Loki's Renard

Arc 3 Chapter 7 - Floor 18's Wonders

Hey guys, hope you're doing well, Striker777 here with the next chapter of Loki's Renard. Nice and light chapter before we begin the final stretch to end the Expedition mini-arc, and then around 5-6 more chapters before the end of Arc 3, when we'll move onto Arc 4, the Dark Ages Arc. Look forward to it.

Anyway, the vote for Lili vs Asfi across both Wattpad and Fanfiction.net is sitting at 6-4 in favour of Lili, so Asfi fans need to step up this time if they want her to take the spot. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy, but for now, onto the story!

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Floor 18 was a wonderous place, filled with abnormalities and strangeness for the Dungeon. Why the Dungeon had safe zones was lost on everyone, but they were there and people were more than happy to make use of these safe zones to further their trips into the unforgiving hell that was the Dungeon. Akihide looked out at the Floor with wonder in his eyes, scanning the landscape of the Floor. Crystals hung from the ceiling of the Floor, illuminating the otherwise dark Dungeon with no natural light, with a wide lot of trees and other plants making up the landscape. All in all, it was like a little forest deep underground.

Oh, and there was also the Dungeon town, Rivira. The small town in the Dungeon, the man-made structure so out of place in the Dungeon, stood as a crude structure, as if only just built. In complete honesty, Rivira was destroyed a month ago, and the inhabitants had rebuilt it again, as was the way of Floor 18. Rivira was constantly being destroyed and rebuilt from monsters that made their was up from Floor 19 or down from Floor 17, so the inhabitants of Floor 18 focused more on buildings that were easy to tear down and repair for when they were destroyed, with only a few 'permanent' structures made of stone existing.

To Akihide, this was all new and exciting. He looked down at the village from the stairs between Floor 17 and 18, with the inquisitive eyes of a child, like he was, and Riveria rubbed his head. "We'll be camping on the hill just over there." she said, pointing to a small hill near the village. "Everything in Rivira is quite expensive, so we save money by camping. Other than that, the people of Rivira offer more for monster drops than the Guild, so we'll be offloading our drops here whenever we can."

It was, of course, true. Rivira was much more reliant on Monster parts than the top world was, in terms of per capita, and as such, they were much more valuable, and were bought and sold at higher prices. There were, however, some downsides to this. One was Rivira didn't have the money to buy most Monster Parts in bulk, so when an expedition occurred, Loki Familia would usually only sell their collections from Floors 19 to 30, since that was about as much as Rivira could safely buy from them, and anything other than that went to requests or to the personal equipment of the Familia, which was more profitable than selling in Rivira anyway.

Akihide nodded not understanding the inner working of the economic system of Rivira, but was more than happy to pretend he did so he didn't have to go through another of Riveria's lectures whilst in the Dungeon. All he had to worry about was how much fun this was going to be, camping out in the middle of the Dungeon, exploring the depths of the Dungeon that he didn't think he'd be able to for at least half a year, and working with new people outside of Kiddy Party.

Finn clapped his hands. "Alright, we should really get started on setting up camp. We'll divide the tasks between us so we get it done quicker." he said, before grouping everyone up into ground of three. "Liza, Sharon and Remilia, you three will focus on setting up the cooking pot and prepping the supplies, make sure the refrigerator is turned on and working so the supplies don't spoil before we get back. Alise, Kaguya and Cynthia, set up the sleeping tents for the girls, we need three before the rest of our forces get here. Akihide, Lloyd and Kalos, you three set up the main tent for the executives, the medical tent and then the tents for the boys. With Akihide, it shouldn't take too long to get that sorted." ordered the Pallum, getting affirmative nods from everyone, who went down to begin. Riveria and Finn looked between themselves, smiling as they saw the laughs between the others of their Familia and their guests. The two executives made their way down, preparing to begin scouting the area for monsters to exterminate.