435 Silver Scarab King 2 (1/2)
Feeling adequately insulted by the brazen elf's choice of a nickname for him, the Silver Scarab King wasn't going to show him any mercy. Dung Lord wasn't a compliment, on the contrary, it was a taunt to get him out of hiding and it almost worked.
Thankfully, he wasn't that stupid to fall or such provocations.
”Don't think that this is over,” he warned Zero. ”I'm not an easy opponent like the other two. This will be your burial ground.”
In the dark, Zero only rolled his eyes. Was it really necessary for such commentary? This last boss might have gained enough intelligence to be capable of common language but he wasn't putting his intelligence to good use. What a waste.
Zero showed no mercy to the wave of dung beetles sent by this overly confident monster and eradicated them with a hard smash using his tonfas. These beetles were too filthy to even be sold and Zero didn't want to be responsible for selling unclean things and promoting the spread of plagues.
”You might want to reconsider that,” Mii told him. ”According to my information, the hard shells of these scarabs can fetch a very high price. They make very good shields for warriors and are hard to come by.”
Zero paused and looked at the scarab infantry with slight remorse.
”It's alright, I'll be more careful with the next wave. Thanks for telling me that. Please ask Wii to prepare a lot of disinfectants. We will be cleaning these filthy things up and disinfecting them from the mindscape before it reaches Zoe. I only want the shells to reach the village, everything else should be broken down and converted into energy.”
”Noted,” Mii said and informed him about the new wave coming.
From his dung throne, the Silver Scarab was growing more anxious. This adventurer was too powerful, destroying all his soldiers the instant they appeared within his radius.
”This won't do,” he said. ”I have to take care of this personally.”
More than failure, the Silver Scarab was afraid of the dungeon's true owner. Retribution was harsh for them and he didn't want to be the next meal if he failed.
Zero was pleasantly surprised when there were no more scarabs sent his way after the second wave. If anything, the dung lord started changing his tactics. As it turns out, the monster did have a brain befitting of his intelligence after all! Zero was impressed but continued to follow the beetles who attacked without the intention of fighting seriously. Their job was to lure Zero deeper into the dungeon where the dung lord was and Zero knew that this was going to be it.
The final boss was bigger than Zero thought he would be. The Silver Scarab was actually silver and had red eyes instead of black like his minions. Was this what it meant to be albino? Hua Tuo mentioned that it was a rare genetic mutation that occurred in any kind of species. Still, who would have thought that Zero would meet a rare mutation here.
”Appraisal!”
[Appraisal failed. The monster's level is too high and the system is unable to overcome the appraisal block skill that they have. Please level up the Appraisal skill to Advanced stage to see the status of this opponent.]
”What?” Zero blinked, not believing that it was happening.
Lily flinched. ”Sorry, master. Those spiders we appraised were too low-levelled and didn't contribute much to the system's levelling requirements.”
Deflating, Zero sulked. He wanted to know what kind of crazy title this talkative third-rate villain had but it shouldn't be worse than ”The Cowardly Emperor”, right?
”Hey! You just thought about something mean, didn't you? Take it back. I'm Julius the greatest Scarab King in the Derby Desert. How dare you insult me!”