The Martial Unity

Chapter 1981 Plan

It was probably unwise for Rui to stray too much further into the dungeon as the danger levels constantly rose. Even in the Beast Domain, the two of them never went so far as to completely drain their Martial Hearts. Who knew what could attack them in their incapacitated states?

Luckily, Rui still had a decent amount of stamina left. Thus, he could afford to stray a bit deeper to take a good look at what was going on. Thankfully, given how small the manifold was, it wasn't too far in.

"ROOOOOAAAARRRRR!" Rui's eyes widened as he saw a slew of emerald dragons launching an assault on a region, lighting it up with their fire breaths. Yet, it was the residents of the region that surprised him.

Angels.

An overwhelming majority of them were weaker than the one he faced, with only three pairs of wings or less. They struggled under the wrath of powerful apex monsters led by a tyrannically large dragon the size of a hill.

"ROOOOOAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"

The mighty dragon scorched the angels alive, setting them on fire. Not even their powerful heaven-bending could entirely abate the infernos and conflagrations that it released into the world.

While the angels were able to match the weaker dragons under it, it was the sole dragon that allowed what would have been a stalemate to fall in their favor. The angels did not have a leader with the power to match a creature, exceeding the Senior Realm.

"No…" Rui's impassive eyes widened as realization dawned on him. "They had a leader capable of that, but now it's dead."

It had challenged Rui and had not lived to tell the tale. However, the timing of the attack was too suspicious. The moment Rui killed the angel, the dragons coincidentally launched an attack on the angel colony?

was because I killed the angel leader." His tone was sharp. "But why are they

of particularly high value. There was no real reason that the Mellow Dungeon

enough, the

CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP

flashed through its eyes. Meanwhile, the same creature ignored the countless

away, satisfied with feasting on a few

his eyes as he headed back to

apex predators did not find themselves at odds with each other. After all, there was an extremely extensive ecosystem and food chain below

of satisfactory prey," Rui noted calmly, adding to his understanding of the dungeon. After all, the place was only a hundred kilometers in diameter. On top of that, the power gradient was quite steep, such that most of the creatures of the Mellow Dungeon were too weak for the apex predators to even bother preying on. In other

each other, leaving only the strongest of the strongest alive. Then, the Mellow Dungeon would probably swoop in and cause a mass mating

a span of one hundred and forty-four millennia, Rui could understand how the creatures of the

at him in the

Rui impassively

you beat that angel." He grinned. "I've never seen

Domain, at least," Rui informed him. "I didn't think we would run into one here. More importantly, I've learned more about how the dungeon functions. Its shortcomings and limitations.

lit up with optimism.

a distraction or a red herring and then uproot the core source of

expecting an extraordinarily complex plan with a hundred different stages and your plan is