Infinite Competitive Dungeon Society - Chapter 281

Chapter 281

Chapter 281 . Third Season (6)

“Shin is so mean . ”

“I messaged you first though . ”

“There’s a big difference between seeing Shin-nim’s face and just hearing Shin-nim’s voice! I can’t be assured that Shin-nim came back safely until I see Shin-nim and touch Shin-nim with my hands!”

Loretta fretted like a child and hit me lightly . A ‘light’ hit from Loretta was enough to massacre several hundred Orc Lords, but I endured the pain . Even if we did something couple-like, our bodies made it more extreme . I spoke as I did my best to hide my pain .

“Kkeung . I just wanted to finish everything I had to do before I came to see Loretta . That way, I won’t be distracted by other things . ”

“… Until when?”

Loretta suddenly became quieter as she asked with sparkling eyes . It was extremely cute .

“All day . ”

“All day!? Really?”

“Yes . ”

“Yay!”

Seeing Loretta clap in happiness, I smiled awkwardly . Loretta pushed herself towards me and asked with a flushed face .

“What should we play? What should we play?”

“Playing is nice, but there’s actually something I want to learn from Loretta . ”

In an instant, Loretta’s face became rotten .

“Shin-nim, is it fun inflating my expectation and bursting it in a moment?”

“It is, actual… Sorry . ”

After barely consoling Loretta, I had her sit down next to me . Of course, I had to suffer through unspeakable pain before then .

“Fine, but only because I’ll be spending time with Shin-nim . ”

“Right, so what I want to learn is…”

“If it’s punching people, I’m really good at that . ”

Loretta smiled sweetly and threw several jabs . With even a single jab being potentially lethal, I realized Loretta was still slightly angry .

“That’s nice, but I want to learn about Dimensional Travel . ”

Loretta face stiffened .

“You’re kidding, right?”

“I’m not . ”

“… Hold on . ”

Loretta got up and circled around the room . She then went into the kitchen and boiled red tea . After wandering around for 10 minutes without saying anything, Loretta filled her teacup and took a sip . Only then did she finally say something .

“Fine, but only because I’ll be spending time with Shin-nim . ”

“You’re going that far back!?”

“I don’t know, you can’t!”

“I want to learn it . ”

I looked at Loretta with a serious face . Loretta then humphed and snorted .

“No!”

“Why not?”

“The difficult of the magic is too high . Also, crossing a dimension with one’s own power rather than using the dungeon’s power takes an enormous amount of mana! It’s impossible with Shin-nim’s current strength!”

“But I still want to learn it . If I do, I’m sure it’ll be useful one day . ”

Loretta wore a exhausted look and asked .

“At least tell me the reason Shin-nim wants to learn it . ”

“I want to be able to use the skills the dungeon gave me on my own power . ”

“Be more honest . ”

“I also thought about being stuck in a foreign world where the dungeon’s power didn’t work . ”

“That’s not… impossible, I guess . ”

Loretta turned back from trying to shoot me down . She knew what I had gone through .

The balance between attack and defense was twisting in a strange way . The Demon Lord wasn’t the only world’s enemy trying to analyze the dungeon’s power to overcome it . Unless I planned on quit being a Dimensional Mercenary, I wanted to learn how to use Dimensional Travel on my own .

“But Shin-nim, it will be really hard . It’s not something you can master in just one or two days . ”

“I’m prepared . I’ll come learn it from Loretta even if I have to squeeze my available time dry . ”

“…”

Thinking about it now, Loretta seemed to have liked what I just said . Loretta ears were perked up . She fell in thought for a moment, then finally nodded .

“Don’t tell this to Lord . Only tell her after you fully master Dimensional Travel . ”

“Got it . ”

Loretta sighed . She then tilted her head and asked .

“Shin-nim, how did you know I could use Dimensional Travel? Even amongst dungeon administrators, I’m the only one other than Lord who can use it . ”

“It’s that hard!?”

“Ah, so you were just mistaken on how hard it was . ”

Loretta gave me a stare urging me to give up now, but I only grinned in return . Loretta then suddenly exclaimed in surprise .

“Shin-nim, now that I think about it, is that a proposal? It’s the same thing as ‘I’ll be with you forever,’ right?”

“I want to learn it quickly, so cut the nonsense”

Loretta’s tutoring starting just like that . In parallel with Dimensional Travel, I also practiced making other skills I learned in the dungeon mine . As long as I could protect myself from Loretta, who was eyeing my body like a predator eyeing a prey, she was the best mentor .

Ren and Paul’s thrashing phase, Revival members’ Peruta Circuit lessons, learning Dimensional Travel from Loretta, and making Ciara into a person with Hwaya .

There were many things I had to do, but that didn’t mean I could stop climbing the dungeon . I was sure that my current self wasn’t strong enough to defeat the Demon Lord .

