First Floor, III

Helis Roadgray POV:

A Mob of monsters suddenly resurfaced on the sand after reading the text on the hologram plank.

As a person who lived through Earth and a fantasy world, I wasn't typically phased by the unusual appearance of different beings, but that was different for the people of my former planet.

A faint squeal was heard from Haruka, she didn't seem much of an outside person, and uh, she was hiding behind Sean... did those two become a thing already?

The monsters in question, I'll just call them bat-spiders, as the name explains, it seems that they have the body of a spider and the head of a bat.

They screeched while moving their creepy body which appeared to be full of fur and had eight appendages. Their height seems to reach up to our waist.

"Kragh–!" The first bat-spider to approach me screeched, its maw opened unnaturally much, distorting its face.

"Hah..." I let out a sigh. Be calm, rational, and breathe.

My hand instinctually went down to my katana which was with me when I got sucked into this place, I grabbed the hilt which fit perfectly for my hand.

Damn, I hadn't given it much thought when I first got it but It seems this sword needs both hands to hold it and unleash its full potential. Right now though, it doesn't matter. I thought.

Smoothly, the sword slipped out of its sheath, with both of my hands, now, holding its dark and purple hilt, I pointed forward toward my target, the bat-spider.

I started circulating the mana inside my body, the multicolored motes moved up to my brain and became colorless. I then began to envision the now grayish particles receiving a color I hadn't tried before, amethyst.

The amethyst mana surrounded the whole surface of my body and came to be a new skin, in other words, my mana cloak or aura.

The katana, the tip of the blade, was now being aimed towards the forehead of the bat-spider, with my augmented body, I moved to the highest speed my body could accumulate in an instant and severed its head cleanly.

***

Everyone panicked after seeing the monsters, except Sean, Luke, and Helis that is. Around one minute after the horde of monsters started to resurface in the desert, the unexpected happened.

After everyone was almost ready for the incoming attack, the first to make his move was Helis himself, the supposed "Leader". The atmosphere shifted and Sean noticed the new aura surrounding him, so intense and fierce, like a flame that would disintegrate you the moment you were to touch it.

In the duration of a blink, the purple-clad mage was seen after the monster, as if he teleported.

The next instant, he raised his right arm unhurriedly in which he was holding his katana, and then the movement from the monster stopped.

Cleanly, unusually slow, the head of the monster fell with a weird noise like a wet towel hitting a surface.

Next, blood gushed out of the center where the head of the bat-spider used to be three seconds ago. No gasps were heard, and no movements were seen.

Silence. Just an eerie silence overtook the whole of the expanse they reached.

The body of the spider finally became limp, and soon all the other bat-spiders went berserk.

The first one to take action after watching Helis was Luke. He, with a rose-colored blade he had acquired from the corpses of the slaughter, tried to also help and amount to the group. Though, without mana and the boost of abilities that offered it, Luke seemed to be like an amateur with just a slight amount of experience.

So did Sean get into action as well, he had an advantage here, like Helis, he also could use magic, and the way he built his mana cloak and used magic was quite a unique one.

He visualizes the atmosphere mana getting sucked into his body, the translucent mana claws around his skin and takes a tinge of light blue, like a charring blue fire. In other words, Blue Whirl. The first Transcendental Spell he ever got to use.

As Luke sliced off the limbs of a bat-spider, he voiced his thoughts, "Ew, this is disgusting..." Soon after, everyone got into action.

These monsters weren't particularly strong and tough to beat. The main dangers that ooze from them are their claws and fangs when they open their mouths.

***

It took around six minutes of constant battle, everyone had been included, and the teamwork of everyone got better and better every moment they managed to survive.

Helis blocked the claw of a bat-spider and without looking he gave his orders, "Sean, you stay next to me in front. Luke, Haruka, and Mai, I'll trust you with the center. Ren and Soo-bin, you will stay in the rear. Hmph–!" He let out his breath when he finished off his orders and murdered another one of these senseless monsters.

The team formation was made and is now put into action.

From when the monsters appeared, up to now, Helis has already killed off fifty-three of them. Sean didn't do half-bad either, he had cut off thirty-eight already. The one who seemed to have done worse off than everyone here was Haruka Maki.

She didn't have enough confidence in herself and so Mai had to also cover for her, being dragged down.

That was ticking her off, she wanted to do more. To be considered an equal to him. To be able to stand next to him.

She knew... Mai knew, that it had only been two days in the dungeon. She knew what she was doing was irrational, she knew she shouldn't develop feelings, and yet, she couldn't help but look at him with awe in her eyes.

His hair, like the night sky. His eyes, sharp as a knife. His movements, fast as a bird soaring through the air. His attention, looking out for everyone while being in a pinch himself. Everything about him put Mai Sakaguchi in a trance.

***

Well, anyone who witnessed this sight would've been put in a trance, the reason for it being the two boys in front of everyone else.

"Hmph-" Their exhales were heard, "Switch-". They kept switching positions, Helis was in the front, Sean swung his dagger towards Helis's back, and then "Switch," was heard again. Helis shifted one-hundred-eighty-degrees, just barely evading the blue-blade daggers.

The same happened to Sean, getting out of the way at the last moment, covering for each other, within seconds, dozens of them were being killed off one by one, two by two.

Their trust and bond were truly one to be envious of.

"The head," Sean spoke and Helis tilted it to the left, avoiding the blade again.

"Left heel," Helis voiced, with that call, Sean smashed another bat-spider's head with that left foot, steering clear of the blade again.

Their coordination was astounding to the point it left everyone shocked.

Astounding to the point the mother of the bat-spiders themselves decided to show up and intercept them by the fear of her bloodline disappearing into nothing.