402 VS Minotaurs Again

The group then went to the 10th floor without stopping. Finn tried to gauge if the three girls could follow their marching speed but they seem to have no problem in that regard. He then led them to a quiet corner of the floor before turning to Lefiya, "Lefiya. Put down the bag. Tiona, Tione, and Ais. Help her take all of its contents out."

Tione kept asking Riveria and Finn on the way what their conversation meant but Finn only told her that she would figure it out later.

After emptying Lefiya's bag, Sona, Aika, and Koneko put down their backpacks and opened its mouth, "Excuse us."

"Go on." Finn gave them confirmation.

The trio then divided the Loki Familia's supplies into three and using the cover of the mist, each one of them kept tossing in items one at a time until the pile of supplies disappeared, but without their backpacks bulking up even a bit.

While Riveria and Finn stared at the bags in admiration, the other four girls could only stare at them with dumbfounded faces. It was a few seconds after Sona, Aika, and Koneko packed everything up that the cheerful Amazon reacted, "W-What was that?!" Tiona exclaimed while pointing at them.

The trio picked the bags up while Sona only smiled at her and said, "Riveria-san and Finn-san should already be aware of these bags. If you want explanations, I think they could better explain it to you."

The four of them immediately snapped their necks towards the two, urging them to explain what they had just witnessed. Finn, on the other hand, thought that Sona made a good move of passing them the role of explaining, 'She's trying to avoid explaining more than enough, huh...'

Riveria then explained to others the existence of the bag treated with magic so that it could have an expanded space that could fit more items than it was supposed to without the imposing weight and strength required to carry if you're using a normal bag.

Tiona immediately ran towards Sona and excitedly asked, "Hey, how much could you fit in there?" They finally understood why Sona told them that they have enough supplies despite looking so lightweight.

Sona only put her forefinger in front of her mouth and winked at her, "Trade secret~."

Tiona pouted, but then she immediately perked back up, "Well, that sucks." She then immediately changed her gears, "Ehem, I'm Tiona Hiryute, nice to meet you~."

Sona's eyes widened before saying, "I'm sorry for our rudeness. I just realized that we haven't formally introduced ourselves, I'm Sona Sitri. I take the rearguard position in our team and am a newly appointed Level 2. Nice to meet you."

"Aika Kiryuu~. I'm one of the vanguards and also a Level 2. Let's get along~." Aika immediately followed.

And Koneko did the same, "Shirone Toujou. A vanguard. Level 2. Pleased to meet you." And she did it with her usual deadpan expression.

The Loki Familia then introduced themselves to the girls one by one and after that, Finn instructed the group to move on.

While on the way, Lefiya whispered to Riveria, "Riveria-sama, how did that kind of artifact come into being?"

"From the words of its maker, It's treated with Space Magic... Not that I understand that magic." Riveria's reply shocked Lefiya.

"Y-you don't know anything about it?"

"I don't, but I plan to learn it after this exploration. Keep walking or you'll be left behind." Riveria immediately ended the topic and caught up with the rest of the group.

Lefiya also tried to catch up, but the fact that her teacher, the greatest Sage of Orario didn't have a single clue about a certain type of magic... Although this is very much possible, it's really just shocking for her that Riveria couldn't answer a question about magic.

The group immediately reached the 15th Floor as no monsters could match them and they didn't really need to collect magic stones at this level as it was just a waste of time.

When they encountered the first group of Minotaurs, which were coincidentally six in number, Finn immediately asked, "Do the three of you want to have a go?" He and the rest of the Loki Familia wanted to gauge their abilities first before they dived deeper.

Sona, Aika, and Koneko looked at each other and suddenly threw their fist in front of each other, "Rock, paper, and scissors!"

From their little game, Koneko came out victorious and stepped out to meet the Minotaurs.

"Y-you're not going to go together?" Finn asked with a twitching mouth. After all, they're just new Level 2s and not much different from Level 1s so it's understandable for him and also the rest from the Loki Familia to assume that they only became a little bit better.

"...I'm enough," Koneko replied before suddenly disappearing from her position which shocked everyone from the Loki Familia as they could hardly catch her movement while Lefiya completely lost her.

Suddenly snapping their heads towards the Minotaurs, the members of the Loki Familia could only see Koneko in the middle of them when two of the Minotaurs' heads bloomed into bloody flowers, then became ashes.

Koneko just spun once and immediately killed two more Minotaurs with her Warhammer. Not wasting her momentum, before she could land, she suddenly threw her weapon towards one of the Minotaurs and instantly killing it too.

The moment she landed, the ground below her feet caved in slightly as Koneko pounced towards another Minotaur and gave it an uppercut, breaking its neck. Using that Minotaur's chest as a foothold, she went to another Minotaur and crushed its head by hammering it with her armoured fist.

Landing on the ground for the second time, Koneko slowly turned her head towards the last Minotaur while still wearing a deadpan face. However, that face is the face of a monster and it inadvertently took a step backward and was about to turn around when the little white monster suddenly disappeared from its view again, before it felt a numbing feeling around its neck and finally lost its consciousness.

Within a few seconds, Koneko annihilated the group of Minotaurs. A stark contrast to what they went through when Kisuke arranged them to fight the same monster.

Koneko happily jogged back to her companions after picking up her Warhammer and asked, "How was it?"

"Hmm... Did you really have to throw away your weapon?" Aika asked.

Koneko just nodded, "I'm still not used to having a weapon in my hands. I'm learning, but it doesn't feel right even though my attack power got stronger."

"I guess that's true. You just can't throw away the versatility of your fist for more attack power. However, if you can master it, then versatility won't be an issue and besides, your hammer should be more effective on larger enemies." Sona added.

While the three of them are happily discussing Koneko's actions just now and how to improve them, the Loki Familia could only look at them with gobsmacked faces.

"Y-you... How?" Ais started shaking and her expression became disturbed as she asked Koneko a nonsensical question.

Koneko faced her, with still a deadpan expression, and said, "...What do you mean 'how'? I just bashed their heads... and they died."

Ais knew that she misunderstood her question and asked properly this time, "How did you become so strong, so fast?"

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