The Martial Unity

The Shionel inland taipans and the bloodfury rabbits all led a rather simple life on their respective floors. They simply consumed organic ore deposits and other creatures that stumbled in like the adventurers. It had given him the impression that monsterified creatures were too sick in the head to possibly be more than aggressive mindless zombies.

Seeing what had happened to the humans of the large town of Veril that had survived ingesting the esoteric ore deposits had only reinforced this notion.

Yet the previous floor had had a perfectly viable ant society with functioning ants that worked for the sake of the colony and were led by the intelligent ant queen who was even capable of reproduction of monsterified ants.

This was very different from the image of monsterified creatures that he had conceived of in his mind. He had to admit that his opinion on the matter had changed given that he was forced to acknowledge that monsters could engage in sophisticated cooperation and continued sustenance of their existences.

This was especially the case when he came across an ecosystem that had sustained itself for presumably a year and a half since the dungeon had risen. It meant that this wasn't a transient phenomenon.

Rui narrowed his eyes as he focused on each distinct species.

The birds that he had spotted were numerous and flew across the large floor. Their wide wingspan and beaks were those that predator birds like eagles and hawks possessed, thus he assumed that they were probably among the apex predators of the dungeon floor.

sense small creatures like mice,

snakes was that they were not like the Shionel taipans that he had previously ran into. In fact, given the size of their heads, he greatly doubted that they were venomous at all. It was much more likely that they were the monsterified version of rat snakes. They were not apex predators, he had watched National Geographic enough as a kid to know that those snakes were

They were most likely targeted by the snakes that he could sense across the entire floor, and they also had a greater population than the snakes, based on Rui's preliminary sense of the

for a sustainable ecosystem to exist, otherwise, predators would quickly overhunt prey into extinction and the ecosystem would be thrown for a toss. Thus Rui was quickly able to ascertain the food chains in the ecosystems this

ubiquitous herbivorous insects like caterpillars, grasshoppers, and crickets were probably the biggest source of food

interesting stuff," Rui

are

what I wanted to. I don't see any problematic elements. Your technique should work on all of them, so we're good

there weren't elements on the floor

basically united against us, and thus we needed stealth to make sure that we didn't get constantly overrun. But frankly, given the

This felt strange.

have been the case that deeper floors were more

got more and more difficult and challenging the further they passed. The dungeon had not been constructed with that in mind or anything like that, thus it shouldn't

floors in the future," Kane nodded. Using Void Step continuously on not just himself but also Rui was stressful, especially on the previous dungeon floor where failing to use it would have gotten them killed pretty quickly. He especially hated the floor with the venomous taipan since he was also under a lot