"Everyone, prepare yourselves, there's a monster up ahead. However, it's not moving so I suspect that it's the ninth floor's guardian."
A whisper eerily echoed a few meters ahead, leaving the extermination party members on edge despite knowing that the voice was probably from their party leader, Shye.
A few hours ago, random voices resembling those of their teammates began whispering, screaming, and talking in distorted tones.
Sometimes the sounds came from their right, other times from their left, and occasionally from behind.
If it hadn't been for Mira, the priestess, reminding them that such tactics were typically used by high-ranked monstrous creatures of darkness to confuse parties and sow discord, they might have fallen for the very first one that tried to deceive them by screaming in Freeze's voice, seemingly under attack.
