Chapter 446: Dungeon End
"Good," he whispered to himself quietly, voice drowned out by the noise. "Then let’s make this hell worthy of them."
Kaiden’s work continued in silence.
He moved deeper, carving out multiple chokeholds, narrow tunnels that suddenly opened into vast, yawning caverns. To a normal adventurer, they might look like welcome breaks in the suffocating dark. A place to rest, to gather breath. But, of course, Kaiden wasn’t running a charity over here. Whatever kind of system governed the dungeons didn’t force upon him anything such as breathing rooms between monster encounters.
Despite many other dungeons he’s been in or heard about having some of these. Not necessarily dedicated safe zones, just places where no monsters or other hazards bothered the invading awakened.
He would have no such place.
These chambers were slaughterhouses.
Each one would serve as a perfect ambush point. A squad would push through the tight corridor, one by one, until they stumbled into open ground where they’d finally be able to spread out.
That’s when it would happen.
Kaiden stood in the heart of one such cavern, the glow of the interface painting his face in cold light as he scrolled through his available options. His eyes reflected the screen’s blue hue at first, then something darker, crueler.
These were things built for terror.
He confirmed the purchase with a flick of his hand. The air quivered as shapes stirred in the shadows. He moved from one chokehold to the next, repeating the process.
Every chamber was unique in structure, but identical in purpose: a bottleneck turned into a tomb.