How I Became the Strongest Sovereign

Hunters all across the Kingdom had finally gathered to clear the largest dungeon in history. Even the Elven Kingdom sent some armed forces to help in the raid. 

Now it was finally time to enter.

"What do you guys think you're doing?" I said, grabbing Jace's shoulder. 

The whole gang including Malia, Sara and the others were present waiting in front of the bureau with the other hunters. They all were kitted out in light battling armour, with weapons and wands. What were they thinking?

"We're gonna join the raid. What else?" Malia replied, spinning the 2 daggers in her hands.

"Absolutely not. You guys are gonna kill yourselves." I shot back.

"No we're going to he-"

"Zeref is right. You guys can't put yourselves in danger." Mother butted in, cutting off Sara's attempt to argue back. She held Voadhailis in her arms and had a strong frown on her face. 

"I can't fight and protect you all at the same time, plus you guys aren't even Hunters." I sighed.

"Who said only Hunters can join?" Naz snapped, annoyed by the situation, "Plus we've trained so much. You can't just let us stay here." 

"The purpose of your training was so you guys could be ready in case this raid fails. I need you guys to stick together and protect yourselves and my mother, so I can fight without worrying for your guys' safety." 

They all sighed in dissatisfaction. I could tell they wanted to be of help but apart from Malia, none of them had enough experience hunting beasts, it was too risky taking such young inexperienced people with me.

The sound of a horn blew loudly diverting everyone's attention to the Director, who stood on a balcony above everyone.

"It's finally time to enter the Dungeon. Firstly, I'd like to say that Thank You all for coming here and volunteering to join in this raid. Not only will we be creating history by clearing this dungeon but we'll return as heroes, who served this kingdom and saved it from its doom.

"So keep your heads up high and grip them swords tightly. We will clear that dungeon! Please make your way to the large portal inside the bureau. This will teleport us to the centre of the city." With his short speech ending, everyone began moving.

Mother hugged me tightly, stroking my hair.

"My son, please come back safe and kick those monsters' asses." She looked teary but she smiled at the last bit.

"I'll try my best and take care of my bond here too, while I'm gone." I replied.

I hugged everyone and shook hands with Allefin before heading towards the Bureau Building. 

'Brat. Don't be foolish and take care of yourself. Our mental connection will cut off once you enter the Dungeon.' Voadhailis warned.

I gave him a brief nod before carrying on walking.

**

20 S rank Hunters and 53 A rank hunters stood at the front of the battalion of mages. The remaining 600 Hunters and 2000 soldiers stood behind.

After a couple seconds the Rank 1 S Rank Hunter, Taras Black, entered the portal. We all rushed behind him and 1 by 1 we all entered into the towering red portal.

[You have entered the Special Dungeon: Lucifer's Lair]

Immediately my head became heavy and my body seemed like energy was being drained out of it. 

[Debuffs of the First Floor have been applied: 

50% Awareness Decrease

30% Strength Decrease

30% Increased Fatigue

Increased Fear

Increased Mana Disruption]

[System has removed the Debuffs]

[Body State is back to normal]

Thanks to the system, my body went back to normal but it seemed that the Hunters around me were suffering worse than me. Most were throwing up and looked unfit to even pick up their swords.

[Quest Title: Lucifer's Lair]

[New Quest: Clear the First Floor]

[Rewards: Instant Level Up x3]

[New Quest: Clear the Second Floor]

[Rewards: Instant Level Up x3

                  Key to Lucifer's Lair]

[New Quest: Fulfil your duties as Lucifer's descendant]

[Rewards:  Instant Level Up x5

                  Dungeon Clearance

                  ???

                  ??? ]

Sh*t! If this really was Lucifer's Lair, this was going to be hard and what were these quests? They were specifically tailored to me. Was the appearance of this dungeon for me?

I gulped, before scanning my surroundings. 

A dense grey fog covered a flat and barren land. Countless skeletons lay on the ground and the atmosphere itself reeked of death. 

It was a battlefield.

"Everyone! Stick together!" The leader of the raid shouted. It was the Rank 1 S ranker.

I rushed over to the group that he was leading; it was tempting to take off my eye patch to get better vision but I couldn't risk anything.

Suddenly, shrieks of soldiers and screams echoed around from the back where the Elven Soldiers had followed us in from. They were right at the back, were they killed off first?

A black shadow zoomed around appearing and disappearing in and out of the fog.

