Hero of Darkness

Chapter 78: Army of the Dead

After settling his affairs with the magistrate and receiving a clean chit.. More like a bribe chit. Kahn visited his biggest harvest mine and his other half.. The Bromnir Dungeon.

Today, he was going to attempt the 14th floor of this dungeon. So far, this dungeon had given him a lot of resources, harvest and even plenty of his subordinates. And thanks to the later floors of this dungeon, his allies including Omega, Blackwall, Oliver & Ronin had undergone Evolution and reached Lord Rank with each floor he finished.

Also the extra subordinates he gained in the form of Legion raised his strength in numbers.

From the old records.. This dungeon contained only 15 floors. And Kahn had reached up to the 13th floor till now. Thanks to some sort of magical formation inside the dungeon, only those who successfully killed the previous floor bosses after the 10th-floor boss; let it be individually or in groups would be marked and allowed to enter the next floors. Otherwise, he'd have to have finish them again and again and also, anyone could raid on any floor as they pleased.

This sophisticated mechanism allowed only truly worthy to progress farther or else, this dungeon would've been ransacked decades ago.

But because of that, there were only fewer records available only till the 13th floor and not a single person had managed to enter the 14th floor in the past 20 or so years. So he was going in blind for the first time in his hunts.

Kahn entered the floor grounds and saw a scenery of night filled with black clouds and white moonlight shimmering and spread upon the black and completely withered trees. The ground, the leaves, the rocks were all black.

If not for the bright moon, one would not even be able to see the outlines of the surrounding.

A bone-chilling breeze passed by and Kahn and he let out a chattering noise of the teeth and felt a shiver in his body despite his defense being above 530 points.

Swish! Swish!

Two figures jumped out of his shadow and stood beside him.

"You know the drill." said Kahn to both Ronin & Oliver. His most effective & efficient subordinates when it came to gathering information or searching for enemies. Ronin had Shadow Shift, Stealth & Concealment skill while Oliver had Archer's sight, Silence Walk & Heat Sense skill which made both of them the best choices to do reconnaissance without getting noticed or found out by the enemies.

Kahn and his allies spread in 3 different directions and started looking for signs of living beings and any enemies they would need to fight.

After spending some time looking for enemies, Kahn had failed to notice anything worth considering as enemies. It felt as if the entire floor was some sort of abyss where everything was completely dark and had no living being here.

Oliver who had the farthest range and tracking skills also failed to find any enemies.

Suddenly, Kahn received an alert signal from Ronin who had now entered inside a cave and noticed few living beings.. Well, not actually living beings but something that was once alive... The undead.

In any Fantasy Novel or Mangas.. Undead played a prominent role as the majority of the protagonists would either fight these undead at some point as if it was an unspoken rule between all the authors.

Some protagonists fought them, some used them to gain EXP, some harvested their bodies and some were even reincarnated as these undead in the form of Skelton Soldiers or a Lich. The stories of the undead had a separate community under Fantasy & Isekai category themselves. And Kahn found himself living the same cliche story today.

"If this was a fictional novel story.. I'd say that the Author is not very creative." said Kahn.

Suddenly Kahn felt a chill under his spine for some unknown reason.

Kahn & Oliver ran towards the cave where Ronin had already killed off over a dozen skeleton undead and cleared a path for them. Since he was a Lord Rank monster now, Ronin had no problems while finishing this many undead without causing a commotion or alerting even more undeads. And the extensions on his back also made it very easy for him to handle multiple opponents at the same time. If these were living beings, he'd use the toxin mist ability he had inherited from the 13th-floor boss himself.

For someone like Kahn, Oliver & Ronin.. It wasn't an issue because all of them actually had hunting skills that allowed them to see through the dark just like the early morning.

In just 10 minutes, Kahn and Oliver met Ronin inside the cave and started looking for enemies.

And since this cave had plenty of entrances and tunnels leading to different places, they had to split up again to cover the maximum distance and save time looking for the enemies.

After another 20 minutes of searching through various places using Hunter's Intent, Kahn finally found a deep and far bigger tunnel in the inner parts of this cave.

And after he finally reached a safe place undetected using Shadow Walk.. He finally gazed at the floor boss.

A 10-meter tall body of a hooded undead who was wearing purple mage-like robes and had few spellbooks floating around it in the air. This undead floor boss looked exactly like an undead Lich as it was sitting on a throne made of completely white bones and shattered bodies.

The figure seemed to be chanting some sort of spell and experimenting with these boney bodies of the undead creatures, mixing them in a way and trying to create a different type of monster.

What caught Kahn's eyes the most wasn't the army of hundreds of undead creatures and neither were the different types of skeletal monsters that stood in this army.. But rather the type of magic this Lich was using.

Although Kahn could use many elemental spells related to Fire, Wind, Water & even Thunder, he never felt a perfect connection with these spells and magic elements. But when he saw the Lich performing its spells and creating even more undeads.. He felt a sense of attachment towards the element of this magic. For the first time since Kahn entered in Vantrea.. He found the element he had the highest affinity with...

The Dark Magic.