“You don’t need to cause a scene.” Julia spat staring daggers at Codrol who was this time accompanied by that other guy Theo and two others, neither of whom Archer recognized but he assumed were of similar standing with Codrol due to the equipment they were wearing. All of them had top-of-the-line gear that clearly had never been used before. They were also joined by two other girls also looking equally unhappy as Julia.

Cowering behind them was Luna who had the smuggest grin he had ever seen. Archer squinted, before she always seemed to be changing back and forth her personality. Yet this time she seemed to be fully set on her vixen mode. Archer glanced around the place, wondering what was causing the change.

“We’ve been together for all of summer! You are not breaking up with me like this!” A girl with curly blonde hair and dark skin said looking like she was about to rip the head off one of the guys in front of Luna.

He was a big man who was brimming with muscles and practically looked about as tall as he was wide. He completely ignored her yelling. Another man, much leaner stood next to him did the same as a purple-haired girl who was also yelling at what seemed to be a very recent ex.

“We simply have had enough of you women and your petty actions.” Codrol said.

“What did you just say?” The darker-skinned girl said looking ready to kill him.

“Hey, what’s going on there?” A teacher shouted over.

“Nothing, we’re preparing to go.” Codrol said and the group left the three angry women. Plenty of other students had witnessed this and were murmuring amongst themselves.

“Those idiots.” The purple-haired girl said, “Waste of time.”

“Come on let’s go.” Julia said as she took a moment to collect herself and led the other two away.

Archer quickly moved over to a teacher standing nearby and asked him, “Uh, do you have a map of the place sir?”

“Figure it out yourself.” The teacher replied taking one look at his rank and walked off.

“Ah. Hmm. Who to follow?” He mumbled to himself as people who received their alarms and formed parties began to go through the tunnels.

Can I even glean any information from following either Luna’s or Julia’s group? Archer thought before he noticed how the F-rank he had encountered yesterday entered through the same tunnel as the other two. Everyone else entered different tunnels. Two for one then. Archer thought entering the same tunnel.

Going through the tunnel Archer realized just how massive this place was. The tunnel itself was short and led into a much larger room, with more tunnels on the other wall. So many tunnels that there was a staircase leading to three different levels. All of which were still on the same floor, but expanded further through the dungeon.

Right, so a dungeon like this should have several rooms housing different types of creatures in each one. All weak as they are on floor one and hidden loot has likely been purged years ago. In the center of the first floor would be stairs leading down to the second one. Any damage caused to the infrastructure will automatically be repaired. Archer said as he tried to get a grasp of dungeon.

“Ah. I need to track my path.” Archer thought as he tried to find something to draw on. He then realized that he had nothing to write with. He needed to bring something next time, for now he could make notes on his phone.

Archer looked up at the tunnels, each level had six entrances and he saw Julia’s group go through the bottom tunnel, third to the left. He couldn’t see the other kid though, but he should follow her before he loses sight.

As he walked towards the tunnel he passed by another group. They were a group of C ranks, save for one girl with dirty blonde coloured hair lagging behind them, an E rank with a massive backpack that looked to be empty, mostly. Leaning an ear in, Archer overheard them.

“Come, Rosa. Don’t lag behind.” Someone else in front said, he had the same-coloured hair and had some resembling features, a relative perhaps. He was leading the group and seemed to have an air of confidence about him.

“Yes Dominick.” She said as she struggled to keep pace with them.

“Hey, I know you two are family and all. But isn’t she a bit of dead weight for us?” One of the others asked Dominick.

“She has her uses. Don’t question me.” Dominick said sharply.

“Uh, right sorry.” The other guy quickly apologized looking worried.

“All good. Just remember why you’re here.” Dominick said with a laugh.

What a strange group. Hopefully they aren’t important. Archer thought as he entered thetunnelway. Entering the passage he saw an open area where a few students were already fighting different monsters and collecting the loot dropped.

What fascinated Archer was how quickly the bodies of the monsters disappeared. After being killed the creatures would vanish and leave behind magic gemstones and whatever other valuable material on the ground.

It made sense, the entire place was basically one massive magical factory, churning out gemstones in the form of monsters. It would be able to get rid of the invaluable parts of a monster much faster than that in the normal world, it was no wonder why these things were considered to be so valuable.

Archer moved on from these students who were busy dismantling what looked to be oversized cockroaches and deeper down the cave. He passed through several other students fighting similar creatures. Archer was curious why bugs seemed to be the theme of this floor but stowed the thought for later.

Walking through for a number of minutes he spotted someone he did not expect to see again, the F-rank. He had his back turned on Archer and was scanning the wall for something. Curious, Archer hid himself behind some rocks and watched.

“Where is it? Where is it?” The boy mumbled as he pressed his hands on the wall, looking for a loose piece.

So he knows something is there. How and why? Archer thought as he watched. Eventually the F-rank finally found what he was looking for.

“Yes! Here it is!” He roared in triumph as he struggled to pull out a loose rock from the wall. Revealing a small compartment with something in it. Quickly poking his head in the F-rank reemerged holding a belt.

The belt was old and Archer couldn’t recognize the culture it came from but he could tell even at a distance that it was magical and very powerful.

Hidden secrets huh? Archer mused looking at it.

“Yes! It’s here! The Potential Generator Belt is mine! With this Petyr Powl will be a mob no longer!” He shouted in victory.

Mob? Like from a creature from a video game? Archer thought making a confused face. Before he could even think of inquiring however, yelling could be heard near them.

Immediately Petyr scampered off away from the commotion. Archer however decided to follow the source of the voices as he recognized them. Julia and Luna along with their ‘friends’.

Taking a few more turns Archer found Julia's and Luna’s respective parties staring at each other. Julia and her friends seemed extremely upset while Luna’s gaggle of men looked upon them with utter contempt.

Oh dear. Archer thought as he watched hiding in the corner.