After everyone had recuperated enough to be able to stand up and walk, the expedition team packed up and departed from the elemental crystal's third floor.
They could also venture deeper, but given their current circumstances, it would take a lot of effort to defeat one of the stronger elemental subterra centipedes, which nobody wanted to challenge.
Having learned a harsh lesson of how quickly one could die, the students wanted to reach home as soon as possible because they had already acquired more than enough wealth to enter the peak Expert stage with a mana purity of 60%. It was not unlikely for them to have enough funds to reach an even higher rank as long as they were able to solve the corresponding mission.
As such, Shane also didn't really feel excessively guilty to have 'accidentally' received centipede corpses from everyone.
