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.

the case when he could sense small creatures like mice, rodents, and even snakes slithering around in 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

it came to such matters. They were most likely targeted by the snakes that he could sense across the entire floor, and they also had a greater

quickly overhunt prey into extinction and

and crickets were probably the biggest source of food for them. Rui couldn't even

interesting stuff," Rui

yourself," Kane snorted. "When are we going to ransack

up. "I've mostly learned what I wanted to. I don't see any problematic elements. Your technique should work

that there weren't elements on the floor that

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

This felt strange.

the case that deeper floors were more

design, got more and more difficult and challenging the further they passed. The dungeon had not been constructed with

quickly. He especially hated the floor with the venomous taipan since he was also under a lot of psychological pressure due to how lethal the taipans were.