"This is the place, Vi-Vi?"

"A freezing mountain range, a 2/5 Praeta open expanse at the base of a 3 Praeta tall mountain, and a mysterious staircase with 50 monoliths? Definitely the place"

"Good! I'm sick of travelling!"

"Childish as always, Vesti"

"Quiet, you two. I see a beast. Likely some form of Panther. It seems to be adapted to ice. Interesting..."

"Coen, that's an Ice Panther. A fairly rare variant. It seems like the person who resides here really is a Dungeon Master"

"A confident one, too. He's openly shown himself already, which means that he must be confident in his abilities. Alright, remember everyone, we just want to talk to him. Relay that through the Panther, if you can, Coen"

"On it, Vir Sanctus"

Coenobita made his way down the mountain that they were on. It was only a 1/5 Praeta tall one, so it was fairly easy to get down from atop it. At around the 10 Gerat mark, Coenobita jumped off the side of the mountain, and landed perfectly fine, causing a small snow cloud to be formed where he landed. He walked up to the Ice Panther, who was merely staring at him. It would not attack, unless it was attacked itself or if Coenobita tried to enter the cave.

"Little Panther, are you able to understand my voice?"

The Panther nodded, and looked at him disdainfully, It wanted to get whatever this business was over and done with so it could get back to its job.

"Ah, good. I am the Purple Colour ranked Adventurer, Coenobita. I am part of the Gold Material ranked Adventurer team Candor. Can you please ask your Lord to emerge from where he currently is? We wish to speak with him"

The Panther nodded. It closed its eyes, and Basileus received the information that it just heard. He pondered for a second, before deciding to delay the construction of the First Floor. He stood up, walking out of the mystical ice cave. He spotted Coenobita in the distance alongside his Panther. He walked over at a leisurely pace, radiating a noble and confident aura. Coenobita felt the aura, and shivered slightly. He thought to himself,

"An aura is something only a Refined Tier Adventurer or Magical Tier Beast can have. He must be Magical Tier, I refuse to believe that he would be a God-Tier. If he was a God-Tier, I would have already been kneeling"

Basileus arrived in front of Coenobita while he was thinking.

"I'm surprised that humans already know of my sanctuary. Invite your group, named Candor, over. We will travel up my 30,000 steps, and have a cup of tea at the peak. We will negotiate there. What say you?"

"That sounds fine by me"

Coenobita waved his group over. Vestibulum grabbed a hold of Vir Sanctus, and ran down the mountain, reaching Coenobita in a very short amount of time. Despite the coldness of the mountain range, none of them seemed effected by it.

"Waaaaoww, he really does have purple and gold eyes!"

"Vesti, focus on the task at hand. Esteemed Dungeon Master of this Spanis mountain range, I am Vir Sanctus, and the girl is Vestibulum. I'm assuming that Coen has already introduced himself. We merely wish to have a quick chat, right here. No need to go up those excessive stairs. We come on behalf of Christ, a merchant who represents the kingdom of Chrysos. He wishes to designate this 2/5 Praeta open space as a town zone, that has free access to your Dungeon."

"I am not prepared for that, Vir Sanctus. Leave"

Vir Sanctus shook a little. The Panther was growling, and it stepped infront of Basileus in a threatening way.

"We did not wish for it to come to this. However, this area must be designated as a town zone, one way or another"

Vir Sanctus jumped hastily backwards, and Vestibulum arrived by his side. Coenobita entered a fighting stance, and shouted "True Strike!". A sound like that of a rock breaking sounded out, and his fist was wrapped in a golden aura. Basileus observed this and thought that it was extremely plain. Coenobita punched out at the Panther, who in response dodged with extreme speed to the left. Coenobita's fist hit the empty air, warping it to a certain degree. The Panther rushed to Coenobita's side, bit out, and took a fairly large chunk of flesh from his side. It spat out the flesh, while Coenobita fell to the floor. Vir Sanctus made his move, shouting "Heal!". A radiant white light surrounded Coenobita, and most of his flesh had returned, save for a few tiny bits. Vir Sanctus shouted again.

"Coen, you can't deal with such a creature at your rank, retreat and let Vesti deal with it!"

"Got it, Vir Sanctus!"

Coenobita retreated backwards while Vestibulum charged fowards. She shouted on her way there a phrase, namely "The One Thousand Incantations of the Screaming Knives!" She also began mumbling, and every time a successful word was formed, a floating knife that was nearly transparent formed alongside the noise of screeching metal. They were all aimed at the Panther. Vestibulum stopped mumbling when around 40 knives had formed, clearly her current limit. She swiped her right hand down in a chopping motions, and all the knives fired towards the Panther alongside her own material attack using two curved swords. The Panther, only being a Feral-Tier beast, was completely unable to dodge all of the knives and Vestibulum's material attack at the same time. It only managed to dodge around 5 knives before being hit by the rest, severely injuring it. Vestibulum finally arrived in front of it, and swiped out with her swords, causing two great gashes in the side of the Panther. It survived, but didn't return for another attack. It limped over to Basileus while whimpering. Basileus understood what it wanted and nodded, walking fowards and unleashing his unrestrained aura.

"Christ, definitely a Magical-Tier, at least Sky! Run, run!"

Vir Sanctus bolted off alongside Coenobita. Vestibulum caught up to the two, while Basileus walked fowards and muttered four simple words. "Nothing Annihilating Blast! Obliterate!" The mountains rumbled, and a invisible liquid started pouring out of them. Beneath Vestibulum's feet, a massive eruption of Nothing consumed her and everything around her. She instantly died, no match of a Sky-Tier Magical Beast's strongest attack. Coenobita was also hit by some stray Nothing from the blast, and fell over in excruciating pain. The wave of Nothing engulfed him, a far more agonising death than Vestibulum's. Vir Sanctus managed to dodge all of the Nothing somehow, but still died due to Nothing that was running down the side of a mountain he had escaped to. His legs went first, and he was in agonising pain before he died. Basileus looked upon this scene in awe.

"I did not expect that quickly developed attack to be so powerful. Perhaps it is because of the Nothing that it creates. That is the primal force of all destruction in this world, after all. Destruction and Killing are just mere tools for the strong, I must get used to this. They all died... a fair price for harming my Panther. Oh, yes, little Panther, I just remembered. I promised to name you if you deterred an adventurer group. That counts. I shall name you, Magna Cicero, or Great Frost in English."

Magna Cicero had a gleeful expression at being named. It did not believe that would count.

"Now, Magna, I have a floor to construct. Come with me!"

He walked back into the mystical ice cave, and truly began preparations. He sealed off the opening behind him with a great block of ice, and truly began work on the floor.

"CATS, open the floor initialisation system"