As the man was about to walk past Lotus, she placed her hand on his shoulder. "Let him be," Lotus said before facing Godfrey.
"This place is as vast as a city, and there are hundreds of minotaurs waiting to tear us apart, and a group of fanatics trying to sniff us out. It’s best you stay up and wait."
She watched the man scowl and go back to his spot before walking away. "Falco will call for you," Lotus said finally before descending.
"I heard the boy is a high tier," another man said to the one with the bat. The one with the bat, who had a slightly bald head, scowled. "It won’t change a thing when I put a bullet through his skull."
A woman who had been watching the entire scene spat. "You’re right. He might be a high tier and the other a lord tier, but he’s still young and arrogant. All that is none of my concern. I’m just pissed off they’ll shorten our ration."
Meanwhile, inside one of the rooms, Godfrey finally couldn’t remain sitting, so he rose to his feet. "I’ll look around."
"Be careful!" Joy said as Godfrey walked out.
Percival chuckled. "It’s them who should be careful of him. With or without a summon, he’s not weak."
Everyone in the room glanced at Percival. They had seen how he effortlessly brought down the minotaurs, which could shove cars aside, but for him to speak so highly of Godfrey, it seemed like Godfrey might be on par with him.
Outside, Charles and Falco, with the rest of their party who were seated around the rectangular table, saw Godfrey head for the rooftop. Not a second after he shut the door, the man with the bat stood up.
He, another man, and the woman all went to the same place, their intention obvious.
Seeing this, Lotus rubbed her forehead. "Hey!" she snapped, glaring at the man and his cronies who had lost their sense of reason and wanted to gang up on a teenager.
The man froze, but Falco shook his head and waved at him. "Go along."
The man grinned and left through the door.
"What are you doing?!" Charles almost lost it.
"He won’t die. He’s a high tier; I just want to know what his summon is. The next would be the blue-haired one."
Charles rose to his feet and angrily ascended the mezzanine. When he got close to the door, something suddenly slammed it from the other side, and the metal door caved in!
Alarmed, Charles pushed the door open and saw the man with the bat on the floor with a bloodied face, teeth lost, nose broken.
He was the one who slammed the door. The other two sprawled on the ground with disfigured faces. Charles’ eyes met Godfrey’s.
The teenager flexed his fist, eyeing him as if he was possibly the next target.
Charles felt his spine grow cold. This teenager had taken out three people in such a short amount of time without his summon and with one blow each.
’He’s no ordinary kid,’ Charles concluded.
"They’re all half-dead; you didn’t show mercy."
Godfrey raised an eyebrow. "That’s a concept that only exists back on Earth. There, I can only be reactive and within limits to avoid breaking the law. But here, in the lawless expanse of this dungeon, if I’m not ruthless enough, I’ll be dead."
"Dungeon hunting isn’t a new thing for you, I see. You’re quite rational for a teenager," Charles said, walking past Godfrey to the edge of the roof before sighing.
"This should be the 27th in the outside world, right?"
"No. It’s the 24th."
Godfrey’s reply made Charles’ eyes widen. "But I came here on the 24th. Around 10 a.m., my group left the guild."
"I left my house around 1 p.m. It’s just been three hours." Godfrey’s reply made Charles gasp.
"An hour outside is a day here. So it’s just been three hours outside and three days in here! Thank God!" Charles burst into light-hearted laughter.
"I thought I’d been away from my little girl for three days! It’s just been three hours, work time isn’t even over!" His voice was loud, and so was his laughter as it echoed through the empty streets.
Suddenly, a roar came from afar. Charles immediately lost his light-hearted mood as he spotted a minotaur with an enormous butcher knife heading toward them.
It wasn’t alone. The street behind it was soon full of minotaurs, about forty of them in total. Their black horns, curving upward, gleamed like black steel, and their eyes glowed with cruel intelligence.
"Come inside. I and the rest of my party will handle this," Charles said as he was about to rush inside, but he found Godfrey still standing at the edge.


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