"I haven't seen this kind of monster before~"
Tiona, skilled and bold, relied on her shield as she walked up to the worm-like monster with her hands behind her back, observing it carefully.
The others also showed expressions of surprise.
The Loki Familia was not descending to the 52nd Floor for the first time, yet they had never seen a monster species on this floor that would typically be bred in a forest terrain.
"Tiona, come back first," Finn, adhering to the principle of caution, called back the short-haired, dark-skinned Amazon. At the same time, he didn't forget to look toward the flaxen-haired Elf in the back row. "Lefiya, use Magic."
"Ah, yes!"
Lefiya hurriedly nodded her head and began chanting the spell: "Unleashed light arrow..."
"——Spirit Bow · Light Arrow!"
An arrow formed of condensed light magic appeared before the young girl accompanied by her chanting, and under her control, it shot rapidly toward the distant monster.
The monster did not dodge—given their natural physique, they had no way to perform various high-difficulty evasion maneuvers like humanoid or beast-type monsters.
However, in the next second, purple blood sprayed from the wound torn open on the monster.
After splashing onto the ground, it emitted a sizzling, corrosive sound.
"Waah!"
Tiona patted her chest, which wasn't much bigger than Loki's, revealing a terrified expression.
"Did I almost just die right there?"
"That's why the Captain told you to be careful," Tione sighed and said.
"A monster with innate corrosive abilities?" Finn asked Slúthr for a spare weapon. With a flick of his hand, he stabbed another monster.
Then, just as he expected, the weapon, worth over two million Valis, was instantly corroded until only the hilt remained.
Seeing this scene, the gazes of everyone in the Loki Familia instantly hardened.
The potential Ability Stats of the worm-like monster didn't look high, not much different from an ordinary Lv.5 monster.
But the characteristic of spraying blood to corrode melee weapons before death was enough to plunge their finances, which had only just turned around over the past two days, back into crisis.
And if they left these guys alone... who knew if similar monsters existed on the subsequent floors.
Just as Finn and the others fell into hesitation, Slúthr's voice suddenly sounded by their ears!
"Miss Ais, please try using your Wind Element Enchantment Magic."
The golden-haired doll-like girl nodded upon hearing this, and softly chanted: "Awaken!"
In the next second, wrapped entirely in wind elements, she effortlessly dispatched a worm in two or three moves.
At the same time, because of the wind element attachment, the weapon in her hand did not touch the corrosive blood, thus avoiding damage.
Seeing that Enchantment Magic could grant immunity to corrosion, Finn let out a breath of stale air.
Just as he was about to tell everyone present to take out their Enchantment Wine to add Ice Element power to their weapons, Slúthr reacted faster than him.
They saw the azure magical power on the ground suddenly surge, adhering to everyone's body surface within a few breaths.
Then the magic transformed, forming a layer of blue-white ice element condensation on sword blades, leg armor, or axe blades.
It was exactly the weapon enchantment ability the Loki Familia needed most right now.
After doing all this, seeing everyone looking at her, Slúthr gave a gentle smile: "As a Supporter, I consider myself quite responsible."
Though she said that, Finn still opened his mouth: "Regardless, thank you."
Slúthr's magic support was equivalent to saving another expense for their side; in the Braver's view, expressing gratitude was only proper.
The 52nd to 58th Floors of the Labyrinth were referred to as the Dragon's Vase in the Guild exploration records left by the Zeus Familia and Hera Familia.
As the name suggested, the main body of monsters consisted of dragon species.
Great Red Dragons, Cannon Dragons, Wyverns...
Especially the Cannon Dragons; the flame throwers they mastered, which were akin to magic, could ignore the floors and attack directly from the 58th Floor to the 52nd Floor.
This was the reason for the failure of several past Loki Familia expeditions.
But this time, with the full-status Ice Element shield constantly blessed on their bodies, and stepping on the 'White Grail' domain constructed of surging magic power beneath their feet, Finn's party extremely rarely did not face the predicament of team members being separated.
Although they did not go down to the 58th Floor due to time constraints, they still exceeded past records, safely exploring up to the 55th Floor and completing the mapping of part of the map.
At nightfall, the eight members of the Loki Familia returned to the 1st Floor using 'Space Displaced', walking out from the Labyrinth entrance amidst the somewhat surprised gazes of other adventurers.
The accompanying Slúthr secretly activated 'Cognitive Obstruction' and was subconsciously ignored.
About half an hour later, everyone returned to Twilight Manor.
Slúthr opened her Inventory and began dumping the monster materials the Loki Familia had fought for over the past three days.
In just a moment, a small mountain about two stories high piled up on the spot.
Around them, other members who heard that the high executives and captains had returned came rushing over one after another. Upon seeing the Familia's harvest this time, each one couldn't help but reveal expressions of astonishment, or it could even be said, shock.
"This time, we made a huge profit."
Loki, as the Familia's head goddess, was naturally also on the scene at this moment.
She didn't even need to calculate to easily conclude the fact that the Familia's earnings this time clearly exceeded the expenses.
She immediately proposed aloud: "Tomorrow we go to 'The Hostess of Fertility' for a big meal, it's on the Familia's public account!"
"Ohhh!!!!" xn
"Let's put aside the matter of the banquet for now." Finn directed the Familia members to move the materials and Magic Stones to the warehouse while looking at his own head goddess. "You haven't forgotten the main business, right?"
Loki puffed out her chest, although doing so made her look even more pitiful as a goddess: "Of course I remember. Follow me, I'll update your Status right now."
Finn nodded, then stopped Slúthr who was preparing to bid farewell and leave: "If my expectations aren't wrong, Lord Slúthr, you should also want to know exactly how much improvement your skills can bring to other adventurers, right?"
The golden-haired Spirit: "...Then I will disturb you for a little while longer."
Thus, for the next half hour or so, Slúthr, sitting on the sofa in the main hall drinking tea, would occasionally hear Loki's screams, which contained an extremely high volume of curse words.
"A total increase of 2000 Ability Stats points in three days?! I #$@&%#%"
"Good heavens, Ais, you also increased by 500 Ability Stats points, I &&#$#%#%"
"Tione, did you know your Strength and Endurance broke S? Dexterity and Agility also reached A!"
"Tiona, you too, the growth of your attributes is too rapid."
"...Finn, did you originally have that much unrealized potential? Strength B, Endurance S, Magic A, I am really..."
"And Riveria, you..."
"Gareth..."
"Bete..."
When the voices on the second floor finally subsided, what followed closely was the sound of extremely rapid footsteps going 'patter-patter' from far to near.
The red-haired, squinty-eyed goddess rushed from the second floor to the first floor like an arrow, then grabbed Slúthr's hand, revealing a serious and solemn expression for the first time since they had met.
"Slúthr, join my Familia!"
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