"…"
(It had been an half of a year…. They came back.) – thought the worried dungeon master as it observed the huge group of invaders making their way into the dungeon, while also spotting the group of the D rank adventures that once investigated the dungeon.
"…"
(These five…. They are too dangerous.)
(Back then, one of them was more than enough to completely deal with my golems back then…. My new ones…. Are strong…. But…)
"…"
(Can they win?)
(Was the reason why no golems were coming back anymore was their doing?)
(Not only that… But they are also not alone.)
(I'm in danger.)
"…"
"The dungeon…. It feels different…." – said the earth mage with backpack.
"Yea…. The corridors noticeable wider than before." – said the Adam companion with brown hair.
"…This is bad…"
"That dirt golem ambush last time was based on them pretending to be walls…"
"Yea, this is the biggest problem." – said the man with the backpack.
"…"
"Nope. I'm not picking up anything." – said the mage from the other D rank part.
"I'm not detecting any magic from the walls here… So, I think we are safe…. However, we also don't see any monsters yet- "
"!"
"Something is coming." – said the cat eared girl, alarming the entire group as they instantly got ready for the combat.
"Never mind then!" – said the mage.
"…"
"!"
An group of golems had emerged, confronting the adventures.
"!"
"Those are the original weaklings!" – said the Adam companion with the scar.
"Huh…. Then I guess that means that the dungeon stopped producing those." – said Mar as he took out his sword and shield before then stepping forward.
The long limbed puppets rushed forward, swinging around their arms and trying to slash or stab the man.
"[Shield Art: Block]." – But he did not faltered as he raised his shield and used weapon art, blocking the attacks and easily repelling them to the dungeon master shock.
"[Fire Ball]!" – the female mage caster her fire magic, hitting one of the long limbed puppets, pushing it back and giving the cat eared girl with daggers to rush in at the hit puppet, knocking the puppet further in, which in turn gave the spear wielding adventurer to rush in and swing around his spear, landing an hit on other two long limbed puppets and that combo resulted in the break of the golem formation, which in turn allowed the adventures to rush in and start attacking them.
However, it wasn't the end as the claw puppets appeared and started supporting the long armed puppets, making the situation now…..Dire…. To the adventurers…. Or so the dungeon master thought.
Dungeon master just stared dumbfounded as its puppets were being destroyed left and right.
Some adventurers were struggling, but before anything could really happened, one of the D rank adventurers would step up or few other E ranks would instead save the person in danger.
The long range attack range of the long limbed puppets.
And the claw puppets fingers attached with sword fragment, giving them somewhat boost in their slashing attacks…..
Both of these puppets types…. They were just destroyed with ease.
And the enemy side? There was still no casualties nor anybody had suffered any deadly wounds.
"…"
(No…. It is not over yet.) – thought the dungeon master.
(The trap will deal with them.)
Dirt golem wall trap.
An trap that had already catched off guard multiple people and caused their deaths.
Dungeon master was confident that the plan would work….. But it didn't.
The enemy was able to pinpoint the location of each dirt golem, attacking them and activating them before the enemy would enter the trap.
They dismantled the ambush trap with ease.
The dirt golems that were supposed to literally "crush" the invaders…. Were the ones that got crushed instead.
"…"
(ABONORMAL!)
Dungeon master knew that something was wrong.
IT was no longer weak!
ITS dungeon was no longer weak!
ITS monsters were no longer weak!
…
"SO, WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL WAS GOING ON?!"
Dungeon master realized something was going. Well, how could it not?!
But it didn't understood!
"IT SHOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE!"
And yet here! Once again, just like in the past, the adventurers were having "easy" time, something that should be not possible.
"…"
(No…. It's their doing.)
Even though the dungeon master was panicking, it quickly realized that specific people among the group were the ones that truly "destroyed everything".
D ranks.
When it comes down to strength of the monsters, the difference in ranks between G, F and E are small…. However, what about ranks after? Such as D?
Well, this is the territory where each rank NOW has extremely noticeable difference in powers.
And the dungeon master was now seeing it as its E rank monsters were getting destroyed by these adventurers.
"…"
(This is bad! This is very bad!)
(All of my golems! Every single one that I had prepared for the defense! My army!)
(This should be not possible! The preparations were perfect!)
(THE DUNGEON CANNOT BE HUNTED!)
"…"
(And yet….. No!)
(NO!)
Fear and despair.
Something that the dungeon master had forgotten, something it had walked past it, something it thought it had overcame.
It was all returning…. All at once.
It had thought that if the "predators" would ever came back, the one that would be hunted down would be them…. But it didn't changed…. It didn't changed at all.
They were making they way deeper into the dungeon…. Nonstop.
"…"
"Huh… There is…. Really a lot of them…. Eh?" – said the tired cat girl as she wiped off the sweat off her face.
"Yea…. There is a lot…. I think it was an good that we attacked now and not later, before more of these monsters would had manifested." – said Mar.
