The blood trickled from Sebastian's forehead as he retreated behind the fallen building avoiding another deadly stick from the mantis’s raptorial arms.
Damn, it. How did he end like this?
Yesterday morning he sneaked out of this sect and headed to the thunder sect with his big apprentice sister, intending to get revenge on that bastard Alex. He couldn’t forget what he did to him.
But who knew that the entire sect was closed by some kind of a formation that forbade entry. He couldn't even see what was going on inside. There was not even one guard outside, he didn't understand what was going on.
Did that bastard see him coming? No impossible. Something fishy was happening here.
After waiting for three days, No one came in or out. So Sebastian and his sister decided to enter and have a look. They used a talisman that was given to them by their master to break a hole in the formation wall. Just a small hole.
But who knew that the next moment the entire formation broke like shattered glass. And all hell broke loose.
Inside, he could see the ruins of what appeared to be a major sect with creatures looking like mantises feasting on a mountain of corpses.
At that moment Sebastian realized what he had done.
DUNGEON CREATION FAILED MANTIS DUNGEON WAS BROKEN EMERGENCY MISSION TO ALL PLAYERS IN THE PERIPHERAL KILL THE MANTISES 0/651 TIME 9 DAYS 23 HOURS 59 MINUTES 57 SECONDS FAILURE PUNISHMENT: DEATH |
What! A dungeon can break out? Did he do it?
Why did a dungeon break out here of all places? He didn't know. But now he was bound by his mission.
After hesitating for a moment he sent a message to his master. Then quickly began to fight the mantises with his sister using the Arachne slayer’s Spear. This thing was super effective against insects.
That day when he regained his consciousness he was already outside of the dungeon. Thankfully he marked the spear with his blood, so the system threw it beside him when exiting the dungeon.
“Little Sebi, Target the heads, and watch out for the arms,” She warned him, his big apprentice sister, despite being younger than him, always knew better.
They hoped help would come soon. If those things reached civilization it would be their responsibility.
Sadly for them, after fighting for one night, the mantises seemed to have realized that they were not his opponents, so a few of them decided to leave the area.
“I will stay here, You follow them,” His sister told him sternly as she ripped off the head of another mantis with her hands.
So he quickly followed the escaping monsters. He discovered that they were following the commands of a giant mantis that seemed to have some camouflage skill. This was the king, it was leading them. so after finishing the small fries off, he began to attack it.
This thing was a boss leveled character. Thankfully it couldn’t fly, so the fight was somewhat possible.
The bad news is that it reached Silver Lightning city, and began to fight Sebastian using the buildings as covers, and civilians as tonics. It kept regenerating as it attacked and devoured some poor souls.
Many police officers tried to engage it but ended up losing their lives. Bullets were ineffective against its metallic exoskeleton.
This is going to be a mess. He cursed, No degree of media blackout can cover it. The player's counsel would surely punish whoever was responsible. So he should finish this mission quickly and escape.
At this moment the Mantis King struck him again from behind. So Sebastian used the spear to defend. But that thing spat a ball of a slimy green substance at him.
Sebastian stepped to the side, making the slime hit a building behind him, where it began to melt the concrete and release brown fumes.
Damn it, this thing was strong. But there's hope. Sebastian could see that his spear was leaving visible damage. So he pressed on.
The fight lasted another hour, in which more buildings were flattened to the ground until the King mantis was slain at last after its stamina ran out. All the people seemed to have fled so it had no more materials to regenerate.
Sebastian quickly used his storage ring to take the corpse, then escaped to meet with his big sister. Hopefully, she was fine.
They must finish the rest of those guys before the time runs out.
…….
“Reporting from Silver lightning City. As you can see, there was extensive damage to the buildings. As for the casualties, about 150 were reported dead, while 900 were injured. We still do not have the full image here.”
“Do we know what that thing was?”
“No data yet, but a spokesperson of the government has stated that it might have something to do with the bio lab in the mountains. They said that they would send an investigation team.” T
“And the kid who was fighting it.”
“We don’t know, as the footage showed he was wearing a mask.”
“Why is he fighting it?”
“Maybe he has some insect fetish, we are not clear yet.”
“He was shooting fireballs from his hands.”
“Yes, we believe that it has to be some kind of a new bio thermal weapon.”
“Are you shitting me? Do you think I am blind? This was definitely a fireball like the one in Video games. What thermal weapons nonsense. My mother was killed yesterday, and you still order us to hide the tr….”
P Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Pp……
“We are experiencing some technical error, our broadcast will return shortly.”
Theodore frowned as he turned off the TV on the plane.
“The thunder sect would be investigated after this.” He told Victor who was sitting opposed to him.
“I will tell Alex to cooperate,” Victor responded.
“No need. Only George and I knew about him, so just let him stay low for now. But I expect you to interrogate him about this, and I want you to report everything to me.” He said.
