Inside the hidden dungeon, the adventurers were running around like headless chickens.
It was not because they were clueless, but because…
"FUCK! WHO'S ATTACKING!?"
SNAP!
"OWWWWW!" A burly adventurer holding a long sword yelled as something hit his butt.
The same situation was with everybody on this level of the dungeon and they had little to no idea how to deal with it.
Lith and his maids had climbed up many floors of the dungeons and were currently standing in a hidden passage, looking at all these guys getting beaten up by a swarm of spectres.
The spectres were tricky to handle as they were like ghosts. They didn't have a body and touching them with normal weapons was a near impossible task. Add to that, they were also appearing in and out of existence, giving a hard time for everybody to grasp this situation.
Lith was surprised to see so many adventurers here, but it all made sense since the dungeon was in Langerhan city, the dungeon capital of the Vampire Continent.
Looking at so many adventurers, Lith couldn't help but think, 'the association sure is fast.'
The World Adventurer's Association and the World Merchant Association were government owned organizations formed in the Neutral Contient by the main races. They had connections everywhere in the world and it wasn't difficult for an adventurer to quickly go from point A to point B in minutes.
There were categories within the organization and different sets of quickly go from point A to point B in minutes.
There were categories within the organization and different sets of players enjoyed different privileges.
Their ranking within the organization was shown by their badges. The badge had the insignia of the association on the back and the name of the player etched with a special mark on the front.
As Lith could see, the guys running around here had the Emerald or Ruby badges, meaning that they were indeed some important adventurers and had access to a variety of resources.
The levels in the association were Nickel, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, and Amethyst.
'Good, good, good. Some high ranking pawns to cause some nice chaos,' thought the Vampire Prince, for whom these high ranking beings were nothing more than ants.
A plan formulated in Lith's mind as he watched them and turning to Luna, said, "change into an adventurer's outfit, Luna. Also wear a mask to appear mysterious, but ensure that half your face is visible."
Luna nodded and in a second, changed into the outfit Lith asked her for.
Lith then pointed at the battlefield and said, "kill those sceptres in a flashy manner. Make sure that those guys see you for an instant and get amazed."
"As His Highness commands." Luna said and excused herself.
"Qingyue, do the same thing as her. I'll instruct you further when the sceptres are killed."
Qingyue excused herself as well and left.
The people on the battlefield were having a really tough time. Even though they were immortals and at such a high position in the association, they were getting humiliated by some mere dungeon monsters.
They were not able to land a single hit on the wandering sceptres and were starting to panic. Is this how they would die? They all thought.
But soon…
An adventurer was about to attacked again, but the attack from the sceptre was blocked right in front of his very eyes.
There he saw it! A woman! No! A pretty lady with red eyes! She appeared right in front of him and hacked the sceptre to death!
The man was shocked and dumbfounded with the events. He tried to see the lady again but she was gone, as if she never existed in the first place.
However, he soon heard a few metal clanging sounds and the aghast whispers of the sceptres who died one by one.
The sceptres fell on the floor after their deaths and once all were killed, the man saw the lady again.
'So pretty…' he thought to himself as he got mesmerized watching a lady in black mage outfit.
"The association tricked us…" A melodic voice woke everybody up from their stupor.
It wasn't of the lady in black mage outfit, but of another lady in blue mage outfit standing a bit away from her, looking at the killed sceptres.
"They did." Another melodic voice resounded in everyone's ears, and this time it was that of the lady in black outfit.
"I didn't think they would trick amethyst badges like us. It's really a shame…"
'What!?' Everyone felt their ears ringing and rubbed them to understand if they were just imagining things or if it was real.
As if understanding the doubts of those watching, the lady in black said with a serious gaze, "what's the point of being an amethyst badge anymore? We were served nothing but a plate full of deception."
"Right… who would've thought those guys were just disposing us one by one for their greater good."
The two's profound conversation seemed like something these Emerald and Ruby badges weren't worthy of hearing. It felt as if they were eavesdropping and doing something highly illegal.
Still, everyone perked their ears up and shut up. They didn't even dare to breathe loudly, afraid that it might interrupt these two experts from continuing further.
Qingyue, the one in blue outfit, got up and turned to Luna, the one in black outfit.
"My guess was correct. They are monopolizing everything and clearing dungeons on their own, not giving a chance to anyone else," said Qingyue.
"Yes, it should be obvious by now. I saw a few dungeon rewards in the black market. They're a hundred percent using us for their own benefits," added Luna.
The people gasped softly hearing that. They could roughly make out that the association had probably cheated these two experts.
Luna and Qingyue talked some more on this to provide more assurance to the ones watching while also sowing seeds of doubt.
In just a few minutes of talking, the first seed germinated when one of the guys said:
"Uhh… excuse me…"
Luna and Qingyue turned to look at him, but didn't respond.
The guy gulped his nervous saliva and said, "you're talking about the World Adventurer's Association, right?"