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The speed at which they traversed their way down through the floors of the dungeon towards the seventeenth floor, was astounding.
…For a level one.
Ais had to slow her own pace for her new…teacher, trainer? Life coach? Whatever he was to her, while her own pace had been slowed considerably, his own was nothing short of mind boggling for a level one.
It made sense she supposed, especially considering he could apparently level up if he wanted…after only a few weeks.
She was the recorded fastest to ever level up and it took her a year. Caelan, was capable of it in less than a tenth of the time it took her to do so.
It led more credence to her decision to follow his teachings.
So as they travelled downwards, she watched him keenly as he tore his way through every single monster that came his way. From Silverbacks to Hard Armours, from Crystal Mantis' to humongous Lyger Fang's. One and all, he tore them apart with his bare hands and teeth.
Half way through the fifteenth floor a Wyvern spawned, and barely had time to do anything before the boy was upon it, grasping both ends of its mouth with his hands and prying its mouth open before spitting a great gout of flame down its throat and roasting it from the inside out.
And then a pack of minotaurs spawned and rushed them right after. Only for him to create a pair of crystal daggers across his forearms and call upon his flame enchantment to slice through the bull-men monsters like a hot knife through butter.
In less than an hour, they'd arrived at the staircase leading down to the seventeenth floor.
And each monster he felled, left behind a magic stone that was promptly consumed by her would be teacher and fuelled his growing strength.
…However, strong as he was, she could not see him having the power to bring down the Goliath alone.
"Are…you sure you want to do this?" she questioned. Strong as he was, and as much as he knew about getting stronger and using the falna to his benefit, he had never encountered the Goliath before.
It was…in a completely differently class than the monsters he had faced so far on the way down here.
"Yeah it should be fine," the boy grinned at her, and there was a glowing glint of palpable excitement sparking in his iris, he was reminding her a lot of Tiona right now, she always loved to fight strong monsters too, "I know it's way stronger than me, but not so much where it could kill me instantly and before you could do anything if I get in over my head."
…"Ah, okay." Ais simply nodded and agreed.
He was not wrong after all. The Goliath was simply too slow to stop her from doing much of anything, especially with Ariel.
She would keep alert for sure just in case though, ready to move at a moments notice. She after all, could not afford to let this boy die.
"Right, let's get going then." Caelan beckoned her to follow him and the boy boldly made his way down the stairs to the seventeenth floor.
Setting her hand on the pommel of her durandal blade, Ais followed down behind him, getting ready to act at a moments notice.
When they reached the bottom, they found themselves stepping into a wide open straight forward cavernous room, the only thing that really stood out in it, being the left wall which was made up of a shimmering crystal that looked almost like a mirror.
Caelan whistled looking at it, "So that's the great wall of sorrow huh?" he examined it, before nodding, "I thought it was gonna be…bigger, not gonna lie. This thing has to barely be over thirty feet."
He showed how different he was from the norm once again. He didn't seem at all impressed by the structure. Most who made it down here for the first time, were usually struck by the wall.
But…not him apparently.
*Crack*
The ground shook and an ominous crack formed on the middle of the wall. She saw Caelan tense, the grin on his face widening as it began.
The wall shattered and an ear shaking roar echoed through the depths of the dungeon as a towering humanoid behemoth with glowing crimson red eyes and long scraggly green eyes burst free from the wall of sorrow.
The monster rex, Goliath.
The floor boss of floor seventeen.
With huge bulging muscles and arms too long to be human, the beast turned its eyes towards them and roared once more.
Many an adventurer had fallen to their knees and wet themselves in terror at the sight of the roaring monster rex.
Caelan…tilted his head even as it roared at them and just stared, incredulous, "…What…why is it so small?" he goggled, outright disappointment appearing in his tone.
"Small?" Ais blinked, confused.
The Goliath did not care for their conversation and with a roar, it rushed towards them in a sprint, with heavy foot falls that fell like rumbling thunder and shook the ground beneath them.
"Blaze!" Caelan declared, his enchantment erupting into an aura around his form and enhancing his body and jumping back and avoiding the huge fist it sent his way, while she leapt to the opposite side, out of the way while it targeted him.
"Yeah, small, this thing is barely over twenty feet tall, are you kidding me, I was expecting something at least fifty feet!" he shouted as he landed, before kicking off the ground and rushing towards the great humanoid monster, landing atop its fist it had buried into the ground and rushing up its arm, "And it's so slow as well!"
It swept its other arm across trying to swat the boy off of its body, but he merely jumped and zipped over it, before launching himself up and burying a thunderous flame clad punch into the beasts cheek.
Its head moved to the side from the force, but no more than that. With a roar, it swept its first fist up to squash him, only for him to flip backwards and avoid it, and let it smash its own palm into its face, the Goliath roaring from the self inflicted blow and stumbling back few steps.
"…Well it's durability at least lives up to the hype." Caelan snorted as he landed on the ground.