The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Even though the lower portion of the mountain was supposed to only have weak monsters, as the monsters of this mountain were acting weird, Rein's party started the search from the base. Very soon it turned out to be a good decision as even before reaching the midway through the mountain, they encountered a UR grade monster.

This monster was a giant wolf and it was in the process of going down the mountain. Ruby wanted to attack it as soon as she saw the monster but Rein stopped her and started to investigate the monster. Soon he was able to see a small worm in this monster's brain too.

This worm was different from the worm that Rein had found in the Ashen Barrens. The worm from there had a long and thin shape while this worm had a round shape. Rein wanted to capture and investigate this worm too as there was a very high chance that this worm was also related to that monster of the core.

But without Kasumi and Patrik's support, only for Rein and Sophia, extracting the worm without killing it was a little hard. But still they needed to try. Rein decided to try doing Kasumi's part with his ability and Sophia decided to be extremely fast, so that there was no need for any healing.

But the biggest problem here was the fact this monster was not weak like the intelligent monster of the Ashen Barrens, so incapacitating it was not easy.

Rein told Ruby briefly about their plan as they needed her help holding the monster while both Rein and Sophia would be busy extracting the worm. Ruby had no idea why there was a need to do this but she readily agreed to help them out.

All three of them immediately attacked the monsters with their full strength. As this was a surprise attack, the monster was not ready for this and was defeated very quickly. Immediately afterwards, Ruby held the monsters in a lock hold so that it was not able to move at all. Immediately after that, Rein and Shopia started to extract the worm.

The whole process went smoothly. So much so that both Rein and Sophia were surprised by this. But as it was a good thing, they did not worry too much about it and immediately trapped the extracted worm in a special gadget.

But before they could even put away the special gadget, the wolf monster that Ruby was holding started swelling. Rein immediately pulled Ruby behind him and tried to create his strongest possible barrier. But the swelling monsters soon exploded before Rein was done with his barrier.

Having no time, Rein covered Ruby with his body to shield her. The shockwave from the explosion was very powerful and both of them were thrown away. Ruby quickly checked on Rein and saw that his back was completely mangled. Tears welled up in her eyes after seeing this.

Sophia emerged from the shadows behind her and told her that it was fine. Rein also raised his head a little bit and assured everyone that he was still well and alive. But as his backside was damaged very badly, he was unable to move his body for the time being but his wounds were healing at a visible rate.

The injury that Rein had suffered from this incident was dangerous for anyone. But with his perfect body, Rein was capable of completely recovering from it. Actually if his perfect body was working in full power, he would have been able to heal in seconds from this type of injury. But as the power of the perfect body was severely restricted, he would need about a day or two to make a full recovery.

For that reason, the mission of scouting the Kabalaska mountain was abandoned half way. Ruby and Sophia carried Rein to the base of the mountain and laid him down inside one of the half broken buildings of the base that was destroyed just a couple of days ago. Ruby was a bit calm now after seeing how fast Rein was able to heal and started to bandage his back.

While getting treated Rein told Ruby about all the things that they had found out in the Ashen Barrens. Ruby was extremely surprised and found it unbelievable that such a worm could exist and no one would know anything about it. It was a scary thing to think about.

When the wolf monster self exploded, Rein had handed Sophia the special gadget which was trapping the new type of worm and Sophia had immediately teleported away with it. Sophia could not carry anyone with her shadow teleportation technique and that was the reason why she was unable to help Ruby and Rein in that incident.

But she had managed to perfectly protect the gadget from getting destroyed so the worm was still there for Rein to investigate.

Rein wanted to investigate it immediately with his eye of truth but Sophia stopped and told him to rest for some time. But Rein continued insisting that it would be better to find out everything about this worm as soon as possible as there was a high chance that this worm might also self destruct itself.

Sophia accepted her loss after arguing a little bit more and took out the gadget. Fortunately the worm was still intact inside the ice that Rein had created with all his might. He immediately started to investigate it and stopped after a few minutes.

In these few minutes, he had managed to find out about all the major characteristics of this worm. To find anything deeper, she needed to continue investigating it for a longer period of time, which was not possible in his current state. So after finding out the basic information about this worm, he stopped.

Rein then looked at the curious ladies and started to tell them about what he managed to find out. This worm had almost no intelligence and that was the reason why they had a significantly easier time catching it. As for what it did to the wolf monsters, it just gave it a yearning for the human flesh. Monsters were ferocious but they did not really have any preference for the human flesh.

A monster would find the same amount of satisfaction after eating an animal, a human or a monster's meat. So there was no need for them to especially target humans for food.

Big this worm had given this wolf monster a suggestion that human flesh was very satisfying and that was the reason why it was coming down the mountain. Rein had not seen it but he was sure that the other three monsters who had come down the mountain a couple of days ago and attacked this base were also here for the same reason.

Rein had also managed to find the same trace of the great monster of the core so there was no doubt that all of these worms were related. Now Rein was thinking about if all the danger zones of this world had these type worms in the monster's brains.

Now the situation was getting interesting.