The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

When Kagura was kissing Rein, Stella was watching that with her Eye of Clairvoyance. So, when Kagura came to their table with a beet red face, Stella gave her a knowing smile and uploaded a video in the network. Obviously it was the cute scene of Kagura giving Rein a peck on his chick.

Seeing that scene in a video format, Kagura was even more embarrassed. She sat on the table silently while hiding her face. Rein sat down beside her and started to caress her head to calm her down. After Kagura's embarrassment went down and she became normal, finally Rein asked the important question.

"So what did you find out after interrogating those ninjas ?"

Hearing that question, Stella puffed out her bountiful chest and first explained in detail her newly developed puppeteer spell. As Rein also had lightning affinity he was quite interested in it.

But after learning the mechanism behind it, he was sure that it would be a very hard spell for him to pull off. It was not because Rein's mind acceleration was not enough but because his Crimson lightning magic was very incompatible with these kinds of spells.

Then finally Stella told everyone about the reason why those ninjas were targeting them and also about who was behind all this. Then she enjoyed Rein's praises with a smug smile while getting hugged and patted by him. This was the reason why she did not just release the information in the network.

She wanted to tell Rein face to face in order to receive his praises.

As this matter was not serious, Rein decided that they could just ignore it. As for the ninjas, he was planning to use them as double agents just to be extra careful. Tasha also said that she would tell her contracted spies to keep a tight eye on those people.

With those decisions made, the incident about the ninjas was over in their mind. Now they had another very important matter to think about. And that was related to Lauren, who was currently training with Utrena in mana manipulation.

Finally she had been able to perfectly bloom a Rashaminthiam flower and now she wanted to go to the influential family to try her skills in their flower. After doing so her current mission would be completed.

She had asked if Rein would be able to accompany her or not. Rein wanted to stay with his wife while she went to an influential family whose mood was hard to guess. But if he did that then he needed to stay away from the dungeon for some time, so he was asking Stella's, Tasha's and Kagura's opinion.

If they had problems with Rein's going then he would think of some other method to protect Lauren there.

But Tasha and Stella had no problem and they even wanted to come with Rein to watch over Lauren. While spending time with her they also liked her quite a lot so Stella and Tasha wanted to show their support for her in this situation.

As for Kagura, she was staying with Rein no matter what, so she had absolutely nothing to say.

So finally it was decided that, the conquerors would take a break and would go to the influential family alongside Lauren to show their support.

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But before leaving, they decided to sell some of the loot. It included materials from the two bosses of the Moon Viewing Lake area and the material from the rank 3 golem of the desert area. When they took out these materials, the whole city was dumbstrucked.

It was very rare for a boss to be defeated. Normally a few teams needed to join together to challenge a boss monster and even then their chances of victory were not very high.

Those teams also needed to make many preparations before going against a boss and in that process, the influential people of this city would have an idea when a boss monster might be defeated.

The value of materials from the boss monsters was extremely valuable. If one family got their hands on that, they would be able to make a name for themselves easily with it.

That was also one of the main reasons why all the big families of this city were willing to become bootlickers for the mithril rank adventurers.

But they had never expected in their wildest dreams that this new team would be so insanely powerful.

Not only were they able to defeat a boss alone with just their team and without any extra preparation, they actually defeated three in a row. And one boss among them was the aquatic boss which had never been defeated before. It was truly a situation that had happened very few times in this city.

As soon as this news spread, all the families of this city became busy. There were some families who already had partnerships with other mithril rank teams and they were not interested in the conquerors at first.

But now that the conquerors had proven themselves to be way stronger than estimated, they were all shaken and wanted to create a relationship with them at any cost.

When Rein's group sold the material to the adventure guild, they were actually unable to buy it. It was so valuable that the guild did not have enough money to buy it immediately. So they contacted all the families who had done business with them to take care of the material.

This whole process was going to take some time but Rein was not willing to wait here for any more as he, Stella, Tasha and Kagura were going to meet with Lauren the very next day.

So instead of waiting here he decided to give the materials for the guild to handle and he would collect the money after a few days.

He told them that he and his team were going to be on a break for a few days and in the meantime the guild could sell their materials to the person who was going to offer the highest price for it.

Not only that but he also told them the guild could sell 20 percent of the materials to parties it wanted to create a good relationship with and could use this to make them indebted to the guild itself. This was a very generous offer as Rein was actually sacrificing millions of zeni by doing it.

Rein did this to make this guild to be grateful toward him. In this city where the Deity's Resting Ground dungeon contributed quite a lot in the economy, the adventure guild was a very important organisation. So having it on his side was going to be useful.

After getting all the work done in the guild, Rein and his party returned back to their inn with the guild members and the guild leader thanking him.

While Rein was spending peaceful time with his partners, that was not the case for the head of the Horikawa family. He was the lord of this city so obviously he had the strongest influence in this city. He also had the highest number of mithril rankers working for him.

So all in all, in this city of Kentau, his words were law. But now he was feeling very scared.

That was because of a recent report that he got. What was written there was the report about the things Rein had brought to the guild to sell. Seeing this record Kouki Horikawa was scared out of his wits.

He was confident in taking action against them because he was sure that he would be able to fight against them with the mithril ranks he had under his service.

But now it looked like these people were way stronger than he expected. The ninjas who were sent after them all returned after getting captured and all of them reported that they were probably stronger than even an adamantine rank and were released as a warning for him.

At first he was unwilling to believe it, but now it looked like they were telling the truth.

Kouki Horikawa was not a foolish or stubborn person. He was very much willing to bow his head if it was beneficial for him. So he immediately changed his tune and asked his retainers to prepare some precious gifts for the conquerors.

Miyako was given the responsibility to deliver the gifts to Rein's party because she was at least a little bit acquainted with a member of this party. She was told that she should try her best to gain their favour no matter the cost.

They knew that the conquerors were currently on break so she was told to wait outside their inn for them to come out. Miyako was not alone there as many other representatives from various different families were also doing the same.

Now Miyako started her real job. She was no longer working for the Horikawa family and instead she was now working for her new liege, mistress Stella and the mission she was given was to investigate the families who sent their representative and that was the work she was currently going to do.

She was not forced to do this job completely and was offered a higher salary than her previous one. So she was happy and very much willing to change sides.

Just like that when the conquerors were out of the city, their pawns were still moving in the background to solve any and all problems for them.