear Lizardman, and others. He focused only on the King Lizardman, and the rest he left to Ayumi, Erina and Kuro.

Ayumi who was at the back unleashed a chain attack to bind all the Lizardmen, especially to the part of the weapon they were carrying.

Erina raised her shield, dispelled the spear thrust that was not hit by Ayumi's fire chain and pushed the attack aside, then she thrust her sword into the Lizardman's chest. He wanted to hit the head, but unfortunately the height is not too high, not even up to 150 cm.

Erina pushed her sword, slashed it up, split the upper body of the Lizardman into two pieces and took his life. With STR 486 Point, it was very easy for him to kill the Lizardman who only had a Health count of 28,550 Point.

Kuro who was beside Natan charged into the other Lizardman, holding him back with his two front legs, holding the fallen Lizardman to the floor to be unable to stand up anymore. Then he opened his mouth as wide as possible, and ate the head of the Lizardman.

Natan leaped high, leading to the King Lizardman sitting on the Throne. When he jumped, the King Lizardman raised his spear high, aiming at him.

That Nathan who jumped up and fell towards the spear remained calm showing no signs of panic.

"Fire Ball!" Ayumi shot a fireball dozens of meters above Natan's head.

The large fireball illuminated the entire room, creating shadows of light blocked by surrounding objects.

Natan smiled as she saw a thin shadow as the King Lizardman raised his hand. It activates its ability to enter into shadows, and reappear in seconds.

He who had appeared cut off the King Lizardman's arm, then turned and crouched down to keep his distance or take a swing. Not quite there, he pressed his legs firmly, stood up and thrust his sword at the King Lizardman's head with both hands, until it pierced through the Throne.

Nathan thrust his sword upwards, killing the King Lizardman. Then he turned around while swinging his sword vertically, from top to bottom, splitting the Warrior Lizardman before he could raise the sword.

Nathan pressed his right foot back on the floor as a foothold, then darted like a bullet, with his body leaning forward. When viewed from afar, Natan is like sleeping face down.

He put his left foot forward, stopping his extremely fast movements while swinging his sword vertically, from the bottom up, splitting the Lizardman into two halves.

Then Natan ran and stood on Kuro, then jumped high towards Erina who was facing off against the three Lizardmen.

Natan held the handle of the sword with both hands, slashing at the Lizardman from above. He was very happy with this battle, because all the experience of practicing Kendo for almost ten years was really useful. Strangely, however, no skill was gained from his experience of practicing.

When he had split the body of the Lizardman who was right in front of Erina, he stood up and pulled the hair of another Lizardman who was on the left front of him.

"Yyoung?!" The lizardman let out a strange, incomprehensible sound.

Nathan, who had pulled the Lizardman's hair, and made it seem like he was doing half a kayang, finally thrust his sword into the lizard's neck, twisted it, split it.

A gleam of light was seen on the floor surface as all of the Lizardman's corpses disappeared, and were replaced with Item Drops that were Monster Core, Red Meat, Scale, Taring.

"Is everything safe?"

"Safe!" Ayumi and Erina raised their hands together, with Kuro roaring.

Natan smiled faintly, then teamed up to take all the Drop Items available, putting them into the Inventory Guild. Inventory Guilds themselves had different ways of improving, unlike Inventory Lists that used Point Skills.

The Inventory Guild only needed to use 50 Gold to open one box, and a multiple occurred to open the next one.

"Now, let's go to the next floor. Make sure all the equipment is always in good condition, and stay in formation" said Natan, who led the way, entering the open gate behind the Throne.

Nathan blocked his eyes with his left arm shortly after entering the open gate. What he saw on the 21st floor was very different from the previous 20 floors, at this time he saw sunlight shining on the land, fresh air and cool breeze that was gently blowing on his face.

"Wait!" Natan turned around, ascertaining if this was just an illusion.

What he saw behind was Erina and Ayumi who were smiling happily from being able to look back at the warm sunlight. But he turned his attention, he saw a steep cliff like a high wall.

The walls were very long and circled the place where they were now. He looked forward again, using binoculars. "It seems, this is a land surrounded by rock mountains, a land of four kilometers in diameter."

