As five youngsters descended a staircase, one of them breathed a sigh of relief.
With a monstrous young man relentlessly closing in on him, Kiin found it hard to stay calm—especially with the pressing need to reach the ambush point on the thirteenth floor before Shye caught up.
After all, there was nothing he could do if Shye forced them to retreat.
Fortunately, despite the scare, he and his four captives managed to reach the thirteenth floor first.
From the sensation emanating from the crest, it seemed Shye was still lingering on the eleventh floor, perhaps just beginning the descent to the twelfth.
There was no need for him to worry now, as they were already on the thirteenth floor.
Even if Shye arrived, he would only be another person caught in the ambush, as there were around three hundred people from his Fifteenth Unit lying in wait.
