The Content Pickers

The Tower Dungeon, otherwise known as the Tower of Catastrophe, was shown in the very center of the city of Orazvil, showing its majestic height that towers all the tallest buildings in the city greatly. 

Deep within the dungeon lies an ancient beast only known in myths and tales. This enormous creature covered in scales as dark as the night, with two horns extending to the back of its head, as well as two massive wings, all covered in the same darkness as its body, would strike fear into anyone who dares cross its path. 

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Anyone who saw this creature would instantly recognize it as one of the mythical dragons. Having been asleep for the past millennia since even before the Era of Forgotten, this dragon that never bothered with what happened to matters that didn't concern him finally awakened, even when nightmarish creatures suddenly showed up a thousand years ago and threatened not only his race but every inhabitants of this world into extinction, he never bothered to get involved with it as it didn't concern him.

As such, he was labeled a traitor and a coward by his fellow dragons during the great war against those monsters that time. Though he didn't really care about the other's opinions of him, as he knew quite well just how strong he himself was.

Opening his crimson red eyes, the Dragon walked across a vast number of gold coins, magical items, weapons, especially one large object in the distance that resembled a cannon. Lowering his head, he sniffed the object.

[Ooohh, what an intoxicating smell, hahahaha!]

Though this cannon may seem a bit unique ]n design, the dragon's sense of smell that could tell the value of an object was telling him how valuable the object in front of him was. Not to mention, it was also a trophy he won during a battle a thousand years ago against a powerful individual... just to marry his daughter.

Yes, seems wrong but it's their bet. By the time the battle began, not even a day had passed, the battle that ensued was incredibly harsh, if not for casting a reality isolating spell and holding their powers back, the two would have turn an entire world into a complete wasteland. It is known as the hardest battle he had ever fought and he even felt he might have lost had it not been for how conceited his opponent was.

He emerged several victories against him until he got his first loss, so he promised the man and married his daughter. But hey, at least he was rewarded with great items from him, the cannon is one of them. However, the problem was that he has no clue of using it, it has no magic but her senses tell him it is an incredibly powerful weapon that could even greatly injure a Demigod with ease.

Even though it's useless to him, he has decided to keep it as a trophy as well as a memento of that warrior.

[Ahh, I'm really bored! Time to get out and see just how much this world has changed during my slumber.] He rolled on his back and pondered on his thoughts for a little. [I wonder if a strong person like the Monarch of Ice and Destruction still exists? Someone more powerful than me... perhaps it wouldn't be too bad to work under such a person...]

Dragons, or rather, True Dragons like him were very proud creatures who would never even dream of working under a master, no matter how much stronger the latter was, not even an Elder God. For that reason, the other true dragons would surely laugh and mock him if they heard of his thoughts. He too used to be the same, but that thinking eventually changed in his battle against that warrior.

[Right...if there's somebody out there even more powerful than me... then just maybe...]

Just then, he jerked up as he caught another whiff in the air. Just a sniff of his nose, he knew and was very familiar with this smell, a smell that he never thought to sense for a thousand years...

The smell of a mortal.

|It appears I must teach another fool what happens when you dare disturb one of the great Four Dragon Emperors.]

Then while looking at the direction of the scent, he tried to figure out who would be foolish enough to enter his domain...

[Who goes there? State your purpose, mortal!]

Out of the shadows a person walked out. At first glance, his most noticeable feature was his face of that of an owl, he also wore a red jacket and he seemed clueless for a bit.

"Well... seems I've indeed stumbled upon something nice here."

Spoke the intruder...

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– Few Days Ago –

Two days after the two groups made a partnership between Parties, Vanoss and Draila were sparring in the arena, both of these two individuals fought in an intense fight that looked like they were going all out which got the attention of almost all Adventurers in the Guild watching them.

"Oi! Oi! Are my eyes deceiving me? An E-rank is fighting toe to toe with a D-rank adventurer!?" One of the adventurers shouted as he stared at the fight that was happening.

"I am jealous that the Owl Beastmen is indeed a talented individual."

"You are not alone, buddy."

Back to the fight, Vanoss jumped back and put his Diamond sword back to his inventory before pulling out his Mega AK-47 and shooting thousands of rounds towards her

"YAAAAA!"

"Oh come on! You never tell me you also have a modified musket!"

As the bullets headed towards her at high speeds, Draila began to spin her blood red spear at the speed that the spear seemed moving slowly backwards, but while it look like that, Draila managed to block some of the bullets, a split second later she cast a mid-tier teleportation spell [Blink] to teleport a few meters behind from Vanoss before she would get overwhelmed by the bullets if another second has passed.

Sensing her in his back, Vanoss immediately aims at Draila before firing his AK again.

"Nice try!"

[Greater Evasion]

[Way of the Wind]

In shocking speed, she zig-zagged around to dodge most of the bullets, using her spear and great speed, she deflected many bullets that were about to hit her. However, she couldn't deflect and dodge thousands of bullets coming towards her each second as a small number of them manage to make contact with her but thanks to her mana defenses most of the defend and raw stats manage to withstand a bit.

