Anton asked Torbin and Ronia to find someone to identify the magic items that came from the 30th floor of the Corridors of Amuneta.
“Since we’re finding a third party to identify your items, it’s inevitable that the information that your home housed multitudes of powerful enchanted gears. Four guards are hardly enough to truly make your home secure,” Torbin told Anton.
After thinking about it, Anton told the dwarf to let the items be and would let his father handle it once Anders arrived. In the meantime, Ronia could sell the items that had already been identified if the house needed funds.
Torbin and Ronia couldn’t help but just agree to Anton’s commands. The two could feel that Anton didn’t truly care about the enchanted gears that other families in the kingdom would treasure. Ronia and Torbin probably thought that the fact that Anton could dive into high-level dungeons and get mana stones and enchanted gears anytime he wanted was the contributing factor that made him not value them so much.
Ronia then informed Anton of the names and background of the newly hired maid and the two new guards. He listened to his lady butler, but Ronia and Torbin could see that Anton didn’t really care too much.
Since there was nothing to do at the house, Anton told Ronia and Torbin that he would go to the Corridors of Amuneta to delve its 40th floor but would return in a few days, since he didn’t want to miss any letters from his father or sister.
“You’re diving the 40th floor of a high-level dungeon alone?” Torbin exclaimed, and Ronia gaped at him.
Anton nodded at the dwarf’s questions.
“You knew I’ve been delving the dungeons alone.”
“How powerful are you?”
“I’m ranked by the mages in the cities that I’ve been to as an archmage. I’m very powerful, so if anything happened to my treasure, just let me know, and I have the magic to bring any thief to justice,” Anton said that sentence even though it’s not the whole truth, since most of his spells were straightforward offensive spells. It was to reassure his people and to warn them as well.
Anton saw that Ronia and Torbin understood his sentence, which had double intentions. After that, he gave Ronia several enchanted items that he had made to make their living in his house more comfortable when he met everyone in the living room.
“You made these enchanted items? You’re also a magic item creator?!” Torban cried out.
Anton loaned each one a Frozen Orb air conditioner, the Fire Wall Stove, and the Ice Bolt water cup.
“That’s right. That’s why even if I don’t dive into a dungeon, our family would never worry about coins, so lucky for you all that you’ve become part of our family,” Anton boasted.
Ronia then told Anton that she would try searching for mansions in the budget that he declared and compile a list so he and his father could inspect once his father arrived and they were ready to purchase a new home. The process of selecting the right home would be simpler then. After that, Anton left for the Corridors of Amuneta.
After several hours, he was back in the high-level dungeon. Since Anton already had a key, he immediately queued behind the group of adventurers that formed a line to enter the dungeon. The line was fairly long, and just like before, the group before and behind Anton was curious about him since he queued alone.
“Hi, my name is Pietro and I’m with my groupmates here. We’re called the Lightning Cats!” the man who called himself Pietro, who was the group before Anton, said.
Anton almost laughed out loud at the juvenile way the group named their party. But on a second look, the members of Pietro were fairly young, like mid to late twenties. Anton was a bit impressed since Pietro’s group had become powerful enough to dive into a high-level dungeon at a young age. Of course, not compared to an outlier like himself.
“I’m Anton,” He simply introduced himself.
“Is this your first time, and are you queuing for your group?” Pietro asked.
Anton could see that Pietro’s party members stopped talking to each other to listen to Pietro and Anton’s conversation. He could also see that the party behind Anton was listening in.
“No, this is not my first time. I conquered the 30th floor the day before, and I’m now heading to the 40th floor alone as well. I’m an archmage, so I can handle the floors alone.”
“Can I look at your key?” One of Pietro’s party members asked who looked like the oldest among them.
Anton simply showed the part of his dungeon key that indicated the dungeon floor number.
“Wow, the 30th floor alone! You must be extremely powerful!” Pietro vociferated, which earned him disdainful looks from his groupmates.
Pietro’s group mates and the party behind Anton started looking at him with respect. When it was Anton’s turn to enter the dungeon, he recognized the guild staff. It was the man who looked at him scornfully when he exited the dungeon alone the day before. The man judged him for having left his party mates behind to die in the dungeon. Of course, the man didn’t say so. He just used his eyes to share his thoughts. Now the man looked a little fearful of Anton and couldn’t look him in the eye. He simply waved Anton to enter the dungeon.
Anton stumbled into a chamber that looked like the hallway of an exaggeratedly huge house. The dungeon gate looked like the entrance to a huge mansion of truly large proportions. Based on the dilapidated look of the mansion for giants, this floor was supposed to be a haunted castle. There was only a door forward, and looking at the hallway past the door, he inferred the dungeon’s battle areas would be rooms in the mansion, and the road would be the hallway.
Since this was the 40th floor, Anton assumed that this floor would be much, much more difficult compared to the 30th floor. He immediately summoned five Spirit Wolves and five Ravens. The Spirit Wolves would trigger the traps, and the Ravens would be his scouts.
Anton started flying and commanded the wolves to move forward while the Ravens flew ahead. Before he left, Anton didn’t forget to tie the dungeon to his ladder Amazon character so he would earn experience points from this floor.
Since the floor looked like a haunted castle, he assumed that he would encounter different forms of undead. This fact delighted Anton a little since he truly wanted to have experience in battling different types of undead. He wanted to be prepared when the time came for him to confront the Undead Coalition.
As expected, his five Spirit Wolves encountered deadly traps. Since he didn’t want to summon the wolves each time a trap damaged them, Anton activated his Prayer Aura, and that healed the wolves immediately.
Anton’s raven informed him that at the end of the hallway, there were two doors. He saw through the eyes of one of his ravens that there seemed to be no puzzles but to simply pick and choose one of the doors.
After dealing with several traps, Anton and the five Spirit Wolves finally reached the room with the two doors. The doors were gigantic. It made Anton feel like the castle was made for giants.