[Chapter Size: 2718 Words.]Lucius POV
Eighteenth Floor, Dungeon.
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The m, I woke up and finished dug some tests with my new powers before heading to the floors. I wao explore the possibilities of my abilities and gauge my capacity in a few hours, something I hadn't done since acquiring spells without intations.
After my first meal with Riekling, I went to an open area and summoned my tack summon. Invoking an Atrona the spot, I a to unch fmes towards me. Following my orders, I stood still as firebolts flew in my dire. It was just firebolts; I'm certain that if I used a spell that evolves a summon, costing five million iore, its firebolts would transform into fireballs—a spell a huimes the price of firebolts with destructive power ten times greater. This would turn it into a formidable fire summon. Looking at it this way, I couldn't help but wonder what would happen to Riekling with this spell—an unanswered question until I id my hands on it.
As the fire bsts were about to be unleashed with a kind of art by the Atronach, gracefully dang and h a few inches from the ground, I simply disappeared wheack was inches away from me, almost feeling the heat of the small fireballs. I reappeared two meters away, testing my quick dodge spell.
"Atronach, keep attag. Don't st to hit me until I say stop." I instructed it, and it spun and danced while raising the spell again.
While the fire bsts tio e at me, I tested the quick dodge and tried to adapt to it befoing into battle against monsters. I wasn't trying to dodge rge spells, giant rocks, or trees ing my way. Instead, with this spell, more like a powerful skill, I could dodge deadly on strikes, cws, ah aiming to kill me, given my two-meter dodge range.
So, I trained with the Fme Atronach, which tried to hit me in the few hours while I appeared and disappeared without taking a step, relying solely on my spell. I ended up getting hurt a bit as I was still getting used to the sensation, but it's better to get burned by friendly fire than pierced by dungeon monsters. I got used to it, and in the end, I wasn't hit by any fire i hour that attempted to strike me.
In the end, this sensation of a small teleport became very enjoyable, and I truly liked it while no projectiles hit me i hour. It was a far cry from just juring in the past few days, which was quite dull aivating, but now it was different. Without an intation in real bat, the experience was incredible.
Feeling ready to fight on the floors, he began to dismantle his small camp, donning his armor and cloak. He left the area with his goblin panion by his side.
While things unfolded normally on the eighteenth floor, an adventurer with a wizard's cloak shone in a small blue aura around his body, and his amethyst eyes gleamed. By his side port unlike anything ever seen before—a goblin with a rge backpack, a monster never before seen tamed. Oher side of the wizard, another monster, a female creature made of fire, flew while somersaulting in the air from time to time, leaving a trail of fire wherever she went.
This small group was now heading towards the stairs to the eenth floor. The adventurers returning to Rivira from their expeditions on these floors, who saw the peculiar group of mages and creatures, were all levels two, three, or four. Despite their curiosity, they were armed by a group of this magnitude, and no one wao mess with them. They simply passed by the trio without asking any questions, trying to stay as far aossible, while the two monsters and the human mage desded the stairs.
Third Person POVTweh Floor.Everything was calm oweh floor. The monsters were in small roups, entering no oppos so far. However, the silended when suddenly a group with three Vouivres heard a noise from the darkness of the tunnels—a sound of footsteps ing their way. The trio was o, waiting for any eo appear, until the corridor lit up with a ball of light flying on the shoulder of an adventurer eared, holding a sword shining in a blue ray.
This ball of light was the Magelight, while Lucius used the lightning sword, a form remi of Sasuke using Chidori in his Kusanagi. Upon seeing the Vouivres in front of him, Lucius prepared for battle, and the creatures began to growl at him. Without wasting more time, he ran forward at a level 2 speed. The monsters could easily hahis, but as they attacked the adventurer, he disappeared in front of them before their cws could tear into him and reappeared beside them with a small teleport. He wasted no time and tore through the head of the creature.
The other two creatures, seeing this, attacked the adventurer with hatred, but he simply disappeared again and reappeared a few meters back from the furious Vouivres. The two creatures were boiling with even more anger, growling at him in frustration, ed by this oppo who was evading their attacks easily.
