Chapter 006. Demon Part II.

After walking for a few hours, Sien and his summoned demon finally reached their destination. The level 3 solo dungeon Wolf King's Den, one of the hardest solo dungeons for level 3 player in the current phase of the game.

All dungeons can be categorized from easy to nigh impossible to clear by their star rating, if a dungeon only have 1 star rating then It can be cleared by any players, 2 star rating for some players, 3 star rating for small number of players, 4 star rating for limited number of players and 5 star for counted number of players. For higher star rating dungeons, they weren't available right now.

This star rating goes for any types of dungeons that can be seen throughout the leveling maps outside the towns or cities.

That's what most of the players thinking about dungeons right now as they tend to compare games to another games after all, they would just expect things would be like this or like that. Although that's not wrong, it wasn't entirely right either. As when players starts entering dungeons, they would learn that dungeons doesn't spawn with a random difficulty in them, instead players can adjust the difficulty of a dungeon from 1 star to 5 star.

If a player is confident about his strength then he can adjust the star rating to match his capabilities, if he overestimated his strength, then death only awaits him with losing a level and some items.

Of course the rewards for clearing of a 1 star rating dungeon is different than clearing a higher rating dungeon, the more the dangerous it is, the more the bountiful the rewards is, a perfect balance for trading your progress through the game.

Right now, if any of the current players tried to clear a 4 or 5 star rating dungeon without a proper information about it beforehand, there's a 100% chance that they would die inside of the dungeon after entering for about a few minutes or so.

For Sien, who knows what is to expect inside can enter the dungeon right away with small preparation. But before entering, Sien stopped in front of the dungeon for less than an hour to summon his third demon, as he already summoned his second demon on their way here.

When Sien finished his preparation, he then immediately set difficulty to the highest 5 star without blinking and entered the dungeon.

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Inside the dungeon where Sien currently standing, in his front where a vast growing trees extending enough to not see the end of it.

There's a three entrances currently presented for Sien but he didn't hesitate to pick the one on his right side, he knows that this way is only way that would leads him to the dungeon boss.

After only a few minutes Sien and his three summons walked through the path he chose, a pack of wolves with a number count of six suddenly appeared and started baring their fangs against them without wasting their time, but with the three demons keen reaction to protect Sien they immediately launched a counterattack with their own.

Even though they're outnumbered by the wolves, they can still stand their ground against their enemies by coordinating with each other and only with a few minutes, they already suppressed the enemies and by the joint attack including Sien, the six wolves with a level of 4, died helplessly on the ground leaving behind a few item drop to collect.

'Wow, having a summon right at the start of the game really is so good. With these three demon summoned, I now have a complete confidence to clear this dungeon.'

Sien thought after witnessing the smooth performance his summons did, earlier before entering the dungeon, he's still skeptical about the outcome of this solo raid but now, he's a hundred percent sure that he can clear it.

While Sien were busy revising the plan he made beforehand, his three summons picked the item drops on the ground and hand it to him.

They then once again started to walk and everytime a monster appeared, they would be dealt within just a few minutes like the first pack of the wolves they fought.

If any other player was in the situation of Sien right now, without summoning three demons, it's basically impossible to replicate what Sien is doing, they were just courting death if they tried to.

Thanks to the synergy Sien's party of four, including the effects of Sien's other trait skills, even if the wolves have a six to seven members on their pack, nothing can threaten their group at least none amongs the normal level 4 wolves that keeps appearing every 4 to 5 minutes.

Although the strength of the wolves differs as they go deeper inside of the forest, still nothing change at all as they still die after the fight broke even if Sien and co took a while to kill them.

In less than an hour, because of how smooth their synergy were, Sien's level Increased by 1 and for his summons, as they can absorb the souls of the monsters they killed, their strength increase, although only by a bit as the power of the souls they absorbed were too weak to have a significant results.

Another hour passed and now they reached the area where the boss monster currently sleeping.

Crimson Wolf King [Rank - 3 Star Boss Monster] - (Dungeon Boss)

Level 5

HP: 15,000

Sien who's observing the monster with a size upto 8 meters from head to tail and 5 meters tall from a far can't help but to have the same shocked and confused reaction as he did when he saw the Spider Warrior for the first time.