“Understood,” Victor replied with a sigh. Theodore sighed too, as he looked at Victor then at Iris and Aria who was sitting nervously in the back.
“What happens now?” Lily who was sitting with Victor in the same seat asked with concern,
“It’s a mess. The council has ordered a blackout, but no one knows how to implement it. Too many people died, and there is a lot of footage of those things. We don’t even know what happened. This is the first time those things have been spotted outside a dungeon.” Theodore said.
“I guess they would fabricate some crazy story that no one would believe at first, then keep bombarding the media with experts one after another until it is old news,” Victor said,
“Exactly, but we have more trouble, apparently there were some people who managed to kill a small mantis. One of them managed to awaken and began to tell his friends about the system. This is far from over.” Theodore said, then frowned and began to contemplate. Victor knew exactly what his father was thinking about. Can this be used as an awakening method?
“What if a similar incident happened later again,” Victor said, he clearly knew that this was the beginning.
But he felt strange, where did the mantis come from, this incident did not happen in his past life. In fact, It was a similar incident that would happen about two months later when goblins would attack a tourist spot. It was the case of a dungeon that remained undiscovered for years bursting open.
“Let’s hope nothing like that happens,” Theodore said, not realizing that Victor was secretly informing him about what was going to happen in the future.
…
“All dead?” An old man asked a masked woman with a curvy body.
“Yes, Little Sebi went chasing after the king, he should have killed it by now.” She said,
“Good, now you answer me, why did you defy my command and helped Sebastian come here? Didn’t I warn you not to?” He asked sternly.
“Ah…, I… You saw how devastated he was, he refused to tell me what that young master, Alex did to him, but I was sure it was really nasty as he would wake up in the middle of the night screaming and cursing. So I had to do something.” She said while keeping her head down.
“Hmm, He should be a man and get over it.” The old man said, just as a system Notification appears in front of his eyes
MISSION SUCCESS LEVEL UP. AUTHORITY +1 NEW SKILL |
“Oh, this is the first time I heard of a level up outside of a dungeon.” The master said with a frown as he checked his new status.
“Really!!” The girl also said in surprise.
“Did your family have any information about this?” He asked her.
“Not a lot, something like this happened 300 years ago. But not much information was available then due to the limited number of players.” She said with a frown.
“Well, whatever this is, things will change. Maybe it’s time for us to get ready. If the prophecy was correct, the day the world changes are nearing” He said before looking at his disciples searching the grounds and collecting the corpses.” Hurry up, we will have to leave in one hour.” He yelled, Those guys in the council should be on their way, and he didn’t want to meet them.
Akaichi, please invent a time machine for so I can skip ahead and read all of the future chapters. Thank you.
Does sebi's senior sister not know he's 30 otherwise it's wierd. I want to see her face when victor tells her that.
She knows. But she like teasing him.
@Akaichi she is not Hana ?
I think you should remove "failure punishment : death."
Sounds like Big Sis Apprentice is a Von Ricther like Alpha.
99% Maybe
Thanks for the chapter!
“I will tell Alex to corporate,” Victor responded.
corporate => cooperate
Theodore signed too
signed => sighed
Why would there even be a punishment from the system?
I get Viktor with his fake as system forcing people he has tricked to do things and if not, then punishment as his means of manipulation.
But this is a system encompassing everyone. Why would there be a failure penalty? Why should it be mandatory for people to involve themselves if they don't want to? What if everyone nearby wasnt up to par with the situation and was just unlucky to be there?
If anything the system ought to be impartial and maybe take the opportunity to get more players like the lucky kid. Since its only the status quo that wants to keep the system stuff secret.
Because he was the one that caused the dungeon to break
@Akaichi so Dungeons, which are pockets of spaces from other worlds isolated by the world Viktor is in. Meaning the world doesnt like these things coming out. but this chapter shows us its also a process that can be chanced upon(the creation of a dungeon) but how would that work?
The Thunder Sect was wiped out(presumably the mountain of corpses) during the dungeon formation. Meaning its not isolated and sealed before being placed somewhere in the world. But a process after it arrives at said world. How can the other dungeons be placed then? Are they just super old that have been there before people have congregated around them? If the world does the maintenance of the worlds dungeons then whats up with the future of monsters being the norm outside dungeons and people clearing them?(as in why do they stick around while others dont)
Sorry for the bombardment of questions
@Miami like the Von Rosen family is situated on a looming calamity. An SS ranked dungeon that will bust open in the future wiping them out as mentioned in previous chapters. Is the dungeon just that old to outlast the Von Rosens history at their location.
@Miami This ill be answered in the coming chapters. The dungeon was not created at the Thunder sect, it was always there.
@Akaichi oh.. It says 'Dungeon Creation Failed' in blue text.
Also do you have a discord?
@Miami Nope
@Miami you know, there is one thing that can answer all your question: fantasy. Afterall anything is possible in the realm of fantasy.