Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

On their eleventh day of exploring the dungeon Laplace, the tertiary team comprising of the younger members and newbie adventurers of the top twenty guilds of the kingdom was completely defeated.

"Sigh… what is this girl doing?"

Looking at the one sided massacre of her little sister, Bea commented. She sighed as her body reverted back to her normal form.

"Ah, my hair is all messy, I have to tie them again. This is all the fault of these adventurers, it makes me want to not intervene and let them die like this. But master's orders are absolute, I can't let Emma do as she wants".

Bea tidied her hair first before teleporting on top of Emma. She blew air into her fist before smacking some sense at the huge spider head of her little sister.

KIEEKKK… Emma must have felt that as she twisted her body and cover her head with her spider legs.

"Wake up you numbskull. What are you trying to do by killing all of them? Have you already forgotten the orders of our master?".

Bea questioned in an exasperated voice. This little sister of hers, went out of control every time she reverted to her true form. Thus it needed some physical education like this to wake her up.

"KIEE… IM SORRY"...

Finally, when she heard Bea mention master, some reasoning returned back to her.

"COME BACK MY CHILDREN"

Her voice in the spider form was jarring and rough. The spiderlings spawned from her eggs using mana, obeyed her command and stopped attacking the adventurers.

"Ability Conferment- Supreme Thread Reeling, Marionette Master… [Absolute Manipulation]"

The tens of thousands of spider lings turned into invisible strings that stitched inside the bodies of the adventurers, robbing them of all freedom.

Finishing taking control of all the adventurers here, Emma returned back to her maid form.

"Hiee~… I-I'm sorry" her attitude too returned back to the same nervous type.

NEIGHHH… the sound of the Bloodthorn demonic warhorse neighing in the distance also came at this moment indicating that the matters over there was settled too.

The Bloodthorn demonic warhorse was tasked with the newbie and injured adventurers in the backlines. It was an utter stomp in its case with none being able to handle its [Stampede] skill. Everybody was squashed underneath those six fiery hooves of his.

FLAP… flapping sounds of the wings were heard and the silhouette of the Bloodthorn Demonic Warhorse could be seen flying over from a distance.

"Oh!! It looks like Miss Bea and Miss Emma are also done here" the warhorse commented.

"Yep, you bet we did" Bea flashed a smug grin. "But I'm amazed I thought that you would take some damage from that last attack. Even Emma had to resort to using her strings for defence".

The Bloodthorn Demonic Warhorse was silent for a while before answering "I don't understand that myself too. I should have taken immense damage from that magic… but something at that moment felt wrong. It felt like something within me beckoned to me and all pain and damage disappeared at that instant".

Bea made a face as if saying what is he talking about but she didn't pursue it and changed the subject.

"Alright, our mission is about fifty per cent completed, now we just have to wait for the other group to arrive. At that time, it will be your turn".

"I know, I will accomplish what my lord has tasked me to do at any cost" The Bloodthorn Demonic Warhorse spoke in a serious determined voice.

"Haha, it's good that you are all motivated for it but shouldn't you relax a little? Your face looks too serious" Bea joked patting the warhorse.

"This is my normal expression. Hm? What are you doing?" the Bloodthorn demonic warhorse turned its head around and asked the girl who was trying to climb on its back.

"I just felt like riding on top of your back" Bea replied nonchalantly…

"Get off!!" the Bloodthorn Demonic Warhorse bellowed.

"Ehh? Why so? Didn't I ride on you back when we went to the orc's territory?"…

"That was with my lord, this is different. I am the personal steed of my lord, I don't allow anyone else other than him to ride on my back. So get off…"…

"Ehhh"…

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Around an hour ago, the 45th floor.

The chaos that engulfed this floor, calmed down a little after claiming the lives of several adventurers. However, this calm didn't last for long before the battle broke loose once again.

On one corner of the floor, two guilds, the Sea god's trident guild and the Lightning storm guild were locked in an intense fight when…

"Will you stop this lunacy already, you imbeciles" a voice tore the space of this floor and rang in the heads of all the adventurers.

Following this voice, an enormous magic circle formed in the sky above. Numerous light pillars fell from the magic circle and interrupted their fight. A figure materialised in between the two guilds and clicked his tongue.

The figure covering his face with a mask, was none other than the grey haired man.

"This Sir… please do not stop us, we must make the [Lightning Storm] guild pay for what they did to our guild" Dalton Lance who was leading the Sea god's trident guild,  spoke in hatred as he glared at the adventurers at the other end of the light pillars.

"Dalton just because your guild is stronger than us, you think you can simply attack and suppress us? Don't you think that your actions are too much, attacking our members out of nowhere? Do you think that my lightning storm guild is some pushover that you just shove around as you wish? So what if you are from the top five guilds, our lightning storm guild doesn't fear anyone" the guild leader of the lightning Strom guild barked back.

"Cut the crap… Do you think that I don't know what the members of your guild did? You stole the rewards from our guild not only that, but you also killed Hicks and the others".

"Hicks body was marked with a tracker, so when he dies I can immediately track him. I found several traces and clues in the cave that he was killed, which led me to your guild. You guys are the ones who started a fight with us first".

Dalton and the members of the Sea god's trident were extremely angry. Not only were they robbed of an extremely precious treasure, even a high ranking member of their guild was killed.

The Sea God's trident was naturally very angry, they employed all the resources in their possession to trace it back to the culprit who was behind all of this and found the Lightning Strom in the midst of all this.

It was the first time after becoming the head of the top five guilds, that the Sea God's trident was so blatantly disrespected. They won't be able to calm down unless they washed this shame away by punishing the culprit for this transgression. Or else, the image of their guild would be tarnished and the Sea god's trident would become a laughingstock in the eyes of the other guilds.

The guild master to the Lightning Storm guild narrowed his eyes when he heard that and glanced at his vice guild leader, Norman Gale who sneakily shook his head.

"What nonsense, this is a scheme to frame us. What reason does our guild have to even start a fight with your guild? Dalton just because some members of your guild died, you shouldn't throw that anger of yours at others" Norman threw the accusation back at the other party.

"You!! Is that so? Then let me prove it. Show us the content of your space rings. Everything will come to light if we fight that item that you stole from us in your space rings" Dalton lance demanded.

Norman and the guild leader of the lightning storm guild furrowed their brows. If they revealed the contents of their space rings then everything they had done to other guilds, would come to light and they would become a public enemy. Therefore, they couldn't do that no matter what.

"Huh? Why should we do that? Dalton, have you gone mad? The space rings are the property of that individual and are personal. Why should we do something so detrimental like that? In fact, I can ask you the same why don't you show us your space rings instead?"…

"I see, if you won't show us your space rings, then it means that you accept that you are guilty. My guild will show you no mercy" Dalton roared.

"Bring it on then… if you think that we are afraid of you guys then you are wrong". The two guilds were ready to fight once again when.

"ENOUGH!!" the grey haired man thundered. He turned towards Dalton and the Sea god's trident guild and told them to back down.

Faced with the fury of the man that even made them cower a little, Dalton could only shut his mouth.

Seeing that this mysterious person from the mainland was siding with them, the guild leader of the lightning storm guild sighed in relief. However, he wasn't relieved for long as he saw those eyes peeking behind from that mask, turn towards them next.

"Dalton is right, if you want to prove your innocence you should show them your space rings. Don't worry, not everyone from your guild needs to reveal the contents of their space ring, only you and your vice guild leader will suffice" the grey haired man requested.