Although he can't remembers all the details pertaining the Crimson Wolf King, what he remembered well is that it only have 10,000 HP, and for the basic stats his seeing now was slightly higher than his previous life, this isn't a raid he can clear by normal means at all.

'Was it because this is the first time someone tried to clear a 5 star dungeon?'.

Sien can't think of any other explanation other than that. But when he thought about it again that's kind of impossible, As he played the game later than the first genration, when he joined Red Dragon Inc and assign him as information seeker, he made sure to memorize all the other existing information for personal or guild issues.

Last time when he saw the information related about the dungeons that has been cleared through his previous guild, it clearly stated in there that the Crimson Wolf King supposed to only have a 10,000 HP and that was the first time someone cleared the dungeon as cleared dungeon would disappeare after clearing it.

So the 15,000 HP Sien seeing right now doesn't make sense at all for him.

Fortunately, Sien isn't just your average player, with his special trait and memories, he can easily overcome this kind of problem easily.

Sien then stopped thinking the reason why the boss monster in front of him increased it stats instead he prepared himself and his summons. If he continue to keep finding what's the reason behind this phenomenon, he would just be wasting his time for it as he knows in the end he wouldn't be able to figure out what it was.

After a few minutes of preparation, Sien stepped forward while he activate the 1st ability of his trait.

When the Crimson Wolf King felt a foreign presence within its own territory, a fierce growl came out from its mouth intimidating the nearby wolves in to running away. The normal wolves nearby the location of the boss monster couldn't bear how strong the aura the Crimson Wolf King discharging from its body.

Sien who heard the battle cry of the Wolf King doesn't really care as he command his summons to start attacking. Quinn, Lon, Reva, the three of them started to bombard the wolf king with different kinds of attacks while Sien whose at the back to analyze the attack pattern of the boss while giving orders where to or when to attack the wolf king.

When Quinn received the order of his master, he who mainly use his fist for combat attacked the wolf king ferociously without a rest, he would only retract his fist when Sien orders him to. It's the same for the other two summons. Lon is a brute type demon that specialized on receiving an attack and taunting enemies, so he was the one tanking the wolf king's attacks alone, but it doesn't mean that that's the only thing he can do, in addition to that is although his physical damage wasn't as strong Quinn, he can still contribute a significant amount of damage when needed.

As for Reva, she's an assassin type demon who specialize in surprise attacks, Sien appointed her to attack the wolf king's from behind to deal a massive damage from time to time to slowly whittle it down.

Sien who's currently seeing how his summoned demon can easily take orders from him still can't believe how summons can this be intelligent, it's like he's commanding three high level NPC at all.

At Paradise World, you can't normaly give your summon a complex type of order, you can only order them to attack one at a time too. Ordering them to attack and at the same time dodge wasn't something they shouldn't be able to do right at the early phase of the game, that would just give a negative result from what expected, as the level of one summon increases, its intelligent also increase to execute more orders from their master.

But for Sien's three summons, those kind of restrictions doesn't apply to at all as they can take and execute a high intelligent orders from the moment Sien summoned them even though being a low leveled demons.

'It seems that demons really is the one of best summons of all time.'

Sien thought with a smile on his face.

But that smile immediately faded when he saw that even though his three summons are in sync to attack the wolf king because of his orders, it seems it wasn't enough to kill the wolf king as even after 3 minutes passed, a meager amount of 4% was only shaved from the boss monster's HP, because of the regeneration of the wolf king's HP every 4 seconds that's why the damage done to him has been mitigated.

The wolf king would even throw an attack enough to send Lon, their tank several steps away and also inflict a significant damage to him, Although demons have their own regeneration method, they currently don't have enough HP to shrugg off the damage done to them by the wolf king.

After seeing that the problem arise, Sien didn't hesitate to join in and attack the wolf king together with his summon.

With the addition of Sien joining the frey, raiding the wolf king became more less difficult for all of them and the HP of the wolf king steadily go down every few minutes.

Thanks to Sien's great battle sense and commanding, after fighting for one and a half hour there's only 21% HP remaining that the wolf king has. When it go down to 20%, the strength of the wolf king suddenly increase by 2 times and doubling its size.

Sien who notice the change happening on the wolf king immediately take action by ordering all of his summons to use the shadow in the surroundings to pin down the wolf king, this kind of berserk mode is common when a boss monster's HP decrease to a certain amount, the only way to deal with this is to receive the attack head on of the wolf king or to restrain its movement until the berserk mode wore off.

