61 The Mysterious Crater (1/2)

”Heh, so this is the secret passage that they entered just now huh? Interesting, I never thought something like this could exist here all this time and I don't even know,” Asuna was quite surprised at what she discovered.

After making sure that there's no one around her, she then proceeded to enter the stone wall quietly. And not long after that, she arrived at the exact same place where Prime and Aelena's party was on earlier.

Looking at her surroundings, she discovered that she's on the edges of the island, which is on the beach area. Then looking ahead of her, she found some footprints on the sand, which she believed that it has got to be Aelena's party footprint.

”Hehe, looks like they haven't gone far yet. Alright, I'll have to be careful for now as this type of opportunity is rare, so I must not screw up no matter what,” said Asuna determinedly.

Meanwhile, Aelena's party was still on their way to the center part of the island, because that's where the gateway to the 51st floor is located.

At the moment, they are already halfway toward their destination and just another two more hours, and they will arrive there.

Although this island may look very beautiful and a paradise for everyone, but surprisingly, the monsters here are even more deadly than what they expected. Because unlike the monsters they have met so far, most of them can only use an ability or two when they fight.

However, the monsters here are different because they can use up to 3 abilities at once and as a result, Aelena's party ended up having a difficult time defeating it. Nevertheless, Aelena's party didn't complain at all and instead, they use this opportunity to gain experience and become stronger.

Of course, if anything happens to them, then Prime will be their backup and protect them. But so far, they seem to be doing pretty well on their own and didn't even need Prime's help.

Then two hours later, they finally arrived at the center part of the island.

”Eh? What is this place? It doesn't look like an island at all,” said one of the elf girls curiously.

What appeared in front of them right now is a massive crater, and in the middle of the crater, it's where the gateway to the 51st floor is.

The size of this crater is about 150 KM in diameter, and has a height of 2000 feet at the edges and also at the center.

Despite being called a crater, but this crater is not what you normally see on Earth because this crater is filled with super short green grasses and beautiful flowers. Basically, it looks like a grassland crater.

”Look! The gateway is over there! Let's go! Woohoo!” said an elf man excitingly.

”Wait! Don't go yet!” yelled Dior.

”Huh? Why not?” replied that elf man confusingly.

”Hmm, don't you think something it's strange here?”

”W-What do you mean?”

”Hmm, now that you mention it, you're right there's no guardian beast at all,” said the elf man.

It was at this time, Cyrena interrupted their conversation, and said:

”Don't let your guard down just yet, because the guardian beast only appears the moment you guys step foot into the crater. So as long as you guys don't enter the crater, then the guardian beast won't appear,”

”I see, so that's how it is,” said Dior.

At the moment, the time on this island is about 4.30 PM, which means night time is about to arrive soon in just a few more hours. So knowing that, Aelena suggested everyone to take a break for today and continue again tomorrow.

Since they had been fighting with monsters all day long earlier, so naturally, they're all pretty tired and won't be able to fight at their full power again. Of course, Prime didn't care either, and just follow along and rest with them.

Then a few hours later, finally nighttime has arrived.

At the moment, everyone is sitting near the campfire while waiting for the two elf girls to serve them some food. The food they are cooking today is Minotaur King's soup that they collected during the time when they were fighting on the 47th floor.

”Here this is for you, Sir Prime,” said one of the elf girl while handling a large bowl of Minotaur King's soup to Prime.

”Oh! Thank you very much,” said Prime as he accepted it gratefully.

Once everyone had a bowl of Minotaur King's soup on their hands, that's when they say ”Thanks for the food,” and began feasting it. Luckily, Aelena's party even brought wines with them, so right after they finished eating their main meal, they immediately started celebrating the rest of the night by drinking wines together.