After Bell and the team went to Rivira, Calvin, Learner, Wiene, and Fels stayed behind to take care of the Xenos that were slowly healing up.
Calvin was sitting cross-legged beside a tree with his eyes closed.
'I better use this time to heal, potions don't work, but [Medi-tating] should count as natural healing' he thought feeling his wounds slowly heal up.
"Hey… what do I do with this guy? Do you want to kill him?" Learner asked making Dix spin rapidly in the air.
"Patience, you'll see later" said Calvin without opening his eyes.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>Meanwhile<<<<<<<<<<<
After reaching Rivira, Bell and the team were thinking about how to gather everyone's attention but realized how there was already a commotion happening near the exit of the floor.
Getting near it, the team saw Rido, Gross, Ray, and many more Xenos behind, them, and in front of them were many adventurers but they didn't seem hostile at all.
'What the hell happened here?' The team thought in unison.
In that Rido, saw them and waved.
"Bell! Come here, come here!" He shouted making the team go to him.
"Why are you here Rido?" Bell asked looking around and seeing many adventurers.
'Isn't that the guy that tried to kill me with that invisibility helmet? I think his name was Mord?'
"Ah… well, it went like this…"
>>>>>>>>> [15 minutes earlier] <<<<<<<
"Let go of me Rido! Those humans are fighting a battle that should be ours!" Gros exclaimed as Rido held him in place.
"If we go like this everyone is going to see us!" Rido said.
"Ray! tell this idiot to let go of me already! don't you want to avenge our brothers?!" Gros shouted at Ray.
"As much as I'd like to, we would be putting the plan at risk" she said.
"You guys… what are you? Cowards? Ranye!" Gros exclaimed, making the Arachne Xenos throw web at Rido and Ray sticking them to the ground.
Getting free of Rido's grapple, Gross flew to the exit along with his little group.
"Goddammit… go after him! don't let him reach the human city!" Rido exclaimed making various Xenos run after Gros.
Freeing themselves from the web, Ray grabbed Rido with her claws and flew to Gros.
>>>>>>> [Later in Rivira] <<<<<<<<<<<<
On the same tavern where Learner got her intel.
The door suddenly swung open.
"Hey! we believe that a monster attack is coming so, grab your gear and come help!" Bors Elder, the self-proclaimed leader of Rivira exclaimed.
When he said that, no one in the taverns showed any sign of interest.
"Those who participate will be rewarded accordingly!" Bors exclaimed once again, making everyone get up from their seats.
"Guys what do you say if we go slay some monsters?" one said.
"Let's go!" Everyone exclaimed.
'Greedy motherfuckers hahaha' Bors thought and went to the next location to bring more adventurers.
A while later every adventurer on the 18th floor was waiting at the exit of the floor.
And soon enough, many silhouettes could be seen in the distance of the dark corridor.
Everyone readied their weapons and waited for Bors to give the order.
Gros then came along with his group but stopped, seeing the adventurers in front of him.
'What? Did they come to stop me?' Gros angrily thought and was about to jump at the adventurers.
Suddenly, a red arm wrapped around his neck, surprising him.
"Hello humans" Rido said in a friendly manner, surprising the adventurers.
'Shit, I didn't know that they were waiting at the entrance, did we screw up the plan already?'
"Friendly Monsters?" One of them said.
"Isn't that the one that saved me that time?" Another one said.
"What are you talking about! They are all monsters anyway" the other said only to get decked on the face by his friend.
"You ungrateful bastard, you were also saved by him!" his friend said, making the other one look to the side while covering his bleeding nose with his hand.
"What are you doing here?" Bors asked.
"We just wanted to see, the, uh…, human town here on the 18th floor" Rido said, as Gros looked at him hatefully.
Suddenly between the adventurers, one came from the back and got closer to Rido.
"Wha- get back here man!" the others shouted.
The man trembled and offered his hand at Rido without looking at him.
Rido gave him a handshake only to notice how a drop of water fell onto his hand.
"Thank you…, thank you!" The man exclaimed looking at Rido with tears in his eyes
"Without your help, I wouldn't have made it back to my daughter!" The man said surprising Rido.
'that's right, I had forgotten that humans that come into the dungeon risk their lives to make a living on the surface' He thought.
"It was nothing! I'm glad I could help, isn't that right guys?" Rido said looking back at the Xenos behind him.
"Yeah!" Every Xenos exclaimed.
"Wait, so there's no Monster invasion?" An adventurer said disappointed.
Suddenly, Bors walked forwards and stood right Infront of Rido.
"I heard a lot about you guys, but let me ask you one more thing, who is your enemy?" Boris asked with a sharp gaze that could only belong to a veteran adventurer.
"Our only enemy are the monsters lurking in the dungeon" Rido said with a similar gaze.
"Hahaha! seeing that we share the same enemy, I wouldn't mind letting you into my town" Bors said to the Xenos.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>[Present]<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
"And then I saw you coming" Rido said to Bell.
"Hmmm" Bell murmured as he turned his back at the adventurers and taking out a yellow stone.
"Did you get all that?" He murmured into the stone.
"Yeah" Calvin said through the stone.
"What do we do? The only path is blocked by them" Bell asked turning his head back and forth looking for any way to go through the crowd without being spotted.
"Just leave it to me" Calvin replied cutting the connexion.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
"*Sigh~* Seems like I have to do everything here, who do you think I am, there's only so many tricks I can do before I run out" Calvin sighed before rambling to himself and getting up from the ground.
'I think my wounds are almost healed, but there's only one way to find out' he thought examining his body and dispelling [Sense grafting] making his pain receptors return to his body from a random brick in the dark room from earlier.
'It stings a little but I can move just fine'
He then looked around and saw that a few of the Xenos were awake and Fels was explaining the situation to them.
"Okay, it's time to move guys, just follow me and don't wander off too far" Calvin said Catching everyone's attention and making Fels look at him with his empty eyes
'I wonder what will you do now…' Fels thought.
>>>>>>>
A few minutes later, Calvin had led everyone near the exit through the forest.
"Okay you guys wait here until I come back, Learner come with me" he ordered, walking through the bushes and getting closer to the crowd of people blocking the exit, finally being able to see the situation with his own eyes.
'Hmm' he looked at his skills and wondered what could he do in this situation.
'Maybe I could make an artificial monster horde' He thought looking at his [Chained Spirit].
'Wait, if I make it now, they would somehow connect the appearance of the Xenos with the Monster horde'
"They need to blame someone else… preferably someone that doesn't exist" he said shifting his gaze to Learner that was beside him, making her look at him questioningly.
"And I think I have the perfect person" smiled Calvin