Nathan walked to the far end of the land getting smaller every step he took. Up to the end, he could see lowlands filled with dense forests, large and swift rivers, grass beds, including waterfalls in one region.

When he was confused about what to do, suddenly a screen interface appeared in front of him that told the mission what to do.

[Dungeon Tower 21st Floor]

[Kill the Horned Bull of the Sword (0/75)]

[Reward: 1,000,000 additional Exp Points, excluding Exp Points earned from killing the Horned Bull Sword, and opening the Light Portal to go to the 22nd floor]

"Republica, Erina. Let's get ready, we'll go down and find the Horned Bull of the Sword."

Ayumi and Erina walked over to Natan, along with Kuro who was standing at the back.

"Son, isn't this too horrible to go down?" ayumi asked a little unsure.

Natan understood why Ayumi was a little reluctant to descend, it could be seen from the sharp rocks that led up, and it would definitely die on the spot when hit by the rock.

"Do you have any other way?"

Ayumi paused for a moment while patting her chin with her index finger, then replied, "Using Earth Wall, but it's too long to have to wait for Cooldown for forty-two seconds."

Natan nodded his head, it was indeed doable and took too long. The cooldown skill also depends on the number of Mana Points used, if the one used is 50 MP, then it only needs to wait 30 seconds. If 100 MP, takes 60 seconds, 150 MP takes 90 seconds, 200 MP takes 120 seconds, and 250 MP takes 150 seconds.

The reduction of Mana Point during the increase also depends on the amount used at the beginning. As the 50 MP starts when it is upgraded it will be 48, 47, 46, 45, 43, 41 and so on. If it is 100 MP then it becomes 96, 94, 92, 90, 88, 84, 80 and so on.

"But, didn't Ayumi continue to practice Earth Wall? It doesn't even use the Player's system operation, and can sometimes activate it on its own. So, you can say, you don't have to wait for Cooldown to activate the skill."

Natan could have taken Ayumi and Erina to jump off a cliff, then used Shadow Step to move. However, he abandoned his intentions because it was too risky. If this is a city building that's not too tall, he can do it.

Ayumi nodded her head. "Alright, Ayu will try again." He held the Magic Wand with both hands, and positioned it in a horizontal position in front of the chest.

Ayumi closed her eyes, and a blue aura like fire began to radiate from her body, which then the cliff in front of her shook violently like an earthquake.

Bang out! Bang out! Bang out!

A wall of earth began to be created in front of the cliff. The wall was formed like a staircase that leads down, and it looks to have created ten steps.

With the height of the cliff that ranges from two hundred meters, of course, it still requires 11,101 more steps, which means Ayumi must use her ability as much as 1110 times, or take three hours.

Of course Natan didn't want to force Ayumi to do such a draining and mental thing.

Natan raised her left hand to touch Ayumi's shoulder. "That's enough, let me take you down." He looked back at Kuro. "Kuro, get into the shadows, and please protect us in case something dangerous happens."

Kuro gave a small nod, then turned into a black shadow that merged with Natan's shadow.

"Ayumi, Erina, save your equipment into the Inventory Guild."

Despite not knowing what Natan is doing, Ayumi and Erina still do it.

Natan held Ayumi with one hand and let her sit on her left arm, while Erina was on the other. "Tight hold." He walked to the end of the fence.

"Well..." Nathan took a deep breath and pulled him back. He did it over and over again until he was ready.

When she was ready, Natan ran very fast with her two sisters, and held on by wrapping her arms around her neck. When he was at the end of the plateau, he jumped as high and as far as possible, hoping that his leap could pass through the sharp rock.

Natan fell at high speed, leading to the pointed ground which was at the outermost part of the spiky ground area. He made sure the distance between it and the pointed ground was not too close.

He focused his gaze on the shadow of the tree not too far from the pointy ground. But still the distance with the pointy ground was very close. When the distance was only half a meter away from the pointy ground, he activated his ability as it had already entered in his view.

"Shadow Step!"

A black shadow shot out from his body, and began to envelop him along with the two people who were brought over. The shadow that enveloped it shrank, turning like a black cloth that flew in the wind rapidly, leading to a shadow under the tree.

Shortly after joining the tree shadow, Natan disabled her ability and leaned on the tree trunk with a breath of breath. "We .. hah .. succeeded ..."

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