In this chaotic world, it all started when they found an elf girl

　The first impression people had of "Zagnat".

　call out!

　Suddenly, Zagnat on the ceiling vanished. Everyone's pupils contracted; no, it was because the opponent was too fast to be seen with the naked eye. Zagnat swept past like a blur.

　Roy moved silently, retreating behind Frini. He and Zagnat were separated by Frini, and he was the one who would use her as a shield to break through the stone wall, so he had to be careful.

　Then Roy realized he had been overthinking it.

　Zagnat's attitude was impartial; this calamity beast's goal was to kill everyone, and it didn't care who had damaged the stone wall. "Mere monster, don't be so arrogant!"

　Seeing that Zagnat dared to attack her, Frini, still unaware of the gravity of the situation, delivered a powerful shoulder strike. Zagnat's crimson eyes remained devoid of emotion; his massive body moved like a whirlwind, appearing behind Frini in a flash. Frini's pupils widened—so fast!

　Zagnat's six slender, disproportionately sized fingertips, shimmering with a deep purple light, slashed lightly, and his claws landed on Frini's back.

　The sharp claws instantly tore apart LV.6's body, splattering clothes, skin, and blood.

　boom!

　Frini crashed heavily to the ground.

　When she stood up again, her back was covered in blood, with gruesome claw marks. Seeing the horrific sight out of the corner of her eye, Freni cried out in despair, "Ahhh—my beautiful body!"

　call out!call out!call out!

　Zagnat moved swiftly, leaving countless wounds on Frini's body with his claws. Finally, he lashed out with his tail, sending the "toad" flying.

　Her movements were fluid and crisp, leaving Frini with no chance to retaliate.

　Everyone who witnessed this scene, especially the battle prostitutes of the Ishtar Familia, were stunned.

　The air seemed to have been drained of all its vitality, pressing heavily on my head and shoulders.

　Each breath felt like inhaling and exhaling sticky lead, their cheeks coated with an unsettling, lifeless, ashen wax color. They knew better than anyone that Frini, who had undergone a level-up, was LV.6 and had managed to escape unscathed from the floor master Udeus, yet she couldn't defeat that monster? Roy suppressed his own aura, not surprised at all. The calamity beast "Zagnat" was a monster specializing in agility and strength, with both attributes maximized to the extreme, possessing the characteristic of killing on first sight.

　The deeper the floor, the stronger the Zagnat born. The Zagnat on the 37th floor have two specialized attributes that are almost on par with those of a LV.7 adventurer! Even a LV.7 adventurer would suffer if they were not careful.

　It's impossible for LV.6 Freni not to get smashed if she rushes in so recklessly.

　After beating Frini half to death and burying her deep underground, Zagnat turned to torment the others.

　"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much, you damned monster!" Frini cried out in pain, cursing and wailing.

　"I want to live!"

　After being repeatedly beaten by the puppets Ota and Zagnat, Frini was covered in wounds, with not a single unscathed spot on her body. The arrogant expression on her face was gone, replaced by fear.

　What remains is the most primal instinct for survival.

　Freni lay on the ground, slowly moving her body with her chin, fleeing towards the thirty-sixth floor.

　As time passed, the golden light on her body gradually dissipated. The level-up only lasted fifteen minutes, and she wasted a lot of time playing cat and mouse with Roy.

　Back at LV.5, Frini's condition was even worse, her face seemingly wearing a mask of pain.

　Just then, as Frini crawled with difficulty, she noticed a figure blocking her way.

　Frini raised her head, her pupils reflecting Roy's handsome yet indifferent face. She keenly sensed the terrifying killing intent in the boy's eyes, like a scarlet light. Her voice trembled, "The first bud of justice... wait, spare me, my beautiful body..."

　Roy, too lazy to waste words with the other party, took out the elven holy sword and stabbed it hard into Frini's heart.

　"The sprouts of justice!"

　Frini's voice stopped abruptly.

　Roy mercilessly finished her off, swinging his elven holy sword. The cold blade severed her head, sending it flying high into the air like a ball. In mid-air, Freni's eyes were glazed. Even in her dying moments, she couldn't believe she would die at the hands of someone of a lower rank, much less that Roy would be so ruthless, killing her so easily. A mix of emotions—resentment, regret, and despair—surfaced in her mind.

