Chapter 1683: Dungeon Clearing
Deep within the darkest abyss of the berserk dungeon, where the air was thick with miasma and the very ground pulsed with corrupt energy, Incursio stood tall.
Her white hair danced in the cold, deathly wind, her amber eyes glowing with an unholy light. Her grip on her black sword tightened as she stared down her enemies—
Two monstrous, mutated Minotaurs.
These were no ordinary dungeon beasts.
Standing at four meters tall, their hulking frames were covered in cracked obsidian armor, veins pulsing with molten lava. Their four burning eyes gleamed with unrestrained rage, and massive, jagged horns protruded from their skulls, exuding a terrifying aura of destruction.
They were behemoths, their muscular limbs thicker than tree trunks, each step causing the ground to shatter beneath their weight. One wielded a colossal battle-axe, crackling with black lightning, while the other held a spiked war hammer, dripping with poisonous fumes.
They exhaled thick clouds of smoke, their low growls shaking the air itself.
But Incursio?
She simply smirked.
"Two against one? How unfair… for you."
Her aura exploded, engulfing the battlefield in darkness.
The first Minotaur charged, its axe swinging downward like a guillotine, aiming to cleave her in two.
But she vanished.
A split-second before impact, Incursio blinked through space, her mastery over the Wind and Space elements making her movements ethereal.
She reappeared mid-air, twisting her body as she brought her black sword down, slicing toward the Minotaur's exposed neck.
But the second Minotaur reacted instantly.
It swung its war hammer with monstrous speed, forcing her to abandon her attack and flip backward, landing gracefully on the shattered ground.
The two Minotaurs roared in frustration, their combined auras shaking the entire dungeon floor.
Then—they attacked in sync.
The first Minotaur slammed its axe into the ground, causing the earth to rupture violently, sending massive rock spikes toward her.
At the same time, the second Minotaur unleashed a blast of black lightning, aiming to fry her alive.
BOOM!
The attacks collided, but—
Incursio was already gone.
The moment the lightning struck, she had already melted into the shadows, using her Dark Element to phase through reality itself.
Then—she struck back.
With a flick of her wrist, she unleashed a storm of black wind blades, each infused with cutting darkness.
The first Minotaur roared as the blades ripped through its armor, leaving deep gashes across its chest.
The second Minotaur swung its war hammer to deflect, but Incursio was already behind it.
With an upward slash, she severed one of its horns, causing it to bellow in agony.
"Tsk. Too slow."
She extended her free hand, channeling her Fire and Ice elements simultaneously—
A pillar of hellfire erupted from below, scorching the first Minotaur, while spikes of absolute-zero ice impaled the second.
The dungeon shook violently, flames and ice clashing in an elemental storm, creating a scene of devastation.
But the Minotaurs… refused to fall.
Even with smoke pouring from its body, the first Minotaur roared defiantly, its wounds glowing as its rage fueled its regeneration.
The second Minotaur, though missing a horn, ignited with berserk energy, and its war hammer began pulsating with raw destruction magic.
Their strength doubled.
Their speed tripled.
And now—they attacked with a madness beyond reason.
"Not bad."
Incursio grinned wildly, excitement flashing in her eyes.
"But—you're still too weak."
Her black sword hummed, responding to her command. The Dark Domain around her expanded, turning the entire battlefield into a realm of shadows.
And then—she unleashed her full power.
With a single step, she vanished—
Reappearing between the two Minotaurs.
Before they could react, she spun her sword, slicing through both their chests simultaneously, leaving behind a trail of void energy.
The Minotaurs howled in agony, their bodies torn apart from the inside as her Dark Magic devoured them.
But she wasn't done.
Lifting her free hand, she summoned an orb of condensed elements, a chaotic sphere of fire, ice, lightning, and darkness fused into one.
"Disappear."
She crushed the orb—
And a cataclysmic explosion engulfed the dungeon floor.
The sheer force of the blast vaporized everything in sight, reducing the Minotaurs to nothing but ash.
The entire room shook, and for a moment, there was only silence.
As the dust settled, Incursio stood at the center of the destruction, her breath steady, her expression unreadable.
She sheathed her black sword, exhaling slowly.
"That was a good warm-up."
Without looking back, she continued deeper into the dungeon, her crimson eyes glowing in the darkness.
Something even stronger was waiting ahead.