"Hehehe, very iing. Battles are easier if I dodge ao the oppo like this. With the lightning on spell, I don't even have difficulty cutting these monsters like the previous spell. It's like cutting paper now. However, my on started showing small cracks after a few hours of fighting..." He reflected while ign the monsters running and attag Lucius.
Without wasting any more time, he resumed attag the monsters. Utilizing his quick dodge ability, he appeared behind one of them, killing it in a few seds. The other attempted to attack, but suddenly, 6 fireballs appeared around the human without a word from him, as if he had do with just a thought. The attack, a multi-firebolts charged assault, forced the st Vouivre to protect itself with cws on its fad retreat after being hit point-bnk. This gave the adveime to lower the creature's neck after swiftly dispatg the st one.
"Heee!" A small goblin appeared as soon as the battle ended, gratuting the human, while a fiery creature appeared by his side, further illuminating the darkness of the floor where they stood.
"This is very iing..." Lucius celebrated, realizing he had sustained no injuries in this fight, which he took quite easily.
"Well, let's tinue..." He said after Riekling picked up the crystals and started moving forward, with the goblin and the fiery creature following closely behind.
Some time ter, the stairs to the twenty-first floor were found.
[Notification: You Killed 1 Dark Fungus from the Twenty-First Floor: 21 Points added!][Notification: You have 1 Dark Fungus Crystal from the Twenty-First Floor. Do you want to vert the Crystal into Points? 80 Points;][Yes/No]
As always, the crystals doubled the points every 5 floors. "If I do the math, I'll be earning 5120 points per crystal between floors 51-55, but it's a bit of a distant be... Maybe in a few months if I think positively," he mused aloud as he watched the crystal in his hand disappear, sold to the system.
Lucius POVI tinued killing everything that appeared. On this particur floor, there were many groups of monsters, so it was easy to accumute a lot of points by using magic. My fire mae gun multiplied because now 6 fireballs are summoned around Lucius with the Multi-firebolts spell after being charged. I don't o raise my hands to aim, as I materialize the spell in the space around me and unch it every sed with a sihought about the spell and the target; the fireballs explode where I think.
With the skill charged for 2 seds using my charged magic ability, the balls have the power of 24 firebolts when unched—extremely overpowered.
On these floors, I had to hit the monsters dozens of times for them to be destroyed. Still, with the speed of my magid the quantity of attacks, it was quick to eliminate all of them as I explored the floor with an iheme.
In the end, Lucius stayed on the floor until he eliminated all the creatures, not in a hurry to advao the lower floors. He ended up killing 1060 monsters on this floor and sold the crystals he gaio the system.
[Notification: You Killed 1060 Monsters from the Twenty-First Floor: 22,260 Points added!][Notification: You have 1060 Monster Crystals from the Twenty-First Floor. Do you want to vert the Crystals into Points? 80 Points Each.]
[Yes/No]"Yes"[Notification: 84,800 Points Added.]Lucius POVI mao get over 100,000 points here in 10 hours on this floor, killing many hordes and groups. I only sold the crystals from this floor ahe others to sell in Rivira and exge for more supplies. So, after 20 hours in the dungeon, I decided to return to the safe zone a for a bit.
After a few more hours taking some potions I had to avoid passing out from exhaustion, as I had accumuted a sleep debt since I started training, I finally arrived in Rivira. I had to turn off my magical aura and my Fme Atronach, which I had kept on to plete their respective missions.
Ign once agaiares directed at me as I ehe city, I exged my 600 crystals for supplies for many days, as I pn to accumute more points without having to return to this floor. Meanwhile, I dive deeper and explore the dungeon ier capitals, which is my current goal. In the end, I got a room at an inn this time, so I wouldn't have to set up camp again.
"I've accumuted 118,760 points in just one day... that's very good!" I thought, satisfied with my points. I've been in the dungeon for almost a week now. I don't kly when the events with the Apollo family will start, but I pn to stay here for another 10 days to accumute more useful spells, so I went to sleep.
The day, without wasting time, I returo the lower floors without wanting to go back to Rivira so soon. As I fought everything I entered and followed the maps I bought for the lower floors, tassed, and I mao reach the twenty-fifth floor for the first time.