　Why provoke this ruthless person?

　Frini's body and head gradually lost their life force, becoming utterly dead.

　Roy withdrew his gaze; a dead man was not worth his attention. With the appearance of Zagnat and the death of Frini, the Ishtar Familia no longer held the advantage on the field, and the monsters became the most powerful force.

　call out!

　Zagnat unleashed terrifying speed; even the naked eye of a high-level adventurer couldn't catch a glimpse of it, it flashed past like a black shadow. Swift as a whirlwind, terrifying as a ghost.

　Wherever it passed, sharp claws flashing with a blue-purple light tore through the air, ripping apart the bodies of the Ishtar Familia's battle prostitutes, their blood splattering everywhere. Whether LV.3 or LV.4, they were all equally weak before this calamity beast.

　There is no distinction between clans or relatives.

　Its purpose is to exterminate the pathogens in the birth floor—all the adventurers!

　Blood-soaked fragments of the corpse flew everywhere.

　In a very short time, the death toll of the Ishtar Familia soared, instantly reaching thirty or forty people. These were not LV.1 newbies, but renowned figures on the surface of the earth, high-level adventurers with titles bestowed by the gods, who had now become the targets of slaughter.

　The fighting prostitutes looked on incredulously; often, they would lose consciousness after just a flash of a dark shadow.

　In a daze, memories of my life flashed through my mind like a slideshow, and I eventually fell into a chaotic darkness.

　"Magic team, fire!"

　The Ishtar Familia also has a mage team, which is essential for entering the deeper levels. When dealing with a large number of monsters, relying on manpower to kill them is a waste of energy and time, so people prefer to use magic to clear out the monsters.

　At a command, the Ishtar Familia's mage squad raised their staffs high and began chanting.

　As the incantation ended, the magic of more than a dozen LV.2 and LV.3 mages was launched simultaneously. Flames, torrents, lightning... fell like a storm, covering a large area and leaving Zagnat with no way to avoid it.

　Zagnat stopped in its tracks, its fierce, blood-red eyes silently watching the magic filling the sky. Its head armor emitted a gray-silver light, as bright and radiant as clear crystal.

　The magic rained down without causing a ripple, and was absorbed into the silver screen.

　Everyone was speechless upon seeing that scene.

　There are monsters with high magic resistance in dungeons, such as obsidian soldiers, who can easily withstand the magic of level 3 or 4 adventurers. But to devour magic is a first for me.

　Suddenly, ripples appeared on the crystal-like armor on Zagnat's head, and various kinds of magic emerged, the very magic that had just been absorbed. The battle prostitutes turned pale, with a sense of foreboding.

　boom! boom! boom! !

　A massive amount of magic was reflected back, landing on the ranks of the battle prostitutes. A violent bombardment erupted, flames soared into the sky, and screams echoed throughout the entire floor. Amidst the raging inferno, members of the Ishtar Familia fell in droves; the magic they had unleashed had become weapons that killed them instead. Zagnat, besides its specialization in strength and agility, was most terrifying for its head armor, which nullified and even reflected magic. Absorption and reflection occurred in an instant; those mages who could only stand still and cast spells had almost no chance of escaping death. Whoosh!

　Zagnat charged into the ranks of the battle prostitutes, slaughtering them in a frenzy. He swept past, his monstrous jaws snapping as he bit into the bodies of several Amazon girls. The battle prostitutes utterly lost their will to fight.

　Even with their lineup, they couldn't have achieved such a disastrous result against the floor master, Udeus.

　Zagnat was incredibly fast, a pure killing machine, far surpassing the floor master Udeos in efficiency. Summoned, it annihilated Ishtar's Familia Level 6 Freni, dozens of high-level battle prostitutes and mages in less than three minutes. The situation reversed instantly.

　Originally there to hunt down Roy and his group, those fighting prostitutes now only wished their mothers had given them two more legs, and fled towards the thirty-sixth floor.

　Even high-level adventurers must flee in the face of an invincible enemy.

　Meanwhile, after nearly an hour of fierce fighting, the battle between the puppet Ota and the floor master Udeus was nearing its end, both covered in wounds. The battle had reached a fever pitch.

