The exchange of looks amongst everyone when Kate said they would be splitting was enough to let the fact that the team didn''t support this decision be known, but unfortunately, the decision power was not up to them.


    Though no one had any hope, they all looked to ke from the side of their eyes, hoping he would speak against Kate''s words, and when he didn''t a sort of depression descended upon the team.


    "Hey now, you guys don''t have to make yourck of fate in me that obvious" Kate said with narrowed eyes putting her hands to her waist and releasing a bit of her aura.


    With this everyone quickly masked their expression and maintained smiles, their actions leaving Kate letting out a sigh that told everyone that she wasn''t angry with them and understood their feelings.


    "Noel and Roy, you both will go with ke while the rest wille with me" Kate said but before she could speak any further, she faced a bit of opposition.


    "I am sorry Miss Kate, but can you assign someone else, I would prefer to rather go with you," Noel said surprising everyone as they couldn''t help but wonder if he was looking to offend both Kate and ke at the same time.


    "Your request is denied Noel, you will go with ke" Kate firmly said and just as she was done handling this issue another voice spoke up.


    "Take Roy and give me Y instead. You guys need to be fast and swift in order to handle whatever situation you maye across.


    You can''t afford to be exhausting manpower on protecting someone while you are in the heat of a life and death battle or are retreating"


    Though at first there had been a few crunched faces when ke talked about Y going with him by the end of his exnation, they all saw reason in his words.


    In no time, the team was split in Two, ke, Noel and Y on one side while Kate, Roy, Jeric, Reins and Palde were on the other.


    "Each team will take a side of the canyon and explore till they find the door to the next floor and then return and wait for the other team to alsoe back," Kate exined. It was a simple n and in the end received no questions.


    Receiving noints, Kate reached into the satchel bag she had been carrying on her waist and brought out round red badges which she gave to everyone present telling them to put it on their chest, though for ke she couldn''t help but feel a bit embarrassed as he had simply thrown her a bored look and then collected his own badge.


    "These badges are one-time life protection talismans, though they aren''t high level, for this dungeon, I believe they should be able to save your lives from whatever cmity you might face" Kate said and she couldn''t help but blush when several thanks began echoing out from the group.


    Without dy, the group split, up, Kate''s team going left while ke''s team went right.


    "Unless you are really confused, you two will make the decision on how to handle whatever we encounter on our way, my n is to be a bystander as much as possible," ke said from his position at the back staring at both Yul and Noel who were at the middle and front respectively.


    ...…


    Two hourster though ke still couldn''t see the end of the canyon, his group had already encountered a bunch of trolls and standing at the back, ke watched as Noel charged the 4 trolls who had jumped out from the rocks ahead and began running towards them while holding axes and spears.


    Y retreated to ke''s side and then holding up her staff ready to provide Noel with healing at a moment''s notice, she watched as he engaged the trolls.


    "Don''t you have any offensive techniques in your arsenal?" ke asked out of the blue, stunning Y and making her shake her head shamefully.


    Saying nothing further, ke watched as with a good mix of strength and speed, Noel quickly dispatched the crude and untrained trolls that hade to attack them, the man doing all this without receiving any injury.


    "I didn''t know trolls stayed in canyons" Y innocently said as she looked down at the dead grey bodies, cing her staff on Noel and rejuvenating him.


    "They don''t" Noel answered, "my guess is that they came from the dungeon below, most likely sent by the dungeon master."


    Listening to the two speak, ke nodded his head at the realization that his n which was to get Noel and Yul to talk and feed him information was working, ke was just about to take this new information in and see if he could figure out Kate''s n when Noel walked up to him.


    "Yes," ke asked with a slight bore, internal praying that Nloel wasn''t about to ask him some profound question.


    "I want to thank you for helping us Sir," Noel said.


    "It''s no problem" ke replied with a nod but Noel shook his head,


    "You don''t understand, though we were the ones who discovered the dungeon and reported it, that both you and Miss Kate would agree to help us on such short notice truly means a lot to me because you see I am a native of caramel town," Noel said and as his words rang in ke''s head, the knight of hell so badly wanted to blink several times but he was barely able to hold himself back and give Noel a scrutinizing look.


    "You are from Caramel Town"


    "Yes, my mother was even amongst the first woman to be blessed by you, maybe you remember her she is the woman with the green hair, I hope she wasn''t a handful."


    A woman with green hair of course ke would remember such a woman after all she had been such a great fuck that he had extended their session by an extra 20 minutes.


    "Well, at least now I know where his poweres from." ke thought thinking about Noel whose mother wasn''t blessed with the biggest of ass and breasts but had really thick thighs that entuated her ass cheeks and make ke''s cock harden when they flexed.


    "Well, enough thinking of his mother I have a serious issue here."


    "I understand my joining your adventurer group was on short notice but how does the same apply to Kate "ke asked,


    "Oh, she didn''t tell you" Noel said having an impressed and adoring gaze in his eyes.


    "The original person who was supposed to lead us was a male priest from the church of Light cathedral in the city, but on the day, he was supposed to arrive he never showed and it was only two dayster that Kate showed up, she being a substitute for the priest who had to go somewhere else for an emergency."


    What amazes me is that all Miss Kate had heard was that there was a dungeon close to a vulnerable town and she had immediatelye here to help, asking for nothing in return for her services.


    While Noel went praising how selfless Kate was, ke thought about the words the woman had told him with a sigh,


    "I gathered my team on a very quick notice and it iscking in a lot of aspects"