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Inside, Godou was relieved. If Shakti wasn't there to guide him, he'd probably end up lost, and who knew how long it would take for him to get out this time.
"Something's not right," Shakti said worriedly.
"What are you talking about? Everything's fine!" Godou said cheerfully. "We've gone so far without seeing a single monster!"
"Why do I get the feeling that this is somehow your fault?" the woman mumbled accusingly. "Seventeen Floors without seeing a single monster...absurd. Did this happen the last time you were in the Dungeon?"
"No," Godou said, and left it at that.
"We're almost reaching the Floor Boss. I heard he was taken down a few days ago, but we can never be too careful."
"Floor Boss?" Godou asked, never hearing of such a thing before.
"A Monster Rex. Powerful monsters with a very long respawn time. They're usually two or three levels higher than the rest of the monsters on the floor, and killing one typically requires a party at the least."
Godou blinked. Flashbacks began to assault him, and he hazily recalled fighting some kind of giant skeleton that had wielded a giant stick. Huh. Perhaps that had been a Floor Boss.
They continued to walk, and Godou followed Shakti's slow pace as she cautiously entered a giant cavern with walls that looked to be solid crystal, heaving a sigh of relief when she found that it was empty. "It seems we are lucky. The Goliath has not respawned yet."
Godou instantly felt that something was wrong.
He crinkled his nose. "I smell smoke," he said. "It's very far away, but there's a very big fire going on."
Shakti sniffed the air a few times and frowned. "I don't smell anything. Do you know where it's coming from?"
Godou pointed at the tunnel that was across the room.
Her eyes widened. "That's the entrance to Rivira! If there's a big fire...we must go now!"
She grabbed his hand before breaking out into a sprint, running across the smooth floor as if their lives depended on it.
As they reached closer, Godou discovered it wasn't a tunnel. It was a giant hole.
"Jump!" Shakti shouted, flinging her own body into the darkness.
Unfortunately, because their fingers were still interlocked, Godou suddenly found himself diving into the abyss, and felt the wind knocked out of him when he hit a wall of some kind on the way down.
This wasn't a hole, he realized. It was a giant slide. He felt his body careening across the smooth rock surface through the twisting tunnel, and at some point Shakti let go of him. This was precisely why he needed a guide. As someone who would have liked to believe he was a naturally sane person, jumping into random holes in the ground was something he'd never do on purpose.
The brightness hit him before the ground. But the ground was still a close second and his face slid across dirt and grass as he belly-flopped onto some kind of field. Trying to catch his bearings, Godou thought for a moment they had exited the Dungeon, but a quick survey of the sky revealed that there wasn't any. Instead, the giant crystal-like dome that covered the vast expanse of the Eighteenth Floor seemed to emit light of its own, mimicking the Sun in the outside world.
Standing up, he found himself overlooking a cliff's edge and instantly found his breath taken away by the beauty before him. He could see why people called this place a safe zone. Luscious forests and grassy plains stretched across the entire area, and a large lake was tucked into one side. At the center of it, a giant tree stood planted in the middle of the Floor, reminding Godou of the legend of Yggdrasil. And at the very bottom of the tree, a small town.
It was burning. Smoke billowed out of windows as tongues of flames licked across the wooden walls and fences of the settlement.
He could identify green, four-legged, vine-like monsters crawling across the town, with heads that resembled Venus-Flytraps. Adventurers were darting all around, some putting up a fight, others simply trying to run away.
"Another invasion," Shakti said, her lips forming into a thin grimace.
"Another one? You mean this has happened before?" Godou asked in surprise.
The captain of the Ganesha Familia nodded. "Invasions aren't uncommon. Rivira has been rebuilt many times. But I do not recognize these monsters. That in itself makes this worth investigating. You wait here. I am going to join the counterattack effort."
With that, Shakti vanished, leaving behind a rather conflicted Godou.
There was a battle in front of him. His Campione instincts had already kicked in, and he could feel his arms shaking in excitement. Dormant Authorities and abilities resurfaced in his mind, demanding to be called upon. He felt the corners of lips rising slowly in a grin, and immediately suppre
ssed the urge to complete the action.
Was this his fight?
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