　"Silver Moon's mercy, golden plains, grant me the command to be a fierce fighting boar. Bearing the goddess's divine will, charge forward!" The puppet Ota picked up a broadsword discarded by the fighting prostitutes and chanted a spell. It was as if a golden pigskin covered the sword, and the surging energy waves made the air vibrate.

　Roy and the others did not intervene in the battle; the fighting prostitutes were slaughtered and fled. Only the puppet Ota remained to fight the floor master Udeus, a one-on-one challenge that would trigger additional mechanics from the opponent.

　Rumble!

　The floor master, Udeos, had a cold glint in his eyes. He plunged his large hand into the ground and pulled out a long stone sword, thirty or forty meters long, wide and hard, as black as iron. The two charged at each other at the same time.

　"Hildis Winnie!"

　The puppet Ota's deep voice rang out as it raised its broadsword, which shone with a golden light, and slashed fiercely forward, only to be met by the black stone sword.

　The instant the blades clashed.

　The entire floor fell into a brief silence.

　It was the calm before the storm. Suddenly, energy erupted, the shockwaves causing the ground to cave in, like a bulldozer pushing everything aside. Zagnat was no exception; he braced himself with his limbs to avoid being thrown over by the blast.

　One is a genuine LV.7 adventurer, and the other is a floor boss that requires more than two hundred high-level adventurers to join forces to possibly defeat. The floor boss's complex and varied attacks, extraordinary monster physique, and ability to summon a large number of subordinate monsters make it the absolute king of this level. The floor boss, Udeos, is LV.6, but no LV.6 adventurer could defeat it alone.

　boom! !

　A deafening roar echoed within the thirty-seventh floor, spreading outwards to an endless expanse, carrying immense energy that made one's eardrums ache. A cloud of dust, obscuring the sky, covered an area spanning several kilometers.

　In addition, it's easy to lose your sense of direction in the dungeon, so everyone stops in place and carefully explores.

　Only Roy dared to act.

　Through the shared perspective of the puppet Ota, he can see the miserable state of the floor master Udeus at this moment.

　The massive skeletal body, its thick sternum and ribs shattered by the puppet Ota, had both arms torn off. The demonic chair-like head was also broken off by Ota, and the crimson flames deep within its eye sockets had dimmed considerably, as if they might be extinguished at any moment. The floor master, Udeos, was left with only a sliver of blood!

　If the puppet Ota kills the opponent, he will most likely not receive a reward, so Roy chooses to do it himself.

　Bang!

　Roy's legs were wrapped in a whirlwind as he rushed out, passing through thick dust, and arrived in front of Udeos. The elven holy sword was plunged into the opponent's magic stone, which was also the floor master's fatal point.

　Upon impact, the floor master Udeos's body stiffened, and a crack appeared in the massive magic stone on his chest, quickly spreading across the entire stone. With a "bang," the enormous floor master Udeos vanished into white particles.

　Numerous fragments of magic stones fell like rain.

　[Successfully hunted down the 37th floor master "Udeos," congratulations on obtaining...]

　A kill success panel popped up in front of Roy, and he was overjoyed. With the top-tier LV.6 attributes of the floor master Udeos, with his luck, the reward would definitely be no less than that of the mutated Amphisbina. He had already used the puppet summoning card, so he was sure to recoup some of the cost.

　Roy hadn't even had a chance to examine the reward closely.

　An intense sense of danger surged into his mind, like a thorn in his back. Roy glanced coldly behind him. After slaughtering most of the Ishtar Familia's fighting prostitutes, they had finally set their sights on him!

　Accompanied by the whistling sound of wind breaking.

　A swift figure darted through the darkness, tearing through the thick dust, revealing the massive body of "Zagnat" behind Roy, its crimson eyes radiating a savage and murderous aura capable of destroying everything.

　Zagnat opened his blood-red maw and bit at Roy, his sharp teeth gleaming coldly like shark teeth.

　"drink!"

　Roy had anticipated this. With a thought, the puppet Ota, moving with speed comparable to Zagnat, charged like a wild boar, sending him flying. At the moment of contact, Zagnat's claws glowed with a sharp, deep purple light, and with a vicious slash, severed one of Ota's arms. Ota remained unfazed, not just because it was a puppet, but because it was the real Ota.

