"To think it was a Hydra. This was my first time seeing one..."
Talhand swallowed as he stared at the nine-headed dragon before him, which looked like a Demon God. Shock covered his face, and his hands unconsciously tightened around his staff.
In all his long life, this was the first time he had seen the legendary monster in the flesh-the nine-headed Hydra!
"Didn't these things go extinct during the Second Human-Demon War?"
Geese was also deeply shocked and took half a step back.
If it was the guardian on the sixth floor, then it made sense that no one had managed to clear the Teleportation Labyrinth.
The Hydra belonged to Dragonkind. It was more than twice the size of a Red Dragon, and its scales were as sharp as blades, capable of cutting an opponent merely through contact.
Beyond that, no one knew anything else about Hydras anymore.
But one saying that had survived among all adventurers was enough to attest to its terror.
The best thing to do when you encounter a Hydra is turn around and run, and pray it doesn't catch you!
"Why is Mother there?!"
Rudeus looked at Zenith inside the crystal, his eyes full of incomprehension and his voice carrying a tremor he himself had not noticed.
Why was Mother sealed inside that crystal?
Why was that monster coiled around her?
Was she alive or dead?
No one could answer him...
Hearing the noise, the Hydra slowly woke from its slumber and opened its nine pairs of crimson dragon eyes. It was as though eighteen blood-red lanterns had lit up inside the gloomy palace.
Its long necks slowly rose, its scales rustling as they rubbed together. The Hydra looked down at the insects that had reached its palace.
Everyone seemed to see a trace