The First Legendary Beast Master -
Chapter 1295: Deve Challenges
Dana bumped against Karl’s side. “Are we ready to head back?”
Karl shook his head. “Deve went in to challenge the dungeon.”
Dana frowned. “That’s probably a bad idea. The first boss needs a lot of damage to take out. Deve is tough, but he’s not a high damage build. He might end up stuck at the first boss until he exhausts himself, and then it will be up to his instincts whether he can survive to the exit.”
Karl nodded. “Well, it was his choice to enter, and I wasn’t going to stop him. We will just have to see how he does. If you’re in a hurry, I’m sure that we will find out later.”
“Not so big of a hurry that we can’t wait thirty minutes to see how Deve fares in a solo challenge. Especially since it’s Deve. Are there any others in the dungeon now?” She asked.
“Not that I know of, but there might be some regular teams inside.”
The gate guards shook their heads. “Everyone was waiting for your group to come back out, so they could find out if there really was a hard mode. But none of us expected that it would be another challenge mode.”
“Yeah, that’s a bit of a tough one. But if you send one challenger and a healer who can do some damage, they can do the duo mode, and it isn’t quite as insane as the challenge against Carnage.” Karl suggested.
Dana chuckled. While it was true that the Fallen Seraphim were terrifying with their dark energy attacks and intimidation effect, Carnage was an absolute beast in single combat, and that was what she had deployed to deal with the bosses.
“So, is the Darklight Host a Mercenary Guild, then?” One of the Mythic Warriors asked, seeing potential in the ability to hire rare specialty classes.
Dana shook her head. “We’re a crafting guild, and we run a combat arena near the city centre, on the outskirts. We’re better known for our crafted items than for our Dungeon skills, but we have gotten lucky with a few and found hard modes embedded in them.”
Karl took off his bracelets and held them up so that the crowd could see that he had made them.
They were both Totem Rank, Epic Grade items, and clearly informed anyone who inspected them that they were made by Karl.
“I can see why that is what people would remember about you. Those stats are drool worthy. Do you sell them?” The warrior asked.
Karl shook his head. “The good stuff doesn’t go on the open market. The Immortal Regent asked us not to go too wild with the crafted items. But we make them for our Alliance members.”
A voice in the back laughed. “That’s just what he wants people to think he’s best known for. The Monster Man is going to terrify some challengers during next year’s Dungeon Duels. He’s just hit Mythic Rank, and he’s already one of the strongest duellists on the continent.”
That voice was familiar, Karl realized just a moment before Jerome stepped out of the crowd.
“Ah, Guild Leader Jerome. Good to see you again.” Karl greeted him.
“No longer Guild Leader. The Guild stripped my position after our duel.”
A few of the other warriors stared at him in shock. “Wait, you’re saying that this man, the craftsman, is the one who defeated you in an above Rank duel?” A voice in the back asked.
“That’s right. The Monster Man lives up to his name. I hear that he also defeated Carnage in a solo duel against the Dungeon Boss, and you just saw him complete a single challenge of the entire Fallen Seraphim Dungeon.
I heard a rumour that the reason we can’t challenge for multiple Mythic Dungeons next year is because he reached Mythic Rank, and the Mayor was afraid that he would simply take every dungeon that was within walking distance of his Alliance House.” Jerome agreed.
Karl considered pointing out that the decision was made by the Immortal Regent, but that likely wouldn’t help his case. Some of these guys would not be happy about the ‘no second chances’ policy.
Many suspected that Jerome’s words had more than a bit of truth. Anyone who could duel Carnage would be a real threat to the Dungeon Challenges. However, faced with such a large crowd, and the chance that they might not win the challenge if they did want to do anything to Karl, nobody was going to air such grievances today.
It was a little over half an hour before Deve came back out again, covered in sweat and still healing, but looking pleased with himself.
“Two Epic items in a single run. Good ones too.” He declared.
Nobody but Karl and Dana were from his Alliance, so they wouldn’t ask him about the details. Just knowing what sort of loot you could get was enough.
Two Mythic Rank Epic Grade items in a single day was enough that anyone who could do it would consider doing this dungeon alone at least once a week. But what they didn’t realize was that Deve had an Epic Grade Immortal Rank weapon, and ever since Karl arrived, he had been swapping out his equipment to maximize damage, as he had [Limited Invulnerability].
He might be a tank specialized build, but his actual equipment was pure damage.
Even then, he had struggled to do enough damage to the bosses that he could get them down in a reasonable amount of time. For an average five-person group, this was a fifteen-minute run. It had taken him three times that. The fact he managed it was impressive, but it still meant that his damage output was only twice the average Mythic damage dealer’s, even with all his gear.
He was going to need to find a few more specialty skills to bump up his damage so that he could keep doing these challenges.
Relying entirely on gear wasn’t going to do it, and he had gotten a few excellent skills from Karl now. But that still wasn’t enough.
However, he did owe a rather large favour for the Epic Grade Tiger transformation. Those claws really tore the Fallen Seraphim up.
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