And she couldn't wait to face it.
As Incursio stepped into the deepest part of the berserk dungeon, her crimson eyes narrowed.
Before her lay an ancient, dying forest, its once-magnificent trees reduced to blackened husks, twisted and lifeless. The ground was barren, withered roots stretching out like the claws of the damned.
At the very center, a massive, pulsating core of corrupt mana loomed, veins of black and crimson energy seeping into the land. It beat like a diseased heart, releasing waves of malice and decay with each pulse.
From its depths, monsters continued to spawn, their grotesque forms crawling out of the abyss, their empty eyes devoid of will—mindless slaves of corruption.
But Incursio ignored them.
Her attention was fixed above.
In the darkened sky, two colossal skeletal dragons hovered, their tattered wings barely holding them aloft, yet their presence dominated the battlefield.
Each dragon was an abomination, an undead titan of bone and death, twenty meters long, their ribcages hollow, yet filled with a shadowy essence that pulsed like a mockery of life.
Their skulls were elongated, jagged fangs protruding from rotting jaws, soul-consuming flames burning deep within their hollow sockets.
Their horned heads twisted unnaturally, following her every movement.
One of them let out a soundless roar, and from its maw, a torrent of black fire surged forth, twisting unnaturally as if sentient.
The other one raised its decayed wings, gathering necrotic energy, forming an obsidian lance of pure death magic before launching it at blinding speed.
BOOM!
The twin attacks collided with the ground, detonating with catastrophic force. The entire forest shook, the already dead trees obliterated into dust as a crater formed where Incursio once stood.
But—
She had already moved.
Slicing through space itself, she blinked mid-air, appearing between the two undead behemoths.
Her black sword gleamed, coated in dark lightning, and with a single motion—
She slashed.
A wave of void energy erupted, tearing through one dragon's skull, splitting it in half.
But—it did not die.
Instead, the shattered bones reformed, knitting themselves back together through sheer necrotic will, and it snapped its massive jaws at her, attempting to crush her whole.
"Tch. Annoying."
She twisted in the air, narrowly avoiding the death bite, flipping backward onto the second dragon's back.
The beast shrieked, trying to shake her off, but she stabbed her sword into its spine, using it as an anchor.
She knew—normal attacks wouldn't work.
If she wanted to kill these things, she needed to destroy them completely.
She closed her eyes, taking a deep breath.
Then—
Her aura exploded.
Her Dark Domain expanded, covering the entire battlefield in a void of absolute darkness.
Her control over elements surged—Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind, Space—she fused them together, turning herself into a walking cataclysm.
The dragons screeched, sensing true annihilation approaching.
Incursio ripped her sword from the dragon's back, flipping into the air.
She extended her free hand, and from her palm, a sphere of pure destruction formed—
A miniature black hole.
With a flick of her fingers, she sent it hurtling forward.
The first dragon tried to escape, but the gravitational force ripped it apart, sucking every last bone and soul into an inescapable void.
It didn't even have time to scream before it was erased from existence.
The second dragon, now alone, let out a deafening shriek, gathering all its remaining power into its final attack.
From its chest, a sphere of condensed death energy formed—the ultimate necrotic blast.
It fired.
A beam of annihilation tore through the darkness, heading straight for her.
But Incursio—
She smirked.
Her black sword burned with absolute-zero flames, and in a single godlike slash, she split the death beam in two, rendering it harmless.
Then—she moved faster than light.
One final strike.
Her sword cleaved straight through the dragon's core, severing its very essence.
"Die."
A moment of silence—
Then—
The skeletal titan collapsed.
Its decayed wings crumbled, its soul-consuming flames flickered out, and its body disintegrated into dust, forever erased.
Landing gracefully on the dead forest floor, Incursio sheathed her black sword.
Her eyes shifted to the pulsating core, the source of corruption that fueled this madness.
She lifted a single finger, gathering a tiny spark of pure void energy.
Then—she flicked it forward.
The moment the energy touched the core—
BOOOOOM!
A blinding explosion engulfed the entire dungeon, the core screaming in defiance as it was completely obliterated, breaking the dungeon's corruption.
The darkness lifted.
The forest stilled.
The berserk dungeon was finally collapsing.
And with a satisfied smirk, Incursio turned, stepping into the shadows—
It was time to reunite with Alex.