The next morning, after making sure to clean up, we checked out in the corridor. We only made it one corner before the map showed an enormous flow of ghosts. The ground started to vibrate, and I imdiately signaled our retreat before they even popped into view. Wasn’t this a bit too aggressive? How was anyone supposed to complete a dungeon when they were allowed to act so defensively?
“What will we do now, Master?” Lydia asked.
I looked at the door blocking the library from the roaming ghost floods. I shook my head.
“Let’s head up.”
“Eh?” Lydia blinked.
“Up?” Miki added.
“I originally only headed down to satisfy my curiosity, gain so strength, and help Celeste. Now, I feel like I have a good understanding of what happened. I don’t think the final mural is going to tell sothing I can’t predict. We don’t need to risk our lives. Rather, it’s much smarter to get the entire Adventuring Guild together and do a mass quest to wipe this dungeon out. What we need now can’t be overco by strength. We need numbers.”
“I… I understand Master…” Lydia put her head down and sighed.
“What? What is it?” I asked.
Lydia shook her head. “D-don’t mind . Master is absolutely right! I was just getting used to seeing how aweso Master was… I always saw Master completing it on his own.”
“…”
“As I said, Master is right! I do not want Master to risk his life! Please don’t try to be cool. I-in fact, I’ll be angry if Master risks his life needlessly!” Lydia puffed out her cheeks.
I chuckled and patted her head. I understood what she ant. I’ve been in this dungeon for over a month. I’ve had many life or death battles. In many ways, it felt anti-climactic to give up on it now. If anyone deserved the final award, whether it be so dungeon points or so treasure at the end of everything, it really should go to us.
“The highest we can teleport is the 9th floor, then we’ll work our way up from there,” I explained, and then turned to Celeste. “Celeste, will you be willing to co with us? It may be so ti before I can speak to the true “queen”, but you’re still my slave and house fairy, and I don’t want to leave you behind here.”
I didn’t know if Celeste understood all of the words I used, but she did tilt her head thinking about it for a mont before she gave a nod. I smiled in relief. I had worried that she’d be disobedient or even flee. Ever since I had used Order Slave on her she’d be very obedient and didn’t seem to complain about anything. The other two girls seed to like her too.
The three of us put our hands on the kiosk. “Level 9!”
The white light and the familiar pull took us to a much higher level, hopefully much away from the flood. Would the fairy queen send the flood up to us once she realized we were going up? I didn’t think it would be a problem if she saw that we were leaving.
{So of your party has teleported to another part of the dungeon. You must register with both kiosks to reach that floor.}
“Wait… what!” I glanced to see Lydia and Miki next to , but Celeste was absent.
There were only two floors I haven’t registered with. Sohow… I had a sinking feeling it wasn’t level 1 that Celeste was on.
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