"Keep moving."
Cain lowered his smoking hand as he spoke, with Rujierd and Keith following behind him.
Farther back, Eris draped her fur coat over Roxy, who was shivering slightly from the cold beside her.
Then she took the coat Cain handed her and stole a look around.
Once she was sure no one was watching, Eris hugged the brown coat and took an epic lungful of its scent. Her face flushed, and she slipped it on with a gleeful chuckle.
They walked all the way to the end of that floor without seeing a single living monster...
The group quickly cleared the upper three sections and ventured deeper into the labyrinth, entering its fourth major section.
The surroundings here were dark and damp. The B-rank Crimson Dread Spiders and Iron Crawlers were gone, replaced by A-rank Mad Skeletons and A-rank Armored Warriors.
The latter were dangerous monsters with four blade-wielding hands, superb Water God Style sword techniques, swift movements, and magic-resistant armor.
The Armored Warriors instantly reflected Rudeus's Rock Cannonballs and Roxy's ice spike magic back at them with a Water God Style Secret Art.
Cain narrowed his eyes and raised his hand. Two blindingly fast knife-hand strikes shredded the incoming ice spikes and Rock Cannonballs. Then he rested his hand on the sword hilt at his waist, and boiling, flowing battle aura surged around him.
An overwhelming barrage of invisible slashes of light followed. As Cain slowly sheathed his Tachi, the three Armored Warriors over ten meters ahead crumbled into tiny fragments, scattering across the floor like ashes.
How the fuck could sword slashes do that?!
Everyone's eyes flew wide at the sight. Even Roxy had never seen Cain unleash such a terrifying move.
Only Eris recovered quickly from her shock. Her lips curled upward, her eyes sparkled,