Chapter 96 Rex Goliath

After a while, Eero woke up, showered, changed his clothes, and then appeared in the shop. He found Hestia sitting depressed on the chair.

"What happened?" he asked curiously.

Hestia, then coming out of her senses, shook her head and showed him the status page. "Here is your status, Eero-kun. Congratulations, you ranked up."

Eero took a glance at the page with a similar status panel. He said calmly, "I noticed my attributes are increasing in a balanced way because of my first skill. Also, the effect of the other skill is probably killing monsters and upgrading."

"Amazing, you may be right," Hestia blurted out, surprised. Then, realizing why she reacted surprised as a goddess, she hurriedly coughed and spoke proudly, "Ahem, I knew it already. I wanted to see how intelligent you are, Eero-kun. You are amazing. Also, don't tell others the effect of your skills." With that, she left the shop embarrassingly.

Eero became speechless looking at her, shook his head with a smile, and muttered, "It seems my skills and rank have made her depressed."

Throwing all the monster items he got from the dungeon into the fire stove, he started beating them one by one using his hammer and lightning magic. Soon, the impurities were removed, leaving a few tiny materials of different monsters. He put them away.

"Well, they aren't enough. I have to collect a few high-quality metals and more monster materials to recast my magic swords," Eero muttered thoughtfully.

Next few days,

He started visiting the dungeon regularly and increased his attributes by leaps and bounds after eating magic cores.

...

After a week,

Clang!

Thud!

Kaboom!

An intense battle occurred on the 17th floor. Eero's figure flashed, and a horn flew up as his second sword pierced through the chest of the bull-shaped monster in front.

Eero smiled wickedly, grabbing the sword. Amidst the startled expression of the Minotaur, high-frequency lightning oscillated on the blade, directly separating the Minotaur in half.

Boom!

A crystal fell to the ground. Eero collected it calmly. He had already reached the 17th floor by defeating monsters on upper floors. The 13th-17th Floors are known as the Cave Labyrinth.

The entrance to the 13th Floor is called the First Line. Starting from the 13th Floor, the walls, ground, and ceiling become made of bedrock. While the upper floors are just flat, circular mazes, the middle floors have more complex layouts which include intertwining upper and lower tunnels.

The light becomes darker, and the air seems to be moist. Vertical holes leading to the deeper floors appear randomly. On the 17th Floor,

The layout is more complex, and monsters spawn at a faster rate in the middle floors than in the upper floors, so it is very difficult for Level 2 adventurers to solo these floors. Like this Minotaur, it was a Level 3 monster. Even though he had just recently upgraded to the limit level 2 with 1599 SSS attributes, he felt strenuous piercing its skin.

"At level 2 SSS limit, my attributes are 1599, more than a hundred from level 1. It seems at level 3 SSS limit, my attributes would be 1699," Eero muttered thoughtfully, then walked toward the final point of this floor. He had heard a few days ago that Rex, the floor boss, was going to be born today—a level 4 monster. He was going to hunt him for excelia.

Eero appeared inside the big room. There were already other adventurers standing in the room.

Looking at Eero, their pupils shrank. "A Solo Adventurer. He is here to defeat Rex." Everyone's expression became solemn.

Eero glanced at them calmly, without caring about them, walked, and sat down at the edge of the room wall with his swords lying on his shoulder.

"Before gaining enough strength, it's wise to avoid getting involved with other people in this world. All others are unimaginably young and strong. I have to surpass them, then talk to them on equal terms," he thought to himself, tightly gripping both his swords.

Instantly, a huge wall surfaced from the middle of the room. Everyone got alert.

Looking at the direction of the wall, the Big Wall of Grief, which spawns the Monster Rex Goliath.

Thud!

Two hands ejected out from the middle of the wall, and a humanoid monster walked out of it. It had a large body that reached seven meters and had gray skin.

"It's truly a Level 4 monster. No, it feels different. Looks like a Top Level 4 Monster," Eero raised his brow intriguingly, looking at the Goliath, then glanced at the Adventurer party ready to attack it. "They are going to die soon."

"Grwwwwwwww!!!"

Goliath glanced at the adventurers and roared, then ran toward them and attacked with his claw.

The adventurers also started attacking without giving up, but the next second, their faces changed, feeling the agile movement of the Goliath and the force exceeding their expectations.

"It's a Top Level 4 Monster. Hurry up, scatter, and take formation, attack from all sides," the captain among them spoke anxiously.

Others also scattered, started attacking, using arrows and some elemental magic attacks, but to no avail. Only two among them were Level 3; they couldn't damage the Goliath.

Thud!

Instantly, one of them flew and collided with the wall behind, spurting blood. The captain and other defensive adventurers' faces changed. They hurriedly raised their shields, and the claw attack fell on their shields. They also collided with the wall behind; soon, all of them were knocked out by Goliath and thrashed around.

"No teamwork. It looks like a temporary party," Eero thought, then instantly appeared in front of the Goliath, slashed its chest, and saved one of the adventurers.

"Thank you. Who are you?" the adventurer said, looking at Eero standing with thunder and lightning flickering on his body and sword in awe.

Boom!

The air regressed around like a sonic boom. Eero leaped in front of Goliath, slashed its chest, and lightning rays scattered in the whole room.

"Is this guy a Level 4 adventurer?" the captain thought, grabbing his companion and retreating to the entrance of the room, looking at Eero and Goliath's collision.