Not to mention, the Demon Lord wasn’t the final boss . I had to defeat the one above the Demon Lord, and even then, I couldn’t be sure that Earth would be completely safe . Even though I said I would defeat foreign worlds’ enemies, invading their territory was different than them invading mine . Furthermore… No, even if I thought about that one, I couldn’t do anything about it, so let’s set it aside .

In any case, I headed to the dungeon . First Dungeon’s 81st floor . It was the true upper part of the dungeon belonging to Platinum rank explorers .

[If Tamer is not your main class, the number of tamed beast you can take to the 81st floor is limited to one . ]

When I stepped on the stairway with Licorice and Lotte, message noona… Sherafina’s alert rang out in my ear . I halted my steps and glanced at Loretta who was happily waving her hand from the Floor Shop . Loretta tilted her head for a moment, and hit her left palm with her right fist like she just remembered something . Then, she stuck out her tongue .

“Ehet . ”

Inexcusable . Still, since she was cute, I decided to forgive her .

“You forgot again, didn’t you?”

“Yep! It’s been a while since I dealt with a new Platinum rank explorer!”

I sighed and looked back at Licorice and Lotte .

“You two should go train by yourselves . Tell Plene to work hard too . ”

“We’re both going back?”

“Yeah . Since it’s like this, I might as well try it on my own . ”

Licorice seemed a bit disappointed, but Lotte simply shrugged .

“It’ll be fine if it’s Hero . Then I’ll head to Resting Place of the Angels . ”

“I’ll go back to Earth . ”

The two of them nodded and headed back . After sending them off, I looked back at Loretta who was still grinning happily and smacked her forehead with a light aura ball . Loretta frowned and shouted .

“Shin-nim is so mean! Give me one hundred kisses as punishment!”

“That’s a reward, so no . ”

“… Eh?”

After hearing what I said, Loretta titled her head for a moment . Leaving the then blushing Loretta behind, I went up to the 81st floor . Loretta was definitely stupid .

[You entered the 81st floor . Yell ‘commence exploration’ to start exploring . ]

The 81st floor carried an eerie atmosphere . It felt like ghosts would pop out of the large hallway at any time . It wasn’t just the atmosphere that was eerie . The mana in the hallway was also chillingly cold . I had to summon Ruyue to lessen its impact .

“If it’s like this from the beginning, it won’t be easy… Commence exploration!”

As soon as the words left my mouth, the hallway’s atmosphere changed and its mana pressured me with a killing intent . I poured mana into my choker and summoned Chaotic Spear . At that moment, I felt something falling on my head .

“Haa!”

I shot my spear up fiercely . However, I didn’t feel my spear connecting . I jumped back and checked my spear .

There was a lump of blood stuck on my spear tip .

[The blood is moving . ]

Ruyue briefly spoke . It was as she said . Blood dripping from the ceiling, blood coursing through the walls, and blood crawling on the ground . They were all aiming for me . First, the blood traveling up my spear handle was the biggest problem . I quickly swung my spear, but I couldn’t shake it off .

“Is this even a monster!?”

[I can feel a powerful mana! It’s similar to a elemental!

“Ruyue, freeze it!”

[Un!]

Ruyue immediately frozen the spear handle . Surprisingly, the blood absorbed Ruyue’s ice and continued to creep towards me . Mana eater, this was a mana eater! I clenched my teeth and roused Lightning God’s power . Finally, a little bit of the blood evaporated . However, what I did was like peeing on a field of ice . Compared to the amount of mana I spent, the blood only incurred a tiny loss .

“So troublesome . ”

I couldn’t just let it continue crawl up the spear handle . When I poured in more of Lightning God’s power, the blood shot up with a crackling noise . It headed towards my face, and I smacked it down with my spear blade filled with Lightning God’s power .

“Ruyue, stop the blood falling from the ceiling! Peika, Sharana!”

[From the 81st floor, you cannot have three elementals out at the same time . ]

Along with Sherafina’s explanation, only Peika appeared in front of me . When she saw the blood creeping towards me from all sides, she freaked out and released lightning .

[Creepy! Burn up!]

“Peika, they’re mana eaters . You need to use a lot of power!”

[Got it!]

While Peika and Ruyue frantically stopped the blood from encroaching, I hurriedly took out a mana potion and gulped it down .

Meanwhile, more and more blood appeared . Seeing a stream of blood shooting up from the ground underneath me, I got startled and stabbed it with my spear . When the property of a liquid mixed with the property of a mana eater, it became extremely tricky to deal with . As I couldn’t just stand here and block them forever, I began to run . As I saw more and more blood filling up the hallway, I became a bit tired .

“What the hell are these things!?”

I considered using Elemental Tempest, but gave up as I was afraid of the mana eaters annihilating the elementals’ existence . In the end, I used Heroic Strikes to cut apart the flood of blood and shouted in annoyance . Although I wasn’t expecting an answer, a voice replied to the annoyed shout .

[They are ‘Crimson Hell’, the world’s enemy that almost ruined the world Pantiran . ]

… Say what?