As soon as Alessia stepped on the magic circle, her eyes got flashed with a bright white light and she had to close her eyes. Then when she opened her eyes again, she found herself in the middle of forest. She immediately understood that now she was inside a dungeon as the atmosphere of this place was dangerous.

She immediately became focused and took out her sword. Then she called out to her friends and looked back. Then to her surprise, she was unable to find anyone around her. Seeing this Alessia immediately became a worried and started looking all around her. She even tried to focus on all her senses to see if she could sense their presence.

But after trying everything out and not having any result, Alessia realised that they all had been separated. Obviously as that magic circle was something that Elena had prepared, this whole thing was her plan.

After realising this, Alessia calmed down and started to plan her next steps. She was not worried about her own safety as she was confident in her strength as a S ranker. But her friends were only A rankers and this dungeon was supposed to be a S rank one. So if her friends encounter any S rank monster, that would be very dangerous.

So first Alessia decided to search for her party members. But as she was in the middle of nowhere, she was not sure in which direction should she go. Scouting was never her thing and she had always left that for Nina to handle. So for some time, Alessia found herself at a loss.

But just standing around would not accomplish anything. So soon she forced herself to move. She had no idea which direction she should go, so she did not worry about it and chose a random direction based on her intuition. Then she started to traverse the forest in her full speed.

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Just like Alessia, Shia also found herself in the middle of a forest. As Shia was always using her magic sense to keep a notice of her surroundings, she almost immediately realised that she was alone in this part of the forest. Next she tried to increase the radius of her magic sense to see if she could find any of her friends but she failed.

Shia had already understood that their big sister had sent all of them to different parts of this forest most probably as a test. While thinking about this, Shia also realised that since the creation of their party, there were almost no incident where her team had not worked together. Previously Shia had not found any fault with it and it's not like they did not have a few solo battles.

But now that Shia was thinking about this, she realised that adventuring had more to it than battles. Scouting, survival skills and many more things were needed for an adventurer. After thinking about it properly, Shia realised that they really needed to work alone a little bit more.

With her high speed thinking, Shia only needed a few moments to thing her situation through. By using her magic sense, Shia had managed to get quite some information about her current location. She was near a lake and a few beasts were drinking water there. All those beasts were either C or B rank so Shia was confident in defeating them.

So she first decided to hunt down a few of those beasts. From how the forest looked, Shia guessed that this floor was quite large. So they might need to stay several days on this floor. After staying with Elena, their whole party had started to regularly eat. So for that, Shia wanted to get herself some meat as food ingredients.

With those intention in mind, Shia cast a wind magic spell to collect sounds from all around her. This way if she got closer to her friends, she would be able to sense them immediately. Then she used a darkness magic spell to hide her presence like a thief and went to hunt some animals.

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Just like her other two friends, Marina also found herself in the middle of a forest. She was also like Alessia and never worried about scouting with Nina with them. But unlike Alessia, she did not stay in her location for long and soon started moving. Then while she was on the move, she started to think about her situation.

Marina did not worried about hiding her presence and moved very quickly through the forest. Even though she knew that it was a S rank dungeon, she should now be on the first floor. In that case this floor should really not have a super strong S rank monsters. That was what Marina judged from her experience.

Not only that but Marina had a very strong danger sensing ability. This ability did not depend on her senses and instead was an intuition based ability. Marina was very confident in this ability of hers and currently she was not feeling any kind of danger from the forest. That was the reason why she was able to be this reckless.

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Nina was also in the same position as her friends and found herself alone in the middle of forest. But just like Shia, she also sensed that very quickly. Nina had many sensing skills and her range of sensing was also larger than Shia, so very soon she was able to make a map of her surroundings.

Nina did not waste any time and started moving. She first took a special looking tree as her marker and started exploring the region based on that. As her friends could be in any direction, she did not just travelled in a single direction and started moving in a circle while mapping the whole area.

This was definitely a more time consuming method but if she made a mistake and went on a completely different direction than her friends, then getting back on the right track would waste even more time. For this situation, this was the best option in hand.

Nina kept her mind calm and did everything very methodically. She also made a map of the area that she travelled through. If her team was clearing this floor normally then she could make a map to make sure they were exploring correctly and had not missed a spot. So even when she was alone, she did her job. In than case, after she could find her friends, then they would have an easier time traversing this floor with Nina's map with them.

She also found quite a few places which were good landmarks and marked them on her map. Just like that, she continued exploring the dungeon while searching for her friends at the same time.

So would the four members of the Azure Legion be able to meet up with one another ?

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