The quarter are walking on a path that looks like the inside of a cave. They seem exhausted though their stats are in peak condition strengthened by the Bloodline.
[You can rest in the passage. This is the safe zone. There's no need to keep moving. Turning back will let you exit this dungeon.]
Flint stops and sighs, "Thank God, we've got time to rest." His party sits down resting their backs on the wall. He looks back and sees the space distorts showing the outside world, to the left is another space showing the 1st and 2nd floors. "Looks like this pathway connects to the other floors, we can go to the previous floors whenever we want."
Chuck shrugs, "All that matters is that we can leave this insanely difficult dungeon easily." A space opens before him as snacks fall from it, snacks from Universe 1. They seem to be 'rations' for this party, he tosses some to his friends as the take the wrappers off and dig in.
Aella wipes her mouth, "The boss of the 2nd floor is very powerful. I'm certain it would have taken more than 20 high rank adventurers to defeat it."
Aku raises a brow, "Aren't we high rank?"
Aella chuckles, "We're beyond that. High rank is for B and A ranks, so they need more of them to beat the boss."
Flint smiles, "That just shows how powerful we've got. Also, the boss looked a lot like the statues outside. I think it's safe to assume that those statues are the bosses, meaning there's about 117 floors more." They all sigh.
Aku hugs her knees, "I'm starting to understand why Twenny said we shouldn't push ourselves and stop if it gets too hard." Aku, Chuck and Flint look down on the floor.
Flint raises his head, "Even if Teacher says so, I think we can still beat this dungeon." He makes a fist. Chuck nods his head with a grin.
Aella looks at them, she tilts her head. "Ummm, you guys know that people don't clear dungeons on their first try, right?" The trio freeze, Aella facepalms, "Seriously. *Sighs* I'm sure Princess Twenny meant we could take a break and continue later. Not going until we reach the end, and that's 117 floors. Seriously, won't that take us years to accomplish?" she slumps back on the wall. The trio's face turn red.
The quartet continue down the path after resting, as the walk the space around them distorts with a bright light. The open their eyes to find themselves in a bamboo forest. The quartet look around in amazement.
Aku admires the beauty, "I've never seen trees like these before. Their so long, it's so beautiful."
Aella smiles, "I've seen these trees before. There are on eastern continent in mountainous places, I think." She smiles wryly, "It seems the dungeon can not only replicate the land but also the sky and sun. I wonder if we'd hit a roof if we flew up?"
[NOTICE: All skills and hidden effects have been rendered unusable. All weapons are unusable and kept in the inventory.]
"WHAT?!" they exclaim and their weapons vanish from their hands.
Flint looks at his hands, he looks up. "System, what is the meaning of this?"
[This floor has conditions which denies the use of EP. Having the advanced form of the skill 'ENERGY MANIPULATION' can allow internal usage of EP but will be extremely limited.]
Chuck feels like his world is crumbling down, "If we can't use EP, how will we fight the monsters?"
Aku tabs his shoulders, "I think it's the same for the monsters. Our physical stats and stamina are the same, so I think we still have the advantage."
Flint nods, "Sis is right, I doubt this dungeon would be so unfair. It's probably like some puzzle we have to solve before we can use our EP. But what to do?"
Aella signals them, "Guys, you should see this." The quartet appeared on a cliff and below them is a valley and the entire place is a mountain top. At the center of the valley is a temple, a shaolin temple.
A path leads down to the temple with a gate there, no doors. After the gate is a courtyard with people made of sand practicing martial arts. *YAAGHH HYAAA YAAAGH* After the yard is the temple's first floor, which has these sand people fighting stone dummies as practice. On the second floor, the ground is filled with hot rocks at the center with 8 of these sand people meditating. On the third and final floor is the boss.
The boss is a bulky figure but not human, it has a humanoid figure but with the head of a cockerel but with white comb and eyes. It has a long tail like a lion with the feet of a bear wearing a black robe. There's a silver bow before him, he taps it with a rod at a time interval.
Aku looks at the land, "Sand people. Better than monsters." The rest nod, they start to descend down the cliff with caution. They can't heal if they get hurt.