With a loud cry, she struck Vanoss' AK out of his hand and kicked him in the stomach before he could react.

'Damn!' Evan grunted, he gazed at Draila with a grin on his face..

Noticing Draila was about to do another attack by striking her spear towards Vanoss' shoulder, in great response, Evan instantly pulls out his Diamond Sword and deflects the spear back.

Then, Draila stops attacking with a playful smile on her face.

"Impressive, as expected from you, Vanoss. Able to withstand a Rank 5 like me. I like it. But I also wonder how you got so ripped~?" Draila said as she lay her eyes on his figure, even though he has the face of an owl, he has the body of a warrior, and to be honest, he is more like her type.

"Well, you're not supposed to forget to eat your fruits and vegetables every day."

Now without wasting time, they jumped each other again but were stopped by one of Draila's party members, Peter.

"That's enough you two, today is the day of the Dungeon Raid today."

"Awww! But we were just getting hardcore! I want to ravage him so badly that he can't move for a week!"

"Is that a sexual joke?

"Excuse me?'

"He means is it a sexual joke?" Peter repeated Evan's words. "Because you sounded like you meant it."

Thinking for a moment, Draila realized what she said and shouted with a glimpse of red in her cheeks.

"Oh! My bad!"

"Nahhh, that's my fault. I gave her too many jokes that make things awkward..." Vansos simply said as he turned to Peter, "So, when are we heading out?"

"An hour, or maybe more."

"Welp! Time to tell the boys from the news!'

Clap! Clap!

POP!

With a clap, Vanoss' diamond armor instantly appeared within him.

"Let's getta goin'!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

Noticing their silence, Vanoss stares at not only the two but the people in the audience seat.

"What?"

"What do you mean 'What'?? THAT ARMOR YOU WORE IS FUCKING SICK!"

"WHERE THE HELL DID YOU BUY IT FROM!?"

"I didn't buy it. I mine some diamonds and then do a simple crafting before echanting them with books we never even read for once."

"So wait, you're a blacksmith? You didn't tell us about it."

"Oh no, literally, I just craft it... with a crafting table."

"..."

"You simply craft it with just a table? That doesn't make sense at all." Peter said in absolute confusion.

"How do you even craft diamond armor with a table?" 

"Like my bro Terroriser said, Minecraft systems and logic."

"...I still don't get what you mean." Peter said, shaking his head.

"Damn, Vanoss! You have no idea how lucky you are! The rest of us have to spend thousands of Euros just to get a set of crappy armor compared to yours!" Draila complained as she pointed to her leather, but fashionable design clothes that could rival the durability of armor except it's only a Special-class magic armor.

"Well I have like a shit ton of Maximum enchantments in both of my armor and weapons and have weapons similar to my armor if that makes you feel better."

"IT DOESN'T!" Both Draila and Peter shouted.

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"1...12...43...78...105...233...467...5983"

Counting the Adventurers present, the Guildmaster quickly scribbled something onto the book in his hand, and lightly mumbled to himself

"That's a significant increase compared to last year's raid."

Right now, our lovable retards, their allied party, and thousands of Adventurers from other Guilds in other different City Sections were on the 1st floor of the Dungeon. By the time they first entered inside the Dungeon. Compare to outside which the tower is huge, in the inside is extremely spacious, 200 meter perimeter and 2000 meter height of the first floor, it is like this was the very inside of the dungeon! However, they also learn that every Dungeon is a pocket dimension that sends people into another dimension. The inside looks so huge that could fit zillions of Pebbles in it but that's only a small fraction of the Dungeon they were in. In Orazvil, the dungeon they were in was one of the MOST largest dungeons known in Fordalt.

Judging by the powerful mana within there, professional scholars and powerful Demigods estimate that this dungeon has over 200 floors, or probably more, but for 80 years since the city was first built, they only cleared out 99 floors.

The real answer for Team 6 about Orazvil's dungeon, is that it is big as FUCK! A new whole fucking world, a huge maze! And a version of the overworld but with walls, bloodthirsty monsters and shit. It is annoying as the Minecraft Dungeon Team 6 went but far more annoying and big. It will make finding the Ender portal completely impossible.

This is why the Adventurers took 80 years dealing with the dungeon.

After reading the list, nodding his head in satisfaction, putting the paper away, in a stern tone, the Guildmaster spoke up, "Alright, all of the 5983 Adventurers in this very floor, please listen up before you are all ready to raid at the 100th floor. As for who is new here, I have already explained the rules before, I won't go into too much detail with regards to what you need to do."

Pausing slightly, the Guildmaster squinted his eyes and his voice turned serious, "Not only do you have to watch out for the monsters inside of the dungeon, but you also have to watch out for the people next to you. Because in my experience, you better watch out... in dungeons, no rules exist, this is not training shit, people, this is the real deal. What may seem like your party members moments before can quickly turn and backstab you when you least expect it... such situations aren't uncommon these days."

He added, "With dungeons being places that had no rules and laws, situations where your ally would betray you as soon as the chance presented itself wouldn't be all that surprising. Especially if something tempted them into doing so."

