A New Height and Limit

Over the next few days, Leo and his group settled on the 37th Floor, where they began their formal conquest.

Leo and Ais, needless to say, were killing monsters the whole time. It was as if they had agreed not to interfere with each other, each defining their own battlefield and only dealing with the enemies they faced without interfering with the other's battle.

After being initially drawn to Leo and Tione's unusual behavior, Tiona and Tione stopped thinking about it too much and began their own strategy to earn money on the 37th Floor.

Although Lefiya Viridis was still very worried about Leo and Ais's condition, she had no choice but to suppress her worries and practice her Parallel Chanting skills.

It has to be said that the monsters on the 37th Floor are incredibly strong. With Lefiya Viridis's Lv.3 stats, she could barely make a move here, not to mention that there were monster types everywhere that countered her, making her suffer a lot.

Fortunately, Tiona and Tione were always looking after Lefiya Viridis, preventing Lefiya Viridis from facing any real danger. Although the battle was still difficult, her Parallel Chanting skills had been greatly improved, allowing her to face monster attacks with a bit more composure, instead of either standing frozen in place or resorting to mental suggestion to hypnotize herself and treat the monster as a monster, as she had done before.

Even if she wasn't exactly proficient, she was already able to chant spells while moving, thus transforming herself from a stationary artillery platform into a mobile one. Her flexibility and strategic significance had increased significantly, making her completely different from before.

Leo didn't pay much attention to Lefiya Viridis. He was also honing his skills in constant battles, putting into practice everything Finn taught him, absorbing it thoroughly, and making it his own style and instinct. At the same time, as he said when he first set out, he tried to integrate the newly acquired magic into his battles, making it a part of his strength.

In the battle with the mysterious woman, Leo had fully experienced the power of the [Comet Pursuit] spell. Even when there was a significant difference in strength between him and his opponent, he could gain a temporary advantage with this spell. If he could use it more skillfully, it would definitely be of even greater help to him.

Keep in mind that this was someone even Ais couldn't defeat after she activated her magic. For a Level 4 like myself to be able to gain the upper hand in a battle was already an unprecedented achievement.

Having tasted such success, Leo will naturally become even more interested in [Comet Pursuit].

And so, while constantly killing monsters in the deeper realms and absorbing a large amount of experience points, he continuously accumulated combat experience and honed his combat skills, entering another period of rapid development in strength.

The group would spend an entire day exploring the 37th Floor each time, only returning to the Labyrinth Garden on the 28th Floor to set up camp and rest when night fell on the ground. The next day, they would immediately return to the 37th Floor to continue exploring, repeating the cycle without ever slacking off.

They will only go up to Rivira Town on the 18th Floor after their backpacks are completely full of loot, dispose of the loot, and then continue down to the 37th Floor to continue their conquest.

Here I must say again, those black market merchants in Rivira Town are truly remarkable, or perhaps they're obsessed with making money. After such a major incident, they reopened all their stalls and shops in less than a day, completely unaffected by the attack.

"I don't know whether to admire them or despise them."

When Tiona returned to Rivira Town for the first time, she said these words with a complicated expression, which made everyone smile wryly.

Since the loot prices in Rivira Town are very low, the group only kept the more valuable loot to exchange for money on the ground. They tried to sell the rest in Rivira Town to free up backpack space to continue collecting loot, which was a more efficient way to make money.

The spoils of war weren't directly converted into cash, but rather into written agreements. This was to prevent large sums of money from taking up valuable space in their inventory. Based on this consideration, in Rivira Town, whether it was buying and selling weapons and equipment, or buying and selling lodging and food, transactions were all conducted through written agreements. Only small transactions involved cash, such as when Leo and his group disposed of their spoils at the Amazon shopkeeper's purchasing station, they received cash.

Whether buying or selling items, the beneficiary only needs to sign the receipt provided by the shopkeeper and affix their clan's emblem. After returning to the surface, the person holding the receipt can collect the money from their clan.

Under these circumstances, although it's still difficult to avoid losing a large amount of kickbacks to the black market merchants in Rivira Town, the efficiency of making money is still much higher because it saves the time of returning to the surface to exchange money and re-entering the Dungeon.

Thanks to this, in just a few days, Leo and his group obtained a document that could be exchanged for about ten million Valis. The remaining spoils were all quite valuable, and could be exchanged for tens of millions of Valis on the ground.

