Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

The Kingdom of Ellesmere lost more than 70 per cent of the elite adventurers and that was discounting the loss that came from losing people like Karina Lowell, Brutus Sarge, Cassius Grey and many more who were the guild leaders and pillars of this kingdom.

The news travelled to the other neighbouring countries, which gave them the opportunity to severely suppress the kingdom. The Kingdom of Ellesmere quickly lost its footing as the third grade country and was on the verge of becoming a vessel nation.

Fortunately, the guild leader of their Sea god's trident, Benny Beckermann who was busy tackling the forbidden grounds at that time and did not participate in the expedition team, survived.

However, this caused the suspicions of the people and the royalty of the kingdom to turn towards them. Many started accusing their guild for colluding with the demons; after all, their guild leader was the one to propose the idea to form an alliance to curb the quickly growing danger in the Ghastly Winding Forest that was the dungeon Laplace.

What's more, in the expedition, they were the only guild who had suffered the least damage. The other top five guilds had lost their position and dissolved leaving only the Sea God's Trident.

Given all this, it was only natural for the suspicion of the people to be directed towards them. Bits and pieces of news of what happened in the remote north western region of the central continent and the name dungeon Laplace also made its way to the Mainland and into the ears of Godwin and Raven who were training there under a guild at that time.

When they returned to the kingdom, many things had changed. People no longer welcomed them, the scorn and disdain as they looked at them was clearly evident in their eyes. Their guild had lost the public support and was only standing because it still retained the high ranking members like them.

Everyone ignored the sacrifices their guild made and started to condemn them. Godwin felt that the blame lay on him, he felt responsible for what had happened. If only he had destroyed the dungeon at that time when he was passing through the Ghastly Wining Forest, then all of this wouldn't have happened.

The top five guilds wouldn't have to form the expedition guild and the former vice leader Dalton wouldn't have to die. Just thinking about it, made Godwin furious.

"Hmm? Dalton? Doesn't ring a bell. Forget about some nobody, don't you think you and I have some history that we need to settle first?" the figure flashed their fangs as they gave a wicked grin that was very much true to their race.

An oppressive air emanated from them and quickly engulfed the place. Just one look at those heterochromatic eyes was enough to feel a sense of intimidation. Who could the figure flaunting his dashing demonic figure be other than Simon?

"It looks like he holds the grudge from when we pursued him to the city of Aqualin and cornered him" Raven interjected, there was a complex feeling in those eyes of his.

As someone who worked as the right hand man of the guild leader of the Sea god's trident, he was much more informed about the demon in front of them than Godwin.

It was precisely because he knew that he felt a sense of urgency to kill the demon even more. Looking at how absurdly fast the demon grew, he knew that his decision at that time was right.

"It looks like you used the transit stones to get away from us back then. However, now that you have shown yourself openly don't even think about using the same trick to escape again. Godwin don't tell me you want to take him alive after what he did to our guild and kingdom?" Raven asserted his tone grave.

Godwin understood how Raven felt, he looked at the Demon in the sky and remembered the battle in the city of Aqualin. If not because the director of the Adventurer's Association branch of their kingdom and Chuck, he wouldn't have thought about taking the demon alive.

Thanks to his moment of indecisiveness it gave the demon the demon the chance to flee.

"Seems like you remember what happened the last time we crossed paths. To think that you would appear before me once again, it looks like all that growth of yours made you feel invincible"

Godwin sighed drawing his swords towards the demon. He wouldn't make the mistake he made last time, there was no one to save the demon this time.

"Hehehe… Yeah, I feel much better than last time. Just thinking about how I will twist your necks, rupture your bodies, and massacre you lot, makes me feel weirdly refreshed. This is the feeling that I a demon noble should feel. Thanks for making me realise who I was last time"

Simon laughed, his solemn and bloodlust filled words caused everyone's blood to run cold. In terms of charisma, the demon in front of them did not lose to their leader at all.

"As I thought so, the Demon Nobles are the root of all evil. This world will continue to suffer unless you lot are purged. Today, I will make all my wrongs right and kill you once and for all. Everyone, go into formation A, do not let this demon get away"

Godwin shouted, immediately his fellow teammates activated their mana wings and spread all across the battlefield, encircling the demon in the middle.

"Hehe… What a way to justify your actions, that was some self righteous, virtuous bull crap right there. But do you think that just your teammates are enough to corner me?"

Just as Simon spoke those words, two blades materialised out of thin air and targeted his neck. The blades shined with a terrifying blade light. However, before they could get near his neck, Simon extended his hands and stopped the blades with his claws.

Infernal flames spread from his claws and threatened to devour his assailant. Raven hurriedly pulled back after his failed assassination attempt.

Godwin narrowed his eyes seeing that the demon was easily able to stop Raven. Nevertheless, his composure did not falter as he snorted "Unlike the last time, I don't even need to personally take action. My teammates are enough for the likes of you".

Although the Abomination was sealed by the pillars, someone had to watch over it lest something unexpected happen.

However, to his surprise the demon rendered his statement moot the next second. Simon took out a cube and wilfully boasted "Since you are proud of your number superiority, let me take that card off your sleeve".

The Eon's cube on his hand expanded and soon it reached the size of a mountain. It shifted and turned and before long, Andromedas poured out of it. Ten, twenty, hundred, two hundred, three hundred, five hundred…they continued to pour out like an unending wave.

The numerical superiority that the adventurers were so proud of, disappeared like smoke. Their eyes widened as they stared at the mountain like Eon's cube and the Andromedas that were pouring out of it.

Simon did not cut corners, he did not bring out the old Mk 9s to make up for the numbers, but the latest Mk 7s that one would only encounter on the lower floors of his dungeon.

That's right, to celebrate his reunion with Godwin, he did not spare any cost. The numbers of the Andromedas were all made up of Mk 7s.

It needs to be mentioned that as the versions went up, the strength and technology of the Andromedas also increased. They were equipped with far more powerful weapons, structures, designs, data and computing ability.

An Mk 11 was far more powerful than a Mk12, Mk 9 was greater than Mk 10 and so on and so forth. As for Mk 7, they could easily fight with an adventurer above level 500. What's more, these Mk7s were far more advanced than the ones that he brought out during his battle with the Harpies and their queen.

The ones currently here are the finished product.

The Mk 7's were one thing, but Simon even pulled out the big guns, among the pouring war machines there were also a few Revenant Crows and Mk 6 present.

The Mk 6 are the version that are currently in the manufacturing process after Simon secured a large amount of ore deposit in the Harpies territory.

The Mk 6's outer structure was fully made of Mythril and its interior was made from a special alloy called the chronium. Since the latter was very difficult to find, there was only a  few of the Mk 6 manufactured.

However, on his venture to the forbidden grounds, Simon had secured a large amount of Chrnonium, enough for the manufacturing of the Mk 6 to keep on going.

"I usually don't like intimidating my opponents with numbers but I do make sure to bring an army along wherever I go" Simon grinned.

The Andromedas only stopped pouring out of the cube when their number reached the thousands. The scene of thousands of Andromedas releasing mechanised noises as they scanned their surroundings and located their target was a scene to behold.

It made all the adventurer's skin tingle as they looked at the Andromedas in dread. Even the elite among the powerhouses, being above level 600 were looking at the scene with an apprehensive expression.

As for Godwin and Raven, they had a dark expression as they observed the grinning demon. They could tell that these golems were not ordinary golems and represented a threat to their team.