Buhiiiiikk

  A loud screeg echoed loudly throughout the byrinth as an Org fell towards the ground, making the ground rumble. A few moments ter, the monster's corpse vanished into thin air, leaving behind a neckd an ample amount of leather.

  "Was that the st one, Grey?" ［Yuna］

  "Yep. I couldn't detey more monsters around. There also aren't any treasure rooms in the viity." ［Grey］

  After traveling for more than 6 hrey and Yuna have finally arrived iaircase leading to the 8th floor. Needless to say, on the jourhere, they were able to collect a lot of quest items which easily fetch millions of kiels in total.

  With the amount of treasures from both the 6th and 7th floors, they have already acquired a total of almost 200 million kiels. It was equal to 3 years worth of a marquisate's profit.

  "Alright, let's head to the floor." ［Grey］

  "Eh? We aren't going to have lunch yet?" ［Yuna］

  "Ah, right..." ［Grey］

  Just like the day befrey had once again fotten that it was already lunch time. Luckily, Yuna was able to remind him before they go traveling the byrinth on ay stomach like before.

  An appetizing smell enveloped the stairs as Grey and Yuna prepared a warm meal for lunch. Soon after, their faces were filled with satisfa as they eheir meals plete with rice, meat, soup, and dessert.

  After lunch, Grey and Yuna desded to the 8th floor where A-rank monsters resided. It was also worth noting that the lower the floors are, the fewer mohere are, but to pensate for that, the mohemselves beuch stronger.

  Grey already knew how massive the byrinths were, but seeing how the ceiliended more than 30 meters upwards, he realized he was uimating it. Of course, the lower one goes, the bigger the halls would bee.

  Upon their dest, the first monster which greeted them was a rge tree-like creature which was equipped with a trunk more than 5 meters in diameter, which was more than tenfold strohan steel. It also had 6 legs, spread out even on the base of its trunk.

  It was a opeid Treant, an A-rank pnt-attribute elemental monster capable of wiping out hamlets as if it was just a walk in the park. A creature which could threaten a whole territory if let loose.

  Thud Thud Thud

  Notig Grey and Yuna's arrival, the opeid Trea straight towards them. Although its speed was slow, its strength is nothing to scoff at. Just from the reverberations of its footsteps, one easily guarahat.

  But Grey and Yuna didn't let it do just whatever it wao do. Before it could even reach them, Grey and Yuna quickly ran past it and delivered blows towards its wooden calves at the same time.

  ??Magnum Caliber!?? ［Grey］

  ??Sickle Cw!?? ［Yuna］

  Receiving the brunt of their attacks, the two of the enemy's legs broke down into splinters, making the opeid Treant out of baaking that opportunity, Grey destroyed its remaining limbs with a fury of punches.

  Crasshhhhh

  With a loud crash, the oanding tall opeid Treaowards the ground helplessly. It tried tee its limbs, but Grey mao destroy them before they could even bee usable.

  Yuna didn't let Grey's effo to waste. As soon as she saw the enemy fall, she hastily spriowards its head and with a swing of her daggers, she delivered the finishing blow.

  ??Execution!?? ［Yuna］

  With Yuna's attack, the opeid Treant's massive head was turned into fine dust, and soon after, its whole body followed, leaving only its drops behind. There was a small gem, a few crystalline fragments, and tons upon tons of lumber.

  "Hm?" ［Yuna］

  Yuna tilted her head in curiosity as she examihe small gem dropped from the opeid Treant. It was a deep green oval-shaped gem which could easily fit inside a child's closed palm. But even if it was small, it was very beautiful.

  "So pretty..." ［Yuna］

  "That's the 'Seed of Vitality'. Do you want it?" ［Grey］

  " I...?" ［Yuna］

  Rather than answering Yuna's question, Grey only nodded silently with a gentle smile on his face. It made Yuna very happy, but unlike before, she made sure to trol her impulses to prevent suddenly hugging Grey again.

  Just as Grey had said, the gem Yuna was holding was called the "Seed of Vitality". It's a very amazing item which boosts the stamina and recovery rates of whomever is wearing it by more than 35% and protects them from many diseases.

  Being su amazing item, it could easily fetillion kiels. It was an item not even nobles could easily possess. It is sidered a luxurious item even for the standards of royalty.

