"Alright, Nomy, Sally, Lili, enhance my sword!"
"Yes Master!"
"Eh? Wait! Three different elements at once!? That's impossible!"
"Tch, tch, tch, that's why you're still inexperienced, Lili!"
"What did you say, Sally!?"
"Well, just watch me and Nomy do it then. Nomy"
"Nn!"
Nomy gives her enhancement with her earth element at the sword, after the sword glows with yellow light, Sally gives her enhancement. With fire and earth element, the sword shines orange light.
After looking at the result, Lili confused how both the elements work just fine. With Arlan's explanation, enhancing weapon with different element will work just fine since each element will enhance different part of the weapon based on it element.
Earth element will increase weapon durability until the enhancement runs out. With fire element, weapon's strength will increase depends on element level. Now, with light element, it will only increase the effectiveness toward undead.
"S-so it was like that... Alright then!"
After getting explanation, Lili, the light element spirit, gave her enhancement to the sword.
Multiple colored lights starts to shine on Arlan's sword from pure white light, crimson light, yellow light, and the last one, transparent light. The last light was from Arlan's enchantment magic called [Weightless Enhance] for weapon only.
His sword shines multiple colors as he readies his sword on one hand. The centipedes, which confused with all the lights surrounding Arlan's sword, start to regain their consciousness and attack Arlan at the same time.
First and second attack was evaded easily with his afterimage. Centipedes realized it and shot him with acid from their mouth but it was also easily evaded. Doesn't want the acid to splashes all over the place, Arlan uses [Magic Barrier] around the acid.
"That was dangerous. It's my turn now!"
He jumped and slashed one of the centipedes with just a mere iron sword. Although the skin is tough as an iron, with all the enchantments from the spirit and his own enchantment, his sword easily cuts through the skin and cut the head.
Without giving the other centipedes chance to attack, he slashes the next one. And just like that, both the centipedes killed without much of an effort.
On the other side of battlefield, there's Musha and Misha fought the last centipede. With the same iron sword and iron dagger, both of them tried their best. With the help from Snowy, the ice spirit, and Sukki, the dark spirit, none of them get hurt even after the centipede successfully hit them.
"Sis, let's do our combination move!"
"Right now?"
"Yes!"
"Alright, let's do it!"
Curious with their move, Arlan watches their fight from the side after he finished with his fight.
Misha stands at front while Musha stands behind her. With this formation, they charged at the centipede. Not just blindly charge, they also start moving left and right at a quick pace.
Their movement became quicker every second pass until they reached the centipede. Unaware of their position, the centipede became so confused and couldn't react in time when it realized that one of them gone while the other one jump straight up above it.
Where is the little one go? The centipede doesn't realize it yet since it saw the taller one jump up and about to hit its head. When the centipede realizes she was about to hit its head, the centipede dodges the attack. Unfortunately, the little one already predicted its movement and attack from underneath its head.
Both the attack connected and collided with the centipede's head. Its skin is breaking apart and both of them change their attack from their sword grip to the sword blade part and thrust its head. That last attack resulted in centipede's death.
"Wow! Good moves!"
Arlan saw the fight has been ended. He praises both of them and they feel proud to be able to use that move.
With that, they collect the centipede's skin and extract the poison from its body. After that, they continue their exploration.
While they are exploring on their current floor and found no adventurer and the night arrived, they took some rest around another safe area where another hut resides.
On the other hand, in the city, where Saya's store located, there are some strange movements. A group of thug is actually targeting Saya's store. Right before the last costumer exit the building, another customer get in. As soon as the customer enters, the ring that Saya uses start vibrating.
The ring was a gift from Arlan right before he goes to the tomb of the dead. The ring is connected to the store's magic circle of detection that Arlan puts around the building. This magic circle of detection is actually detecting any malicious intent from people that enter the building.
With the ring kept vibrating, Saya realizes what happened and she readies herself. As soon as the last costumer exit the building when that another customer still inside, Saya already called someone from the [Connected Ring].
This [Connected Ring] is a communication device, different from the detection ring that Arlan gave before. The person it connected to is the landlord of the building where Saya's store located. And that person is the Larson family member, Annie Larson.
A day before his departure, Arlan paid a visit to Larson Family. He met up with Annie and talked about possibility accident when he's away from the store. He also gave the [Connected Ring] to Annie and paid some gold coin for the guard.
The thing that Arlan's afraid to happen is actually happening and fortunately he already prepared for it when he's away.
When the thugs make a movement and start their action, they actually get into a trap and ambushed instead. 7 thugs actually tried to kidnap Saya but instead, they were ambushed by 20 guards from Larson's guard.
Everything is handled smoothly without any accident and all the thugs are captured. But one thing they didn't know that, someone actually watching from afar from the place and withdrew after saw the plan was failed.
The mysterious person left that place and went under the city to meet their boss.
"Boss, the plan failed"
"What?! How?!"
"Apparently that person already prepare some measurement with our plan"
"That guy! To actually prepared something like this! F*ck!"
"What now Boss?"
"Tomorrow morning, when that beastfolk leave the building, we will capture her. I thought it will be easier without making any commotion"
"Alright Boss!"
Such conversation between a boss and his underling, the plan for kidnapping the beastfolk changed. What will happen the next morning? What are they going to do with the beastfolk?
Back to the tomb of the dead where Arlan and the girls were started their exploration. After a few hours of resting, they continue their exploration. Not long after, they found the mini boss room. Before they reach this place, they actually fought some monster along the way and raise their level.
Misha leveled up by 7 level and Misha only 4 level. Since the enemies are higher level than they are, they acquired a lot of exp.
For Arlan, he leveled up by 8 levels. Now, he's level 40 with 72 more attribute points. Some of his skill leveled up as well.
Upon reaching the boss's room, they had to fight the door's guard. Since it was from the jungle floor, the door's guard is actually a Tree of Death, unlike The Dead Tree, this Tree of Death actually has some underling that can separated from the tree and attack the intruder while the tree also attacking them.
Since the three of them leveled up, this Tree of Death is not that hard to handle so they kill the tree without any problem. The problem now is the boss.
When they enter, it was actually a swamp inside the boss's room. Since the boss's room was hidden behind a big wooden double door and surrounded by thick trees and bushes, they didn't know the room yet.
Now they see what inside they have to prepare themselves for a hard fight since the ground wasn't like before.
The door closed when they are quarter inside the room. Something appeared from underneath the swamp. The water starts rising when a monster appeared. It was called [Embodiment of Evil Nature Spirit, 'Evil Dryad'].
Its figure is unlike Dya, the Dryad from Arlan's nature spirit. It was as big as a tree with the stats such as :
[Name : Embodiment of Evil Nature Spirit, 'Evil Dryad' ]
[Races : Undead Fairies ]
[Level : 60 ]
[Title : {The Third Floor Guardian} ]
[Affiliation : {#*&##*$**} ]
[Skill : {Raise Undead : Level 60}; {Thousand Leaves Cutter : Level 60}; {Root Binder : Level 60}; {Mist of Illusion : Level 60}; {Poison Resistance : Level Uncapped(150%)}; {Summoning Magic : Level 60} ]
[STR : 40 ]
[AGI : 20 ]
[INT : 100 ]
[WIS : 20 ]
[DEX : 20 ]
[END : 100 ]
"Be careful! This one is too strong!"
After checking the boss's stats, Arlan warns the girls.