Episode 52.6 (1/2)
It's a cramped, short and dim dungeon.
Lecan found a stairway that connects below on ground floor, so he took it.
The stairway was narrow with bedrock walls on all sides. And dim.
He would have hit his head so many times if it wasn't for <3D Perception>.
The stairway wasn't that long.
He got to floor 1.
It's dim as well.
All of a sudden, a mass of many glimmering things flew out.
They all went for Lecan.
Who quickly saw through their real nature and recited a spell.
”<Flash (Riliom)>!”
A dazzling flash of light shone the place as the dozens of those things vanished while leaving resentful voices behind.
They were Hollow Shrieks (Gwora).
They're Apparition type magic beasts classified under Soul Demons, they're incorporeal.
Listening to the voice they emitted would induce panic and lower your ability.
Additionally, having your body, especially head, possessed by one will drain your vitality and knock you out. And death awaits if it's left alone.
When Lecan encountered one in Dungeon Golbul, he managed to regain his sanity thanks to <Ring of Rozan>, but back there those things were floating individually, and their movements were predictable so dealing with them was simple.
Yet the Hollow Shrieks he came across just now were on a completely different level than the ones in Golbul.
First, their mana was far above those. Meaning they're probably higher ranked.
The sudden ambush and how swiftly they moved were nothing like Golbul's Hollow Shrieks as well.
Though the Lecan now has <Necklace of Intuador> on him. He's got nothing to fear with it on, no matter what kind of powerful magic those Hollow Shrieks cast.
(Fumu.)
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(The weird dimness and then this.)
(This dungeon might be a home to a bountiful of Apparition type magic beasts.)
(Which means.)
Lecan put <Sword of Rusk> away and took <Apparition Cutter (Ginscyll)>. A Grace Gear he obtained on floor 123 of Dungeon Tsubolt.
(It's a chance to test this thing out.)
His face slackened up without him realizing.
Then he got down to floor 2.
The stairway to Floor 2 was quite long.
Magic beasts were prowling all over the place here.
But exclusively on the ceiling high above.
There's countless icicles hanging down the ceiling with magic beasts flying around the gaps between them.
They're half translucent white with an upper half resembling the form of a human woman.
These must be the so called White Frost Princesses (Surushirufen) magic beasts.
The White Frost Princesses spewed out white breaths as they flew around.
Those breaths evaporated in the air, turning it white little by little.
(It's cold.)
One of the magic beasts shot something out of its mouth at Lecan.
It's an ice.
A sharp ice knife.
It's flying quite fast.