We ended slaying all the monsters in time record among time records. It was so fast I think not even a minute passed. As I collected the carcasses and stored them inside my inventory, the black and blue letters appeared, darkness and phantasmal energy assembling into system-like messages.
[Congratulations on clearing Floor 5/5 of the [Phantom Dragon's Abandoned Castle] as a Party!]
[Rewards will be distributed evenly based on contribution and total monster slain.]
[Rewards given have increased based on the time spent slaying all monsters within the 10-minute frame.]
[Total Time Spent Slaying all Foes: 26 seconds out of 10 minutes.]
[Maximum Rewards Bonus has been given.]
[You gained: [+400.000.000 Divine Power] [Dark Dragon Blood Elixir (SS Grade)] x3 [Crystalized Phantom Heart (SS Grade)] x3 [Darkness Divinity Fragment] x20 [Phantom Divinity Fragment] x20 [Random Divine Ability Ticket (SSS Grade)] x2 [Divine Spirit Evolution Ticket (SSS Grade)] x2]
"W-Wait, what?! You won already! And these rewards! Aren't they a bit too much? Again with weird items, I don't ever remember adding these strange ticket things!" Svartalf gasped. "Is this the power of your ability, Drake?"
"Yeah, it is part of my Unique Skill, the System." I said, she was right at our side. "Her abilities include being able to modify Dungeons through my innate Divinities and Divine Abilities. It seems this Castle which is like a dungeon and a Dream Dungeon was absorbed by my powers involuntarily, most likely my Dream Dungeon Creation Abilities. It ended boosting the rewards."
"T-That's a thing I had no idea was possible." Svartalf muttered. "H-How does that even works? How can you just amplify the rewards? Unique Skills work in such strange ways, it feels like they draw power out of nowhere."
"I don't know either. It is my goal to eventually find out." I said. "For now, however, we got other things to do, grandma. Shall we go to the rooftop?"
"Sure, I think we're ready." Nodded Benladann.
"It better be a bit challenging." Miranda said.
"I personally hope it ends soon so we can go back home…" Benladra yawned. "I want to eat dinner and go to take a nap, I'm sleepy."
"Yeah, let's end this. If we all fight together, I think we can win. Are we strong enough now, daddy?" Kate wondered.
"Perhaps, it would be nice if you ate the crystal hearts." I told to Kate. "How's your Soul?"
"A bit stronger, but I don't think it'll Rank Up yet." She admitted. "But after this, once I can continue cultivating my soul and eating, it might change."
"Hm, alright." I nodded. "Don't push yourselves. Stay behind us." I told my children. "Drakda, the same goes for you."
"Raarr!" Drakda nodded.
Wait, he nodded?
I guess he does understand words to an extent.
He's growing really fast.
"Then let's go already." Said Benladann, as she opened the gates for me.
What greeted us was a spiraling staircase that led to the open rooftop above the castle. We slowly climbed it, moving upstairs to see a wide area on top of the castle. A barrier of darkness and phantasmal energy covering our sky.
And something right there, it was just… A Pile of dragon bones? It was a huge pile though, of almost seventy meters of height of just black dragon bones, many dragons, not just one pile.
"T-This is the Soul Beast?" Wondered Benladann.
And then, in front of us, a message made of shadows and phantom energy appeared.
[Welcome to the Rooftop of the [Phantom Dragon's Abandoned Castle], challenger!]
[This is the last challenge of this made-up Dungeon, to fight the Dark Phantom Dracolich, a deadly Divine Soul Beast born from the darkness of the Realm of Dark Dragons, a Soul Beast King!]
[There are no rules, and there is no time limit. Fight this beast and try to defeat it. Or have your soul shattered while trying.]
[However, depending on the amount of time you take on defeating it, the rewards might be amplified.]
RUMBLE!
At the same time as the messages appeared, the pile of black bones started moving, an endless sea of phantasmal blue flames covered it completely. Its entire body rose from the ground, lifting and assembling itself into a massive, chimeric bone dragon, covered on an endless veil of phantasmal flames.
Its head was composed of tens of smaller dragon skulls, and so was the rest of its body. Therefore, despite being made of bones, it was surprisingly even more rigid than normal, and had little weaknesses because its true joints were not exposed at all!
It was more like a Bone Golem than an actual Bone Dragon.
However, it was named Dracolich!
"ROOOOAAARRR!"
It gave out a mighty roar, as it became a 150-meter-tall monstrosity. It easily surpassed our sizes, as we all had decided to remain small to move easily through the castle. It was indeed a pretty intimidating foe. But it was really, really big.
And unlike that damned fox, it was slow.
"Okay, let's play then! You think you're hot shit because you're big?!" I laughed, my body quickly started growing larger, my body bulging up and expanding. "I give a damn crap about your shitty barrier anyways."
Crack, crack…!
CRAAASH!
The barrier above us shattered in an instant, as the giant black skeletal dragon ended staring up towards me, now being as big as three hundred meters. I had unleashed my Dragon King form on its totality, nine heads, six wings, nine tails, six arms, and one weapon in each one.
Despite being an almighty Divine Soul Beast King, the Dracolich instinctively gave a step back, it was afraid. I could tell. Its eyes suddenly being directed towards the rest of my family, whose bodies also grew larger.
Benladann and Miranda fused together into a single, two-
headed Chaos Dragoness, overflowing with an overwhelming Aura of Chaos. And our three children reached their maximum sizes as of now. Benladra and Kate were a hundred meters, and Drakda sixty.
"The only reason we couldn't get this big before was due to the restrictions of the caves and that castle, but this is going to be different now."
"R-RAARR…"
The Dracolich quickly lost all of its bravado.
