Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

The new party Yunan met were rather ordinary, they greeted him and talked about his magic range and his output, as well as what else he could do, they had no interest in his private life or how he could make it so far so quickly.

In the dungeon, it is possible to raise high-level adventurers faster by taking the most promising new recruits to the higher floors and skipping the grind, many did the same with their students or family members, but not all of the boosted adventurers could survive their new environment.

That was the real thing keeping the number of high-level adventurers very low, the mortality rates in the higher floors are much lower per capita but replenishment of the capita is much slower the higher the floor is, for example the majority of the explorers are within the first 10 floors, there the talented ones are separated from the rest and slowly build better parties as they advance into the 20s and 30s, by the time the adventurers reach the 40th floor the mortality rate due to monsters is reduced drastically and the survivors tend to either slow down and die from old age by the time they reach the 60th floor or keep pushing hard and die from accumulated stress in that same vicinity.

Although it was strange seeing a teenager in the 50th floor it was by no means a first, there were many prodigious adventurers that came here looking too young, however Yunan was the only one to carve his way that fast, therefore he did not find any need in bragging about it, since he did it he assumed others did as well, never in his dreams would he think that actually climbing down 50 floors in 15 years was by no means an ordinary feat anyone can pull of.

When the party and Yunan agreed to do a test run in the 50th floor outside the established based, they were extremely pleased with how Yunan handled himself.

The monsters on the 50s were spiritual type monsters, they range from ghosts to elemental sprites, including shades, phantasms and more. These monsters were somewhat corporeal, they leave behind monster cores and a sort of ectoplasm, nothing edible can be left behind, but, using fermentation rock would Still reward with lava wine, thus it was not a problem when Yunan asked to keep the remains of monsters other than the monster cores.

As for dealing with these monsters, one has to deal enough physical and magical attacks to break the barrier surrounding the cores and subsequently rip it away from the rest of the spirit ending in the death of the monsters, or one can deplete the monster core immediately killing the monster. This was not a known method, mostly because no one had tried mana syphon mid-combat while Yunan used it almost instinctively upon encounter.

His first kill was not even registered by his new party because they did not notice the ghost lurking away from them, it just happened to enter Yunan's battle range of 100 meters, the minimum safety distance that anything hostile in that radius is dealt with almost unconsciously. Yunan noticed that the ghost that entered his range was snuffed out of existence the moment mana syphon was activated and before he sent his first lighting bolt at it the mana core was already inside the armour storage.

Seeing him take a hostile stance the party thought he was a bit too sensitive, an excuse he took for an explanation for the mapping and detection he was capable of, after the first 5 times he called out the location of a monster the party took his word as law when it was about detection. Yunan didn't let the party know about his home, and he seriously hid his family from them, he kept Drogon by his side and only went home when the party returned to the 50th floor after a hunt.

Maybe he was too cautious when dealing with his secrets, any other person might actually brag about it, but Yunan had learned his lesson when the first party tried to take away Drogon, although he had brought many outsiders inside his private dimension and the information that he could teleport and take people with him, along as well as having a spatial gate, that information may have been known to many outsiders, he never mentioned that it was a portable private dimension, well he was careful, and being careful is always good, as taught by Debauchery.

Yunan disappearing from sight after a sortie became something ordinary for the new party, they appreciated that Yunan always returned on schedule, they speculated he was meeting a lover or something like that in the higher floors. This new party found Yunan to their liking, he was good at killing and was a walking detector, he didn't fuss much about the bounty they got and kept doing his job as well as looking out for the rest of the members.

Yunan was calling out the names of the spells he used to make them think that he needed chanting, as for the loot, for every monster they killed in a group he killed ten who were beyond their vision, he even expanded the range of his minimum safety zone from 100m meter to 500 just because he didn't want them to notice when he drained a target or looted them. Yunan was a ranger and a rogue, he knew how to mask the true range of his detection and only killing monsters who were at the edge of his 500m range. Most of those monsters were ignored by the party and Yunan took them down after confirming with his party about if they choose to attack or not.

During his time with the party the ended up running all around the floor mapping it completely, they even stumbled upon the boss but were unaware of anything while Yunan just syphoned its huge mana reserves and sent Drogon to bring him the loot, the boss died noiselessly and Drogon brought the loot back for Yunan, a few cubic metres of ectoplasm and a tasty monster core, the golden chest held another golden book.

The golden book was written by the Phoenix clan and had inside it one of the paths they found could lead to nirvana, it was also placed on the golden shelf - as named by Debauchery - the section of the library where all the golden books stood there waiting to be read, this path was the first clue about the legacy of the Phoenix clan and Yunan decided to study it thoroughly and reveal as many of its secrets as possible.