Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

After taking a rest for a few days, Yunan spent the week looking through the diplomatic situation of the Pearl kingdom, it was mainly information about how things were going and the overall situation in the Pearl, especially after the fame that Yunan gained as the monster of the Pearl, Yunan did not change anything in the current state of affairs, he even left those traitorous ministers alone and did nothing to them, which to those people, was worse than him actually doing something.

Right after finishing up, he took his wives, pets and headed for the 59th floor one last time before taking the first step into the 60th floor, the grim reaper did not stand a chance under the immense fire power of the new Valyrians and crumbled soon after, Yunan got himself nothing this time while each member of the party got something to help them in the path they specialised in.

The 60th floor continued the trend of being a sight for sore eyes like all rest floors, just like everyone else, the first thing Yunan did was go to the guild headquarters for the first time in years to see what was waiting for him, he found it was mostly requests for certain items or unharmed bodies, and a few other quests issued for him since he was still registered as an active mercenary.

After sifting through the messages Yunan rented a good place with a nice lake side view. The base was on the shore of a blue lake that had colorful eye-catching fished as well as some variety of water plants, on the edge of a lake was a soft white sand beach, the unclaimed land around the lake was full of trees and flowers and greenery, one could forget himself in this place.

Yunan started his routine, the same whenever he came to a rest floor, first clean up the place he rented then set up a doorway to the private dimension in there, then roam the floor a bit in order to enrich his own echo system back home, first were the colourful fishes and the water plants, before roaming the forest and finding some mana beings, a rodent that looks like a squirrel and a tortoise with a massive shell, all sporting the same blue color as the mana wolves, as for beasts, there were a few that the genie requested based on the monster encyclopedia in the Black Fate.

After midday the party had their lunch before stepping into the 61st floor, a frozen wasteland that had nothing but white and and more whiteness spreading endlessly, the main monster was ice wraiths, they looked like icicles turned sentient and were conical in shape and swam in the air like snakes did, it did not improve things that there was snow falling, a howling wind and you basically lose visibility of the white things in a white background.

Hunting these ice wraiths proved to be troublesome, they were immune to ice damage and with that, the technique of using ice needles full of toxins became useless, fire magic and physical damage did only half damage due to the restrictions of the environment, basically, the cold weather caused a chill effect that sapped stamina and reduced speed as well as the energy in all physical attacks thanks to the massive reduction in temperature and the increased air resistance thanks to the snow and ice particles saturating the atmosphere.

Lighting and hellfire were the most effective, although using ice spells here was much easier, that property was used to train the pets in the spells with ice attribute, as fire attributed creatures, the pets had it hard learning such spells, fortunately they were taught a multitude of spells by Yunan and what they needed was the mastery and the understanding of the spells. Since the ice attribute was the opposite of fire and they cancelled each other out, it was a challenge to learn for Ignis and Drogon, thanks to his draconic nature Drogon had an easier time because ice attribute was a possibility in the dragon clans, unlike phoenix who had only spiritual fire as their attribute.

The ice wraiths did not pose too much of an issue for Yunan and party because they had overpowered detection, still, there was a bit of hardship when trying to fight them relying on eye sight, still they had the same weakness as their name sake, they were too easy to kill relying on mana syphoning, still these 2 meter long buggers were annoying to deal with, they were able to stack and condense into an ice block that would be detected as only one creature when in fact it was a swarm.

The ice wraiths had a white ball for a head, the core was encapsulated in the ice ball, it had no organs and only had mana veins, they relied on the body heat generated naturally by adventurers to attack them, the cold from the environment forced the adventurers to generate more heat to keep their bodies warm and functional, that bit of extra warmth was detected by the ice wraiths and they attacked simply because heat was their natural enemy.

The Valyrians were able to gain lots of ice essence from the ice wraiths, an ingredient previously thought to be useful only when creating cold attribute items or in refining some poisons and other harmful alchemical products, to our protagonist, the ice essence was the source for the two most refreshing items he ever came across, a cold wine that could stay cool while bathing in a volcano and a fruit that will increase the ice resistance and affinity for ice attribute upon consumption.

The family profits skyrocketed once more, thanks to the trading outpost, the items sold by the family were always consumed almost immediately, the novelty of the items brought out was always something great, Yunan was even think about selling divinity shards but thought it wasn't worth the effort, still thanks to the ice wraiths Yunan gotten a few more ideas on how to improve his battle toys.