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Chapter 430

A/N: Small change to Ajax's new trait made on last chapter. The trait properly works for a hybrid now also allowing the use of Mana as Stamina at 1:1 efficiency.

“Stop looking so glum, this achievement might not be as immediately impactful as it could have been but you will see just how important it is in the long run.” the prince said as he watched Ajax as he was recovering before pushing on to finish the rest of the delve.

The prince was very muc...

Chapter 429

A/N Small change to last chapter to reflect that the elves did know he could use curse but didn't know he could mix it with magic. My bad on that somehow it slipped my mind that the information would have spread like wildfire.

“Hey princess, which do you think looks more gruesome?” the prince asked as Arianwyn approached Ajax and by extent the body of the fallen ettin. 

Arianwyn wasn’t squamish, she had long dealt with the gruesome aft...

Chapter 428

A/N : Sorry for the delay. Small insight into my creative process here, the fight originally ended with Ajax unconscious, I didn't like that much of repeat of his last hard fight so I reworked the ending.

At this distance Ajax knew better than trying to land any meaningful damage with an arrow, the arrows he did fire weren’t even infused with mana but they were simply there to force the ettin to keep its shield up so that he could use [Mana Syphon] on it.

...

Chapter 427

Much like Ajax expected it wasn’t going to be easy to land an attack on the ettin. His main objective right now was to conserve his own mana all while trying to draw blood and poison the boss. As he was running away Ajax fired two more arrows this time however he empowered one with Wind and one with Shadow mana. 

The Wind arrow was much quicker but it met the same fate as the Void arrow, this time however the barrier was put up further away from the ettin’s body cost...

Chapter 426

Aranor P.O.V.

The boy’s luck strikes once more, an ettin. Those two headed behemoths are some of the most straightforward floor bosses, not only that but depending on the type it might be a perfect match up for him as well. 

“What type?” I ask as we all head towards the source of the previous bellows. 

“Hybrid.” the scout answers.

Well, the boy’s luck doesn’t seem to be quite that good, a pure mage wou...

Chapter 425

Ajax was silently freaking out on the inside, there were a total of twenty two ducal families in Gryndor right now but out of those only five of them were landed. While he was sure he wouldn’t be given any of their territories even having an actual dukedom would paint a target on his family for at least 15 other ducal families that wanted to earn their own large swath of land. Not only that but the current five landed ducal families were so entrenched in their lands that it was actually eas...

Chapter 424

The tenth floor of the dungeon was a common hillside meant to make things as easy as possible for Anna, Lexi and Xavier, Benedict knew he didn’t stand a chance as he was now a full physical build like his simply didn’t have a way to deal enough damage at this much of a stat discrepancy while remaining safe.

“Why is everything getting bigger?” Ajax complained as he watched a mole the size of a bus get dispatched.

“Stats.” Aranor responded. “You s...

Chapter 423

Ajax was happy with the compromise, he also didn’t want to risk it by going against anything that had the chance to kill him with even a glancing blow and was focused on speed. It wasn’t long until everyone but the night watch went to sleep.

“So Aranor, what do you think of them?” the captain of the ranger squad asked.

“What do you mean by that?” Aranor asked.

“How much of a problem are they, politically? The captain asked. ...

Chapter 422

Since none of the party could gain anything from the first three floors of the dungeon the group went through them all in under one hour by simply finding the first arch and going through it to the next floor. 

“I look forward to clearing floors once more after we finish with the boosting.” Lexi said as she stepped foot on the fourth floor.

“You do know that you’ll also be doing this when we get back to Gryndor as well?” Ajax whispered in her e...

Chapter 421

Ajax’s jaw dropped and he remained silently shocked by the offer, the elf clearly interpreted the silence as a positive view of his offer. The same thing could not be said about his girlfriend who had been right behind him as he entered the embassy.

“I’m sorry Viscount Deeproot I think I misheard you, what was it you said?” Lexi’s words and tone were sweet and polite but the cold look on her face and the piercing stare in her eyes revealed her true emotions.

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Chapter 420

Following the party Ajax had plans to put in a lot of time and effort into his Alchemy, he had almost an entire week before he could delve into the other dungeon. His plans didn’t have a good chance to get underway before they were interrupted the following morning.

“What did you do last night?” Both Silvia and Alana sprung on him the moment he took a seat at the breakfast table. 

“What do you mean?” Ajax asked, confused as he filled his plate ...

Chapter 419

The party was held at House Blackthorn’s manor, with the manor only being House Blackthorn’s residence in the capital it wasn’t a fortress tree but it was easy to see how hard they had tried to recreate one, in aesthetics if not in function. 

“Are you sure that’s not one of their special trees, it looks a lot like the palace?” Alana asked as she took in the grandeur of the many trees that intertwined themselves.

Having so much more freedom in...

Chapter 418

Ajax wasn’t unconscious for long, especially with the prince healing him quickly after they confirmed the worm had died. He woke up two minutes later with a headache that would put any hangover to shame.

“Ugh,” Ajax groaned as he rubbed his forehead in a futile attempt to lessen the throbbing pain. “What happened?” 

Even with the pain he was still quick to look around and survey his surroundings. Sadly the surroundings didn’t tell him anythin...

Chapter 417

Ajax P.O.V.

The worm was coming for me faster than I had expected. This meant that it would find it hard to change its strike area, the lack of limbs also meant that once I was out of the way of its charge I shouldn’t have to worry about its physical attacks. 

Right as I prepared to jump off to my right I felt my [Danger Sense] flare for a moment so I changed the angle of my jump and launched myself to the right and high above the ground. The decision ...

