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Chapter 131: Floor Three - The Bone Wastes and the First Encounter
Six hours ago, Aster Vale grumbled about the dungeon's construction quality while plucking lotuses at the edge of the glowing lake. Six hours ago, the world beneath the North Tower still had rules. It still had seals. It still had boundaries between what was locked away and what was free.Now, nothing was locked away.And Aster Vale was sneezing.The spiral staircase connecting Floor Two to Floor Three was still intact—unlike the staircase leading up, which had collapsed forty minutes ago. The stone steps creaked beneath Viktor's weight and the three burlap sacks now filled with lotuses, moss, and crystals. Darius walked behind Viktor, his dull scissors raised, trimming every shard of dry bone jutting from the stairwell walls. Seraphina took notes. Lyra recorded. Toby sniffed every step with his wet nose.And Aster sneezed every three steps."Dry air," he grumbled, his Tattered Cloth Mask tied tightly over his nose and mouth. "Bone dust. Calcium particles. If I don't wear a mask, my c
Chapter 130: The Exam Dungeon Becomes a Battlefield
Five hours ago, the Exam Dungeon was a structured place. Orderly. Controlled. Multi-layered security seals. Professor supervision through observation crystals. Clear boundaries between safe zones and danger zones. Five hours ago, this dungeon was an exam hall.Now, it was a hell that had lost its architect.Floor One was unrecognizable.The Crystal Forest, once shimmering with a soft blue light, now flickered red—the emergency glow of cracked seals emitting warnings no one listened to anymore. Crystal trees lay fallen in three places, their transparent trunks shattered into sharp shards scattered across the ground. Glowing moss was trampled underfoot, emitting a dying, blinking green light.And among the ruins, monsters roamed.No longer dog-sized living pebbles. No longer tiny creatures that could be avoided. Two-meter-tall beasts with claws that split stone. Multi-eyed creatures crawling across the ceiling. Creatures that should have been locked in containment zones and had never, i
Chapter 129: Helena Descends into the Dungeon
Grand Inquisitor Helena stood in front of the gate, her hands clenched beneath her gold-and-white robe.She was not an examinee. She was not a student. She was not a professor. She was an official observer from the Church of the Holy Light, and an observer was not supposed to enter the dungeon. It was not in her mandate. It was not in her protocols. It had not been in her twenty-year career as an Inquisitor.But something was wrong.Helena had felt it an hour ago—a spiritual disturbance radiating from deep underground like a second heartbeat that shouldn't exist. It was not an ordinary mana fluctuation. It was not a construction tremor. It was something older. Deeper. Thirstier. And that disturbance grew stronger with every passing minute, as if something down there was awakening from a very long slumber.Behind her, two assistant inquisitors stood holding small wooden chests containing ritual equipment. Helena turned to them."You two stay in the control room with Professor Balthazar
Chapter 128: Security Seal Sabotage
Three hours after the stone gate swallowed the seven exam-taking teams, far below the deepest floor accessible to anyone registered as a student, a man stood inside a room that shouldn't have existed.The room wasn't on any map. Not on the academy's blueprints. Not in the construction archives. Not in the memory of any living professor. It lay beneath Floor Five—below the Dungeon Core—in a stone cavity reachable only through a tunnel dug non-stop for two weeks by twenty-one pairs of hands never recorded on the city's registry.General Kael jammed a torch into the stone wall. The firelight illuminated the narrow room, revealing three seal mechanisms embedded in the wall—three ancient runic circles, each a meter in diameter, glowing faint blue with a synchronized pulse like three hearts beating in unison.This was the beating heart of the Exam Dungeon's security. The point where all protective seals converged. A point that, according to the Valdris War Faction's secret archives, had bee
Chapter 127: Floor Two and the First "Customers"
Two hours after the stone gate swallowed them, Aster's team left the Crystal Forest behind and descended the spiral staircase toward Floor Two.The air changed.If Floor One felt dry and metallic like the inside of a giant bell, Floor Two felt damp and alive. Humidity instantly clung to their skin as the last foot stepped off the bottom stair. The scent of fresh water mingled with something sweet—like honey mixed with morning dew and a faint hint of ozone.The Mana Lake stretched before them.The water's surface was not blue, not green, not black. It shimmered. A bluish-white light pulsed from invisible depths, creating the illusion that the lake had a beating heart of its own. Atop the water, massive lotus flowers floated with wide-open petals. Each petal emitted a soft light that blinked in sync with the lake's pulse, creating a hypnotic visual rhythm.Around the lake, stalactites and stalagmites met to form calcite pillars dripping with glowing water. The drops fell onto the lake's
Chapter 126: Entering the Exam Dungeon
Afternoon at the Exam Dungeon gate felt like standing at the mouth of a sleeping giant.The gate towered seven meters high at the base of the North Tower, a black stone arch carved with ancient symbols worn smooth by three hundred years of age. The founders of Aethelgard Academy had built this structure in the academy's third year—an artificial dungeon designed specifically to test students' abilities under controlled conditions. Layered security seals were etched into every inch of the stone surface, glowing faint blue like held breath.Seven teams stood lined up in front of the gate. Most consisted of five students in standard combat gear, checking their weapons, ropes, and ingredient pouches one last time. But the last team—the team scheduled to enter dead last—had eight members. This was the maximum allowed by the committee this year, a consequence of an uneven enrollment count and one noble whom no other team would accept.The teams entered the dungeon in waves—one team every fiv
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