Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army 331 Progress is progress

"Let the MC bulldoze through the floor and let's see what is on the next floor" a reader might think, dear reader, have you forgotten how Yunan kept his stats in balance even when bulldozing through floors? Some might call it masochistic behaviour, i would call thorough understanding of the way to strength. Yes Yunan did the same thing he did in each floor, find the easy way to defeat all the monsters to escape in case of unforeseen circumstances, but pass the floor while training all aspects of his strength, that is why a solo explorer like him was able to reach this far, with only efficient effort it would have taken him much less time to focus on only one stat per floor, but would his teachers allow it? even if they did, someone with the mentality of Yunan would not allow himself to lag behind simply due to laziness.

And so as part of training he would split the new Valyrians to a group of three, him, the wives and the pets, each of this group would compete in the amount of time taken to increase a certain number of stat points, with Yunan acting as coach to both parties to keep the playing field level. Yunan had less time to level up compared to the two groups and had to increase his stats to an equal amount, the same number would be split among the members of the other parties. This was what training with Yunan was like, you have to keep up as a group with the advantage, and he still has a better chance of winning.

The wives have already been used to certain roles, even if they switched roles to stay in shape and be as well rounded as possible, they were specialist by now, it was not as hard for them to reach the cumulative goal as it was for the pet party, they have very loose semblance of party behaviour and still were individualists, they had a harder time performing multiple roles in the same fight because they would lose focus on training and focus on destroying the enemies.

Yunan was not the impatient type, he saw his old self and his little friends in this party, ignorant and hard working, improving by leaps and bounds from the vaguest clues given by the coaches, therefore he waited for them to make mistakes to correct them, in order for them not stray from the path, he would drop hints and answers here and there, it was going fine, Ignis was the last among the pets to understand the ice attribute instead she was the first to create a combined spell specific for the ice wraiths, she called the spell 'ignition' it was a wind and fire based spell, it was basically an explosion of flames assisted with a bit of wind to create a shockwave.

Shockwaves worked against the ice wraiths because of their fragile nature, ice was not a very stable material, it was strong when stacked but it was week to tremors and vibrations, Yunan rewarded Ignis with some time in the Dreamscape garden for her to train some of her newly awakened powers. Yes you read correctly, she had awakened some innate powers. While dragons left behind manuals for their posterity to learn as much as possible, their innate talents were unlocked from birth.

For example Drogon was able to spew flames basically from day one, flight took a while until his wings grew strong enough, and his other talents were sitting untapped because he didn't know about them, as for Ignis she did not know how to use flame, she needed Drogon to teach her that, Ignis also had no idea what her talents were, but unlike Drogon who was able to practice his talents upon learning they existed, Ignis could not practice anything like body enlargement and shapeshift before she reached a certain level of power, in fact her shapeshift was only to humanoid figure thanks to the existence of Dreamscape garden that helped her unlock that bit earlier.

Ignis has been training her spiritual powers ever since she got inside Dreamscape to unlock her other powers, her intangible form became a spirit form where she was effectively a ghost, her ability to dream invade was strengthened to become dream share, and finally she was able to gain the power of empathy, she now could read a person's emotions without the need for telepathic links or the usual mind reading stuff, this was especially useful in determining the emotional states of people and monsters alike, fighting an enraged monster was easier than fighting an afraid one.

Meanwhile Sapphira has gone beyond the scope of powers she was born with, her humanoid form now became four forms depending on the stat she chose to focus on using, using multiple stats was still a thing for the future, she was also able to learn spells and skills that will help her in different forms, as for Drogon he was starting to mimic the style of Yunan more and more, becoming almost a copy of his master. Yunan tried his best so that Drogon would not be like him but that path seemed the natural one for Drogon, it seems like the Dragonification was much more than Yunan thought it was, it has helped him the path of a dragon and dragonborn before he even gained the bloodline.

The style that Drogon was adopting was reckless and self driving, he pushed himself to grow stronger faster, he sacrificed sleep and rest in order to grow even a bit more, that style worked for dragons better than other species because they were innately terrifying when it came to endurance and tenacity, something that was very helpful in making dragons able to do great things. Although the pet party lagged behind in accumulating the stat points they grew in other facets that Yunan had to admit they were really out doing him, Yunan has been sitting at the gateway to reach sage level mastery in his skills, and was unable to break through, going as far as he could to make it so that he was beyond his depth when fighting, still, there was a little bit that eluded him and he had to patiently review all his advancement while fighting, there was minute progress in the 61st floor but nothing much, Yunan was able to sense the gate of the sage level mastery because his mana manipulation was already at that point, the only thing he could do other than training and fighting was to seek counseling from his teachers, it has been a while since they taught him something related to mastery.

Chapter end