So far though, Victor was yet to run into any monster in the water, so the plan could only wait until he found one, but that was short lived, as a suitable monster presented itself to Victor.

‘I like monsters that just deliver themselves into my hands.’ Victor said in his mind, as he halt his movements and just floated in the water.

Vhooooom

The vibrations emitted by the monster travelled through the entire water and unto Victor’s body, bouncing against the walls and back into the water, giving its whole form a mystic feel.

‘This octopus looking fish monster will do just fine.’ Victor thought in his head.

[Calipus Level 40]_.

The monster didn’t seem the least bit threatening as it swam by, and it paid no attention to Victor. The monster before Victor looked like a mix between a shark and an octopus. It had eight arm like things that came out of the sides of its head, and that part of its head seemed a bit jelly. Apart from these parts, the rest of its body was of a milky colour. The monster was just the right size to navigate well through the cave layout of the floor, as it was the size of two hippopotamus.

Victor swam as fast as he could, which wasn’t very fast, until he got to the slow swimming monster fish. With his mind, he activated his skill ‘Touch of Death’, and before the monster could even struggle, it had died.

‘Arise.’ Victor commanded mentally.

A couple second after the monster died, it twitched a bit, then as though nothing had happened began swimming again as it swirled its body round Victor.

..

[You have acquired an undying soldier that will forever serve at your side with unquestionable resolve]

[Calipus has dropped in level due to effects of being reborn]

[Calipus Level 35]

..historical

‘This guy should be enough.’ Victor thought. Due to Victor’s infernal body, his body was constantly giving up heat that kept the water around him warm is he stayed in one spot for even some seconds.

Victor got on top the monster and with it he rode deeper into the cave easily and much faster than he could ever with his current self.

After going about for some hours, Victor finally found the path that led to the next floor, and after using it, he finally reached dry floor once more.

‘Much convenient.’

.

During the time Victor spent looking for the path to the next floor, it is accurate to think he didn’t do so without any sort of confrontation or encounter with other monsters.

Because of the constant heat coming off of Victor’s body, he became the perfect target for the monster fishes that were attracted towards heat sources. At that side of the floor the water was extremely cold and well past freezing point but still liquid somehow, which would make normal creatures to function at a lower capacity, unless they were at a much higher level where their bodies were though enough, or had very high cold resistance.

The monsters in this part of the floor thrive in these environments as normal, and would hunt any creature that had even the slightest higher temperature as it was kind of a way for them to also find their way around. When not attacking, they would just remain at a particular spot/position without much movement unless necessary.

The problem with this place was that even though Victor had a very high resistance to cold due to his undead body, his infernal body still reacted normally disregarding the fact that he wasn’t really affected by the environment that much. Because of this, his body was releasing plenty heat that in turn was plenty enough to warm up the surrounding waters, and even if the monsters in the vicinity didn’t have good vision, the tattoo like lines on his body lit up quite well.

With the situation like this, the monsters in the area were all attracted towards him, but fortunately the monster weren’t of higher levels, so using his skill ‘negative burst’, he was able to take care of the monsters easily. Eating these monsters wasn’t in anyway beneficial, so Victor would just leave the bodies as he moved forward.

At some point, Victor had reached a part of the floor where the light inside was completely zero, making it almost impossible for Victor to see even a few metres away from himself. The little light emitted from his dim tattooed lines only gleamed in the darkness as it seemed to be sucked away by it, almost as if the water was saturated with ink.

Eventually, Victor was greeted by the monsters that lived in that part of the cave floor, and for the first time in this floor Victor stopped to eat the monster in order to gain evolution material.

It was impossible for Victor who had night vision to see in the darkness of this cave side, but the other creatures could still see him. From what he could think of the situation, there was definitely something that was enabling these monsters that lived in these parts to hunt and move around. Since they could see, it either meant they had a skill that allowed them to see in the dark, or they had something that enabled them to sense the movements in the surrounding waters, be it a skill or biological capabilities.

Whatever it was that enabled them to see in this environment, Victor was sure that he wanted it, and that it would be important to him in the future.

After reaching the next floor, Victor disbanded the fish monster he had added to his legion and the number of monsters in his legion returned to five out of seven.

..

“The forty eight floor, huh?” Victor said as he stepped into the forty eight floor.

It was clear how different the current floor would be, as just from the point of entry, Victor was faced with various monsters that just stared at the path that led into the floor.

‘Geeze, if I didn’t know better I’d say someone was plotting against me.’