After walking for a while, they reach the gate. The sand people stop and turn to them. A screen appears before the party.
[INFORMATION MAGIC DISPLAY
Name: Unnamed
Race: Sand Higharch (Fake)
Level: 45 (SSS)
HP: 400
EP: --
SoP: --
Strength: 270
Endurance: 320
Agility: 470
Intelligence: 330
Wisdom: 720
END]
Chuck is shocked, "What? I thought we couldn't use skills."
[You can't, I can.]
Chuck frowns, "So unfair." The Sand people start running to them, one jumps and makes a dropkick. The party evades and counters them fighting back.
Flint blocks and punches a sand man blasting him 20 meters away. Flint is surprised, "What? I barely hit him. Are they that weak?"
[The mob on this floor are made with similar physique to normal humans.]
Chuck throws a sand man over the gates, "So they're like normal people with high and multiple attacks. We can do th- " *BAANG* A punch lands on Chuck's face throwing him back 10 meters.
Flint looks at him, he turns and grits his teeth. "Careful everyone, if we can hit hard so can they." They get on with the martial arts brawl fighting over a 100 sand people at the courtyard alone, some seem to be coming from the sides of the temple.
...............…
Far far away, away from this universe. We come across a battlefield, with bullets and missiles flying over it. Soldiers in white, green and red armor are fighting strange beings. The strange beings are retreating but the soldiers want to kill every last one of them.
At the forefront of the battle is the same boss monster as seen in the dungeon but he's in a black armor. He runs across the battle field and jump kick a giant robot into the air, he jumps up and punches it towards the strange beings. A soldier appears before him, "Lord Wanwansi, they've got an escape ship and are planning to leave the planet!" The soldier points at the ship in the sky. The ship is about 1.3 kilometers in size.
Wanwansi looks at the soldier, "Continue wiping them out, I'll handle the ship." The ship is as big as a city with big big guns mounted on it. There're strange short pillars scattered on the battlefield, these are Energy Disrupters, they prevent anyone from using EP.
Wanwansi bends down then leaps with great force towards the ship. The ship fires laser beams at him, Wanwansi turns and steps on the laser beam and jumps even higher to the clouds. He passes the clouds and the ship. He looks down at the ship. "No one leaves here alive."
He dives down with a kick *BOOOOOM* he crashes into the ship as it falls from the sky with multiple explosions *BOOOM BOOOOM BOOOOM*. Wanwansi is walking through the fallen ship, he stands before a door. He pulls the door apart and enters it seeing these strange beings with 8 eyes on their heads like a crown, an arm behind them and long nose like an elephant.
The group shivers before Wanwansi, he looks to his left to see children of these beings. He raises a foot and crush their heads, he goes on to rip them apart as cries fill the room. In the background, a rocket flies up and hits one of the Energy Disrupters allowing them access to EP again. The soldiers start to use spells and skill slaughtering the strange beings.
A squad of 3 in green arrives in the room Wanwansi is, "Lord Wanwansi." The soldier's helmet open to show a human male, "We've located all the Energy Disrupters. Squad 7 is destroying them." His squad points their guns at the strange beings and start to fire at them killing the remaining.
Space ripples as a soldier in red appears, the helmet opens to show a female elf. She stretches, "Lord Wanwansi, all enemy ships have been grounded. Lord Fortito(42) has engaged the enemy reinforcements in space."
Wanwansi turns to them with a grin, "Good job men, eradicate all remaining ene- " His eyes glow, "Looks like they passed the second floor." He turns to the elf soldier in red, "Shannae, lead the other red core soldiers and sabotage any defenses they might make." He turns to the soldier in green, "Captain G-702, lead the soldiers and kill all survivors." The soldiers salute and get to work.
Wanwansi jumps breaking the roof, he's covered in a blue light then moves like light into space. He arrives before a giant ship with EDF written on it, it opens and he steps inside. He walks to a corner as the soldiers salute him, he sits down and googles and controllers appear in his hands. "Let's see how the little ones do without EP." He wears the googles.