(Still, even though we worked up some sweat, we still have yet to suffer any loses.)
(Some people were injured, but thanks to the healers, nobody is out of commission either.)
(We are making an perfect progress.)
(…)
(Still, I wonder about the dungeon break.)
(Guild master said that there is an possibility of an outside party involvement…. He also suspected the dungeon master, but how would dungeon master scheme anything when all of its monsters were being hunted down each time?)
(….)
"What do you think about guild master theory?"
"Hm…. Don't know." – said Tomasz.
"I gave it some thought…. And I kind of didn't get it."
"I mean, think about it. Who would benefit from this?"
"Well… A lot of people." – said Mar.
"Maybe the lord of the territory has some enemies and they want to hinder him."
"Or maybe there are some bandits that wants to cause trouble in order to create an opening to steal stuff…."
"…"
"There is also an chance that something like an hostile nation would aim to destroy the dungeons in order to slow down the growth of soldiers and adventurers while also reducing sources of incomes for the kingdom as whole."
"Oh…. So, there are reasons…. Welp, we can really think about it later if I'm being honest." – said Tomasz.
"For now, we need to confirm if there was really anybody in the dungeon." – said the adventurer before then getting up.
"Hey! We should start getting ready to moving soon!"
"Those who have problems speak up now!"
"If no, then in a second we will be moving again."
"Also watch yourself." – added Mar.
"We should be soon reaching the dungeon master room…. And nobody knows what we will dealing with."
"So keep your guard up."
After the short break had ended, the adventurers had resumed their dungeon conquest…. And once again they were able to just break through anything.
No matter how many monsters, no matter how many traps, it just didn't worked.
And after a while, all of the monsters that were standing in their way had been eliminated, allowing the group to finally reach the dungeon master room.
"…Think this is dungeon master room?" – asked the D rank adventurer with a spear as he started walking forward.
"I think so." – said Mar.
"!"
"STOP!" – shouted the D rank mage.
"?!"
"Enemy?!" – asked the spearman.
"Yea…. They are waiting right next to the entrance… They have bit more mana…. I think it maybe an dungeon master." – said the mage.
"And by the looks of things it is preparing for the ambush."
"…"
"Let me." – said Mar as he stepped forward and started leading the group.
"…"
"…"
"!"
As soon as Mar entered the dungeon master room, an long sword was swung straight at him, but Mar was ready as he raised up his shield, blocking the attack.
"!?"
(Blocked?!) – thought the dungeon master before the backed away as more adventurers started pouring into the room.
"!"
"So that is the dungeon master, eh?" – said Tomasz as the adventurers saw the real body of the dungeon master.
The current dungeon master looked completely different to its "butchered" and "experimented" form, it was now an solid form that somewhat looked similar to its original long limbed form.
Its body was noticeable bigger and longer while also now having bit thicker appearance.
The claws of the creatures were also now much more dangers looking, while its knuckles were equipped with blade shards as well as its fingers and even its toes, giving the creature an improved version of its claws.
Not only that, but it was also using the long sword that once belonged to the man that almost killed the dungeon master.
"…."
"Wait…. HOLD UP A FUCKING SECOND!" – shouted the man with the scar.
"WHY DOES IT HAS THAT?!"
"?"
"What are you on about?" – asked the man with brown hair.
"THAT SWORD! THAT IS FUCKING ADAM SWORD!" – shouted the man with the scar.
"?"
"…"
"!?"
"WAIT, WHAT THE FUCK!?" – shouted the man with brown hair.
"…"
"One of the victims sword?" – asked Tomasz.
"NO!" – replied back brown haired man, confusing everybody in the room.
"Adam went missing over six months ago! Before the dungeon was even discovered in the first place!"
"That thing should not have his sword!"
"…"
(Was the guild master right?! Was Adam and Arthur party really murdered in the dungeon!?)
(….)
(But there was no way it could had been dungeon doing back then! It was too fucking weak!)
"Shit…. I think the theory about the murderer maybe true then… Somebody must had killed Adam back then inside the dungeon…."
"…"
"Then I guess the situation is really complicated." – said Mar.
"And this isn't all." – said Mar as the group noticed that the dungeon master was not alone at all, as several golems stepped forward, confronting the adventurers.
"LISTEN UP YOU ALL!" – shouted Mar on top of his lungs in order to be heard by every single person in the dungeon.
"THE JOB IS SIMPLE!"
"ELIMINATE ALL THE MONSTERS EXPECT FOR THE DUNGEON MASTER!"
"PIN HIM DOWN!"
"AND WATCH OUT FOR SOMEBODY UNKOWN! THERE IS AN CHANCE THAT SOMEBODY IS PULLING STRINGS BACK THE CORE ROOM!"
"YOU GOT IT YOU BASTARDS?!"
"THEN DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE DIE ON ME!"