Surprisingly, we managed to reach the stairs without any more incidents and ascended back up to the floor above.
Unexpectedly, we found a bunch of people camped out at the stairs this time as compared to the last time where it was practically empty.
It only took me a moment to realise why they were gathered here as most of them were sporting injuries and there were even some corpses that were laid out on top of a sheet off to the side.
Several of the people near the stairs immediately noticed us walking out of it and started whispering amongst themselves.
"Wait… Did they just come up from the floor below?"
"They went deeper into the Dungeon?"
"Who are they?"
"Girl, that's the one who killed the big monster and warned us about it, remember?"
"So they managed to clear this floor and go to a deeper one?"
"Just how strong are they?"
"Why are they here now?"
Looks like we were a little late coming back here and the damage had already been inflicted on these people…