Chapter 416

The ninth floor of the dungeon was a wild jungle that provided Ajax with a large variety of ingredients to use in his [Alchemy]. It didn’t take long for him to set up his cauldron and portable lab equipment and he began working while ignoring the rest of the world.

“What’s wrong?” the prince asked as he approached Ajax after a few hours. 

Ajax was starting to look more and more defeated every time he took a small break to grab new ingredients, de...

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Chapter 415

The level nineties didn’t turn out to be that much more of a challenge either, the most eye opening thing about the floor was a deeper understanding into how the mana affected different floors of the dungeon. The floor they had chosen Ajax had recognised as a primarily humanoid floor, which was technically true. What was unexpected was that Wendigo’s were classified as humanoids despite their bestial natures and lack of tools or armor.

“I was expecting elves or beastkin...

Chapter 414

The group watched Anna’s battle with the penguin with bated breath. It was obvious when her potion ran out and Ajax could feel Lexi’s grip on his hand tighten, they all knew that with the backlash of the potion the best Anna could hope for was a slow defensive struggle until the monster twenty five levels above her would finish her off. 

The next fireball Anna released showed her lack of power, Ajax was tempted to end the fight there just to spare Anna the despair of...

Chapter 413

Anna P.O.V.

Fighting the bees on the previous floor had been a great way to warm up and it was something I very much needed if I was to kill a miniboss in this frozen hellscape. The fifth floor of the dungeon was a land of eternal winter. While I had seen snow outside the dungeon it never got any higher than my knees, father told me the worst winter he ever experienced it got as high as his waist.

“This is amazing.” Arianwyn shouted with glee as continued...

Chapter 412

For the fifth floor of the dungeon the team collectively decided to go with one of the random arches. The reason it was random wasn’t that Ajax couldn’t feel what the predominant mana types were, it was simply that he didn’t know those represented. He had felt them in present in small quantities on other floors but he hadn’t been able to get a clear reading on what they represented. 

Since the floor would only have levels up to sixty two it would be a perfect war...

Chapter 411

The first floor of the dungeon wasn’t all that special of a setting, the rather common forest theme was one Ajax had grown very used to. What made this floor different from most he had seen was that the trees grew about twice as thick and four to five times as tall, more than that this floor also had elven enemies defending it. 

“I can see now why so few crafters get their start in the capital.” Ajax mentioned as he looked around. 

The presenc...

Chapter 410

The knowledge that bees help with pollination was new to the elves, they knew that bees were attracted to flowers but they hadn’t pieced together that the flowers had adapted to make use of the bees. 

One of the things Ajax was more cognizant of needing to keep a secret was that he had figured out how to infuse mana into the bees. During his time in the academy the hives were now on their third queen. The first had only lasted between a year or two depending on the hiv...

Chapter 409

The group received a warm welcome , the king took a moment to hug his daughter before he welcomed the rest of them and invited them to help themselves to the buffet that waited for them on the table along the side of the room.

The queen was quick to realize that there was nothing going on between her daughter and Ajax as it took less than a minute for her to stop analyzing them, at the same time her attitude warmed up considerably now that she only saw them as friends of her ...

Chapter 408

The discussion quickly expanded from just Ajax and Xavier to include the prince and through the communication device the king and the crown prince as well. 

“I want this to be my present.” Ajax stated. “It will only be shared with the boy, Arianwyn and their king.” 

Ajax wanted to make a good impression and while he had plenty of valuables he could use as a more than worthy gift from a somewhat newly titled Baron all of those items were also...

Chapter 407

For their final few days in Deepwood everyone was on edge, despite that nothing more came of it. They were safely escorted all the way to the border where two ten man squads of some of the strongest elves in Sylvanthal were waiting for them. 

“Do take care of yourself Baron.” Lioriel addressed Ajax as they were crossing the border. “I hope you take no offense if I don’t invite you to visit in the future.” 

“That’d be up to her Majesty....

Chapter 406

The longer the battle drew on for the more hateful glares the group received. Surprisingly enough however Aranor was on the receiving end of most of the glares, the elves were blaming him for their casualties since he stood by guarding the group rather than respond to the attacks.

As the hours dragged on the losses started to lessen, every attack claiming less and less lives. The two champions had done their job well as they picked off half of the enemies highest level combat...

Chapter 405

“What’s going on?” Xavier asked as he saw the elves setting up large defensive structures. 

“We’re expecting another attack, only this time it might be more than one or two assassins.” Aranor said with a dark look crossing his face. “A mercenary group was found and stopped by our reinforcements as they were about to cross over into Deepwood.” 

“Mercenaries?” Benedict asked, surprised. 

“Turns out it wasn�...

Chapter 404

Few people truly paid any attention to anything inside a dungeon that they couldn’t take with them. It was a defense mechanism so that they wouldn’t regret all the wealth they had to leave behind. While Ajax was playing with the rifle they had found Xavier took on the bull mini boss. 

After ten minutes of examining the rifle Ajax finlay brought the sight up to his eye and aimed for the cowboy hat he placed on top of one of the fence posts.

BANG!

Chapter 403

Ajax’s idea about unleashing a dungeon break was quickly shut down. It wasn’t so much about the damage that doing this would do to Deepwood or the loss of any compensation Gryndor was due for their ill fated encounters. The sole reason the idea was vetoed without so much as a discussion was that it would be breaking one of the core principles signed in their most recent peace treaty, having a prince of Gryndor be party to that would all but invalidate that treaty.

“It s...

Chapter 402

Looking at the captured assassins gave Ajax a much better understanding of why the skill they had all gained was only considered Rare. A tracking mark with increased damaged to the target that can be used by any member of the organization as long as one of them applies it is something that should be a Legendary skill. 

The assassins that were captured weren’t starving but that was the only difference he saw between them and the portrails he saw of drug users going thro...