Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

What's amazing is that all of them had this restraint placed on them'. While Irene was thinking all that, the situation had progressed with Bryan being overwhelmed by Bea at every turn.

SLASH… SLASH… SLASH…

CHIIII… hundreds of slash wounds appeared on Bryan's body the moment he lost vision of the maid. Thankfully though because of his tough defence, the dagger did not manage to dig deep into his hide and because of his skill [Ultra Speed Regeneration] the wounds swiftly closed back.

Bryan glanced back at the weapon in the maid's hand, the quality of the dagger she used could only be said to be subpar. Their rank was so low that had it not been for the user, they wouldn't even be able to make a scratch on him.

Why was she using such a low tier weapon? Bryan did not care what he did know was that if he didn't use his full transformation, he would be able to best her. However, it was not the time and place to reveal that power here thus, he took out the grail from his space ring once again and poured out its content on himself.

The moment he poured the silvery liquid on himself, his body started giving off a strong spatial energy fluctuation making the surrounding space to distort around him.

Knowing what this phenomenon meant, Simon widened his eyes. Though he didn't have to do anything since Bea reacted faster than him. She used her abilities to move even faster to bring forth a storm of attacks that targeted Bryan from everywhere.

"You should keep that badge onto you, I'm sure we shall meet again," Bryan said turning towards Simon. His hand held a peculiar golden stone that was marked with runes. The moment he shattered it, a golden shield appeared around him and defended him from the attacks of the maid.

The moment Simon saw the golden shield appear around that man, he was immediately reminded of his Golden Guardian Stone. Both of them created a halo of shields around the user and defended them from all kinds of physical attacks.

Right after the words of the man sounded out, his body started twisting and distorting as if being sucked into a spatial rift.

"You bastard!! Do you really believe you can get away from here" Bea screamed, she was so furious that the words Annette whispered to the Valkyries about hiding their strength, was gone out of her mind.

At this moment, she was done holding back and used one of the skills called [Annihilation Slash]. The dagger she was holding that had nicks and cracks all around the blade, was at this moment enveloped by a powerful, dense dark green energy.

Without wasting a second, Bea erupted out with an absurd speed that was basically like high speed teleportation, and plunged her blade at the shield and onwards towards the man/beast inside it.

<strong>STAB…</strong> blood flowed out from the stab wound that barely missed Bryan's heart by a few inches. The dagger might have actually stabbed his heart had he not reacted fast and positioned his hand in between.

CRACK… the poorly made dagger unable to bear the burden of such a powerful skill, shattered apart at this moment.

"Too bad" Bryan smiled at Bea just before his body was sucked into the rift. One of the intruders, the man named Bryan who also called himself one of the three-digit numbers of Cerberus, successfully managed to escape from his dungeon.

Right after he disappeared, Simon and the other landed at that exact place, they too were a little surprised that someone had managed to escape from their grasp.

"What was that thing?" Simon asked turning towards Irene.

Even without asking, Irene knew what Simon was talking about. She mused for a moment before answering his question.

"I'm not sure but from what I can tell, that grail was a high ranking space artefact probably around [S] rank. but since Bea was able to make a crack on it so easily, I would say it was an imitation. Whatever the case may be, the content of the grail contains powerful spatial laws".

"By pouring that content on himself, he was immediately sucked into the location as set on the grail. I am not sure about the exact usage of the grail but it should be somewhere around it".

Simon nodded his head, even though she was uncertain of her answer, that was a plentiful observation from her given that she was only able to observe the thing for a few seconds.

"I have failed you master, I wasn't able to keep the person from escaping. I shall bear whatever punishment you have for me… even if its death" Bea fell on her knees and said agonisingly.

From her attitude, it was clear that she blamed herself for allowing an intruder to get away in front of her so much so that she was ready to make up for this blunder by sacrificing her life.

Exasperated by her extreme emotions from just one failure, Simon sighed audibly and told her to stop speaking such nonsense.

"There is no meaning to forfeiting your life in exchange for your mistake. I would even go as far as to say it's the most cowardly choice. One can only make up for their mistake while they are alive. So get up on your feet and learn from your mistake so that it never happens in the future."

"It doesn't matter if that man got away, we can deal with him when the time comes. More importantly, the reason behind me sending you guys to deal with the adventurers is for you to get experience. There will be plenty of times in the future when I will be relying on you all. That is why, I want you all to not get daunted by your mistakes and learn as much as you can from your experience".

Simon spoke, his intention might have been to sound strict but to these Valkyries and his subordinates, his words sounded merciful and comforting.

Hearing his words, Bea had a red flush appearing on her face but so was Annette and the rest of the Valkyries, their eyes glistened with tears hearing their master's compassionate words.

"I will work harder so that this mistake never happens again my lord" the Bloodthorn demonic warhorse said resolutely.

Not wanting to be outdone by it, the Valkyries, [Helpers] and the Lightning Draconic Serpent too said in unison "We shall work harder master/my lord".

Satisfied by their reaction, Simon nodded his head. In the first place, it was also partially his fault for sending the Valkyries without even giving them proper weapons. He was always busy at improving his own strength that he completely forgot about improving the weapons of the Valkyries.

Yes, they were supposed to be one of the twelve heroes. However, without their powerful weapons also called as heirlooms they cannot even show their full power. When creating the game, Simon set the menu in a way so that players who have summoned the heroes, have to summon their corresponding Heirloom from the [Gacha] as well.

And mind you, due to the instruction from the company, the summon rate of the Heirlooms for the corresponding hero in the [Gacha] was very low. It was set as such so that the company could ensnare the player into spending more of their money on the game.

Simon being one of the lead developers at that time, knew what the company wanted and thus created many games like that, Laplace was no exception.

The reason behind the company using such a tactic was to grow the company and pay the salary of their researchers and developers. One of the few plus points for working for that company was the high salary that they offered to their employees.

Simon who had enjoyed this benefit at that time, couldn't complain now that the role had interchanged and he was put in the player's shoe.

The [Gacha] already had an incredibly low rate of summoning those Heirlooms but to make matters worse, the option was now bugged after the merger. He didn't know if the Heirlooms was still there or not or whether their summoning chance had increased or decreased.

Whatever the case may be, Simon at least knew that he would have to dump a lot of his DP into the option to even stand a chance to get something good. Just thinking about it made Simon's mood sour. Though fortunately for him, the DP that he was gaining was increasing every day.

Not to mention the adventurer who died here also provided him with a bountiful amount of DP. Thinking so, Simon focused his attention back on the remaining unconscious adventurers. The reason he left them alive was so that he could interrogate them.

These people clearly belonged to some group or some guild and had information about the forest Spring Spirits living in his dungeon. Simon wanted to know where and how they got this information from, how were they related to that guild that attacked the forest Spring spirits and who else was privy to this information.

There were many information that Simon wanted to spill out from these people and that is why he was still tolerating their presence. It was a good thing that he had summoned the Valkyries this time since one of the maids was a specialist in torturing and getting the information out of the enemy.

"Bea take these people to the empty floor. Get all the information I told you about from them" Simon ordered opening the [Main Menu].

"As you wish master" Bea replied immediately, a sadistic look on her face.