Chapter 62: The Dungeons Boss (1/2)
Shingi focused his detection Skills towards where he heard the chuckle, and he was able to detect a figure a few meters further into the tunnel.
It seemed like the tunnel was leading to an open space, probably a room, and there was a humanoid figure in it.
Shingi was surprised as he wasn't detecting an Ooze aura of it as expected, but he was confident this was the Boss of the Dungeon.
He could see that it had a Mana Pool, but the Boss seemed to have something not to allow detection skills to work on it like in the barrier but didn't entirely work on his MANA SENSE. It was still hiding the Element of his mana, so Shingi could only tell its existence.
He was confident that the figure cast some spell, but he couldn't be certain what kind.
He checked the cat once more and noticed something that wasn't there before.
There was some mana in its eyes, but it was only there when it was watching toward Phoenix and, more specifically, at her chest.
Shingi grasped what the current situation was, and he acted out by kicking a stone into the tunnel towards the figure. He made this attack when there was mana in the eyes of the cat.
The figure got hit in its face, and at the same time, the cat ran back into the tunnel.
The tunnel was small for them to walk standing up, and they would have to crawl to get there.
But Shingi knew that the figure knew of them being here, so he wasn't going to use that kind of dangerous means to get to it.
Shingi could see the figure using some of his mana, and he was confident for the reason as he told everyone to get ready.
Some blue smoke appeared in front of the tunnel's hole, and then a human figure appeared out of it.
The figure seemed male and wasn't too tall or too young. He had blue sky hair with the sides of them to be white as also one eye of his was white, and the other was sky blue. His skin was quite pale like it has never seen the sun. He was wearing a red scarf around its neck, and at the one end of it, it seemed to have a golden symbol of a bell. He was wearing a simple sky blue colored vest and was wearing some white shorts, and had no shoes.
Even if he wasn't too tall and quite pale, his face was of one of an attractive individual, and each characteristic of his seemed to add to it.
Another poof of smoke was created after that, but this time over the figure's shoulder. Out the smoke came the cat and stayed on the figure's shoulder.
One could see a scratch on the left cheek on the figure's face, which was where Shingi's stone hit him.
”Who do you think you are to come here and throw stuff to my face? DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH?!?”[Boss???]
Everyone waited for Shingi's order for them to attack, but it didn't come.
Shingi was curious to see how clever the Boss was as it seemed to have a personality, which was rare.
Most times, from what he gathered, the bosses at Low-Level Dungeons were mindless monsters, and at higher, of 50+ level, some could exist with some personality.
”Well, are you deaf or just stupid?” [Boss???]
Shingi didn't take those words at heart and stayed as calm as ever.
”Well, we are here investigating this place, and we came across the weak seal over there and after dealing with it.... well, you know the rest.” [Shingi]
The moment he finished talking, he noticed the figure getting frustrated from what he said.
”WHAT... WHAT DO YOU MEAN WEAK SEAL?!?” [Boss???]
Shingi was testing the waters to see what the Boss was about, and he now knew.
He was a weakling.
An individual of power wouldn't just sit and talk and attack them or restrain them when they showed defiance towards him. But this one seemed only to be a dog that barks but doesn't bit.
At that point, Shingi focused his Light Mana at his hand and made a ball of Light to bright the whole room.
The moment the light appeared, the figure tried to step away from it, but there was a wall behind him, and he didn't seem to be able to teleport away.
”You better lower your voice, or things will get brighter.” [Shingi]
He made the light less bright so that it wouldn't affect the figure but enough to be there still and remind him of its existence.
”So, are you the one behind the Oozes of this place?”[Shingi]
”I have developed most of them, but some were by the one who made the place.” [Boss???]
”Then who is the one who made this place?”[Shingi]
He seemed unable to answer this question as something kept him from speaking, and he didn't say anything at the end.
Shingi used some of the light to make him tell, but it didn't work. It seemed like some unique means were used not to allow him to speak about specific things.
Shingi asked more questions and found out that it seemed that this individual was the Boss of the Dungeon or the closest to what one could be.
The name of the figure was Zhen, and he was creating Oozes and experimenting on them and on things they brought him. He had made the Oozes with the transformation abilities and used the memories they gathered for his 'personal' experiments, mainly the female ones.