While the young cloud dungeon neared the end of her first years after arriving, the waves she created have begun to accumulate and show.

Far from the elven nation, in one of the human territory nations, two men walked towards a majestic city. The guildmasters of the cloud dungeon adventurer guild branch and the dungeoneer guild branch were arriving.

“Finally, this yearly meeting is definitely going to be long,” the guildmaster said.

“Change is the mother of glory. The future belongs to the children born today so we must pave the way for them now to let them walk a less painful path when the time comes,” the dungeoneer guildmaster said.

The guildmaster nodded and the two were greeted at the gate then walked inside.

***

In the skies of the human nation, Clover looked at a set of ruins which were in the ninth floor. Above his head was a tenth floor.

These ruins were a cage and slowly it began to open.

Slowly walking out was a cloud of black sand which swirled and formed a short fat man. He breathed in a deep breath, “Freedom is good,” he said and looked deeply at Clover.

Maribell appeared as well and was cautious.

The boogeyman, Nighty, had regained his sanity after Clover grew to 10 floors and contacted them. Finally he gained his freedom.

“You have a serious problem in your dungeon. It almost possessed and changed me,” Nighty said.

“Let’s go up, I want to hear about it,” Clover said serious.

Nighty nodded then the three floated and flew up to the tenth floor.

***

In the elven nation, Joryoku, Felicia’s palace had a lot of new people working, many of which were young children.

Two very enthusiastic girls worked together as they followed the queen.

“So much trouble happened this last year,” Felicia complained but her face was calm with a slight smile. Her nation had cleared out a huge number of bandits in a short time, but the number of victims was huge.

The two girls were the ones who didn’t fear either of the winter spirits. Their eyes sparkled when they spoke of them, but they just did it together because others feared the spirits since they were so powerful.

“You two, go prepare some tea for the meeting,” Felicia said.

“Yes your highness!” the two said running off to complete their task.

***

In a deep isolated mountainous forest, there were sounds of loud roars from many beasts, all of them immensely powerful.

Within a small edge, an insignificant cave was hidden behind some bushes.

The long night had been followed by battles of monsters and this morning something changed in this cave which previously housed weak little creatures.

A pair of bloodshot eyes glowed in the darkness and slowly their owner walked out.

A massive humanoid over two meters tall with a wild beard and a hairy body, but not ape-like but more like a hairy human, walked out with heavy steps.

Inhale… ROAR!

It suddenly bellowed its war cry and up to twenty pairs of eyes appeared from the cave. They were small sized humanoids with big wild beards covering part of their meter tall bodies.

They howled with the giant humanoid and raised small spears before they rushed out to hunt with a savage glint in their eyes.

The wild isolated forest met with a new pack of predators.

***

The day following the New Year’s, Dia was preparing to go up to the seventh floor of her dungeon with the others. She was mumbling and asking a few things from Misty.

Dia smiled and frowned a few times, but they gathered their things before flying up towards the cloud above.

Along with a bit of nervousness, excitement filled her little eyes as she flew up to the seventh floor which promised a new world of fun for her.