Odyssey of the Blind God

Nial was on his way toward some of the new dungeons that had emerged not too long ago.

He hadn\'t fought for quite a while and he felt a bit rusty.

The dungeon he approached was also one of the few dungeons where Magnatit crystal deposits of higher quality were located.

Nial didn\'t really need Magnatit crystals anymore because his perfection grade with most runic constellations was extremely high but the newcomers in his group would improve a lot using mana-dense runic solutions.

Thus, Nial ended up entering the dungeon that only beings below and at the early ranks of the Prometheus rank could enter.

A few Dark Elves and the three brats of the Nightshadow Elves followed him with cloaks covering their mana fluctuations and appearance.

This attracted some attention because not many people near and around the shelter would bother hiding their mana fluctuations anymore. There was no apparent reason to do so except if one wanted to hide, which was quite obvious the case right now.

However, no Guard blocked their paths, even when the group of cloaked men wanted to enter the permanent dungeon. Nial merely showed one of the few guards his insignia before they could even move.

The Guards, who had seen the insignia looked at Nial in astonishment before they stepped aside in unison.

When Nial and his people disappeared in the dungeon portal, the Guards began to pant heavily.

"I can breathe again..." One of the Guards blurted out in between two breaths, not understanding what had happened.

"His presence...is he at the Keltian rank?!?" Another Guard asked, wondering if it had been one of the overly powerful Elves who had walked past them and they had somehow missed noticing him.

"That can\'t be. He could enter the dungeon portal... He should have been at the Peak of the Mirae rank, or just advanced to the Prometheus rank..." A third Guard said, his eyes filled with horror as he looked at the dungeon portal.

Meanwhile, Nial had just emerged on the other side of the portal.

There were several groups of powerful Originals all around the dungeon that was located on a huge mountain.

Frigid air swept around Nial, which he ignored quite easily. He felt warm because the cloak had a [Heating] runic constellation engraved on it.

The runic constellation barely drained some of his mana, which was why Nial and everyone else were unaffected by the frigid cold.

They walked over the highlands plateau on which they had emerged and descended the mountain on a certain side. Nial had released his range of perception and his [Mana Sense] into the ground.

Usually, this would restrict the range of perception tremendously but Nial was different. He could easily perceive and visualize everything that was located several kilometers below and around him, no matter what lay in his way.

The only restrictions were specific mana-isolating or mana-blocking materials, or man-made places with specific runic constellations that were supposed to block curious people from seeing what they were not supposed to see.

Nial didn\'t have trouble perceiving anything within the large dungeon, which was also why he hiked down the mountain without hesitation.

Some humans and elven Originals stared in the direction of the cloaked men but nobody dared to follow them. They felt uncomfortable while looking in his direction. The eerie feeling was more than enough for anyone to know that it was better to ignore the group altogether.

Within the following two hours, Nial and his people climbed down the mountain and entered a cave. They faced a few monsters but they were quickly taken care of.

Nial fought effortlessly, using the various Tier-2 runic armaments he had customized for himself.

He used a black spear that amplified the power of darkness-attributed affinities if circulated through the spear.

Thus, he called the Spear "Eclipse Spear".

Nial had never been good at naming something but he was pretty sure that a rather simple name was much better than something complicated like "Cursed Blade of Hell\'s Pits".

In the end, names didn\'t really matter for ordinary runic armaments because they didn\'t enhance the strength of a runic armament. That was also why Nial chose the simplest names for his runic armaments while allowing others to change the name if they wanted to. It didn\'t really matter to him, except if someone like Sabrina changed the names of the weapons he made for her.

Sabrina had demanded a total of 30 runic armaments to be created for him and Nial had given her everything. This was his way of telling his sister that he loved her and that it was fine for a brother to spoil his little sister a bit.

Time passed slowly as Nial walked through the cave. The brats of the Nightshadow Elven race were getting impatient but they didn\'t say anything.

They were already satisfied that Nial had released his Essence of Darkness to nourish the power of their Shadow Energy.

This was something that happened naturally as long as their Shadow Energy was not much stronger than Nial\'s Essence of Darkness.

Nial\'s Essence of Darkness was extremely powerful, which was also why the Nightshadow Elves at the Keltian rank gained some benefits from being exposed to the Essence of Darkness.

Their gains were minuscule but that was still better than nothing, especially since none of them had ever gained permission to be close to any of the few royals of their race, who had awoken Darkness Essence.

Nial was a great opportunity for them to become stronger and everyone with even the slightest bit of common sense would follow Nial willingly and assist him in whatever he was going to do.

This was something Nial understood very well, which was why he ordered the Nightshadow Elves and Dark Elves around when he needed them.

"We\'ll encounter a few Hobgoblins and a Goblin Chieftain soon," Nial announced quietly before he added, "They\'re the Guardians of the Magnatit crystal deposit, and reside not too far from it...sooo be careful and don\'t destroy too much."

