Chapter 1893: Titan Dungeon
Chapter 1893: Titan Dungeon
Karl checked the group and found that it was almost all Elven Rangers and Druids, with one Werebear Berserker at the lead.
Not a lot of diversity, but not warriors.
Then, he realized that there were three members of his group.
That was a huge improvement over most places, but the more that Karl looked around the area, the more he noticed that the Elves suffered from a glut of Rangers the way that the humans suffered from too many Warriors.
And not even Beast Rangers. Just the regular, unadvanced version, but with a tag that called them [Elven Rangers].
"Greetings, Karl of the Darklight Host. Might we ask how your actual combat power is? It’s challenging to tell your true power level, but you still feel like you’re at the peak of Void Immortal with an incredibly powerful physique."
Karl nodded. "That should be close, I think. But my true power comes from the summoned golems, and my bonded beasts. There is a Blood Destruction Spider that will join us once we are inside, so her presence doesn’t mess up the team member count.
The dungeons only count her separately when she enters on her own."
The Ranger nodded. He understood the concept, as it happened to rangers who had bonded monsters.
"Alright, we will take you along. It might weaken the bosses a bit, but that’s not always a bad thing, as it helps lower the risk of accidentally pulling a Supreme Ranked boss."
That was the point when Karl understood perfectly why Cara wanted to go to this dungeon.
If the team was already on the verge of pulling a Supreme Ranked boss, and then you added Karl and Cara, the resultant Chaos and blessing of the World Dragon would almost definitely cause it to advance, even without having to do anything on their part.
They all stepped into the dungeon, and Karl briefly regretted that he hadn’t stopped Cara from sending away the blue dragon.
She would have loved what was about to happen here.
"So, I don’t suppose that any of you have arachnophobia, do you?" Karl asked, before waking Rae for the fight.
"No, we’re good. There are Spider Goddess followers in this region as well."
Karl chuckled as he began calling out his Golems. First regular, then the Cerro form Greater Golems, followed by Oathbreaker as Epic Golems, since he didn’t want to offend the Elves by calling Kings or High Priestesses, and anything else would be too large for the situation.
Then his Lamia form Bodyguards, with the Haint Claw and the Haint shaped Epic Guard to lead their team.
The [Army of the Dead] brought out a dozen Spectral Knights, and then Karl called on the [Army of Nature’s Vengeance] and grabbed ten Dryad Queens.
"That’s a spectacular number of summons. No wonder you weren’t concerned about being dead weight even if the fight was a bit over your level," The Berserker noted.
"Oh, we’ve not started the fun part yet. Meet the Lady Rae Bloodbath. She will be leading the arachnid Infiltration team."
Rae appeared with her pair of Golems, then her Spectral Knights joined Karl’s. But the real spectacle was the hundred Diamondback Rock Spiders that Karl called to join her.
"Gah, no wonder you asked if we were arachnophobic. That is a lot of spiders. Are they some sort of illusion?"
Karl shook his head. "No, they’re a form of Golem. They only have two basic attack skills, but it’s more than enough for them to do their jobs. One is a sticky web, the other is toxic strikes.
Unless something in here is immune to poison and control, they should be fine.
You did say that it’s all Giants, or members of the Titan Clans, I suppose. So, this fight shouldn’t be anything that they are going to struggle too much with. Even better, the targets are large enough to be swarmed."
For a second, they didn’t understand.
Then, Rae spotted the first group of Giants, a pair of four armed Titans who had their backs turned to the entrance and were joking with each other.
A hundred and one spiders launched through the air at speeds that were very close to supersonic, and slammed into the Titans hard enough to take them both to the ground, where they were wrapped in sticky webbing, while being repeatedly stabbed.
Then, both of them simply exploded, as Rae used [Blood Destruction] to finish them off.
"Holy shit."
"Right? She’s incredibly stabby."
The group stared at Karl as if there were something wrong with his brain. "Stabby" didn’t even begin to explain what had just happened to a pair of peak Immortal Titans.
Then, the defeated Giants rose as shambling zombies, Blood Golems raised by Rae to add to her army.
"Alright, so, what direction are we going?"
The Berserker shook his head in dismay. "Uh, that is the only way. The dungeon is one long path through the bosses. There isn’t really an alternate route."
"Then we’d better hurry, or she’s going to kill everything."
The next group saw Rae coming, and dozens of spiders were swatted out of the way, with [Eternal Lightning] shattered by multiple giant blades. But the spiders themselves weren’t heavily injured, and Karl was continually reinforcing the barriers, which were back up within seconds.
"He’s not kidding, that spider intends to clear this entire dungeon," one of the Druids realized.
And Karl hadn’t even sent the rest of the team forward yet.
The berserker led the charge and laughed as the spiders continued to swarm the frantically fighting Titans.
"Move to the third group. We will leapfrog groups with the spiders," he instructed.
That would also put his group in the front when it came time to fight the boss. Dealing with Peak Ascended Immortal Titans, who did easily twenty times the damage that the spiders did, was well within their capability just by pure numbers.
But the boss was going to be a different story.
Even if it wasn’t pushed to Supreme, it was a Titan Mage, and the area damage it could do if not properly controlled was enough to kill entire groups of unwary adventurers.