After finishing breakfast at the Hostess of Fertility, Isis entered the Dungeon according to his original plan.
At the same time, he realized that he really did need to start earning money properly. The little stash of savings he had brought with him truly was not enough for much "luxury."
After all, he still needed to buy a staff of his own, and for him that would be a very real boost to his combat power.
Once inside the Dungeon, Isis began exploring.
Compared to his first expedition, he was much more familiar with it now, and far more at ease.
The howls of monsters echoed through the narrow passageways, their hostility ringing especially sharply in the confined space.
Then, in the next instant, darkness spread before him without warning, swallowing them whole and finally shattering apart.
Before the next wave of monsters could even react, chains of lightning bound their bodies, and under the crossing of light and darkness, they crumbled into fragments of magic stones.
Even Isis himself had to admit that his use of the elements had become much smoother now. Light and dark, fire and ice—two pairs of opposing attributes—could now be combined and used together with ease.
"Still, cleaning up the battlefield is a real pain…"
"And there are a lot fewer monsters along the way."
Looking at the magic stones scattered across the ground, Isis let out a small sigh.
It was only natural that there were fewer monsters. After all, today was the day the Loki Familia's expeditionary force had pushed through this area.
Almost every monster that might have blocked the ճանապարհ had already been wiped out. Loki had said the plan was to push all the way to the eighteenth floor in one go, where the two teams would regroup.
But Isis did not dwell on that for long. He intended to use this period to raise his ability values—keep fighting, keep training, and reach Level 2 as soon as possible.
The only unfortunate part was that he still could not enter the middle floors. Without a high-level adventurer accompanying him, a Level 1 beginner like Isis entering the middle floors would be no different from courting death.
His skills and magic might be powerful, but not so powerful that he had grown arrogant.
Besides, both Riveria and Loki had warned him about this already. If he still charged stubbornly into the middle floors after that, he would seriously have to have something wrong with his head.
Having lived in this world for more than ten years after reincarnating here, Isis's life philosophy could basically be summed up in one phrase:
Listen when people with sense tell you something.
After two hours had passed, Isis arrived once more at the sixth floor, where he had stopped the day before.
Facing War Shadows again, he no longer felt the same sense of pressure as he had during his first battle. This time, he was calm and natural.
He had already handled three War Shadows before, so dealing with them one at a time was hardly worth mentioning.
And this time, Isis did not even give the War Shadows a chance to detect him. He had magic ready and waiting, and each one died in a single strike.
At the same time, he noticed something else:
His drop rate… seemed to be a little absurd.
His luck was not just good—it was ridiculously good.
Whether it was monster materials or magic stones, the yields were unusually plentiful. By the time he had only just pushed down to the sixth floor, monster drops and magic stones had already filled a third of his backpack.
Of course, part of that was because Isis picked up absolutely everything—goblin claws, lizard hides, and the like.
Even if those things only sold for one or two thousand valis each, given his current circumstances, Isis had chosen to reject nothing.
And that inevitably led him into daydreams.
This was only the profit from the upper floors.
If it were the middle floors, then the earnings would probably start in the hundreds of thousands of valis.
And the deep floors?
There, the starting point would be in the millions, with the possibility of reaching hundreds of millions.
Just imagining it was enough to make a person excited.
…
Upon entering the eighth floor, Isis immediately noticed how much the surroundings had changed.
First, there were more chambers, and the spaces were broader than those of the sixth and seventh floors.
The ground had also turned into grassy plains covered in short blades of grass, while phosphorescent light descended from above, giving the strange illusion of having stepped into an open wilderness.
At the same time, the monsters that appeared here could only be described as a complete mixed bag.
No new species appeared. Instead, weaker monsters like goblins and kobolds showed up in enhanced forms.
Still, their methods of attack were broadly the same, so they could be handled much like before.
But it was exactly at that moment that Isis narrowed his eyes slightly.
Because…
the situation Alicia had warned him about before had appeared.
Monster presences surged in from all directions at once.
Not one or two.
A whole swarm.
Goblins. Kobolds. Lizardmen. War Shadows. More kobolds.
They poured out simultaneously from the grass, from cracks in the rocks, and from the depths of dark chambers. There were so many that Isis's very first reaction was not to attack, but to glance up and confirm the exits around him.
A monster feast.
Senior Alicia had mentioned it before.
A rare kind of encounter where monster density suddenly spiked to abnormal levels.
Isis had never expected that his good luck would not only affect monster drops, but would somehow extend to encountering a monster feast too.
But now that he had run into it…
Isis drew in a deep breath of cool air, and the magic around him rippled outward.
His magic power flickered around his body like something burning.
"Mana Burn."
"Dark Eyes!"
Even without any especially powerful monster among them, Isis felt no contempt toward a monster feast of this scale.
"Dark Forbidden Domain!"
A deep darkness spread out from beneath Isis's feet, instantly engulfing the area within ten meters of him.
In that moment, the monsters lost their vision and immediately fell into chaos, stumbling and thrashing wildly.
But in the darkness, Isis could still see.
"Bath of Ice Crystals."
Ice spikes fell soundlessly from above the darkness, pinning themselves into the densely packed monster horde. Dull impacts blended together into one continuous series, while the sound of shattering magic stones rang out one after another.
Then the darkness shattered once more, and the monsters' bodies began breaking apart as if they themselves were fragile mirrors.
Nearly a third of the horde fell at once.
The remaining monsters immediately began trying to relocate his position.
The kobolds reacted faster than the goblins, and two had already swung around to his flanks.
"Lightning Chain."
In an instant, he switched to the light element. Lightning leapt and danced, and the chain heads locked onto both kobolds at once, burning through them from the inside out before their magic stones dropped to the ground.
Meanwhile, the lizardmen charging from the front had already come within ten meters.
And dense frontal charges were exactly the kind of thing Isis feared least.
[Earthflame]
Lines of fire spread along the ground, following the veins of the grassland outward, and the lizardmen were swallowed by walls of flame rising on both sides.
Turning around, Isis then used Ice Crystal Drop to nail the remaining seven goblins behind him one by one.
His movements were faster than they had been on the sixth floor, because now he no longer needed to think. The commands passing between his hands and the elements had grown shorter, more direct.
As for the remaining scattered monsters—
Cold air spread.
Isis downed a vial of magic potion, and a wintry chill gradually flooded his eyes as the Frost Soul Sword formed in his hand once more.
Boom!
The ground cracked instantly beneath him, and Isis's figure became ghostlike as he began harvesting the lives of the remaining monsters.
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