Transmigration: Life As A Ger In Ancient Times With My Mystical Snake
Chapter 35: [Bonus - ]

Chapter 35: [Bonus Chapter]

Twenty to thirty men walked in a dark looking place which looked like a cave. They dressed in leather armor equipped with weapons, only two people dressed differently from the rest. Amongst the two, one was dressed in a complete silver shining amor from head to toe and was equiped with a long big sword. The other dressed in casual clothes with no protection to his body, he was very confident in his skills. Wearing a black trousers and a black shirt along with a long black knee length coat, he looked like the god of death who ascended to the surface.

"Brother Lin we finally made it! After getting stuck on 97th dungeon for almost two years! Hahahaha" the silver armoured man laughed heartily as he said to the black dressed cold looking man. The silver armoured man raised his sword up looking like he was ready to attack and just waiting for whatever it was he was going to attack to come closer to his range of attack. He was suddenly shoved back harshly by the black clothed man whom he addressed as brother Ling, two sharp looking daggers appeared out of the thin air in Xiao Ling’s hands, he leaped slightly above where he pulled the armored man from and slashed.

A black monster looking like a cat but sleek with tentacles and six legs fell beside him with it’s head severed from its body. The armored man who was pissed for being yanked back harshly and was ready to lash out at Xiao Ling suddenly went mute and gasped. The others gasped along with him. "A displacer beast. It’s ability is to displace light so that it appears to be several feet away from it’s actually location, it makes two attacks with its tentacles. It’s tentacles are melee weapons, attack range +6 to hit, reach 10 ft. One target hit:7 bludgeoning damage plus 3 piercing damage" Xiao Lin informed coldly as if reading from a book.

Everyone stared at him in awe and envious "guildmaster how do you know about this monster? Haven’t seen this monster type before" one of the members asked. Xiao Ling watched him quietly for a while "i happened to find out one or two things about the upper dungeons from some survivors" he lied. The upper dungeons were very hard to clear, all the guilds which tried to clear were all destroyed but it was true about the survivors. But that wasn’t how Xiao Ling got to know about the monster, it happened on the 90th dungeon when he finally got his second awakening.

In his first awakening his class was a Rogue class with his stealth as his main skill, he was sufficient in using the daggers. He thought his second awakening would upgrade his class and skills but who knew that he would awaken an entirely different class all together, and that class hasn’t been heard amongst players and rankers before. He awakened as the Shadow Monarch with necromancing skill, he only informed the vice master of his guild the armored man who was also his childhood friend Zhu Fan but for the guild members he just told them his second awakening was necromancing leaving out the Shadow Monarch part.

The skills he got from his second awakening, appraisal was part so he was able to appraise items and monster, only Zhu Fan knew about his skills and about his new abilities. Now that he was constantly being asked questions by the guild members Xiao Ling didn’t know how to answer, seeing him being cornered Zhu Fan clapped his hands as the armor made clanging sound. "Okay don’t ask the guild master too much questions now, let’s focus on clearing this dungeon first. Remember there are 100 levels in a dungeon, we can only move forward to the 99th dungeon after clearing all the levels in the 98th dungeon." Zhu Fan stated in a serious tone saving Xiao Ling from his troubled state.

"Brother Ling let’s talk over there for a minute" Zhu Fan requested and Xiao Ling nodded. "Okay take a few minutes rest, we’ll be back" Zhu Fan said to the guild members before walking away with Xiao Ling. "Xiao Fan what is the matter?" Xiao Ling asked Zhu Fan when they came to stop farther away from the other members. "Brother Ling actually i wanted to suggest something, don’t take out your shadow minions yet and don’t use too many shadow abilities in front of them. Let us do the scouting by ourselves for this dungeon and when we clear the dungeon and go to the next, we find something to tell them before you continue using your shadow abilities. You see they’ve started to have doubts and question you, if you keep on doing everything by yourself using your shadow minions and your other abilities... they’ll..... they’ll come to stop believing in your words, so listen to me and let us do the scouting." Zhu Fan scratched the back of the helmet anxiously seemingly to scratch the back of his head.

