The Dark Rebirth of Pandora: Revenge of the Abyss-Chapter 254: Finishing the Dungeon

We walked a lot through the dungeon, almost 4 days of walking counting the breaks and enemies encountered, it happens that the closer we got to the boss of the Dungeon, the more enemies we encountered.

And the enemies were getting more powerful and numerous, as they tried to prevent us from advancing to kill the boss of the Dungeon.

And the boss of the dungeon seems to have noticed that we are going after him, which increased the attacks, but after we got very close, the monsters stopped, the students were relieved.

They thought it was good, but the saint just sighed because she will have a lot more work, the monsters didn’t stop because we had greatly reduced their numbers, they stopped because the "Queen" of the swarm is saving her forces.

She realized that she was just wasting troops by sending them carelessly, so she chose that it was smarter to save them to use later.

When we reach her area, there will be an enormous number of them, greater than any of the times we’ve seen them, so it’s not really good that they’ve stopped attacking.

Showing that the queen of the swarm is smart, she’s just reserving her troops, showing an excellent degree of intelligence, I’d like to have that monster in my army.

But since it’s a dungeon monster, there’s no way I can just decide to take this boss with me, and there would be several problems in taking a swarm-type monster out of the dungeon and bringing it to the world.

"..." The heroes took one last break before going against the boss, they started planning what to do against the boss and opted for some strategies, showing some improvement.

They are more savage and malicious to survive, losing a lot of fear, because pain removes fear when applied correctly, of course it was fun to see them suffer.

"Okay heroes! There are 29 of you against a single boss and a bunch of insects! Better not fail or I’ll break your legs!" I say as a joke while everyone shivers as if it were a threat.

"..." They start marching forward, incredibly most avoided using their unique abilities, of course it may have just been because they weren’t convenient for the situation, or maybe they just want to hide them.

I have no idea, but it’s a shame that most avoided using their abilities, but it doesn’t matter much.

Of course, we soon arrived at a strange place, it is extremely wide with a completely carved circular stone floor, as if it were really an arena, and in the center of it there is a spider about 9 meters tall.

It is standing as if waiting, by the shape of the arena it seems to have a tactical advantage due to the thousands of almost invisible threads I see, but the idiot heroes don’t see the thread.

However, I notice that there are thousands of insects hidden under the arena, probably an underground cave or something similar, maybe it can also be a nest.

"Stop" I order them to stop and they all obey.

"..." I set the lines on fire and quickly a sea of flames forms, the queen gets angry at this and advances towards us while only a pile of ashes remains, if they were captured they would have problems.

I notice the insects under the arena stirring and moving, probably trying to come to the surface through the sides of the arena.

"You can go" I say while flying up and the saint follows me, the heroes quickly form a giant stone dome using the ground and locking themselves in with the queen, while others use mana to strengthen and form a giant barrier to prevent the insects from entering by digging.

Then some heroes who freeze the arena floor, hindering the mobility of the queen who was not made to walk on ice, unlike the heroes who can move on it without problems.

"Not bad" I murmur, watching as Sakura makes several clones to briefly entertain the spider, and other heroes attack with magic, causing several explosions that cause some damage.

Followed by various elemental lightning attacks, but these idiots aren’t delivering piercing attacks, so the queen’s carapace has barely taken any real damage from it.

’This is going to go wrong’ They haven’t noticed the disadvantage they’ve put themselves in, and now they’re being arrogant, as expected, half of the heroes are trapped in webs that the spider controls.

The queen quickly throws webs in various places and with magic she moves the web, having precise control of each of their movements.

With the legs, 5 heroes have their abdomens punctured almost in sequence, as I knew they wouldn’t die, I didn’t defend them, the saint soon heals them as they groan in pain.

The saint raises a large healing barrier, the saint’s barriers in this case, at my request, do not serve as a wall, they only heal the targets inside.

"..." I cut the most dangerous threads of the spider with wind magic, so that it doesn’t decapitate anyone, the spider seems more bothered by me than by the heroes, but doesn’t have time to focus on me.

"Pandora, they’re going to die! There’s a limit to how much their bodies can handle at this pace! Even if I heal them, it doesn’t help if they receive more damage than they’re healed!"

"Look at this! Their heads were almost ripped off! Are you trying to kill them?" The saint speaks, letting her nervousness speak more than the fear she has of me.

’Tsk’ They are so ridiculous, they seem to have learned nothing, they are again limiting themselves by something as ridiculous as allies, they could just focus on damaging the boss instead of wasting time.

"I don’t care, let them get hurt a little more, seriously why are they so weak? I don’t understand?" I say to the saint without understanding this ridiculous scene, they are heroes, how are these supposed heroes going to kill me?

If they have difficulty against a mere Rank A boss, how do they expect to face me, who am I, a monster above Rank S anomaly, being a unique and special being, as well as being the strongest monster.

"Pandora, the status difference between them is absurd! Most here only have 60% of their maximum status! They have no way to face a Rank A monster like the queen!"

"How do you want them to defeat that without weapons, without rest, without having eaten anything besides poisoned insect meat and without any previously made plan!"

"...Then use unique abilities" I already understood, I perfectly understood why they are so "weak" it happens that the heroes whose unique abilities I know have unique abilities of the passive buff or enemy debuff type.

That is, it seems that the heroes themselves were made to always fight together, constantly buffing each other.

’This explains a lot, and it’s interesting in its own way’ If they only have so much power when receiving buffs, it means that in a prolonged fight they lose their advantage, and they are weak individually.

This explains a lot, even, I thought more that just the fact of being united would already give them the strength to fight against me, it happens that I have so much individual power.

That the buff issue was never really taken advantage of, I always fight alone with the only buffs I receive being from my passive, that is, I never really needed others to strengthen me because I’m strong alone.

But like all humans, the heroes are individually weak, but united and with buffs applied, that’s when they become strong, it’s so simple, just as I have my way of fighting, they also have theirs.

’I don’t need this boss anymore’ I jump into the battlefield, I’ll finish this soon, it seems the heroes won’t defeat the queen in any way, there’s no point in dragging this out if they don’t want to use their unique abilities.

They probably know we won’t let them die, so they don’t bother hiding their trump cards, because in the end this is just training.

"Look and learn" This spell was the last one I was developing, it wasn’t fully finished, but it’s enough to kill a monster that is weak to fire.

"[Hell Sniper]" I quickly cast the spell, a hole is opened, going from one side to the other of the spider’s body, I fire several more of these to confirm the spider’s death.

Hell Sniper - A fire magic that forms a small concentrated beam of flames that advances in a straight line, piercing everything in its path.

This is a fire magic that takes advantage of the heat and shape to create a piercing "shot", perfect for very resistant opponents, it was made with the idea of using it on Mikael in case he has any armor during our fight.

It’s fast and strong, making it a very efficient spell to use as a surprise or suddenly on the target.

"Easy, see heroes? That’s how it’s done" I use the Shadow Sculpture to kill all the insects outside the barrier since no one is watching, they are all killed by darkness spikes coming out of the ground.

Most of the insects don’t even notice what’s killing them, and soon after they become food for my shadows, the Saint seems to have noticed, but I don’t care about her.

"Let’s get out of the dungeon, I no longer see any point in staying here, you can lead the way, saint, we’ll have a lot to talk about at school as fellow professors" I say with a smile that completely sends a chill down her spine.

The saint begins to heal and guide everyone while I take one last look at the boss, and memorize the information I was able to gather about the heroes and their way of fighting.