The next day I gathered my party members for the climb and distributed the items I had crafted, including Laevateinn.
After that…
“Everyone, stay on your guard as we don’t know how difficult this boss-monster-level trial will be. If things go south, I’ll use the Power of Exit to pull us out.”
“Understood.”
“Phew, the Ninetieth Floor. I’m getting nervous.”
We immediately prepared for the next trial.
The trial of the Ninetieth Floor.
I had a rough idea of what to expect.
Since every trial up to the Eighty-ninth Floor had featured a dragon matching a specific attribute, it was certain that some kind of dragon would appear on the Ninetieth Floor as well.
‘And that identity is likely the most powerful existence among dragons. I suspect it might be an Elder Dragon.’
I wondered if it would be the Elder Dragon, the Rank 10 Boss Monster that had appeared in the United States.
No, in fact, I was imagining something even greater.
Based on my experience on the Eighty-ninth Floor, the Red Dragon that appeared there was already as powerful as a Rank 10 monster from the Tower.
So, would a similar Rank 10 monster appear on the Ninetieth Floor, which was a boss-monster-level trial?
There was no way.
No matter how I thought about it, the Tower wouldn’t be that easy.
After giving everyone a warning…
[The Ninetieth Floor trial is beginning.]
I started the trial.
The field of the Ninetieth Floor wasn’t particularly strange.
It was a vast plain.
Aside from the high mountain range visible in the distance, it was an incredibly ordinary field with nothing special about it.
Soon after, the name of the trial appeared.
[Floor 90: Dragon’s Master]
“Dragon’s Master?”
“I told you it would be an Elder Dragon! It’s definitely an Elder Dragon this time.”
In the trials so far, the Lord of the Sky had featured a Wing Dragon, and the Master of Poison had featured a Poison Dragon.
But “Dragon’s Master”? It was an incredibly arrogant name for a trial.
Upon seeing the name, Douglas was certain an Elder Dragon would appear, but my thoughts were completely different.
Douglas was likely obsessed with the Elder Dragon because of his memory of being brutally defeated by one.
However, for someone like me who had consumed all sorts of fantasy novels and games, while an Elder Dragon was powerful, it wasn’t exactly a “master” of dragons.
Just as the name suggested, it was an ancient dragon — an old dragon.
The concept was different from being the master of all dragons.
Generally, when one spoke of a master of dragons…
‘The Dragon Lord.’
The monarch of dragons.
The king of dragons.
That was the first name that came to mind.
A moment later, the dragons that were the protagonists of this trial began to appear over the distant mountains.
“Look at that! It’s an Elder Dragon!”
Just as Douglas said, the dragons that appeared were ancient dragons known as Elder Dragons.
They had massive bodies, wide wings, and long beards.
In particular, thanks to absorbing magical power for a long time, their magical power flowed out more intensely than that of most archmages.
They were clearly powerful beings.
For a moment, I wondered if I had been wrong, but…
“Wait, what?”
“There’s more than one Elder Dragon…?”
There wasn’t just one.
Two Elder Dragons revealed themselves to the left and right.
I wondered if the trial was to face two of them, but even that wouldn’t have been a problem.
Even an Elder Dragon was only at the level of a Rank 10 Boss Monster.
My current party could easily handle that.
The problem was the existence that appeared between the two Elder Dragons a moment later, looking even more powerful.
“What on earth is that…?”
Its size was even larger than the Elder Dragons.
Its magical power was so thick it seemed to materialize, shrouding the sky.
The Dragon Fear radiating from its body was enough to make even my party members and me — who had been unaffected until now — feel a chilling sense of dread.
The identity of that dragon was…
“The Dragon Lord.”
Just as I had predicted, it was the Dragon Lord.
True to its title as the monarch of dragons, countless other dragons began to follow it over the mountains.
There were sub-species like Wyverns and Drakes, as well as lower dragons like the Wing Dragons and Poison Dragons we had seen in previous trials.
Even the four elemental dragons, said to be the strongest among their kind, were there.
A relentless number of dragons covered the earth and the sky.
“Damn! Does this even make sense?”
“This difficulty is… absurd.”
It wasn’t that dragons hadn’t appeared in groups during previous trials.
There were many cases where several dragons appeared consecutively in a single trial.
However, to see this many dragons led by a Dragon Lord and two Elder Dragons was different.
The difficulty was high enough to make me doubt if this trial was even clearable.
But…
“We have the Power of Exit, so let’s fight as much as we can first. Please give it your all.”
We couldn’t back down here.
Since I could use the Power of Exit if necessary, I steeled my heart to face them.
All the party members had experienced my Power of Exit before, so they fought with the belief that we could leave the Tower immediately if the situation turned dangerous.
Amidst the situation where countless dragons were flying toward us, radiating Dragon Fear… even though we weren’t consumed by fear, our bodies were stiffening in response to the pressure, making it hard to move.
The first one to move was…
-Step!
It was the Berserker, Park Kang-chul.
Holding the Laevateinn I had just given him, he charged fiercely toward the dragons.
An EX-grade item.
Among them, a god-class item that was particularly difficult to make: Laevateinn.
Atop that greatsword, the characteristic flames of doom of the Laevateinn surged.
On top of that…
-Ssssss
The power of the Berserker dwelled within it.
Through the Berserker’s ability to manipulate blood, thick blood flowed into the Laevateinn.
Then, the blood merged with the Laevateinn’s fire, creating a blood flame that burned even redder and more viscously.
