They are too motivated(corrected)

"Group 2 assembled!"

Hearing Garateh's shout, the various remaining members began to enter the dungeon. Opening his eyes, Mark also began to approach them.

The descent was quite slow due to the number of people, but this would only continue for the upper floors, once at the middle floors, the size of the floors would increase, allowing for a faster flow.

At the moment Mark was in the middle of the group, he didn't have a specific task, all he had to do was deal with the monsters getting too close.

'Finally the 13th floor.' -Thought Mark as he recovered from his boredom.

The upper floors had no more difficulties for him and with the fact that he was in the middle of the line, the number of monsters he defeated, could be counted with one hand.

"Here we will increase the pace. Kill only if necessary and don't break formation!"

"Now that's a command."

Gareth's voice was so loud, it would have been easy enough to hear from a few miles away.

Following his command, the group began to increase in speed. During the race, the number of clashes began to increase in front of the group, beginning to affect the central area as well.

"Hellhounds coming!"

"I'll take care of it." -While they were running, a group of 3 hellhounds, were approaching on the right side.

"Electric dart." -Extending his hand, a magic circle formed, releasing a sword-sized cluster of lightning that pierced through two hellhounds.

Showing a satisfied smile, he finished off the last monster again with an 'electric dart'. He had already experienced the power that leveling up had given him, but the magic had made a huge qualitative change. Before leveling up, the magic stat was the highest and that was why his weakest magic now possessed such power.

"Tch, if I was at my peak, I would have been faster." -Even though he was satisfied with the power, he could still fell the damage he had previously suffered.

'magic chant'

"Arcus ray!" -In the meantime, not far from him, Lefiya was also unleashing her magic. Several beams of light were following the various monsters killing them.

"Eh, so she's able to cast spells while moving now." -Thought Mark, as he killed a rabbit monster that had gotten too close.

The ability to cast a spell while moving was not something simple. Leaving aside Mark, who was a special case, a magician had to recite the magic chant and adjust the amount of Falna to use, which required a lot of concentration. Knowing how to invoke magic while running was equivalent to being able to write with two hands at the same time, in a few words, it was a skill that only the best could learn.

"Hmm"-While shifting his gaze carefully in the area, he could see a red trail approaching at great speed on the underground, towards a young blacksmith.

Running quickly towards the blacksmith, he pushed him away, just before the monster popped out of the ground. Once the giant worm emerged from the ground, Mark swung his sword, forming a silver arc that split the monster apart.

"T-Thanks." -The blacksmith who had just been rescued had a pale expression and his legs were shaking, but he didn't forget to thank him.

"I'm just doing my job, can you walk?" -Mark asked indifferently.

"Y-yes."

"That's perfect because if you couldn't do it, I certainly wouldn't have carried you."

"Eh?"

Leaving the blacksmith speechless, Mark went to his position again to provide support. What he had seen earlier was due to the improvement of 'monster detection'. Now in addition to sensing the presence of monsters, if he made an effort, he could see them in case they were hiding.

The group continued to advance, they passed the 13th and 14th floors with almost no one injured. Mark was also in good shape, having never been hit, plus he had helped many level 2 blacksmiths, which was why so many were grateful to him. For Mark helping others was more of a personal motive, if he proved his worth more, it wouldn't be hard to make demands on the Loki Familia.

When the group arrived at the 15th floor, the various members got closer to each other, because there monsters like the minotaur and ligerfang, a tiger-like monster not in the least bit inferior to a minotaur, were born.

After barely running a few kilometers, Mark's face twitched at what he had detected.

"Looks like they don't want us to wait." -Several minotaurs began to emerge from the various holes in the walls, and the moment they saw a large group of humans, they began to attack.

"Defenders get into position, protect the blacksmiths!" -Following his command, the shielded adventurers blocked the minotaurs' run-up.

"Now open the space and attack!"

Everyone was working following Gareth's commands, but that didn't mean he wasn't doing anything. On his own, he was handling another group of minotaurs coming from the front.

'Someone's trying to be clever.' -Between the several minotaurs that were attacking, one was coming around to attack them from behind.

Quickly catching up to the monster, the minotaur seemed to notice him as well, and releasing a full force roar, it tried to hit Mark with its stone weapon, performing a swing from the bottom to the top.

Seeing the incoming blow, Mark could dodge, but he wanted to try something. Parrying the blow, he used the monster's strength to launch himself into the air, while the minotaur, was ready to impale him with its horns, but Mark wasn't worried about the situation, in fact, he was smiling.

"Bad mistake in wanting to face me with gravity in my favor." -With a gleam in his eye, he began to spin on himself, and just before he got close to the monster, he made sure to make the sword absorb, as much Falna as possible, drastically increasing its weight.

