Ash found a silent place and laid Raven there while she is unconscious. He poured Grade 5 Health potion while she is unconscious and her health recovered instantly. He only had 15 Grade 1 Mana potions and he used one of them on her to at least let her mana recover up to some extent.
Not even 1/4th of the mana recovered due to the potion, but it is better than nothing. Since it was taking time, he poured 3 more potions forcibly to at least recover 1/4th mana.
The 1/4 the mana recovered after few minutes and Raven slowly gained consciousness. "Rise and Shine, princess" said Ash.
Raven groggily looked at Ash and woke up. "Where am I? What happened?"
"You have undergone mana exhaustion and passed out on me." explained Ash while inspecting the Adamantium spear.
"Good thing that I was present there. Otherwise the mercenaries following you would have stripped you off of everything." said Ash.
Raven could not sense any sarcasm or mock in Ash's tone. In fact there was seriousness in his voice and truth is his words.
"Sorry" said Raven bowing her head in shame. "Don't worry, but next time be careful" warned Ash sincerely.
"We are presently hidden in a secret room in the third floor away from all the banshees. It's lucky that the room was in the start of the floor otherwise we would have been in a pinch."
"Let us rest and get back our magical energies before we go." said Ash. He went into the meditating pose and started powering up the star, while Raven gathered mana using circulation.
It has nearly been a day since Raven lost consciousness and Ash had to keep watch. He took naps at regular intervals with Enhanced enemy detection skill keeping sense on any danger.
Status:
Name: Ash Randell
Level 17
Class: Evoker
Subclass1: Locked
Subclass2: Locked
HP: 20000/20000
Experience: 891000/900000
STR: 1600
AGI: 1605
VIT: 1585
INT: 1611
LUCK: 1595
Skills: Fire bolt(Active), Ice Wave (Active), Mind Immunity( Passive), Poison Immunity(Passive), Spear art (Active), Martial arts(Active), Blacksmith (Master), Alchemy (Master), Electric Arc(Active), Wind Cutters (Active), Blind Immunity(Passive), Acid Immunity(Passive), Enhanced enemy detection(passive), Energy Barrier (Active), Dark Chains (Active), Earth daggers (Active), Light Swords (Active), Dimensional Travel(Active), Transmutation (Active), Anti Rune Teleportation(Active), Continental Teleportation(Active), Curse immunity(Passive), Dark Immunity(Passive), Time Stop (Active), Space Warp (Active), Meteor Rain (Active), Fire projectiles (Active), Water Bombs (Active), Lightning Sword (Active), Earthquake (Active), Stone Skin (Active), Night Vision (Passive).
Timed Quest:
Complete 5 Blue Ranked Quests or 2 Green Ranked Quests.
Reward: 1500000 Experience.
Time Limit: 6 days
Penalty: System shut down for 5 days.
During this recovery session, Ash could sense the mercenaries searching for them in the third floor. They did not understand where the two of them were hidden.
Aqua Lion Mercenary group's POV
"Where are they?" shouted Pamela.
"Yeah, if they had moved to fourth floor, then the boss in the final room wouldn't be active now and we did not have to face it and kill it" shouted Vetrax.
"Patience guys. They are here in this floor. We will hide ourselves and as soon as those two adventurers move to 4th floor we will kill them" said Ivan with a cruel smile on his face.
"Very well." said T-Bone who is calm during this situation too.
They all hid in the shadows without doing any sound.
Ash's POV
Ash sighed at their foolishness. Ash looked at the system map and found no sign of Red Frost Necklace in this floor too.
There was one good thing though. These guys cleared the path for him and Raven by killing the final boss.
Nearly after 30 minutes Ash and Raven gathered their respective energies. "Now, we will not go directly, we will use other means of travel" said Ash.
"How?" asked Raven with curiosity.
"Put your hand on my shoulder." said Ash. Raven did as he asked and Ash willed the Dimension Travel skill.
Suddenly the surroundings around them became red and Raven was stunned. "What is this?" asked Raven with surprise.
"This is another dimension. We can move without alerting the mercenaries with this skill of mine" said Ash smiling.
"Great, let's go now." said Raven delightfully. "Wait, what about the ring?" she asked suddenly.
Ash nodded saying "No" and she understood.
They both started walking and searched for any treasures or hidden rooms in third floor, but could not find anything.
"Let's go to the 4th floor." said Raven.
"I concur" said Ash and they made their way to the 4th floor easily through dimension travel without any issues.