　Its will has long been tempered to be as strong as steel.

　The puppet Ota twisted its body in mid-air, delivering a side kick that struck Zagnat, sending one of his arms flying and nearly breaking it. The brief exchange resulted in a draw.

　After battling the floor master Udeius for nearly an hour, the puppet Ota's condition wasn't great either, and it was under considerable pressure dealing with the ferocious Zagnat. Ota had five minutes left to summon; Roy glanced at the summoning timer on the panel.

　While instructing the puppet Ota to hold off Zagnat, Roy shouted, "Everyone, get to the thirty-eighth floor as fast as you can! Note! Do not use magic on this monster, and the same goes for the magic sword!"

　Since Zagnat appeared, Tione, Tiona, and others protected the heavily injured Ryu and retreated to a corner, witnessing the entire brutal massacre. The Ishtar Familia's battle prostitutes were powerless to resist, and dozens were killed in an instant.

　The girls' hearts were trembling.

　Fortunately, the large number of Ishtar's Familia attracted Zagnat's attention, and they remained safe and sound. In addition, Daphne repeatedly used the "Ghost Veil" effect of the Illusionary Mist Armor to create mist and cover them.

　Upon hearing Roy's order, everyone quickly moved.

　As for the Ishtar Familia, no one could stop them. Corpses littered the arena, with dismembered bodies and bloodstains everywhere, filling the air with a strong stench of blood. Anyone who came here would probably be shocked. All of them were the corpses of high-level adventurers. The loss of so many high-level adventurers at once would cause a major earthquake in Orario once the news got out.

　All of this is temporarily none of Roy's business.

　The fact that the Ishtar Familia were crippled doesn't mean they're safe. They're the only ones left on this floor, and Zagnath will be keeping a close eye on them. They've escaped one danger only to fall into another!

　Their location was near the arena of the second and third circular walls, which was clearly closer to the first circular wall and the thirty-eighth floor than returning to the thirty-sixth floor outside the fifth circular wall.

　The 37th floor has a structure of five circular walls, with the innermost walls having smaller areas and closer distances.

　Moreover, the thirty-sixth floor is also home to the Dark Faction, members of the Ishtar Familia, and the Fairy Cows; Roy wouldn't bring Tione and the others into a trap. Zagnat only kills those on the birth floor; once you leave, it's considered a safe zone.

　"Full speed ahead!"

　Roy, carrying the unconscious Ryu and the weakest of the three, Lily, used the Elven Holy Sword to activate the special effect "Burning Heaven" to clear away the monsters in front of him. Tione, Tiona, and Daphne followed closely behind, carrying Cassandra on their backs.

　They had only five minutes to get as far away from Zagnat as possible; it was a race against time.

　However, in such a short time, it would be impossible for them to cross the two circular walls and enter the thirty-eighth floor. They should know that the monsters closer to the center of the white palace are the stronger. Roy and his companions would encounter more and more obstacles.

　Time ticked by, and when the summoning timer reached zero, a bead of cold sweat trickled down Roy's forehead. In the last instant before the puppet Ota disappeared, he saw Zagnat heading straight for him with a clear objective.

　At this point, they could only grit their teeth and continue forward.

　As the first circular wall appeared before them, a howling gust of wind swept in from behind.

　Roy knew that Zagnat had arrived.

　"Take them and go up to the thirty-eighth floor!" Roy handed Liu and Lily to Tione and Tiona.

　"Yes, leader!"

　Tiony, Diona Daphne, and Lily were filled with worry and reluctance, tears falling like tiny pearls, but they resolutely carried out Roy's orders. If Roy had asked them to stay, the girls present wouldn't have hesitated at all.

　The girls continued toward the "throne room".

　But what makes a dungeon a dungeon is that it will strike when adventurers are at their weakest, revealing its ferocious fangs. In a dark rift not far away, a peculiar monster emerged, with a serpentine body but four legs, disgusting dark green skin, and its back covered in countless sharp thorns like those of a hedgehog. Everyone's attention, including Roy's, was focused on Zagnat, and they didn't notice this insidious creature.