These Familiars Are Strange

Though the manta rays were stronger than before, there were many people that were gathered here.

With all the abilities of their familiars put together, they were able to take down the manta rays.

Though there were many people that were also injured because of this since they were fighting the manta rays in this enclosed space. This kind of small space was perfect for the manta rays since they had wind abilities, but it restricted the abilities of the humans.

So they had suffered fighting them here.

Once the fight was over, there were bitter looks that were cast in our direction.

The others realized that the five top contenders and our team never lifted a finger during this fight, so they were feeling bitter towards us. Though it was mainly aimed at our team since it wasn't as if they could actually aim their bitterness towards the top contender teams.

So they could only aim it at our team.

But I didn't care at all as I was focused on the Luminous Knights Team and the Dark Knights Team.

During the fighting, they didn't even look at the manta rays or the humans that were fighting. The only thing that they had been staring at was the crystal that was there in the center of the room.

It seemed like they were scrutinizing it, but I could tell that there was a trace of recognition in their eyes.

It seemed that they knew what this crystal was.

As for the other teams, they didn't keep looking at us with those bitter looks for long as they turned their attention to the crystal as well.

"Might as well try something."

Right after this was said, there was someone that suddenly swung their weapon out at the crystal.

The same thing happened where the weapon went right through the crystal. It did cut the crystal like my bone sword did, but the crystal just repaired itself like when I cut it with the bone sword.

"Move aside, let me do it."

Right after this was said, the one that tried cutting it with their sword was pushed aside and someone with a fox on his shoulder stepped forward. That fox took a deep breath and released a breath of flames at the crystal.

Once again, the same thing happened where the crystal released a barrier.

Looking closely, I could see that this barrier was weaker than the one that was released to block against the flame breaths of the ogres. It seemed that these people were even weaker than the ogres.

No…it was the combined breaths of the ogres that was stronger.

After the barrier was deployed, I suddenly turned around and went over to one of the other doors.

Leaf and the World Tree Team followed me without hesitation after seeing me head to another one of the doors.

The other top contender teams only followed after a moment of hesitation, but they didn't go to the same door as me.

Instead, we all spread out to different rooms around that one room that the crystal was in.

It didn't take long for the sounds of fighting to come from that room.

It was the manta rays that had been drawn back to protect the crystal.

Only when the sounds of fighting stopped did I head back to that room.

I saw that there were less people here than before.

It seemed that some of them crushed their tokens when they saw that they were in danger. They had no choice but to preserve their lives rather than fight for victory.

The ones that were left had angry looks on their faces and they immediately turned to me when I showed up at the door.

"Why did you run?" That was what one of them said as they came forward. It seemed that they wanted to grab my collar and wanted to intimidate me while they said this.

But before I could do anything, Leaf suddenly raised her hand to stop them and said, "You're the ones that attacked the crystal without a single word and you want to blame others that you were attacked? It really is funny that fools like you were able to even remain this long."
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I was completely taken aback hearing her say something like this.

This was completely different from the Leaf that I knew.

As for the World Tree Team, they just had bitter smiles on their faces as if they couldn't be more familiar with this side of Leaf.

The person that accused me was taken aback when he heard this as well, but it wasn't as if he could say anything to her. So instead he turned to look at the other top contender teams.

Only the Luminous Knights Team and the Dark Knights Team didn't seem interested in them at all.

Instead, the leaders of those two teams pushed the others aside and went over to the crystal.

The two of them just looked at the crystal carefully for a bit before looking at each other. Instead of seeming like they were about to fight or argue, they just gave a nod at the same time as if they were confirming something.

Then turning around, the leader of the Luminous Knights Team said, "This is a Spatial Dungeon."

The leader of the Dark Knights Team nodded in agreement to this.

But everyone else just had confused looks on their faces when they heard this.

Even I was confused since I had never heard of this kind of dungeon before.

When I turned to look at Leaf and Iris, I found that they too had the same confused looks as everyone.

It seemed that even the two of them had never heard of this Spatial Dungeon before.

The Luminous Knights Team leader seemed to have expected this, so he said, "The Spatial Dungeon is a special kind of dungeon where the final fight with the Boss Monster is hidden in a special space."

Turning back to the crystal, he said, "You have to destroy these cores to actually open up the special gate to the final fight."