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Caelan Odhar was strong.
Unfairly so in fact if Lili were to be truthful. By his own words, the boy who was a whole year younger than herself, claimed to be a rather new adventurer.
Yet he tore through monsters within the dungeon like they were made of wet paper.
Without a weapon in hand, his fists and feet lashed out like flying daggers and crushing warhammer's.
The first monster they saw in the dungeon, got his clawed gauntlet clad fingers punched through its skull.
The second, a kobald received a stomp to the knee that crunched bone and then a pair of arms around its neck that twisted and snapped it as if it were a mere twig.
Yes, Caelan Odhar did not need a weapon.
Because his body clad in gleaming bright blue crystal-like armour, was a weapon on to itself.
Lili had seen a lot of level one adventurers fight, she'd supported hundreds in fact. She was well aware of their strength and capabilities.
Caelan Odhar did not at all fight like a level one.
He was too fast, too strong, too skilled. And wholly too confident.
She'd seen a glimpse of that confidence when she fist met him yesterday and he brutally killed Mr. Ged, though the man definitely invited his own death, he wasn't weak, he was in the upper middle tier of level one adventurers.
Yet he was killed within mere moments by a self proclaimed newbie.
And that same self proclaimed newbie treated their way down the dungeon floors towards the seventh floor, as if it were a walk in the park.
Most Lili had supported took over an hour to reach their destination. While following Caelan though…they had reached the fifth floor in under ten minutes.
In fact, even with him killing monsters as they spawned and attacked them, it was Lili who was having trouble keeping up.
He killed the monsters so swiftly that he was ready to go again before she had even extracted a single magic stone from the corpses left over.
It was on the next floor that she truly learned how far apart they stood in the world.
When they stepped down, it was to find over eight war shadows waiting for them. The dungeon it seemed had been preparing for them.
Lili froze on the steps.
War shadows were troublesome in that they could only be killed by magic or by striking the magic stones hidden behind their gleaming red eyes.
And they were strong.
Fighting them, for the vast majority of level ones was an utter waste of time that only invited strong chances of death.
Before she could say anything to Caelan though, he simply reached up and slid the front part of his helmet up revealing his face as he took in a deep breath.
And then he exhaled with a roaring shout.
And a great gout of flame burst into existence from his mouth, washing over the war shadow's as they rushed him and roasting them alive in all the time it took to blink.
It was over in moments, the dark monsters falling to the intense head and their life burnt out.
"Alright Lili, let's grab these guys' stones and continue on." he said, turning to face her with a boyish grin.
That did not at all suit the way he'd just annihilated a large group of strong monsters as if he were a monstrous dragon from legend.
Lili nodded dumbly and proceeded to make her way over to the charred corpses and begin extracting the magic stones while her employer stood at the ready in case any more monsters spawned.
"So…you can use magic Mr. Caelan?" Lili asked demurely, fishing for information.
If he was a new adventurer and had access to such amazing armour as he did right now and magic as well while being human, then his Familia was probably sitting on a lot of money, or maybe he was? He did give her the feel of someone that came from a rich background.
"Something like that," Caelan shrugged, a bit stupidly in her opinion, he was so confident, so arrogant he didn't seem to see the problem with revealing things to her, "It's more of due to a skill I have than actually magic, though it does use up my mind and hey, you don't need to call me Mr, it sounds weird coming from a girl older than me."
Lili grimaced, but quickly hid it, 'A skill?'
That dashed those hopes then. The only way a human could learn magic after all was luck through the Falna or a grimoire and considering how little a time he'd been an adventurer by his own words, she'd been assuming a grimoire.
"I can't do that Mr. Caelan, like I said before Lili is just a useless leech after all, it's only proper I refer to you with respect." she replied.
It was easier that way, to keep from feeling sentimental at all. In the end, whatever goodwill they had for her even slightly, was always dashed in the face of money.
Caelan Odhar would just be another name added to the list of adventurers that used her and tossed her aside when he no longer needed her. Albeit, the strongest one.
"We'll work on that," he shrugged, "Anyway, you bringing up my skill does remind me that we should decide how we're going to split the loot when we finish."
Lili had to withhold a sigh. 'Here we go.' she thought, preparing herself for the inevitable.
The fact of the matter was, ten percent of an adventurers earnings, was on the high end of things she was ever offered. Though, even those who did offer that much, tended to stiff her.
It was why she always stiffed them right back. Like on this trip alone, she'd already hidden away twenty percent of the magic stones she'd gathered to trade in herself.
"It might be a bit unusual, but how about this," Caelan grinned at her, "I'll pay you a hundred thousand vali's and you can keep all the item drops, but in return I want to keep all the magic stones if that's fine with you?"
…Eh?