The former method wasn't really something they can choose right now, as the wolf king can already send them flying and inflict a significant damages in its normal state, the summoned demons would certainly die if they receive even one direct hit from the wolf king in its state right now. So by pinning the wolf king in one place until the duration of the berserk mode wore off were the best methods for the current situation.

By using the 'Shadow Merge' the ability unique only to a demons, the three controls the shadow of the surroundings trees including the shadow of the wolf king to bind its movement all together.

Fortunately the shadow in the surroundings were abundant as only a small amount of sunlight can pass through the thick layers of leaves from the trees above.

After sealing the movement of the wolf king came to succession, Sien and co only needs to wait for 10 seconds for the wolf king to enter a weakened state after berserking, but Sien didn't want to wait for that long as he feels like that the shadow that's binding the wolf king would torn off by any given moment if they just stand still and do nothing.

「All of you!, attack the head of wolf king with all your might before it broke free from the shadow binding!.」

Sien shouted as he toss a blazing ball directly at the head of the wolf king, the mana potions that he collect from the start have been reduced to small amount but Sien didn't hesitate at all to consume them and continue keep tossing his sole magic spell to the wolf king's head, thanks to his special trait, even though it wasn't included in the information about the trait, he can cast magic spell without chanting any syllables at all.

A magic damage of over 100 keep appearing one after another above the head of the wolf king, with the effect of Sien's 2nd trait ability, bypassing 99% of the magic armor of his target has become possible at the same time multiplying his magic damages by 2 times.

Sien's original magic damage only a meager of 54 points, but because of his trait, it increase to 100+ with every attack. The burn damage wasn't even included in that 100+ damage, as it was a separate damage. Another 50+ damages also keep appearing every second because of the burn damage stacking by five times.

As for his three summons, after receiving their orders, simultaneously attack the enemy in front by using all of their remaining strength.

The wolf king whose at 20% HP before decrease to 13% only after 6 seconds of being restrained but when 7 seconds passed. The wolf king broke free and let out a roar that stopped the bombardment of the four of them.

「ROOOOAAAAARRRRR!!!!」

The four of them become dizzy because of the war cry that the wolf king let out, then it launch an attack with its right front claw to Lon that immediately sent him flying 10 meters away that made his HP almost depleted. Although Lon manage to block the attack with his shield, it still did a lot of significant damage to him.

After sending flying Lon away, the wolf king starts to attack again as it releases a red lightning directly from its body to where Quinn's standing at. As he was still at the state of being dizzy, moving was out of the question, let alone dodge the incoming attack from him. When the attack connected, Quinn felt like he's being grilled alive of the wolf king and fell to ground half-dead.

Sien who can see the scene unfolding in front of him can only smile bitterly.

「It seems that I pushed my luck too much huh?. But good thing I managed to restrain the wolf king earlier for a few seconds, if I hadn't done that, it would really be the end.」

Sien said with a relief expression form his face. From the moment the wolf king broke free from the shadow, almost 7 seconds has already passed, and after attacking both Lon and Quinn, the wolf king wasted 3 more seconds and now, it's starting to enter in its weakened state.

The mighty aura that the wolf king exuding earlier vanished without a trace, even though Sien's 1st trait ability's been active since from the start of the raid, the only thing it did is to reduce the basic attributes of the wolf king but now that the wolf king was in its weakened state, the fear state has also been inflicted on it.

The moral of the wolf king now were at the very bottom of the abyss, Sien who saw this chance didn't want to just let go as he and Reva attacked the wolf king without mercy, after a few seconds when Lon recover a little of his strength also joined them.

After only a few minutes of attacking the weakened and scared wolf king, its HP were only at 1% right now, but Sien didn't want to kill the wolf king, he wants to try turning it to a demon, he wanted to know how strong a crimson wolf king in its demon form, although there's a lot of chances to demonize a strong monster, getting an experience right now wasn't really that bad of idea.

He stand in front of the wolf king who's already lying on the ground wounded all over its body, Sien feels like it would die if he let it be hasten his action. He's been thinking of doing this from the very start.

*Ding!*

〈Do you want to turn the Crimson Wolf King into a demon?.〉

「Yes.」