Luck is a Charm

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"Nice shot Romu," Zen clasped his hand together when Romu managed to land his acid shot directly in the monster's eye.

"Hehe, thank you, master," Romu said blissfully as he fired his acid shot in the air.

The floor continues to widen as they advance and they're currently on the 7th floor.

It has been a breeze and easy for Zen due to his overwhelming cheats. However, Zen was a bit displeased when he found out that the Hymn of Death has a limit on the number of shadows he can resurrect.

In order to increase his army of shadow, Zen needed to increase his mana capacity otherwise, he wouldn't be able to supply the mana that the shadows needed.

"You're still mulling over the fact that you can't resurrect after a certain amount." Krista Dragoon teased when she saw his depressed face again.

"Sigh, you don't know how ridiculous this is. A limitation on the amount simply because I don't have enough mana to supply them is dumb." Zen exclaimed and continued.

"They're going to be loyal to me either way so what's the point if I can't supply all of them with my mana. I can just use a particular shadow while the rest that I don't need to stay put so there wouldn't be any waste of mana."

Zen's logic seems reasonable enough where Krista Dragoon almost agreed with him as well.

However, she quickly shook her head and said, "If you can literally just create an infinite amount of shadows, then just think about how dreadful you would become in the future."

Krista Dragoon was unwilling to imagine Zen to be a ruler that controls multiple shadows since having a lot of power usually means they will lose their sense of direction in the future as they take a human life to be a toy.

"I don't want to see you becoming a demon lord that only brings fear and destruction to others. I prefer a s-shameless scoundrel if that's the case," Krista Dragoon said bashfully, causing Zen to tremble slightly.

"If you say so then let's not fool around with these monsters," Zen smiled as he held Krista Dragoon by the waist.

Krista Dragoon nodded her head as she agreed with Zen. It has been so long since they're entered this labyrinth where they don't even know how many days have passed.

The floor was always dark and there was no sunlight to indicate the time. However, she was more than happy to stay like this compared to the outside world where she has to stay on guard.

Being with Zen gave her a sense of security despite his shameless and carefree behavior since they haven't gotten injured at all. 

A small smile appeared on her face when she knew that Zen is always protecting them as he would always be on the frontline first.

"Are you okay Krista? Why did you stop walking?" Zen turned around to stare at Krista Dragoon when she stopped moving but her hand remained on his arm.

"Nothing, I was just thinking about something," Krista Dragoon replied softly and continued walking.

Although slightly confused, Zen shrugged it off as nothing much and continued to command his shadows to scout the floor ahead.

Time slowly passed by and when they finally finished clearing the 9th floor, something abnormal occurred.

There was no longer a staircase anywhere on the floor for them to ascend when the worker slimes and shadows tried to search everywhere for it.

"Master, we tried to search everywhere again but we can't find the staircase anymore," Romu said in a worried tone, afraid that Zen would punish him for failing his duty.

However, he was too nervous as Zen never had any attention in blaming them for not finding it.

"It's fine Romu, I bet the labyrinth has something more special for us on the 10th floor. Just go and play around for now." Zen said and dismissed Romu.

Romu was happy to not be punished as he quickly bounced away to his companion and began to fool around until Zen had another command for him.

Meanwhile, Zen turned solemn as he wanted to figure out what's going on now. 'No staircase to ascend further and no teleportation array. Does that mean the person behind the labyrinth is trying to increase our difficulty?'

"Looks like we just have to wait patiently now," Zen said after a few minutes of thinking.

Currently, they are in control by others and are being restricted by some unknown formation where Zen cannot even communicate with Evie and Angela.

"Seems like that's the case." Krista Dragoon said and proceeded to sit down since she's tired from all those walking and fighting.

Although Zen had his shadows and slimes to fight, Krista Dragoon preferred to train herself and joined the fight. Thus, she is now exhausted and decided to take this time to rest.

Zen didn't bother to stop her action since she wanted to get stronger to protect herself and Leila so he could only join in the sideline to make sure she wasn't going to be in danger.

When Zen wanted to sit down and get cozy with her, he suddenly sensed a malicious intent directed at him.

Alerted, he narrowed his eyes as he tried to search for the source. At the same time, he beckoned Romu to come over and order, "Romu, get the rest of the slimes to stay on high alert. I feel an enemy is coming nearby and he could be hiding somewhere."

Romu quickly followed the order and the worker slimes all scattered around to look for the enemy that Zen proclaimed. 

"What happened?" Krista Dragoon asked since she couldn't feel the malicious intent nor any change in the atmosphere.

"Oh, just a really familiar enemy that's coming after us specifically since Romu's group has spotted him. Honestly, Krista, you should really stop talking about a certain person randomly because they will always appear when you least expect it." 

Zen sighed as he faced toward a direction where a figure could slowly be seen.