Re: Evolution Online-Novel

While others continued to train in the dungeon day and night, Liam as well was pretty much doing the same thing as he arrived at the second dungeon that had been updated.

He had first gone to the earlier dungeon, where he had already cleared a few floors, but to his surprise, he was not able to enter the thing, and a system notification popped out about the weekly reset.

From the looks of it, the updated dungeon could only be attempted once a week, no matter how floors were cleared. 

This was a bit inconvenient, but luckily Liam had the luxury of another dungeon to lean on in the meantime. 

By the time he was done clearing the mobs of the second dungeon, the timer from the first one would easily run out, and he would be able to go there again.

The plan was solid. The only problem was the vampires that had recently cropped up. If they chose a time he was inside the dungeon to attack the base, then the result would be disastrous.

At the same time, Liam couldn't afford to sit and wait for something to happen simply. Otherwise, the impending second wave of apocalypse would crush them all.

So it was either the rock or the hard place. But then, there was another option, and Liam was staring at her currently.

The little fox did not look happy as Liam coaxed her to return to the base and stand guard. Since their mental connection was strong enough, he would be able to keep an eye on everything while at the same time continuing to train.

After taking care of that, Liam then finally stepped into the second dungeon. Unlike the first one, this dungeon did not have any intimidating towering creatures that were almost twice his size.

Instead, it had small cute creatures. Well, cute but deadly.

Liam's face twitched as he stared at the group of slimes rushing towards him at full speed. Each of them looked a shade of green and purple, clearly containing something extremely toxic within them.

If he was not careful, he could die even if he managed to kill these little things.

But this was only a problem for others. Not for him. He had special tanks just for this purpose. 

Liam did not waste any time as he summoned his army of soul minions, at least those who were above Level 40. 

These slimes might not look like it, but they were still level 50. So he did not underestimate them and called forth only the big shots.

The wyverns naturally stepped out first and started stomping down on the little things, snorting in annoyance. 

Almost immediately, the little slimes burst open like bubbles, and at the same time, Liam instinctively erected a mana barrier around him.

The little shits spewed out both gaseous and liquid things that filled the entire space with a poisonous haze. It hung in the air like a heavy cloud, lethal and deathly.

Moreover, they did not even die from the impact. The little blobs clumped together to form a few bigger slimes that once again came at the undead, shooting out bullets of poisonous substances.

This was definitely going to be a drag. Liam did not like the dungeon very much. At least with the orcs, he was able to run through the space efficiently with a lot of speed, but these little things were time-consuming.

At this rate, it was probably going to take an entire day just to deal with this floor, even though all the slimes on the floor were simply around level 50.

Liam remained patient for the first three mobs while the wyverns tried various combinations of elemental attacks to see what the slimes were weak against.

They tried first freezing them and then zapping them with electricity, frying them directly with fire and even just trapping them under earthen barriers, but nothing was working.

Their corrosive ability was top-notch as they slipped right through whatever attack was being piled on. The slimes had an insane magic resistance. 

The only way to kill them seemed to be physically exhausting them through repeated cycles of breaking them down as they combined together like jelly goo. In other words, it was a slow and painful process.

After the fifth mob, Liam even started contemplating quitting the dungeon run. The time spent versus the experience points gained was really not worth it.

However, he also did not have the heart to give up on the dungeon just like that because then he would have nothing else to do.

"How is it coming along, Dimitri?" Liam asked the dark elf, whom he was hoping was his way out of this mess. Unfortunately, that also proved to be useless as the dark elf couldn't identify or analyze the material of these slimes.

In the end, Liam had to go through the awfully long grind until they arrived at the end of the cavern network, where something extremely hideous stared at him.

<Level 60, Elite Slime Mother>

This particular slime was huge and tall and had a skull resembling an old woman hanging at the front. It also had a prefix in front of its name, suggesting that this was probably the boss of the dungeon.

Liam's eyes widened before he prepared to jump into the fight and withdrew his black dragon sword. Unlike the other dungeon, this one interestingly had a floor boss.

"So the architecture of each dungeon is different?" Liam took a deep breath and erected a mana barrier around himself before taking a step forward.

"Let's start."

BOOM!

The wyverns instantly started the onslaught with a variety of elemental attacks. The slime mother roared as she started spewing out corrosive acids that made the air tingle whilst casually ignoring the elemental attacks.

Once again, the magic resistance was off the charts. However, the corrosive acids were also completely useless against the soul minions as they did not possess a fleshy body, to begin with.

The two sides' strong points negated each other. However, they also had their weak points. While wyverns were somewhat weak against both magic and physical attacks, the slime mother couldn't do either of those.

So from the get go the soul minions surrounded the slime mother and started cutting down the huge blob of goo.

"Maybe I overestimated this boss?" Liam quietly watched the fight.

However, as the boss's health dropped down to the last 30%, he had to swallow this thought. The slime mother materialized some sort of acidic poisonous globules, which then evaporated to become sizzling lethal blades.

These blades started flying left and right in the cavern, making it very difficult for both soul minions and Liam to evade the attack. 

Moreover, the poisonous vapours in the space obscured the vision, hiding them partially. These blades also did some amount of physical damage.

"So you are finally starting to fight back, huh?" Liam grinned. He moved from his spot and slashed down at the slime mother with the black dragon sword.

The soul sword cut through the jelly-like slime, cutting down a big chunk of the health.

The boss became enraged and started sending out more acidic and poisonous wind blades, but Liam churned his mana core to maintain his agility at the peak condition whilst also maintaining the mana barrier.

He slashed at the boss again and again and again, bringing down the health by 5% every single time. In the end, he drained every last bit of health of the slime mother as the huge thing wailed before exploding.

SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!

Putrid, greenish-purple poisonous jelly goop rained everywhere, but weirdly enough, there was no notification of experience points.

Liam immediately had a bad feeling. This fight was still not over!

The next second, the boss that burst out once again appeared in front of him. However, this time she was in the form of a slime army. 

Each thing that fell apart after the explosion became an individual slime monster. Each of them was nauseatingly resilient as they came at him from all directions.

If his soul army was intimidating, this army of disgusting slimes wasn't any less. More importantly, it was clear that each of them was going to keep splitting again and again until they eventually died down completely.

"Motherfcker!" Liam couldn't help but curse out loud.

This was going to be a long fight. He also did not hold back and summoned a bigger group of soul minions, and the two armies went up against each other fearlessly.

Liam as well zig-zagged around the cavern, taking care of everything that came in his path. 

The slimes were never-ending, and the fight lasted for about three hours straight. It was a long and boring grind, and the experience points were not nearly as rewarding.

The only plus point was the fact that when Liam arrived at the next floor of the dungeon, he was staring at some sort of tree or a plant. There were no more slimes on the next floor!