Calamity Upon This World

As the cleansers and miners made their way through the dungeon, they followed a pretty standard formation.

With Max in the front, accompanied by two awakened miners, all the non-awakened miners in the centre were accompanied by Raya, who used her ability to see in the dark to let Max in the front know of all upcoming threats before they reached the squad.

Raya was accompanied by another awakened miner, and the backside of the formation was entrusted to Jasmine along with two other miners.

After the death of Tony, only nine miners out of the original 10 are still alive, and five of these miners were awakened.

All these miners were very weak and couldn't even really do any damage to A-rank monsters, let alone the S-rank monsters they were supposed to face in this dungeon.

But the absence of John had left too big of a void in the formation, and they needed all the help they could get.

The whole squad had been exploring now for a whole hour, and despite this, they had only encountered 3 A-rank monsters with not even a single S-rank monster in sight. .

These A-rank monsters were giant, 7-foot-long red wolves with extremely sharp claws, fangs, and the ability to spew fire. Find exclusive content at m|v-l-NovelFire

Which made them a really big hassle to deal with on the small dungeon floors.

But despite this, with the help of teamwork and perfect coordination, the cleansers were able to kill these beasts against all odds, and surprisingly, they hadn't even suffered any casualties.

But despite the good news, almost everyone felt chills run down their spines at the familiar feeling of deja vu.

After all, it was just like in the first part of this dungeon, where it was mostly empty, and this resulted in the boss monster being stronger than intended.

They were already dreading just facing a S-rank monster; how could they be expected to fight something even stronger?

It was far too absurd for the sick joke that was being played on them.

Max almost wanted to laugh, but he had to remain strong as an unshakable wall of trust and protection for his people.

After all, that was his responsibility as the leader.

After another 30 minutes of exploring the almost abandoned dungeon, they had reached right outside the boss room.

They had searched every nook and cranny, and despite this, there was nothing in the whole dungeon aside from the three A-rank beasts they had encountered near the start.

There was no other monster, which, while normally was something to celebrate, no one could make the same mistake after going through the first half of this dungeon and almost dying.

At this point, almost everyone was sure that whatever was lying inside the boss room was stronger and more dangerous than the average S-rank monster.

And as if this already wasn't bad enough, they hadn't even seen any trace of John or where he was.

As Max stood in front of the boss room, he gulped as the possibility of an inevitable death settled inside his mind.

"Status Screen," he muttered, to see how much he had grown.

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Name:Max Welk

Age:23

Race:Human

Aspect:Weight Manipulation (Tier III)

4th Ascension

Battle Force: 9066

[Variable Stats]

Strength:3230

Agility: 980

Endurance:1500

Vitality:1156

Intelligence:1200

[Invariable Stats]

Charm- D

Mana- E+

Luck-B+

Resistance- B

Skills: [Passive Skills]: [Tough Skin], [Passive Regeneration], [Charisma], [Power of Will]

[Active Skills]: [Enhance Mental Prowess], [Rock Lance], [Iron Fist], [Sand Clone]

Element Affinities:-

[Basic Elements]

Earth(49%)

Fire (12%)

[Deviant Elements]

Sand (69%)

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"I have grown quite a bit," Max thought as he looked at his status screen.

With his current stats paired with his skills, he could take on multiple A-rank monsters, but even then he knew that there wasn't much he could do against a S-rank monster, let alone a S-rank boss monster.

And if that was the case for him, the same would probably be true for everyone else.

Meaning entering the boss room was nothing short of suicide, and as their leader, he would be leading his men to their suicide.

And despite this, he had no intentions of backing down.

After all,  if he backed down. Now he'd let Sung succeed in whatever he wanted to do.

While he wasn't sure what it was, he knew he couldn't let him accomplish it.

And even if they choose not to enter the boss room, they will die of starvation as they are already running out of food.

So instead of dying such a pathetic death, it was better for them to make one last proud attempt at trying to win their freedom.

"My men, come now. There's just one more obstacle remaining between us and freedom, and once we conquer it, we will win back our freedom," he shouted.

And thanks to his [charisma] skill, his words worked like magic, and before long they stood face to face with the monstrosity standing between them and freedom.

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AN:-

Brand new character art of Rex, Myra, Wiz, Agni, Sera, and Gionne is now out on WN. Please go check it out and vote.

Also, brand new cover; do let me know what you think about it.

Btw, I'm curious about what you guys think of Volume 2 so far. I've been really enjoying writing it, and I hope you guys have also enjoyed reading it.

Also, I know some of you guys don't like non-MC pov chapters, but please bear with it for one or two more chapters, and then we'll be back to William pov.

And before I forget, thanks a lot for all the support so far. I hope I can keep entertaining you guys in the future too.