Infinite Competitive Dungeon Society - Chapter 287

Chapter 287

Chapter 287 . The Last Member (4)

The 75th Floor Master, Vampire Lord, had a tricky ability . Though he was too weak and died before he could properly utilize his ability, I was different . Even with the same ability, I could show far stronger effects .

The Mistification skill I got from defeating him could be an excellent skill to some, but that didn’t apply to me . The skill I was talking about was his unique skill, Blood Curse .

Blood Curse was an extremely simple skill . It was similar to Deathblood Ring’s deathblood effect, but its effect was stronger .

It would use my health and splatter my blood onto him . Once the blood entered his body through his wound, its effect would activate . No matter how strong or weak the enemy was, it would decrease all of his stats and make him fall into massive hemorrhage status effect . As it wasn’t a normal hemorrhage, but one made from curse and magic, the only way he could break out of it was to kill me . In a way, it was similar to chaos flames .

[Kuk!]

After looking around for a while, he suddenly screamed . At the same time, a vast amount of blood shot out from the wounds Nandi created . It didn’t end with just a single explosion, as blood continued to shoot out like it was recycling itself like a fountain . Blood Curse was working perfectly .

[Cough! What is this…!?]

Sorry, but I’m not done yet . I smiled mischievously and activated the next move . It was Crimson Roar .

[Kuaaaak!]

That’s right! That’s the scream I wanted to hear! The Beast King couldn’t withstand the fierce flames in his body and jumped in his spot .

[You, you’re inside of me!]

Where? I murmured inwardly and smiled mockingly . The Beast King continued to jump around to get me off of him, but I was in a place he could never reach with such movements .

I was flowing through his blood .

[Where are you Hero!? Where!?]

Who in the right mind would tell you? You’re the one who set up this trap for me too! I swam through his blood stream and searched for my destination . Suddenly, he stopped jumping around and stood still .

[… Is this that ray’s ability?]

I flinched . Although the World Trickery skill I had wasn’t stolen from the Hermit King, its name and effect was the same one he had .

After murmuring those words, the Beast King snickered as he bled profusely .

[Foolish . He called himself king, but if his ability was invincible, we wouldn’t have been called the Five Kings! You want to use that lowly fish’s ability to defeat me?]

He shouted .

[Since you entered my body on your own, stay and become my nutrient!]

Immediately, his body began to boil . The first thing I noticed was that a strong acid began to flow in his blood . Almost like how someone with a cold would heat up to drive away the virus from his body, the Beast King’s body was changing to remove me .

[Did you think I would be defenseless, Hero!? I was expecting more from you, what a shame! Or will you try to change your body back!?]

His internal temperature skyrocketed, and an acidic mana that attacked all foreign substance began to fill up his body . It seemed he had to pay a price for this technique, as with increased blood flow, he began to hemorrhage even more .

[Kuhahahaha! Truly funny! To think the Hero would be such a coward! Who would have thought you were more like the Hermit King than the Lava King!?]

If the Hermit King transformed himself into a tiny monster and entered the Beast King’s body, he would have burned up by now from the temperature or melted from the acid . I was also struggling to withstand these two forces .

[Cough!]

At that moment, the Beast King suddenly coughed . It seemed Blood Curse was still working . Of course, Crimson Roar frying up his insides must have hurt too . No matter how big he was, he couldn’t be fine after all that happened . I had to thank Nandi for letting my Blood Curse have such great effect .

[… Not dead yet . ]

He murmured .

[He’s not dead yet . He’s still inside me . ]

I grinned . He realized it too late . I had finally arrived at his heart . Specifically, I was inside his heart .

[This isn’t the ray’s ability . ]

In that instant, I detonated the power of Sky God’s Rage and drew out Lightning God’s power to the limit . My surrounding became dyed in gold . The Beast King let out a horrifying scream .

[Kuaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!]

I then canceled my transformation and looked around as I landed on the bottom of his heart . Lightning God’s power and Zeus’ power had mixed together and was destroying the Beast King’s heart .

This was probably not enough . I held up my Chaotic Spear and struck down with my remaining mana . I couldn’t help but marvel at how big the Beast King’s heart was, as it had more than enough space to fit my body .

[Kuhaaa! H-How!? How did you survive?]

“What do you mean, how?”

For the first time after I entered his body, I spoke . At this point, I was confident in my victory .

“I became your blood . ”

Sky God’s Play was qualitatively different than World Trickery . Of course, World Trickery surpassed Sky God’s Play in its ability to hide my presence . That was how I could carry out this plan . Combining Sky God’s Play and World Trickery had formed a perfect skill .

World Trickery allowed me to transform into any monsters I defeated, and Sky God’s Play let me transform into whatever I’ve seen . The difference between the two was huge .

In Greek mythology, Zeus had once transformed into a golden shower to impregnate a woman trapped in a prison . The transformation power he used was available to me too under the name Sky God’s Play . With it, I could transform myself into liquid or even a single drop of blood . The Beast King’s response was within my expectations .

There was no way he would burn his own blood or melt himself with his own acid . While he raised his internal temperature and spread his acid, I leisurely swam through his blood stream . The only thing I had to worry about was making sure I wouldn’t leave his body through the wounds he was bleeding from .

“Wouldn’t this work on the Demon Lord too?”

After thinking about it for a bit, I shook my head . I felt like I wouldn’t be able to trick him . The fact that he had a world’s power was the biggest reason . Even if World Trickery hid my presence, there had to be a limit to pretending to be someone else’s blood . Just like how I noticed Hermit King’s presence at the end, the Demon Lord was sure to be capable of doing so .

[Kuk, kuaaaaak! I, I should have listened to him!]