He didn\'t want the Magnatit crystal deposit to get destroyed. Yet, instead of nodding their heads, the elves rolled their eyes.

They might be known as a destructive race but Nial\'s energy was not only more destructive and dangerous but the way Nial fought caused more damage than the most destructive elf amongst all of them.

The Nightshadow Elves and Dark Elves were more like Assassins, while Nial was a Berserker wielding a spear....

And just as they had expected, Nial was the first one to shoot forward.

He passed through the large tunnel and emerged in a huge hall, where more than a hundred Hobgoblins at the Peak of the Mirae rank and one Goblin Chieftain at the Prometheus rank, wielding a humongous broadsword were seated.

Nial had sized up is opponents the moment his [Mana Sense] had perceived them. Thus, he was already prepared for a countermeasure for all of their possible movements.

He used his dark energy to retrieve one of the tennis ball-sized metal balls from his belt. He inserted mana into it before his dark energy that had turned into a hand threw it straight ahead.

The metal ball exploded, releasing a dazzling fiery-red light that forced all the beasts to close their eyes.

Seconds passed and the painful screams of dying Hobgoblins reverberated through the hallway. Yet, when the beasts that were still alive opened their eyes, all they could was red, quite literally.

Nial had activated both [Hodur\'s Heir] to manifest some black miasma, and [Blood Eclipse Moon] to enhance the strength of his black miasma.

It turned bloody red and filled the entire hallway. The Bloody black miasma was dense and prevented anyone from seeing anything.

Even after the Goblin Chieftain brandished its broadsword to disperse the bloody black miasma, it didn\'t disappear. Instead, bloody red spikes manifested out of dark energy and the darkish-crimson energy of the Blood Eclipse Moon ability shot out of the ground, piercing through the three-meter-tall Goblin Chieftain\'s body.

Nial was like a black flash that shot through the surroundings, killing everyone and everything in his path. He didn\'t leave a single dungeon beast alive. They were killed with a single strike, without any problems.

It looked like Nial didn\'t even have to put in any effort to kill the Hobgoblins at the Peak of the Mirae rank as they died without receiving the opportunity to raise their weapons to block him.

And even if they were able to raise their weapons, Nial\'s Eclipse Spear had the [Shatter] runic constellation engraved on its blade.

With his Tier-2 runic weapon, Nial was able to destroy most ungraded, and Tier-0 weapons. There were even Tier-1 runic armaments he could easily shatter with his Eclipse Spear. That was how powerful it was!

Nial jerked forward, cleanly slicing the Eclipse Spear through the Goblin Chieftain\'s skull, which shattered into smithereens.

The fight ended afterward as the Goblin Chieftain\'s body went limp. Nial lifted his hand and retracted all the remnants of the bloody black miasma to make sure that he didn\'t waste any of it.

It was a battle of two minutes that Nial had fought all by himself. The Elves rolled their eyes once again as they saw Nial\'s eerily calm composure. He was not sweating in the slightest and it almost looked like he could go on like this for hours.

This was frightening, even for the Nightshadow Elves, who had witnessed their parents fighting...and their parents were truly powerful...

"I think it was a good choice to follow him... He might be just a human, but comparing him to any kind of ordinary human race would be a disgrace for his power..." One of the brats mumbled and everyone else nodded their heads.

Even if they didn\'t like the fact that they were following and taking orders from a human, it was quite obvious that Nial didn\'t have to rely on his Essence of Darkness to overpower his opponents.

His physical strength was high enough to rival the brats of the Nightshadow Elven race and that was more than enough for them to understand that Nial was not to be taken lightly.

After all, Nial\'s physical strength had been much lower than theirs just half a year ago.

Now that Jundra\'s planetary mana core had awoken, Nial\'s strength would increase much faster than theirs but that was only obvious.

Nial was in possession of the Essence of Darkness, which indirectly suggested that his talent was unrivaled. All Nightshadow Elves with the Essence of Darkness were unrivaled existences in their generation. Thus, Nial had to be exactly the same. That was what the Nightshadow Elves were certain about.

"What the hell are you guys standing around here for? Help me in mining!" Nial suddenly shouted, ordering his followers to do what they were supposed to do; work.

Meanwhile, Nial retrieved more than 20 mining pickaxes which he wielded with the strands of dark energy he controlled.

A total of 20 arms of darkness shot out of Nial\'s body. They grasped a mining pickaxe each and started to mine the Magnatit crystal deposit.

Hours elapsed quickly and Nial left the dungeon with his people afterward.

Conquering the dungeon was possible for them but it was not what Nial had planned to do.. His goal had been different after all.

Yet, what he didn\'t expect to find when leaving the dungeon was a beautiful, young and extremely familiar Elven.

"Oh? Your majesty," Nial said quite nonchalantly when he noticed that the Royal Princess rushed toward him with heavy steps, her expression filled with uncertainty.

"We have a problem!"

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