  "Thank you, Grey..." ［Yuna］

  "No problem. But of course, let's have that stored first. I'll give you everything you want when we've fihe byrinth." ［Grey］

  "Un!" ［Yuna］

  With their agreemeled, Grey and Yuna then tio traverse the byrinth where they entered a monster every 10 minutes or so. Some of them dropped amazing items while others were just ordinary drops.

  While the mohey fought are also A-rank, Yuna didn't have much trouble fighting against them as she was already on the pinnacle of A-rank. Just on a rough estimate, she was about 5 times strohan them.

  If there were just three enemies, Yuna would be able to hahem simultaneously all by herself. Anymore than that could bee dangerous. Thankfully, she was wearing Divine-grade equipment which strengthened her defense.

  "Oh? There's a treasure room up ahead." ［Grey］

  "Where?!" ［Yuna］

  Hearing the word "treasure", Yuna's ears perked up iement and her eyes shone brightly. She was mostly excited to find rare materials to use for her alchemy.

  Upon opening the hidderance, what greeted them was a very small room guarded by two A-rank Ogre Warlords. Both stood more than 4 meters tall and were holding bdes as they stood guard.

  "Grey, I'll take them both on." ［Yuna］

  "... Alright, just make sure to be careful." ［Grey］

  "Un." ［Yuna］

  A bold decration came from Yuna, rang inside Grey's ears. Seeing her determination, Grey was left with no choice but to agree. Although he still remained vigint for any dangers.

  Soon after, Yuna utilized her "Nihility", and both her presend figure vanished from the surrounding, blending in with the stagnant air. Even when she had ehe room, none of the enemies had noticed.

  Not even the sound of footsteps or her breathing could be heard. She had bee oh the surroundings, ready to strike at a moment's notice.

  Ugrruuuukkkkk

  A loud scream filled the room as a sudden cut appeared on one of the Ogre Warlords. It didhere as soon after, more and more cuts appeared throughout its body.

  Its panion was also armed, but it couldn't sense an intruder. All it could do was watch as its kin swung its bde recklessly like an enraged madman. No, rather than watch, it did its best to dodge its panion's rampage.

  Crassshhhhh

  As the unharmed Ogre Warlord saw a glimmer of light shine by the er of the room, it immediately struck it without hesitation. But evehe smoke cleared out, there was nothing to be found.

  It wasn't halluating. Yuna had used a little bit of light magic to distract the enemy, and as it was distracted, its madness-driven panion mao nd a blow towards its back, leaving a deep shing wound.

  The two danced in the palm of Yuna's hands as they recklessly struck every nook and y of the room in the sliver of hope of striking the intruder whieither of them could see.

  With each blood Yuna drew, the faster and stronger she became. It was due tger's entment, "Bleeding Edge", which temporarily boosts her physical attributes with every wound she creates.

  ??Dice!?? ［Yuna］

  As soon as the enemies were exhausted, Yuna immediately unched her final attastantly turning the enemies into a pool of monster blood. With the amount of power she had accumuted, even the room was turned into fine dust.

  Watg the se unfold in front of him, Grey felt shivers run down his spine. While he was fident he could defeat Yuna, her way of fighting when she's serious was still scary.

  With the enemies defeated, the room was suddenly restored to its flory, and the treasure chest which suffered the full brunt of Yuna's attacks was also restored to its peak dition as if nothing ever happened.

  "Gre～y! I'm done!" ［Yuna］

  "ing!" ［Grey］

  Grey immediately stored the treasure chest's tents as soon as he identified them. Unfortunately for Yuna, there weren't any alchemy ingredients nor any potions amongst its tents.

  A few moments after Grey and Yued the treasure room, Grey found another one just a couple hundred meters ahead. There also weren't that many monsters so the two were able to arrive there pretty quickly.

  Just like the previous ohe treasure room was hidden behind a stone wall. The only differehis time was that it was much bigger than the ohey have previously entered and had a very worrisome description.

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  [Labyrinth]

  [Name] Labyrinth of Death

  [Structure] Treasure room

  [Type] Trap

  [Description]

  A rge treasure room with multiple hallways. Each hallway has a different trap installed ihat will be triggered upory. The traps will reactivate every minute uhe treasure is opened.

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  It was the first time they have entered a treasure room with multiple traps installed in them. It was even more w when there were more than a dozen hallresent.

