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The birth of a Floor Master required a certain interval of time.
And the Floor Master on the 17th floor was an especially unusual one.
The room where this Floor Master resided happened to block the entrance leading to the 18th floor.
Originally, this could also be seen as a trial and dividing line for reaching the 18th floor.
But there was a town on the 18th floor.
And it was a town particularly skilled at fleecing adventurers.
In order to attract more customers and make more money, the Floor Master blocking the entrance to the 18th floor became something of an eyesore.
Therefore, once Goliath, the Floor Master of the 17th floor, went too long without being defeated, those money-grubbing adventurers from the town on the 18th floor would form a party themselves and wipe Goliath out.
Because of this, encountering Goliath was not actually an easy matter.
At the very least, aside from the time he had come with the Loki Familia, Noah had never encountered Goliath again.
Now, Goliath's appearance was just right for Noah to test a new discovery regarding his own power.
"Wooooooo—!"
Accompanied by a wail-like roar, the pitch-black giant charged toward Noah amid earth-shaking tremors, like a heavy mountain crashing forward.
Yet Noah ignored Goliath's berserk charge entirely. Instead, he closed his eyes and immersed his consciousness within his body.
Deep inside Noah's body, a dark hollow like a black hole slowly rotated, constantly absorbing the newly generated magic within Noah's body and storing it inside.
That was Noah's Magic Source.
After storing energy for all this time, the magic contained within this Magic Source had already reached