Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

Chapter 627 627- Flash Steps

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An Andromeda starting from Mk11 has a red frame, Mk10-same red frame with some golden lines in the mix. And as the Mark of the Andromedas goes lower, the more the golden lines are apparent in their frames. 

As could be seen on the Mk8 Andromedas, they had a golden red design. However, unlike the Mk8, those ones were completely golden in colour. Not only that, they also had a much better design than Mk8 and were equipped with far more powerful weapons than any of the Andromedas present. 

The Andromedas with the dashing golden frames were none other than the freshly out of the factory, Mk7. 

Although the Mk7 still had a lot of tweaking to be done , they have already been tested against adventurers around level 500 and have shown sufficient battle power to hold their own against one.

That is to say, even the against the super and disaster class harpies, the Mk7 should be able to stand their ground as long as they were careful of their sharp feather and talons. 

The last part shouldn't be a problem since the Revenant Crows have been monitoring the attack patterns of the harpies and the Mk8 had already fought a couple of battles to collect sufficient data with them.

Given the information sharing ability of the warmachines, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the Mk7 were fully prepared to intercept the harpies even when they haven't fought them yet. 

As soon as Simon gave the command, the army of Andromedas locked on their target and rushed towards them with their weapons out. Thus a chaotic battle that subsumed the entire sky around the mountaintop, started.

"So that's what the cube does. I finally understand why Master was so happy when he drew it out from the gacha" Annette commented.

After the cube finished spewing out Andromedas, it shrunk back to its original size and returned back to Simon. 

"It is called the Eon's Cubes and is quite useful in situations such as this" Simon explained looking at the cube in his hand. As Annette said earlier, he was quite happy when he drew it out from the [Ga??????] option. 

It was one of the numerous items that he inserted in the database of the game and had quite the handy function. The Eon's Cubes has a large dimensional gate inside it that is connected to the other cube.

Yes, the Eon's Cubes as the name suggests comes in pair and since they share the same gate, you can use it as a teleportation device. Of course, since the rank of the artefact was judged to be [B] tier, it had a great shortcoming. 

The Eon's cubes are unable to teleport anything other than inanimate objects. That is to say, a living being cannot pass through its gate. But that was not a problem for Simon, although he did have some regrets for not being able to use the Eon's Cubes as teleportation device, he however found a different use for the Eon's cubes.

So what if a living being is unable to pass through the Eon's cubes? Aren't there plenty of things inside his dungeon that could? For example, the Andromedas were perfectly capable of passing through the gate of the Eon's Cubes since they were to phrase In animate objects.

Simon had placed the other cube in the [Workshop] and carried one with him. As such, he had a portable army with him all the time. All he had to do was contact Wisp through their spiritual link, and the latter would send the Andromeas through the gate. 

It was not only the Andromedas, Simon was also planning to use it for summoning sand golems, Iron golems and other such inanimate monsters from his dungeon in the future.

Imagine carrying an army with you all the time, wouldn't you be able to turn any sticky situation around with it? Who would expect an army to pop out of nowhere? If used properly, the Eon's cubes was quite a broken item.

Although Simon was unable to look at the Harpy Queen's face, he knew that she might be making quite an amusing face right now.

It was indeed as such, Melinda was going through a turmoil of emotions. Just when she thought that she had everything under control the demon went ahead and did something unexpected and turned the situation around on its head once again.

She couldn't be blamed for having an emotional breakdown after all who the heck even carries an army with them? With the force that the demon brought, even if he wanted to take down a king in their own territory, it might not be impossible.

Melinda was gritting her teeth in frustration unable to believe what was unfolding in front of her when from the corner of her eyes she saw the demon move again.

"Don't tell me he is not done yet?!!".

Just as she had guessed after keeping the Eon's cube inside his [Inventory], Simon turned to face the Valkyries who nodded and immediately covered their ears. After that, Simon inhaled a deep deep breath of air before issuing out a powerful demonic roar that caused the very space around him to distort.

[Piercing Demonic Roar], one of the skills that he acquired after becoming a Demon Earl. The skill caused a crippling effect and intimidated his targets making them unable to attack and defend properly.

When used in conjunction with the [Demon Earl's Intimidation] it multiplies the effect and causes the target to become sluggish for a while. The harpies who were hit by his roar, immediately froze in place and were put down by the Andromedas.

The Harpies whose levels were higher were able to handle it better than the others but they still got slowed allowing attacks to rain on them. Of course, those powerful harpies like the two calamity class guards and the queen herself were unfazed from Simon's roar.

Nevertheless, the [Piercing Demon Roar] did subside some of the effects from the [Harpy Queen Prestige].

"That should hold them down for a while.. oh?!" Just as Simon was marvelling at the power of his skill, his [Intuition] rang alerts and his body moved instinctively.

Right afterwards, a couple of [Reinforced Feathers] came shooting at him. These feathers were far more powerful than the ones from the normal harpies since they came from the queen of the harpies themselves.

Simon dodged the feathers; however, to his surprise, he saw the feather change direction and came attacking him again and again as if they had a mind of their own.

"Tch… this is getting annoying"

Simon clicked his tongue and brandished his sword. His movements were clean and hardly any fault could be found in his posture. All the feathers that came targeting him were burned into cinders.

There were no flames generated, the feathers were burned just by coming in contact with the tip of the blade.

Even her powerful feathers were burned into cinders? Melinda looked at the sword in the demon's hand. It had a dark red handle, a circular hand guard and a long blade. However, what was unusual about that blade was that it was severely scorched and looked odd and worn out.

It had many dings and cracks and could hardly be used as a sword at this point. What's more, the sheen that the blade gave, a truly exceptional sword would have a sharp glint that would make all the onlookers feel a shape incisiveness.

However, the blade of the sword in the demon's hand, not only looked blunt, but it had purple black colour as if the craftsman had failed to forge the blade properly.

No matter how she looked at it, the sword seemed as if it would break apart any moment. Yet why was it that she felt an immense, almost infinite amount of heat coming from that sword?

For some reason, her soul shuddered whenever her gaze landed on that sword.

Melinda used [Analysis] to get an understanding of that weapon but it was blocked by the demon.

"Hehe, are you curious about this sword?" Simon turned around to face the queen of the harpies. Naturally, His eyes were cast on her shadow.

Melinda did not say anything, her silence was her way of telling that she was curious.

"Not telling you" Simon shook his head still playing the rascal. Of course, there was no way he was going to tell her about his [S] tier sword.

'This demon!!' Cursing inwardly, Melinda stared daggers at the demon. She was feeling so frustrated right now, that she wanted to eat the demon and feast on his blood and flesh.

'If only I had enough mana to open the Evil Eye of Annihilation' Melinda Lamented. Right now, she couldn't even use 80% of her power and she was quickly running out of cards to play.

On the other hand, the demon still looked like he still had many more cards in his deck. Not to mention there was still that maid near the demon who refused to join the battle since the start.

She could somehow guess her power based on the strength that the other two maids displayed. However, knowing that did not solve anything for her. She still had to be on her guard for when she joined in.

Melinda's eyes moved as she observed the battlefield. It was chaos everywhere with no way of determining which side was winning. However, that was as good as losing for her. This was her territory, and based on common sense she should be the one suppressing her enemies with their numbers and not the other way around.

But that was not the worst part, it was seeing her two most powerful guards being pinned down and unable to retaliate one sidedly by a single maid.

Melinda felt like she had lost all face today.