Dragon Pot

The entrance to the 52nd Floor was a broad, long staircase.

The staircase had been carved into the wall of a remote cavern chamber, extending all the way downward, with no end visible at a glance.

After the expedition party arriving here had wiped out all the pursuing monsters, they first smashed apart the chamber walls to prevent any monsters from spawning there. Then they rested on the spot, recovering their strength, replenishing water, and restoring themselves to the best condition possible.

Leo was resting as well. Leaning against a shattered wall with his eyes closed, he sensed the Mind steadily recovering on its own in his head thanks to the development ability Mind Healing, silently waiting for it to return to its peak.

His physical strength had not been depleted much during the journey just now. After all, the latent potential accumulated through his Endurance parameter was high enough that even after running nonstop, he was nowhere near exhaustion. But because they had been attacked several times by worm-type monsters, he had cast several wide-area annihilation spells with full coverage, and his Mind had still taken quite a hit.

Riveria Ljos Alf and Lefiya Viridis needed time to chant when casting wide-area annihilation magic, after all. That could easily provoke excessively violent reactions from the worm-type monsters and cause accidents along the battle line.

To prevent the situation from getting out of hand, Finn could only hand all large-scale enemy-clearing duties to Leo, whose large-area annihilation magic required only a single chant. It had placed no small burden on Leo's Mind.

Every large-scale attack spell required additional Mind to increase the number of attacks, and there were so many attacks to add. Even Leo could not possibly come through that without any expenditure.

Thus, the moment they arrived, Finn