The meeting with Debauchery went as to be expected, Fae asked for the special cores, before even returning the greetings, when she got them however, she stuck to Yunan like glue, keeping him in her embrace as long as she could.When leader wanted to see his status, Yunan looked at Balin with a ting of fear in his eyes, however when Balin saw the new smithing skill, he latched on Fae"s dress and cried like a child who got his candy stolen. However as soon as he regained his composure he asked where Yunan got it, and Yunan told them about him mapping the floors and finding about the honey and the special challenge rooms.
Dustan had gold coins shining in his eyes when he heard about the honey, but it was beaten out of him by Lucian and Bai who were both enjoying a cup full of honey in each hand. Yunan also got to know about the final rule about Tartarus, there is a guild base in every 10th floor, after the tenth floor one can not go back to the floors above it. For example when Yunan reaches level ten, when he goes up the stairs to reach level 9 he finds himself in level 1, the twentieth, would lead to the 10th, so on and so forth.
Then came the training, since Debauchery only had two weeks of time to spare Yunan, they told him to forget about mapping and fight in the dungeon by day to reach the lowest floor possible, while the battle training with Debauchery would be at level 10. Effectively pushing the already tired Yunan as far as they could.
During the two weeks of time Yunan reached level 9 and was about to fight for entry to level 10, but Leader stopped him from going forward with it, they told Yunan its was time to map out the floors he had conquered one by one, find out about all the types of rooms and sell the information to the guild. Since all Yunan needed to stay healthy was a bit of money, they told Yunan to feed everything thing except the maps to the armor making sure it had enough materials to grow.
If the armor could project the effects of the materials, there was a chance it could learn special attributes from the monster corpses and items, the first sacrifice was Bai"s pocket watch, although Yunan was reluctant to experiment with it, due to sentiment, he finally was convinced by Debauchery and fed the pocket watch to the Dragonification armor, the result were as Balin speculated, the armor now permanently projected a circle with the everything within 1 kilometer radius, even in medallion form.
After the two weeks ended, Yunan took his time patrolling the floors above level 10 feeding as many corpses as possible to the armor, but there was no gain since most of monsters did not have the ability to use magic in the first 10 floors only bosses from the 6th floor and up to the 9th had magic cores but they were too few to make any difference in the Dragonification armor.
It was only after 2 months that Yunan felt like it was time to move on to level 10, so after a long rest in of the challenge rooms, he emptied the chest that only had a staff with a measly 1% extra to magical spells cast using it, so it was immediately tossed in the storage to be devoured. Upon exiting the room Yunan b.u.mped into a familiar figure who only recognised him thanks to Drogon napping on his shoulder.
The soft "Yunan?" With a trembling voice gave Yunan a nostalgic feeling, it has been more than half a year since Yunan had seen the girl so he took off his armor just in time to receive a bear hug from her. Reina was with some dedicated members who guided those from the sun islands and helped them grow in the first 10 levels. Although the company Reina had were mainly females, there were two male shield bearers. The hug did not last long however, as there were some who pointed their weapons at Yunan ordering him to unhand her holiness or suffer. A bad move, but neither Yunan or Reina were bothered enough to punish them for it.
Reina who was riding on Yunan"s back for maximum skinship, kept complaining about how they keep treating her like a princess and never play with her, or hug her like she was used to with the Valyrians, even the bath time became lonely, and the girls only came in to help clean her up, and then left her alone to soak. Yunan had an idea for her " i can kidnap you to the tenth floor and we can have a bath together like before" he told her. That got him murderous gazes but since Reina was...o...b..ard with the idea she agreed immediately.
She was on her way to challenge the 9th boss and try to get to the 10th level, so they had the same objective, therefore Yunan proposed a team up with her. Her teammates tried to persuade her not to trust this vulgar stranger, who kept as much skin contact with her just because they knew each other before, however neither Yunan nor Reina had paid any attention to them since they met outside of the challenge room.
Before entering the boss room Yunan put Reina down and strode inside the room with Reina holding hands, while leaving Drogon at the door to keep Reina"s group from interfering with the fight. The boss of the 9th floor was had the upper half of a gorilla fused with lower body of a spider, it had 8 feet and 4 arms, in each arm it had an axe that was imbued with an element, basically fire, ice, wind, and lighting, all attack focused, but the lower half could produce webs that can be used to either trap an opponent or be weaved like an armor to resist attacks.
Reina took out her staff and said to Yunan " i am a damsel in distress, you must keep the monster away from me", Yunan only activated his medallion before looking at Reina "what do i get for saving you, princess?", He asked as he pulled out his two short swords. Reina answered coquettishly like an actual princess "anything you desire". Yunan then cast his taunt at the gorilla by answering loudly " i am motivated!"