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Chapter 63: Shocked Adventurers!
🕑 Added 2025-02-07 05:04:55 +0000 UTC
The dungeon, usually quiet and desolate, was noisy today due to the game. The passage Blake was in was especially crowded, making it so packed that the monsters didn’t dare spawn.
Blake was well aware of the situation behind him but treated the adventurers as mere distractions, ignoring them.
【Slash!】
With a swift strike, Blake killed a large ant. He didn’t break his pace, and Lili quickly picked up the magic stones before following him.
"To think he can kill monsters from the ninth floor with one hit... this kid’s not simple. No wonder he’s confident enough to propose this game."
"Yeah, looks like he’s not just relying on Loki’s Familia and Freya’s Familia."
Adventurers following behind exchanged astonished looks as they discussed Blake’s impressive abilities. From the first floor, every monster had been dispatched with a single sword strike—swift and efficient.
"But, how far do you think he’ll go?" one adventurer asked.
"Probably the twelfth floor. Floors thirteen to twenty-four are considered mid-level, and only teams of three LV.2 adventurers can safely handle them. The twelfth floor should be about right."
"Yeah, that makes sense."
Adventurers nodded, agreeing that Blake would likely aim for the twelfth floor.
"I saw someone who looked like him head to the seventeenth floor yesterday, with a sword princess accompanying him. Do you think he’ll go there?"
At that moment, a voice suddenly interrupted, causing the surrounding adventurers to pause in surprise.
"Heh, what are you thinking? That person had a sword princess protecting him. Without that, how could he make it to the seventeenth floor?"
"Uh, you're right."
Hearing the sarcastic comments from the crowd, the adventurer who had spoken earlier awkwardly laughed, realizing his mistake.
"Seventeenth floor, huh... maybe, just maybe..."
But some adventurers still believed in Blake. These were the ones who had witnessed Ais begging Blake to teach her skills when they registered with the guild yesterday. However, they kept this thought to themselves, not wanting to be seen as foolish by voicing it aloud.
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Floor 10 Entrance
Blake stood at the entrance of the tenth floor, looking at the moss-covered walls and the grass-like ground that resembled a prairie. The light of phosphorescence, akin to sunlight, glowed through the dense white mist.
He exhaled lightly, standing at the entrance. "Finally, I can start getting serious."
He had never cared much about the so-called game. His plan was still to train as he had done yesterday. The game was just a side matter. He wouldn’t waste his time mindlessly hunting monsters for the weak adventurers.
"Lili, do you have any incense to attract monsters?" Blake asked softly as he walked through the misty prairie.
"Yes, I have five packs. Do you want to attract monsters, Blake?" Lili asked, puzzled.
"Yeah, it’s more efficient this way. You go over to those adventurers first so you don’t get hurt," Blake nodded, explaining.
"Alright, I understand." After a brief hesitation, Lili took five packets of incense from her bag and handed them to Blake.
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"What’s he trying to do? Has he finally stopped? I thought he would head for the twelfth floor, but now he’s at the tenth. What a letdown."
"Looks like we overestimated his abilities."
Noticing that Blake and Lili’s pace had slowed, adventurers hidden in the crowd under Apollo’s Familia's guidance started murmuring with dissatisfaction.
Earlier, they had confidently said that Blake would go to the twelfth floor, only for him to stop at the tenth. It was like a slap in the face.
"Wait, this is..."
At that moment, the lead catfolk from Freya’s Familia noticed Blake’s actions and the quick movement of Lili. With sharp eyes, she narrowed them, and then shouted.
"Everyone, step back! From now on, no one is to interfere with him."
"Huh? Lord Todd, what’s going on?" the adventurers around asked in confusion.
"Here they come."
Without saying much, Todd, the LV.5 cat-person, simply said these words.
Crack—!
Just as everyone was wondering what was happening, the ground around Blake cracked wildly, and dozens of Monsters emerged, constantly increasing in number, quickly surrounding Blake.
"What is this...?"
The crowd stared in shock, completely unaware of what was happening.
"That guy is pathetic, surrounded by monsters in an instant."
"Has the game ended so quickly? How sad. But well, he brought this on himself."
Except for adventurers above LV.3, the rest, hindered by the mist, hadn't noticed what had happened and began mocking him.
"Let’s begin, time for some routine training."
Ignoring the noisy crowd behind him, Blake lightly exhaled, his eyes flashing with a glimmer of light, as he sheathed his sword.
Roar—!
In the next moment, with the help of the five bags of incense tied around Blake’s waist, the number of Monsters increased to over a hundred, all charging at Blake with bloodshot eyes, as if seeing the enemy who killed their fathers.
Facing the onslaught of these monsters, Blake, just like yesterday, moved as gracefully as floating willow catkins, walking leisurely through the horde of Monsters, casually dodging left and right, exuding a sense of ease and grace.
"Todd, this guy actually...?"
A human LV.4 adventurer standing beside Todd, a fellow cat-person, gasped in shock as he spoke.
His eyesight was good, and he could clearly see what was going on, unlike the others.
"Yeah, he's using the Monsters to train his basic abilities... Does he not realize this is a life-or-death game?" Todd muttered, his lips twitching in astonishment as he watched Blake in the midst of the beast horde.
"What?!!!"
Todd's words, along with those of the other strongest adventurers, caused the previously noisy crowd to fall into an eerie silence, all staring wide-eyed at the silhouette faintly visible in the beast horde, frozen in shock.
