When we saw the Rock Giants approaching in a group, we stayed in our positions, my brother took the front with Hela, Lilith and I stayed behind to attack with magic while Athena who was quiet all this time is ready with Samira to attack the sides.
Ragnar came along but is not participating in the attack, he is here more to help in case unexpected situations occur.
"Brother, let me and Lilith take care of the back group, the rest of you take out the front group faster." (I)
They all nodded, and they all overlay their Auras with different effects like Lilith's Revenge Retribution or my regeneration Enhancement Aura which enhances the body's natural ability to heal.
My brother and Hela rush forward, Athena creates swords of light that float around her as she flies out to attack enemies from above.
Samira who is the fastest had already left her position when I looked, she was falling like a meteor on top of one of the Giants, but instead of the giant in question dodging, he tries to hit her with his rock club.
"< Demonic Curse: Blood Corruption >" (Lilith)
"< Prison of Blades >" (I)
While the others started their attacks, I used a barrier to defend Samira, she took advantage of the decrease in the Giant's attack power to somersault in the air with her heel hammer to the Giant's head, this shouldn't have been a problem considering the size of a fly that Samira was compared to the Giant, yet half of the Giant's head sinks to pieces as his body is thrown to the ground with force.
Meanwhile, I created a barrier around the second group of Giants with sword points facing inwards, while I started to lower the barrier little by little, it's hard to change the shape of a barrier once it's ready, otherwise, I could close this one faster barrier.
At this moment I see the veins on the Giants' bodies writhing under the skin like snakes, the Giants were screaming meanwhile trying to hit the blades inside the belly, but each broken blade returned to normal so it was a futile effort.
Even though I say the barrier was slowly decreasing, that was just by my standards, the barrier was still decreasing at a decent speed that took away all the space to move for these thrashing Rock Giants.
I could feel the resistance of the bodies of these Giants as my barrier blades had difficulty piercing their skin, so I activate corrosion in my barrier which turns acidic corroding its way to destroy these monsters.
Then I turn to the side and see my brother with a sword inside the eye of one of the Giants, I see another giant with his head split in half and another headless giant was fighting another, it must probably be Hela controlling one of the bodies.
I ignore the notifications about EXP gain and head over to where the monster bodies are.
"It took less time than the Cyclopes on the previous floor." (I)
"These monsters are purely physical combat monsters, they don't have exotic abilities like those Cyclops." (Irius)
I look at Hela who is guarding one of the bodies with her body storage magic.
"Are you thinking of using this in your research?" (I)
"Yes, their bones are strong." (Hela)
"Will you take them all?" (I)
"Just remember to do this on the Undead floor, the dungeon dwellers don't need to see you chopping up bodies in the woods again." (Hela)
After Hela has collected all the bodies, we continue to the direction where the Adventurer's Guild map says the metal Irius wants to take is.
On our way, we met another group of Adventurers, this time they weren't members of any of the religions, but legitimate Adventurers.
Our two groups looked at each other before each went their separate ways.
As we went along we came across more monsters, so far they were all Giants or Golems, strong monsters with high defenses, but mostly stuck on strength.
In this fight we entered now, there were dozens of Rock Giants, but these had brute metal weapons.
The fight this time was exactly what we were looking for, coordinating as a group, so we were careful to use as few skills as possible as we wanted a longer fight.
I focused on using only common barriers to defend the group and interspersing a few hits over time.
My brother used his sword and shield to be the front line, meanwhile, Athena focused on dealing as much damage as possible, which with her strength was one hit kill.
Lilith in turn was using Demonic magic to get through the defenses of monsters, among all of us she is the one with the least combat experience, she is well trained while in the Dungeon, but it's not the same thing as being in a real fight.
Lilith's Demonic magic does a lot of damage almost ignoring the defense of these monsters, Hela was ripping off another monster's head before throwing it hard enough to push the other monster back a few steps.
Samira was running between the monsters using her powerful kicks to hit the monsters' joints giving large openings which Irius was taking advantage of to quickly kill opponents.
"Watch the floor!" (Ragnar)
"< Moving Barrier >" (I)
At Ragnar's warning the ground shook and a big mouth appeared from the ground, it was some kind of fish with rock scales instead of normal scales and it was covered in magma, it was tens of meters long and its mouth was big enough to swallow half of the battlefield, which he did.
I created bubble barriers around everyone and pulled them away from their battles while the monsters that were still alive were swallowed by the giant fish-like monster before hitting the ground causing the surroundings to shake, then back down of the earth leaving a large pool of magma in place.
Before the monster left, I realized that its strength was at the Lower Catastrophe Grade.
"Looks was a mid-boss." (I)
"He looks like a lot to deal with right now." (Athena)
"Would it taste good with some hot sauce?" (Lilith)
"Stop thinking about food, let's continue." (Irius)