10/6 10:01 (Autumn, Day, Sud Midrar, Undead Dungeon)
Luna, once she was satisfied and her Mates finished recovering, moved to recover the Magicule Crystal, playing with it shortly before enveloping it within her own Vital Mana and Black Blood and shattering it herself curiously.
As the Magicules were released from it, of the 10000 contained within it, 3000 of them were quickly absorbed between her three Mates while the remaining Magicules tried to disperse.
The Lunarian narrowed her eyes in concentration, the fleeting Magicules stilling as her blood and Energy forcefully condensed them into a very small sphere, sphere that she brought to her mouth before she devoured it.
*Luna's Ability Skill "Enhancement: Status Effect" E Expands because of the effect of "Devouring Evolution".
She smiled, her fangs shining slightly, at the success of her trial before turning to her Mates.
"Well, let's go team. We still have a couple of Floors to clear." The Lunarian exclaimed before turning to the Gate leading further to the depts of this Dungeon.
Her Mates followed after, Luna moving in front and Amber in the back to make sure both Mafel and Sabel, the most fragile of the four, would be protected in the incoming Floors from both enemies and traps.
The four crossed the Gate without any remaining hesitation, finding themselves in a dark corridor, various skulls entombed in the walls and flooring and illuminated only softly by sparse candles high in the cealing illuminating screaming skulls and bones that seemed to be trying to escape from the wall.
Luna didn't hesitate, cutting with her nails her own nail as her Black Blood spilling forth before spreading around her in a fine mist moving with the four to try and find any Monster in advance.
Amber quickly observed the area around them, her wings emanating enough light to illuminate the area around them, however she found no trace of any Monster around them even with her "Heat Sight" active, deciding to instead observe the Black Blood around them, trying to seek any irregularities in its temperature in vain before clicking her tongue in irritation.
"Hey, Mafel. What Skills do the Specters in this Floor have?" Amber asked.
"The most important ones are "Undying Body" D and "Null Presence" D."
"In that case the blood will be useless to find the Ghosts as they will not interact with it until they personally attack." Luna noted calmly concentrating then on finding traps.
The four proceded carefully, eyes trailing all around them carefully, as they went deeper and deeper in.
Without any word various layers of blood solidified, floating over what looked to be normal pieces of the floor, pieces in which she found an irregularity when it comes to their height, as they proceded carefully, Luna in front for very simple reasons.
First, Lunarians were made with naturally high defensive capabilities between Resistances and regenerative capabilities with her additionally being the most skilled of the four when it comes to fighting.
Second, even if not rare in this specific group, she had no problem with the low light level of this Floor and had very fine senses in general.
Third, she had the highest weight of the four even considering Sabel's leather armor and Mafel's much greater height thanks to being a mix of tall, curvy and muscular, and so where she stepped it should be safe for the other three.
Luna carefully proceded, every single one of her steps measured, with her Mates stepping only over the floor she herself was stepping on.
Her blood preceded her, pressing against the ground before her own steps, as she stepped over the trap with no reaction nor did it trigger once the other members of her Party passed it.
This process repeated for the next trap before the four of them finally were sure something was off.
"Mafel, did you ever enter this Floor before?" Amber questioned the former Monster.
"No, I didn't." She answered, confused.
"This is the Floor the previous you was a Boss to, right? Is it possible that they aren't attacking or showing themselves before you are with us?"
"They shouldn't. They should attack normally. I don't know why they aren't right now."
"Strange."
The four proceded, passing another trap indisturbed, and doing the same with a further one.
Or at least Luna and Sabel did but as Mafel walked past the trap, it activated on its own, sending a bolt of solid steel straight towards her head.
The moment said bolt passed the mist of blood, both Luna and Amber reacted.
The Lunarian moved to between the Elf and the incoming bolt and the Phoenix, thanks to her greater physical power derived by the increase in power, swung her Unique Arma cutting it in two.
The Human attacked, sending a ray of light back, but nothing reacted or was wounded.
Sabel clicked her tongue, her eyes narrowing into focus, as she searched the area around her.
Luna released her Aura fully, indiscriminately attacking any and everything around her that wasn't her Mates, objects included, to kill or at least wound the Specters in the hope that this brute-force way would surpass the anti-Targetting effect of the Innate Skill "Null Presence" D; and Amber followed suit, her own Aura blazing violently and mixing with her Mates.
The heat spiked violently, Luna breathing in deeply a couple of times, before she directed her Vital Mana to her Aura, using as a blueprint the adaptation of her "Enhancement: Status Alteration" she gained thanks to the Undead Abomination, forcefully actualizing its effect on the area all around the four.
