Infinite Potential System

Chapter 513 Where Is It?

Several minutes later, William's Space Ring was feeling satisfied from the gifts of Solar Nectar and Quake Dungeon Gems. He still didn't want to measure how much Solar Nectar the Sun Stone Golem dropped, but the Quake Dungeon Gems were another story.

To his surprise, it dropped a whopping 100 Quake Dungeon Gems! It might not seem like much considering the effort he put in for a single Spirit Jade, but one day when he was stronger these guys would be much more time-efficient to kill.

As much as I want to fight more of these guys, it might be a better idea to just continue forward. William was aware that Magical Beasts respawn in the Dungeon, so he'd much prefer to collect whatever treasure was waiting for him on the 20th floor.

Without the Sun Stone Golem to obstruct his path, traveling to the stairwell was a piece of cake. No other Magical Beasts spawned down the hallway, and he spotted several Array-protected treasure chests that he could come back for at a later date.

William rested at the base of the stairwell for two hours to recover some Mana, then moved up without much hesitation. If the Boss was too strong or he needed more Mana for the fight, William could simply retreat and try again in a few hours.

The 20th floor was vastly different from any of the Boss rooms William had seen before. While the others were mostly flat dungeon brick with a single powerful creature standing in the center, this one had actual terrain.

It was a muddy landscape, with several puddles of unknown depth scattered throughout. Arrays of the Space Element were likely involved as well, because the room was more than three times as large as the other Boss rooms. Enjoy exclusive content from empire

The one thing that worried William, however, was that he couldn't see the Boss.

At the far end of the room was a small hill, which William focused on first. From his experience, random hills were the most suspicious things to exist in a Boss room. They could be traps, treasures, or even the Boss itself, but all of his checks and tests suggested it was just a regular pile of dirt.

Okay, so it's not a Magical Beast pretending to be a hill. Good. William sighed in relief as he cast his attention elsewhere. He didn't dare to enter the room until he at least had a general idea of where the Boss was.

Not the hill, not on the ceiling... Not in the water? Where the hell is this guy? Is the Boss only going to spawn when I go inside? William was frustrated, but he stepped forward anyway.

The moment William's foot entered the Boss Room, small panels opened up in the walls and cannons fired a spray of high-pressure water at him from all directions except behind. His Accelerated Reflexes was the only thing that allowed him to dodge in time, but his left shoulder was still grazed, a deep cut slicing through his skin and exposing the shoulder bone.

He backed up out of the Boss Room and the paneled walls closed up once more, the cannons disappearing from view as if they had never existed.

Damn, those Arrays are just as bad as the ones on the treasure chests! I didn't detect them at all! William complained as he took another step inside, this time fully prepared to dodge.

William jumped up before the panels even fully slid open, avoiding all of the water in one move. It seemed that while the cannons were powerful, they had no function to change where they were aiming and only targeted the location where one would enter the Boss Room.

After the first shot, the cannons tilted downwards, and the panels closed up. Whether they would fire again was unsure, but William seemed safe for now. He took a step forward out of the mud—

"Huh?" William felt his leg pulled back into its original spot. When he looked down, a muddy tentacle was gripping his leg and slowly wrapping its way up his body. He swung with his Longsword and used a Spatial Slash simultaneously, cutting the tentacle at the base before retreating to the hill.

Nothing pursued him to the hill, so William used the breather to analyze what information he had so far. The Bestiary hadn't triggered a notification, meaning William either had yet to encounter the Boss or it wasn't more artificial than the previous floor Bosses were.

That wouldn't make sense. I'll just assume the tentacle thing was some sort of Spell...

One thing was for certain; he couldn't stand in the mud.

William checked the Navigation Talent for any changes in the environment, but there was nothing. He then used various modes of the Vision Talent to find anything, actively avoiding Spirit Mode lest he attract something more dangerous than a Boss. Still nothing.

He scanned the shadows with Darkness Magic, then used a Blood Detection Spell to check for living presences. Nothing, and nothing.

What kind of Boss doesn't have blood? I guess those muddy tentacles didn't bleed when I cut them up, but...

Earth Magic was next, but it was extremely difficult to detect anything with all the mud in the way. It was very difficult to detect any kind of movement within a liquid, and the Water Element wasn't much help either because of all the dirt mixed in.

They were like two conflicting Spells that together countered all sorts of detection methods. William was tempted to cast a Spell with massive AoE and draw the creature out, but he felt like since it hadn't pursued him yet, it might be just like the Sun Stone Golem: overconfident and arrogant.

William cast Sound Magic to detect vibrations in the air first, then sent it into the mud from the very center of the room. It was similarly impacted by the presence of the mud, but the difference was that Sound was an Epic Element.

It was much stronger than the Earth and Water Elements and using it like a radar helped him locate a few suspicious presences under the mud. He counted three in total, which was a small enough number that William felt he could make a move.

Since the Sound Element was what detected the possible Boss, William felt that it only made sense if he used the same Element to attack. He wasn't sure what its Cultivation level was at, so he used the Sun Stone Golem from the previous floor as reference, intending to double the amount of power he would need to break one of its marble joints.

William wasn't very accustomed to attacking with the Sound Element, so the speed that he channeled the Mana was much slower than normal. Additionally, since he decided to put ten million Mana into a single attack, the amount of time he needed to channel was extremely long.

In a fight against a Cultivator or a more aggressive Magical Beast, William would never have so much time to channel a Spell like this.

Almost three minutes passed before William attacked, jumping five hundred meters into the air and sending a concussive blast of Sound Mana straight downwards. He controlled its radius so that it perfectly covered all three suspicious locations, simultaneously accepting feedback from his Spell to make sure the Boss didn't move.