Calamity Upon This World

~Step~

~Step~

The noise of footsteps resounded through the hall as William and Jasmine walked in the front while Raya and Max walked in the back, with the miners walking in the middle.

The whole party had been walking for roughly 10 minutes after their last rest.

It had now been one whole day since the party had entered the dungeon, and so far nothing out of the ordinary had happened.

The whole place was filled to the brim with luminous blue stones, which were obviously all mined by the miners.

At this point, they probably had more than 1000 blue stones; it was to the point that even William couldn't ignore the amount of wealth that they had acquired from just one dungeon.

And this was without even mentioning all the beast cores that had been dropped by the golems, which should probably be worth a couple hundred coins just on their own.

Lark had truly hit the jackpot with this dungeon.

Once the party leaves with all these stones and beast cores, Lark would easily become a major distributor in the luminous blue stone market and even be able to step his feet into the beast core market.

Speaking of which, the party occasionally encountered some blue golems every now and then, but they were easily taken care of by Jasmine, Max, and Raya.

They hadn't encountered any A-rank monsters yet, and the number of overall monsters in the dungeon was quite low, which usually means that the boss monster must be quite powerful.

But William was still confident in being able to take care of an A-rank monster, especially when he was backed by his party, who were all pretty strong in their own right.

The thing that really worried William was the uncomfortable feeling that he had been feeling ever since entering the dungeon.

Over time, it had only grown stronger, and as far as he could see, it was pretty much baseless.

This was his first time in a dungeon, but from what he had studied, nothing was out of the ordinary in this dungeon aside from the abnormal number of ores inside the dungeon.

But William wasn't sure why that would be a matter of concern.

The dungeon was thankfully pretty small, but due to them needing to mine every ore they could find, it had taken them so long.

'Maybe I'm just paranoid,' William thought.

So far, nothing has gone wrong, and hopefully it stays that way.

But just to be safe, he called out to Wiz inside his head.

'Hey Wiz, can you do me a favour and look around the dungeon to try and find anything that may be a threat to us? '

(Sure, give me a minute.) Wiz replied as a tiny blue spirit flew out of Williams chest and flied straight through Jasmine without her being able to see or feel it.

William wasn't worried about Wiz being seen, as a person needs an affinity for spirits in order to see them, and even if she were seen, no one would connect it to being related to William Verhen, and he could just get away with saying that it belonged to his Edge Lord persona.

On that note, for some reason, Wiz was a lot more attached to him than his other spirits.

William wasn't sure why this was, but he didn't mind, as having a voice inside his head that he could talk to was comforting for some reason.

After around 30–40 seconds, Wiz returned to his core, as she said.

(Nothing out of the ordinary aside from the dungeon being pretty empty, which considering you guys have been exploring for one whole day now makes sense.)

(Also, if you're interested, I found the location of the boss room, but I couldn't really see inside.)

'I see, that's a bit reassuring. Also, tell me the location of the boss's room.

After learning the location from Wiz, William announced.

"Guys, we've pretty much cleared the whole dungeon. Now let's go and kill the boss so we can go back with all our newly found riches."

Cheers of excitement erupted from the miners at the mention of their riches.

This one dungeon had completely turned their lives around, and now all they needed to do was clear it, and they could do the things they could only dream about before.

But despite their excitement, the party didn't let their guard down, with William being the most alarmed as they made their way through the dungeon before eventually reaching the boss room.

Two gigantic stone doors with weird engravings on them stood in front of the party, most likely the entrance to the boss room.

The engraving was very weird and incomprehensible.

It had strange writings that even the world system known to help the user understand other languages could translate.

There were also some poorly drawn depictions of what looked to be a mother sacrificing a baby, but they were covered in a lot of dirt and filth and were really hard to see.

William tried to read the language or make sense of it, but he eventually gave up and decided to just ignore it and prepare to instead kill the boss instead of trying to decipher what looked to be nonsensical ramblings with a very poorly drawn and crude drawing that was too dirty to be made sense of.

"Is everyone ready?" William asked his party.

"As ready as I'll ever be," Max said as he strengthened his grip on his hammer.

After agreement from the other members, the party entered inside.

The plan was simple: the miners would stay near the entrance with a strong barrier made by William to protect them while he and the other cleansers fought the boss.

While yes, the miners could have just stayed outside the boss room, William was far too paranoid to leave them out of his sight.

As William and the party entered inside, all they saw was a giant statue of a demonic-looking king-like figure sitting on a massive throne in the centre.

William instantly erected the barrier to guard himself and the miners as he took a stance to begin fighting, with the rest of his party doing the same.

~Thud~

The door behind them closed once the party was inside, but no one paid any attention to it as they had already expected something like this and they couldn't lose sight of the statue in front of them.

However, despite never losing sight, a red laser fired itself from the eyes of the statue too fast for anyone to react, instantly melting through the Williams barrier upon contact and finding its way towards a clueless and unfortunate miner.

~Sizzle~

The lower body of the miner fell down with smoke flying from it, and the upper body was completely eviscerated.

The only thing flowing through William and everyone else's heads when they witnessed this sight was.

'What? '