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"A Dungeon anomaly?"
Inside the Hestia Familia's headquarters, the moment Noah told Hestia about what had happened on the seventeenth floor, she froze and grew suspicious.
"Why would the Dungeon undergo an anomaly?"
"I came back to ask you because I don't know," Noah said with a bitter smile.
"I had just taken down Goliath, the Floor Master, when the seventeenth floor suddenly started shaking. Then another Goliath appeared, and its latent abilities were absolutely beyond Lv.4—it had reached Lv.5."
"Lv.5?" Hestia exclaimed in surprise.
"No way. I've never heard of anything like that happening."
"Is that so?" Noah asked.
"So something like a Lv.4 Goliath suddenly rising to the level of Lv.5 has never happened before?"
"It's not just Goliath. I've never heard of any Floor Master suddenly becoming stronger, especially not after the Floor Master was defeated and another, higher-level Floor Master was born," Hestia said uncertainly.
"Could you have gotten it wrong?"
"Do you really think I could be mistaken about something this serious?" Noah rolled his eyes.
"Whether it was the Lv.4 Goliath or the Lv.5 Goliath, I defeated both of them myself. Do you think I can't tell the difference between them?"
"That's true..." Hestia frowned.
"Then what is going on?"
Seeing Hestia's deeply furrowed brow, Noah felt the time was right and asked the question that concerned him most.
"Could the Dungeon have changed because of some outside factor?"
"An outside factor?" Hestia looked at Noah.
"What do you mean?"
"For example, perhaps once a certain condition is met, the Dungeon immediately breeds a stronger Floor Master