The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Ruby was very nervous when she and Rein were alone. Understanding that what she was going to do was very important to her, Rein gave her enough time to calm her mind down. After a few minutes, Ruby finally managed to gather up her courage and decided to be direct. She did not beat around the bush and immediately confessed her feelings to Rein.

"Rein, I have fallen in love with you. Will you please go out with me too ?"

Rein was a little bit surprised after seeing how direct Ruby was but Rein did like this straight forward approach. But just as he was about to open his mouth to give Ruby an answer, a loud roar broke the silence of the night. At the same time it also completely destroyed the romantic atmosphere that was between Rein and Ruby.

It looked like tonight these monsters were determined to ruin Rein and his party members' mood. This time it was not only Ruby but Rein also got angry. But just as Ruby was about to go and vent her anger, Rein stopped her. That was because the monster that had appeared this time was a bit troublesome.

This monster did not have any distinct shape and was just a mass of fire. The most troublesome thing about this monster was the fact that its body was completely made out of fire and not just any fire but the special eternal fire. So even just getting close to this monster was dangerous. For a close quarters fighter like Ruby, this was without a doubt the worst matchup.

The best way to defeat this monster was to hit it with powerful elemental attacks from long distance. But this monster was also completely immune to the fire element. So Rein's only method to defeat this powerful foe was by using his ice element to hit it again and again. The closer this monster could get, the more danger Rein would be in.

But it was not like Rein could move away from his current location. Right behind him was the tent where Sophia was sleeping, so Rein decided to use a big and powerful move to kill this monster in one shot. And while preparing his big ice attack, Rein said to Ruby in a gentle voice.

"I will be glad to go out with you if you're fine with Sophia also joining us."

Hearing this relief washed over Ruby and Rein's icy burst completely annihilated this monster. Ruby immediately jumped in Rein's chest and they shared a tender kiss. That was how even though he was unwilling at first but Rein was unable to go against his destiny of having a harem and got his second girlfriend.

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The next morning, they continued the journey again. After Ruby joined Rein and Sophia as family, the relation between them had become even closer. But now was not the time for sentimentality as the monsters were now getting more and more powerful. The mountain-like monster that Sophia defeated showed up again and this time in large numbers.

That was not all, the last fire elemental monster who was killed by Rein and started to show up in groups. They all looked like boss type monsters but it looked like these monsters were actually pretty common in the deepest part of the Desolate Plains.

After a few hours Rein judged that continuing this journey with the danger rover would not be possible. So all three of them get down from the car to continue the journey on foot. As for the car, Danger Rovers could be dismantled into smaller pieces and most of the pieces were stored in Sophia's shadow storage.

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On feet, all three of them moved extremely quickly. With the car, they were unable to avoid most of the monster encounters but that was not a problem for them on their feet. Sophia used her detection skills to find the monsters and they avoided most of them.

So, after just a few hours, Rein, Sophia and Ruby were able to reach the location mentioned by Ben. Rein was extremely surprised that someone like Ben who only had a C grade symbol, was able to reach this place. There was also a possibility that Ben had never come here and it was Prucia who had told him about this location.

But for the time being it was not something Rein needed to worry about so he stopped thinking about it and instead focused on the task ahead.

From his current location, Rein was easily able to see the Huguocite he needed to retrieve. Actually it would be impossible to not notice it as this piece of Huguocite was over 50 meters tall. It was not just a Huguocite but a small mountain made completely out of Huguocite.

Now the thing Rein needed to worry about the most was a way to carry this. And his second most important worry would be the monsters surrounding the Huguocite hill. The number of monsters surrounding it was insane but that was not what worried Rein the most. There were three special monsters who were resting beside the Huguocite mountain and they even made Rein worried.

Two of these monsters were already well known to their teams. One was the large colour changing mountain monster and the other one was the eternal fire monster. But these two individuals were special among their race. Rein judged that they were the leader monsters with the ability to control all the other weaker monsters of their races.

As for the third monster, it was from a species that Rein and his team had not encountered before. Actually even now the large monster was the only individual Rein could observe from this race. As he had no idea about what kind of ability this monster was able to use, he was most worried about it.

Rein tried to use his Eye of Truth to find out as much information as possible about this monster. He did manage to find a few things but as his ability had weakened considerably, Rein was not happy with the amount of information. Rein had no intention to take unnecessary risks so he first started to think of a way to get his hands on the Huguocite mountain without alerting these monsters.

The best person for this job was obviously Sophia as she was the fastest among the three of them and could hide her presence very well. If it was just a small chunk of rock then her going and grabbing it was fine but Rein still needed to find a way to take away the whole mountain.

So just a little bit away from the Huguocite mountain, Rein, Sophia and Ruby started a discussion to think of a way to carry this super large mountain sized chunk of rock.