The dragon opened his eyes and opened his mouth, water flowed inside his mouth as the Mind-Devouring Jellyfish that was on his head and was about to leave, but stayed after sensing he wake up, though the dragon was trying to gasping for air and that he would be in for a world of pain as the water would rush to his lungs and he would lose the small amount of air that he still had.

But after the initial moment passed, that one would feel they were breathing water and not air, the dragon kept breathing in water, much to the jellyfish's surprise. Was he trying to shorten the time he would be drowning? The jellyfish thought, but not a clear answer came to the hive minded creature after one second had passed.

The answer came with unexpected results as the dragon stopped inhaling water and instead of just drowning, the color of his scales changed from red to yellow and from yellow to blue, then he let out a roar that shook the water inside the entire room together with exhaling superheated water that evaporated into steam just as it left the mouth of the dragon with explosive force. Some of the Mind-Devouring Jellyfish that were in the direct path of the shockwave were killed by the sheer strength of it, the others received various degrees of injuries. The only jellyfish that got unharmed was the one on the back of the dragon's head, as the dragon took the full brunt of the shockwave.

What the Mind-Devouring Jellyfish had of mental power, they lacked in physical strength and resistance as their bodies were made almost entirely out of water. The pressure shockwave that formed when superheated water transformed into steam and expanded was enough to rip their bodies apart like a crumbling sand castle or severely damage them to the point of if they were left to their own devices they would die soon.

After that initial roar, the dragon took a look into his surroundings, completely oblivious to the one jellyfish that still was attached to its head. As his eyes scanned the underwater room, he spotted the few remaining jellyfishes that were injured and, without hesitation, opened his wings and with a powerful flap of his wings he was shot forwards like a bullet, closing the distance in mere seconds. The jellyfish had enough time to scream in their hive mind as the teeth larger than itself closed all around it. The last thing the hive mind saw from that one jellyfish was a blue light as it was swallowed whole into the dragon’s stomach.

The hive mind could only feel the fear as one of its members, one part of the collective’s mind suddenly vanished, even that initial roar that killed several of them and injured the rest didn’t come with this much of a shock as the suddenly hit was enough for them to completely miss the feeling of part of their minds going silent as their bodies died. The one attached to the dragon’s head strengthened its grip all the while hoping to not be detected as the hive mind tried to speak to the only person who could know why the dragon was able to move around even without his mind in control, the dragon himself.

What? What is this? How is this possible? They asked inside the dragon’s mind, but he was in what appeared to be a catatonic state inside the mental landscape they had built for him.

They looked around the memories they dug out of the dragon’s mind, trying to look to any clue as to what was happening and what they could do to stop the dragon that was still swimming in the water not gracefully using his body to lessen the drag of the water, but rather using movements that was pushing him with enough force to stop a truck and killing more and more of themselves. After searching for a while they had found the answer as to what was happening, but it wasn’t calming in the slightest but rather it was even more terrifying because they now knew there wasn’t anything they could do to stop the slaughter from happening. All the Mind-Devouring Jellyfish could do were mental attacks and use telepathy to create mental landscapes to trap its victims, but they were helpless against the dragon for the simply reason that the dragon didn’t had a mind at the moment, his actual mind was unresponsive inside the mental landscape, the thing that was controlling his body right now was one of his skills, [Instincts Overdrive].

They knew there wasn’t anything they could do now. So what they could do more mental attacks and break the dragon's mind even more? It wouldn’t change the final results in the slightest, not, that was a lie, the final result would change, without the original mind of the body, the skill wouldn’t have any resistance to do what it pleases, and their demise would only come quicker.

One by one, the jellyfish were killed. Devoured, slashed to pieces, and even ripped apart by the currents the dragon was creating just by moving around. And finally, the only one left of a total of a little more than two thousands jellyfish was the one still attached to the back of the dragon’s head, still hidden.

Without anything else in the room, the dragon began moving to the place where he felt the magicules being denser and soon enough reached a wall. Instead of stopping and trying to look for a door, the dragon kept going in the direction of the magicules, passing through a thin barrier that kept the water from spilling into the next room. The dragon dropped from the water into the ground and went inside the third room.

“Hello challenger, I’m your third trial. As you already have been tested on body, magic and will, I’ll be testing your mind” A creature that resembled a goblin spoke in the center of the room.

It was taller and not as ugly as a normal goblin, the same as the first one in the first trial. It was a hobgoblin and he was sitting in a stone chair, in front of him a stone table with a game that looked like chess on top of it, next to the table was another chair, for the challenger to sit.

The dragon stopped for a moment before looking around his surroundings.

“Don’t worry, I’ll explain the ru-...” The hobgoblin’s words were cut short as the dragon suddenly jumped to a random part of the room and slashed the air.

Blood suddenly sprayed in the walls from seemingly thin air and began dripping from the middle of the air. The hobgoblin in the center of the room looked in front of him with a shocked expression before disappearing, and in the place where the dragon slashed with his claw the figure of the hobgoblin appeared from thin air, deep lacerations in his torso. As he looked at his injuries and looked upwards at the dragon, the last thing it saw was the back of the dragon’s throat as he was cut in half by the force of the dragon’s mouth.

Without the monster managing the third trial, it was considered finished and a door in the opposite wall opened on its own. The dragon walked through them as a predator walks into a room full of prey, because passing through the doors was a city full of people.

The entire population of the floor lasted an hour and after that the only two creatures remaining in the dungeon floor were the dragon and the jellyfish that was still attached to him, too afraid to move and be noticed.

After leveling up a second time in quick succession, the dragon looked over to where the magicules were denser and saw a black gate appearing from the ground, slowly ascending like a DVD player ejecting the CD inside.

The dragon jumped from the rubble that once were a building and flew to the gate as it began to open. As the doors opened it revealed the next floor, a cave-like room with the body of a creature at least ten times the size of the dragon in the center of the room. It was motionless, but that didn’t matter to the dragon as he walked to the room and stopped, looking at where the creature’s head would be.

Near the creature’s body was a single humanoid figure. It had fur covering a good portion of its body with metal pieces on its torso that looked like a chestplate and around the places where each member connects with the torso, it had four limbs, each floating a few centimeters away from its torso, and with metal wrapped around where the fur didn’t cover, or better saying, it had fur where the metal pieces didn’t cover, a few blinking lights could be seen from those metal parts. It slowly turned to face the dragon, its face was covered by a glass looking material that one couldn’t see through, even the extremely wide spectrum dragons could see didn’t matter, there was a black panel behind the glass, as if it were an Earth’s monitor.

The reason why the dragon had entered the dungeon in the first place was now right in front of him, the arcadian hunter, and with a roar from the dragon, their battle began.