Screams could be heard left, right and centre but none of us moved, we couldn't do anything to fight back. It was too fast, the thing that was hunting us, even the S rankers gripped their weapons tightly and gulped. It must have been that 'Increased Fear' Debuff.

"This fog, it's no ordinary fog. I can't see anything through it and what is that beast? I can't even follow its movements." Volk said, appearing by my side. He looked worried, as a solitary drop of sweat ran down his cheek.

"What's that leader thinking, are we just going to sit here like ducks? This is a stupid plan." I replied under my breath.

I had to do something, at least be a recon.

I walked up to the towering Rank 1 S ranker cautiously.

He broke out of his trance and gulped before looking down at me. 

"Are we just going to stay here in the middle of nowhere?" I said, looking into the towering man's eyes.

The Rank 1 S ranker had a domineering presence, standing at 6 ft 5. He had brown hair and carried a great long sword, which worked perfectly with his red armour. 

"You're right. We should somehow remove this fog; I can't even sense the amount of beasts there are."

"I'll take care of recon, You should focus on just surviving." I said turning around.

"Who the f*ck is this guy acting all big?" Another Hunter from his side spoke up, but I had already disappeared into the fog.

I took my eye patch off, finally seeing through the fog for the first time. 

What were those things?

Dark floating ghost like beasts zoomed around zigzagging across the battlefield killing a couple soldiers at a time.

No wonder they were unable to do anything. It was impossible to fight something you couldn't track or see.

'Lightning Aura.'

I scanned around and found out that this domain was flat. There was no natural cover and only skeletons and barren, dead land surrounded the area. Apart from the dark figures, who fed on the dead bodies of the soldiers, before zooming away again we were alone here.

'Explosive Shuriken'

I Jumped up and threw a spiralling flame shuriken in my hands towards a group of Black figures that were feeding on dead bodies. 

If Voadhailis was with me he would've said I was copying another TV show again from my old world.

BOOM!!

The Explosion shook the ground and dozens of dark figures died with the flames.

[You have earned 20,000 Exp for killing a Darkness Wraith]

[You have earned 20,000 Exp for killing a Darkness Wraith]

[You have earned 20,000 Exp for killing a Darkness Wraith]

…

[You have levelled up!]

[You are now level 124]

[Total Available Stat Points: 10]

If only I had wind magic I could somehow blow this fog away. 

"The fog's clearing!" Someone shouted, from the area where the Wraiths had died. 

"Kill the Wraiths, those dark things. The fog will clear up!" I shouted from the top of my lungs.

"CHARGE!" I heard the Rank 1 S ranker roar, raising the morale of the Hunters. Finally, the Hunters began dashing around working together to kill off the wraiths. 

The fear debuff really was scary. It completely immobilised all of the Hunters. I could only imagine how strong the next floor's Debuffs were. 

Explosions and spells lit up the Barren land and little by little the fog cleared up. However, everything wasn't perfect as lots of Hunters and Soldiers were still losing their lives to the Wraiths. 

Once the fog had completely disappeared, only the blood of fellow comrades and their dead bodies lay on the grounds. 

The casualties were mostly the lower rank Hunters and most of the Elven Soldiers. 

"You're still alive." Volk said, appearing by my side. He looked injured, as he held his arm. 

"Those things were damn powerful but if it wasn't for your quick thinking we'd have more casualties." He muttered, sitting down against a pile of skeletons and pulling out what seemed to be a potion from his dimension ring.

He drank it down in one go and suddenly, the cut on his arm was gone and he seemed rejuvenated. 

"Was that a healing potion?" I asked, confused by what I had just seen. 

"Wait, don't tell me you didn't know about these. The Alchemy Association sold these at the Hunter Bureau's Workshop. 

"You crazy guy, you really came into this dungeon without Healing potions; here take these, you probably won't even need them." He got up shaking his head, then pulled out 3 bottles from his dimension ring before giving them to me. 

I stashed them away and scanned my surroundings. Over half our men seemed to have died from just the first floor. 

"Men Gather round! Get in a defensive formation. This isn't over yet!" The Rank 1 S ranker (Taras Black) shouted, raising his Long sword into the air. 

I looked in the direction he was pointing at and I felt an adrenaline rush spike my body.

Thousands of Mana Beasts of all species were charging towards us. 

"Holy F*ck!" Volk gasped at the sight, gripping his hammer tightly.

"Close your mouth and stick with me. We're going to survive this place." I said activating 'Lightning Aura' once more.

'Voadhalis, Cambio Forma.'

I gripped the 2 hilts of the revised edition Voadhailis's Claws tightly.

Time for war…