“Oh? And what did he say?”

Really, he was taking too long to die . I converted the remaining mana in my body into lightning and pushed it into my spear . Peruta Circuit roiled, and my spear immediately penetrated his heart, releasing lightning .

[Kuaaaaak!]

Damned guy, couldn’t he have said more before he died? In the end, the lightning from the spear burst his heart, and that was the end of the Beast King .

“Ku, I better focus, or I’ll get swept away again . ”

I had to directly face the flood of blood pouring from his heart . Setting aside how dirty it was, did I have to travel through his blood again to get out? No, since he died, was his blood even flowing?

In any case, I had to get out and join up with the rest of the party as quickly as possible . It hasn’t been too long, so there should be no problem . I just had to quickly… quickly…?

“… Eh?”

I blinked . My body felt strange . Don’t tell me his acid was affecting me now? Or if that wasn’t it, did he leave a curse before he died?

The Beast King’s blood drenching me was boiling . Not only that, but the large amount of his blood I had no choice but to drink was boiling inside my stomach . It was almost as if he was roaring out .

“Is this dangerous?”

An alarm went off in my head . Did I cancel my transformation too early? No, if I didn’t, I would have had to wait dozens of minutes slowly releasing lightning . I needed to get out of here as quickly as possible, and even if I didn’t, I didn’t feel like it was a mistake to untransform as I initially planned .

Besides, didn’t his blood drench me after he died? Just what was going on?

All I knew was that this situation wasn’t something I could control . I couldn’t believe how helpless I felt without Sherafina’s messages telling me about my status .

‘Snap out of it, Kang Shin . You can’t rely on the dungeon forever . ’

In the worst case, I just needed to use Overlord . That power was enough to get me through most situations . Not to mention, the Beast King was dead, so there was no one who could cause me harm . Even when the Hermit King died, I received his ability in exchange for his soul, and when the Lava King died… Wait .

“… Wow . ”

I couldn’t help but speak even in this situation . I hadn’t noticed because I was too focused on myself, but now that I looked, the Beast King’s insides were letting out a bright golden light . He was certainly dead . This wasn’t done by him .

It was done by me .

“Right, it was then . ”

When I obtained the Hermit King’s power, I had taken his power for my own . I still wasn’t sure, but perhaps when Peruta Circuit reforged my body, it may have taken this part of my memory and incorporated it to my instincts . Right, I knew instinctively that there was a better way to do it . Just like how the Lava King, Hermit King, and the Beast King had developed unique ways of defending themselves, my body had also developed a way to grow stronger!

If I were under the effect of the dungeon’s system, Sherafina would have surely told me about the method herself . But now that I was on my own, my body was looking for this method by itself . Its efficiency was incomparable to having it spoonfed to my body .

Peruta Circuit’s spin became fiercer . My body was burning up, and it felt like Peruta Circuit’s mana circuit was trying to burst out of my body . A whirlpool rose up around my body and began to slowly absorb the golden particles of light . The Beast King’s body slowly transformed into golden particles of light and began to slowly flow into me . The spinning whirlpool began to turn golden and created even fiercer rotational force .

“AAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

I shouted, unable to withstand the power filling up my body . With my shout, the process accelerated . The Beast King’s body completely transformed into mana and flowed into me, and I held my mind tightly to not waste a single drop of it .

Sorry, Daisy, it looks like you won’t get the Beast King’s corpse… Hopefully you’ll get the King of the Dead!

Some time later, I slowly opened my eyes . With how much mana flowed into me, I couldn’t turn them all into mine, but this wasn’t the first time I experienced receiving such a massive amount of mana . Just like before, I stockpiled the unprocessed mana in a corner of my body .

I looked around . I was still in the jungle .

“The corpse really disappeared . ”

I was dumbfounded . Such a huge corpse that disappeared without leaving a trace . Now, he was inside me . I could feel it . Interestingly, the result of me entering his body was him entering mine .

“Huu… Sadly, it looks like I’m missing one of his abilities . ”

The Beast King used his incomparably powerful body and his powerful acid as his main weapons . Additionally, he could add powerful physical force to his roars . I had received all of his abilities other than his acid ability . I could tell how to use them like they were mine to begin with .

Most importantly, even though my stats were still being restrained, I could tell how much stronger my bones, muscles, and skin have gotten . I grinned and smacked my body a few times .

“I heard there’s a hole to fly through even when the sky crumbles . To think Peruta Circuit would bring such a result . ”

Perhaps, it wasn’t just Peruta Circuit brining about these changes . After all, Peruta had never told me about any of this .

It was entirely possible that another power was using Peruta Circuit as a medium to act… No, I was probably overthinking it . In any case, I could think about this later . What I was sure about was that starting with Radiance, I was slowly strengthening myself with powers that no one could take away . Knowing that was enough .

“Good, now if I hide his mana completely…”

I calmed the boiling Beast King’s mana . Then, the surrounding space began to distort . The Event Dungeon was disappearing, having lost its power to maintain itself . What filled my sight instead was Bordeaux’s sky . Coincidentally, I faced Licorice as soon as I left the Event Dungeon .

When she saw me, she hugged me with a happy face .

“Dear Husband, I knew you would be safe! Dear Husbaaaand!”

“Yeah, Licorice, I knew I would be safe too . ”

I felt relieved and joked . Thankfully, everything seemed okay . Ciara had worried for nothing . Although the Beast King was troubling, I could kill him without much problem, and now that I had joined up with the rest, we could go kill the King of the Dead and the last remaining king together…

At that moment, Licorice tilted her head and asked .

“Where’s Hwaya? Why didn’t she come out with you?”

“… What?”

I froze .