A couple hours later, Hilda starts feeling something else tugging at her fishing rod, turning around and looking at Jamine who is currently sitting down bored, making sure it isn't her again before turning back as she starts to pull it up.

  While pulling it up, a massive wave suddenly interrupts her as she turns to look at the source, finding white there using his water magic to walk on the water with some acid resistant boots and using his water manipulation to pull fishers out of the water from over 100m below the surface.

  “That piece of…” Hilda's voice trails off as she teleports to white, keeping herself afloat midair by teleporting in the same spot nonstop, quickly consuming her mana as white notices her.

  “Oh, what are you doing her—” White said as he gets cut off by Hilda sending a wave of sword qi and mana at him.

  “You goddamn irritating guy! It took over an hour to wait for a single fish yet you disturbed me with your damn wave!” Hilda shouts while sending another wave of mana and sword qi over at him.

  “My… bad?” White said, his voice confused at whether or not he should apologise since they aren't close enough to even be considered friends, some might even consider them competitors in the tower.

  “You aren't going anywhere until you catch another for me.” Hilda said, preparing another wave as white uses his magic to lift a fish out of water, throwing it at Hilda as she catches it, the acid stinging her hand but not hurting it enough for her to care.

  “Good.” Hilda said, still annoyed and tempted to send another wave of sword qi and mana at him but refraining as Shila and Jamine paddle the boat over to her, letting her stop her teleportation.

  “Hey, I made an alliance with the others, wanna joi—” White said, trying to invite her into their alliance as he gets cut off by Hilda, “nope.” She instantly replies.

  “Shame but expected. Regardless, I'm just here to tell you that since you’re hiding your gender or were hiding your gender for some reason, we won't tell the newcomers anything as long as you don't kill anybody else okay?” White offers as Hilda reluctantly nods, sighing while doing so.

  “Alright, good bye and by the way, I think your system did something to mine, he's been complaining about you recently.” White said while teleporting to the next level as Hilda turns to Shila who shrugs.

  “What did you do?” Hilda asks as Shila shrugs again, “Idunno?” She sounds out muffled through her closed mouth.

  Hilda turns back to White who shrugs too, “... I'm not dealing with this, I don't even know when you two found time to piss each other off, deal with it by yourself,” Hilda said while carrying Jamine and teleporting to the 32nd floor.

  “Mom, are we just gonna leave sis behind?”

  “Yep, let her deal with her own drama, don't learn this from her, it's not good,” Hilda said while looking around, finding herself on a farm with animals and crops of all kinds.

  “I'm going off on a whim and assuming I have to collect crops,” Hilda sighs, turning to Jamine, contemplating for a while before shaking her head to herself, confusing Jamine.

  “Mom, why are you shaking your head?” Jamine asks as Hilda contemplates again for a moment before answering.

  “Don't get angry but I just feel like you won't be of help here since the crops will probably dissolve in your hands,” Hilda said as Jamine gets slightly annoyed at basically being called useless before trying to grab a nearby grape and to Hilda's surprise, it didn't dissolve.

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  “Oh right, the fishing materials were also ridiculously resistant to acid so maybe the crops are special too,” Hilda said as she turns to Jamine who is crossing her arms, no longer willing to help causing Hilda to sigh as she does puts her palms together and kneel down to Jamine's height with a sheepish look.

  “You gimme the box back,” Jamine said, still upset as Hilda passes the snack box to her as she happily hugs it before creating a bunch of clones, totalling up to 35 including herself as they start to collect crops with the new crops reappearing back a couple minutes later.

  “Good job Jamine, just… make sure to share with Shila? She might get a bit irritated if she finds out I gave it to you only,” Hilda said as somebody hits her on her head from behind, causing her to turn around, finding Shila with White's system, clearly having fought with White’s system in slightly worse condition due to Shila having a higher level than him

  “What is going on here?” Hilda asks as they both glance at each other before focusing back on Hilda.

  “You decide who is in the wrong here,” Shila said, her voice tinged with a bit of irritation, “exactly, I'm in the right here, you're just annoyed since that's the truth,” White's system said, annoying Shila more.

  “How about going to White and asking him to deal with this?” Hilda suggests, clearly not wanting to get involved.

  “We already did! It's just…” Shila shouts as her voice trails off, glancing away and fidgeting as Hilda realizes what happened.

  “Ohhh, you already did and he agreed with his system so you're here so I agree with you?” Hilda said as Shila shamelessly nodded, “fine, tell me what happened… it was only a short while, how did you create so much trouble…” Hilda said, sighing as she muttered the last part to herself.

  “He insulted me,” “and she deserves it.”

  Hilda stutters a little, not knowing how to respond to this.

  “Based on the context you're giving me right now, I would say Shila is actually in the right here,” Hilda said as Shila instantly starts insulting White’s system.

  “What the hell is going on…” Hilda thinks to herself as she turns around, finding nearly every crop collected and the animals apparently not being acid resistant, hence the reason for the now many bones lying all over the place which belong to many animals, some that Hilda has never seen or even exists on earth.

  “Shila, what do we do to get to the next floor?” Hilda asks as Shila stares at her for a moment, “nothing, there's no next floor.”

  “...”

  “What?” Hilda leans in as Shila takes a deep breath, “there's no next floor!” She shouts, causing Hilda to back up.

  “Well, no need to shout, is there?”

  “There's no next floor yet, the guide locked it since it would be a problem if somebody like YOU became too strong to the point the restriction is unable to stop you from massacring everybody in the lower floors, though you're probably strong enough.” Shila says as Hilda teleports to the real Jamine who she can easily differentiate from the food box in her hand, “Jamine, stop your clones, your sis here just mentioned that it's pointless,” Hilda said as Jamine smacks Shila, “made me do all that work for nothing!”

  “It wasn't me, it was your mother!” Shila shouts as Jamine thinks for a moment before kicking Hilda's leg, “ouch.” Hilda said sarcastically as she looked down at Jamine and picked her up, “sorry mom, had to make it fair?”

  Suddenly Hilda hears fighting and turns around to the two systems fighting again and picks them both up by their collar, “where is White?” Hilda asks, turning to his system.

  “The 31st floor having fun,” he says as Hilda picks Jamine up in the same hand as Shila before teleporting to the 31st floor and spotting him at the port, fishing as he sits with his leg off the edge and dropping the three nuisances.

  “Oi!” Hilda calls out to him as she kicks his leg, light enough for him to not hurt much but enough to show her irritation with the situation.

  “What?” He asks, ignoring the kick as Hilda kicks him again.

  “Why did you say your system was right?” Hilda crosses her arms as White shrugs, “was too lazy to deal with it.”

  Hilda gets slightly more annoyed as she suddenly buys something from the shop, hiding what she bought from White before handing him a gift box, surprising him.

  “Opening up to me?” He jokes as Hilda picks Shila and Jamine up, teleporting a safe distance away, staring in his direction.

  “Hilda, what did you buy?” Shila asks as Hilda points in the direction White is in in response to her and Shila looks in the direction with Jamine.

  A while later, a small explosion occurs on the island as Shila gives Hilda a thumbs up while still staring in that direction and Jamine simply enjoying the explosion.

  “Boom is best to solve problems.” Hilda said as Jamine joins Shila in giving a thumbs up.