After taking rest and sleeping for about 6 hours all the adventurer teams were ready to go inside the Scarlet forest. The trees in the forest were large and tough. Even a B rank adventurer who could destroy regular trees barehanded couldn't easily break these trees.
A S rank monster also came out from the forest so they were really cautious inside. Even when they were resting, there camp was attacked by a group of 6 A rank monsters. It would be very hard almost impossible for the adventurers to beat all of that on their own. So from now on Elena would actively take part in fighting more frequently and there would be no more divided groups. All the adventurers will work together as a single party.
The atmosphere of the forest were really eerie. Suddenly a scout from a B rank party was attacked by a vine monster. The monster have a large red flower as head and dozens of tentacles like vine.
Just as the female scout was almost bounded and the monster's flower shaped head was going to devour her whole, Elena took out a spear from her inventory and thrust toward the monster, killing it in one blow. It was A rank monster just as strong as Alessia. The female scout named Fran thanked Elena over and over again for saving her life but Elena just told her to be more careful.
After advancing through the forest for few more minutes a group of bugs suddenly attacked them. There were a lot of bugs. Even tho a individual bug was very weak and can be killed by any B ranker in one blow there numbers were in hundreds of thousands. All the adventurer were getting overwhelmed by there quantity over quality strategy.
Suddenly all the magic casters got a message in their head. This was a spell for a specialised magic created for the purpose of pest extermination. When Elena was fighting a insect type final boss in her previous world she invented this magic as an extreme rank spell. But it was not too hard for her to create a simplified version of it and then she taught this spell to the adventurer mages.
After learning and somewhat mastering this spell, the mages were able to fight against the large amount of bugs. This newly learnt spell was better at killing bugs then even more mana consuming fire magic. Even tho the proficiency of this magic was just at beginner level for the mages. So, by using this spell over and over again, they were able to kill all the bugs.
That was not the only trouble they faced related to numbers. They were later attacked by a treant who can creat almost unlimited numbers of wood soldiers. It was a level 300 monster but it's own fighting capability was bottom tier. But it can create almost unlimited numbers of B and even a few (about 10) A rank monster so it was super troublesome. Elena didn't participate in this fight and after a very hard fought battle the adventurers were able to get the victory and their level got quite a large boost. The only reason the adventurers won was because the treant was stupid and instead of using all the A rank at the same time it used them one after another.
Elena was also not idle in this journey. Actually she was the busiest one of them all. But she finished all the fights like it's no big deal so it didn't look that way. But she had already defeated 2 more S rank beast. One was a giant land alligator and another one was only one meter long cat. That cat was like an assassin and was quite high leveled at level 347 and the alligator monster was level 320, weakest among all the S rank monsters she had seen so far.
Suddenly there was a clearing in the middle of this forest. And there in the middle of the clearing was an ancient looking temple like structure. It kinda looked like the Greek god's temple from Elena homeworld but the whole temple was crimson in colour.
Elena said to the expedition members-
"It looks like that temple have the stairs to the third floor. But I think it will be very dangerous for any of you to enter it. As I can feel that all the monsters inside the temple are S rank and not even a low S like the treant but atleast high S rank.
So I want all of you to not take part in any fight inside it. And you all should stay close to each other. I'm going to cast a strong barrier magic spell to protect you all. [Indomitable Barrier]"
After casting the barrier Elena took all the adventurers inside. Their duty this time was just to watch Elena carefully and learn. Nothing more, nothing less.
The inside of the temple was quite vast and was larger then it looked from the outside. There was a hall just after entering the temple. There were 10 pillars supporting the large hall. Just as Elena and the adventurers entered the hall all the pillars started glowing. There was drawing of one kind of monster on each piller and they all came alive.
There was a giant humanoid with four heads and every head have a large tongue. It also had four hands and the skin colour of this level 339 monster monster was pale purple.
Another one of the monster was about 1.7 meter tall but have no facial features and was like a condensed black gas. This one was level 341.
Third one was a knight in grey armour and had a green horse. It was wielding a Black Lance as weapon. It was level 340.
Fourth one was a level 337 scorpion with 3 stingers and black carapace.
Fifth one was a large dog with five heads. Every head also have one horn and each of the horn have different elements- fire, lightning, ice, Earth and darkness. It was the highest level monster even among those S ranks at level 346. Only the cat assassin was higher level than this one inside this dungeon.
Sixth one was a large beetle with very sturdy looking brown carapace at level 238.
Seventh one was a Chimera with body parts of several types of monster mixed together.
It was level 343.
Next one was like a clay statue. This monster was mostly like a golem. It was level 342.
The ninth one was a very weird type of monster. It looked like three lions with golden, silver and bronze coloured far had been connected together and only have their front left. Their backside is mixed together into one. It was level 345.
The last monster was large mass of flesh and nothing more. It was level 344.
These were the 10 S rank monsters who came out from the pillars. All the adventurers were watching this with rapt attention. Elena this time was not using a single weapon to fight but she thrown out several weapon scattering them throughout the whole room. She also restricted her level to 300.
Right now she was dual wielding a sword and a spear. The battle began with the strongest monster, the five headed hounds five elemental breath attack. Other monsters also followed the lead and attacked Elena. This time Elana was actually having kinda hard time fighting only using beginner level mastery of all types of weapons. Even tho her beginner level mastery is on a whole different level, the power of beginner level alongside her lower general level made it quite hard for her to fight in all directions.
But still Elena didn't use her advance level weapon mastery. She fought this whole battle only using beginner mastery. It was a long battle. It lasted for almost 10 hours. After those ten hours finally the last monster, which was actually the large beetle, died.
Now Elena and the adventurer were standing infront of a large gate leading to the next room. They were going to continue with the dungeon dive.