After the pause we had, after the death of the guardian of the tenth floor, the expedition started again, upon entering the eleventh floor I noticed that the atmosphere in the arena was different.
Not only was the mana much richer, I felt that the dry and sandy ground was different, but unfortunately, I couldn't identify what was different about it, even with my eyes the ground didn't have a color, it didn't even a drop of mana in it or elemental energy which is weird because even though the dungeons have a different type of energy the floor should still have some elemental energy.
But unfortunately, I didn't have much time to analyze the environment, a monster that I had never seen before appeared in the arena, I had only read reports about the dungeon monsters, but I have to admit that this monster is weird. A small swarm of harpies descending against the group.
Both the archers and I had already started shooting our arrows at the harpies, and the mages were preparing to defend against the air attack. The warriors aren't going to be very useful against the harpies, but they could still help a little more unfortunately they were busy with their own enemies now.
In addition to the armed hobgoblins running towards the defensive line, several mature lizards and scorpions emerged from the ground and began attacking the warriors. The smallest of them was a meter high and a meter and a half long.
It seems that on this floor the variety of monsters starts to increase and the lowest level is now two, not even one more level one monster on the eleventh floor.
With the aggressiveness of the initial attack the expedition became defensive, during the tenth floor inside I didn't even have the opportunity to attack the lizards or scorpions I was almost the entire time fighting with the harpies that seemed to have an unlimited number.
After the first hour of combat the arena was covered in blood and corpses, not that the floors before were not full of corpses, but on this floor, they were more spread out. To corpses strewn all over the arena and even in the empty stands, to several bodies of mutilated harpies dumped there.
It took a long time to collect the claws and gems of all the monsters, the thicker scales were also removed from the lizards, and a pity that there is nothing to get from the bodies of the scorpions. Mia said that their venom only works when it is inside their body, if you remove the scorpion's venom it loses its characteristics and becomes a weaker and more common toxin.
It seems that until today no one has been able to create a method to be able to harvest the scorpion's venom without destroying its properties.
The eleventh floor was a warning that the initial part of the dungeon ended, during the next floors we not only had to face strong monsters and a large variety of them, the combat reached the point that by the time we reached the fourteenth floor the expedition had already lost four. warriors.
And there was still the fight with the guardian of the fifteenth floor, and it will not be easy.
During the floors the lizards branched from light brown which is the neutral lizard into red and green lizards, the red was spitting fireballs and the green was spitting a blade of wind. This is the first time I see a monster or beast that has an affinity for the wind element and is slow.
Generally, anyone who has an affinity for the wind, demonstrates a speed above what is normally for their structure, even large and fat looking animals like the magical beast of the shadow and wind element that I killed along with the group of adventurers led by Deneve. He was fast and good for a big fat beast, one thing and having momentum, but he easily dodged the biggest attacks.
The fight on each floor was a combination of air raids by harpies and ground ambushes by lizards and scorpions, the hobgoblin army only serving as a distraction and preventing the warriors from fighting freely.
Even the platform didn't last long when three lizards came out of the ground under it and attacked the beams under the platform, but this was a moment I could shine when the mages were creating a makeshift defense to protect themselves from the lizards, I had already killed two from them.
When the platform turned, I went down directly on top of one of the lizards and drove my sword into his skull piercing the small brain he has. When I cut one of the legs of the second and climbed on him to pierce his spine.
Mia and Irena had killed the third lizard with two arrows that blew its skull apart. I think they spent a lot of auras on those arrows, even if they had less aura on them the arrow would have enough power to kill the level two red lizard.
It didn't take me long to finish killing the second lizard, the earth element mage had already created an earth platform to raise the mages.
Apart from this surprise attack, the formation of the expedition remained stable, against the attack of monsters. After a pause to regain the mages' mana and the warriors' resistance, the expedition formed up and passed through the portal to the fifteenth floor.
Entering the fifteenth floor I had a bad feeling, the formation is similar to the arena I faced, the weakened version of the guardian who has ridiculous stamina and vitality.
But I don't know if it was luck or bad luck, but on top of one of the rocks there was a different hobgoblin. He was covered with a thick leather trim and a hood; he held a knife and a chain.
If not for the glowing red eyes I would think he was a murderous warrior. Not a monster.
He disappeared between her legs leaving nothing behind.
When I used my eyes to find the mana from the hobgoblin's body, I saw five spots outside the members of the expedition. Before I can vocalize that we're surrounded for the rest of the group, an arrow pierces the earth element mage's skull.
I was shocked by this because the arrow looks like it came out of nowhere, the arrow's trajectory came from the middle of one of the rocks, but it doesn't even see an aura near it, the closest one is four meters away from the rock.
With the mage's death, several barriers were made to protect the mages. The warriors were going to go hunting the monsters I thought about screaming, but I was interrupted again but this time it was Deneve's voice.
"It's the killer hobgoblins, I didn't walk in small groups, they must have at least three of them and at most seven. Be careful!"
I positioned myself out of sight of the assassins, and prepared my arrows to fire when one of them made its move. Three smoke bombs exploded around the warriors.
I fired four arrows and line, with different strengths so that the four reach my target at the same time, which is a place with no one, but if I'm lucky and have been able to predict the killer's movement, he should put himself in the trajectory of the arrows.
When the hobgoblin assassin hurled three daggers and leapt to kill one of the warriors, who was covered by the smoke screen, he was hit by three of my arrows.
One of my arrows just grazed his arm, but my other three arrows hit him full, and just a pity I didn't hit his head but only his torso.
The assassin falls to the ground with three arrows piercing his body, my arrows don't have enough power to go through his body it looks like his ripeness is good quality but they had enough strength to knock him back while he jumped.
With the assassin's fall he was eventually killed by the warriors who heard the hobgoblin's grunt of pain. He was killed by the attack of five different warriors, was torn apart.
But the other assassins were luckier than the hobgoblin I hit. They will be able to kill two warriors and injure three more, but they also had wounds.
Four of the assassins were wounded, by the retaliation of warriors and mages. With wind magic to clear the smoke, the slashed assassin's corpse was discovered, as was the trail of blood from the other assassins.
The warriors split into three large groups and searched for only assassins, as Mia, Irena, and I prepared to cover them. The mages were more concerned about their own safety, but expedition leader Katarina she created three spears of fire and kept them on hold to attack the assassins when they revealed themselves.
The assassins were discovered by the warriors they attacked the warriors in a very aggressive and suicidal way. Apart from the two that were blown up by Katarina's spears of fire, the rest were torn apart by the countless attacks of the warriors and they were wounded by the arrows dissipated against them.
The combat on the fifteenth floor was extremely fast compared to the slow and stretched battle we had on the fifteenth floor, but during that combat one mage and five warriors died.
The total kills on this expedition were nine warriors and one mage. This is not a huge number, but it is a big number. The assassin guardians were level three elite hobgoblins, they did a lot more damage than the giant kruthik and he was worth a lot more gold coins than the hobgoblins.
His jewelry was a level two, but the boss category and his shell can be reused. The only thing left of the hobgoblins was their jewelry, because their weapons and skills are useless outside the dungeon.
With an ending that I would have judged sad, the expedition led by Katarina came to an end, and the frown and the death glare that said she was going to kill the first idiot who annoyed her the most.