Greed’s Vault Tenth Stage Pt. 2

Yue Yang whistled softly as he watched Tirani fire a bolt of blue and red lightning into a pack of ten dog sized rats, stunning them long enough for Daphnia to thrust out her hands and grow a giant hand from her wool. The giant wool hand crashed down on the creatures and further locked them in place as they became increasingly tangled in their struggles. The true killing blow however came from Nympherna who created a large spiraling blue sphere of Dragon Fire, before lobbing it towards the pack. It was over in a flash of blue as the rats and the giant wool hand that trapped them conflagration in an instant. Once again Yue Yang could only sigh in amazement at the destructive power of Dragon Fire, even if it only came from a dragon subspecies like the Crystal Cobalt Cavern Dragon.

Alice hadn't needed to do a single thing yet, despite the high stage of the dungeon most of the beasts on the periphery were only around Gold 5. It was only after they moved further in towards the core that a large number of Platinum rank beasts would appear. As for the ID boss? The Greed's Vault had 3 different types of bosses, the first and simplest were the Golems, they were slow, but had high attack and defense. The second were the goblins, who used human wave tactics and had very diverse abilities. The most difficult however were the Cavern Dragons. Huge with abnormal defense and attack power, wide area breast attacks and even regeneration. Even Yue Yang had a hard time damaging the damn things without using his innate Qi. Spook had already possessed another five rats when he wasn't paying attention and had turned them into hideous demon rat people with black purplish tentacles coming from various parts of their bodies. As always it was terrifying, though the ratmen were all currently Platinum 3 after Spook had forcibly leveled them up.

The number of ratmen increased to 9 as they cleared the outskirts quickly, Spook showed off his supremacy against many weaker enemies by using the ratmen as suicide attackers and meat shields before switching to undamaged bodies. Alice rained spears of ice and froze the floor causing countless enemies to slip. Daphnia bound enemies in her nearly inescapable wool while Nympherna burned the trapped targets to ashes. Tirani alternated between long distance attacks and cloaking herself in lighting. She even shot blue lightning at a target before cloaking herself in red lightning to pull it towards her. The action both impressed Yue Yang as well as made him sweat, wasn't this super strong beast just a glorified magnet? Well if she could develop magnetic powers he wouldn't complain, maybe he should teach her how to make a rail gun? The outskirts were cleared in record time as the puppet mice gathered any dropped keys and opened chests as they traveled. Because his auto loot was on he didn't even have to pick up any loot or body parts. The inner parts were cleared at a much slower speed since the foes were all Platinum rank, and from all the snakes and lizards it showed that the boss was going to be the most difficult Cavern Dragon.

Entering the boss room after applying Runes to boost all his beasts Yue Yang gave out orders in rapid succession. "Spook suicide bomb then try to possess it, Alice and Daphnia you're on defense don't let anyone die! Tirani, Nympherna charge up and hit it with your strongest attacks!" Orders given Yue Yang brought out Lacrista and used one of its abilities to support his beasts, the Forbidding Fire Decree. The red orb that floated around his spear shot out towards the beast and let out its Domain as it was moved to avoid detection. The Forbidding Fire Decree of his Emperor's 9 Decrees had the effect of lowering the power of his enemies elemental abilities, even he thought that combining this ability with the World guardian beast would be way to cruel.

Spooks suicide rats started charging towards the dragon as they began to balloon up, the dragon sensing danger tried to blow them away with its breath. The result however was a failure as a wall of ice formed in front of the rats and blocked the flame with a burst of ice cold mist. Not missing a beat the rats jumped onto the dragon before 9 spooks burst out of their bodies then into the dragons. With perfect timing as soon as the spooks were clear the rats detonated the massive energy in their bodies. The result was an angry dragons roar with scales and flash being sent flying. Before the dragon could try and burn its foes again however, tens of thousands of strands of wool wrapped around its maw, preventing it from opening. Although this only lasted a few seconds it was enough for Nympherna to charge a small blue sphere of rotating dragon fire and solar birth fire. Under her control the Yin and Yang flames that were rejecting each other became calm. Even though her face wasn't defined enough to see emotions, Yue Yang was sure that her eyes were radiating happiness. She had been trying to merge her flames together for an attack for a long time and the results were incredibly destructive. The Cavern Dragon tried to destroy the flame orb with its own breath, but the orb cut through it like it wasn't even there, before colliding with its shoulder and blowing a meter deep crater into its body. The next attack came from Tirani as two spheres of electricity bombarded the dragons eyes, destroying them and sending volts of power throughout its body. The killing blow however came from Spook, who took over its undamaged arm and clawed it's neck out before leaving its body.

Looking at the terrifying scene Yue Yang was as happy as he could be. The dragons body disappeared into his inventory and a chest dropped were it was before. Although he was happy to see a Chest of Desire, that would grant him the item he wanted most at the moment, he was even happier at the five golden pillars bathing his beasts in their new power. Spook had finally leveled up to Platinum 10 and Alice became a Diamond 6 and Holy 3 beast.his other beasts all increased in strength by a single level.

Deciding he should open the beyond rare dropped chest Yue Yang walked over to it and flipped the lid, his eyes lighting up like stars as he laughed and pulled out a aqua blue flame. After using Observe on it he knew it was another Yin attribute flame called the Seven Seas Flame. It was a flame that carried the water attribute an anomaly even among the strange and bizarre heavenly and earthly flames. Well he wasn't really that worried about it being a bad thing, the Chests of Desire would always grant the opener the item they wanted the most. Since Nympherna had just reached Platinum 5 if he didn't find a flame to merge into her soon so that she could undergo variant evolution she would be stuck at Platinum rank unless he used the beast rebirth object at the gods trials. The Seven Seas Flame as a Yin flame was more suited for his Evil Charm Flame Demoness than the dragon fire he had merged with her previously. Gazing at Nympherna he tossed the flame into her level up pillar and watched as the flame was rapidly pulled into her body. As she leveled up her personification increased by a lot and minor human like details appeared not her body such as toes and fingers, with her face also gaining minor features. Soon the level ups ended and Yue Yang flipped open his grimoire to check on Nympherna. He was happy to see that her race had changed to Yin Flame Demoness and that she had ranked up to Diamond 3 instead of Platinum 5. He exited the ID to relax for awhile as he felt his current abilities and beasts would let him curb stomp most of the people below tong tian towers fifth floor.