The 27th floor.

Clang!! Swish!! Boom!!

Spurt!! Clang!! Clatter!!

Swish!! Spurt!! Thud!!

Thud!! Thud!! Clatter!! Swish!! Boom!!

The Astraea Familia were fighting with all of their ferocity.

"Raaah!!! Clang!! Clang!! Clang!!"

"Your pretty strong for a level 4!!" Shri said as he swung his spear.

"Your compliments mean nothing, you bastard!!"

Kaguya and the others were doing their best to seal with them, but they were greatly outnumbered, and to add to that, some were wearing Kaenseki vests.

"Dammit!! There is no end to them!!" Lyra shouted.

"Alise!!" Kaguya shouted. "We need to run!! We took enough of them!!"

"Oh no, you don’t!! You're staying right here!! Dentate A to Section F!!" Shri commanded.

"No, you don’t!!" Neze shouted, seeing one of the men pull out a small device.

She quickly charged through a few of them and cut down the man but-

"You stupid Werewolf!! We had more!!" shouted another from across the room. "Click!"

BOOM!!!!

BOOM!!!!!!

BOOM!!

BOOM!!!

The sound of various explosions ran down the passageways, even the whole floor shook from how much they exploded.

"Grr!! Why are you this insane!! Your group is finished!! Just roll over and—"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"!?!?!?" Everyone stopped for a moment as the dungeon let out a cry.

"Gah!?"

"Grr!?"

 

The 25th floor.

"!?" Ryuu stopped and listened to the cry of the Dungeon. "W-what is this!?"

 

Room of Prayer.

"!?" Ouranos’s eyes shot open. "FELS!! CONTACT THE XENO NOW!!!" he shouted.

 Fels walked out of the darkness, holding an Occulus.

"I am contacting them right—"

"Lord Fels!! The Dungeon!! The Dungeon is crying!!" said the female voice.

"What is happening!?"

"We don’t know! We’re on the 29th floor and it just happened after a brief shake!"

Fels turned to face Ouranos.

"Ouranos we—"

"Something is coming. It was the same feeling two years ago when Erebus released the Nightmare."

"Y-you don’t mean to say…"

"Get the Loki and Freya Familia down there. It must never come to the surface. This is an emergency. Tell the Xeno to keep an eye out for now."

 

The 27th floor.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone was on edge. Their instincts as adventures were telling them to run, to run, and to never look back.

"W-what did you fucking do!!" Alise shouted, taking advantage of this situation to strike Shri’s spear away and close the distance.

"Grr!! I don’t know you, you red-headed fuck!! The Dungeon must have reacted—!?"

"!?!?"

A sudden feeling of death began to fill the room.

Rumble~

They look towards the exposed dungeon walls.

Rattle~

From the darkness of the hole in the dungeon, two fleshy and boney arms came out. Razor-sharp claws were retracted between the gaps in its fingers.

Thud!!

Thud!!

Then as it was pulling itself from the darkness, its eyes pierced through it with a predator-like glow of its horizontal pupils, reminiscent of that of a goat.

The more it left the darkness, the more disturbing and dangerous its presence became.

"Rrrrrrr…" it lowly growled. It raised its bare skull head with slicked back horns. "ROOOOOOAR-BLEAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"!?"

It’s bellow brought fear into everyone. Everyone in turn knew, on instinct, that it was the strongest thing on the floor, stronger than even the Floor Boss.

"Kill it!!!!" Shouted both Alise and Shri.

"Roooooo!!!!!!"

They all shouted as they all move to slay this monster.