Infinite Mana In The Apocalypse

The country we were in was called King's Harbor. After moving away from the military sector and heading inwards, I was able to see groups of people and hunters celebrating their newly found freedom from the threat of beasts that were heading here previously

Kazuhiko was walking besides me while talking about the power structure of countries in the United Federation and their dungeon diving system here.

I recalled a news show I had watched back in Outer Bank X weeks ago that mentioned a similar topic about how hunters were restricted in the United Federation and had to turn half of their loot over to the government

It turns out that this system was placed to raise many peak hunters who were obligated to work for the government and defend the lower ranking hunters that contributed their loot

This was why hunters in the United Federation had much less mortality rates, as a stronger hunter who used up more of the resources was assigned to each of the teams diving in the dungeon.

This built up a system where many strong hunters dived into dungeons with weaker ones. Kazuhiko routinely had to dive into rank B dungeons with rank B hunters while occasionally clearing rank A dungeons with a government created fully rank A team

It was a good system that I applauded, as it produced many strong hunters and a level of responsibility that caused there to be less deaths in the United Federation when Apocalypse 2.0 occurred a week ago. There were many strong hunters spread out all over the countries unlike the cramming of powerful hunters into a few specific cities back in the Empire

Right now, we were heading to a rank A dungeon called [Babadook's Layer], which was a dungeon filled with strange dark furred monsters that had powerful offensive skills

Kazuhiko was very confident in my strength after he watched me take down the Black Dragon, so we dived into the dungeon by ourselves

The first floor was an expansive dark space that contained many of those dark furred monsters, and Kazuhiko moved first, trying his [Dominator's Dance of Death] for the first time

releasing a multitude of dark sword waves that smashed into the dark furred figures and tore through

monsters in front of us, but they all

was smiling like a child as he sheathed his sword and watched the destruction he had

tried out the rank S skill, [Rage

BOOM!

out and then struck down. They seemed like

A beasts didn't stand a chance as their bodies were literally blown apart. Kazuhiko didn't want to be outdone and went to

A enemies as if they were nothing. I realized that rank A dungeons would not pose a single threat to me as I watched the beast tear through the defenses

forwards as I focused on possible skill combinations with the skills that

was able to combine the rank C skills [Whirlwind] and [Aura of Haste] to produce [C+ Fevered

speed sharply rose for an instant as I traveled forward and almost smacked into a wall. The speed

skills, [Shadow Veil]

surpassing some of them,

active skills I had on all

end as we reached the BOSS room, and I watched the hunter and summon shred apart the rank A TITAN as if it was nothing, leaving it as a poisoned mess

hunter was looking indignantly at the summoned creature he didn't seem to be able to fully match yet, and I

an hour at that, we dived back in right after. I had the goal of obtaining more rank A skills to play around with [Skill Combination] even

take time though, as I had to learn the skills and bring them all the way to 100 proficiency before