'BAAAAANG!'

At the place of impact, a large fuss arose, drawing the attention of the others, who had just finished cleaning up their part.

" 'cough' 'cough' shit I went too far..." -Waving his hand in front of his face to disperse the dust, Mark stood at a crater covered in cracks and his sword was stuck in the ground.

"...I can't be surprised anymore." -Said Lefiya shaking her head.

"Hahaha! That's what I call an attack. Well, let's continue!" -Laughing at the scene, Gareth continued to lead the group.

"I wonder how much it weighed?" -Mark asked himself as he withdrew his sword, unable to see any damage on it.

'Never mind the details, I'd better get to them.' -Seeing that everyone had started running, he began to catch up with them, he had no intention of staying on the 15th floor alone.

The crossing of the floor later turned out to be quite uneventful, there was no longer a situation where a large number of monsters came out, but there had still been problems, including the ligerfangs.

They had less strength than the minotaurs, but were much faster and more agile and did not concentrate their attack all at once, but attacked from time to time, managing to injure an adventurer. Mark had managed to kill one of them because he had blinded it, while the rest were handled by members of the Loki Familia.

"Hmm, what is going on?" -It wasn't just Mark who was confused, in front of them, there was Group 1, who was descending the stairs to the 16th floor.

"With the two-hour gap, they should at least be at the boss's room by now." -Said Lefiya as she tried to figure out the situation.

Seeing Gareth go to talk to Finn, Mark walked over to Tsubaki who was talking to some of the blacksmiths.

"Tsubaki did something happen? Aren't you supposed to be up ahead?"

"Ah about that, I don't know exactly. It seems that an incident happened on the 9th floor with a minotaur." -Tsubaki said, scratching her head.

'Seriously, what's wrong with these minotaurs. It's already the second time they've gone up to the upper floors.' -Thought Mark strangely.

"Leaving that aside, I heard you helped some of my Familia members, thank you." -She told him, smiling.

"You're welcome, I hope next time I come to your shop I can get a discount." -Mark told her peacefully.

"Hahaha no way, bye-bye." -With that laugh, she went back to her group.

"Tch stingy. Wait, why are Aiz and Riveria coming from behind?" -Shifting his gaze to the duo he thought were ahead, Mark's doubts increased.

"Listen up everyone! There was an accident earlier and that's why we're standing like this, since there are only two floors left to the 18th floor, we'll move forward together. The members of the Hephaestus Familia go in between, Loki Familia your role will be to protect them!"

Hearing Finn's new command, the formation changed as they descended. For Mark this changed little, all he needed was to be able to fight, but there was a problem, he couldn't do it.

As soon as a monster appeared, the main members of the Loki Familia would immediately charge, even if they were far away from them, they would still go and kill them.

"Why are they so motivated?" -He wondered confused.

From their aura he could sense their motivation, even from Finn, who was always calm, he gave off more energy than usual.

"Ah so I'm not the only one who noticed it." -Said Lefiya complicatedly, but the other members of the Loki Familia, also had a strange expression.

It wasn't uncommon for them to fight for fun, but that day they were going too far.

"DIE!" -With a hammer kick, Bete completely crushed a minotaur.

"Ah, bastard! That was mine." -Tione shouted angrily at him.

"Eh?! you got a problem woman?" -Bete told her as he approached threateningly.

"Hey!" -With a cute sound, Tiona split two minotaurs with her Urga.

"Tiona!" (x2) -Turning towards her, both Bete and Tione shouted angrily at her.

"Ehehe you guys are wasting your time." -She told them while laughing.

"You're blocking the road." -Surpassing them with a leap, Aiz landed next to a minotaur, piercing its head.

'Compared to them, the hungry hyenas I used to see on national geographic are nothing.' -Thought Mark wordlessly. They almost started killing each other.

The situation continued for both the 16th and 17th floors, making the veins pulsing on Mark's head increase, in the last two floors, he had no chance to act, and now they had arrived at the boss's room.

Inside the barrier, they could see a monster reaching seven meters in height with a body covered in muscles and grey skin, he was expecting a fantastic battle, which would allow him to learn new things, but he couldn't be more wrong.

The battle didn't even last ten seconds. Finn and Gareth, cut off its legs, Bete with his kick made it fall on the ground, Riveria's magic amputated its arms, finally, Tione, Tiona, and Aiz, performed the final blow, killing the monster and leaving behind a giant stone.

"Indeed, what should I have expected from a monster that is rated level 4." -Mark said to himself wryly.

Thanks to the extremely fast battle of the members of the Loki Family, the path to the 18th floor was finally clear, so they could rest for the next run.