The Dungeon's wails grew louder and louder, to the point where Drake's eardrums felt a stabbing pain.
But the wails quickly stopped, then Drake sensed the appearance of a powerful malice.
The Dungeon had its own set of operating mechanisms. When the Dungeon's main body was damaged, it would stop producing monsters, prioritizing repairing the main body.
Adventurers often took advantage of this, causing a certain amount of damage when resting, preventing monsters from respawning.
But when the damage reached a certain degree, the Dungeon wouldn't repair the damage, instead prioritizing eliminating the harmful factors that were causing damage to the Dungeon - which were the adventurers.
And the method was that the Dungeon would produce a special monster, a Juggernaut, which adventurers usually called - Calamity!
The last recorded appearance of Calamity was in the lower levels, that accident that had led to the collapse of the goddess Astrea's Familia.
The Dark Faction, led by the Rudra Familia, had set a trap for the girls of the Astrea Familia. A large number of firestones had exploded, causing great damage to the Dungeon, and Calamity had been born as a result.
It was the Dungeon's apostle, a scavenger responsible for eliminating pathogens. It possessed speed that far surpassed adventurers' understanding, a shield that could reflect all magic, and claws that ignored armor and defense skills.
Lacking information, the Astrea Familia, who were all high-level adventurers, had been brutally slaughtered.
In the end, only Ryuu Lion had escaped with her life, at the cost of the captain, Jura of the Rudra Familia was also a survivor of that incident. All these years, he had been researching the Juggernaut that had brought him countless nightmares.
According to his theory, the degree of damage that Drake and Ottar had caused to the Dungeon while fighting was enough for a Juggernaut to be born in the Dungeon.
While the Freya Familia was besieging Drake, many adventurers had received the news. It would be more accurate to say that the entire Orario had been paying attention to this incident when the Loki Familia and the Freya Familia had surrounded and besieged the Hephaestus Familia before.
When Drake had arrived on the 20th floor, he had discovered that a large number of adventurers had gathered there.
Among them, there were quite a few who had followed the Loki Familia and the Freya Familia to hunt down Stella and Wiene. There were quite a few people who had just come to join in the fun.
Of course, there were also adventurers who had a good relationship with Drake, like those from the Hephaestus Familia and the Hestia Familia, who had come to help.
And these people had also heard the Dungeon's wails. The one who had reacted the most was the elf girl who had covered half of her face with a kerchief.
Her eyes were full of hatred and fear, Ryuu looking up at the cracked stone wall, her arm that was holding her weapon unknowingly beginning to tremble.
Looking at the purple liquid flowing from the cracks in the rock wall, Ryuu's pupils constricted, unable to help but cry out in alarm.
"Run!"
Among the adventurers who had entered the 20th floor this time, there were also quite a few "smart people." They thought that it would be easier to find Stella by following the Hephaestus Familia and her group, so several small Familias had been following them all along.
The leader, Tsubaki, had never paid attention to them, after all, these people couldn't accomplish anything. And unfortunately, the cracks in the rock wall were right above their heads.
A LV3 adventurer from who knew which Familia dodged the falling purple liquid, and just as he was wondering what it was, his entire body disappeared.
While everyone was surprised, they saw a pool of bright red blood flowing down from the rock wall.
Following the bloodstains, everyone looked up, only seeing a special monster that had appeared on the rock wall at some point.
It was a monster that looked like a dinosaur skeleton. Its entire body didn't have any muscle structure, the bony body being covered with a layer of carapace, which emitted a blue-purple light.
Its limbs were unusually slender, not at all looking like they could support its huge body. The unusually sharp-clawed forelimbs and the reverse-jointed hindlimbs were directly gripping the rock wall, allowing it to lie on it like a spider.
That bony tail that extended out from its waist was four meters long, the end being as sharp as a precious sword, obviously also a slaughtering weapon.
The unusually protruding complex structure on its head made it look especially ferocious, a pair of eyes that seemed to be flowing with blood emitting endless malice.
