After saying goodbye to Rias and Yumi on the nineth floor Nero continued downwards, heading to his normal hunting ground on the 14th floor
"I really wish there was a way to speed up my psychic power training" he sighed to himself as he dodged the attacks of the almiraj, having long since gotten used to their attack patterns and with his stats even if he did get hit it wouldn't be to much of a problem unless he was hit in a fatal spot "but if I think like this and try to push it Aura will get mad at me so I guess I'll just have to take it a step at a time" he shrugged, catching one of the almiraj with his guantlet hand and throwing it to the side, making its ally impale it killing the initial monster before bringing his fist down on the other to take it out as well
"I have to say, this guantlet is awesome though" Nero smiled "it's resistant to magic, I can enhance it with my powers without worrying about it being damaged and it's light as a feather so I don't have to worry about it slowing down my movements, if I could get a whole suit of this stuff I'd be unstoppable"
As he admired his gauntlet, Nero happened to see that he had reached the stairs to the 15th floor, the small voice in the back of his head telling him he should go have a look, just to see how he compared, he had the armor, stats and skills that other adventurers his level didn't have, what could go wrong
Subconciously he made a step towards the stairs, only snapping out of his daze due to a dungeon worm bursting out of the wall next to the stairs
"Woah, that was close" Nero exclaimed in shock as he dived out the way, both at the sudden appearance of the monster he had failed to detect, and the fact that he had completely lost focus in the dungeon and had nearly gone down the stairs without realising it
Readying himself to face the dungeon worm Nero was shocked to see that the worm was already on its last legs, wounds covering its body
"What the hell?" Nero stated, staring at the monster as it turned to dust in front of him, his senses screaming at him that something wasn't right here
"RRRROOOOOAAAARRRRR!!!"
Emerging from within the ashes of the dungeon worm appeared a ligerfang, it's white fur covered in saliva from the dungeon worm, cuts criss crossing its body, most likely caused by the worms teeth as it must have tried to eat it
"A monster crossing floors due to it being nearly eaten, you don't see that everyday" Nero joked, trying to make light of the situation that was making his whole body shake
The 15th floor was a well known dividing line, the point at which no level 1 should ever enter if they wished to stay alive
"It's just been in a fight for its life and is already wounded, I should be able to take it" Nero determined, preparing to attack the beast
All of a sudden the ligerfangs head turned to look at Nero, his body seizing up at it's glare
"What the?" Nero shouted as the beast lunged at him, his body unable to move as it's claws struck forward
Being unable to think of anything to do in order to survive Nero braced himself as best he could to take the attack that would most likely end his life, but for some reason something caught his eye, the dungeon worms magic stone had somehow lodged itself in the ligerfangs fur
"All or nothing" Nero thought, gritting his teeth as he focused every part of his being on the magic stone, forcing it to shoot towards his own head
Under the threat of death Nero's mind worked harder than it ever had before, his psychic abilities reaching a level high enough to be able to use the magic stone to knock himself out of his stunned state, giving himself just enough time to lift his arms up to block the ligerfangs claws from impaling him, sending him flying due to the force of the impact
"Blegh" Nero coughed, blood spurting from his mouth as he struggled to get up, his left arm hanging uselessly at his side and his stomach feeling like he had just been hit by a train, only his right arm being safe due to the guantlet
As the ligerfang got ready to attack again, pouncing towards Nero, he raised his hand "not on your life" he groaned, firing a huge mass of destruction at the ligerfang
Unable to react to the magic due to having already continued it's attack the monster was hit by the full force of Nero's magic, it's entire body being erased without leaving a trace behind
Hah, hah, hah" Nero breathed deeply as he picked himself off the floor, grabbing a potion from his storage space and drinking the whole bottle in a single gulp "that really caught me off guard, I can really see why people say that you shouldn't go down to the 15th floor before you hit level 2 or are in a party with someone level 2 or higher, if you get caught of guard like that you're a gonna"
Feeling slightly better due to the potion but still having a great amount of pain in his left arm as it appeared to be broken Nero concluded that there was no way that he should continue in the dungeon any more, making his way back to the entrance slowly, trying to avoid fights when he could and using his power of destruction to take out any monsters he couldn't avoid without worrying about destroying their magic stones
Once he reached the ninth floor Nero slumped against the wall and fired a blast of destruction at the wall, hoping that Yumi and Rias weren't to far away and that they would hear him or be able to feel his magic
After a short while Yumi and Rias did end up finding Nero, quickly going over to him to assist him so that he would be able to get out of the dungeon.