Leveling Up
As the sunlight permeated through the windows of my room once more, I woke up immediately and was about to leave the Hostess of Fertility to go straight towards the guild. I didn't bother to freshen up as the blood of monsters would make me dirty again either way. However, on my way out, I saw Bell once again seemingly flirting with the silver-hared waitress and witnessed the spectaccle in amusement.
"They sure are lovey-dovey, nya~"
I looked beside me to see that Chloe was also witnessing this spectable beside me and also looked on it with amusement.
"Don't let that innocent look of his fool you as that kid is one hell of a player. He just flirted with one of the receptionist at the guild yesterday and from what my guts are telling me, it isn't just gonna stop with the two of them.
I said jokingly to the feline waitress beside me.
"Ah, seriously? I should probably warn Syr to be careful around him then..."
She muttered in a low voice as I shook my head and began to walk out of the pub.
"By the way Reza, are you heading for the dungeon?"
"Yeah."
I said without looking back at her and walked past the two love birds at the entrance.
"Be careful and take care of yourself in there Rezu!"
She spoke loudly which kind of caught me off-guard and made me look back at her to see that she was sending me off with a wave and a big smile. The scene warmed my heart and in response, I gave her a wave without turning back and continued towards the dungeon.
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*Chloe POV*
A while after I sent off Reza, I stood near the entrance for a few more moments as I sighed unknowingly and turned around to a sight that surprised me. All of the waitresses including Mama Mia and the patrons present looked towards me with interest and curiosity as I felt like I made a mistake.
"Nya~ Was I a bit too loud?"
I laughed dryly as Mama Miaa, Syr, Ryuu and the other started to tease and make fun of me.
"Syr has no right to tease me Nya~! She was jut getting hit on by a white-haired brat a few moments ago!"
With that statement, I was able to divert the attention to the now flustered as I slipped away towards one of the back rooms to wait for their curiosity to subside.
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"Shit!"
I exclaimed out in frustration as I executed kobolds and goblins alike. I already arrived on the fourth floor of the dungeon but even then, all the enemies were still composed of the goddamn kobolds and goblins!
"Although they are stronger and give me more stats than the monsters outside of the dungeon, they're still too weak..."
I sighed in frustration as I continued to slaughter and execute all the monsters in my way. As to prioritize my speed of progression towards the lower levels of the dungeon as fast as possible, I didn't bother to collect the monster cores of the goblins nor the kobolds anymore. Although I may not know much about the deep details that goes about in the Danmachi anime, I did play a lot of RPG games which taught me that basically all monsters have some sort of core that I could harvest and sell for money, so I didn't need to be taught that knowledge by the guild.
With those thoughts in mind, I subconsciously made my way to the 5th floor and noticed that the although there were still some kobolds and goblins, along with a new monster that looked like an oversized ant. I was excited at first but was quickly disappointed as they barely gave me any stats either. In my disappointment, I face-palmed which made me feel like something was missing.
"Wait, all this time I forgot to even put my armor on!? And even with this fucking handicap, NONE OF THESE FUCKERS FORCED ME TO USED ANY OF MY ABILITIES!?"
I shouted in disappointed as I equipped my armor just to be safe and continued to let my body go on auto-pilot and kill the monsters around me.
"Wait a minute."
I suddenly stopped as I thought of a wonderful idea that wouldn't be boring.
"How about I just use [Bloodlust] and [Phantom] to just rush towards the lower levels?"
After a few moments of thinking, I smiled viciously and decided to do exactly that. Using this method, the weak monsters wouldn't be able to detect my presence and they would just freeze up from my bloody aura, granting me a free pass to the lower levels of the dungeon, at least until the point where the monsters are strong enough to resist me.
'And at that point, the monsters who area able to either detect me through [Phantom] or resist [Bloodlust] would probably be worthy enough opponents for me to kill. It's a win-win situation!'
I chuckled to myself as I continued to rush through the floors.
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Somewhere along the 12th floor of the dungeon beneath the tower of Babel, A figure in knight-like armor wielding a longsword was screaming maniacally as he laughed, seemingly enjoying himself.
"HAHAHA! YES! THIS IS THE EXCITEMENT THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!"
This figure was naturally Reza whom after rushing through a few floors, finally found monsters that forced him to use a bit of his actual abilities to kill them.
"ALL OF YOU ARE WORTHY OF DYING UNDER MY BELOVED AMBROSIA! HAHAHA!"
I laughed and screamed maniacally once more as I faced against 5 orcs and 4 infant dragons. I actually came across one or two of them within the 10th and 11th floor but there were only so few of them in those floors. However, they made me feel ecstasy when I executed them as I finally felt the visible increase of my strength once more.
[Shoulder Bash]
[Pierce]
[Execute]
I used the three abilities in succession against the orcs so as to break their guard, lodge Ambrosia in their necks and swiftly execute them through decapitation afterwards. After finishing the orcs off, I then went towards the infant dragons to kill them off aswell.
[Slash]
[Execute]
They were much easier to kill than the orcs whom could use their arms to defend themselves for a few moments as they had nothing to block them from me slashing their heads off. Throughout this battle, I also realized that I could pretty much instantaneously activated [Execute] with any killing ability of mine which meant that even if I just simply slashed an enemy's head off, it would be detected as the opponent being in a 'weakened state', therefore allowing me to use [Execute] alongside [Slash] immediately. After finishing them off, I went to go take a look at my stats.
"System, display UI. Also, while you're at it, fix my equipment."
[UNDERSTOOD.]
System UI:
[FOR HONOR SYSTEM]
[SHOP] [ORDERS]
Host: Reza
Steel: 450
Equipment:
(Armor)
Helm: Helm of Loran
Arms: Arms of Loran
Chest: Chest of Loran
Legs: Legs of Loran
(Ambrosia)
Blade: Blade of Sirius
Hilt: Hilt of Daidalos
Guard: Guard of Gardakan
Status:
Level: 0 (10/10)
Power: 1199 SSS
Endurance: 1199 SSS
Dexterity: 1199 SSS
Agility: 1199 SSS
Magic: 0 I
Abilities:
[The Rogue Warden]
Rank: SSS
[Parry]
Rank: A
[Swordsmanship]
Rank: A
[Slash]
Rank: A
[Pierce]
Rank: A
[Shoulder Bash]
Rank: B
[Execution]
Rank: SSS
[Phantom]
Rank: S
[Bloodlust]
Rank: A
I looked on at my stats and made a victory pose with my fist in the air.
"I FINALLY FUCKING DID IT!!! HAHAHA!"
I laughed in happiness as my stats were finally maxed out and added onto that, my swordsmanship along with my attacking abilities all reached rank A except for shoulder bash. After looking on at everything present on my UI, I then said that magical words to the system.
"System, make me level up!"