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Veronica and Ervas had already infiltered the Labyrinth without even reaching the duchy around it, they just went through a special and secret underground passageway that Yggdrasil told them to take.
Through this passageway, they reached the underground area and Stratum 1 greeted their sight.
Despite being in the underground where the sun doesn't reach, there was certainly light on it, somewhere there was light coming from.
There were no caves either, but endless forests that extended around the large branches that were the floor. The wondrous sight expanded widely in front of them before a zigzagging stairs that led down, as a massive and empty grassland with many trees here and there was down below these stairs.
The grassland wasn't endless as it was surrounded by large walls made of stone covered in moss, and there were small lakes and ponds here and there, alongside some rives interconnecting them.
In the middle of this space, there was a large temple-like entrance, as if there were abandoned ruins right in the middle of this marshland.
Yggdrasil, who was with them, pointed out at that place.
"That's where we can walk to the next floor. It is a stair that lead to a similar place, then we have to continue forward and so on, nothing too hard to understand, right?" she asked.
"We have conquered countless dungeons, yes, it is very easy to understand." Sighed Veronica.
"In fact we got it in the first try." Said Ervas.
"I guess we don't have to worry, let's walk through these stairs down to the grassland. It is dangerous in here as it is quite slippery…" said Yggdrasil.
"What is the average level of power in these monsters?" wondered Ervas.
"In System means, perhaps from Rank 1 to Rank 5 Monsters." Said Yggdrasil.
"Ah, this is going to be easy. Despite the small pressure we feel, this is not inhibiting our power at all." Sighed Veronica.
"Yeah, we are quite overpowered." Said Ervas.
Their adventure had already started, the party began to walk across the beautiful World Tree Labyrinth, a place of wonders and dangers. Thankfully nobody was around so they planned to quickly walk through the first couple of floors before taking a leisure break.
"Wow, this place is pretty, Violet. Look at that down there! So wide and beautiful…" said Aura.
"Yeah… Let's go to the ponds when we reach down!" said Violet.
"Sure, sure!" the two little girls began to run around, the slippery moss-covered floor was no problem for them, their balance was rather good, they had joy in sliding around, in fact.
"Wait, girls, don't leave me behind!" said Kuro, she had joined the girls and was also sliding around with them over the moss-covered floor.
The scenery was indeed quite pretty, around the large cliffs that made the walls surrounding the vast grassland below, there were waterfalls falling from the lakes in the surface, filling the place below with water and making it a marshland.
There were wild animals too, many of them wandering around, most of them were foraging herbivores, large Titanosquid peacefully walked around with their young, eating the fresh leaves spread all around.
Flying Land Dolphins cried loudly as they fought for territory atop the trees or showcased their colorful hair spread around their body as mating dances to attract a female.
And there were also all sorts of smaller critters, such as walking mushrooms, which were in fact not monsters but mushrooms that evolved and became movable and even developed specialized and unique internal organs, and even nervous system similar to a brain, and more.
There were also all sorts of monkey-like tree dwellers resembling squids, some had shells and others didn't. And even more, bug-sized vertebrates such as the Land Dolphins were also around, they had adapted to even smaller sizes through the abuse of their larval stage developed through their bizarre evolutionary line.
However, most of them ran away at the sight of the party, so there wasn't much action other than admiring the beauty of the place.
The Titanosquid were territorial, but the ones here seemed to be nomadic and always moved around due to the monsters, which were strong predators.
The group walked down the stairs, which were very open so it was hard to get ambushed.
Also the entire party was made of gods, even if they had lowered their guards, their detection was pretty good.
And so, as Violet and Aura reached the marshlands first, and stepped into the grass, the bushes around the stairs quickly moved around, as a dozen of green-skinned men pointed arrows, stones, and javelins at them!
A goblin attack!
"So goblins are in this place." Said Aurora, quite relaxed.
"I guess they are indeed here, they're intelligent and dangerous, hopefully the people above had not many problems with them." Said Veronica.
"Yeah, same." Said Ervas.
"Huh? Y-You guys are not worried?!" asked Yggdrasil.
"Hah! A lot of goblin! I've not seen these since forever!" said Violet.
"Wow, I've never seen goblins." Said Aura.
"You haven't?! Well, they're like that." Said Violet.
"Oh, they're doing their best, huh?" wondered Kuro.
The goblins attacked the little girls with constant attacks, gritting their teeth and glaring at the little girls hatefully and greedily at the same time, waiting to devour their tender flesh, they mercilessly threw heavy rocks at them, poisoned arrows, and rusty javelins!
The projectiles flew over the girls but they seemed unfazed by them, a giant rock that easily looked capable of breaking the skull of Violet hit her head and she didn't even budged, in fact, the stone hit her head and suddenly stopped, cracks emerged in the middle and it split in two by merely hitting her tiny head!
The arrows bounced back the moment they hit Aura's body, as if she were made of a very durable rubber, they hit her light skin and simply were sent flying back! Some of them reached the goblins, piercing their eyes or getting inside their open mouths…!
And the Javelins were easily flattened like a soda can as they hit Kuro…
The goblins were left speechless.
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