The Martial Unity

It was only a few days before they cleaned almost all of the esoteric ore deposits on the nineteenth floor. The two of them duly took their time making sure to get as much as they could before finally leaving the dungeon floor.

It turned out that Rui was right, to a certain degree. The insects were the first to begin leaving the dungeon and were probably leaving the entire place. The rodents and other smaller creatures would probably follow suit soon enough.

Rui wasn't sure about how the big birds would fair, they were too big to fit into the tunnels and the fact that they relied on flight meant that they were probably doomed.

Rui shrugged. He was pro-evolution and survival of the fittest.

The two of them immediately set out for more dungeon floors in the Shionel Dungeon, they traveled further down the Shionel Dungeon. They still hadn't reached the full depths of the dungeon, which extended sixty kilometers below the surface.

Who knew what kind of strange sights they would see?

Rui for one, was curious about what was there at the bottom of the dungeon, even if the path there was long and annoying. The tunnels wound about so much that even with Riemannian Echo it was extremely difficult to track down a path downwards.

The two of them treaded around for half a day before they came across something interesting.

"What is that?" Rui's eyes widened as something strange entered his field of senses.

"Finally, another floor?"

"Is…" He stuttered for a second. "Is that water?!"

to him

it," Rui murmured, as he strode forward to get a closer look at the new dungeon floor. "It's a floor that has a huge body of

didn't understand how a lake could form inside the

"There's no

some suspicions, but he

them finally managed to reach the floor by picking the right tunnel. When they reached, their eyes widened as came across a startlingly

The lake was glowing.

of the lake are glowing," Rui murmured as he ran his senses

He quickly noted that this too was a floor with a developed ecosystem. His senses extended to the very bottom

is definitely another big find," Rui told

this lake came here, honestly," Kane replied. "As for actually clearing this floor, I don't know Rui, maybe we should sit this

Rui understood his sentiment.

particularly adept in water, they didn't have almost any experience in it. Rui had once hunted down a beast hiding in underwater back when he was a Martial Apprentice, but that was

out of their

creatures that he would rather not tangle with. From piranha-like fish to crocodilian creatures, none of these creatures looked like they were

hampered underwater, his attacks would be much weaker, and he wouldn't even be able to use his

a nightmare of a problem. Rui truly did not think that he could pull this off without making a

fact that he didn't trust Kane's ability in this regard, it couldn't be helped. The probability that Kane would fail was simply too high. Fighting underwater was an entirely different art