Outside, Rudra and the other old monsters had finished the S-grade dungeons and successfully earned one or two Legendary items.
The gold-bordered Dungeon that Rudra and the team cleared earned them a total of 4 Legendary items, one being a one-time-use item.
After exiting the dungeons, the first thing everyone did was to gather the rats in the GAA headquarters.
It was time to extract information out of them first and foremost if they wanted to clear the 10th Floor’s Floor Boss without additional risks.
The interrogation of the rats was over just as the first day of the first cycle had passed.
Everyone on the Earth received a notification.
[The 10th Floor’s Floor boss hasn’t been defeated yet after 24 hours. 50% of the dungeons all over the world will start progressing faster toward dungeon break.]
[Statistic: If the floor boss hasn’t been defeated 24 hours from now on, a total of 68 Dungeons of different grades will break and spill onto the world. Good luck, adventurers.]
Everyone in the world got the announcement, and it was bound to raise panic among the public.
While the public figures who usually talked in the media worked to ensure the public, the real players were preparing for the battle.
All guilds and other organizations were gathering the potions and items for the boss raid.
It was scheduled to begin after 8 hours.
Meanwhile, the interrogation of the rats was successful as they got some names, but all of them were people of the underworld. The criminal adventurers didn’t appear in public and usually hid in their own domains.
Rudra raided some places with other old monsters after getting information, but unfortunately, they couldn’t nab anyone as they found no one.
Naturally, they still planned to try, otherwise, they’d have to be cautious of them while fighting the 10th Floor’s Floor boss.
…
On the other hand, Almond woke up briefly when the rewards appeared ten minutes later.
[Contribution ranking and additional rewards]
Rank 1—Almond.
-> MVP reward chest.
Rank 2— Lily Darkwood.
-> 2 x Legendary item box, 1 x Legendary Weapon selection box, 1 x Legendary Armor selection box, 2 x GAL Roulette Ticket, 1 x Insight Scroll (20Hr).
Rank 3—Natalia/Maya
-> 2 x Legendary item box, 1 x Legendary Weapon selection box, 2 x GAL roulette ticket, 1 x Insight scroll (20Hr).
Rank 4—Kira/Noah/Eliara
-> 1 x Legendary item box 1 x Epic Gear Set (high-tier), 2 x GAL roulette ticket, 1 x Insight scroll (10Hr).
Rank 5—Marcus/Jemma/Amir
-> 1 x Epic Gear Set (High-tier), 2 x GAL roulette ticket, 1 x Insight scroll (10Hr).
Rank 6—Talia/Xavier/Kayla
-> 1 x Epic Gear Set (high-tier), 1 x GAL roulette ticket, 1 x Insight scroll (5Hr.)
“Crap, we got legendary items?!” Marcus exclaimed with a shout.
“People just started getting legendary items on the 10th floor, and we are already getting them? What the fuck?” Talia muttered before she wryly smiled. “Well, I’m only getting one, but it’s understandable.”
“This is awesome,” Eliara excitedly said as she looked at the list of rewards.
“I also got it,” Kira blinked. “Everyone got a set of rewards displayed in the ranks.”
“Yeah, it’s not like we got 1 legendary box among us, but one each,” Noah grinned. “The rewards are so awesome.”
“And this is not even everything. There’s the Floor Boss slaying reward chest, too!” Kayla’s cheeks puffed. “I wonder what we will get from it.”
Everyone was visibly excited.
“Don’t be too excited,” Natalia snorted. “Getting legendary items from this heroic boss means that the 5th Floor’s Heroic Boss is going to be a crazy asshole.”
“That’s right,” Lily said as she turned to Almond, who appeared to be in deep thought.
Almond’s eyes briefly flickered as he said, “We are not going to rush to the 5th Floor’s heroic boss. Since we’ve reached Gold-rank, I need to farm a lot of things, and we all need to prepare better. Even though we were a lot, this didn’t go as well as I expected.”
Shaking his head, Almond continued, “This can’t go on.”
Everyone turned silent.
They realized that most of this fight was carried by Almond, and only with his insane damage did they win. It was clear if this party attempted this raid without Almond, even with a few more people, they would’ve died 100%.
“On the 5th floor, Only Lily will join me. The rest of you can team up however you want and get better. We will meet at the Floor boss area near the end of the first cycle.”
Everyone was surprised.
Lily was also surprised, but she didn’t mind as she smiled. Instead, she was rather thrilled. Almond was on a solo adventure on all the floors so far, but now they would be together.
“So we will spend the next one day and a half adventuring on the 5th Floor and exploring it?” Maya raised her eyebrows, her eyes glinting. “Good. Fine by me.”
“The 5th floor is 500 kilometers in radius. It’s very big, and people still find new challenge spots every now and then, so yeah,” Kira nodded with a grin. “It’s a good idea. Let’s get better.”
“Before opening the floor boss’s chest, I would like to say something,” Marcus said as he raised his hand. “Although that chest is to be shared amongst everyone, only Almond will decide who gets what and if he wants to give anything at all. You alright with that, boss?”
Almond blinked as he turned to Marcus and smiled, his expression sharp, “Of course. And if you want to keep the Epic items that I’ve lent you all, you can pay me in gold coins once we leave.”
“I’ll keep it,” Noah said as he looked at his Frostheart Bastion set. “I’ll pay for this set once we get out.”
“Same,” Marcus grinned. “I’ll gather enough gold coins to pay. Maya, you’re with me, right?”
“Hohoho, of course, she is with you,” Natalia took an opportunity to immediately make things awkward between them.
But Maya didn’t give in and simply rolled her eyes as she replied to Marcus, “Yeah, we are familiar with each other’s combat style enough, so it’s better.”
“What about the Radiant Grimlord Set I am wearing?” Kira asked. “It has 5 days of duration, so I can keep using it, but how much do I pay?”
“Pay me the same as a high-tier Epic-rank set’s price,” Almond smiled. “I’ll increase its duration to 100 days later.”
“Nice! But of course, I’ll commission another set later of a water-attribute,” Kira grinned.
“I’ll craft a set for everyone, but just know that their price will be higher.”
“I’ll pay it, no matter the price,” Xavier said with a firm nod.
“Same,” Amir said with a grin.
The others also nodded.
“Now, let’s continue with the reward opening,” Almond said as he conjured a dice. “For this Heroic Floor Boss slaying chest, we’ll roll the dice.”
He conjured a big, unique hexagonal dice with 20 small triangle surfaces all over it and also conjured a mana board to roll the dice on instead of doing it on the ground.
“This is a unique dice with 20 sides. We’ll roll it on this board. The one who rolls the highest number wins. Let’s start,” Almond said and started with his turn.