Chapter 52: Abyssal Encounter

A very powerful think about clearing a dungeon, as Aleph had repeatedly impressed upon him, was belief. For with out belief, with out having religion in ones fellow dungeoneer, there may very well be no cooperation. If one couldn’t belief the comrade at their facet to observe their again, then they weren’t match to problem the dungeon.

In all honesty, Tom didnt know if he might belief Aleph. Her objectives had been nonetheless veiled in thriller and he couldnt very nicely take her phrase when she claimed that she was not out to hunt revenge. However he was sure of 1 factor till she was in sight of her objectives, he was too necessary a bit for her to sacrifice. Which was the following neatest thing.

Fortunately, there was one other important issue that was far simply attainable. Data. Extra particularly, of their case a minimum of, data pertaining to the sixth sector of the Zelez Dungeon. Aleph hadnt precisely been slouching within the weeks previous Toms arrival. She knew who to method for data and there was no motivator like coin to get folks speaking. A small show of energy was sufficient to dissuade anybody from getting concepts on Alephs wealth and the transaction went by way of easily.

Although in fact they didnt cease there.

Alephs expertise confirmed, when she tracked down one other group that was identified for promoting data, although they appeared far shadier than the final one. Greasing their palm with coin and effortlessly knocking out the tail they’d assigned them appeared to dissuade them from taking additional motion.

Again within the hideout, they started to collate the knowledge. Matching accounts had been marked as dependable data whereas conflicting accounts had been labelled unconfirmed and sidelined. On the finish of the complete course of, Tom had a fairly first rate concept of what he was heading into. There was at all times the likelihood that each the teams they’d purchased data from had been in cahoots, however the odds of that had been too unlikely for Aleph to contemplate significantly.

And now

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It had taken them an hour of combating by way of Nether Imps to get to the Sector Entrance. Each the expertise and the loot they offered was somewhat dismal, however their small construct and lack of any [Phantasmal Skill] meant that Tom and Aleph might energy by way of them with none actual threat.

The doorway to Sector 6 was marked by a discordant gash that had been hewn into the facet of a cave wall they’d been continuing alongside. Its jagged edges boasted an unimaginable sharpness, as if the maw of an enormous beast had sunk into the cave wall and torn out a big chunk out of the nigh-indestructible materials that Dungeons had been made out of.

If that alone wasnt warning sufficient for any dungeoneer, then the focus of Nether Crystals dotted earlier than the dungeon entrance and even spreading outward with the doorway because the epicentre served as a transparent warning to the unprepared.

The one motive why Tom even knew what they had been referred to as was due to the knowledge dockets that they’d procured upfront crystals that had been fashioned naturally in areas the place the Nether Vitality focus had exceeded a sure threshold. Tom wasnt positive if the warning was a piece of the system or whether or not the Abyssal Lurker most popular to keep away from intruders upon its area, however that didnt deter himself from his goal.

Aleph raised an eyebrow when he hacked away at a number of crystals and deposited them in his stock, however let it cross when Tom didnt volunteer an evidence.

[Blood Curse], the second and remaining Phantasmal Ability of the Abyssal Imp.

The primary talent to disrupt focus and throw off-guard whereas the second inflicted a blood poison that required a therapeutic potion to be administered inside minutes if one wished to outlive it it was a deadly combo for an murderer.

Even Tom, regardless of having identified he would encounter Abyssal Imps within the dungeon, was thrown off by the [Spectral Mist].

Now that he had evaded it although

Toms expression was calm as he cancelled the [Haste] card because the Abyssal Imp landed upon the spot he had been standing moments earlier than, its downward arc putting nothing however air.

Whereas it will be boastful to assert that Tom had foreseen this end result, he had been ready for the scenario to unfold precisely on this method the second he had noticed the glimmer of pink.

[Control Glyph- Earth].

Skinny, sharp spikes of packed topsoil and gravel erupted outwards from the identical spot Tom had been standing upon moments in the past. Usually, even with the assistance of the Management Glyph, he wouldn’t have been in a position to react so rapidly.

Actually, he was not concentrating on the Abyssal Imp to start with.

If the Abyssal Imp had chosen Aleph because the goal as a substitute of him, the spikes would have been met with nothing however the rancid air of the dungeon. As a substitute an inhuman, rodential shriek rang out as the 2 dozen spikes pierced the mist cloud randomly.

Toms expression eased.

His gaze shifted in the direction of the Abyssal Imp because the final of its dying throes had been vented, the fog round it starting to dissipate.

A notification confirmed his kill, however the pleasure of victory was nearly overpowered by queasiness because the creatures options had been revealed to him.