Clearing the second floor

Appearing before Simon is the recently contracted upper forest spirit, Harth the red fall.

Staring down at me he kneeled down so that he is the same height as me. Pointing my finger behind him Simon said, "Can you clear the place for me please."

Turning his head 180 degrees he stared at it before his antlers slightly glowed. Without a word he turned around and walked towards the Nagirus infested temple. The Nagirus inside saw him coming towards their territory and rushed towards him while squealing in anger.

Harth Saw them coming and took a big breath and filled his lungs to brim with air. A small hole appeared on his mask as he let blew out small a red cloud. The cloud completely engulfed the whole building before disappearing again. As the cloud cleared every single Nagirus lied on the ground emotionlessly. Clapping his hands with outstretched arms before pulling his hands back towards his chest and tilting them up. Making a hand sign a lot of red magic circles appeared beneath the downed monsters and one big one under his feet.

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Dozens of thicc wooden spikes pierced them as they shriveled up and only leaving a monster core behind. While the Nagirus died Harth´s antlers glowed blood red. Seeing everyone dead he just disappeared in a puff leaving red leaves behind.

The group that saw the scene was slightly stunned. "Damn, that was so cool..." mumbled Simon and Patrus. Even Mavis nodded at their statement. Well, he could do something similar but seeing a forest spirit do it was 100 times cooler.

Fitz even began to lightly clap.

Fines walked up to Simon and looked at him with stars in her eyes. "W- was that an upper forest spirit!" said she slightly stammering.

Seeing her attentively waiting for an answer, he responded "Ah, yes I just made a contract with him last night."

Hearing that her eyes shined even more as she cupped his hands with hers. "Wow, you must really be loved by nature to contract a forest spirit!"

Feeling her soft hands he looked into her golden eyes that matched her short yellow hair. As he was a head taller than her he looked slightly down on her. Getting slightly lost in her glimmering eyes he squeezed her hand unconsciously. Kathy seeing them flirt so openly while holding hands got jealous as a tick mark appeared on her head. Storming between them, breaking the two joined hands she turned towards Fines. Kathy faced her with a forced smile while her eye twitched, "I think we should keep going right, Mavis."

Mavis who had a hard time suppressing his laughter seeing his nephew getting into trouble, said "Ah, yes. Let's keep going."

Glaring towards Simon, Kathy walked past him while pouting.

Fine's ears turned red and her head began to stem as she remembered what she just did, she got a little bit too excited seeing a forest spirit. So tilting her head down she walked back to the backline while covering her face.

"What an interesting pair," commented Fitz and followed Katharina.

Simon let out a tired sigh, quickly collecting all the monster cores with a wave of his hand he caught up to the group who were already going down the stairs.

Arriving on the 2nd floor everyone took a second to breathe in the fresh air. "Haaaa~ what clean air," said Patrus.

"This will be a pain to find a little snake... the second floor is 10 times bigger than the first floor."

*Sigh* "But we have to start somewhere..."

"We will be splitting up now to clear this floor a little bit quicker," commanded Mavis. "Patrus, and Milly will be going north. Fines, Fitz, and Eliza will be going south and Simon and Kathy will be going east. Oh and don´t forget to reduce the number of monsters while you are on it."

Smashing her gauntlets together Milly showed a feral grin. Agreeing to the plan everyone prepared to split up.

"And what about you Mavis?" asked Simon with slightly squinted eyes.

"I will be searching on my own," stated Mavis as a matter of fact.

Starring at his uncle for a few seconds he let out a tired sigh before walking east, quickly followed by Kathy who is happy to get some alone time with him.

As they walked in different directions, Mavis sat down on the grass and took out some vials from his storage ring.

"Let´s see what we have here..." mumbled the star mage to himself. Plopping the lid off he took the vials and poured the black powder in symmetrical patterns, creating one giant complicated magic circle.

Swiping away a sweat drop, Mavis marveled at his own work, "Puh, finally finished."

Standing in the middle of the 30 meters wide circle, he sat down cross-legged before putting his palms on the ground. Soon after, an enormous amount of mana poured into the ground lighting the whole place up. A pulse of mana pushed out passing through everything.

Simon and Katharina were currently slaughtering some tier 1 and 2 monsters when something passed through them. "Did you feel that?" asked Simon as he cast another spell. Kathy turned towards him before tilting her head, "What do you mean?" and bisected a wolf without looking. "Hmm, I guess I just imagined it. Let us finish this fast. I don´t want to be stuck here for a few weeks again..." Complained Simon as he fastened his pace on casting spells.

Meanwhile with Milly and Patrus.

*BOOM!* *BOOM!*

"Stop destroying all the terrain Milly, you are going to summon a floor guardian if this continues!" screamed Patrus angrily as he chaste after Milly who was madly throwing punches that deforested the whole area. "Relax Patrus I know how much damage I can do before a floor guardian emerges~" retorted Milly back and threw another punch that created a large hole in the ground.

And with Eliza and Fitz, they were currently running through a monster nest and slashing everything that comes near while Fines snipped everything that tried to run away. Feeling a puls of energy going through them they stopped their slaughtering and looked at each other. Shaking his head Fitz looked towards Fines asking for answers. "Tha- That was definitely Mavis´ spell. It had traces of Star magic in it." spoke Fines while shooting a big flying bird out of the sky. Nodding to each other they continued.

Reaching the walls of the dungeon the puls bounced back.

Mavis silently waited, and checked his pocket watch. "Any second now" ... "Oh, there it is."

As the puls came back to Mavis a blue transparent square opened in front of Mavis's feet.

The square was 10 by 10 meters large and had many different colored dots on it.

Looking at the projection of the whole 2nd floor and the inhabitance he could see many red dots disappear near the blue ones.

Seeing the dots moving he scanned for any irregularities he could find, but due to the vast sea of dots, it was hard to find any.

The mini-map that Mavis cast was a high-tier spell that revealed every monster in a 50-kilometer radius and tracing their real-time movement without any delay and bypassing any stealth skills. It even projected the terrain.

"Oh~, what do we have here..." said Mavis with a slight grin.