Loki's Renard

Arc 3 Chapter 9 - The Floor 15 Incident Part 2

Hey guys, Striker777 here with the next chapter of Loki's Renard. I want to take a moment to thank everyone who voted, but it has come to a close. And the winner, with 12-9 votes is Liliruca Arde. She will be introduced in the next chapter, which will come out after my four weeks of training. Until then, enjoy this last chapter. Now, onto the story!

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Akihide looked around the area he found himself in, relatively sure he was safe for the time being as he slashed at the Dungeon wall with Breath of Hachiman, preventing monsters from spawning until the Dungeon fixed the damage. He collapsed to the floor and allowed himself a moment to breath and collect his thoughts.

He was exhausted, but quickly realised the severity of his situation. A fresh level 2 adventurer, without a single stat above 0 to his name, was all alone on Floor 15 with a murderous Blood Minotaur somewhere on the same floor as him. Not only that, but Floor 15 was much more swarmed with monsters than Floor 12, which is as far as he ever got as a solo adventurer when he went to Rank Up.

All in all, the situation was abysmal at best. Without any support, he was stuck all alone on Floor 15. He knew his allies were below him, having fallen victim to a 'Shattered Shaft', a horrible trap the Dungeon pulls on Adventurers, where the falling stones from the spawning of Bad Bats causes holes between Floors 15, 16 and 17 to open up and swallow parties whole. It was a horrible and potentially deadly situation to find yourself in.

Not like his situation was much better.

Akihide thought for a moment, weighing up his options. 'Do I want to make a break for the surface, or do I try to get back to the others?' he thought, looking down two paths. He was in unfamiliar territory, with no way of knowing where he was as Remilia had been holding their map when she fell with the others, so until Akihide ran into a similar room or something, he was completely lost, not that he had been to Floor 15 much. Even if he found his way back onto the main path, it would be entirely possible for him to completely miss that crucial information on account of his inexperience. Maybe if he found another party of adventurers, he could make his way back up or down with their help.

Or there was a third option, run around Floor 15 avoiding any and all fights possible, and wait for rescue. The others that fell through the Shattered Shaft would either make their way back to Floor 15 to try and help him, or head down to Floor 18 first to gather reinforcements. Either way, they were coming, so it would be best to try and remain near areas he knew they would come, whether that was to kill the Minotaur with reinforcements or get him out of there as quickly as possible.

"That's the plan then..." he muttered, fortifying his decision in his head. "Keep your head on a swivel, look at everything, avoid fighting if at all possible..." he continued, psyching himself up as he looked at the tunnel he had not gone down yet, leading away from where he left the Minotaur.

Best route out of all of them.

He looked down the tunnel and began to run, looking to put as much distance between himself and the Minotaur as possible.

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Kaguya groaned as she looked around her. 'Shattered Shaft' she thought, eyes looking at the collection of people and rubble around her. She stood up, getting a better view for their situation. Alise was fine, that was good, but the same couldn't be said for all the others. Lloyd had a stone on top of his leg, the limb most likely broken, Sharon having the same issue with her arms. Liza was bleeding from the head, most likely from a falling piece of rubble that had cut her on the way down. Other than that, the Loki Familia seemed relatively unharmed.