With Olivia here, my strength had almost fully recovered. I was lying on Olivia's lap, taking a rest. Her soft legs were healing my mind, but I couldn't stay on it forever.
There weren't any monsters except for that humanoid shadow. Was that a secret boss or something?
After defeating that thing, nothing had shown up. There wasn't even a drop coming from the shadow monster.
What was happening? Ever since the mention of the Monster King, everything was going to be a shit storm.
"Olivia, as much as I like your lap, we should get our way to the next floor."
"We don't have anywhere to go. You can stay a bit longer. I don't mind." Olivia, sometimes you're spoiling me too much.
"When you tell me that, it gets harder for me to say no."
"Then say here, we got all the time we need." I guess it wouldn't hurt to stay here for a bit.
With me outright not able to make a choice of objecting to Olivia's proposal, we both stayed in one place, relaxing and enjoying the wind with the burning forest on the side.
After twenty minutes, I got up from Olivia's lap and fully recovered. The both of us then went back to our usual selves and explored the floor.
"Olivia, don't you think it strange that no monsters are on this floor." We need to find a way to the boss. Otherwise, we could be stuck on this floor forever.
"When you say that, it feels pretty eerie."
"Do you think the monster king has something to do with it?"
"I don't know, but the chances are high."
Getting to this topic wasn't going to help. We couldn't really tell what the cause of this was, but all we could was speculate.
It took us thirty minutes to search the whole area. We had finally found a door going to the next floor.
There wasn't any boss battle on this floor. It was unsatisfying not killing the boss of this floor. Not to mention the drops of the boss were gone.
"Olivia, I hate that shadow monster." It had probably killed every monster on this floor, which was why no monsters had been found.
"We will get more loot from the next few floors." I hope we will. That was the point of this dungeon crawling.
Going on the next few floors, there weren't any abnormal activities on the next few floors. It was nice to see that things were going well. We were getting artifacts from every two bosses, from weapons to accessories.
"Olivia, we could head back now." We have earned enough money for the day.
"Let's stay," I was surprised that Olivia wanted to keep going.
"Is there a reason?" I thought she would want to leave already.
"Since we're here, we might as well keep on going." She had a point. There wasn't a reason to stop yet. As both of us were still well rested.
"Then let's keep going." I entered the gate to the next floor.
I had already defeated the tenth-floor boss, making this floor the eleventh. We had probably earned about 50 gold coins with how many monsters I killed.
The eleventh floor was vastly different from the tenth and below. The monsters were much more potent, and even the weakest monsters were at second rank.
I could feel the mana stronger, and even the layout was different. Does this happen every tenth floor, or was it just this floor.
"Charlie, don't you think this floor is beautiful." The wood of the tree was a light pink color. And the leaves were the color purple. For a colorful tree, I didn't expect it to have some mana inside it.
Not to mention, the grass we were standing on was vibrant. It was kind of difficult looking at the grassy field. It was a shame that I would have to fight in a place like this.
Sometimes I couldn't help but think that the dungeons here are part of a different world.
"Yes, it is Olivia, yes it is," I repeated myself twice, saying those words.
The both of us were bathing in this view, and it wasn't long before we began exploring. While this place was beautiful, I couldn't say the same for the monsters.
Monsters that had appeared were insect-type monsters. It was disturbing to fight a giant bee looking at its stinger and eyes. Not to mention how hairy it was, making it much more ugly to look at.
And to make it worse, there is a swarm of them. The bees were doing everything they could do to harm both of us.
Not only has the difficulty risen, but the amount of them has also risen. What a pain in the ass to deal with.
"OLIVIA, WE'RE GOING TO RUN!" At this rate, even with my enormous mana pool. I would run out of mana with how many swarms of bees were coming at us.
I decided to retreat, knowing that killing all of them would waste time. We were running away from the swarm, and it seemed like they weren't giving up chasing us.
The bees were making a buzzing noise which was starting to get annoying. I had sent some flames toward them as we retreated.
Olivia, who was running, was already tired, I would like to carry her if it helped, but I won't be able to outrun them with her on me.
Sending a wall of fire, we made a sharp left turn. Diving in a bush with Olivia, the two of us finally got out of the swarm of bees.
Olivia and I were panting, catching our breath, "Olivia... Are you alright?"
She was still catching her breath. I could see that she was sweating. "Charlie... I want to go home... I hate bugs." I also hated insects, but there was nothing we could do about it.
"Then let's... find the boss." Finding it would be a pain if the boss was a queen bee.
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