[Verni]
Right now, I'm chilling on my golden throne with my head resting on my arm.
I sigh, waiting for the messenger.
It has been two weeks and she hasn't arrived yet.
Right now, Ren is beside me sitting on my armrest to the left. "Verni, what now?"
"Well, we'll wait." I say with a bored look.
"I know what you're saying but I think that you share my thoughts."
Levia grunts as though scoffing Ren's words. "You mere light user, you don't understand our lord's will. He has something in mind that is beyond your comprehension."
"Shut your trap, lizard girl. Your opinion is not needed here since the smart people are talking."
It seems to get into Levia, seeing she is pissed. "Are you implying that I'm not smart?" She grits her teeth.
"Well, I never said that but if it hits you then it does."
Just when they are about to jump at each other, I stand and hit those two on the head. "Quit it guys. Both of you fighting isn't even funny. You could destroy this place."
It seems they stop but they look away grunting in annoyance.
I sigh, upon this two. They are often fighting even when I'm here. What should I do about this two?
Regardless, I got a message from one of my clones roving the Eastern Zen forest. It seems they already found a dungeon. I allocated around 10,000 of clones in the forest and I just found one dungeon in the time frame of 2 weeks. Well, I've read that the Eastern Forest takes up the entire Eastern region of the continent which is way huge. So it might take a while before, I can conquer every dungeon in this region.
I'll try to use [Clone Takeover] and check what's going on there.
Taking over one clone, I find myself in the middle of the woods. Looks like there are 400 clones alongside me as we are heading to a tall tower structure.
Upon reaching the entrance, I use my skill as the Infitius, [Dungeon Absorption]
[Dungeon Absorption: Cast a spell on a dungeon and the monsters killed in that dungeon will be absorbed into the Infinite Dungeon]
Then the dungeon is surrounded by a faint dark purple light. Where the light ends is the area boundary of the dungeon arbsorption skill. Farther than that then the monsters slew won't be sent to the Infinite Dungeon.
There are no signs of adventurers going in here so this dungeon is most likely untouched.
Looks like we will have a feast here boys!
A screen shows up once we pass the entrance of the dungeon.
[Black Gervier Dungeon]
Afterward, we come across several monsters. These are car-sized crabs with steel-like carapaces. For ordinary adventurers no doubt they will be tough.
[Crust Snapler Level 150]
Level 150, huh? I kinda expected more since this level will just barely give me enough DP. It might be a tall order for me to ask monsters which are at level 300 or 400.
My clones just mows through them. They spam [Current Shock] at the crust snaplers, the clones shoot out lightning charges that the snaplers gets shocked until they release some smoke, so they are probably cooked.
[+10000 EXP]
[+15000 EXP]....
[+5 DP]
[+5 DP]...
The clones mow the way through until the land begins to shake. Suddenly, sensing some danger, I leap and fly up with the ground crumbling, while the rest of the clones fall down. Several scorpion's tail emerges from the ground, piercing across some of the clones.
Others managed to dodge and hover in mid-air. They then throw attacks at the scorpion monsters from below and only took out some.
[Crust Impaler: Level 200]
Looks like they are many of them hiding underground. Their strategy is to impale their prey from above, huh, after they crumble their foothold. If not for my flight ability, my clones and I would have been done for.
I smile as me and my clones get ready. It has been a while since we used this ability. We prepare as we cast it, [Meteor Doom]!
We bombard it with meteors blasting the whole area where the scorpions are hiding, thus EXP and DP rained for me.
It isn't that much but at least we are progressing.
Almost half a day passed. This dungeon is pretty wide. We obliterate one monster after another and seeing my dungeon point status, it still very low.
[DP: 339/1,500,000]
How many years will this even take? Regardless, we already have gone deep down and conquered 80% of this dungeon and now some us are about to face the final boss.
Entering the dungeon boss' chamber, it seems to be a lake.
I don't see any signs of the enemy. Using my [Divine Sights] to peer into the dark waters, I can see a giant figure from below. It seems to be rising since it sensed us.
The creature reveals itself growling with a weird noise trying to hamper our hearing. Unfortunately, for the creature my tolerance is quite high so it won't have any effect on me. Otherwise, my ear drums would have had raptured.
[Kraken: Level 200]
Regardless, we have no time to lose, so we just bombard it with meteors.
After a powerful blast from our meteor spamming, the lake have dried and the Kraken left it's essence.
[Kraken (Legendary) Level 200]
It's only on the legendary tier, huh? I hope it was on a mythical tier since higher tier has more bonus EXP points and thus would become a higher level once I turn it into an essential clone.
Regardless, this was good enough.
As my clones rove the environment, they stumbled upon one dungeon after another.
[Wind Sapphire Dungeon]
[Carlstone Break Dungeon]
[Rossete Velvet Dungeon]
[Starfer Velion Dungeon]
We dialed down the use of meteor doom since my clones have been evaporating since they are reaching their limits. Only about 40% of the clones I sent were left after they conquered that much dungeons.
We even encountered a dungeon with a Lich which is the final boss, in the Starfer Velion Dungeon. The final boss rises from the grave and hovers in the air. "To think someone managed to reach my chambers. Regardless, you will have to die! Hahaha!"
