It took us a while before the both of us had recovered our stamina. With the bees not around, the both of us left the bush. I was grateful that there weren't any bugs in the bush.
"Olivia, I have bad news." I had told Olivia what I had thought.
"We might have to go back to the swarm. The boss of this floor might be the queen bee." Olivia wanted to cry hearing that.
"Olivia, I know it would be hard for you. But believe in me." I had to keep Olivia's morale high so she wouldn't be distressed.
Olivia was pretty indecisive. "Olivia, if you want, you could stay here while I fight the boss." I had to make this choice. I couldn't keep spoiling her. I know this would make her more distressed. But this was something that I had to do.
"Please don't leave," She was scared by the aspect of being alone.
"Then follow me, like I said earlier. I won't let anything harm you." With this, I had forced an option for Olivia,
"It would be annoying for us to fight the swarm. Let's try to sneak past the bees."
"We should be able to pass by if we crawl under the bushes." By her expression, I could tell that she didn't want to.
"If there are bugs in them, I will burn them."
"I will be in front. Is that ok for you?"
"Please do." She relaxed a little with me saying that.
Now that we had a plan, our first operation was to hide. "Follow me."
Heading back slowly to where we were, there was no sign of the bees anywhere. "Olivia, let's get on the bushes now."
Any further ahead, the chances of us encountering any bees were high. We didn't want to alert any monsters nearby.
The two of us then went into a bush. The branches of these were pretty annoying to pass by. So far, there wasn't anything in the bushes we were at.
"Charlie, it's a bit too tight here." Looking behind, I could see that she had a problem crawling. I looked at her chest, which seemed to be why it was hard to move.
"Olivia, try your best." I tried to encourage her.
As we both crawled further, it didn't take long to hear the bees buzzing. There really was too much for us to handle.
Olivia was starting to get nervous about how many bees there were. When we crawled further, we saw a giant bee's nest.
We both didn't make a sound, trying to hide as much as possible. By the time we were near the entrance, we had made a complete stop.
We had done what we needed. The only thing we could do was make it in without making any scene by entering.
Thinking I had thought of an idea, it would be mana heavy, but that was why Olivia was here. Grabbing Olivia by her hand, we made a dash for the entrance.
The bees who saw us ran toward us, trying to stop us. Making a strong wall of flame, I stopped them from coming in.
"Olivia, we better hurry. Every second, I will lose mana from my wall." I couldn't be bothered to listen to her right now.
Running towards the tunnels, we saw some bees working to make honey. Any attack from them had me shoot a beam toward them, killing them instantly.
Olivia and I didn't take long to reach the queen bee's room. It was just a fat bee sitting on a throne. The sight of this was utterly ridiculous.
I had already lost forty percent of my mana to reach this area. I could lose more, but it wasn't something I wanted to do.
Ending this farce, I built enough mana to destroy this queen bee. Finishing this bee with a plasma beam to the face.
Every other bee had stopped working and fell to the ground. Seeing this, the wall I put out was now gone. I had cleared the eleventh floor with my mana right at fifty percent.
"Charlie, look! we got an artifact!" Olivia was relieved that we earned something from this floor. Looking at it, I couldn't tell what it was. We would have to get an appraiser to see what this artifact could do.
I then put it in my storage and left it there. With nothing left to do on this floor, I said, "Olivia, we're going back now."
We saved our floor progress, and it was time to leave. We had already been in the dungeon for some time and didn't want to be the night before we got out.
I had filled enough monster cores from the number of monsters I had killed. We were going to earn a lot from the things we had hunted.
Leaving the dungeon, they both teleported to a teleporter near the dungeon entrance. The sun was going down, and both of us were mentally tired.
"Olivia, let's cash out our drops and rest for the whole day."
"I would like that."
Both Olivia and I went to an adventure guild. It was pretty huge, as expected for a country that liked power. There were a sizable number of people in this place.
There weren't as many students as I thought there would be. Most of them were grown women doing their own things. I guess it isn't just students that come to this dungeon to earn money.
"Hello, how may I help you?" I went up to the receptionist of this guild.
"I would like to sell our earnings from the dungeon."
"Do you have an adventure card?" Adventure card?
"Do I need one?" It would be annoying if I needed one.
"You would earn ten percent more of what you earn." I did a 180 in my mind when she said that.
"How do I get one?" I totally didn't ask for one because I wanted more money.
"All you need to do is pay five giant silver coins."
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