Luck is a Charm

As James' group struggled to keep their barrier intact from the barrage of the acid shot from Romu, Zen had already gone back to Krista Dragoon and Leila Dragoon's side.

He was planning on ignoring them and letting them do their own thing but since they wanted to harm Krista and Leila, Zen would gladly send them on their journey to death.

"You've finished already? It hasn't even been a minute," Krista Dragoon raised her eyebrow slightly when she saw Zen coming back.

Zen shrugged his shoulders and sat down next to Krista Dragoon before saying, "Just some small fry. How long do you think I would take?"

Afterward, Zen decided to ask what they were doing since there were no monsters on this floor and it was considered safe for now.

"We were just trying to increase our mana while waiting for something to happen." Kirsta Dragoon said and closed her eyes again, seemingly in concentration to absorb more mana.

"AHHHHHH"

At the same time, Romu and the rest of the worker slimes managed to corrode the barrier that James had put up and the result was obvious.

None of them were left alive as their skin completely melted away from their body and their face was unrecognizable anymore.

Carlson was pale when he witnessed the cruelty of Zen and his slimes that they would kill because of plotting against him.

'Thank god I'm smart enough to not mess with a devil,' Carlson placed his hand in his heart that was beating rapidly as he praised himself for not digging his own grave.

Worse, Carlson soon curved his lips upward when he saw James who always goes against his order to be dead now. 

They were only acquaintances and formed the group because they had no other choice but to work together to ascend the floor. If it weren't because he wasn't strong enough to work alone, he would have never allied with them.

As Carlson was thankful, Romu and the rest of the worker slimes happily bounced back to Zen that they completed his order with ease.

"Master, we finished exterminating those dummies for trying to target Master's women," Romu exclaimed, causing Krista Dragoon to glare at Zen.

"When did I become your woman?" Krista Dragoon said solemnly. She only allowed him to kiss and hug her waist, nothing more. This wasn't even considered to be his woman in her dictionary.

Zen was dumbfounded and decided to kiss her deeply for trying to deny this fact already. The kissing took longer than a minute before they were stopped abruptly when more people started appearing in the center of the room.

"Seems like this could be a resting area for those who finished clearing the 9th floor," Zen said since there were more and more people in groups appearing here while zero monsters had been spotted.

"You're right, look at those new groups of people. All of them look exhausted and have tattered clothes." Krista Dragoon said in surprise when she saw their appearance.

Comparing herself to them, her clothes were perfectly cleaned with zero sign of damage and she was perfectly fine in health and stamina. 

Thinking further, Krista Dragoon's heart started beating rapidly when she knew how blissful she was to be able to have Zen with her in this labyrinth as she realized there was at least some dirt around his clothes even if he tried to hide it.

'Even from the time Daemon Kaiso changed into a demon, it was always Zen being in the frontline while we stayed in the back and casting some vines.' Krista Dragoon exclaimed inwardly as she glanced at Zen who was calmly looking at the new groups of people.

Feeling like he was being spied on, Zen turned around to look at Krista Dragoon who quickly turned her head around to avoid his eyesight.

'Did I do something wrong again?' Zen questioned himself before returning his focus to see if Evie and Angela were going to appear here.

"Phew, finally a resting area after those horrendous goblins that almost overwhelmed us."

"Sigh, just remembering their sheer number almost causes me to shiver in fear again. They were so tanky that our magic simply didn't penetrate them enough."

"I know right, luckily we managed to find a teleportation array in time to escape immediately otherwise our bodies would have been trampled to death by them."

Almost every group was complaining about the difficulty of the goblins horde and Zen became surprised. 

The goblins horde wasn't on the 9th floor when Zen recalled meeting them so how was it possible that they got up here when they didn't ascend to the 9th floor.

'Just what the heck is going on with this floor?' Zen curses inwardly when there are even more mysteries.

Meanwhile, the new groups also recognized Zen or more importantly, the two princesses, Krista Dragoon and Leila Dragoon. They have thought about going forward to ask about their experiences but when they saw Zen being next to them with a bunch of slimes bouncing up and down, they decided to stop themselves.

That was because in a place here, there was a bloody mess of corpses and it was clear that they had been killed by some corrosiveness. 

They couldn't recognize their face but from their dressage, they could determine the members and it was obvious that their lecherous behavior must have tried to take advantage of the princesses, only to be met with their own death.

Sometime later, there were no longer any more new groups teleporting here, and Zen couldn't help but become disappointed once again.

"Heh, missing your little Angela already huh," Krista Dragoon teased when she saw his expression.

Zen twitched his mouth slightly on her jealousy for missing another woman other than her. 

"I'm just worried about their safety," Zen tried to explain himself but Krista Dragoon was no fool to be tricked by his words.

"Didn't you have some tracking method on her so it's pretty obvious that you know she's safe? I bet you just wanted to get cozy with Angela since you have been holding your damn lust." Krista Dragoon scoffed and ignored Zen, causing Zen to have a headache.