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Just as Noah had said, what followed was entirely Bell's show.
Starting from the middle floors on the thirteenth level—floors that were clearly not somewhere a Level 1 adventurer could casually venture into—they became Bell's personal slaughterhouse.
No matter what kind of monster appeared, Noah, Ais, Tiona, Tione, Lefiya, and even Lili merely stayed behind. None of them made a move from beginning to end, letting Bell charge ahead like wind and lightning before leisurely following after him.
Whenever monsters appeared, Noah directly activated the power of the Boosted Gear, multiplying Bell's strength to its limit.
Then Bell would rush straight in, fighting nonstop and cutting down monster after monster, absorbing experience far beyond what a Level 1 adventurer should have been able to handle at an almost absurd rate.
The middle floors were unlike the upper floors to begin with, with monsters appearing at an extremely high frequency.
As a result, Bell scarcely stopped to rest. He kept fighting, and even when his stamina ran out, he would immediately down a stamina recovery potion before charging forward again.
Normally, recovery items like potions were only meant to be used as a last resort.
Using potions like Bell was, simply to speed up leveling, was extravagance beyond extravagance.
At the very least, Lili—who had suffered through money troubles for nearly half her life—felt her heart ache at such wasteful spending, nearly to the point of tears.
Those were potions, after all.
Even the cheapest stamina recovery potion cost five hundred Valis.
Normally, a family could eat a full meal with just one hundred Valis. If they kept drinking