Earthling in Uncharted Dimensions

Chapter 179: Diplomatic Dungeon

The Tyrant kept a distance from Lee, so that it could use its trump card. Within seconds, pitch black spheres began to form at the tip of each wing and they began to compress as they grew larger.

*zing…*

Lee had a guess that the beast was about to use its trump card. D promptly described what had happened when the Death element previously came in contact with it. Thus, Lee deduced that the beast's final weapon must also consist of the Death element.

Since the immunity to the Death element was at Lesser grade, Lee did not want to miss the opportunity. When D confirmed that the condensing spheres are indeed made of pure death energy, Lee found his assumptions correct.

Like four curved mirrors reflecting the sunlight to a point, Lee was shot with a continuous stream of Death energy. The first impact made every single cell in his body scream in agony, but the pain soon decreased as the intensity skyrocketed the immunity to the Medium grade.

The Tyrant Fairy was visibly confused. The veil of darkness initially enveloped Lee, and he was cut off from the light of the day. But as soon as the continuous stream of pitch blackness became less dense, it saw an unpleasant sight. Lee had somehow survived the fatal attack!

Lee saw the mixed expression reflecting its inner transactions. To find that one's trump card could not even put a scratch on the opponent's body would mean that the death dealer was at the doorstep. The beast did not continue its vain attempt, and cut off the death ray.

The spheres disintegrated and the miasma entered into the body of the beast. Since it had decided to destroy Lee, it is now placing everything on the line, including its life. The miasma entered into its inside through its eyes, nose, ears and mouth, and a significant change happened to its size.

Tyrant Fairy shrunk by a metre or two! D speculated that this is either because the beast is non-immune to the miasma in the inside, but can give a considerable boost for a few minutes, or it is drawing energy from its body to channel it to its dexterity and power, which when combined with Death energy, can cause some serious damage.

When the Tyrant Fairy's stat report was summoned using View, it became clear that the latter suggestion was true.

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Name: Tyrant Death Fairy

Race: Fairy

Age: +400 years

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Health: 5770

Power: 2850

Dexterity: 2205josei

Intelligence: 294

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D sighed as he saw the increase in stats. He was unusually calm. Anyone would have questioned the meaning of his sigh which simply meant 'I am relieved'. Hudson, inside the System Space, raised the same doubt.

[The beast might be superior in power, but Lee surpasses the beast in agility by a big margin.]

The Tyrant took initiative to attack, but it felt that it had lost footing. The leg which was moved forward was sinking in the ground. As soon as the beast felt the change in orientation, Lee vanished like smoke into the thin air.

An alert rang in its mind, and it looked down. It's face went pale as it realised that the leg was chopped at the knee. Losing balance, it fell on the ground on its nose. Then the pain erupted from the receptors.

For a normal human being of Earth, the recorded maximum withstandable force is a little above 46 G's. But Lee was now zooming at more than twice of its force. He is able to do so, because he did a small customization to his body.

When he was being healed, Lee integrated his body with various materials and alloys. First was his bones, where he integrated each one with Tungsten-Carbide alloy strands. After the process, each bone was about 60% artificial.

Strengthened Spider Silk was weaved through each muscle strand, which enabled him to execute high G actions without fail. A series of Titanium-Tungsten alloy was forming a network under his skin, and made his epidermis a fortress.

Many more miniscule modifications were done in a time span of a few seconds, and it was this change that D mistook for the leap in attributes. Wait till he finds out about the secret full body upgradation of Lee!

The Tyrant was not intimidating anymore, but was being intimidated by an invader's presence. The sentient form of the Dungeon Crystal had killed many in the past, but it had hit a wall after decades of isolation. The fear concealed under the angry expressions were picked up by Lee, and he evaluated that the beast had almost peed in its pants.

"Why...keel me?"

The Tyrant Fairy spoke in an almost intelligible way. The construction of its mouth and the tongue had made speech impossible, but it picked up the linguistic memories of the deceased adventurers and cultivators. It was when it met an unyielding wall, that it thought of a possibility of diplomacy.

"You can speak?"

Lee raised the blade and rested it over his shoulder. The beast tried to stand up, but the loss of a lower hind-limb had made it greatly disabled. It took awhile for the beast to comprehend the words spoken by Lee, and it gave an answer in a much more understandable way.

"I...progress...and...develop. I...grow...in strength...and...memory."

Lee now knew how the Dungeon Crystal's sentient form could speak. When the people die inside the dungeon, their memories are also absorbed by the dungeon. The Tyrant Fairy did not know that those memories could be handy until today.

"If you can help me for once, then I give you my word that I will not hurt or kill you. Understood?"

After a dozen of seconds, it nodded in agreement. The beast was still on the ground with its severed limb leaking a bit of its slightly viscous blood. Since it cannot heal when in the sentient form, it must retreat to the Crystal to recuperate.

Lee extended his right hand and raised his index finger, indicating 'one'.

"I have only one task for you. If you do it correctly, you might receive an inflow of people."