Chapter 77: Chapter 77 : Spiders’ Den

A few hours later, Victor parked the car on an abandoned dirt road and stepped down, followed by Alex who still didn't comprehend what was going on. Why did the young master suddenly decide to go to a dungeon at this hour? And where would he find one? Victor didn’t tell her anything.

Victor slowly took out a bone necklace from somewhere and wore it around his neck, then under Alex's surprised gaze, a golden spear appeared in his hand which he threw at her.

"Use this, you can't use your fists in this dungeon." He said.
Alex looked at the spear in her hand then at Victor as she noticed the unmarked ring on his finger.
"You, you have a storage ring," she shouted in shock. Even her late father didn't have one of those.

"Yeah, I got it from a recent dungeon. don't tell anyone." Victor said. This ring was one of the trophies he got from the reward room. The other two were the sword he gave Tom and an elixir.

"Do you know how to use that thing?" He asked her, waking her from her shock.

"Ah, no." She answered.

The next moment an ethereal book appeared in front of Victor and shot toward her head. It was the Spear Arts skill book. Victor was contemplating how to use it or sell it, but he can't leave Alex defenseless in this kind of dungeon that required mid to long-range weapons.
She knew exactly what this was, so she quickly closed her eyes and comprehended the skill.

It took her five minutes before she stood up again and began to test her new skill with the spear in her arm.

"We don't have time for that now," Victor said as he looked at her with a frown. As he lamented that she was now wearing a butler uniform that Hilda got her from somewhere. It was not very good in a dungeon. But family-issued servants' uniforms are very resistant usually, so this will have to do. And he did not have an additional sleeping bag to give her, as he forgot to bring one as he was in a hurry here. But they can't wait. In the morning baron is sure to have surrounded this place with a detection formation. And if he waited a few more days for things to cool down, the dungeon would have been long cleared when he reached it.

"Let's go." He said and began to head towards the gorge carefully from the woods.

"Damn it, we were too late," thought Victor as he noticed a few guards.

“Be careful, I am now using a disguise skill to hide my presence. There are sentries all around us. So stick close to me and lower your voice.” Victor warned as he grabbed Alex’s hand to guide her.

Alex was a little surprised by the mention of a disguise skill, but quickly forgot about it as a faint blush appeared on her face. This was the first time she held hands with someone like this.

After walking for a while and avoiding a few patrols, they reached the place where Tom fell. The place had only two lazy guards as they didn’t expect anyone would reach here.

Victor sighed in relief. It seems that Baron didn't have time to deploy a formation yet. He thought as he carefully approached the cliff.

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“It should be here. be careful.” Whispered Victor.

“What is here?” Alex asked absentmindedly. She was busy watching the guards, who were on their patrol nearby, completely ignoring them. She was now convinced, that her young master had some kind of a strong stealth skill.

“The dungeon. Now we will have to jump in." He said as he looked down into the abyss.

“What, jump. In there?” Asked Alex with shock.

“Lower your voice. Yes. Didn’t you enter a dungeon before?” He asked.

“I did, three times. but they had a gate on the ground. Can I not go?” Alex Asked nervously as he wondered how deep was this gorge.

“The gate is hidden in midair. Don’t you want to level up? I came here specifically for you. If I knew that you were just a coward I would have brought Lily. It's my fault for thinking that you are a real man.” Said Victor,

“I... I am not a coward," she said while complaining silently that she was not a man, to begin with.
"It’s just I don’t see any gates. Can’t we just use a rope?” She Added reasonably as she looked down.

“No, First, I don’t have one. Second, the gate is a little far from the gorge’s wall, so we would still need to jump.” He said as he put his hand around her slender waist. “Don’t worry, you will not jump by yourself.” Victor who was losing patience quickly grabbed Alex in a princess carry and jumped. As he felt that staying there for a long time was dangerous.

Alex screamed, grabbing hard on Victor's clothes and closing her eyes as she felt weightless. Am I going to die like this? She wondered.

The next thing she felt was the floor hitting her butt, Because Victor, who was carrying was sent to another place by the dungeon. She slowly stood up using the spear and looked at the system announcement.

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