Squeak, squeak, squeak...
Ever since the battle with the insects began, the insane buzzing of insects has never ceased around the group's ears.
Various insects emerging from the darkness below the staircase are becoming more frequent and stronger.
The team, with Aiven and Anita as the spearhead, and the other three supporting and employing various tactics, is almost advancing by stepping over the corpses of insects.
After they turned twenty right angles, theoretically walking five circles on the square Penrose Staircase that constantly ascends, they no longer seek to completely slay or defeat the insects rushing toward them but draw out their longswords to conserve strength, merely to clear a path for their group to move forward.
Because, despite the insects' individual strength being negligible, their numbers are overwhelming, like drawing a sword to cut water, and not even a team with two powerful Extraordinaries capable of arm wrestling with Tier 4 could wipe them all out.