The sight of the waterfalls casg for hundreds of meters was very satisfying to look at, w what kind of creatures I will find here.
"The monsters are getting tougher, but with my powers, if I don't face the Amphisbaena owenty-seventh floor, I'll be fine... with a bit of difficulty," I reflected.
I'm having a bit of difficulty each time I go down to the lower floors. The monsters bee stronger and smarter, even with the quick dodge, I still got hurt many times during some fights, and if it weren't for my magical skin, I would be seriously injured.
Putting that thought aside, I started to explore the floor and began fighting in these corridors—battling Raider Fish, Harpy, Siren, Blue Crab, Aqua Serpent, Crystal Turtle, Devil Mosquito, Light Quartz, Crystaroth Ur, Iguazu, Mermaid, and Merman—entering fights against terrestrial, aquatid even aerial monsters.
I didn't worry too much about exterminating all the monsters on the floors, as I faced all of them on the way that led to the stairs to the other floors, acc to the guild map I had with me. Since leaving Rivira, I desded to the twenty-sixth floor, where I am now, and entered a problem, which was resting for a few hours. There were no safe zones on these floors. So I adopted Aiz's strategy when she was teag Bell to fight in the early episodes of the anime, which was to sleep on the ground for a few hours.
However, this annoyed me. I am an adventurer with enough resilieo endure sleeping on the ground, but it bothered me, preventing me from having a quality sleep in the few hours of rest. I am the kind of person who had the spell that ed me without needing to take a bath, and for that reason, I loved this spell more than any other. Yes, I love fort and liness!
So with this thought and without wasting any more time, after accumuting many points i few days, I opehe shop again. At that moment, I bought the most useful spell I found so far.
[Alteratioion Intermediate Spell/Rank 3: 500,000] (Spell that creates fixed objects in a pce like a bed, fe, alchemy table, tent, table, chairs, among other things for a while until the user uhe spell or stops casting it to keep it.)
I spent 500,000 points out of the 800,000 I accumuted i 5 days. It's a bit of a waste if I sider the spells that made me stronger, but now I sleep in a bed whenever I want, and that gave me another quality of sleep that I never had, even in the safe area.
Not just a bed, I cook a at a table with dishes I create with magic. I started having fancy dinners in front of the great waterfall of these floors. I've never had so much luxury in the dungeon before, and I believe no one else have this luxury as I am living now. So yes, I don't regret spending 500,000 points on a spell over many other useful ones in battle.
Spending another day in my adventures on these floors, I ended up clearing the ewenty-sixth floor, and I was satisfied with my results. So, I went to find ao have a rest and a meal, unlike before when a little after leaving Rivira, I had to look for a somewhat hiddeh a ft ground to avoid hurting my baow I could find any pce where Riekling could stand guard for me to create a fortable bed.
But before that, I decided to stop in an area o a stream between the rivers of the floors before reag the waterfalls and summoned a dining table. After cooking on a stove I created—an object that does in this world, but I created ohat needed magic stoo work, an easy fuel to get while you're in the dungeon—I made some dishes, pots, and a frying pan. I used spices and oils that I bought in Rivira to make a beautiful dinner with Riekling.
And while I eacefully enjoying the meal with the ndscapes of the floors with all that water flowing and falling, Riekling doesn't o eat or sleep. He eats sometimes just for pleasure, so he ended up joining me for dinner because of the pleasant taste of the food I prepared.
But as I ehe meal, it was at that moment that I heard a sound of a small frightened scream with a touch of water.
"AHHH!" The sound was quiet, but I still heard it.
I looked at the in of the sound and saw a Mermaid, spying on me from some distance, and her scream was because she slipped between the rocks. I thought she would attack me, but she only showed curiosity in her gaze. Seeing this, my eyes widened with her presence.
"Is it her?" I excimed mentally.
When she saw that I noticed her, she began to retreat, and I couldn't help but shout quickly.
"Marie! Wait!" I shouted.
The "Mohat was returning to swim into the depths of the streams stopped at that moment, and she looked at me bewildered.
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