The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 80: Me showing off again in the dungeon (1)

Well, we all entered the dungeon without any problem. We entered the same portal but we didn't come out at the same place. It was established that we would be transported randomly but the only guarantee was that we would end up in the Outer Region of the dungeon.

The outer region is the safest place in a dungeon. As we go towards the core the more dangerous it becomes. So the academy has set up this dungeon so that we would all end up in the outer region, rather than in the inner or core regions where the most powerful monsters live.

Normally it would be difficult for that to make this happen in a dungeon. When you enter the dungeon, you would be randomly transported to anywhere in the dungeon or there would be a single point of entrance. It is either this or that, it can't be controlled.

The reason why the academy could do this was because the dungeon we entered was an Artificial Dungeon.

These artificial dungeons were created by the academy in order to have a controllable way to obtain resources. The natural dungeons would have their own way of creating resources, which may not be very useful for people.

I mean if you are looking for an herb, you wouldn't know when the dungeon would create that herb. You may not the conditions and when it is most likely to happen but that is not a guarantee.

Artificial dungeons on the other hand would be able to create resources in a specific manner. In this way, there would be a continuous supply of resources. There wouldn't be many fluctuations in the appearance of the resources, and the market would be stable.

Of course, there is no way to create artificial dungeons that can hold Tier-4 and above monsters. Only such dungeons can be useful in creating certain rare resources but trying to create those dungeons leads to disasters.

The losses outweighed the gains due to those dungeons. So no one wants to do such a thing.

Haha, before coming to the academy, I knew nothing. I thought that since I was a noble child, I should have learned a lot from the family's library but I was wrong.

I knew that there are restrictions before knowledge can be learned but I thought such knowledge was small but I was wrong. Even though I used my clones to read a lot of books from the library, I didn't even complete one percent of the library and that was considering only the part that was available to the students.

There is a lot to learn, which I will think about later. Now I should hunt these monsters and earn as many points as I can. So it's time to SPLIT.

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Roar!

"Wow, that's big but useless", I muttered as I used Shadow Bolt and ended it in one shot.

The monster was a Peak Tier-1 Frost Tiger, which was only found in the Inner region of the dungeon.

None of the monsters here can withstand my power. Most of them are at least two ranks below me. The only one that even can fight me is in the core of the dungeon. It was said that the monster there would be peak Tier-2.

Though I can easily take it out, it would just attract unwanted attention towards me. Moreover, killing these monsters would gain me much of nothing.

What I need are monsters of high-level dungeons, which the first years can't access. Unless you show that your rank is Tier-3 or above, there is no way that the academy would unnecessarily put the student's life in jeopardy.

So for me, the only way that I can improve my level and reach Tier 5 is when I enter the secret realm. Until then, I don't think there would be much change in rank.

Hmm, I believe that by the end of this dungeon test, I may increase my level by one. I can feel it.

Since I reached Tier-4, I would get only 1 EXP from killing monsters below Tier-2. The only monsters that give any EXP are Tier-2 and above for me. I could gain something from killing that peak Tier-2, but the rewards aren't worth the risk involved.

So the best use that I can make is by using clones to kill the monsters, thereby improving my skills a little bit, which is better than trying to gain EXP in this dungeon.

This was what I had been doing since I entered the dungeon. While I was hunting these monsters, my clones were hunting monsters too.

I don't know how this bracelet works but I can clearly see my kills increasing even while I did nothing. I saw this happen during the entrance exam too. This was why I let the clones go whatever they wanted to and return to me every half an hour.

It would be a waste of skill experience gained without gaining it.

I would lose the gain in skill levels if the clone dies. So I merge and split the clones while moving slowly towards the core of the dungeon.

When I entered the dungeon, I simply ran towards the inner region. It would be a waste of my time and energy to squat flies. They would be annoying and there are others who can take care of them.

With me growing, I needed bigger and stronger enemies in order to improve further. Fighting weaker enemies would only make me weaker.

Though there was no doomsday prophecy or something like that, this world is not safe enough for the weak to survive. The only way to survive is by being strong.

Consider this scenario.

Two powerful people started to fight in the middle of a street because one of them stole medicine that could have saved the life of someone. The one who stole the medicine wanted the person suffering to die.

A Hero appeared and tried to stop the theft and it escalated.

What happens when two powerful people fight each other, Destruction. There would be a lot of damage and casualties. This would be considered as collateral damage.

If you are one of those collaterals, who can you blame?

Would you blame the villain who stole that medicine and the cause of this fight?

Would you blame the hero who tried to stop that thief?

The only person you can blame is yourself for not being strong. It would be one thing if you had no talent but with the talent I have, I should sit at the top of the world.

If I fail to reach such a stage, I can and should only blame myself.