MTLNOVEL Chapter 1526
After kicking King Roth, First spun around, her tail lashing as she walked away, not saying another word. Slowly, King Roth got back up. This time, he crawled back to the shore on his hands and knees, his face stony and thunderous.
“You… you will all pay… for this insolence.” He snarled.
“I wonder about that.” I lifted an orb in my hands.
As his eyes fell on it, he went white and grabbed for his robes. I had managed to grab his dungeon lore before. On the other hand, I pulled out another dungeon lore. That was my that I had finally recovered. His lore was a little more substantial than mine, it seemed. My hand began to tighten on the lore. A cracking sound started to fill the air.
“N-no!” He shouted, raising out his hand.
I used all of my strength, and the lore shattered. The pieces didn’t fall to the ground though. I began to absorb them the moment I crushed the lore. They began to float in place, but they started to give off a white light, but as soon as it was emitted it was sucked into my dungeon lore. He let out a scream, grabbing his chest like he was in pain. Meanwhile, the pieces of his dungeon began to evaporate, being eaten by my dungeon.
The process started slowly, but I increased the speed of absorption, and increasingly more lore was released and consumed. This had been my plan from the beginning. Although things hadn’t gone as smoothly as I had hoped, it turned out in the end. Compared to the girls that my dungeon had absorbed earlier, this was far more mana. I could feel the energy of the dungeon quickly growing, and I had a feeling like my dungeon was reaching another sudden growth period. After this, the dungeon would become a much deeper dungeon, perhaps 30-40 levels rather than 20.
The process took about fifteen minutes, and King Roth shouted and writhed as his energy and his link to his dungeon was slowly drained to nothing. He was powerless to prevent it. To think, had he just left his dungeon lore in the dungeon under proper protection, he might have still had a chance. At the very least, when he died, the dungeon lore would have recreated a corrupted version of himself. Given his nature, he was sure to eventually break free of the dungeon and return to life. Lore could be a problem like that.
This was exactly why I drained the lore before dealing with King Roth. I didn’t want to end up having to kill him again as I did with Aberis. There was no saying there weren’t other dungeons out there that had an imprint of King Roth in them or Aberis for that matter. The more of their lore you destroyed, though, the less of their story could be passed on. At some point, they wouldn’t even be the same person anymore, like what I had feared happened with Lydia when I saw half her soul destroyed.
A copy of a future copy of King Roth might not even see themselves as a king, or a harem master, or a lionkin for that matter. There was just no telling with these things.
The last of the dungeon wisped away to dust, and my dungeon lore had seemingly grown several centimeters larger.
[Roth’s Dungeon has been absorbed. The dungeon battle has been concluded.]