‘To think it would be used in that way.’
This was something even I, the one who had delivered the Laevateinn to the Berserker, hadn’t anticipated.
The Laevateinn’s ability was to summon the fires of hell instead of an Attack Aura.
To think he would add his own ability to create a blood flame.
However, I didn’t know what kind of power the blood flame held.
Now that it had become a blood flame instead of the flames of doom, the abilities of the Laevateinn I knew must have changed.
“Graaaaaah!”
The Berserker then attacked a Wing Dragon flying toward him at the very front.
Even if a Wing Dragon’s physical abilities were considered lower among dragons, it was still a proper dragon that had been quite difficult to deal with on the Eighty-first Floor.
-Slice!
The Berserker cut down that Wing Dragon in a single strike.
Even if the Laevateinn’s attack power easily surpassed that of the Excalibur, this level of power was incredible.
It seemed the blood flame itself possessed the power to massively increase attack strength.
“Graaaaaaaagh!”
Next, the Berserker encountered a creature called an Earth Dragon.
It was a dragon that crawled along the ground with vestigial wings.
That creature was also a proper dragon, distinct from a Drake, and was one of the dragons specialized in physical strength.
The Berserker swung the Laevateinn at it.
The Berserker was flung back quite a distance after exchanging blows with the dragon, but the blood flame continued to burn relentlessly in the dragon’s deep wound.
The blood flame did not go out, even when the dragon manifested magical power or rolled its body on the ground.
That blood flame greedily burned through the dragon’s veins, and it was only after the battle with the Berserker ended that the dragon finally died with its entire vascular system incinerated.
Seeing the Berserker rampage as he grew stronger with every wound he took…
“Are you just going to stand there and watch? We have to attack now!”
“For now, the Berserker’s combat power seems the highest, so we’ll move in to support him!”
“I’ll provide support!”
“Saintess! Focus on buffs and defensive support rather than attacking!”
“I understand.”
Our party’s morale began to boil over.
Seeing the Berserker slaughtering dragons, it was impossible for our spirits not to rise.
The Saintess and Cheongryong cast buffs, while Douglas flew around to distract the dragons’ vision and strike at their openings.
Cheon Seung-heon fired arrows to bring down the dragons in the sky, while the Sword Saint and the Berserker finished them off.
When the Spirit Emperor and the Lightning Caster prepared and unleashed powerful spells…
“Rumble!”
The dragons began to be cleared away rapidly.
It was an astonishing display of combat power, even to my eyes.
Among them, the one who stood out the most besides the Berserker was…
“Gravity. It’s quite convenient, isn’t it? The dragons are nicely distributed like a staircase.”
It was the Shadow King.
Using her own abilities and the power of the Dokkaebi Gamtu, she had already reached the Dragon Lord and the two Elder Dragons, who were flying slowly at the very rear.
Her stealth was so superior that even the two Elder Dragons guarding the Dragon Lord failed to notice her as she passed right in front of them.
“I heard from my Master that this was originally a ‘dagger that plucked the heart of an evil dragon’?”
The Shadow King drew Ridill.
Then, she poured all her skills into a strike aimed at the Dragon Lord’s Reverse Scale.
“Doesn’t it suit the situation perfectly?”
-Thrust!
“Groooooaaaarrrr—!!”
Struck in the Reverse Scale by Ridill, the Dragon Lord let out a screaming roar.
The Shadow King was flung back by the massive amount of magical power that immediately erupted, but she used that force to fly through the air, slice the wing of a nearby Elder Dragon, and land safely.
My party members rushed in, seizing the opportunity.
The dragons swarmed to stop them.
Meanwhile, I also began production.
[Activating Crafting Skill.]
I quickly crafted a cannon and loaded a pre-made shell into it.
“Boom!!”
A shell made from SS-Class Materials could inflict proper damage even on a Rank 10 Boss Monster.
As long as I fired it at the right moment and at the right location, I could provide great help in battle.
Alternatively, I could use shells imbued with wide-range abilities to clear out the dragons rushing toward my party members.
Furthermore…
[Shell of Doomsday Flames]
This was the “Red Dragon’s Breath” left over after making the Laevateinn.
Using that material — which had been too small and its power too scattered to make an actual item — to the fullest, I launched the shell at the Dragon Lord.
The shell struck the Dragon Lord’s head with pinpoint accuracy just as it was gathering its breath to incinerate those annoying bugs.
“Kaboom—!!”
A massive explosion erupted along with incredible flames.
From the Dragon Lord’s perspective, it had no choice but to feel a shock no different from taking a Red Dragon’s fire breath directly to the face.
There were many dragons, and the Dragon Lord was more powerful than expected.
The fierce battle continued accordingly.
The Sword Saint was flung back after being struck by the Dragon Lord’s tail, and the breath exhaled by the Dragon Lord occasionally pierced through the shields to hit Cheongryong and the Saintess.
Attacks that could have been fatal if not for the SSS-grade armor sets I had made came flying in succession.
Even as I fired the cannon, I continued to watch the battlefield, ready to use the Power of Exit at any moment.
Fortunately, however, the party members fought better than I had imagined.
“Thump!”
Eventually, we succeeded in bringing the Dragon Lord crashing to the ground.
Premium Chapter
Login to buy access to this Chapter.
Hey the leviathan sword specs is missing. Did it get missed during translating
No the specs of the sword are not missing, the author had only not mentioned its specifics exclusively only a little info have been provided .