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As soon all the spirits guided their murderous intent toward the expedition team, Elena instantly knocked both of the teachers out and created a barrier to protect the students from the murderous intent.

Then she handed the fainted teachers to their respective groups and told them to run toward the exit as fast as possible without thinking about anything else and to try their best to find the stairs to the next floor as soon as possible. She would be in charge of holding all these spirits back.

Some teachers, especially the teachers from Sky Parade Academy tried to object as they had a very good impression of Elena and they didn't want her to face such a dangerous situation alone. But the teachers from other two organisations and even Elena's own teachers didn't object to this idea so they also reluctantly agreed to follow the plan.

After leaving Elena behind to handle all the spirits none of the teachers tried to slack off. Even those who had a bad relationship with Elena didn't try anything underhanded as their life depended on Elena and her capability to hold the spirits off. So everyone tried their best to search for the exit.

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As the teachers left to search for the stairs Elena used her own killing intent to freeze all the spirits, including the S rank one that was hiding. Even the principal of the Riplanica Higher Institution, Astin did not have any idea about its existence. Elena thought to herself -

"Hmm, it was just as I expected. The influenced teacher was forced to act here as this will put the team in maximum danger. I can't let them think that I am too strong. But those teachers are really bad huh. If I plan to act even more weaker, having the capability of an ordinary S ranker them a lot of them would have died so far. I had already shown them too much power. Hmm, I think it will be better if I got injuries while fighting this many spirits. That would make it look like I struggled a lot, right? I really need to git gud in my acting."

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Astin had visited this floor before so he should be aware of the location of the stairs. But the position of the stairs did not stay the same for any of the floors inside this dungeon. So the teachers and the students had to search the whole floor to find the stairs.

After searching for more than two and half hours, finally Quinn, Colette and Octavia were able to find the stairs. The sound of battle coming from far away was getting louder and louder. So, Astin used a communication item to quickly inform Elena about the location of the stairs.

The teachers and the students were waiting while holding their breath close to the stairs. They were not brave enough to go to the 10th floor without Elena. Soon they saw Elena coming toward them. She looked a bit dirty after all this fighting and a little injured too. But the teachers' awe increased even more as they thought she would be in an even worse situation.

As Elena reached their position, she turned around and cast a super strong looking flame magic spell to wipe out most of the chasing spirits. Then all of them entered the 10th floor in a hurry.

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The tenth floor was completely different from any of the previous ones. It was grassland with black and grey grass and it also had a lake with black coloured water. As they looked around they found a lot of golems surrounding them. But they were not rock or metal golems and puppets, that were found in the previous floor but were wooden golems and puppets.

As the teachers didn't have to fight on the previous floor, they were not tired and were ready to battle. But as they fought against the wooden enemies, the teachers found them to be very troublesome. They were not as tough as their rock and metal counterparts but they had a regeneration ability and a large HP pool. So they were very hard to kill. But these puppets had a major weakness which was fire. So using fire magic, the teachers were able to beat all the wooden enemies.

But another problem arose after that. Even after searching the whole grassland they were not able to find the stairs to the next floor. When the Riplanica Higher Institution came here before they were lucky to find the stairs in the grassland. But now the location had changed and most probably they had to search inside the lake to find the stairs.

It was very hard to search inside the lake. Humans were not created to perform in the water. The only way to solve this problem was either to use water magic and magic items to somehow search underwater or to wait for the location of the stairs to change.

But they didn't know when the location of the stairs would change once again. It might happen tomorrow but there was a chance that it would not change as long as they were on this floor. Not only that but the next location of the stairs could once again be inside the lake.

But still it had been more than 16 hours since their last break. So Elena chose to take a break on this floor as the grassland had no more enemies remaining. She still gave the responsibility to watch the lake for new enemies. Others were given the duty to either make the tents or to cook.

Then after eating a hearty meal cooked by Elena and other girls from Myrilia Royal Academy, all of them went to sleep as Elena's summons took over the duty of night watch.

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The next day, Elena once again sent some of the teachers to search the grassland once again for the stairs and she sent a small group of teachers who were proficient in water based spells to do some recon inside the lake.

The grassland searching team came back with no results. The lake searching team came back black and blue. As soon as they entered the lake water about 6 or 7 A rank water monsters attacked them and they were able to just barely run away with their life.

Hearing their description, the monsters were all judged to be quite troublesome. All of them were monsters who could not live without water but they were also perfectly suited for fights inside the water.

So after some discussion it was decided that teachers would try their best to somehow draw one water monster on the water surface at a time and Elena and other mages would use either mostly thunder or some other effective magic to kill them.

The first monster that came out was a 7-8 meter long eel. It was lured in by using a rare herb that one of the teachers had with her as she needed it for an experiment. This ell monster was resistant to thunder magic but weak to fire magic so Elena commanded every one to cast fire spells. She also cast a "Pyro Javelin" spell to kill this monster.

Just like this the teachers used several means to bring the monster to the water surface. Some used a very high quality liquor, another one just used the blood of a previously killed after monster. Just like that they were able to kill a large koi fish monster, one two headed shark monster, two large octopus type monsters and an extra large (about 20 m) lobster.

But there were still 3 A rank monsters who did not fall for the trap. So Elena herself went inside the water and used hit and run tactics to beat those remaining monsters too. One was a pink dolphin capable of using mental attacks, another one was a large shell with several hundred tentacles and the last monster was a sea horse which could manipulate plants.

After all the A rank monsters were killed other teachers went inside the lake to wipe out the remaining B and C rank monsters. Then they thoroughly searched the lake and found the stairs. But as they had to spent more than 16 hours fishing, they decided to spent one more night on this floor and to enter the next 11th floor tomorrow.

And that was how the third day came to an end.

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Dungeon Progression: 10th floor

Time Spent Inside: Three Days

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