Chapter 55 - The Return
Everyone was extremely surprised about what was discovered on floors 95-99. Deciding that the team would not be able to figure out what was going on, Hestia suggested that they should return back to the surface ASAP. With the decision made, they started their return trip. The hope was that they could return all the way to the 50th floor now that they had the deep floors mapped out.
Back at the Loki home, everyone was talking about Enyo and the incubating monsters, which explains why there were no new virgas and violas because Enyo was banished. Furthermore, the big debate was how the mini-sun got there and what were those mysterious objects. The question was who could figure it out, and was it related to the time bubble trap magic. Furthermore, Finn was suspicious how about the yin-yang of the bright white sphere that radiated out all the light and heat versus the dark black sphere where everything was being pulled in.
In heaven, Hestia was going through the same mental exercises. She wished she could go down to the dungeon, but she did not have the power to go to the surface world. However, is the mini-sun somehow related to the timeless dimension?
Back in the dungeon, Ais, Bell and Wiene ascended quickly through the large cavern and got back to the 95th floor, where they went up one of the vertical holes to the 94th floor. It was only an hour or so since they were on the 94th floor, and nothing was different. They were able to avoid the monsters and flew up the same vertical hole back to the 92nd floor. On the 92nd floor, they saw and avoided the same monsters, and then flew up a vertical hole to the dark 91st floor determined to be closest to an exit.
On the dark 91st floor, they had to slow down a lot again. Fortunately, they were able to quickly get to a vertical hole connected to the 90th floor. So there were less encounters than on the way down. To save Wiene's charged edges again, Bell and Ais were able to use Ariel /firebolt to defeat a few black rhinos and silver worms. On the 90th - 89 floors, they avoided a few monsters and went up the same vertical holes as before. On the 88th floor, the remains of the dragon were still in the large room, but they were able to quickly get to the 87th floor. On the 87th floor 87, took the same path to get through to the frozen 86th floor. The frozen floor was just the same, and the remains of the goliath were still on the floor. Bracing the cold, they flew away as quickly as they could. They then reached the beautiful 85th floor where everything was also the same. After flying around to scout a bit, they landed to eat dinner and take a short break. They also updated Hestia and then Finn and Riveria. Everyone just wanted them to keep climbing as quickly as possible. After dinner, they started ascending again.
Floors 84-69 - Nothing changed in these floor in the last couple hours. They were able to avoid monsters and just kept climbing as quickly as they could. They made very good progress now that they have the floors already mapped out.
Floor 68 - The remains of the goliath were still on the ground. They simply kept moving and avoiding encounters.
Floors 67-63 also did not change. They just kept moving and climbing...
Floors 62-59 were also the same. They managed to get through the abyss-like floor without an encounter and then headed up into the labyrinth floors.
They did have to fight a few dragons through the labyrinth floors. To conserve elixirs and Wiene's charged edges, Bell and Ais use more Ariel/firebolt spells. Wiene did have to jump in a couple times to help finish several fights. They did collect 3 magic stones which Wiene consumed.
Finally, they reached the 50th floor where they started the day. It was getting late and their roundtrip covered an incredible total of 98 floors in one day. After scouting around, they went straight to sleep. There was no time for lap pillowing as everyone was tired. Ais had the first watch, Bell the second, and Wiene the third. They were so tired that they actually all slept well.
The next day, they headed up the dungeon and did not encountered much trouble. They did stop on the 18th floor to update the Xenos on their trip. When they reached the surface, it was lunch time after a quick shower! After a couple hours of rest, it was time for meeting with the other familias before dinner...