Before the Dive (7th Floor)

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After I returned back to the church, I went to sleep not long after. Since tomorrow I am finally planning to dive into the seventh floor, I wanted to be in my peak condition when I do that.

Before I slept, I started thinking about the events of the evening and my encounter with the Loki Familia.

'Firstly, I would have never thought Tiona would be the one realizing I was the adventurer who defeated the Silverback. In the anime, they always portrayed her on the dumber side of the spectrum. However, it seems that was not fully true either. But still, her personality is still the same, so I don't think she is that different.'

I thought while remembering the huge pressure she put on my wrist with her grip.

'She was really strong; the strength behind her grip was no joke. While watching the anime, we didn't see the fights of higher-ranking adventurers, so I didn't have something to refer to. But now that I know there are people out there possessing such strength, it makes my blood boil. The fact that there are mountains I am certainly able to cross itself makes me excited.'

I thought while thinking I would be able to wield such power in the future.

"Hestia and Bell are late, but I doubt anyone in this world would target a god aside from Evilus. So, they must be buying some clothes, still."

I mumbled and finally drifted to sleep.

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Just as usual, I woke up at dawn. Since I have constantly been training my sword skills, body, and martial arts for the past month because of the quest, I have already become accustomed to the feeling of training before going to the dungeon.

Now, you might say you are not at your peak if you do that, and that is not wrong. But, it is not true either. In training, I am doing before going to the dungeon, I am not pushing myself to the limits, but more like warming up all my muscles before the combat itself, albeit it certainly is tiring, but that is the price I don't mind paying.

In the last month, I have constantly been observing the adventurers around. In the beginning, I thought when your stats grow up, would the interior of your body change. Or, would you be immune to the sicknesses normal people would get? Or would your muscles never become sore?

For me, when I woke up, my body would be all sore, and it would not be flexible enough. In the first days of my adventuring, I felt the effects of not stretching all my muscles before diving. My moves were not smooth, and I made a lot of unnecessary movements while fighting. My slashes were out of pace, my posture was bad, and most importantly, my footwork was messed up.

However, I thought it might be because I am still a newbie adventurer, and my stats were still low. So, I observed the adventurers I judged to be at a higher level than me. I observed what they were doing in the first fight of their day.

And as expected, they were sloppy in their first fights too. And most of the level 2 adventurers or high-level one adventurers would fight in the first four floors to relieve the soreness of their body and get accustomed to it before they dive deeper floors.

Therefore, even though the quest is already finished, I am still training my body before diving into the dungeon. I don't like fighting with goblins and kobolds since it feels like they are not challenging enough.

Anyway, after waking up in the dawn, I went to the bathroom and brushed my teeth first. After that, I changed my training clothes, which were basically a light t-shirt(?) and a jersey(?). Although I don't know where they found those materials, they looked like the jerseys I wore on earth, so I bought them.

Wearing my clothes, I started my training. After doing some little stretching, I started running with a low tempo while enjoying the cold breeze blowing across my face.

Nobody would think this city is that lively looking at the dead streets in the morning. Since it was still fairly early in the morning, there weren't many people on the streets, so it was pretty comfortable.

After running for approximately thirty minutes, I returned to the church and started doing some body workouts, like push-ups, squads, etc. However, it looks like I can no longer use my own body weight to work out since my stats are raised quite high.

Anyway, since my aim was not to develop my muscles, I did bodyweight exercises until I thought my muscles were all warmed up.

Following that drew my swords and started practicing with them.

While I was fighting with Silverback or those adventurers, I was unable to use 'Day and Night' effectively enough since I was not familiar with the weights of the swords at that time; albeit that had a little effect on the fight, it still might have been detrimental.

'In a life and death battle, everything detail can determine one's end.'

I thought and started practicing the moves from the manual 'Blade's Crescendo' with Day and Night until I familiarized myself with the swords enough.

The training took approximately one point a half hours to finish, and after that, I returned to the church only to see Hestia was already awake.

"Good morning, Wayne-kun. Finished training?"

She asked while preparing the breakfast. Since we have quite rejuvenated the church, the furniture was comfortable to use. And since Hestia was working, she generally would wake up early and prepare breakfast for me.

"Good morning, Kami-sama. Yes, the training is finished. Bell is still not awake yet?"

While entering the church, I asked Hestia.

"Well, she was having some nightmares in her sleep, and she also slept pretty late at night. I tried to wake her up but wasn't able to do so."

She turned her head to me and answered.

'It seems she has still yet to overcome those memories. Of course, expecting her to forget those would be a bit much. Well, she will overcome it eventually, so let's leave it to time. I neither have the time to babysit someone nor have the goodwill to do so.'

"Kami-sama, will you go to work today?"

"No, Hephaestus said I don't need to come today; why?"

Hestia answered while looking at my face.

"If you don't have anything to do for today, please look after Bell. Right now, she doesn't have any knowledge regarding the dungeon aside from some rumors she heard. Therefore, please tell her about the dungeon, the familias, and the falna, and after that, send her to the guild. She needs to have an advisor first before diving into the dungeon."

I said to Hestia.

"I see. So you will go to the dungeon today, don't you? I don't have any problems with looking after Bell, so you don't need to worry about that."

Hestia said with a smile.

"Thank you, Kami-sama."

After that, we ate breakfast while talking about my plans for today.

Just like that, after finishing breakfast, I left the church for the dungeon…