"Is this the speed at which you make money in the deepest sense?"

Leo was somewhat taken aback.

When he was working in the middle management, he could only earn 400,000 to 500,000 Valis a day, which would amount to only 2 to 3 million Valis over several days. Now, it's more than ten times that amount.

Of course, this time it was only because Leo, Ais, Tiona, Tione, Lefiya Viridis teamed up that they were able to earn so much. If it were just Leo alone, he would have earned at most around ten million Valis, and he would have needed to bring a supporter to be responsible for picking up and transporting the loot.

Even so, it's already terrifying.

If you can earn ten million Valis in just a few days, wouldn't you earn nearly a hundred million in a month?

This is still on the 37th Floor. What if, like during the expedition, the entire team worked together to conquer the floors below the 50th Floor?

"No wonder the clans were so willing to spend money during the expeditions, spending billions of Valis a time to buy supplies. If they could successfully conquer each level, even without breaking the record for the highest floor, they should still make a profit, right?"

Unfortunately, the last expedition not only failed, but the dissolving liquid from those worm monsters also destroyed most of the clan members' main weapons, resulting in extremely heavy losses. The clan's finances are probably not in a deficit right now, at least not very good.

However, judging from the fact that Finn and the others quickly began preparing for the next expedition after handling the aftermath of their return, the clan should still have the funds to support the next expedition.

With that in mind, Leo stopped worrying and continued his conquest of the 37th Floor.

During this time, he also took the opportunity to return to the ground while the team was resting on a safe floor, and went to Loki to update his ability stats.

Leo Eligos Lv.4

Strength: F364 → A831

Durability: F322→A807

Dexterity: S900 → SSS1345

Agility: E417→S926

Demonic Power: G205→SS1052

Mage: G

Magic Attack: H

Mind Healing: 1

When the latest ability stats were released, Loki stared at Leo's back for a long time, especially lingering on the SSS rating for "Agility," before finally tossing out a comment as if giving up.

"Forget it, we're not going to worry about it anymore. Even if you do something earth-shattering in the future, we won't be surprised."

After saying that, Loki didn't even bother to greet Leo, and immediately picked up the bottle and started chugging the liquor.

Leo was overjoyed as he looked at his latest stats.

"Finally, we have an SSS-level ability in addition to 'Demonic Power'."

That's really not easy.

Before this level, apart from "Demonic Power" which can reach SSS, all other skills can only be improved to SS.

This time, I finally reached SSS level in "Agility". This means that after three upgrades, my capacity, potential and growth limit have been broken through and reached a new height.

Each Level Ascension for an adventurer is an evolution of themselves.

In this process, one's capacity expands, one's potential increases, leading to a continuous growth of potential and ultimately reaching new heights and new limits.

Therefore, the skills that could only be trained up to SS level in the past have finally reached a new height this time, and can continue to grow.

"Since 'Dexterity' can reach SSS rank, what about 'Strength,' 'Durability,' and 'Agility'?"

Leo felt that these three abilities had already reached new heights and could be further explored and developed.

"All-around SSS rank!"

Leo had a vague idea of what kind of scene he could create at the end of Lv.4.

Now, he can finally say with confidence that he has never been inferior to anyone in his life.

Even compared to the protagonist of the original work, he is not inferior in the slightest. After all, the protagonist of the original work only achieved SSS in all abilities at Lv.4. Before that, only "Agility" could be trained to SSS, and the rest were SS, which is similar to Leo's situation.

Therefore, what he should be considering next is no longer simply accumulating experience points.

"It's time to start preparing for this great undertaking—"

Leo thought this to himself silently.

His ability level is not far from reaching the limit of his current level.

In that case, we should move on to the next level.

The next level is also a crucial stage.

Lv.5, the benchmark for first-level adventurers. Only by reaching this level can one be considered to stand among the high-end combat forces in the Lower World, no longer just a reserve of the strong.

Raul, Anakitty, Alicia —many key figures in Loki Familia are still striving towards this goal.

Leo, the latecomer who came from behind, had no intention of staying any longer.

To deal with the upcoming crisis, he must keep moving forward.

Whether it's fortunate or unfortunate, he already has rivals who are eyeing him.

Leo, now back on the 37th Floor, looked towards the heart of the White Palace.