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Dormul: What do ye mean?! I demand an explanation!
Dormul Bolster raised his voice. The dwarf, a member of Magni Familia, was in the eighteenth floor Under Resort, where he and his familia members were waiting. He leaned in closer to the adventurer who had collapsed before his eyes.
Adventurer 1: I-I already told you, an Amphisbaena spawned in the Water Capital!
Dormul: But there should still be half a month left before the next interval! Why would a floor boss appear now?!
Adventurer 1: No idea! We just heard about it from some guys who escaped the lower levels and came running back here like mad!
The adventurers who had fled to the safety point of Rivira, the Dungeon's post town, were members of the hunting party pursuing Gale Wind. These particular underlings had been tasked with guarding the connecting passageways between floors to prevent the fugitive from escaping, on the orders of their leader Boris. After learning what was happening on the twenty- fifth floor, they had run a relay of sorts to get the information back to Rivira as quickly as possible.
Adventurer 1: The guys who escaped from the twenty-fifth floor were half-crazy...! They said the Dungeon was 'crying' and the Great Falls were stained red... the only thing we know for sure is that there were a bunch of huge explosions and the labyrinth on that floor collapsed.
Dormul: Collapsed?! That stupidly gigantic maze?!
Dormul stared in shock at the pale adventurer whose words had trailed off at the end. The dwarves had suspected something strange was going on. Several hours earlier, they'd felt the ground shake. It hadn't been an earthquake, but more of an up-and-down motion that seemed to originate from the floors below.
Luvis: If the explosions caused the floor boss to ignore the interval...then what caused the explosions? Did Gale Wind and the main hunting party get into a flashy magic shoot-out or something?
Next to the dumbfounded Dormul, the Modi Familia elf Luvis grimaced sternly as he swung his empty right sleeve. There was no way Boris's underlings—who hadn't gone with the main party into the Water Capital and didn't know what Jura and Turk had done— could have a proper grasp of the whole situation. Of course, the same was true of Luvis, Dormul, and Dormul's familia. They had all stayed on the eighteenth floor.
They didn't even have any way of knowing that a calamity had caused a massacre.
Adventurer 1: According to the guys who escaped, Hestia Familia was left behind in the cavern, with the floor boss...
Dormul: What...?! Ye mean to say you lot abandoned them?!
Adventurer 1: Couldn't be helped! Who wouldn't run from a floor-boss fight when equipment and manpower are lacking?
Adventurer 2: And the monsters were acting weird! We heard them screaming all over, and just before we left, a pack of all sorts mixed together barreled right through the connecting passageway on the nineteenth floor that we were guarding!
It seemed those monsters were headed for the Water Capital. Dormul and Luvis fell silent as they listened to the adventurers relate this information. But everyone present had the same word at the back of their minds:
Dormul and Luvis: Irregular.
Something so extraordinary it made the affair with Gale Wind seem like a mere trifle was occurring in the Dungeon. Each of the experienced upper- class adventurers shared the same strong hunch.
Dormul: What do we do...? Send in support? Or return to the surface first and inform the Guild?
Luvis:...Both. We can't do much if we don't know what's happening down there, and we can't find that out here in Rivira.
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