Chapter 158 - Dungeons
My horse riding skills still weren't perfect but they were enough not to fall off while traveling at a decent speed. Full gallop was still hard to control but I was getting there. I had yet to get the motion down and it was... uncomfortable to go faster.
Gabriel was newer at it than me, with only recently getting the chance, but he was a quick learner. The week he spent getting the basics down was enough for our journey to be a quick one on horseback.
Riding horses for transportation was just another oddity I had to work through that the new world brought. Nothing like trading out cars to go backward. The fact horses high enough level would eventually be faster than modern cars wasn't lost on me.
Finding the dungeon was easy at this point, after how many we had encountered during our trip and the amount of times we had done this. The mana in the air funneled into the cavern leading into the Earth and could be felt by a good distance away if you were looking for it. It was so noticeable to even my mana skills, let alone Gabriel's.
He noticed it way before I did and it didn't even take a cursory sweep on our part, just riding close was enough.
"I think this one is deep," He said, dismounting from his horse and beginning to tie it up.
I followed suit and found a strong enough branch for my own, "How can you tell?"
"I couldn't at first, but the ones we found before help compare against what I feel now. The amount of mana it takes in and how far away the draw starts are good indicators of how deep it is." He said.
"Now that isn't always the case and I'm still trying to get a feel for it, but it generally works." He amended.
"How many floors deep is it? Enough for me to get a fight or two in?" I asked failing to hide my hope at the answer. If this one went deeper than 8 floors, it would be a perfect place for a fight.
"I don't know, it feels deeper than the one we found a few weeks ago, and that one had 6 floors. So... maybe 9. I doubt it's more than that." He answered.
The deepest dungeon we had come across only had 7 floors and that was one of the first ones. While fighting in them was fun, it didn't pose the same challenge as the waves.