Its entire body seemed to have been born for killing. Only a monster like this could become the Dungeon's scavenger.
And in its mouth was the adventurer who had disappeared, the bloodstains flowing from there.
With a crack, the ferocious monster directly bit the adventurer, who was still groaning, in half. Before the corpse could fall to the ground, it disappeared from the rock wall.
The captain of the team that the adventurer had been in was just about to vent his anger and panic with curses, but before the sound could come out, his entire body was cut open.
The Juggernaut appeared before the corpse as if flashing, letting out a roar to the sky. Then another adventurer was pierced by the sharp tail, being skewered together with his companion next to him.
"Stop!" Ryuu said in alarm, because she had seen those adventurers take out magic swords.
The Juggernaut swung its tail, throwing the corpses on it away. But facing the adventurers' magic swords, it didn't have any intention of dodging.
Its mouth, filled with sharp teeth, opened wide, somehow having a mocking meaning.
This appearance directly enraged those adventurers, activating the magic swords in their hands despite Ryuu's obstruction.
Several fireballs flew out, shooting straight at the Juggernaut, finally colliding with it.
The blue-purple light flashed, those several fireballs directly disappearing into the air. One second later, flames erupted from the place where the fireballs had disappeared, directly engulfing the adventurers who had launched the attack.
The Juggernaut made a rattling sound in its mouth, as if it was mocking the adventurers who had been slaughtered by it.
This was the Juggernaut, its abilities almost restraining the various combat methods that adventurers used. Especially lacking information, it could cause a first-time kill to almost all adventurers.
Ryuu bit her teeth tightly, the weapon in her hand involuntarily raising up, but it was still trembling violently.
Perhaps sensing the hostility, the Juggernaut turned its head, that pair of crimson eyes instantly making Ryuu recall that nightmare-like memory.
"What are you spacing out for!"
Tsubaki reminded loudly, raising a large shield, blocking before Ryuu.
The Juggernaut appeared before the two like a ghost, the tail like a sharp knife piercing over. If Tsubaki hadn't reacted in time, it would have pierced through Ryuu's heart.
Although Ryuu was covering her face, Tsubaki had still recognized her identity. And she also knew that she had come to help. How could she watch her die here.
Ryuu had also woken up, pulling Tsubaki, pulling her back, in the first moment.
Before Tsubaki could figure out what had happened, she was horrified to see that the large shield she was holding had been divided into several pieces.
And behind the fragments, the Juggernaut was maintaining the action of swinging its claws.
Although that large shield hadn't been personally crafted by her, it was also a high-level equipment produced by the Hephaestus Familia.
As a blacksmith, Tsubaki naturally knew the quality of the shield. But that sturdy shield had been cut open by that monster's claws as if cutting tofu. It simply surpassed her understanding of monsters.
But what was worse was that the Juggernaut had already pounced over, that terrifying claw already grabbing at the two.
Tsubaki believed that her body wasn't as sturdy as the shield, but the Juggernaut's speed was too fast. There was no way for her to dodge anymore.
Ryuu also revealed a fearful expression. Five years ago, she had watched her comrades being slaughtered like this. Subconsciously, she closed her eyes.
The mocking expression on the Juggernaut's skeletal face seemed to deepen, the claws falling towards the target.
But that trace of mockery quickly disappeared, a confused expression appearing on the bony face.
Ryuu also opened her eyes, what entered her sight was a back surrounded by flames.
Drake was grabbing the Juggernaut's claws, saying in a cold voice, "I guess you've come to find me, right!"
Crack! Crack!
The blue-purple light was flashing in Drake's palm, finally collapsing into light dust. Drake had also grabbed the bony claw itself.
Exerting force with his arm, Drake directly broke the bony claw. Then the shattered bony claw directly stabbed into the Juggernaut's eyes.
The Juggernaut retreated, letting out a wail that shook the entire 20th floor.
Looking at this scene, Ryuu's eyes lit up.
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