Chapter 74 - Is it really unrelated to you being deceived by him and suffering an injury?
"You haven't fought this person before, so you don't understand how terrifying he is. We absolutely cannot let him grow stronger! What if he ranks up after participating in the Loki Familia's expedition? At that point, even we might not be a match for him!"
Is it really unrelated to you being deceived by him and suffering an injury?
Vito and Barca exchanged a glance, but neither said it aloud. They also sensed a threat from the rookie in the Loki Familia. On that day, they couldn't help but recall the fear of being dominated by the Hera and Zeus Familias, and the humiliation of having to hide in the darkness.
"In that case, it's decided. But Valletta, what are you going to do?" Vito stroked the weapon in his hand, a short sword stained with blood.
"Barca and I can only create chaos on the surface to buy time, and we can't hold out for long. Once Finn discovers our intentions, he will probably send people into the Dungeon to provide support. Are you confident you can take him out?"
"If we can't kill him, can't we at least kill the girl beside him? If he saves her, he'll die..if he doesn't, then let all of Orario see what kind of 'hero' they've been waiting for!"
Valletta raised her crimson claymore. She stared at her own reflection in the blade, her eyes gleaming with murderous intent.
"Noah! I want to see if you are really the same kind of person as us...if I can dye you a different color and create a demon for Orario, then what does it matter if I die?"
Barca and Vito exchanged a glance, then got up and left together.
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Five days later, in the Dungeon, on the 15th floor.
On a high platform, Ais, carrying a huge backpack, silently watched Noah fighting a group of Minotaurs in the distant hall.
For Noah under normal circumstances, the Minotaur would be nothing more than a matter of a single sword strike, but today was different. He did not use magic, wear armor, or even use weapons...he fought bare chested.
After several days of fighting, or rather, one sided slaughter, Noah's basic abilities had increased very rapidly and were about to reach their limit, except for his endurance, which was growing very slowly. After all, endurance, to put it nicely, is defensive capability, in layman's terms, it's the ability to withstand blows.
In the upper floors of the Dungeon, the fastest monsters, such as the Almiraj, Imps, Hellhounds, and war shadows, had difficulty attacking Noah, so his endurance was naturally hard to increase.
Although no one was demanding that Noah improve all his basic abilities, having already suffered from his lack of physical strength, how could he possibly give up the opportunity to forge himself into a well rounded warrior?
Noah then used a fistfight to shatter the arm and half the chest of a Minotaur before ending the battle and returning to the high platform.
Noah picked up a towel to wipe the sweat and dust off his body, and as he drank water, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned his head and found Ais staring at him intently. To be precise, she was staring at his naked upper body, a gaze that frightened Noah.
"Ais?"
Why do I really want to touch it?
At this moment, Ais found it hard to look away from Noah's sharply defined upper body muscles.
In the past, when she encountered a bottleneck, Ais tried almost every method to improve herself. Muscle training was naturally one of them, so Riveria asked someone from the familia to be her teacher. At the time, Ais felt that teachers muscles weren't strong enough..she should at least be as muscular as Noah.
At that time, that teacher mocked her mercilessly. "Kiddo, men's and women's bodies are different, each with its own beauty. Besides, what's so appealing about those big, ugly muscles like a dwarf's?The hottest muscles are those of a seventeen or eighteen year old men."
Can muscles even be associated with handsomeness?
Only now could Ais understand what she was saying.
The silver-haired boy in front of her was covered in a fine layer of sweat, making his bulging muscles, which had just been through a fierce battle, even more eye catching. He could be described as tall and sturdy. However, even from a distance, Ais could almost feel the heat emanating from the blood flowing rapidly beneath that skin.
As a faint warmth rose in her own body, Ais felt a surge of strange feelings she had never experienced before. She felt a surge of restlessness, like drinking a wine.. her chest felt hot, and her mind was a little dizzy.
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