For the following two weeks, as the lower levelled adventurers worked hard to try and improve their parameters, Aidan and Ais went back down on the fifty-ninth floor, hoping to somehow find a secret entrance to the lower level in the dungeon. Unfortunately, even after spending so much time searching, the duo never found the stairs leading down.

Now, after two weeks, the group was planning on leaving the dungeon and going back to the surface. They wouldn’t be taking advantage of the teleportation formation since they still needed to collect the weaker members on higher floors.

“Alright, we’ll be making our way back to the surface. The formation will be the same as when we descended so follow closely, we’re going home!” Exclaimed Finn as he lifted his spear in the air which caused almost all of the adventurers to shout in joy.

The few who didn’t bother to cheer were, of course, Aidan and Ais who were still wondering about the stairs of the dungeon while Riveria simply shook her head as she would never do such a thing.

Slowly leaving the floor, the two youngsters took the lead in killing the monsters for the group as they wanted to vent their anger one way or another and it seemed good enough with the non-stop hordes of monsters that were rushing them.

With a floor completed after another in a record time as the members behind only had to run to follow, not even needing to collect the drops as the cards took care of it, the group didn’t bother to stop at the following safe zone as Finn contacted them in advance and told them to prepare and join the run when they arrived.

Climbing back the stairs is relatively easy. After all, the monsters would always be weaker and less numerous than the previous floor which caused the duo to simply increase their running speed and killing rate. If before the group of adventurers behind were doing a slow jog, they were gradually starting to run faster as the monsters were killed even faster than before.

Finally, after having run for over ten hours, climbed stairs, floated through holes in the dungeon floor with Aidan’s telekinesis and passed through countless monsters hordes, Aidan stopped the run as they arrived on the 28th floor of the dungeon, a safe zone.

With Finn already having guessed Lux’s goal, the level two adventurers of the familia who had stayed back on the twenty-eight floor had already prepared the camp for the whole group as he had made a call with the card while running since he didn’t have to fight with the two youngest members of the familia taking the frontlines and killing the enemies.

“So, what are we going to do once we get back to the surface?” Asked Ais as the two inseparable teammates sat on a protruding rock while looking at the camp full of activity.

“I’ll probably look for some records of the Zeus and Hera familias. They were the only two familias who managed to enter the next floor, the records should tell where the stairs are. If it’s as I believe and the states are hidden, we’ll have to blast through the floor. Hopefully, the hole will be small enough to stop a juggernaut from spawning. Afterwards, we can find a safe zone or something down there.” Answered Aidan, still preoccupied with their most recent failure.

“Well, how about we go to Meden?” Asked Ais once Aidan finished talking.

Surprised at her suggestion, he looked curiously at the girl next to him before showing a happy smile to his teammate. “Sure, let’s do that.” He answered while his previous preoccupation about the dungeon was pushed back in his mind as he took a deep breath which relaxed him completely.

“I’m going to sleep, wanna join me?” Asked Aidan as he got up from the stone which served as their seat.

“Hum.” Nodded Ais as she took his right hand in her left as the silver-haired boy led her to their prepared tent which he quickly finished preparing with furniture and the protection card as Ais went to change into her pyjamas which he quickly copied before the two entered the same bed and fell asleep in each other’s embrace.

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The following morning, Aidan woke up but lazed around in the bed while waiting for Ais who was in his arms to wake up. He wasn’t shy about being so close to Ais. After all, with everything they went through together, such a thing was nothing, they had spent most of their lives together and they didn’t plan to change that in the future.

Half an hour later, as his arm was starting to fall asleep, Ais groggily woke up and after a few minutes got up from the bed, liberating Aidan who got up with his right arm falling on his side with no intention of letting him control it anytime soon.

After some time to prepare himself for the day which he planned on spending leading the group out of the dungeon, he soon collected the tent in his storage card and seeing that the rest of the adventurers were mostly ready, he nodded.

With Finn doing the same cheering speech as the previous day, Aidan and Ais led the group and made their way to the surface as fast as possible. It wasn’t that hard compared to the lower floors as not only were the monsters weaker and less numerous, the size of the floor was also a lot smaller which allowed them to spend less time travelling on each floor.

Three hours later, the group arrived on the eighteenth floor where the level one and weaker level two joined the bandwagon along with some random adventurers who wanted to go back to the surface. No adventurers of the Loki familia were planning on staying in the dungeon as they all wanted to go and update their status. They did not doubt that they had all made great progress and money with all the monsters killed over the few weeks spent in the dungeon. As such, they were all more than ready to leave the dungeon and enjoy life outside for a while.

Two hours later as Aidan once again used all the holes in the dungeon to his advantage while taking the smallest road to the next floor, even breaking a few walls on the way to quicken the way, since he couldn’t be bothered by the weak juggernauts of the upper floors, the group reached the entrance of the dungeon as they all walked out one after another with excited smiles.

Having completed the job, Finn made a small speech to the adventurers of the familia while the other random adventurers who simply followed to come back to the surface went on their way. Finally, with one last cheer, the group all separated. Most of the lower-ranked adventurers were making their way to the guild to exchange their loot for money while the higher-level adventurers went back to the manor since all they truly wanted was to improve their level and become stronger.

Of course, the few first who could update their status were the strongest and so, Ais and Aidan went right behind Finn, Riveria and Gareth.

[Name: Aidan

Level: 5

Strength: I-10 -> C-687

Endurance: I-10 -> C-626

Dexterity: I-10 -> C-691

Agility: I-10 -> C-611

Magic: I-10 -> B-781

Skill: High Human, Twin Star, Avenger, Triple Step

Magic: Card Magic, Telekinesis

Development ability: Hunter (B), Luck (D), swordsman (A), spirit healing (C), mage (B), perfect body (D), supreme reaction (D), warrior (D)

[Name: Ais

Level: 5

Strength: I-10 -> D-512

Endurance: I-10 -> D-581

Dexterity: I-10 -> D-599

Agility: I-10 -> C-621

Magic: I-10 -> D-525

Skill: Avenger, Twin Star, Half-Spirit, High-Human(Abnormal status resistance)

Magic: Wind slash, ariel

Development ability: Hunter (B), Luck (E), swordsman (B), spirit healing (C), mage (D), perfect body (D), supreme reaction (D), warrior (D)]

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A/N: Same as always, I write when I can and I’ll drop you another chapter when I have time haha. Either way, you would not imagine how many ideas I got for fanfics and novels in the last two weeks while working, it’s great to have them even if I’m never going to write them hahaha, have a good day and week guys!