The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Soon the grand event was about to start and the whole capital city was bustling with excitement. Not only the capital city but the whole nation was excited for this hunt to take place.

It was not really a fun and game thing and it was quite dangerous. But the soldiers and adventurers who were participating in this were getting extra money for the recording that was going to happen so they were mostly fine with it.

But for most of the time there was no need to worry about this as getting a chance to participate in these hunts was seen as an achievement. So the people getting the chance were more than happy to show off in front of billions of people.

This time the danger zone that they were going to clear was called the Niangyuan Woodland. It was one of the most dangerous places of this world and for that reason many transcendental powerhouses were going to participate in this expedition and for that reason, everyone was eagerly looking forward to it.

The term transcendental powerhouse was not a very well known term just a few years ago. The people who were above the Orichalcum rank were called legendary. It was Utrena who first used this term "Transcendent" to describe the powerhouses of above the Orichalcum rank and everyone liked this word choice. After that slowly but surely the term transcendental became normal.

The adventurer guild was still using the term legendary to describe the transcendental powerhouses but they had officially mentioned that transcendental and legendary had the same meaning so there was no confusion about this matter.

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Today Rein was out of the royal palace to walk around the city a little bit. This was not unusual at all but what was unusual was the fact that Rein did not have anyone else with him.

Whenever Rein went out, there would always be one or multiple of his wives following him. So today really was a bit unusual as he had no one with him.

The reason behind that was a secret girls meeting that the ladies were currently doing. This was a type of meeting that his lovers did and he was not allowed to take part in it.

They did this type of meeting mostly in the network group but as many of Rein's wives had gathered which was a rare occurrence, they decided to have a little meeting in person. Rein had no intention of ruining their fun and so he came out for a solo walk.

In a very short amount of time, the city had changed quite a bit. Last time when Rein was here for quite some time, he did explore it a lot with his lovers before but now he started to see many new places that were not here before even though it had not been too long.

One such place was a new park, located in a remote location. This park was here for the children to play so there were many playing equipments here. Rein remembered that there was a dilapidated house here a year ago. Someone must have created this park after buying this area.

As he was looking around the park, Rein suddenly found a little child wandering around with a lost and almost crying look on her face. She was only about 5 or 6 years old and she looked extremely cute with her puffy chicks.

Rein approached the girl slowly and asked her about her problem in a very gentle manner. At first she was a bit scared after seeing a stranger approaching her but with Rein's gentle attitude, she soon started to tell him about the problem she was facing.

It turned out that she had come to this park to play with her mother and big sister. But she saw a grasshopper and started to chase after it and thus she got separated from them. And now she was trying to find them.

Rein slightly scolded the little girl for being careless and naughty. After that he patted her cute little head and told her that she was going to find her mother and sister. Then Rein took her in his arms and went toward the direction where he was able to sense the presence of a mature lady and of another little girl. They were most likely Rika chan's mother and sister.

Halfway Rein suddenly increased his speed. That was because he noticed that a bunch of dangerous people were approaching them. And with Rein's speed he reached the area in no time.

There he saw that five men were surrounding a good looking lady and the last remaining man was trying to grab the 8 or 9 years old girl who was with her. As soon as Rika saw them she shouted anxiously - "Mom, Big Sis."

Rein did not waste any time and immediately took action. Very soon all six of the men were buried in the ground head first. Rein then introduced himself to the mother and daughters who were busy hugging Rika and making sure that she was alright.

The mature lady was named Clara and her other daughter was Sana. They lived in a nearby house and she was a widow. For the last month or so, a few bad men were disturbing her and were trying to force her to sell her house at a low price. She was obviously unwilling to do so and that was the reason why they were suddenly attacked in the park.

Hearing their problem Rein told them that he knew someone from the Population Protection Bureau and told them he could talk with that person for her to provide protection. The Population Protection Bureau was a special organisation that Utrena had created in order to ensure the safety of its citizens. They had quite a few powerful people in them so evildoers were quite scared of it.

But as it was a newly created bureau not many people knew about it and their reach was also quite limited at the current time. So they were not always notified of all the problems that the citizens were facing. That was the reason why Rein proposed to tell this organisation about this lady's problem.

Hearing that Rein was going to do that for them, the lady started to thank him over and over again. But then suddenly a few people clothed in black clothing appeared and surrounded them. This almost looked like the previous situation but this time the people involved in it were just way too powerful.

All the black clothed men were at least platinum rank powerhouse and there were also three mithril rankers among them. But still as it was nothing in front of Rein's power, he did not show any expression of panic or fear.

Seeing this those men thought that he was confident in bearing them all so they decided to take a drastic measure. They threw a one time used explosive magic item toward Rein and the three girls.

Soon the whole area got covered in dust and smoke after the explosion and the men looked toward the centre of it to confirm Rein's death. They needed to bring a proof back for their young master. At first they had the intention to capture him alone for their master to torture him but seeing his confident expression these men did not took the risk.

The situation was getting serious.