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In the room where the stairs that descended to the second floor were, a huge crack could be seen all over the floor, it was so big that it started at one end and ended at the other almost touching the stairs.

The crack was straight and if you touched it, you would feel how smooth it was.

"Without a doubt she was that person, she's really fast and you should be exploring the second floor already."

"Master is not being hasty, the beast that is in charge of guarding the stairs on the first floor should only be in the first mystical rank, in the alliance there are many people who can take care of such a monster without much trouble" Rafael.

"In that you are right, but each person has their own mass of people"

The woman in the black cloak pointed to the crack in the floor and continued speaking.

"In your alliance there may be adequately strong people I can accept, but for someone from the alliance to defeat the beast in charge of the first floor with a single sword slash at least they should be in the 3rd rank, since even though the beast was only in the first rank its strength should not be less than someone in the second rank"

Everyone stared at the crack without still understanding the point.

*Sigh* When the cloaked woman saw this, she could only shake her head and continue speaking.

"That rift was made with the strength of someone in the first rank, besides no technique or skill was used, it was just a run-of-the-mill sword slash, do you think someone in the alliance could do the same?"

"......…""

Everyone fell silent or rather couldn't say anything.

The woman in the black cloak had the senses of someone in the ancient kingdom so she knew that the battle was recently or rather it couldn't even be called a battle, it would be more correct to say that it was a butcher killing an animal. in a slaughterhouse

The one that happened was a short time ago, so it was possible to estimate the force that was used in the attack that killed the monster.

"What do we do teacher" Rafael.

"Let's continue, send one of your men to meet the other groups of your family and tell them how to get to the second floor"

"Understood," Rafael nodded at the suggestion, unopposed like the others.

*** ***

5 days have passed since Chris and his group went down to the second floor, just as on the first floor there were no dangerous obstacles and they found 2 treasures on the way.

Which were two swords, one of the swords was made of a drop of Lux which looked like a crystal and the other sword was made of a drop of Tenebris.

These were high level materials that would even be used to create ancient rank weapons, the Lux drop, was a metal that had the light attribute, while the Tenebris drop was a metal with the dark attribute.

These two weapons had a high quality because of the materials that were used, but because the craftsman who made them was not very good, the two swords barely reached the platinum rank, if these two weapons wanted to be more powerful, they had to be refined. by a high-level craftsman, so that they can develop a soul and become living weapons.

These two swords were given to Chloe and Maya.

Chris, Solin, Sonia, Beatriz, Kaguya, Morgan and Meiko even though the swords had rare materials, they didn't care much about the weapons, Chris currently had 3 ancient weapons that he got from the temple, so he didn't need them, Solin he wasn't a combatant he rejected them too, Sonia had a better weapon, Beatriz and Kaguya had Chris who could give them better weapons in the future as long as his strength increased and he obtained better materials, Meiko fought bare-handed so she didn't use swords or anything weapon in particular and Morgan was primarily a mage.

After that they arrived at the monster in charge of guarding the stairs to the third floor, it looked like a gigantic tarantula.

In this battle only Beatriz, Chloe and Maya participated.

Chloe and Maya fought head-on with their new weapons, while Beatriz supported them with white magic (Life) to heal them and be a support.

Beatrice could deal with the monster alone with her current strength, but Chris wanted her to learn Black and White Magic (Life and Death) to take advantage of her divine physique and Valkyrie soul technique, so during the trip, Beatrice was training Variously under Chris's tutelage, Chris would sometimes forbid him from using magic or hand-to-hand combat when facing various specific monsters that appeared.

But Beatriz wasn't the only one, to have this kind of training, Chris also wanted Chloe and Maya to improve so he made them fight a monster one range stronger than them or sometimes they had certain limitations when fighting.

After many difficulties with the help of the new swords and the support of Beatriz, the group of three managed to kill the tarantula.

The treasure was diamond rank arm guards that a fighter would wear so Meiko kept them.

*** ***

Two days later.

On the third floor, they found no treasure, but they did find the stairs to the fourth floor in just a few days.

The monster this time was a Golem made of solid rock.

The people who faced him were the previous group of three, only this time Beatriz in addition to being a support was allowed to attack with light and dark magic from a distance.

The fight lasted a total of 5 hours, as the Golem would infinitely regenerate while having infinite flux from the planet, thus one had to destroy its core to defeat it, but this was easier said than done, due to the limitations that Chris imposed things on them became more difficult, so it became a race against time, where each minute that passed more likely was the loss.

"Let's go for the treasure" Meiko.

After defeating the Golem, they went to see the treasure.

"What's this?" Meiko.

The treasure was a gem with a strange red liquid inside.

"This is a bloodline, which was preserved in the crystal" Chris.

"How are you sure" Meiko.

The gem blocks the energy of the liquid so it will not be possible to realize the content easily, the only reason Chris noticed was because the bracelet on his hand that had the blue gem began to glow showing that it was compatible with that blood and could be used to evolve.

(Master, you must be more careful, this world is not as simple as it seems) Agni.

(You also realized Agni and what do you think Nerea) Chris.

(The treasures in this place are very strange, even though the master used his oracle power to track down the best ones, they are too good for a lower wild world even if it is high-class, plus the way the labyrinth is designed it's more like a matrix with some purpose) Nerea.

(I think the same thing, tell me what happened with Yuki and she woke up) Chris.

(Not since the pact with the teacher she has been sleeping all this time) Nerea.

(Why does this happen, you didn't have to go through this evolutionary dream) Chris.

(Maybe it's because Yuki is a (False) spirit king while Agni and I are true spirits) Nerea.

(If I'm not mistaken a (False) spirit king is the fourth rank that is equivalent to a mystic realm, but why is there such a difference between you) Chris.

(It's because Yuki has a perfect body unlike the two of us) Nerea.

(The spirits are the accumulation of spiritual power that generated a soul and eventually a consciousness, since we have a soul, we also have Mana which is the energy that the soul generates, but due to the similarities of magical and spiritual power it can be somewhat unstable so We don't train Mana, only when a spirit reaches the rank of spirit king can it fully form a perfect body allowing it to obtain Prana and we can cultivate other energies) explained Nerea.

(I understand but what about me, what effects does spiritual power have on me) Chris.

(If I had to say it, it is that the master practicing spiritual power is the same as becoming a spirit little by little, similar to when a human encounters a demonic technique and absorbs miasma and there is a possibility that he will mutate and become a demon, the first ranks will be very difficult for the master since they are like a transformation or metamorphosis and this will take a long time, only when he reaches the 3rd rank will he become a true spirit and he will be able to quickly train spiritual power) Nerea.

Without further delay the group descended to the fourth floor.

"This is true"

When the group reached the fourth floor, they did not see a maze, but an underground world full of trees and vegetation.

If you looked at the size you could see that it was several times bigger than the surface showing that the power of space was used to enlarge the place.

The further they descended the stranger the wild world became, progress too smooth and seamless, but the rewards were more than expected.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to rest, they spent 7 days on the fourth floor gathering materials and resources, to which they later went down to the 5th floor.

*** ***

On the alliance side after so long they managed to complete the first 3 floors of the maze and entered the room where they set up a temporary camp before entering the fourth floor.

By Chris's calculations it would take them at least another 7 days to reach the fourth floor.

The reason why they managed to get there earlier is because the faction of Grace that was supported by the mysterious woman in black cloak shared the information of the labyrinth with the other factions of the alliance, allowing them all to reach the fourth floor without any problems.

This allowed the Grace faction to increase their reputation and they obtained great benefits from the alliance, increasing their status.

Not realizing that Rafael, and a few small groups were sent out first, to monopolize the most important resources first.