How I Became the Strongest Sovereign

Chapter 126 - The Anomalous Dungeon III

Opening my palms, Voadhailis's Claws flew to my hands like magnets. I threw a crescent shaped arc of flames with a single swing, cutting off the boss's left side.

"Anos, do the thing. Hurry!" He cried desperately, still frozen from the Gravity Magic.

"Y-Yes sir!" The S rank beast named 'Anos', his body began dissipating into mana particles. What was happening?

Suddenly, a burst of bright light blinded my vision. I covered my eyes with my forearm and stepped back. 

"Now you're dead!" 

-Boom!

A strong punch to my stomach sent me flying back, tumbling into one of the shops. 

[You have suffered 3,909 Damage]

'How did he-'

The beast had already made it in front of me and gripped my collar, picking me up. He powered up. Did he absorb his subordinate?

"Get your hands off me!"

'Shackles Release.'

A burst of mana engulfed my body and my hair slowly transformed to a red hue. Two dark horns propped out of my head and my veins glowed, like gold flowed through my veins. The Draconic and demonic aura intensified, boosting my power and mana pressure.

I sliced up with Voadhailis's Claw cutting his arm off. 

"What the-"

The beast leapt back to the open street but I blitzed after him. Freezing him with 'Gravity zone', I sliced at his head but he evaded. He could still move in my gravity zone?!

He threw a fit of punches, balls of flames, but I dodged them all dancing around and levitating. Somehow he had become much stronger than before but I could still beat him; I threw the short sword in my right hand and began running towards him. 

His arm glowed with a bright flame as he charged towards me. Turning his head slightly, Voadhailis's Claw flew past his head. 

'Bingo.' Voad smiled.

'Switch!'

Time froze as I swapped situations with the Voadhailis's Claw that had flown behind him. His face grew in shock as he realised what had just happened.

-Swish!

As my body spun in the air above him, a clean cut from Voadhailis's Claw severed his head from his body. 

His body dropped to the ground along with his rolling head.

"Y-You think this is over? The main army is probably already here. AHhaaha!"

How was this guy still speaking?

I concentrated a small fireball in my finger before blasting his creepy head to smithereens. 

[You have earned 100,000 EXP for killing a mutated S rank beast!]

[You have levelled up!]

[You are now level 93]

[You have 90 Available Stat Points]

Deactivating my demon form, I put on my eye patch once more. I had to check up on that Hunter Party.

'Voad, is what he said true? Are there more coming?' I asked through our mental link.

'Yes. I sense about 500 or so C rank Trolls and a couple B and A rank mutated Trolls. There are also 2 powerful S rank beasts leading the front. Your MP is running low and your HP too, it's only at 35%. There's no way we're winning this unless we get reinforcements.

'And remember we have to clear the dungeon itself too.' Voad replied. 

I cursed my luck. Why was the technology so poor in this era? I couldn't even communicate with the Hunter Association.

'Dianmu. Numen. I need your help.' 

'Okay. I'm on my way.' Numen replied through the mental link. Surprisingly he had replied first.

'I'm taking care of the kids. I can't right now.' Dianmu was the next to answer.

'I'm going to be fighting a whole army, I don't wanna hear no ifs, buts or maybes. Come here now.' I ordered.

'Fine. Wait 10 Minutes.'

"Oi Jason. Can you walk?" I tapped Jason's face, waking him up.

"Oh it's you. I mean, y-yes sir. I can walk." He picked himself up, dusting off the dust from his armour. 

"Wake up the others, we need to move. There's a whole army coming." I looked in the direction of the trampling in the distance; they were getting closer by the minute. 

"Sir, may I ask if you don't mind. What happened to those 3 powerful beasts?" Jason stuttered, still in shock from his near death experience.

"I killed them."

Jason gulped at my reply, before rushing away and waking up his party members.

'They'll be here in 30 minutes. If we're going to stay here and farm for Exp, then You should use those spare stat points that have piled up. I'm also meditating, I'm mid way through the first stage of the secondary mana pool.' Voad gave some quick words before going back to meditating.

I walked over to the side of a building before sitting down and exhaling. I gathered mana into my mana pool at a fast rate, if I meditated for 20 minutes I'd be able to increase my MP from 15% to 60% capacity at least.

'Status Menu Open.'

[Status Menu]

[Name: Zeref Amara]

[Species: Tribrid (Human, Demon, True Dragon)]

[Level: 93]

[Exp: 26,000/ 93,000]

[Mana Pool: Stage 6]

[HP: 33,000]

[MP: 12,000]

[Strength: 205]

[Stamina: 204]

[Agility: 207]

[Defence/ Durability: 209]

[Intelligence: 200]

[Total Available Stat Points: 90]

[Weakness: Increased damage taken from Earth Magic, Nature Magic and when consuming Eggs]

[Affinity/ Perks: Lightning Magic, Fire Magic, Ice magic, Gravity magic.

             Immune to Lightning magic attacks and Mental attacks

             Resistance against fire and ice magic by 80%

             Rapid healing

             Heightened Senses

             Super strength and Super speed

             Levitation

             Demon Eye (Increased Perception and Visual Prowess)

             Sixth Sense [Echo Location using mana instead of sound waves] ]

I lacked power in that battle. S rank beasts normally always use close combat so my strength and defence/durability would have to be increased. Increasing my defence would lessen the damage I would take. Lastly, stamina, this played an extremely important role in fighting long battles. 

[Strength has increased 205 -> 245]

[Stamina has increased 184 -> 224]

[Defence/ Durability has increased 209 -> 239]

The rejuvenating feeling of increasing stat points always felt good. 

"Sir. Our group of 17 awaits your orders. Sadly, 3 have died and 7 are injured, the rest of us are still in shock. I'm in awe of how you apprehended them all by yourself." Jason stood next to me, awaiting an answer.

Getting up I took out a portal device from my Dimension ring and handed it to him.

"Take your party and go back to the Hunter Bureau. I've already contacted backup, but I need more. Ask the Hunter Bureau to send strong Hunters. The main army of Mutated Trolls is almost here. I'll stay behind and hold them off." I ordered.

"But sir you couldn't possibly survive against an army of-" As he was about to talk me out of it, several powerful mana pressures had appeared behind him. 

He immediately pulled out his sword, sweat dripping down his forehead from the beasts in front of him. 

However, to his surprise instead of attacking him the 11 humanoid, green plant Monsters bowed in his direction and the lone peculiar human-like beast: Numen. 

'Hope I'm not too late Zeref. It took some time for me to make this many clones. This should be enough support but this way my mana will run out much quicker.' Numen spoke through our mind link.

I gave him a quick nod, which made him and his clones raise their heads. 

"S-Sir. What's happening? Aren't they S rank beasts? Why are they giving me a bow?" Jason shrieked.

"Calm down. He's my familiar, I've formed a contract with him and he's not bowing to you, he's bowing to me. 

"There's no more time, they're getting closer. I need you to hurry up and go, Go bring reinforcements." I ordered, pushing him hastily.

He began running to his party of 17, rounding them up like a shepherd. Giving me a quick nod, Jason activated the portal and jumped through it with his party members. 

That settled the nuisance. 

'So how many are we facing?'

As Numen said that, the ground began to shake from the marching of the troll army. They were almost here. 

 'This looks terrible.' Numen remarked

I ignored him as I replenished my mana. The plan that I had devised to win this battle would require a lot of mana; therefore, every second of meditation mattered to me....