Nest of Willowbees, Thunderbird Guild Group (1/2)

There were eight major locations on the first floor of the Labyrinth, like Fairy Mountain. Exploring any of those eight locations and adventuring there successfully can make Adventurers powerful, as each Major location has monsters up to Silver rank level 10, which is also the limit of level on the first floor.

On the Fairy Mountain, the higher one went up, the stronger the monsters one would encounter, including Silver-rank monsters.

The bronze rank's limit was level 10. After reaching level 10, two things happen—1. Specialized class quest. 2. Advancement Trial to reach Silver rank and start from level 0 until level 30 for Gold rank trial.

Almond's goal was to reach level 10 by clearing the Nest of Willowbees. 

It was dangerous as Willowbees were flying monsters and required a certain amount of combat expertise and skills, but it was the fastest place to reach level 10 on the first day of the Labyrinth.

According to the calculation of Experience needed to reach level 10 from level 7, one was required to kill 15 level 10 Monsters, 50 level 9 Monsters, or 100 level 8 monsters to reach level 10.

Farming in one place wasn't useful because killing the same monsters, lower level than them, would eventually give them zero EXP.

As the trio finally entered the area of towering trees, Natalia almost cursed out loud.

The three of them quickly hid behind a tree.

"Shit, there's already a group here," Natalia whispered. "What do we do?"

"Are they familiar to you, Lily?" Almond asked as he secretly looked at them.

Lily's head was right above him as they both peeked out from behind the tree to look at the group of six people.

They were similar in their age but had an older man in his mid-twenties with them as well.

"They are foreigners… definitely not from our city," Lily narrowed her eyes. "Although their outfits are different, each of them has an armband above their elbows, which is kinda familiar."

Almond felt his head on a soft cushion as Lily's breasts pressed on him, her arms around his neck from above as she entered a thoughtful state to remember about the armband.

Meanwhile, Natalia stared at Lily's buttcheeks from behind, her hands raised and fingers movings with an eager expression as if she wanted to squeeze them.

"I remember now," Lily sat down behind the tree, a light bulb glowing in her eyes, "That armband belongs to Thunderbird Guild. It's not a top 10 global guild, but it's still powerful enough to be ranked 14th."

"So they are the new recruits they got this month," Almond frowned. "They even got a Knight with them."

Knight was a term used for Adventurers who were at higher levels but still visited lower floors of the Labyrinth to accompany other Adventurers.

The term Knight was given because each Floor had limitations on entry.

The First Floor's limit was Silver rank level 10. If anyone higher than this level entered the Labyrinth, their stats would be suppressed with a penalty.

Their stats would become the same as when they were Silver rank level 5.

In short, there was a high chance that Knights would die if they encountered powerful monsters or Adventurers of Silver rank level 10 unless the Knight was exceptionally skilled and had a refined combat arsenal.

"This is troublesome. My parents had no contact or deal with this guild, so they won't give me a face even if they know I am the daughter of a GAA branch president and branch command," Lily clenched her fist. "And I don't believe they will be happy seeing us here."

"I got an idea," Almond's eyes glinted. "Let's make contact with them and see what they think about strangers."

"You mean…" Lily raised her eyebrows before she looked at Natalia.

"What are you two looking at me for? Don't tell me…use my clone?"

…

The giant hives of Willowbees were not present on trees at the start, but the group had just entered the area and spotted a big hive the size of a house fifty meters above, dangling on a branch with around fifty arm-sized bees working high up in the trees to collect nectar from flowers and fruits growing these unique trees.

The group had stopped behind a tree to prepare a few traps before initiating their attack.

But then, they heard something and looked back.

Natalia's clone was running towards them, her eyes and expression weary, and her outfit dirty as if she had recently experienced some struggle.

The group silently watched her. One girl, three boys at eighteen years old, and a twenty-five-year-old man who was a Knight.

The boys, seeing Natalia's breasts bouncing, couldn't help but look there as they felt blood rushing below. She was a mage and wore a dress that showed her cleavage, so it was a tempting sight.

'Horny bastards,' Natalia internally snorted.

She quietly arrived behind the boulder as well and took deep breaths as her chest heaved up and down before weakly smiling, "I-I'm sorry to disturb you, but my group and I separated because of Blade Mantis."

"Blade Mantis? You didn't bring it here, right?" the man in his mid-twenties asked with a frown.

"I…don't think so," Natalia hesitantly shook her head before she pleaded as her eyes got a bit teary, "I-I can't survive alone. Can I stay with you, please?"

"Yeah, of course," a blond-haired young man said with a dashing smile as he approached her, "A fair lady like you shouldn't wander this mountain alone."

"Zoren, you know we can't do that," the Knight said as his brows furrowed.

"I said we can," Zoren glanced at the knight. "Any problem with that, Henry?"

'This damn playboy,' Henry internally cursed, but he couldn't defy Zoren, who was the second son of Vice-Guildmaster of Thunderbird Guild.

The other three didn't say anything because they had no say in this, though the two boys were stealing glances at Natalia's figure while the red-haired girl appeared a bit annoyed and looked at the beehive as she ignored this matter. 

"Come, sit here for a bit," Zoren gently grabbed Natalia's shoulders and sat her down at the boulder. 

'The plan might go smoother than expected thanks to this playboy.'