[Evil Lich: Level 150]
Like Sagus this dungeon general monster is smart.
We bombard it with fiery blast, turning its body into crisp. It falls down on the ground confused. "Wh-what the hell just happened?"
I sigh, approaching it. "Pal, my clones have been going around the entire day clearing dungeons. It would be better for us if you stay still and let us kill you."
The Lich looks bothered. It rises in rage. "Don't mess with me! Who do you think you are?!"
I chuckle lightheartedly, "haha, I know right."
I was thinking of speedrunning this boss but this one seems amusing. I think I'll spare him for a while.
"Don't you dare 'haha', with me. Don't you know, I used to curse ancient royals with my power and no cure in existence can be found. Everyone is scared of death and my curse ensures that they will experience fear to its entire glory!" He aims his ghastly palms on me and it glows in toxic green. "Now! Know fear. Undying Tyranny!" He declares and cast his spell.
[Curse of Undying Tyranny has been Casted on the user!]
[Curse has been resisted]
I sigh, for his dismay.
"Sorry to break it up to you buddy but I have the child of darkness title. Basically, we are under the same hood."
Even if I didn't, my stats would have completely resisted his curse and it won't affect me since this is a clone's body.
"Wh-who the hell are you?!" The Lich says slightly wary of me.
I grin staring at the Lich. "Hey, you seem fun. Why don't you join our dungeon?"
"D-dungeon? It can't be? You're Lord Sagus, huh? Wait, no... your soul is too different to be the dark Lord. Who the hell are you?"
"My name is Verni, and I believe your name is not just Evil Lich."
"Verni, huh? I never heard of any big time name like that. You must be new."
"Yup, I'm quite new."
The Lich sighs, "I see, it's depressing to know that I got defeated by a newcomer. Regardless, to introduce myself my name when I was human is Lazeo Tumlin. I was a loyal follower of Lord Sagus but I never reached his level."
"Sagus, huh? I just knew that guy is quite popular."
"Well, yeah. If you decimated almost half of this continent's population, you would be popular."
Don't tell me, the reason why there is barely any settlement in the Eastern Region is that Sagus annihilated them?
"That guy's a total scumbag, huh?"
"Not necessarily, he managed to create his magnum opus, the Infinite Dungeon. So I think it's kinda justified. Hahaha!"
I forgot what type of person I was talking to for a second.
"Now that I take a look at you clearly, don't tell me that you are the next Eastern Overlord."
"Yes I am."
Lazeo laughs in amusement. "Then I might join you if you follow his legacy and kill civilians. We can consume the people from the north. They are a bunch of assholes."
So Sagus used civilians to gain DP to feed the infinite dungeon I assume. It make sense why he needed to sacrifice that lot of people.
Civilians aren't as effective since they are very low level, besides I would feel bad for them. I would rather resort to killing monsters.
"No thank you."
"Tsk, you call yourself the Eastern Overlord?"
I'm kinda annoyed but I quell it with a sigh, I then snap my finger. "Guys, take care of this fool."
Lazeo chuckles nervously, "hey wait.." He then gets bombarded by cursed fire magic causing him to scream in anguish. "Ahhh!"
Lazeo grabs my leg. "Hey, wait. Don't kill me yet, I figure you will need me."
"Is that so?" This guy is obviously desperate.
Regardless, I just grab Lazeo and throw him unto my [Spatial Bag], I figure I'll just take him out once I need him.
"Bye bye."
"Hey wait! He-" His voice gets cut off once he is gone into my inventory.
Afterward, I let myself cancel the [Clone Takeover] skill and notice, Ren and Levia are arguing.
I just sigh and let them do so.
When Ren notices something, she looks away and plugs Levia's mouth with her hand. "Could you shut your hole for once."
Levia then pushes her away. "Hey!"
Ren then warily observes someone hiding behind a pillar. It is a little girl peeking. "Who is that child? She gives me a bit of chills."
I notice it's just Vera. It's the first time I saw her entering the Silver Temple where I can't help but be curious. "Vera, what are you doing here?"
"My name is Valkeryun!" She says strongly. "The only one who can call me Vera is Vermil."
However, when we notice her, she regrets it and shuts her mouth. Even hiding more so than before.
"No wonder, I felt weird. She's Valkeryun, huh? I had her inside my stomach from before." Ren says weirdly until I remember the whole event.
Yeah, back then when Vermil caught her while she was in ghoul form with her black coffin skill, she summoned Valkeryun.
"I see, so that girl is your child. No wonder she is annoying." Levia adds.
Ren puts up a smug while crossing her arms, "people who know nothing should just shut up."
"Why you!" Levia growls.
They stop arguing when Vera calls out to Ren. "Don't tell me that you were the ghoul who hid me in your core for a hundred years?"
Ren puts her attention to Vera. "I'm impressed that you remember."
Vera tightens her sight to her. "How can I? I'll pay you back someday, dragon born!"
Ren sighs. "We just had a different circumstances Vera. What a problematic child you are."
"You are the one to talk." I say directly to Ren in which she replies with her tongue sticking out.
Even if they are annoying, at least they will keep me entertained for a while.