The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

Lopas was going to hold the birthday party not inside the capital city but a little bit away from it. She was planning to hold it in a villa located near a natural flower field. That was a beautiful location and Lopas was sure that her grandfather would definitely like that location.

Lopas had already bought the villa. At first she was planning to use her own funds that she was given from her parents but Rein told her that it would be a good idea for her to earn the money with her hard work.

So for the last year, Lopas had been helping Rein with the management of his territory and Rein had given her a salary for this. So after saving up for almost a year, she had managed to buy the villa with her own money.

But preparing the whole villa alone was not only very time consuming but at the same time it was also very troublesome. That was the reason why Rein's retainers were going to help her out.

She was familiar with her grandfather's likes and dislikes. So she was instructing the retainers so that everything was perfect and the old duke would be able to enjoy himself. Just like that, a whole week passed and throughout all that time, Rein, Lopas and Luna were extremely busy.

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After all the preparations were done, finally it was time for the big day. The duke was a famous figure in the capital. So not only the Leonance family but the whole capital was celebrating his birthday.

But the duke was not really interested in the grand banquet attended by many nobles. So after showing his face in the banquet for a moment, he retired from that hall. Lopas took advantage of that and invited the duke to have a little walk with her.

The duke dotted on his only granddaughter a lot. So as soon as Lopas asked, he agreed to this proposal. So after telling the duke that she knew about a good location, Lopas brought the Duke to the flower field near the villa.

While walking in the flower field and enjoying the view, Lopas brought her grandfather in front of the villa. The duke was immediately surprised after noticing the words written on the gate.

The gate of the villa had a picture of the duke with happy birthday written beside it. The duke was very familiar with his beloved granddaughter's handwriting and understood that it was written by her. Seeing this he became extremely happy.

Then Lopas held his hand and pulled him inside the Villa. After entering the door, the very first thing that came to his views was a golden statue of himself. With his keen magical observation, the duke immediately understood that her granddaughter needed to put a lot of effort to create a realistic statue like this. This made him overjoyed and prideful at the same time. He was glad to see that his granddaughter was doing so well.

After that he entered the villa and found that the decorations that were used for the celebration were perfectly to his liking. Once again he was very happy to know that his granddaughter knew him so well. He was then given the birthday cake and all his other family members also came to congratulate him.

This was a cozy party with only close friends and families in attendance, so the duke immensely enjoyed it. His old friend, the headmaster was also there so he had a good time talking about the good old days. He was extremely grateful to his granddaughter for arranging this comforting party for him.

After the party was over, Lopas took her grandfather to a dining room and sat him down. Then she brought out the fish dish she had made and started waiting for his response eagerly.

Seeing how eager his cute little granddaughter was, duke Leonance did not waste any time and quickly ate the fish. Immediately a rich but not overwhelming flavour filled his mouth. He was planning to praise the dish even if it did not taste as good but now he saw that he had no need for that. This dish was truly extremely tasty. He had no need to lie and he could praise the dish from the bottom of his heart.

The duke was so happy today after having fun with his granddaughter that he did not even scolded Rein even once. Normally he would scold him at least three times after seeing him. He really hated Rein for being engaged to his sweet little granddaughter.

All in all, that was a very enjoyable night that everyone spent with a lot of happiness.

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While the capital was busy celebrating the Duke's birthday, in a city about 140 km away from the capital, three shady individuals were having a meeting. All of them wore clothing that covered their whole body and they were also speaking in a muffled voice to make sure that would not be recognised by that.

They were having this meeting inside a bar that was very empty. The bartender was also sleeping on the counter and it did not look like he was interested in improving his business. But still the bar looked well mentioned and had a lot of expensive furniture.

As the meeting went on, one of the men started to get heated up. After some more time, he suddenly punched the table in anger and broke it. It looked like he was about to say something to the other two, before he could open his mouth, suddenly he found that both of his hands got separated from his body.

Seeing this the two men immediately stood up and started to apologise to the bartender who had slightly opened his eyes. Then they picked up their friends and went out of the bar in a hurry. If one was near the man whose hands were cut, one would be able to hear that he was cursing the man and was saying that when the city would be destroyed, this man would turn his corpse into a puppet.

So what were these men planning to do which could destroy the whole city ?