Chapter 23

"It is really hard to find the slime," Lilia complained and continued, "We have been walking for hours now but there are no signs of slime. Yesterday we only found 20 of them and we killed them in a day and today…"

They had gotten stronger and used to kill the slime in the first floor so killing 20 of them was not difficult at all. It only took them around 2 hours to kill the 20 slime.

"Maybe there are some way or trick to find them," said Ethan.

"I don't think there will be any trick. Look around. There are only this huge field of grass and some trees around. What kind of trick can we find here? Grass? Trees? I don't think so," said Mateo while pointing at the grass and trees around them.

"Ethan, try to think of something…" said Lilia with her head down. She was bored because there had been walking since yesterday and did not found any slime. Not even a single slime.

"Lilia… you know my situation," said Ethan with a disappointing face. Lilia heard what Ethan said and saw his face.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean anything bad," Lilia immediately apologized.

"Situation? Something happen to you Ethan?" asked Mateo curious.

"Something did happen before and thanks to that I lost all my knowledge I had accumulated for the past 10 years," said Ethan.

"I didn't know something like that can happen," Mateo sympathize with Ethan.

"Well, let's stop talking about that. How about we rest a bit and think this through first," said Ethan.

"Let's do that. Let's go to that tree," said Lilia pointing towards an orange tree.

They all sat below the tree. Ethan pulled out some fruits and water and they started eating. While eating, Ethan scanned around him to find out if there really was a trick to find the slime. However, he still had no idea how to find the slime.

"I should have tamed a bird before coming here," said Ethan.

"If Mateo's metal wolf form can sniff the slime it will be much easier but who would have thought that the transformation is useless other than its claw and fang," said Lilia.

"…" Mateo fell silent a bit and he jolt up, "That's right. My metal wolf form can scent them," said Mateo.

"You can do that? I thought you only able to use its claw and fang since you never try to sniff the slime," said Lilia.

"Well~ I totally forgot about that because of the ice magic matter before," said Mateo while smiling awkwardly.

"You IDIOT!!! I thought you can't do that because you know your skills better, so I never mention that. We waste a lot of time walking blindly since we came here," said Lilia with angry face.

"Calm down guys, now we can start looking," said Ethan trying to calm Lilia down. Ethan then continued, "But Mateo can you sniff them now since you never try to sniff them before."

"It will be fine. The drops have their scent," said Mateo while he took out a slime core from his storage item. Mateo storage item was a silver bracelet just the same color as his metal wolf.

"Beast: Metal Wolf," light enveloped Mateo's body and he transformed into the metal wolf. He sniffs the slime core and he smiled, "I know where there are. Let's go," excited, Mateo ran towards the scent he detected.

"Wait up you beast," said Lilia.

"Lilia, lets go," Ethan pulled out their wagon. Lilia got into the wagon and they went after Mateo. After a few minutes chasing Mateo, they saw Mateo stopped. They went towards Mateo and when they almost near Mateo, Mateo looked towards them in his wolf form and smile sneakily.

"He should not smile in that form, that's creepy," said Lilia. Mateo transformed back into human. Ethan and Lilia get off the wagon and saw a group of slime around 200 of them.

"We will camp here for two to three days," said Ethan.

"What are we waiting for? Let's start. I've been itching to hit something," said Lilia looking at Mateo. Mateo ignored Lilia.

Three hours later, they stopped hunting and decided to take a rest.

"We kill 30 of them. That's a lot compare to the first day," said Lilia while she petted Wafu and Gooey. Since Lilia formed a party with Ethan, Wafu and Gooey had gotten closed with her because Lilia loves playing with them.

"Exploring this dungeon is really beneficial for us. My stats go up a lot. I just advance to level 5 few days ago and now I almost at the peak of level 5," said Ethan while checking his stats.

"You are right, I will advance to level 5 if I killed around 20 more slimes and the same goes to Wafu too. He also at Level 4 too," said Lilia and then she continued, "Mateo is much more impressive than us," said Lilia while looking at Mateo.

"The One title really boosts your experience, you already in the middle of level 7," Ethan impressed with Mateo progressed.

"Well, it is all thanks to the title… but you know, although I am at level 7, I feel like some of my stats is closer to you guys so I can't really say I'm stronger now," said Mateo.

Due to Limiter, Ethan and Lilia progressed is slower but that did not mean they are weaker than someone of higher level. After few more hours of battles with the slime, they stopped for the day and decide to continue the next day. Ethan, Lilia and Mateo mastery with their skills increased. Mateo ice ball mastery increase to 7/10. Lilia fire ball increased to 4/10 and the rest of her elemental ball increased to 2/10. Her archery also increased to 5/10. Ethan water ball increased to 2/10 and his cooking: roast increased to 1/10.

The next morning, they started the hunt after they finish their breakfast. The hunt continues until afternoon. Before they finish their hunt…

'Ting~ All five with 'The One' title from the same city and same generation is inside the dungeon. The dungeon difficulty will increase, and the dungeon structure will change. Anyone who didn't want to stay during the change can tell the system and they will be teleport outside the dungeon. Change will start in 10 seconds. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Dungeon change start.'

Suddenly the System gave this notification to all the adventurer inside the dungeon.

"Did you guys get this," said Ethan when the system was counting from 10.

"Yeah, The One from the same city and generation. Since Mateo is here… does that mean all five with 'The One' title from Eplia City is inside this dungeon now?" said Lilia.

"It does not mean us but maybe adventurer from another city or from different age," said Mateo.

"Dungeon change… the dungeon will change in a few seconds, stay or leave?" asked Ethan.

"Let's stay. I think there won't be much change," said Lilia. Ethan and Mateo nodded agreed with Lilia.

The countdown finished and the dungeon started to change.

"It's starting," said Ethan. 'crack' Ethan heard the crack sound and looked above him, "What… is that?" a big crack can be seen appeared in the sky and suddenly a huge earthquake stronger than the one they felt during the new continent appearance happened. Ethan, Lilia and Mateo fell on the knees, the cracked sky spewed out lots of water and the ground start breaking too. The ground Mateo was on suddenly went underground. Ethan and Lilia who saw that got shocked and look at each other.

"Wafu, Gooey, stay with Lilia," Ethan ordered Wafu and Gooey to stay with Lilia. Wafu and Gooey was on the same ground with Lilia and upon hearing Ethan's order, both moves towards Lilia. Ethan was on different ground and the ground Ethan was on started moving away from Lilia. Ethan tried to stand up and he ran straight towards Lilia. He jumped with everything he got.

"Ethan!" Lilia screamed while stretching her arm forward to catch Ethan's hand but suddenly, the ground where Lilia was on suddenly sprang upwards. Ethan failed to catch Lilia's hand and fall below. The ground went upwards fast and Lilia saw Ethan fall. "Ethan!!!!!"

Ethan kept falling without stopping, "Damn it," said Ethan clenching his teeth. He used water ball to slower his fall but suddenly another ground came from besides him and smashed into him "heuukk!!!" Ethan coughed out blood, his eyes turned white and he passed out. His body got stuck at the side of the ground while the ground keeps moving. The dungeon change went on for about 30 minutes before stopping.

A few hours later.

A breeze hit Ethan's face. Ethan's body twitched and his eyes started to open slowly. The cold breeze woke him up. "urgh! My body… it's painful," said Ethan while trying to move his body. He opened his eyes and in front of him, water was flowing down from above.

"A waterfall? Where am I?" Ethan looked around him. Other than the waterfall, some small vegetation and the ground wall, he did not see anything else. He took out a HP potion and drank it.

"A notification," Ethan saw an unread notification and opened it.

'Ting~'