Xiao Ling was quiet for about a minute before he nodded "I’ll do what Xiao Fan suggests" he said to Zhu Fan who smiled brightly. "Thank you brother Ling" Zhu Fan said excitedly "No need to thank me, we’re all in the same guild. We founded the guild together so your suggestions matters. I may not know how to get along with them but you’re different. We’re childhood friends right?" Xiao Ling asked in anticipation as he tried smiling brightly like a child. Ever since the dungeons appeared on earth and the apocalypse started with monsters everywhere destroying everything in their paths, after loosing his whole family Xiao Ling became closed off, but with the help of his childhood friend he was able to open up. To Xiao Ling he owed Zhu Fan a lot and valued Zhu Fan more than himself, Zhu Fan was the only family member he had left he thought. "Of course brother Ling, we’re childhood friends"

Zhu Fan returned back his smile and said affirmatively, they both walked back to the other members. "So brother Ling and I have decided to scout in groups, we’ll be going in four groups. Brother Ling, JingLin, Liang and I would lead the group." Zhu Fan stated and the guild members nodded in understanding having no problem in scouting. "Okay this place seems like a good place to make camp, we first set camp and move out" they all agreed and set camp first, after they were done and have grouped under the scouting leaders Xiao Ling went on to say "All of you be careful out there, like you saw a while ago there are other types of monsters which we haven’t faced before. You make sure to retreat if you ran into an unknown monster, that’s all I have to say i wish you luck" all groups scattered and went on different routes after Xiao Ling’s try of a pep talk.

Xiao Ling sat on a pile of monsters as he waited for his scouting members to finish up on their side and come to meet him. They’ve been in the dungeon for two years now, most of the monsters in the dungeon were not sighted in the lower dungeons. In the last level of the 98th dungeon only a few monsters remained and the final dungeon boss to kill to be able to clear the 98th dungeon, it was hard for them to be able to make it this far and they’ve lost some of their guild members. Although Xiao Ling could tell what kind of monsters they are and about their attacks and skills thanks to his appraising skill, but it was still hard to fight them.

And not being able to use his shadow minions and other skills obtained as the Shadow Monarch, his strength was greatly reduced. But since he accepted Zhu Fan’s suggestions he plans to go through with it and not use his other abilities, Zhu Fan suggested that to him because he was looking out for him..so did he Xiao Ling think.

"Guild master! Guild master!" a loud voice echoed in the dungeon as a member from Zhu Fan’s scouting group ran to him looking in a mess. Xiao Ling quickly got down from the monster pile and hurried to the person, his heart was beating loudly and his thoughts ran wild. "What’s wrong?!" he asked in a haste. "Guild master it’s the vice guild master, he....he’s hurt! I think?!" the person said looking like he was in so much mess and his mind wasn’t thinking right. "You tell me is Xiao Fan hurt or not?!" Xiao Ling asked angrily with cold air raising from him, the person shivered. "Guildmaster we’re not sure, we can’t find the vice guildmaster. A strange monster we’ve never seen before attacked from nowhere, we got separated and vice guildmaster fell off into a pit" the person informed talking crazily which was confusing to Xiao Ling.

"Take me there" Xiao Ling pulled him up and ordered coldly. The person nod and started to ran with Xiao Ling following closely behind, they took several turns and curves before arriving at a big pit with the rest of Zhu Fan’s scout members anxiously circling the pit, true to the man’s words he couldn’t find Zhu Fan amongst them.

"Guildmaster!" they called out to him when they saw him arrived, "what happened? Where’s Xiao Fan" Xiao Ling asked them. "Vice guildmaster fell in with the strange monster!" one of them answered anxiously. "What? He fell with the monster and you didn’t follow? What if something happens to him?!" Xiao Ling was so angry hearing their words, he said to them coldly and they all gulped down petrified. "Divide yourselves in groups, some will go call the other scouting groups, some find another path leading to the end of the pit... there must be another way! And others wait here for the rest to come and follow down, I’ll go ahead and start searching for Xiao Fan"

Xiao Ling instructed and jumped into the pit, just as he jumped in the people there who had anxious and petrified looks relax themselves at once. Some snickered and scorned at him "let’s go, brother Fan is waiting" one of them said and they walked away from there leisurely. Xiao Ling landed on the ground in the pit successfully, he started to search for Zhu Fan panicked and worried.

In the pit were so many small caves filled with monsters known and unknown, Xiao Ling went on a killing spree searching for Zhu Fan in every cave and all nook and sides leaving no stone unturned. Xiao Ling was tired and running out of energy but he refused to rest or use the abilities of the Shadow Monarch since he gave Zhu Fan his words, he didn’t want to go back on his words and disappoint his childhood friend.