  "Yuna, I'll hahis o's quite dangerous so make sure to stie closely." ［Grey］

  "Un, uood." ［Yuna］

  ??Horde: Goblin?? ［Grey］

  Hearing Yuna's affirmation, Grey immediately summoned a rge amount of goblins which equaled the amount of hallresent. They were to bee test dummies which would activate the traps frey and Yuna's safety.

  It was already the 8th floor where A-rank monsters would spawn. Grey couldn't afford to risk Yuna's safety from both the traps and the byrinth monsters. It was best to keep help close and protect her upon any signs of danger.

  Bzzzzzttttbbzzzzzttttt

  The moment the first goblin stepped foot on the room, electricity came crag down out of nowhere and turhe goblin into ash. Even the bones of the goblins were charred into charcoal.

  Seeing that se, Grey and Yuna were able to uand the gravity of the situation. The traps were on a pletely different caliber from the ones in the previous floors. The electric trap alone was capable of killing a B-ranker in an instant.

  Oer the rey sent the goblins ter the traps, and ead every time, the goblins would be mercilessly killed by the hidden traps. Each of the traps were different from one another.

  There was a trap that scorched the whole room, there was also ohat released extremely poisonous gasses, and even one which exploded the whole hallway. If it weren't for the summoned goblins, Grey and Yuna wouldn't be able to pass the traps and safely arrive at where the treasure was.

  "Grey, I'll opereasure chest." ［Yuna］

  "Oh, sureー No, wait! Yuna, stop!" ［Grey］

  Yuna was about to opereasure chest wheopped her midway with a desperate voice. While it was very sudden, Yuna mao stop herself and back off from the treasure chest.

  "Is there something wrong?" ［Yuna］

  "Yes, please stand back a little bit." ［Grey］

  "O... Okay..." ［Yuna］

  Following Grey's instrus, Yuna tucked herself in the er of the room away from the treasure chest. trary to her as, Grey approached it, and when it was at his arm's length...

  ??Megaton Shotgun!?? ［Grey］

  ... Grey pulled his hand and then delivered a strong attack towards it, obliterating it immediately after the attack ected to it. Soon after, it vanished into thin air, leaving a few items behind.

  "The treasure chest vanished...?" ［Yuna］

  "It wasn't a treasure chest, but a monster." ［Grey］

  "Eh?! A monster?!" ［Yuna］

  "That's right it was a mimic which took the form of a treasure chest. If you had touched it, it would have luraight at you." ［Grey］

  "How nasty..." ［Yuna］

  Yuna's low voice resouhroughout the room as she gazed upon the spot where the mimic reviously statio. She would have been a victim of it if it wasn't frey's warning.

  The mimic Grey had just defeated was the highest variant of a mimi Alluring Mimic, which like the name implies, not only mimics things but allures unsuspeg victims into approag it.

  While the Alluring Mimic was only at B-rank, with a sudden surprise attad Yuna's guard still down, she would have been hurt from it. After all, it was a monster which brought demise upon advehroughout the whole world.

  Piiisshhhioooo

  Soon after the mimiished into thin air, areasure chest appeared. This time, Grey did not take any ces and appraised the treasure chest for any possible dangers.

  "Is it safe?" ［Yuna］

  "Yeah. This one's an authentic treasure chest. Go ahead and open it." ［Grey］

  "Un!" ［Yuna］

  Like before, Yuedly opehe treasure chest like a little child excited to learn what her christmas present was. It didn't even look like she was almost attacked just a few moments ago.

  When Yuna opehe treasure chest, wonderful treasures greeted their eyes. Just the tents of that sireasure chest alone was already worth more than what we got from traveling all this time in the byrinth.

  Along with 8 Moon Crystals (10 Million Kiels), there was only oher item ihe treasure chest. It was "Soul Eater's Amulet", a Peak-tier Superirade item which could fetch a billion kiels.

  The amulet's ability is to store the souls of deceased beasts or mana from the monsters killed. It's simir to a mana bank where the user could store up to 10,000 units of mana. It was especially useful for S-rankers whose average mana capacity is about 3,000.

  "Uuu... There aren't any potions..." ［Yuna］

  Well, even with how valuable that item was, Yuna was still crestfallen that there weren't any alchemy materials inside. She hoped to get ingredients better than the "Vampire Lord's Blood", but luck wasn't on her side.

  After st the treasures, Grey and Yuan then tiheir way ihe byrinth. It took them more than 8 hours, but they were able to find the staircase leading to the 9th floor.

