It wasn’t surprising for many to fall under the effect of that poison. With the lack of their protective bubbles, these monsters were vulnerable to poison.

After ten hours, lots of monsters fell under the effect of my boy’s toxin. By the twenty hours mark, all the monsters in the range of my monster’s attack had already fallen.

But to be honest, this wasn’t a big deal. The killed monsters would only make up for ten to fifteen percent of the current monster population in the sky.

Sigh! Even after twenty hours, I didn’t manage to get as much yet not that much as well.

“If only I had my chariot or my boys… I would have killed all of them by now,” I chewed a piece of meat while looking at my idly standing boys.

“Get ready for another fight,” I knew this time things would take much longer. After all they’d only attack monsters while coming and flying away from me.

“Roar!”

As I stepped outside the protection zone of the peak, the monsters scattered all over the world here turned and came at me.

I waited for as long as possible before I returned back to the peak. I was trying to buy more time for my boys.

“Oh, this is unexpected,” but once I returned up there, I was surprised to see a new change.

The monsters returning back to the sky didn’t scatter around like before. Instead a great part of them started to fly around the peak, filling the gap created by the killed monsters here.

“This is… Just perfect!” it was! In just a few minutes, the sky was filled with hundreds of monsters in the range of my boy’s attack.

This time my boys took thirty hours to kill the monsters around us. This wasn’t because they were slacking or something, but the number of monsters here was simply slightly much more than the previous ones.

“Next round,” during this I got myself all rested up, even slept for twelve hours straight. I didn’t get enough rest recently, and it was just perfect to enjoy this rare moment of peace.

This kept going for seven more times. Each time I stepped down the peak, monsters returned and filled the gap created by the killed ones.

Until the last batch of monsters finally fell under my boys’ poison.

“Great job everyone,” I said it with honesty while grinning in satisfaction. If only all the fights would be like this, I wouldn’t complain at all.

I slept for a long time, rested most of the time, and didn’t even exert an ounce of strength or bothered to join the fight at all.

This was the privilege of having the perfect counter to any enemy, and also being smart and cool headed.

If I just followed my worries back then, I would have missed these great moments indeed. In the end I killed over thirty thousand flying monsters, but couldn’t get a single material or scrap out of their bodies.

After all they died and fell down to the ground, vanishing under the cloud layers deep below.

“Time to get down then,” as I got rid of the threat here, it was time to climb down the mountain.

Yet I didn’t call back my boys. Who knew what other tricks this test was preparing for me here.

As I started my journey down, I realised how massive this mountain was. The entire mountain was sloppy, with many dangerous places that could have let me fall down till the bottom.

But I made sure to use my heavy glaive all the time. It helped me in crushing the rocks everywhere, paving a steady path down like I was creating stairs.

I kept climbing down for long hours until I lost track of time. It felt like I was climbing down for days, but when I reached the lower cloud layers, I felt joy and excitement.

I didn’t hurry to go down. After all things were kept hidden from my eyes. I created a small cave using my glaive Shocking Blow skill, and rested there for an hour or so.

Then it was time to descend through this layer of clouds.

“Damn me! There are more monsters down here?!!”

Just as I descended through the layer, the first thing I saw was a large number of similar monsters waiting for me. They looked like the monsters I killed, yet with bigger bodies and much more bubbles.

And before I could think about anything, a message popped up in front of my eyes.

Congratulations! You cleared a gate already

The next gate is waiting for you to clear

“Screw you!” I realised what was going on here. As I stood just a metre below the thick layer of clouds, I could see that mountain going down below for a few miles before being shrouded with another layer of clouds.

This was like an infinite road to hell! What the hell was this mountain exactly? Did it have a bottom? Really?

Continuing to fight? No way! I already spent hundreds of hours killing the past monsters. And now? I had much more monsters to kill, much fiercer and larger in size, strength, and numbers.

Not to mention clearing that gate didn’t grant me any skills at all! This was a losing deal to me. I wouldn’t take it.

“Take me out!” Decisively I decided to go out of here, end this dungeon test with such achievement.

Are you sure?

“Damn sure,” I didn’t even consider trying to hit monsters here. It was a waste. What would I get back from this? Literally nothing!

I couldn’t even collect materials from the killed monsters here. Not to mention I was getting a few souls in return for such a long time.

Time investment wise, this was a losing deal. If I knew about this much earlier, then I’d just have withdrawn many hundreds of hours ago.

Just killing one monster was enough to grant me the soul I needed. Sigh, it was a waste.

Ok, you are going out now

The final score is going to be calculated

You are the last of your team to get out

I knew it. My team wasn’t that impressive alone, not against such a hard test anyway.

What would be the final score then? I couldn’t help but be on my toes to see the results.