After killing for hours and soaked in monsters blood from head to toe, Xiao Ling came to a door. It was a familiar door to that of boss rooms but this door was much more smaller than boss room doors, Xiao Ling stood behind the door lamenting on whether to open it or not since he didn’t know what door it was and his appraisal skill couldn’t appraise the door. But he couldn’t give up since that was the last place left in the pit to search, since Zhu Fan wasn’t found then it was either he was in there or...dead and eaten. Xiao Ling didn’t want to think of the worst.

He took deep breaths calming his racing heart and relaxing his tired spirit for a couple of minutes, he pushed the door opened making a creaking sound. As soon as one of his leg stepped into the room he felt a sharp pain from his back into his body appearing on his chest was an edge of a sword, Xiao Ling splurted a mouthful of blood. He gasped as the sword which caused his pain was pulled out and stabbed in the same place again, then the same happened for the third time before the sharp sword was taken out of his body. "Hello brother Ling" a sinister voice sounded behind his ear.

Xiao Ling heard the familiar yet unfamiliar voice, his body felt heavy and his mind dizzy not able to support himself. He struggled to turn back as he staggered and both legs went into the room completely, he looked at Zhu Fan who was looking back at him with a sinister smile. Xiao Ling’s face started to turn pale at a fast pace and his lips dried "W....why?" he struggled to say as he fell on his knees looking at Zhu Fan who stabbed him confused and the rest of the guild members who stood behind Zhu Fan. "Brother Ling you’re really a monster as they said, i stabbed you thrice right through the chest but you’re still alive and able to talk, woahh~ so scary" Zhu Fan ignored his question and joked, the rest scorned at him.

Xiao Ling swept through them one after the other with blank expression, he wasn’t sure of what he wasn’t feeling now, was this betrayal? he couldn’t tell. "Do you know what room is this?" Zhu Fan asked and he shook his head with difficulty. "For old times sake I’ll tell you, this is the boss room of 98th dungeon. It may look smaller from other boss rooms but they said the boss here is very strong and ruthless. We just had to lead you here and the boss would take care of the rest even with your Shadow Monarch title you still wouldn’t be able to survive here. We’ll be rewarded after you’re taken care off, so i thought why don’t i finish you myself, they’ll probably reward me with more if i was to finish you off. All i had to do was use the trust you had in me against you, and it actually worked. Brother Ling i can’t believe that you’re such a naive fool!! Hehehe"

Zhu Fan excitedly narrated his perfect scheme to Xiao Ling who was having a hard time staying awake, he listened quietly without interrupting. "Who are they? Those who wanted my death?" he managed to ask after Zhu Fan finished narrating, Zhu Fan looked at him in a dilemma thinking whether to say or not. "You could at least let me know, I’m going to die anyway." Xiao Ling added calmly but his heart felt like it was being crushed. "The constellations we’re contracted to..." Zhu Fan finally spoke "actually.....all constellations want you gone, we weren’t the only ones who were planning to take you out, your death would reward us with a lot of things and fame. Brother Ling, thank you for sacrificing yourself for us." Zhu Fan said with sarcasm before turning around to leave, Xiao Ling watched them walked away before turning to face the boss who was finally active, he felt that the boss here seemed very strange from the bosses he had fought before.

He lost his strength and laid down on the floor not able to support himself, so all he could do was to stare arrogantly at the 98th dungeon boss approaching him with a sinister smile of horror. Xiao Ling knew death was inevitable for him, in this world of dungeon apocalypse people die and family are lost. Xiao Ling wasn’t very sad to meet his end..he was just regretful and resentful as he reminisce of his adventures with his so called trusted friend and comrades...yet they betrayed him for more skills and dungeon authorities from those so called gods and constellations. ’ If I get a chance to redo it all,... I’d feed them to the monsters little by little till they experience what exactly pain means. I, Xiao Ling, the one whom inherited the will of the shadow monarch, left in this state to meet my end..... isn’t it so ironic?...Hehe ’. He rediculed himself as he stared pathetically as the dungeon boss smiled more brightly stepping on his head which made him grunt in pain and coughed out blood more. Xiao Ling was suffocated as the dungeon boss increase weight in his leg slowly crushing Xiao Ling’s skull which made him passed out from the intense pain knowing that was the end of the road for him.

For those who requested for the bonus, although I’m not in good health these few days i managed to write the bonus chap requested. I may add one or two more bonus chaps later, after that all bonus chaps would have to wait after i complete the book Thanks for your supports all these time, please continue to support me, more reviews and gifts 🥺🥺 Author’s Words:

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