CHAPTER 110: WHAT ONE MUST FACE

-Shrrrr...

-Shrrrr!

Jumping from one tall tree branch to another, utilizing movement techniques and their skills, carefully taking each of their steps, without making much noise, the two moved through the forest filled with all kinds of creatures and monsters.

"Kikiki."

"Viiii~!"

As one looked around this forest on the 3rd floor, they would come across attractive birds with two or three heads.

There were beasts here covered in blood, there were creatures so disturbing that many players would run away right after seeing them in the wild— gore and carnage were part of this ecosystem.

The forest wasn’t for the weak hearted ones. Yet, the two of them moved through the forest as if they knew this place like the back of their heads.

[{ "Approaching the first surveillance point." }]

KiRA was in the lead while Izzy moved behind him. With his {Mana sensitivity}, even with Izzy’s better Mana affinity, he was better as the lead here.

For the time being, he sprinted with clean movements. They seemed to be after something so he was careful not to get entangled with unnecessary mobs.

There were countless monsters within the forest but they weren’t aggressive. At least, not all of them were jumping at them even though they knew of their presence.

The two were concealing their presence well, but the monsters above (Level-20) were something that could detect even the subtle presences like theirs.

There seemed to be a powerful presence in the vicinity as well— the target that they were after.

[{ Master. It’s here~! }]

The forest of the 3rd floor was even denser than the forests of the 2nd floor.

These forests spanned throughout the 3rd floor. Almost 80% of the floor was this forest, making the majority of the floor wildlife.

The human cities here were very limited even though the humans were considered to be one of the top predators in this floor.

There were around a few million humans on this floor if one did not count the players that had suddenly appeared on this floor.

The natives had lived here for a long time, and yet there were hundreds of times more creatures and monsters on this floor compared to the humans, making the floor a survival zone even for the apex predators at the top of the food chain.

Until now, the night of the Red moon had been a tough survival challenge for the humans who had originally settled here after coming down from the higher floors.

The ancestors of the natives that lived in the various cities here were the ones who had climbed higher floors before deciding to come here and settle down on this forest-filled floor.

In the past, the Red moon phenomenon did not exist. The phenomenon originally started around two centuries ago when a certain ’witch’ descended down here and cursed the entire floor.

However, the natives were not aware of this fact.

Only some of the mages from the [Mages’ tower] on the higher floor were aware of this.

[{ "Hault." }]

KiRA was also aware of why the phenomenon on the floor was happening but there was no way to stop this phenomenon. There was also no need to do so either, so setting that aside, he was focusing on how to deal with the chaos that was going to unfold this time around.

[{ "There it is." }]

He knew the most difficult thing that they would face on the night of the new moon would be Monsters that would become exponentially stronger than their current selves.

Unlike the past, with the presence of the players, to maintain the balance, the challenge that they were going to face was going to be much higher.

But the real tragedy wouldn’t unfold while the players were still present there. It would all unveil right after they clear the floor and move on to the next one.

But KiRA wanted to prevent that...

[{ "To think that small thing would turn into a monster like that... I get goosebumps every time I think about it." }]

[{ "It’s a slime, Izzy. They are always the most unpredictable ones." }]

Right now, KiRA and Izzy were out in the forest to eliminate the easiest threat that would become a monstrosity that would be on a higher level than the demoness that they had faced in the previous floor.

With the support from the other creatures, the slime that they were looking at right now, the normal (Level-15) creature that was black and nothing special than most of the other slime creatures they had seen on their way here, this same thing would turn into a monster.

That monster would demolish half of their army in the worst case scenario and even in the most advantageous situation, they would face a great challenge.

Thinking back to things, they were aware of how dangerous things were for them during the game. With how much more this tower was, they knew the Night of the Red Moon here would be much worse than what it used to be in the game.

They didn’t want to take any risks. There weren’t many people who would have access to going out of their cities right now so they needed to deal with as many of these future troubles as he could.

[{ "You want to do it? Or should we do it together?" }]

[{ "You want to take the big monkey so I will take this one." }]

Izzy did not hesitate once they had decided that.

She moved swiftly with the formless sword in her hand.

-Oooooooooong!

Covering the sword with a layer of her Mana, she reached the ground that was currently filled with around a hundred of these (Level-15) slimes.

Among the various slimes that were of the same blue color, the one that she was targeting right now was of blue color and she needed to take that one out precisely without disturbing the mating process of the other slimes.

The mating process of the slimes was quite a unique sight, but they weren’t here to admire the procreation of these special creatures of nature.

-Snap!

Izzy created a powerful force by swinging the whip like a formless sword in her hand and snapped the tip of it precisely at the target.

-Swish!

She did it while she was airborne so before she reached the detection field of the slimes, KiRA jumped in and saved her with his {Gale steps}.

"Guu..."

Izzy was able to eliminate the target with that one attack. A powerful attack that even KiRA admired.

[{ "That was a good one." }]

[{ "Thanks~." }]

With this, they were done with the first of the hundred that they needed to take down all throughout the floor.

They still had a good amount of time on their hands.

And they needed to use it as well as they possibly could for at least a decent result this time around.