Watching Leader leaving, Yunan could not help but reflect on his action, how come all that luck spent was only able to cause some infighting and the fact that leader praised him meant it did more than just cause infighting, and he did not know about it, therefore he decided on a strategy meeting for the available members of the Valyrians.He told the bird to stay with Leader since she had agreed to take the bird back to its floor where it can find its wife and restart a new nest, he watched as the bird flew and chirped at Leader and her giggling at it and playing with it and scratching it bulging victorious chest, she did not seem like she was going to punish her subordinates too hard, therefore, Yunan focused on his next objective, figuring out the extent of damage he had dealt to Debauchery.
His girls, however, were have immediately found the discrepancy when he retold what happened to them, "it"s obvious" said Sarah "you just made them vulnerable to an ambush, and the ambush was successful, the bird could have been using arrows instead of fruits causing each and every one of them to be dead". "Also think how they did not even notice they were being targeted and hit by the fruits if leader did not get hit in the head and she was not in the midst of a fight, if she was she might have not noticed until the bird had it fun and revenge" Reina added her insights too.
"You mean I just used enough luck to kill a party of level 80 adventurers by simply causing infighting? shouldn"t they be alert to outside threats even when they were fighting each other?". "Yes" Lili responded to Yunan " they have spent weeks getting hit by this bird and were very attuned to its attacks yet totally missed it this time, and the little bird was there in front of them, yet they still got hit by the fruits, it means their minds were fully focused on their targets that they missed the thing they have been fighting against for weeks".
"Meaning that I would need much less luck to cause another party to fall in a worse situation than I did with Debauchery because they especially hate infighting and solve their issues nonviolently each time. If that is the case then I may have just found a strategy to use against enemies, but it requires luck and I need to acc.u.mulate mine again, at least so that I have enough to activate it multiple times without incurring bad luck on myself ".
After a good talking and thinking session the youngsters went to bed in preparation of their next day of dungeon exploring, the girls were moving on the 43rd floor and Yunan gave them a few pieces of advice on how to deal with the monsters they would face, on the other hand, he was thinking about what the boss would look like and how he could deal with it.
The next few weeks went pretty good for Yunan and the girls, the only thing that got them down was Debauchery, they have been coming back haggard and tired even more than they were before, it seems Leader"s punishment was a bit harsher than it looked like, according to whispers drifting from Fae and Balin, it indicated that Leader was experimenting with expanding the amount of attention the party pays to the outside world while engaged in combat or during arguments, something they would not usually do in the current level they were fighting at.
Debauchery had their unique way of staving boredom while fighting weaker monsters, they would take that as both strength control training as well as a way to use their excess mental energy for something, that can manifest itself in the hilarious situations they get themselves into. On the other hand, when dealing with monsters on their own level, their mental capacity is already stretched enough as is between keeping vigil and focusing on the monster and its attacks, while also keeping the actions of their party members under consideration.
Leader had added talking and arguing to the fight regime in an effort to counter the effects of the attack Yunan just used against them, luckily for them, Yunan was a good kid and has never intended harm to his teachers, it was only a small prank, to act as revenge for the little bird and stop it from holding a grudge and disrupt them further.
However, that little prank has shown a glaring hole in the defences of the party, and dealing with such a problem was her duty as the Leader for those lovable misfits. One must acknowledge that the luck worked so well mostly because the party was relaxed and had no feeling of attention or danger in the place they called home for years now, it was a safe place and they have relaxed their guard, but even so, as adventurers of such high calibre that have gone through so many gruelling trials, being caught off guard was rather embarra.s.sing.
If we add the fact that a soothing spell can lead them to relax their guard in the wild, then the fact that another covert spell to cause mayhem between the members is more likely to succeed, even if it was not a spell, and it was a drug or a monster effect, the possibility was high that Debauchery would be decimated, thankfully these kinds of strategies are mostly used on the surface world by those who could not reach beyond the 30th floor, therefore those who reach higher floors are less likely to fight among themselves, since it is rare to b.u.mp into another party due to the size of the floors and few numbers of explorers in contrast, evident by how Yunan had not met many parties during his time in the 40th floors.
Yunan thought it was high time he started working with other people in the dungeon, he has been using his mental energy and expanding it by doing things like arithmetics and some complicated mathematics while fighting, but that was one thing and fighting with others was a completely different concept, even if he was able to use more of his mental strength that way it was more efficient and more taxing if it was used in tandem with others.