Chapter 184: The bird learning new tricks (2/2)

Almost two dozens of Players on this floor were better equipped than the ones they faced when first got here. There were always two groups of eight going around the town, searching for clues while the rest guarded the stairs.

This meant that going through the stairs would be easier, but Price found out not to the case. Shingi joined him one day to check that everything was as it seemed, but as expected, it wasn't.

There were some magical traps on the bottom of the stairs and at a few of the staircases. They were well hidden, but not so well to hide from Shingi's MANA SENSE combined with his Passive Mana Detection.

He recognized the traps, with some being silent alarms that would send a mental note to some Players bonded with it, and some were summoning circles or traps that could cause some problems to them. Of course, with their current power, they could force their way through, but still, Shingi didn't want them to know how strong they were. It was better to be underestimated by them for now.

Shingi told Price to keep track of movements to see if there was a pattern that they could use. He knew that leaving the stairs almost unprotected with so few people was a setup, but since he knows where they had their traps, he could just go around them, as he first dealt quietly with the Players. Then, of course, he would have to make them unconscious so that they don't have a chance to alert the others.

There seemed like there actually had a scheduled pattern after monitoring them for a couple of days, so Price and Shingi found the perfect time.

A week passed since Price arrived, and it was almost two weeks since they were on the floor. And finally, Dark Shadow opened his eyes.

Shingi opened its status and saw that its Mana Pool included Dark Element but also Light Element. So it actually was working on two Elements instead of one and was the two more complicated for one to make. It was a miracle that it took it only that long to succeed for both of them together.

But the biggest change was that he finally had a class; Skymage. He was level 15 from all the enemies he helped fighting in the past floors as part of the exps were stored in him similar to how it did on Shingi. If it was a few more levels, it could also have the Master of the Arcane I, but he was strong enough even without it.

He also could see its Race, which was Primeval Kicnech. He had never heard of a race named like that in the game or anywhere else. The primeval showed that its creation was ancient, more ancient than the elves or the dragons. He had met and heard of primeval races, and most were extinct, or they had one or a couple of survivors.

But all of them were powerhouses.

Dark Shadow was clearly a result of a ritual, which could mean only two things. Either somebody created a Primeval race, which was unimaginable, or someone restored one that was dead to life. The second one was almost like the case and would explain why Dark Shadow's stats were that high, as it probably had them in his previous life.

Still, Shingi didn't know who was behind it, although he thought it might be Mikhail or that Eagle Tribe individual working for him. But that guy didn't bring up that the egg was missing, so Shingi didn't think of it at that moment. But if he really was the one behind it, it probably had something to do with Mikhail's plan.

Then Shingi realized that often that Mikhail was monitoring them; Mikhail's sight seemed to focus on Dark Shadow, but Shingi thought it was because he was an unknown being to him. But, on the other hand, maybe he wasn't that unknown and was just monitoring his progress.

If that was the case, there was a significant chance that Mikhail would have a way to control Dark Shadow in the future. But Shingi couldn't stop growing Dark Shadow's power or abandon him or even kill him. If he abandoned him, Mikhail would get to him at some point, and killing him would deal more damage to his plan.

So he decided to work on Dark Shadow's Spirit Element more and more to be used against charm or mind control abilities and hoped for the best.

Hopefully, this plan would work and not blow on his face.