Two people stood in front of a giant sandstorm. One wore a suit of armour with a metallic glow while the other had on a pink suit. The storm was still blowing through their face but they were determined to get to the fifteenth floor.
"Aren't you going to make a copy of yourself to carry me," Jayden said as she was knee-deep in the sand. Not wanting to say that his clone would get blown to smoke in under a minute in this sandstorm, he just snorted before grabbing Jayden and hanging him over his shoulder.
Without waiting for Jayden to say something about his predicament, Rowan ran into the sandstorm with Jayden's compass in hand. His red eyes focused on both the compass and the things heading his way through the storm.
Rowan dodged everything with the body flicker technique and for those that could not be dodged, he smashed them away with an air palm. Suddenly a huge figure appeared in front of him. A fire ant and it's eyes seemed locked onto them.
"Great," Rowan said before casting a genjutsu. Demon Illusion Mirage Crow. The ant kept looking into the air around it as it spew huge amounts of flaming hot saliva. All it was large amounts of crows but in reality, there was nothing.
Rowan ignored the fire ant and moved on since he was in a hurry to get out of the sandstorm. After the initial fire ant, more ants were seen roaming about but all of them was dealt with by the Mirage Crow genjutsu.
Rowan and Jayden failed to get out of the sandstorm but they did find the stairs that went to the ninth floor. The sandstorm seemed to follow them to the ninth floor but they didn't have time to complain as they didn't have much time.
It was already night time so Rowan had a clone be the guard since he was really tired after carrying Jayden and overusing his underdeveloped sharingan. He could feel that his eyes needed only one more push for it to reach it's fully evolved form but still nothing.
Rowan slept the moment he sat on the sand. He could hear Jayden's voice telling him something but he could barely hear anything before his eyes went shut. Jayden looked at the guy that feel asleep in the sandstorm.
Sand had already begun to cover most of his body so Jayden lifted his body up and placed a blanket underneath it. She carefully placed his head on her lap. She opened his helmet and looked at the guy that she had been relying on so much during this dungeon quest.
She caressed his forehead and glided her hand down the side of his face and then placed her fingers on his lips and looked at the fingers. She kissed the fingers and realising what she had just done, her face turned bright red and she closed the helmet.
The clone witnessed all this and made a mental note to leave a message for his main body before he gets entangled with the girly face homosexual guy. The night passed really slow for some people but it was over in a blink for others.
Rowan couldn't help but stretch his body after the great night's sleep he got. When he looked over at Jayden though, the knight was shaking from tiredness. Rowan pulled Jayden before giving him a piggyback ride.
Light snoring noises could be heard coming from his back. Rowan looked at his clone that was refining chakra not so far away and got another flash of inspiration but he didn't want to work on it with Jayden on his back. Rowan walked in the direction he last saw the compass pointing.
After walking for a while, Rowan saw a huge rock in the middle of the desert. He walked towards it since the compass had been pointing in that direction. As he got closer, he heard snoring noises coming from the huge rock too.
The rock turned out to be a giant turtle and a huge cloud of sand would enter the sandstorm every time it exhaled. As far as he could see, this turtle was the cause of the sandstorm. Rowan got an idea and kicked the turtle at it's neck…nothing happened.
Rowan kicked harder but the turtle wouldn't wake up. Rowan took out a paper bomb and attached it to the turtle's neck before running away. The explosion finally managed to wake up the turtle but it was extremely angry and roared into the sky.
Rowan didn't care and used his sharingan for a different purpose than genjutsu. He used the eye's hypnosis ability to take the turtle. He jumped onto the turtle and gave it directions. The sandstorm disappeared quickly after the turtle woke up.
The turtle surfed over the sand dunes in a way that Rowan did not expect a turtle would. He expected the slow and steady wins the race that the tortoise is famous for. Luckily, he was able to stay on the turtle by creating a chakra layer on his shoe soles.
As the turtle moved, all the demon beasts that the encountered made way for this beast. This was definitely a yellow crystal demon beast without a doubt. The beast's movements were so smooth that Jayden didn't even wake up and kept on snoring.
Rowan had thoughts of keeping the turtle as a pet but he didn't know any sealing jutsu and people would freak out if he showed up with such a huge beast. The beast finally reached the stairs to the tenth floor Rowan jumped off.
He touched the turtle's head and gave it the order to turn around. The turtle roared and turned around. He looked on as the beast flew majestically over the sand. Although it was brief, Rowan felt a connection to the turtle.
A squirming noise at Rowan's back caused him to lower Jayden's body. "Where are we?" she asked. Rowan looked at the steps and said.
"The tenth floor…"