Chapter 277: We are on the 23rd floor!

"We are here."

"We are here, the husband."

"Yeah…"

Kyoya and his party arrived on the 23rd floor, their eyes getting blinded by the tremendously hot sun. Just looking at the front caused one to feel nauseated with the vision getting blurred by the hotness.

There were only three party members that liked this area and felt comfortable!

"Ugh."

Maria let out groan, her hand already above her eyes to try to see through this whole new floor. It was their first time here and the area they landed was actually beach. The hot sand penetrated everyone's boots and began to even scorch their skin.

There were some carefree people enjoying the sea, but Maria just had one desire within her heart.

"Just give me booze, for real."

It felt like only this could help her with this scorching sun and sand.

On the other hand, Xaya pulled the husband's sleeve and looked into his eyes with an angry look. She found it cruel that the new floor was like that while she literally was with only one arm.

Her eyes swelled a little and small tears gathered around its corners.

Kyoya felt bad, but he quickly shared his knowledge.

"We just landed in the hottest part of this floor. Do you guys know the nickname of this floor? It's called pizza floor."

"Pizza floor?"

"Yeah, because this world is separated like pizza's slices with all elements coexisting in the middle. It's a weird concept, but what can we do? We have to go around and search for the patriarch's daughter."

"Pizza? How many elements are there, the husband?"

"I think seven… I heard there is even death land which is weird, don't you think so?"

"Why?"

"I mean... "

Kyoya believed that death energy would be more unique or reserved to higher places, but he remembered a few things and just shrugged it off.

He turned his eyes at Xaya and agreed, "It's just another energy, I guess."

The husband's party began to move around. Their goal was to enter the area where the fox daughter would rather be. Everyone agreed that fox woman wouldn't really be in such a place and turned to the west.

It was fairly easy to move between borders since these were like perfectly sliced pizzas.

The party went through the hot sand, not minding carefree people who were probably this floor's residents.

During their way, Kyoya repeated their mission's content.

"Our job is to find a fox woman called 'Olivia'. She is the patriarch's daughter and her status makes this mission secret… That's how she looks."

"..."

Kyoya showed off the fox woman's portrait. She looked calm and serious with beauty fitting the strongest fox's dauther from the tribe. Her brown hair was really long and straight, so straight that if not her big chest, then it would seriously descend like a waterfall.

Her eyes were brown and kinda cold, but Kyoya has long learned to not judge someone by an appearance.

"It's weird how she disappeared, though."

Xiaoxiao spoke, her eyes no longer on the portrait. She was the lady out of three who enjoyed the hot sand and sun, so she was even skipping while going forward with Akaro in her arms.

"The mission says she is between 20th and 25th floor, but why wouldn't she tell her family about her trip? It's rude and sad..."

"Well. We don't know what happened. Often, the daughters of various high people have attention problems. They either get too less or too much."

"And how do you know that, the husband?"

"I think… that's how it is?"

"If the husband says so, then that's how it must be! Haha!"

"Don't jinx it, Maria."

The daughter's strength was probably more than 25th floor, because it would be weird for such a fox woman to be this weak with Naranaska Kingdom's tribe resources. Of course, it was just another imagination of the husband as he didn't know her exact age or years of training.

As the different talks erupted between the party, it was clear that the sun was becoming less bothering. A new different land finally spread upon the horizon and Kyoya could see the green scenery yet again.

It was forest, a perfect place for a fox woman to be in.

"Let's go straight to the middle! I wonder how the various elements coexist with each other."

"Yes, the husband!"

"I also want to see that."

"It's easier to move around in this forest. I just hope nothing pops out from the trees. This is the 23rd floor. Do you guys even realize it?"

Maria glanced at everyone, then threw her eyes at her boyfriend who just shrugged. Nothing seemed to be dangerous, even in the hot sand area. That was why even Josef was less cautious than usual, but he also believed in his party.

The forest didn't look anything special other than leaves that were unnaturally wide and capacitive. These leaves held a lot of water and Kyoya even tried to drink a little! To his surprise, the water was so nice and fresh he took a little to his house.

His party followed the suit.

When Xiaoxiao came closer to the leaf, she gently raised it, then the whole ground shook!

"Ah!"

The water splashed on her face, then the party tensed.

The whole area kept shaking and Kyoya was getting more nervous with nothing appearing in their sight. No people, no race, no monsters or any bugs. It was just forest yet everything kept shaking.

Then, Kyoya suddenly got pierced by a powerful roar.

His party also got assailed by that roar and everyone felt an indescribable urge to beat the hell out of this 'monster'.

Since it was nothing wrong to feel that, Kyoya and his party followed the roar that kept echoing through the forest.

[Akaro(Goddess Fiana): It's wrong for you to get influenced like that. It might be trap, so be careful.]

"Understood."

Kyoya and Xiaoxiao got this message, nodding to the cat who was casually enjoying Xiaoxiao's arms.

A forest monster appeared soon before their eyes, but it was already busy with one team fighting it.

It was a team of one man and three ladies.

"Eh?"

Kyoya let out a surprised voice upon seeing this man. He also remembered two sisters that were behind this man and so he called them out faintly.

"Hiro?"