The dark stone behemoth stomped on the red land, shaking the whole dungeon floor with clamorous sound. In a 500-meter radius of the legendary rank monster, everything flying slammed onto the ground with powerful gravity pull.

But Sam was fast enough to fly out of the radius before the black stone giant's foot landed on the ground and used the skill.

Sam and Lucian did rock, paper, scissors as Damian had taught them when they were in the academy to decide who would fight. When Damian boasted how he was the only transcendent in the sanctuary who had killed a legendary, it irritated the two to no end, and they decided to solo it.

Both needed the experience points since transcedents required decades worth of it for even qualifying for further ascension. Damian had used the ascension as an excuse though, in reality, they could not ascend without breaking their faith. Even if he somehow invented a method to block the god's interference, Damian could not reveal it too soon and bring the wrath of the gods on the sanctuary.

Only for Landbreaker, he could use it and hope that the guy's new powers were going to be enough of a buffer for the other gods to leave them alone. Of course, he wouldn't leave it all to him; with new spells and material he would acquire from all the dungeons, Damian needed to build weapons powerful enough to scare even gods. And he, himself, needed to ascend and become a legendary demon.

It wouldn't be his first time fighting above his rank or facing a god.

Becoming a fifth-ranker himself was too far-fetched an option. Even with the ungodly amount of experience points he had recived after destroying an entire planet of pigmen, it would only last till he became a fourth and maybe a little more. His unrestrained system gave him more power, but also ate up too many experience points for ascensions. To reach the fifth rank, he might have to destroy multiple planets full of powerful creatures.

He barely even got experience points any longer for killing a monster lower rank than Emperor.

Neither did he have time for that nor a clear path. Besides, if past experiences were to account for anything, Damian knew he barely succeeded in that transcendent trial. Fourth-ranker trial was going to be even more ridiculous. So he could not even think about approaching the fifth rank trial in so little time in between for preparation.

Supporting Landbreaker, who had centuries of experience points and needed fewer of them to ascend, was the best option.

Sam lifted his sacrium sword high in the air, pointing at the swirling dark clouds above. Only now did Damian notice the constant lightning had suddenly stopped for the last few minutes. It commulated as Sam used both the spell of the runic sword and his own summoning skill.

With a deafening sound, the full force of mighty lightning pierced the heavens and landed directly on the dark golem's head and chest region. The force of the impact sent shockwaves throughout the dungeon floor; some of the black rocks the golem was made from were obliterated and melted under the attack, holding too much disastrous force.

Still, it only made the legendary golem wince back; it was still standing on its feet. It raised two tower-like hands of his towards Sam, sending a rain of red and black stone debris. Some of the stones were bigger than a hundred meters. Damian himself had to put up a barrier covering the rest of them.

Sam did not stop either.

He charged his sacrium blade full of a lightning blue aura, and the lightning stored inside him. The sword extended, a solid aura shape adding onto the sacrium metal. In quick succession, he sent a flurry of cyan arcs from various angles while flying around the stone rain.

The dark golem had the same weakness as every other golem: it moved too slowly. It could not defend against so many lightning-filled cyan aura arcs coming from different angles. Sam's attacks broke its body limb from limb. Still, he could not close it because of the gravity skill.

But Stormcaller did not need to.

The lightning bolt had broken the golem's body enough to reveal a deep red core inside. The sacrium blade was charged with so much lightning and aura, it was a pure white point of radiance to the spectators' eyes. Sam threw the blade with a powerful force that broke the sound barrier and charged the air itself as it travelled the distance in seconds and exploded into a giant white energy wave after reaching the core.

The dark golem shattered into thousands of pieces. Opening the way for them to proceed to level 51. As legendaries go, this one was low rank one, but it was still a challenge for any ordinary transcendent.

Sam flew forward to retrieve his sacrium sword. Damian and others flew towards the key point as well. He had added flying spells in both Grace and Mindseer's runic suits so they could fly and fight on their own in mid-air.

"Nice job," Damian complimented, "Though you could have ended it faster by focusing on your mana sense and locating the core before the fight started."

Sam placed the sword back in the sheath while eying him, then glanced towards Lucian.

"Not everyone has mana sense as powerful as yours," Lucian said.

"This distance is barely anything. Have you guys trained for it? Tested the very limits?" Damian replied.

The two young transcendents exchanged looks and then walked away from him.

'The balls these punks have!'

They left him on read!

Grace and Mindseer gigled like a bunch of school girls from the side but stopped when he mockingly eyed them.

Before proceeding to the next level, Grace spoke up,

"I think this is enough leveling for me. I will wait for you all in the Bastion."

She chose the option to leave the dungeon; her cooling suit was active since level 20, and it was the right decision. Damian reminded everyone to activate their armor suit as well; the next level atmosphere change could be unpredictable.

The next level, the terrain changed again. It was a vast, empty land with nothing but black sand beneath their feet. The sky above was ominously red. And burning meteors crashed onto the ground, falling from the sky every 30 seconds. Because of the red sky, the meteors were barely visible till they were too close.

Damian didn't have to use any spells since all four of them were capable of handling themselves if a meteor came too close. They kept the same ignore all and fly straight approach here as well. Time was of the essence.

They only had around ten hours. This Highsword dungeon was not exactly one-to-one time dilation with the outside world. When they were banned from the dungeon, Damian calculated that the total time spent in the dungeon for them to be around one year. Which resulted in 12 outside. Meaning the dungeon had a 0.012% increase in time difference every hour.

The ten hours inside should be around ten hours and one minute outside.

These next ten levels with dark sand, the weirdest monsters Damian and his team saw included a giant dirt yellow centipede that came out of the black sand when the falling burning rocks hit near its location. Then a titanic dunge beetle that caught the falling hundreds of meters big burning meteors with its big insect hands and rolled them around across the dark, barren land in a straight line.

And of course, a translucent tentacle-handed monster trying to grab them while they were flying across. It was a menta-ray type creature that seemed to be the cause of throwing these burning rocks below.

The boss at level 60 was another legendary rank monster. The levels in between had quite powerful high-emperor rank monsters as well.

This legendary was a humanoid insect type. It had an exoskeleton of polished dark material, with six red eyes and two wntenas on top. From afar, it looked like a jacked gym guy in a black latex costume. And it was holding a white, sharp bone staff. The top of which was a deep red orb emitting red smoke.

Damian was picking up intense mana waves from that orb. It was a condensed ball of pure fire element mana. The smoke was actually mana. For it to be visible to the naked eye, the energy contained in that orb should rival that of a legendary rank monster alone.

The monster was barely 8 feet tall. The four of them surrounded it from four sides, but only Lucian stepped forward to face it. They knew what it could do from Landbreaker's description, which should fall under Lucian's abilities, especially since she was its natural enemy.

The insect king had been ready since the moment they entered the 10 km range. There was no hiding it. From the way it moved around to reach the optimal position for the fight, it was really fast and nimble. Holding a lot of strength.

Already, a giant red runic circle was hovering above all five of them; it was changing the trajectory of all burning meteors, attracting all of them to fall on them.

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