Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-236

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Beneath the mysterious force field made of intricate magic circles there were gray walls and beneath them a lively city filled with demi-humans. I wondered how it was possible for demi-humans to suddenly settle down in the middle of a dangerous dungeon like this one, to be sincere, my curiosity was killing me.

Does this God in charge of the Dungeon know about these people? How could he let them stay in the middle of the Dungeon? What if another team of adventures comes, how will they ever complete the dungeon with this obstacle in the middle?

My family was already aware of the city beneath the walls and the force field and started to chat around. Even after asking Oga, she didn't have any clue of what was happening.

"I… My people had never come to such depths before, so we were never aware of this… However, there was a legend in our tribe, well in all of the Lower Realm, about a Kingdom that lived inside of the Tower Dungeon that connected towards the surface… But because everyone always used the other route that connected with the mountains, we never saw this by ourselves. The possibility of defeating the boss protecting the floors bellow us was abysmal, so we never tried"

Nesiphae was very interested in the conversation so she joined in.

"Then, Oga… If there are legends about such a place exists, then someone from the Lower Realm in the past, perhaps, explored this place before and told the story about it"

Zehe nodded while speaking her mind.

"Indeed, the existence of such a place was always known, but it seems that it was never proven, and perhaps the ones who saw it died or never came back"

Brontes admired the place as her blue eyes shined brightly.

"Such a mystical place… I can feel the presence of something… A spirit? This city is being protected by something"

"A Spirit?" I asked.

Brontes nodded to me while having a mildly serious look.

"I can feel it, the presence of a Spirit, in the castle. The place is being protected by it, and this forcefield was made by it as well"

Deciding to satiate our curiosity by entering the mystical place, I decided to destroy the forcefield by using my own Aura, which I used to devour the forcefield slowly. The shining golden light that made this field began to crack as thunderous sounds were released. The people inside of the Gray Walls quickly became aware of what was going on as the Wall's gates opened. Then, a group of armed Demi-Humans of various species hastily charged at us while mounting on different Dungeon Monsters that we saw earlier.

The group of mixed demi-humans was being led by a strong a tall brown-skinned demi-human, it had small brown horns on its forehead and golden eyes with black hair, he was an old man and held an experienced and serious look on his face. The man was wearing a golden armor while wielding two golden swords, he was mounting a Crow Manticore.

As the small army of no more than one hundred approached us the soldiers yelled in surprise, amazement, and fear.

"Is that a Dragon?!"

"Indeed, a Metallic Red Dragon!"

"Its power it's immense, but it still taking some time to destroy the force field made by Master Nefertiti!"

"We need to stop it before it's too late!"

"Who are those demi-humans? I've never seen such a strange species!"

"Those must be the Dragon's underlings, get rid of them as well!"

"Chargeeee!!!" Yelled the "leader" of the army as he raised his weapons and a strange Golden Sand covered his body and weapons, giving him increased strength, his Crow Manticore was also affected by this magic as it increases its speed and power, charging at incredible speed.

Most of the soldiers held a power similar to him but in a lower strength. The ones that didn't have this power were on the back, working as Healers or Long Ranged Archers and Mages.

The leader's Crow Manticore suddenly started to fly at increasing speed while the rest of the army followed him, some of the split to attack my family. Fools.

"We won't let you enter our Sacred City, Dragon! Go back to your domain!"

The Leader of the group raised his two golden swords as he released a powerful burst of golden sand that resembled two small tornados coiling with each other. The force field completely ignored the attack as it let it slip through it, hitting me head-on. A powerful force shocked my body but there wasn't any damage at all, my armor was too strong to be damaged by this mid-level magic.

Noticing not a single scratch on my metallic body, the Leader did not give up as he flew around throwing powerful slashes and blasts of Golden Sand, while the soldiers behind him did the same, suddenly hundreds of soldiers were trying to take me on or at least scare me away from the forcefield.

However, because their strength was subpar, I wasn't affected by it as I kept using my chaotic aura to devour the force field. This field was incredibly strong and held immense magic, nourishing my body even more. It was delicious.

"T-The dragon is not even looking at us!"

"Our attacks are doing no damage… At this rate…"

"At this rate, it will destroy the Master's Mystic Barrier!"

The Leader of the soldiers gnashed his teeth as he looked at me fiercely.

"N-Not yet! We must fight for Master Nefertiti's sake!"

Suddenly the Leader, who seemed to be some kind of Earth Demon or Half-Earth Lord rushed towards me over his loyal Crow Manticore, while enhancing his body and magic, even more, using his strange Golden Sand, two massive arms appeared over his shoulders, which were made of this same sand.

"Dragon, don't get cocky! Confront me, you coward! Uooooohhh!!!"

The massive arms raised in the air as they began an onslaught of punches over my metallic body, nonetheless, although strong, they did not affect me, but they still put on a good show. Perhaps if I could raise his strength a little bit, he would become a decent soldier in my Kingdom.

Unluckily for him, I was already getting quite annoyed by this stupidity. While devouring the force field, I molded a piece of my Aura that quickly resembled a coiling eastern dragon made of chaotic attributes mixed together.

