Volume 6.5 Chapter 4: Unexplored Section

"Good, it left." Keith took a deep sigh as he watched the raptor leave. The two weren't that far away from the raptor. They were hiding in a tree. If the raptor looked more keenly, it would have spotted them.

"Was the entire aim of the fight the nose?"

"Yep," Keith nodded, "We needed to take the raptor's nose to stay safe." That was the goal he had for the entire fight. He wasn't a fool; the raptor outclassed him. His anger was momentary as he knew what he had to do next.

The raptor probably noticed them even before they jumped on the ledge. They weren't in his eyesight. To notice them meant the raptor had a sharp nose or hearing. That would be a problem for their escape. If he hadn't taken the nose out in the first place, the thing would have chased them down to the ends of the earth.

"That thing isn't going to recover for some time." The knife was jammed quite deep into its nose. The raptor was able to regenerate most of its damage. However, it didn't fully heal from Titus's wounds from before. That meant its regenerative abilities took time.

"Keith, why did you signal for me not to fight?" When Titus was ready to step into the fray, Keith motioned his hands. He was telling him not to step in and to be prepared to hide.

That confused him, but he decided to go along with it. Keith had a reason for doing something like that.

"We're going to follow it." "Eh?" Titus's eyes widened. We're going to follow it?

"Titus, when I fought it, the stones were still in its mouth." That was something Keith had discovered. As he fought with the monster, when it tried to bite his head off, he saw the glimmering stones inside its cheeks.

This was unexpected. Shouldn't monsters eat the magic stones right away if they have them?

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Titus's eyes widened as he concluded, "That means it's storing for something!"

"And I'm pretty sure that it's going back right now." It was focused on them, yet it chose to leave a few minutes later. That meant it had something to do.

"..." Titus thought about it. Should we? Even if they know about this, should they even chase after the raptor? It was stronger than all of them.

"...Alright. But if it gets too dangerous, we're out. Got that?"

"Understood!" Keith nodded. Like that, the two followed the variant from behind. Using Aria's tracking ability, it was simple. It was definitely heading somewhere. As it did, it took out any monsters in its path. The whole ground was riddled with corpses.

"Wait a minute, is the raptor's base on the 19th floor?" Titus frowned. From where the raptor was going, it was going further down.

"I guess so?" From how they spotted similar monsters, it seemed this guy lived here.

"Wait. If it's living here, how did it get up to the 12th floor." Something was really off. A monster who was living on the 19th floor going up to the 12th. That didn't seem right.

"Can monsters do that?" "No, they can't. They would usually stay on one floor, and that would be it." Titus had never seen a monster venture off like that.

The three continued to follow behind it until it stopped at a wall. Keith frowned,

"What is it doing?" Slowly, the raptor smacked the wall rapidly, breaking it down.

"That's an unexplored section!" Titus exclaimed. An unexplored section. From time to time, unusual places would appear in the dungeon.

"Why is it going in there?" A frown appeared on Keith's face as he stared at the tunnel. The two hadn't entered but watched. It was only a few minutes before the raptor came out.

It used some stones to cover it again.

"Let's go in." Keith pumped his hand. But that caused Titus to frown, "Why? I think we have more than enough information."

"I want to see what's there. Also, I have a plan to deal with the variant as well." Keith grinned.

"..." Titus sighed, "Alright." He had followed the child's lead all this time.

"Thank you." Like that, the two broke the door, heading into the tunnel. As they looked around,

"It's so bright?" As the two walked, the tunnel started to widen. It even had lights for them to see. As they kept walking, they finally reached an area.

"What the?!" Keith looked around. This place was gigantic. But Titus nudged Keith, "Keith, look at the center."

"Why is there a tree?"