[Chapter Size: 2146 Words.]Lucius POVDungeoeenth Floor.

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  The pce is exactly like the anime, bright, with light emitted directly from the sky by enormous crystals. There's a ndscape between the blue of the rge ke in the middle of the floor and vast greeation around, not to mentioy built by adventurers he ter, capable of housing a few thousand. A pce hard to believe exists miles below the city...

  As I looked at the giant pce, I furrowed my brow with a thought. I heard on a forum that Bell's aunt, Alfia, a level 7 mage, had a spell that could destroy the entire pce. I wonder if one day I'll have a spell with the power to do that; at that moment, it would surely be a monster.

  Ign the beautiful sery, I led the way with Riekling and headed for the city. I was tired and wao rent a room to sleep sin the surface, it must be nearly noon by now. As the floor darkens acc to the surface time, I spent a whole night fighting on the previous floors, and I don't have infiamina.

  Walking straight into the city, I entered some adventurers. Besides the strange looks towards Riekling, which was a habit, and we're used to it, we passed by them, each minding their own business.

  Passing through the city gate, after some guards questioned about my goblin but handing them a guild lisier, they let us through. Si was daytime on the surfad this floor seemed to follow the city's rhythm, there were many people oreet at this time, as many follow the physiological schedules of the surface even here in the dungeon.

  Passing through the crowd, I found an inn to rest a in that dire. Hearing the owner's price, I couldn't help but frown. On the surface, a better inn than this would cost between 800 to 1000 valis, but here they charge 3 thousand. But with no choice, I accepted it because I wao sleep in a bed, and I have plenty of money and crystals.

  I slept for a few hours and woke up with the city much more lively iernoon, so I went out to buy some supplies that I was running out of for the few days, after a meal, of course.

  Notig the pce better, it seemed more like a merary city as I read in other novels, and I would say that the adventurers here didn't have the best iions. I could tell that by the looks towards Riekling as we walked through the pce. There is also the entrao Knossos on this floor, where hunters and svers use as their passage to go between the surfad this floor without beied.

  'I've always wondered how Uranos let this be built under his hout even disc the entrance.' I reflected.

  I bought some supplies, which were not cheap either, and headed towards the eenth floor. There wasn't much to do here now. I'll wait to explore this pce better once Bell aia are here. Meanwhile, I io be ready for my level-up. It's not enough to have only stats; you o gh a challenge. Some say it's only with stats because in these challehere is a rge amount of statistics received.

  Passing by some groups of adventurers at the entrance, who were returning from the lower floors, I began to desd the stairs. On this floor, there was a wide variety of moypes, such as Bugbear, Battle Boar, Lizardman, Firebird, Vouivre, Mad Beetle, Mammoth Fool, Dark Fungus, Gun Libellu.

  The sery ged from corridors with dark stones iermediates to vegetation with is as the theme for the floing up to the twenty-fourth floor before entering the capital of waters. I admit to being a bit nervous since I've never set foot on this floor even after 2 years, but at the same time, I'm excited about the unknown. I've seen almost nothing about these floors, so it will be a new experience.

  Entering the floor, among the roots, there were corridors with more roots from the big tree of the previous floor than the vegetation I imagined, but as I delve deeper, the roots will be repced. The first mohat came at me was a Bugbear wandering the corridors. I advanced in bat after casting my support spells. As I dodged its cws, I cut its arm. However, uhe floors above me, the monsters are tougher here. What should have severed its arm only made a deep cut with great difficulty. This created an opening for it to attack. It was so fast that I could barely dodge. Jumping backward, my shoulder started bleeding heavily.

  "Yikes, that was dangerous... and it hurts a lot!" I said, looking at my new wound, stunned.

  "HEEEEE!" Riekling shouted, ed.

  A few steps ahead, I looked back at my oppo, who was r and waiting for me to attack. [- Minor Heal!] I jured, and a green aura enveloped me, mainly my open wound. My oppo started running towards me. As he noticed my dey, I raised my hand and unched fire onto him with Firebolt. Caught in the explosio his paws to protect his face. Meanwhile, I ran to him, seeing the opening in his defense. When he realized, I had already cut his neot enough to decapitate him, but enough to kill him after a few seds with the bleeding neck while he thrashed on the ground.

  "That was harder than I thought... or maybe I was too fident and almost paid for it..." I said to myself, a bit frustrated. My wound was already healing, but the pain is not pleasant.

  "If I want to keep fighting on these floors, I'll have to fight with my Firebolt magid my lightning sword at the same time..." I thought to myself.

  "Heee?" Riekling asked after pig up the magic stone.

  "irely well, Riekling. Look at my badass wizard king cloak all torn! 50,000 down the drain now." I said angrily, lost my cospy here...

  My little panion stared at me as if I were some kind of narcissistic idiot, but I didn't care.

