We appeared on the 9th floor. Before heading there, I had done my best to clean up the knights. We found their tracking item and destroyed it. We also made sure the knights themselves had no more life detectors. Once we were certain that all the evidence had been wiped, we headed to the kiosk and went as far south as possible. Without Raissa here, I wouldn’t be able to transfer to the 15th floor, meaning we’d have to work our way down from the 9th.

That wasn’t the worst problem. The worst problem is that we didn’t know how far down the Knights could teleport. Typically, knights wouldn’t make a lot of progress on dungeons for the same reason most people don’t. They’re dangerous. However, if they can find anyone who had made progress to the 15th floor, they could send them down to obstruct us.

Fortunately, my sense life has been increasing as I leveled. At this point, I could tell the difference between a monster and a human. In other words, we’d probably see them and possibly avoid them unless they were standing in our way. There was still the possibility of an assassin. Even Raissa was able to follow me for several floors before I became aware of her presence. An assassin could be a dangerous threat.

In that case, we had to just remain vigilant and do everything in our power to be safe. Our goal was to reach the bottom and try to find the King. Once the king was within our hands, Lord Reign wouldn’t be able to make a move against us easily. In fact, we could just teleport back to the Capitol and leave the problem for someone else.

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If that became a problem, we could always leave and abandon the problem and just return to Chalm. Worst case, Aberis doesn’t give me land that wasn’t theirs in the first place. Failing my first mission entrusted to me by the prince would suck a bit, but I’d rather be a failure than dead.

The next floor was a boss Raissa had called the siren. From what she told me about the siren, wind mages who could influence sound were very effective against them. In that case, I would be leaning on Celeste a bit in the near future. Well, with luck we wouldn’t need to fight the siren at all. Although this was called a boss, this was actually a bit different than the other dungeons I had been in. Still, I wished I had time to get her singer Job up a bit, but I felt a little rushed given the Knights.

The five of us checked our supplies and made sure we had everything we needed to pass this boss. The siren was less of a boss and more of a challenge. Temptation was the theme of this dungeon, and temptation would be the theme of this boss.

“Alright, is everyone ready?”

“Mmm!”

“Yes, Master.”

I nodded and headed down the stairway with the girls behind me. Once we entered the room below, the large metal gates slammed shut, closing us into the boss room. Our first true temptation challenge was just about to begin.