240 Chapter 239 (1/2)
In the end, learning Fire Tornado had been one of the best things Leon had decided to do. After Leon and Darya headed to the dungeon and spending one million coins in mana potions, they entered the cave. Finally, they noticed why the number of Bloody Wasps was so significant. The walls of the dungeon were covered with thousands of cocoons, and every minute dozens of new wasps were born. Still, only a small fraction left the dungeon, and most of them stayed inside the place to protect it from invaders...
”Eww... this is so creepy,” Darya said while she trembled.
”I must admit this is quite a sight...” Leon frowned. ”Is this the work of the boss of the dungeon? To think that a single creature could lay so many eggs... Ah!”
”Did you notice something?” Darya said.
”Yes... I had this feeling that I was overlooking things for a while.” Leon answered. ”I finally recalled what I was overlooking... Do dungeon breaks still happen in this world?”
”Yes...” Darya answered.
”Every time that kind of events happen, dozens of bosses appear,” Leon said. ”Still, there isn't much food here for wasps, and we didn't find any boss either.”
”So, you think they returned to their planet?” Darya asked.
”That, or perhaps they died of hunger,” Leon explained. ”After noticing that they wouldn't obtain much food in this world, dungeon breaks stopped happening. That would explain why we only found a single elemental golem boss.”
”That makes sense...” Darya nodded. ”Some monsters eat meat, but some want to consume mana of their prey... a lot of information about monsters and dungeons are military secrets, so it wouldn't surprise if that is the case. Still... that means that the bloody wasps' world is...
”Yep, it probably billions, perhaps we will find trillions of those monsters once we touch the purple crystal,” Leon said.
”Yikes... the idea alone makes me feel shivers all over my body.” Darya contracted her body.
It looked like they would have to use a lot of mana even to kill the mob monsters of that dungeon, so Leon tried to find a concentrated version of the mana potions, but he didn't find it. In any case, to avoid being surrounded by the front and the back, Leon and Darya burned down those cocoons. Quickly, the smell of burned insects got strong, and it started to bother them, but they didn't stop.
The smell alone was strong enough to attract other wasps, so Leon and Darya sometimes had to stay one hour without moving forward because the wasps didn't stop from coming. It was a pain to consume mana potions at that speed, but since they killed numerous enemies every moment, they more or less obtained enough coins to pay for the potions.