Another two hours later…
Liam had gone all out except for getting into the field himself and slaughtering the orcs left and right with his own hands, but it looked like he had still underestimated the size of the dungeon floor.
"Six hours!" He laughed as he sat down on the dungeon floor, looking at the now empty space all around them. They had slaughtered about a thousand orc elites in the past six hours and had finally wiped the floor of the dungeon clean.
Though they hadn't come across any dungeon boss specifically, Liam was pretty sure that this floor of the dungeon was picked clean from top to bottom.
Now the question was… how to go to the next floor from here?
Liam had methodically cracked the walls one after the other right from the beginning, but another passageway had still not opened up. Was there perhaps a change in the mechanism?
He mulled over this thought as he absent-mindedly punched the wall he was currently leaning against. This was the far end of the dungeon and the absolute last wall as well.
And just as he punched it, surprise, surprise, the rocks gave way, shattering under the impact of his attack and crumbling down to reveal a… passageway.
"I guess there is no change in the mechanism after all." Liam chuckled and stood up. "200 mana cores, 20 item drops, 5 weapon drops, and about 50,000 experience points." Tallying the total gains, he entered the dark passageway which led upstairs. "Time to go to the next floor."
On the current floor, they had run into orc elites ranging from level 50 to 65. So Liam could already guess the level of opponents they were going to face on the next floor. As a precaution, he even dismissed all the soul minions, except for the wyverns.
The group climbed the winding stairs and turned around as they came face to face with the first of the next set of opponents.
[Hulking Orc, Level 68]
[Hulking Orc, Level 71]
[Hulking Orc, Level 67]
If the previous orcs were huge and thick, then these ones were even more so, with everything on their body bulging, especially the big package at the front, which was jammed right in the face of one of the wyverns.
The draconian beast roared in rage as he lashed out at the orc, beginning with the same big package. The other minions also joined in the rumble.
However, the fight was not as smooth as the previous ones. These hulking orcs were bigger and thicker, and their physical defence was impressive. Moreover, they were a hair above the wyverns when it came to their physical prowess.
It almost looked as if they had trained their body to the extreme, perhaps even to perfection. Every single punch and swing of their weapon contained explosive power. The wyverns were only barely able to match the attacks and were even slowly getting pushed back.
"Hmmm… Should I maybe intervene?" Liam pondered, but the next second, the wyverns proved that they weren't draconic beasts just for show.
Since the physical attacks were raining down on them without stopping and much faster than they could counter, they switched to different tactics.
The ones at the front blocked the attacks and dodged everything to the best of their abilities, while the ones at the back spammed their magic attacks relentlessly.
Just like the physical defence, the magic defence of the hulking orcs was also quite impressive. They were taking far less damage when compared to the elites.
Some of this could be attributed to the items on the orcs, but it was clear that their physical abilities were top-notch.
Liam looked at this and, in the end, decided to add four more minions to this mix. He summoned Crawford, Dimitri, the six-winged lion and the striped white tiger.
With this, the balance finally shifted to their side. The three Hulking Orcs that showed up in the beginning were joined by three more, resulting in a total of six opponents, which now the soul minions vastly outnumbered by eight.
The fight became completely skewed, with just six orcs on one side and fourteen soul minions on the other side, ten of which were draconic beasts.
Though the fight took longer, eventually, it broke into the side of the draconic beasts.
The wyverns claimed their resounding victory, throwing their heads back and roaring loudly while looking up as if they were challenging the heavens themselves.
Luna also seemed to have been inspired by this fight as the little fox snarled and waved her paws as if she was also ready to jump in and fight, showing everyone who was the boss!
In the same line, both the lion and the tiger tried to do something similar, only for their actions to come out in an awkward fashion. These beasts were typically the kings wherever they went, but in this group, they had no other choice except to take the second string shirt.
Meanwhile, only Liam had a pensive look on his face. He picked up the two mana cores that had fallen in deep thought.
The fight went fine. He had received almost the same amount of experience points, and the soul minions had also managed to come out on top in the end, but there was one thing that was bothering him.
These orcs were much stronger than any Level 70 monster he had faced back in the tutorial game. Why was this? What exactly were these creatures, and how did they originate and enter this world?
If the tutorial game was another world, then did these creatures also reside in another world? More importantly, what happened to their souls?
Liam tried sensing the souls of these hulking orcs, but it was useless. Once again, he wasn't able to generate any soul minions from these guys.
The more he thought about everything, the more confusing it became. He couldn't make heads or tails of the situation in front of him.
It was as if he was in the middle of a vast puzzle with only a few pieces visible to him. He felt blind. He couldn't see beyond what was given to him.
Liam hated it.
He watched the huge orc bodies disappear into nothingness and stared at the same space for a couple of seconds before letting out a sigh.
Though it was frustrating at the moment, he had no other choice but to ignore some things, at least for the moment. Otherwise, if he overthought everything, it might have the opposite effect and hamper his growth.
He needed to focus on the thing that was in front of him. He needed to improve his strength to a level that he would finally be able to understand these things.
"Let's go." He ordered the group to step into the next floor.
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