Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

The fourth floor was similar to the third floor but the walls and ceiling were much much wider and taller. Unlike the third floor, the visibility on this floor was restricted by an endlessly drifting white mist. The walls were of ash grey colour and the floor was uneven and irregular. The thick mist made it difficult to see what lay ahead and even the people near you. If one did not pay attention to their footing, one might even end up tripping due to the uneven ground.

After descending the stairs and coming down to the fourth floor, Gelgar surveyed his surroundings and couldn't help but click his tongue "Tch so now it's mist huh." It was as he said, everywhere he laid his gaze on, was covered in a thick layer of white mist.

After searching for a while, he quickly spotted the two subordinates of his that were waiting for him near the entrance. Mike walked up to him, put his hand on his chest, and bowed. "Sir Gelgar, since the vision is obstructed by the mist and there are an unknown number of traps, we have decided to send larger groups of monsters to explore at once so as to avoid falling for the devious traps that lowborn demon has set. Since we are not spreading our numbers, this may take finding the entrance to the next floor a little longer compared to the previous floors".

He did not want to commit any more mistakes by spreading their numbers all across the floor like before. He was worried that traps that were carefully hidden inside the mist would end up taking more lives from the monster army and hence did not dare to thin their numbers when sending them to explore. but doing so would increase the time taken to explore each floor and would also delay finding the entrance to the next floor.

Realising what the other party was thinking, Berd chipped in "Deliberately spreading and thinning our numbers would directly be playing into the enemy's hands and knowing that there might be even more traps like those mushrooms waiting for us, I believe it would be unwise for us to do so. Plus seeing these monsters spawned by Sir Gelgar's precious DP die for nothing would be a huge waste ". Berd was aware that Gelgar saw all of them as nothing but pawns that are useful to him and do his bidding. However, he did not have the guts to oppose a Demon Viscount and he believed that as long as he was useful, he wouldn't be discarded easily.

Gelgar nodded and said after contemplating over their opinions "Very well do what you must but remember to be at your guard at all times. Immediately send a sound transmission if you find anything unusual."

When the two of them heard what he said, they immediately nodded and sighed in relief. they were concerned that delaying the exploration rate would make Gelgar displeased and would earn them his ire. After organizing the monsters and relaying all of the commands, they immediately dived into the mist. The moment they stepped in, their silhouette became blurry, then a shadow and after a while, they completely disappeared into the white mist.

Right after they disappeared into the mist, hundreds of crimson sets of eyes looked at them from all across the floor for a split moment before fading into the mist.

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Simon who was having a meal on his unusually big dining table looked at the scene displayed by his dungeon and smiled. "Hmm, the fourth huh… its time to see how useful you guys are," he said as he chewed on his steak.

The fourth floor was the territory of white-horned rabbits. Their piercing scarlet eyes could easily penetrate through the dense fog and their small frame and natural color make them hard to discern in this dense mist. This race has a large pointed horn on their head and unusually strong hind legs that make their charge terrifyingly lethal. Especially their horn, it was so sharp and sturdy that monsters with low defence would easily be pierced by those weapons. on top of that, the White-Horned Rabbits were a bloodthirsty race and loved feasting on its prey's blood.

But they are not the only predators present on this floor. The albino spiders that are a meter tall each and produce a sticky thread all over the walls and ceiling also inhabit the fourth floor. The thread they lay was transparent and very difficult to break.

Starting from the fourth floor, monsters spawn in the dungeon that naturally defends it from the intruders.

As Simon had predicted soon after all of the intruders dived into the mist some of them started getting killed by the horned rabbits and albino spiders. For these monsters, this floor was their optimum environment, and for the invading monsters the worst place to be at. The horned rabbits pierced them with their horns as they leapt across the walls, the albino spiders captured their prey deprived of their freedom of movement with their sticky nets and bound them on the ceiling.

A large number of the invading monsters died exploring and finding the entrance to the next floor. However, this didn't last long as the invading monsters quickly became aware of their presence and they soon started fighting back. Due to their large number, the tide soon started to turn and it was the guarding monsters of the floor, the white-horned rabbits and the albino spiders who found themselves at a disadvantage after a while.

Even though a large number of spawned monsters were dying, Simon did not worry much as they can be spawned again using the DP.. As long as these monsters could delay the invaders and reduce their numbers a little, that would already be enough.