Descend
As Bell fell through the vertical hole, he could see the hole extended past many floors. Recalling what Finn and Ottar taught him, the hole would likely originate at the 58th floor. He then heard Ottar yelling to him.
Ottar "Slow yourself down by extending your arms and legs. We need to catch up to you"
As Bell follow Ottar's instructions, his increased drag did the trick. As he slowed down, the others closed the distance between them. Of course, Ais in full ariel was the first to reach him. Caught by Ais, Bell was again in a princess carry.
With ariel unable to lift all of them back up in a safe fashion, they decided instead to use it to slow their descend. The group soon managed to synchronize themselves so they would land at the same time, but suddenly they saw Lefiya plummeting towards them screaming and totally out of control. Fortunately, Tiona was able to catch her as she dropped like a rock in yet another princess carry
The slow descend also gave Lefiya time to chant Fusillade Fallarica. They timed it so that her spell could be activated right before landing. Just in case, Ottar again reminded Bell to save argonaut for a more desperate situation, and this was not it...
As they entered the huge black graphite cavern that was the 58th floor, Lefiya quickly finished chanting as she saw hordes of dragons and virga. When the spell took effect, the monsters in the enormous room were decimated. Tiona and Tione cheered, but that was premature. Virgas continued to stream in from the 57 floor entrance while valgang dragons kept respawning.
Ottar had Allen stay as the bodyguard for Bell and Lefiya while he started attacking the respawning dragons. Tiona and Tione then focused on the virga entering from above, while Ais took off in ariel to cut down whichever monsters that got by their defense. Working together, they were just able to keep control of the monsters without expending any more magic. After a while, it was getting tiring, but fortunately, Finn's group soon reached the floor.
With everyone back together, they were able to kill the monsters that showed up while they decided how what to do on the 59th floor. First, Finn was surprised by the temperature, as he expected the 58th floor to be quite cold due to the records from the Zeus familias about glacial conditions on the 59th floor. Apparently, the conditions had changed so they lighten some of their load including warm clothing such as salamander wool. Second, Finn had Tsubaki do maintenance on their weapons, which had cut down numerous monsters. Third, Riveria reapplied veil breathe to provide limited protection. Finally, they had some quick lunch and recovery potions. Once preparations were complete, they then headed to the 59th floor entrance.
Indeed, the floor was not glacial at all, but warm and humid with dense vegetation. They started walking around to look for any signs of the enemy or why Revis would say Ais can get answers on this floor. After some distance, they saw a vast plain with lots of virgas heading towards a central area with two huge plants. Realizing this was probably their goal, they started towards the area where all the monsters were converging at.
When they got closer, they saw that both plants were eating the virgas for their magic stones. With a seemingly endless supply of virga, those plant monsters must have become incredibly power. Suddenly, both plants started transforming, and gave off horrible shrieking sounds. After a short time, the top segment of both plant monsters transformed into top halves of beautiful girls.
Both monsters recognized Ais and called out to her "Aria, Aria, Aria, come join us. Let us devour you!"
Ais realized that the monsters were spirits, as did the rest of Loki executives. Seeing Ais' shock reaction, Bell realized that there could be a link between Ais and those spirits.
As the 2 spirits continued to consume the magic stones of the virgas, Finn also figured out that the purpose of the virgas were to serve as a food supply for the 'demi spirits". Thus, some master plan may be in action where the recent events in the dungeon may only be scratching the surface of what is really behind this.
Ottar, Bete, Tiona, Tione and Ais then started racing towards the enemy. However Finn's thumb told him to stop. And the thumb was correct as both demi spirits appeared to be chanting magic spells!