they continued their journey.
it took them another hour to find the entrance of the 4th floor.
"hmm... looks interesting!"
he looked at the entrance pool, which looked a bit different. the water wasn't black like the previous two, but dark green.
"Look, Mark and Velma, you have to be careful. Velma, you have been to the fourth floor before so you know how unpredictable it can be."
saying that, Miss Lor dived, one by one the others also dived.
Mark opened his eyes and found himself in the middle of a forest.
"Woah! why are these trees so gigantic?!"
he couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
he looked like an ant standing among the sky-high vines stretched from the tower-like plants.
"This is called the mystical forest. everything here is gigantic. the trees and the monsters too. so be careful"
saying that Miss Christie and Velma started to lead the team.
"What's that?!"
when they walked past a huge tree, Mark noticed something coiling around and it was moving, like a snake.
"oh! that is a D4 Pynope. it's a D-Rank Monster. it has fast reflexes but with its huge body, its speed is slower. and it has amazing biting strength."
"then, let me take care of it."
because they were in a hurry, he wanted to kill all the monsters they encountered.
he leaped with his sword and formed his Emperor's 4th sword in the midair.
Although that wasn't as strong as before, it was enough to slice its head off from its body.
"Woah... he is getting into it!"
Miss Lor smiled.
Mark put the D4 Pynope's body in his inventory and continued to walk.
As an earth elemental, this environment was very during for Velma, she looked cheerful as usual.
while they were walking they faced another few monsters, but Mark took care of them all.
they soon entered a cave. the stairs on it showed that it was man-made.
they followed the stairs and reached a deep part of the cave.
<< ding >>
<< concentrated mana core detected. >>
"huh?"
he looked at the system screen with anticipation.
the system screen showed him the exact location.
"Umm... Miss Lor, where do we go now?"
Mark looked at the map, then looked at the corner of the room, there were some bones of random monsters.
'ah, found it.'
he grabbed a glowing ball from the pile of bones. for some reason, he didn't feel weird searching through the bones.
<< obtained Rank B Mana Core. >>
'put it in the inventory.'
the others noticed it too but didn't say anything.
when they reached the end of the cave, Mark saw another pool, this time the colour of the water was Blue.
one by one everyone dived in.
*whoosh!
Mark opened his eyes again in a different environment.
the floor consisted of snow Mountains.
he felt the cold wind hitting his body, he took a deep breath inhaling the fresh and chilly air.
"wow, every floor is different than the other one?"
he couldn't help but ask.
"not really, there are floors with similar environment and climate on deeper floors."
Floyd looked at him with a smile.
"oh... it's the fifth floor, what kind of monsters are we gonna face?"
Mark asked excitedly.
"oh, sorry but the entrance for the sixth floor is just a few hundred meters away. that'll be just 10 minutes of walk."
"I see..."
Mark said in a dejected voice, he was pretty as that, he couldn't face any new monsters on this floor.
exactly after 10 minutes of walking, they reached the entrance pool.
"the sixth floor is a bit dangerous because Rank B monsters lurk around there often. be careful."
*whoosh!
Mark opened his eyes and found himself in water.
he looked around but couldn't see anything because of the darkness.
soon his eyes caught light. he looked over a few hundred meters away something was glowing.
"Hello! anybody's there?"
he shouted out of his wits and got pushed by his sound.
"Mark over here! "
he caught Velma's voice and turned around.
"Stay there!"
he immediately swam to her.
without any light, it was troublesome.
"Velma? where are the others?"
he grabbed her by her waist to help her float.
"oh, thanks. and I don't have any idea either. I haven't been to the sixth floor before so..."
she shrugged her shoulders.
Mark noticed that she was very calm. and it was the same in their whole journey.
she didn't panic at all.
"do you have a way to communicate with them?"
he asked her.
"Don't you have a Communication Band?"
Mark realized that he was asking a stupid question.
"Umm... Miss Lor Where are you? we are in the middle of water and don't know where to go."
he tapped the band again and send the message.
after a few moments, a reply came.
"I don't know what's going on either, the sixth floor is the ruins of the ancient city. but we are trapped inside a cave. we are rushing to the entrance pool. after we locate it, we will come for you, just hang in there."
a long voice message came from the other side.
"What should we do now?" asked Velma with a frown.
Mark pondered for a second then opened the Radar System.
<< Radar system is online, scanning the area successfully. >>
the system showed him a layout of 1000 meter radius around him.
and he saw the ground.
around 800 meters away he saw the ground.
just as he was talking with Velma, a light flashed again from behind.
"What is this?"
the light faded away.
"I think..."
<< Warning!!! >>
<< Rank A monster beast detected. >>
"aw. SHIT! RUN!"
Mark grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her over while pushing his body to float over the water.
Velma raised her hand and cast a magical circle.
"Mark! " she shouted as she lost her balance.
and the magic circle fired a beam of light upwards.
*boom*
he lost his balance but he didn't stop there. and continued to swim.
it took them 12 minutes to reach at the ground.
they didn't look back and started to run.
"phew... looks like we lost it."
they sighed in relief.
"Velma? you alright?"
he asked while panting.
"I am fine, don't worry about me, but we have to leave this place."
...
on the other hand, Miss Lor leading the other instructors.
they were flying at a terrifying speed that.
breaking past the walls around there.
it took them a few minutes reach at the pool.
"that's it! we should go and find them, I have a bad feeling about this."
Miss Christie said.
All of them nodded and departed in different directions.
Miss Lor heard some noises as she hurried with her might,
*graaaawl*
an abyssal creature was gawking at her. she immediately took out her sword with a smirk