The air in the room violently bursted into flames, the roar filling the space around them except for immediately around the four Mates.
"I gained no Vital Energy or Mana, it did not hit any Monster." Amber confirmed thanks to her Innate Skill "Energy Siphon" activated throught the flames previously generated by the two working together.
"None of them are in this room, meaning that there is another one connected yet separated from this one. Not only that but the hole the bolt came from doesn't exist. At least not anymore." Luna affirmed, her Black Blood pushing against the wall yet finding no give in any part of it.
Sabel moved to the slightly higher step before stomping down on it to no effect.
"This is not a pressure plate, it's a fake to build a false sense of security if someone notices it." She exclaimed, light starting to sligthly emanate from her body, before she quickly rejoined her Mates.
"In that case…" Luna's Aura exploded, filling the room completely and pushing against the entirety of the walls around them, searching for any flaw or incoming attack, while straining her five senses to the limit.
Thing she quickly found as a hole in the wall opened to launch another crossbow bolt from a completely different direction than the previous one.
As a conseguence, her Aura filled the additional room completely, spelling the Monster's death while the bolt was deflected by Sabel.
While the Specters of this Dungeon could not be directly Targetted for an attack, this didn't matter to their Aura as this was not an attack but equivalent to an enviremental effect, thing it was not Immune to, as Luna absorbed it completely.
*Luna Gained the Innate Skill "Enhancement: Senses" E.
*Luna's Ability Skill "Presence Suppression" C Expands thanks to "Devouring Evolution" D.
The red-eyed one nodded, satisfied at her gains, before the four proceded without any further hesitation carefully.
And as they walked, the floor underneath the four vanished suddently.
Amber opened her wings with enough force and speed to create a shockwave behind her before floating down, Sabel used her sword and her feet to slow her fall enough for the Phoenix to grab.
Luna instead accelerated further, grabbing the Elf while in fall before opening wide her Wings stopping herself in mid-air and releasing a destructive beam straight under them, in the vane hope of killing the culprit of this trap.
She clicked her tongue, moving upwards to return to their previous room only for the hole to close before they could move back.
Luna looked on in displeasure before making it known to said colprit by releasing a wave of destructive Energy that filled the corridor in its entirety, quickly destroying anything that wasn't a Fixed part of the Dungeon, including the wall that functioned as temporary roof for them, also erasing in the process another Specter momentarily in the corridor.
The four quickly returned to the previous one and instead of walking, Luna simply started to float forward, her Wings and a suit of Armor forming around her, holding her afloat.
She simply decided to ignore the ground entirely, all the while still holding her Mafel in her arms and Summoning the entirety of her Familiars in full within various feathered serpents flying around the four of them, keeping an eye on all around them while a Barrier fused with their Auras surrounded them all, growing stronger and stronger.
She wasn't satisfied, however and as such her next move was only natural in her opinion while being in actuality completely insane.
Her Aura blazed higher and higher, completely filling the Barrier and going even beyond that to the point of burning her own Vital Mana and Black Blood as fuel for the creation of more and more Aura.
Finding no more space to fill and the three Mates being protected by their Mark and Amber's own, it filled to the brim the Summoned Familiars until they, in response to the rising stress, started to emit their own independent Aura.
The scream being released by the Lunarian's mouth intensified in a roar, a shockwave emanated in an instant from around her as the Aura melded into a single one, the air around them trembling and distorting around them.
*Luna's Innate Skill "Unleash Aura" D Increases to C-Rank.
The Barrier around them vanished into nothing before forming again, stronger than ever before and much more precise in its protective power.
"Let's go, girls. It's no time to dwaddle now, is it?" The Lunarian laughed, stepping forward without hesitation.
Amber and Sabel followed, the first warily watching her Mate while the second simply stared at the Familiars swimming in the air around the four full of curiosity before moving towards one of them and starting to pet it, enjoying the warmth it emanated.
The red-eyed one smiled at her more excitable, satisfied, before turning to the one still resting in her arms that was on her own, her eyes glazing at her Mate in wonder as she was actually able to feel the Soul all around them, embracing them.
Traps were triggered, bolts and rain of various liquids falling on them causing no issues as their Auras simply and violently deflect all of the attacks.
Luna stepped forward, false walls shattering all around them because of the Aura that was constantly being emanated by the Vampiric one, until they found themselves before the Boss Room.
This was quite simple for the four of them considering how the Monsters of this Floor were entirety incompatible with direct fighting and the traps of this Floor were useless against someone that could fly while still having a constant Barrier around themselves capable of killing the fragile Specters, to her satisfaction.