Crystal Beasts

"How did you know?"

"How did I know what?"

"That this is a dungeon?"

"Lucky guess! Lucky guess!"

"..."

Well, it looks like the huge mountain that sprout from underground devouring all my animals and vegetables was truly a dungeon. At the bottom of the mountain, on a perfectly vertical wall, a small entrance can be seen. There are no monsters in sight and beyond the door only a long hallway with no decorations and a few torches is what awaits us. Despite the harmless appearance of this dungeon I know better not to leave my guard down and it looks like Dine is also on full alert.

The main problem is that the whole mountain is isolated so that I can't send my divine sense forward. This is quite impressive to be honest. Although my current power is only a small fraction of the power my previous self used to have, sealing my divine sense is still not something that can be done by any random dungeon. Furthermore I already tested this out and the rocks on the mountain are almost impossible to break, not to mention the strange layer that exists in the centre of the dungeon that looks to be indestructible, even by my pre-transcendence standards.

"Lite, stay here. I don't know how a dungeon can sprout from the ground like a mushroom after rain but I have a bad feeling about this!"

'Hoooh!'

Looks like we have a hero over here! Well, now that I think about it, from his point of view I am nothing more than an interesting insect while he is a great and powerful Dragon. But still, to throw yourself inside a strange dungeon that is obviously quite powerful without any kind of reinforcements, I am not sure if he is extremely confident in his abilities or just stupid.

"This looks indeed a little dangerous but I should manage to protect myself or at the very least run when things get serious!"

"Don't even think about it! Your life is far to valuable to allow you to throw it away! I'm a 3'rd Awakening Pinnacle expert with the inherited bloodline of the Blood Dragons which puts me on pair with Early Stage 5'th Awakening average experts. It doesn't matter how dangerous this dungeon might be, I refuse to believe that it can threaten me."

"Wow… Words…"

Well, there are quite a few interesting pieces of information in your statement little Dragon.The so called Awakenings should be the realms of cultivation in this world. The problem is that I don't know if the increase in strength between two consecutive Awakenings is linear or exponential. If it's the former than defeating someone that is two realms over yourself could easily be done by mastering stronger techniques than your opponent, but if it's the latter then it means that this guy is quite a genius.

To be honest, it's impossible for me to put this huge chunk of muscles and the word "genius" in the same sentence, but the world is immense and there are always heavens beyond heavens. Well for now I should convince the idiot that taking me along is not a problem.

"How about this then. I'm going to write the method I used to comprehend those techniques on a piece of paper. If I die you can just take that piece of paper from my dead body. This should guarantee that my life won't interfere with your future plans!"

"Oh! That is quite an interesting idea. Very well! Write down everything you know and I'll take you with me. I'll do my best to protect you but in the unfortunate event where you shall lose your tiny life I won't hesitate to collect that piece of paper from your body. Don't worry, I'll take your body on the way back and offer you a proper burial as well!"

'God damn it… Did you really have to accept my offer that fast? It's like my life is not worth anything to you. And here I thought we were friends.'

Yeah… I am not going to say any of that of course. It's true that I met him only yesterday and that his head is basically empty not to mention that I am nothing more than a lowly life form in his eyes so I kinda understand why he puts far more value on my techniques than on my life. To be hones I do admire his way of always saying what comes in his mind while completely disregarding everyone's feelings but he really needs to learn to be a little more professional when dealing with this kind of situations.

But still… Burial heh… To be honest I am not sure which will carry whose body at the end of the day. But more importantly, I just confirmed something right now; this guy is a complete idiot. How exactly are you going to probe that what I wrote on that piece of paper is the true method and nothing more than some random words thrown together to look important? Of course, there is no method to begin with so the content of that piece of paper is truly going to be some gibberish written just to make him feel confident that even if I die he can still obtain my "secret".

"I couldn't ask for more!"

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