Yep, I think I can be satisfied with this much for now. For the moment, it would be better to check on other things. Root was flying around with everyone else, happy to have grown stronger, Lucifer decided to start cooking by using the meat we got from the monsters, which I purified from poison by absorbing it all easily. So things are going smoothly, and everyone's resting.
After I stored all the materials, which I was going to use to make some pretty amazing materials to complete our next Dungeon's challenge, I looked into the items I got, the holographic window was still there. I had acquired three sets of items myself.
[Congratulations! You're the first Party to have conquered the Dungeon in over 10 Years!]
[You will be rewarded accordingly to your efforts!]
[Your Reward has been generated: [Random Item Box (C Grade)] x5, [Magic Potion of Wizardly (B Grade)] x5, [Grimoire of Dark Reign (B+ Grade)] x1!]
However, something new showed up right after, only for me…
[Due to having defeated the [Ruler of the Swamp] alone, you've been gifted the [Swamp Dungeon's Hidden Boss Key (A Grade)] x1!]
[Defeat the Hidden Boss to attain even greater rewards!]
Wait, hidden boss key?! So there's a hidden boss nobody knows about in here? And wait, this is the first time I see a Dungeon being so nice with me!
From what I remember, the two dungeons I even visited were psychos. One wanted to consume everything and didn't cared about rules. And the second was being controlled by a fragment of the Evil God, it is where I got myself Tyr.
So my memory of dungeons is pretty bad. I guess they have all kinds of personalities. Some go by their rules and are nice to their visitors, perhaps they actually benefit from the monsters being slain, after all when monsters die inside dungeons, the dungeons can recycle the mana used to make them into a cycle.
This way they keep growing stronger by recycling their own energy, so that's why they need people to come kill monsters. Of course, they also benefit if the people die so they give them their tasty souls and flesh and all of that.
But if that doesn't happen, the dungeons shouldn't really get mad at the humans. I guess the two I fought were… too weird compared to the normal ones, which are cooperative and rather challenging.
The Swamp Dungeon Core is intelligent enough, I am sure of it. The Dungeon Core is probably wanting to get rid of this Dungeon it summoned. Maybe by error or something? So it gives me the key to slay it.
If I die, it gains tons of magic, and if the dungeon boss dies, it also gains mana and energy, and gets rid of the annoying pest it had to forcefully seal away… I guess it is pretty obvious that dungeons always have a win-win condition.
It is only when they get overly ambitious and greedy like the first dungeon I ever visited, which I went to visit later once it was corrupted with souls and miasma that they begin actively working against the people visiting them, and angrily try to get them killed as soon as they can.
Huh… Oh well, first of all, let's check these items. Later I'll think about it. It wasn't much of a challenge for everyone, so perhaps fighting this Hidden Boss might be a nice warm up for tomorrow's dungeon raid. I doubt anybody would reject the nice EXP either.
But for now, time to check the items…
[Random Item Box (C Grade)] x5
A Random Item Box containing up to C Grade Materials of all types, which can be used for Alchemy and Crafting, or even Cooking! Once opened, a roulette will begin, press the button to get what you want. Be careful, the roulette goes very fast.
[Magic Potion of Wizardly (B Grade)] x5
A Special Potion crafted with top tier ingredients which can permanently increase MP and Magic by 100 up to 1000 when drank. Cannot be used as material for ingredients, if used, it will explode.
[Grimoire of Dark Reign (B+ Grade)] x1
A Special Grimoire left behind by the Ancient Black Dragon, Dark Reign. A powerful Black Dragon that inhabits the Svartalfheim Continent. His knowledge over Dark Magic and the depth of the Abyss knows no bounds.
By reading this Grimoire and comprehending its wisdom and then using it as an item, Darkness Attribute Damage increases by +10% permanently, and Comprehension over Darkness Magic increases greatly. There's a 50% chance for a 3 random Dark Attribute Magic Skills to Level up from 1 to 5 levels, and a 10% for them to Evolve into greater Skills.
Eeeh?! They're all amazing! What the heck?
The Item Boxes are alright, I'll open them to see what I get.
But aside from them, the potions and this grimoire are top tier stuff!
I have to quickly use them to get stronger! There's no time to waste!
I quickly drank all wizardly potions.
They were slightly sweet wine-like taste.
After drinking them all, I felt slightly dizzy, but I felt the power of magic overflowing across my body, as I began glowing purple in color.
[You gained +450 MP and +300 Magic]
[You gained +600 MP and +200 Magic]
[You gained +150 MP and +700 Magic]
[You gained +1000 MP and +800 Magic]
[You gained +800 MP and +400 Magic]
[You gained a total of +3000 MP and +2400 Magic!]
Damn, I got almost a level worth of MP and Magic, this is nice…
Now, let's try to read this grimoire!
I grabbed the Grimoire, as its pages started flickering rapidly.
"I am Dark Reign, the Ancient Dark Dragon, descendant of the Primordial Dragon of Darkness, Svartalf. In this book I record my dark and endless path towards attaining the abyss of knowledge that is the element of darkness. The endless void that stretches across the horizons of the sky has no bounds, a boundless journey that might end in my ultimate peril as I research this evil path with my darkest desires unbound…"
I stopped reading as I sighed, closing the grimoire.
"What the heck is up with this chuunibyou dragon?!"