Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 27

Ned's party perspective

As Nyx gave her critiques on their plan, they made changes to it. Since Nyx fought the 10th-floor boss all by herself, not just once but a total of 10 times, she knows a lot more than them.

Going back to their rooms after eating dinner, they prepared and went to bed early to fight the floor boss tomorrow.

Early in the morning, Oliver knocks on Nyx's door to wake her up, and they go to the tavern next door to eat breakfast.

At the table, they order breakfast and go over their plan again until Nyx arrives.

Nyx, sitting at their table, yawned and had bags under her eyes.

"You look tired; did you stay up late reading?"

Keith talked to Nyx, showing interest in the book Nyx was holding and was reading last night.

"Yep, I bought this book yesterday; I'm halfway done with it."

"That is pretty amazing that you can read that fast. I'm not even a quarter of the way done with the book you lent me. So, what are you reading?"

"Magical engineering."

"What's that?"

"It's about making basic magical tools."

"Are you a mage or something?"

"No actually."

Nyx shook her head while not looking up from her book, answering Keith's question.

"I just found it interesting."

Nyx didn't give out her actual reason because she didn't want to get them involved in her business and thought it was better if they didn't know.

After finishing their breakfast, Nyx saw them off.

"Are you sure you don't want me to come, Ned?"

"No, we want to see how much stronger we have gotten."

Ned and everyone else in his party wants to do it without Nyx because they haven't gotten over Zack's death. If they could, they wanted to kill the direwolf that killed Zack by themselves. However, Nyx already killed it, so they chose to fight the Latrodec spider instead because it was similar in strength to the direwolf, so it was the next best thing, and to prove to themselves that they were strong enough to fight the direwolf that killed Zack.

"Good luck then, and remember, if you can't handle it, you can always run away."

"I'll keep that in mind."

Ned replies to Nyx and walks straight to the Dradevow dungeon.

As they were walking there, they chatted about how they couldn't believe that they were about to fight the 10th-floor boss because normally it would take at least a month or two to reach the 10th-floor, and they did it in half a month.

"Ya, I wonder if my little sister will think I'm a hero when I come back."

Carl spoke about his family in the village he left to become an adventurer.

Then Mark, Ned, Keith, and Oliver began wondering how their family would react to how well they were doing.

Mark and Keith are thinking about their farmer parents, Ned with his hunting family, and Oliver with his single mother, who owns a tavern.

However, this led to them being silent for a while because it reminded them of Zack.

"Ya... I wonder what Zack would think of us now."