  We tinued our journey on the floor. After entering three more monsters, I took more care, sending bursts of firebolts on the group. Ohey suffered enough damage and an opening in their defenses, I fihem off with my sword in vital points since I don't have enough power to start slig them like meat.Ahing I must be careful about is the speed of these monsters because it's no joke how their attacks be vital. I even avoided advang to the tweh floor to not face stronger monsters at the moment.

  Throughout the hours and battles, adrenaliook over me, and I didn't even realize that I spent the rest of the day on this floor without intending to desd further, until the result roductive, seeing that I gained 19 points from the system for each monster's death and 40 points for each crystal, a score I've been earning sihe sixteenth floor!

  So, I gained many points around the 300 monsters I entered here, killing them i few hours. It wasn't my best result in a day, as the monsters were much more challenging and time-ing on this floor after all.

  Heading to the surface peacefully while killing a few more mohan I had already done as I entered them along my way, however, it seems that some kind of event always has to happen because in the middle of the way, I noticed an ambush when I was already in it, and a female voice was heard.

  "Well, well, what a dangerous man. Did you see how he casts his magic without saying a word of intation..." Said a seductive voice, interrupting my thoughts as I was walking and heading back to Rivira.

  In the darkness between the roots, an Amazon appeared behind one of them with two other men. The Amazon was lig her lips as she looked at me and studied me and did the same with Riekling. I entered some Raids on this floor while I was here; these groups looked at me strangely seeing the blood on my clothes and how I was alone, but each took care of their own business.

  'I've been followed since Rivira, or someone liked to give my information among the groups I met on the way back to the surface.' I thought, hoping it wouldn't be too much trouble to deal with these adventurers in front of me.

  "Why am I surprised by this cliché?" I said monotonously and tialking.

  "I presume you're here to kill me and take Riekling?" I asked with the same bored tone...

  They didn't answer because it was too obvious; unfortunately, their efforts would result in nothing because even if they mao kill me, Riekling would disappear if I died...

  "Let me ask another question. Do you work for Dix Perdix? Perhaps you know how to get into Knossos... And if you had the key, it would be a big profit for me!" My st sentence was more like a question to myself.

  The group looked at me with wide eyes at this moment. They were obviously members of the Ikelos Family, no doubt. But as my thought was heard, their eyes became cautious because, in addition to knowing information that only their family knows, I nning to ihe pce like a bloodthirsty madman, as my eyes showed an iion to kill when I said I wao go inside Knossos.

  "Who are you!? How do you know these things?" The Amazon asked, no longer amused and a bit cautious.

  'Regardless of how I know these things, I'm not as ordinary as they thought...' I ughed internally.

  "It doesn't matter, Vanessa, he spent the whole day fighting here, and even though he has that fire magic, he must be almost out of mana! Let's just kill him; he's nothing more than a beginner level 02 in his physical abilities, from what we observed!" One of them spoke, and I sighed upon hearing that.

  I really looked poor now, my cloak torn and bloodied after dozens of wounds on this floor. Not that I haven't suffered before, but today surpassed much more than my usual in the early moments oermediate floors. I'm an idiot who doesn't wear armor under my own cloak, something I'll have to ge when I go to a store...

  "I admit that I was even ied in Knossos for a moment, but I think I'll wait for Bell to find Wiene and wait for the xenos to attack Rivira. It will be easier that way. I'll find all the keys and eliminate everyone who knows the structure, monopolizing the path only for me and my family! HEHE!" I said while scratg my , making them stunned with my strange words. I ughed at the end like an ambitious businessman, thinking that maybe I start a business with it.

  "HEEE!" My panion said something like, 'How you be a freaking capitalist!?' How he knows these terms, I don't know, I just paid attention to the group in front of us.

  The group in front of me didn't know if they would be more surprised by the fact that I talked about xenos or by my iions to eradicate their anization to open a busio enrich myself.

  So, I stopped thinking out loud and looked at them with a big smile on my face, a rather evil one.

  "As I don't need you, please DIE!" I said while raising both hands.

  *FLAMES**BOOOOOM!**BOOOOOM!**BOOOOOM!**BOOOOOM!*

  "GET AWAY!""AHHH! WHAT IS THIS!?""WHY DOESN'T HE STOP CASTING HIS MAGIC!""MERCY!"*BOOOOOM!**BOOOOOM!*

  They were three level 02 adventurers, so it was easy to elimihem with about 240 shots in a minute of firebolt explosions. It took a while sihey dodged most of the attacks, but as they were hit in front of the intense firebolt mae gun, their injuries severely restricted their mobility.

  A little while ter, they were dead, and the corridor was covered in fmes now. Once I made sure to dispose of the bodies and tried to find the key, I was disappointed because there should have been someoo take care of the gate especially without getting involved in capture missions. After that, I returo Rivira, a bit disappointed.

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