At the same when the angel summoned by Lilith swung her giant sword and cleaved the island in two, it triggered something, so the dungeon reacted and sent those inside it outside. The dungeon forcedly warped them out with only one exception; only Alex was left inside the dungeon.
''What just happened?"
Alex inquired as he was still confused by the sudden shaking followed by Sakuya sudden disappearance.
〖Something happened that triggered the dungeon defensive function that sent intruders outside of the dungeon. As for why you are still here, I believe soon we will find the answer.〗Silveria answered Alex's question.
''I see-"
Alex hadn't finished speaking when another blinding light happened, forcing him to cover his eyes. When the light disappeared, Alex found himself standing inside a room; it was a standard white room, then was a sound.
Click!
A door opened as if to invite Alex in; looking at the door, Alex hesitated for a moment before advancing; he knew nothing would happen if he stayed in the white room; eventually, he must leave, so why not take the risk to go see what was on the other side?
Thinking like this, Alex stepped out of the white room; he appeared in another room; this one looked like an average dungeon room with a glowing wall, pure Mana in the air. Breathing this, Alex felt like his MP was recovering fast; there was nothing in this room except a stair leading to another level. Because he was not in a hurry, Alex decided to take a short break before continuing; he also wanted to check his status after using the black gun, Nyx, to eliminate the transformed Seven.
''Status!" Alex called out as he sat on the ground crosslegged.
[Alexander Kael Touch]
Class: Magic Gunslinger
Age: 17
Male
Race: High Human
「 Rank 11]
Level 107
Experience Value (XP): 50000/66100
Magic Power: 5800 (+30) ➤ 5830/5830
Magic: None
Attack: 2270 (+ 30) ➤ 2300
Defense: 1840 (+30) ➤ 1870
Agility: 1980 (+30) ➤ 2010 (+200)
Intelligence: 2000 (+30) ➤2030
Luck: 1620 (+30) ➤1650
BP: 60
SP: 10
Gift: Death Guns
Skills: [Item box Level 4] [Swift Fingers Max] [Divine Sense Level 4] [Throwing knife Level 5] [Dark Vision Level 2] [Dual Wielding Level 2] [Accel Level 5] [Knife Art Level 4] [Link Level 4] [Gun Art Level Level 10] [High Regeneration Level 7] [Mana Recovery Level 7] [Crimson's Bullet] [Shadow Shift Level 5] [Blade Dance Level 4]
Special Abilities: [Language Comprehension][Danger Sense] [Overdrive] [Death's Eye] [Envisage] {Erase} {Magic Bullet} {Snatch} [Hellsing] [Xerox] {Death Bullet (???)} [Time Stop] [Time Acceleration] (New) [Eye of Truth Level 1]
Titles: [Otherworlder] [The one whose fingers are faster than Flash] [Goblin Slayer] [The Reborn] [Shadow Nemesis] [The Slaughterer] [The Destroyer] [Death Master]』
Alex was pleased that he didn't lose too much; no, it could be said that he gained in fact, he lost one rank to kill Seven while the amount of XP acquired at the latter death brought back his lost level, and he even jumped three levels on top of it. The death bullet is highly costly, especially when it comes to the stronger opponent, but the fact that you can earn XP after killing your opponent could be said to have halved almost all the demerit of this op ability.
Alex stood up and walked down the stairs leading to the next floor; he didn't bother using his BP nor SP; he would use them later; for now, he just wanted to get out of this strange dungeon. First, it was floating islands with sacrificial portals, but now it was only normal dungeon rooms; it was almost absurd; if he didn't happen to have entered such a dungeon, he would have hard believing it. While thinking how absurd existence called dungeons are, Alex descended toward the next floor.
Meanwhile, outside somewhere in the Forest of Monsters, an unconscious Lilith appeared out of thin, soon another person appeared.
''Lilith!"
Sakuya shouted as she dashed toward the falling Lilith, even with her exhausted body.
Sakuya successfully caught Lilith; her body was ice cold, blood-drenched her clothes. Sakuya gently lay Lilith on the ground as she checked her pulse.
''Sigh! She is still breathing. Only her pulse is extremely weakened while her body is cold. However, her body seems to be recovering. I'm out of healing potion; let's wait and see. I wonder what happened and where is Alex?"
Sakuya mumbled as she sat near Lilith to recuperate while waiting for the Demon's princess to wake up.
In another location, at the other end of Forest of Monsters, a white-haired man with a missing arm held another man in a highly sorry state; these two men were naturally Zero and Leonardo.
After suffering that explosion, Sebastian blowing himself up. Zero was extremely injured as he was sent out of the dungeon; even with his almost godly regenerative ability, he couldn't recuperate completely. It seemed that there was something in the explosion that blocked his ability.
''The mission is a failure.''
Muttering this Zero left with the unconscious Leonardo, what happened to him to be so gravely injured would be known once he woke up. His armor was gone, his arms twisted in odd angles, even that reinforced black arm was not spared; that was a large scar running across Leonardo's chest until it almost reached its crotch. It was so large that Leonardo's innards became visible, and like Zero, Leonardo's regenerative ability seemed to malfunction as his injuries showed no sign of regenerating; the black mix stored inside the black arm seemed to have simply vanished.
While flying high in the sky, Zero couldn't help but wonder why things had gone so wrong; they came with four Numbers, hundreds of low ranked members from the organization; however, not only they failed in completing the assigned task, they were annihilated instead, it was the first time for him to suffer such colossal failure, he knew that Lord Kratos was going to be furious. However, he could do nothing, not after the dungeon seemed to have vanished after spitting Leonardo and some weak humans, which he didn't bother checking.
''Well, at least I killed the Crimson duke.'' Zero tried to console himself to have killed Sebastian, also known as the Crimson Duke. Whether this would suffice or not to quench Lord Thanos' anger was yet to know. It was not like he cared about; Zero just wanted to see the world burn; thinking about it brought a smile to his lips as he disappeared.
At the same time, Alex was stepped on another floor; this one was different.