Chapter 285: Final Stretch
Kaiden’s mind moved to his system window.
▸ Trial One – Prove Your Wrath: 40/100
▸ Trial Two – Feed the Glutton: 250/1000
▸ Trial Three – Conquer the Sinner: 0/1
The numbers lingered for a moment before fading away. Still work to do... but he was making good headway as far as the first two requirements of his bottleneck were considered.
However, there was a problem. A very big one at that.
They were already at the end of the dungeon. They’ve killed the monsters from before. The Broodspitter Matron, the Weaver of the Crownless Nest, the Twins of Unmaking, the Knight-Caste Gluttonspawn... Have all been slain, alongside a myriad of other monsters that assaulted them time and time again as they closed in on the end.
Which in turn meant there were likely no more monsters left to kill but the boss. Kaiden theorized she might be a sinner because of her incredibly evil backstory, but whether she was or not didn’t matter as far as this dungeon clear was considered.
If he defeated her, then the dungeon would be over already. Kaiden was unhappy that he had to face the end of this strange dungeon while still being locked to his basic abilities, but there was not much he could do.
They were locked in here. Even if he wanted to, they couldn’t just up and leave. One might argue that they could just wait until the Awakened Association sends in their own squad for the clear, but that would hardly be a life insurance. That squad might fail as well, or just end up being far too slow.
Dungeon breaks weren’t exactly uncommon, especially when it came to ones that were displaying some weird properties like this one.
As such, all he could do was move forward.