c-95
chapter-94

"Clearing the dungeon?!" They were shocked as clearing the dungeon with their current party was an insane thought.

"Shiro, you know that this dungeon is basically 15 levels above our average party level right?" Jonas said with a frown.

[Yes I do. But, rather than waiting here and risk being surrounded, I'm more willing to challenge this dungeon and survive.] Shiro replied with a serious face.

Jonas paused seeing how serious Shiro was right now. He knew that it was no time to joke around and that the city was most likely going to wait for their deaths before any rescue came.

[But naturally, we aren't going to challenge the dungeon straight away. No, what we need to do is level everyone up. Primarily Silvia and Madison. And only after that, will we focus on everyone else.]

Jonas agreed since he knew that having a high level tanker and healer would increase their chances of survival.

[Next is supplies. How much food do you have?] Shiro asked.

"I didn't think we'll be trapped here so I didn't prepare much. At most, we can ration it to around 2 meals for each of us before running out. What about you?" Jonas asked.

[I don't have any food.] Shiro shook her head. All she prepared were mana stones that were meant to feed her and Yin.

[I suppose we can harvest the monster's for food if we needed to.]

They had Erica for her fire magic so they'll be able to create a fire to roast the food. The only problem being that it'll attract the monsters which means more fighting.

Fighting means using energy and they needed to eat food for energy. And it all just loops around.

'There's also the problem of the final boss sending his killing intent towards us.' Shiro thought with a frown.

With the boss sending out killing intent, Shiro needed to counter it for the safety of the party. And yet, if she did counter it, it'll give their position away.

"Annoying." Shiro muttered.

Waiting for a moment for the party to fully recover, Shiro explained the plan of action to Jonas.

[Basically, we need to rotate around killing and moving the camp around. If we stay in one place for too long, the monsters will surround us. While I can fight the boss's killing intent off, it also means I'll be exposing our position. The main problem we need to think about is rest and stamina consumption.]

"Indeed. We can't rest if the monsters surround us, but we can't rest either if we're running away. I presume the boss would most likely send out killing intent in waves to determine our position every so often.

"However, if you don't counter it, our position would be hidden. But at the same time, it is very dangerous to keep ourselves exposed to this kind of killing intent." Jonas replied.

'Hmm…' Shiro sat down with a difficult face.

"Erm… What if Shiro directed her intent at the boss. Take the initiative?" Silvia asked.

[Explain.]

"Well, if you were to target the boss with your intent, it'll draw attention away from us. At the same time, it'll give us the room we need to kill the monsters to level up." Silvia said as she wanted to think of as many ideas as she could in a short amount of time.

"Silvia!" Jonas shouted, causing her to flinch.

"Do you know that this is basically sending Shiro to her death! If she targets the boss with her killing intent, the boss will most likely send out stronger monsters to kill Shiro. Sure we'll have an easier time levelling up but that also means that Shiro will be in more danger!" Jonas shouted with a furious face.

Silvia paled at what Jonas said since that wasn't her intention. She was just a little desperate and didn't think twice about what she said.

"Ah! I- I- I didn't mean it like that I-" Silvia stuttered.

[No you have a point. This would indeed make it easier for you lot. Not only that, I should be able to level up during this as well.] Shiro replied thinking about the suggestion seriously.

Out of the entire group, she was the most experienced and had the highest level. Not only that, she was pretty confident that she should be able to survive that kind of onslaught.

"That's insane!" Jonas rejected the thought immediately.

[No it's not and it's what we're going to do.] Shiro replied standing up immediately.

[Jonas, lead the party to kill strays while I keep the main army busy.]

Walking towards Lyrica, Shiro explained the basic plan.

"Well it doesn't seem like you'll take no for an answer. Just be careful ok?" Lyrica responded with a tired sigh.

Shiro grinned.

[You know me so well. Good luck, surprise me with your level ok?]

"Yeah, take care."

Crouching down slightly, Shiro dashing into the air and started to jump from tree to tree. A moment later, Lyrica could no longer see Shiro.

Sighing once again, Lyrica walked towards the party, ready to kill some stray monsters to level up.

Meanwhile, Shiro stopped once she made sure that she was far enough. She didn't want the party to be affected after all.

Looking around, she made sure that there was some cover for her should she need them.

"Alright… Here goes nothing." Shiro muttered and closed her eyes.

*KRRR!!!

The moment she sent out her killing intent, ice started to cover the surrounding areas, immediately turning a portion of the forest into an icy tundra.

She focused her intent towards the castle to make sure that the final boss could feel her hostility.

'Come on… Take the bait…' Shiro thought as she waited for the monsters to arrive.

*Tutututu…

She smiled once she felt the ground started to tremble.

Making herself a nanotech bow, since no one was here to watch her, Shiro narrowed her eyes and pulled back on the strings.

*URAAA-!!!

Firing her bow at the first monster she saw, the arrow exploded after it embedded itself into the monster's skull and killed the monster with ease.

Making three more arrows, Shiro jumped into the air and took aim.

*BOOM BOOM BOOM!

After firing three arrows, Shiro grabbed the centre of the bow and ripped it apart.

The two halves morphed themselves into swords as Shiro plunged the sword through the neck of two monsters that had jumped up behind her.

At the same time, a magic circle expanded out under the battlefield, causing ice chains to wrap around the monsters.

"Little Yin!" Shiro shouted out.

*Chirp!

A second set of ice chains sprang out from the ground, chaining up more monsters.

Seeing the second set of chains limit the amount of monsters targeting her, Shiro smiled.

Twisting her body horizontally, she kicked both monsters away from her.

Shadow Buff x2.

Both Shiro and Yin activated Shadow Buff as it gave her a total of 10% increase in her speed.

The other bonuses involved stealth and resistances but she didn't need that at the moment.

"Yes it has, now let's find some monsters to kill. We can't waste the time Shiro has bought for us. Every second counts." Madison said as she too was worried about Shiro.

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"This should be the end of the first wave." Shiro thought as she retracted her killing intent and dashed towards the party.

Since they were in the same party, Shiro was able to see their icons on the map.

It didn't take Shiro too long to find the party as she had been dashing at full speed.

When they came face to face with each other, Jonas nodded and quickly finished off the monster they were fighting.

Running away from the area, they told Shiro to rest up.

Drinking some water, Shiro asked about how long it had been.

"It's been roughly 3 hours since you started the fight." Jonas replied.

[3 hours?]

"I still can't believe you pulled it off." Jonas shook his head in disbelief. Holding back a constant wave of monsters for three hours was simply unbelievable for someone around Shiro's level.

While they rested, they made sure that they were constantly on the move.

During this, Madison brought up a question that had confused her.