The furious Aura Dragon rushed at an incredible speed as it opened its mouth over the Leader of the Army's head, closing it in less than a second and devouring half of its torso with a single bite. The guy was already dead.

The Crow Manticore, losing its Master, was overwhelmed by the sudden burden in the magic, and fell to the ground, splashing in a puddle of blood.

Splat!

The arm behind their Leader stopped for a moment as their faces couldn't believe what just happened in front of them.

"…"

"…"

"…C-Commander…?"

"H-H-He's d-d-d-dead…!!!"

"That Dragon was able to penetrate the forcefield with that strange magic!"

"Commander is dead, what do we do now?!"

The soldiers quickly noticed at the split army, which was already massacred by my family, their bodies were smashed into minced meat and formed piles of dead bodies, some of my children were already snacking on the exotic demi-human meat.

"T-Those aren't demi-humans! Those are monsters!"

"T-The Dungeon! The damned Dungeon still hasn't given up!"

"It has created these new Monsters to eat us all!"

"W-We need to tell Nefertiti sama!"

"R-Run!"

"Run! To the City!"

Oh, it seems that they aren't stupid enough to risk their lives after seeing their leader die so easily, however, I wouldn't let this nice and exotic meal go away. While still devouring the force field I extended my Aura into countless Coiled Dragons made of multiple darkened colors as they began to chomp and eat the soldiers, who offered almost no resistance.

"Gyaaaaaahh!"

"N-Noo! I don't want to di-"

"Guuaaaahh!"

"Fly faster you stupid beast…!"

Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!

It seems that fear makes the meal more delicious because these demi-humans were incredibly tasty.

As the hundreds of dragons devoured the soldiers for me, barely ten of them managed to get inside of the City, alerting everyone, who was already shitting themselves in fear. Their "Master" who they call Nefertiti, hasn't shown up though.

When I finished snacking in them and my family did so as well, I quickly expanded my Aura and in three minutes the Force Field was completely devoured. Although some Artifacts could create it again, they were too weakened after getting all of their energy suddenly drain, so they were barely generating any magic.

[Kireina] learned the following Skills]

[Mystic Golden Sand Arts; Body Enhancement]

[Desert's Beastfolk Lineage]

[Mystic Golden Light Arts; Unmovable Divine Force Field]

[Calculating EXP gained…]

As my family once again mounted my back, I calmly flew towards the Gray Walls of the city, then I was finally able to see things in more detail. There was a beautiful Oasis in the middle of the city, were thousands of houses made of Dungeon Bricks were surrounding this Oasis. In the middle of the Oasis, there was a small isle was the Castle were supposedly Nefertiti should be.

The Demi-Humans yelled in fear as they saw my massive Dragon body flying over the city. Some of them gathered in one place and tried to take me down with more magic, like fireballs, ice spears, thunderbolts, or their Gold Sand. However, none of them was able to damage me and I retailed their attacks with a powerful blast of Fire, Thunder, and Wind elements, setting half of the city on fire and chaos.

I didn't want to waste the delicious meals in front of me as I devoured the hundreds of corpses of burned demi-humans with my Aura, strengthening myself. It seems that species that I haven't eaten are more effective when raising my power through this devouring method.

[Calculating EXP gained…]

[Kireina] gained 286.128.120 EXP]

[LEVEL 041/250 EXP 551.027.194/770.000.0000 EXP]

My family also descended and started to explore around, I told them to not provoke the beastmen if possible and to just kill those who try to attack them, sparing the ones that don't want to fight, I wanted to slave a few if possible and also find out more about this place.

Thankfully there were still a lot of soldiers left that thought that they could put a fight somehow if they worked together, bad choice. My family devastated the troops and my children drank their blood with excitement. I even saw Vudia who suddenly activated her vampiric side and enjoyed some blood as well.

Suddenly, from the Castle in the middle of the Oasis, a bright golden light appeared, shining with vigor, the light aura fluctuated furiously. It seems that sleeping beauty finally awakened.

Flash!

A powerful blast of light directed to me crossed through the city as it tried to pierce my head with incredible precision. I saw the power behind it and dodged in time, the blast surpassed the city and blasted most of the walls surrounding it.

Flash!

Another blast came as well right before the other, and then another and another and another… I dodged most and devoured some with my Armor and Aura. They held an incredible strength, but not enough to severely damage me.

The being inside of the castle suddenly realized that its lazy rays weren't working so it quickly came outside to greet us. Nefertiti, the Master of this City finally appeared.

Nefertiti was an incredibly beautiful demi-human woman of the Desert Dog Beastmen race, it seemed. However, she held the aura of a true Spirit, which was even more intriguing as I have never seen a wild Spirit this strong before that wasn't summoned. She had a shiny brown skin that had a golden luster, large hips, and massive breasts, her hair was black as the abyss, and her eyes golden like the purest Gold.

She had two long black-colored dog ears on the top of her head and a long black tail above her butt. She had a charming beauty that could make most people become paralyzed in awe. She was wearing a simple semi-transparent white dress with hundreds of golden accessories decorating her body. As her aura increased in power, her body shined even brightly.

"Y-You! Get back to your domain, Dragon! Or succumb to my strength!"

"Oh? How scary~!"

"Y-You can talk?!"

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