Right of the King

Middle Floor

as Alcaeus and his party head to the middle floor's, they get their gear in order first, since Alcaeus's cloak was made with all material's to be able to withstand that element's, including Salamander Wool for handling fire, all he did was hide the Babylonia symbol on it with a magic spell and he was off, his wife got her replacement weapon's and armor with her medium breastplate and Tasset, her gauntlets and greaves with magic conducting gem's in them, and a light head guard, her weapon's were a bow, a set of twin short sword, a halberd, and a quarterstaff for her magecraft, instead of using magic circle's, her family use runes to cast spell's, while this is slightly weaker than magic circles, it's much faster to cast in comparison as the word's are on the air as she cast them, it also means she can use any spell so long as she has the runes in the right order.

Tamamo:" well, let's get going, can't wait forever, can we"

Welf:" easy for a level 4 to say"

Lily:" she is right though, we can't wait here forever"

Bell:" this is for the future of our progression, let's make it count"

as they head down, everything seems fine, as they were fighting, with a level 4 in their party, they were not to out of place and were making it fine, however, another party in the Takemikazuchi familia were running as a member of their's was injured, and were forced to do a pass parade on Alcaeus's party, though, the moment they reach the next floor, they are stopped by people wearing hood's and face mask with no clear indication of gender or race in front of them, they had the same kind of single edge hunting sword's as their main weapon's just like Alcaeus had, and were clearly angry.

Ouka:" who are you people- no nevermind that, can you help us"

Shadow:" help people who dumped monster's on innocent people moments before"

Ouka:"... we had-"

Shadow:" no choice, there's always a choice, you were just a bad leader"

Ouka:" listen, we need to get to the surface and-"

Shadow:" we're not done here, if you want to get past us, you either listen to us, or fight through us, and given we have a long talk, your friend might bleed out, and we're not to keen on healing her"

the shadow then moved in quickly to remove the axe and make more blood spill as Ouka's party started to panic.

Shadow:" now, what's it going to be"

Ouka was now left with little option's, he tried to charge after setting Chigusa down, but was met with a stab through his gut and being hit in the head to be knocked out instantly, Mikoto tried to fight, but her arm was shattered as a shadow squeezed it as she dropped her that instant and the rest of their party were forced to follow. in Alcaeus's party, thank's to both Tamamo and Alcaeus, the monster's were no trouble, but Alcaeus did get a cut on his arm and Lily got hit in the head, making Tamamo use healing on both of them. the shadows brought the party that abandoned their monster's on them and Alcaeus made his judgment.

Bell: I understand your party was desperate, however, that's no excuse for your action's, if you were the ones who were the victim's, wouldn't you be pissed as well"

Ouka:" I did what was best for my party-"

Bell:" best for your party, everyone was disgusted by your desition, you could see it in their eye's, a true leader would be able to tell what his soldier's feelings and act on their emotion's, they didn't want to do the pass parade and you knew it, ignoring their emotion's in something like this only show's how little you understand about leading men to battle, you make me sick"