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?!"

turned to him with widened

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

help but be incredibly surprised. He didn't understand how a lake could form

water even come from?" Kane frowned. "There's

some suspicions, but he

by picking the right tunnel. When they reached, their eyes widened as came across a

The lake was glowing.

of the lake

too was a floor with a developed ecosystem. His senses extended to the very bottom of the

another big find," Rui

for actually clearing this floor, I don't

Rui understood his sentiment.

they didn't have almost any experience in it. Rui had once hunted down a beast

out of their element,

could sense a ton of creatures that he would rather not tangle with. From piranha-like fish to crocodilian creatures, none

be able to use his hot air pipe underwater.

was the matter of Kane. Maintaining Void Step underwater was going to be a nightmare of a problem. Rui truly did not think that he could pull this off without making a single

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 compared to fighting