  And sihere weren't that many people who will reach the 8th floor, Yuna and Grey decided to try out all of the treasure rooms, making the amount of treasures they obtained soar much higher.

  When they reached the 9th floor, it was much quieter thah, and even with Grey's "Divine Eyes", he could only detect a single monster. It wouldn't even be an exaggeration to say that there were more safe zohan monsters on the floor.

  "I think this is how far we'll go for today." ［Grey］

  "Mmm... Then it's time for dinner!" ［Yuna］

  "Alright, alright, let's cook ourselves some dinner, shall we?" ［Grey］

  "Un!" ［Yuna］

  Without even having a single fight oh floor, Yuna and Grey decided to stay oaircase. And si was about 8 o'clock already, the two of them decided to have dinner.

  Their dinner sists of rice, curry, skewers, beef soup, and pudding for dessert. Needless to say, the both of them e very thhly. There weren't aovers even though they cooked quite a bit.

  "Fuaah～ that was a delieal! I want to eat ice cream right now!" ［Yuna］

  "Eh? But we just ate pudding. If you tio eat sweets, you're really going to gai." ［Grey］

  "Grey, stop teasihat won't work on me anymore!" ［Yuna］

  "Aww, too bad... Looks like I won't see your shocked expression today..." ［Grey］

  "Grey!" ［Yuna］

  Yuna protested to Grey's provocations by stomping her left foot in an adorable way as she pouted to show her dissatisfa. Grey oher hand only chuckled as he observed the cute being called "Yuna",

  Yuna then tried her best to not look at Grey's dire as she tio show her dissatisfa. Even when she grabbed a cup of water for herself, she made sure to not look at Grey.

  Ba-dump Ba-dump Ba-dump

  The mrey looked at the pouting Yuna, the wilder his heartbeats became, it was rag to the point that it might explode any moment. It was as if he was losing his sense of self at that moment.

  It was especially difficult to tain when Yuna was illuminated by the light of the duorchstones. In such a dark byrinth, she shone brighter than anything else, and more beautiful than any treasures Grey had e across.

  "Yuna." ［Grey］

  "No! I'm still mad at yoー" ［Yuna］

  "I love you." ［Grey］

  Yuna didn't even finish her words. Grey's fession resounded clearly inside her ears. The shock from Grey's words was too much for her to hahat she dropped the cup she was holding onto, spilling the water i.

  "Wh... What did you just say...?" ［Yuna］

  "Sorry, that was very sudden, wasn't it? It's just that the more I look at you, the more I realize how much I've fallen for you. My heart is just beating so erratically that I couldn't help myself but blurt it out. At this point, I don't even care if I get rejected, I just wao vey these feelings to you." ［Grey］

  "It's better to do something tha not doing it". Those were the words of Kris which tio echo inside Grey's mind. No matter what the outay be, Grey didn't care anymore. He only wao tell Yuna that he loves her.

  Yuna who received Grey's sincere fession was at an utter loss of words as she hung down her head, preventing Grey from seeing her face which expressed the emotions she was feeling at the moment.

  Disbelief, relief, joy, fear, shock... There wasn't just oion swirling inside Yuna's heart the moment she heard Grey's words. She was very happy yet she wao cry a lot. To her, it felt like it was a dream that it was scary.

  "Don't worry about it, Yuna. You don't have toー" ［Grey］

  "Dummy." ［Yuna］

  This time, it was Grey whose words were cut off. As Yuna raised her head to look at Grey. She revealed a face as red as one could be along with tears of joy and relief f in her eyes.

  "Who said you were gettied? I'm the one who gets to decide that!" ［Yuna］

  "Huh? Does that mean..." ［Grey］

  "Un... I love you too..." ［Yuna］

  Hearing Yuna's words, Grey's heart was filled with extreme happiness he didn't even knoossible. It was the happiest moment of his life, and before he realized it, his body had already moved on its own.

  Grey's hands gently wiped away the tears on his beloved's faces. Even when she was g, to Grey's eyes, Yuna was still the most beautiful dy there is. Be it in this life, the previous one, or whatever the future holds, he was sure that that would never ge.

  To see the man she loves bear the same feelings as her, Yuna's heart became filled with happihat her love had finally bore fruition. She closed her eyes tight as the distaween her and Grey shortened with the passing of time. It wasn't long until their lips touched one another's.

  The light from the torchstones shone ever shtly, and the crag of the fire filled the byrinth with music as the hearts of two people became one.

  CHAPTER 60 END