As the Guildmaster's words flowed through everyone's ears, some of the Adventurers present took a step away from the person near them except for the experienced ones who all knew about it. But a small number of them have eyes full of vigilance.

Human greed was boundless, you never know what would happen if you weren't alert.

Glancing at the Adventurers who were now wary of each other, a satisfied smile appeared on the Guildmaster's face.

"Enough of that. I'm going to go deal with something else. You have five minutes to prepare yourselves, bye now."

Finished with what he wanted to say, the Guildmaster disappears.

Watching the Guildmaster vanished, every Adventurer present all began to be ready.

"Hell yeah! It's time to kick some monsters' ass!" Nogla shouted.

"You're not the only one, you magnificent borg." Delirious said, receiving a high five from Nogla as the two mispeakers of the group lightly chuckled.

"But you also must be careful with traps and we don't really know more about this, it is our first time being in a real dungeon." Basically said.

"Don't worry, Marcel. By the time we are on the 70th floor, we will use our guns and start firing the monsters our way!" Vanoss said assuredly.

"What if they are bulletproof?" Moo asked, feeling concerned.

"Then we should slice and dice these motherfuckers!" Wildcat answered loudly.

"Agreed!" Terroriser said in a British tone.

"Hey guys, I just made a bet with Draila on who will get the highest kills. And the bigger the monster is, the bigger the monster is, the bigger the points." Vanoss explained.

"Hmm, seems interesting. But what is your point?" Wildcat asked.

"Yeah, it's not just a group contest but a free for all, whoever will get the highest score wins and will receive the best drinks in one of the best bars in this damn city!"

"Nice!"

"I agree with that!"

Raising his fist, Nogla stood up pridefully and yelled, "Yeah! Time for a Dungeon racist... races."

"..."

The team stood there, staring at Nogla in silence for a moment before they all burst into laughter at what Nogla just said.

Basically snickered, "Wait, what!?" 

"Yeaaahhh!!" Terroriser screamed.

"Okay, here we go, boys!" Wildcat chuckled while Delirious wheezes in the background.

Terroriser added, "We spent a hundred thousand credits just to go all the way to enter a racist mission for our black friend to finally come back to our gang! Now give me some cooo-"

"Content!" Delirious cuts in.

"Haha! We are the Content Pickers!" Vanoss said.

"Yeahhh! That is way better than the Minority Squad!" Terroriser said.

"Yeah, listen here boy, ye get out there and give me some content, okay? I wanted some content since I was a little boy!" Basically spoke out as he started to speak in a Texas accent.

"We can be considered ourselves as the Content Pickers, then Moo considered us Content Diggers." Vanoss joked as points at Moo there standing amongst the group, causing the guys to laugh even more while Moo stood there looking down.

"Nooooo... :( " The man that was mentioned murmured.

Everyone started to laugh even harder as they saw the way Moo say 'no' is quite incredibly funny for them.

While the laughter and arguments were happening, the Guildmaster was still speaking to everyone, all ignoring some idiots who were messing around in the background.

"Oh right, forgot something, everyone please pay attention to me... again."

Snapping me out of their thoughts was the loud shout coming from the Guildmaster who just teleported back.

"The Mages will open the portal towards the 100th Floor. Just to save your mana."

Pausing, glancing at every Adventurers present, the Guildmaster's tone became incomparably grave.

"Please make sure you focus and be serious on it as it may save your life, I don't want to lose any more lives... Please, no one is perfect. There is no one here to save you by the time you enter the dungeon."

Glancing at every Adventurers present to make sure they understood, the Guildmaster nodded

"Have a nice trip..."

Finished with what he wanted to say, glancing towards a staff member wearing a mage uniform, the Guildmaster nodded in his direction.

Nodding back, the staff member casted a magic barrier in his hands.

"[Gate]"

Vuuuuam!

Right after he casted a spell, a magic portal appeared as it intensified as the residual magical power being emitted from the portal quadrupled in magnitude. The air around everyone solidified due to how thick the mana in the air was.

[Gate]: It is a 10th tier space-type magic spell that summons a portal, allowing travel of a large number of people over great distances. It is considered to be the highest tier of teleportation magic.

Staring at the massive portal before Team 6, the Guildmaster then once again vanished not dealing with this.

"Be safe, people." The Staff Member spoke out to the rest.

With the portal now open, every Adventurer began to go through.

Vuuum! Vuuum! Vuuum!

On cue, after seeing the portals light up, the Adventurers standing behind all entered the portal one by one.

As Team 6 and their ally Caeruleum Guardians stared at the Adventurers entering the portal, most of them couldn't help but felt more excited. Even if it's life and death, they still felt excited.

Vanoss and Draila looked at each other in the distance and nodded at each other. Ready to face the dangers and the fun adventure they will have, even death is in front of them.

Vuuum! Vuuum! Vuuum!

Right after the Owl man and the red headed human nodded at each other, they and all of their group entered the portal.

Looking at the wormhole before him, Delirious turns his back and raises his arms before slowly falling back, "Let the fun begin, motherfuckerrrrrrrrrrr-..."

The portal closes, cutting off Delirious in mid-sentence.