Floor Boss 'Goliath'

The captain took the healing potion Lu Qiming tossed him, pulled out the stopper, and drank it in one gulp.

"Thank you, sir. We'll definitely do what you asked."

After he drank the potion, a green glow appeared around the captain's wound, and his flesh began to grow back at an incredible speed.

"Good. I'll get you out of here first, then have some fun with these cuties."

Lu Qiming's mouth curled into a terrifying grin. He ran his tongue along the tip of Divine Judgment, then looked bloodthirstily at the monsters around him, which were already beginning to stir.

Gale Dance

The next second, Lu Qiming's figure flickered through the monster horde as streaks of swordlight flashed into existence. Monsters fell one after another like weeds. Blood stained the ground, the sharp stench of it filled the air, and hundreds of Magic Stones lay quietly on the floor.

"Gulp!"

The group stared blankly at the path Lu Qiming had cleared in an instant—a path drenched in blood.

"Captain. This..."

The boy holding the staff pointed at the blood-soaked path ahead, seeming to want to say something.

"Move!"

The captain glanced at Lu Qiming, who was slaughtering the other monsters with a smile, then motioned for the others to follow. Taking the lead, he headed down the passage Lu Qiming had come from. The monsters there had surely already been killed by Lu Qiming. The Dungeon hadn't had time to spawn new ones, so it had to be safe.

Seeing this, the others hurriedly picked up their things and followed, scooping up all the Magic Stones on the ground as they passed.

Before long, they had disappeared into the passage.

"Now I can finally cut loose!"

Once Lu Qiming noticed they were gone, his grin grew even more unrestrained. He stopped holding back and swung Divine Judgment with all his strength. Terrifying swordlight shot from his hand, wiping out swathes of monsters and leaving deep gouges in the walls.

"Uraaah!"

The monsters continued to die under Lu Qiming's slaughter. The morale they'd mustered thanks to their numbers crumbled, and they began scattering in every direction. Their instinct for survival drove them to flee from this being who looked even more like a monster than they did.

"Sweetie, where do you think you're going? Take me with you. Hahaha!"

At the mouth of a passage, Lu Qiming fixed his black eyes, glowing red, on the monsters before him. A faint red light, born of his relentless slaughter, coiled around him. He looked like a Demon God bathed in blood.

"Waaah!"

Several monsters spotted Lu Qiming suddenly appear in front of them and charged at him with a roar, aiming their weapons at his head.

"Oh, come on! How can you treat someone who cares about you like this? I'm so hurt!"

Lu Qiming gave Divine Judgment a light swing. Several monsters were cut in half in midair, their blood and entrails scattering across the ground.

"I'm so hurt. Are you all really so unwilling to become one with me? (Experience points)"

He raised Divine Judgment slightly and crouched. Streaks of lightning coiled around his body, crackling through the chamber.

The monsters fleeing in every direction seemed to sense something. They paused for a moment, then ran even faster toward the passage out.

"Let's become one!"

When the lightning blazed at its brightest, Lu Qiming's whisper rang out. His body vanished from where he stood, leaving a huge crater behind.

Thunder Blade Shadow

A streak of lightning shot across the open space in an instant. Lu Qiming appeared on the other side and gave Divine Judgment a light flick, tossing it aside. He took the Stainless Steel Basin from above his head and began gathering the Magic Stones from the ground.

Behind him, every monster that had been frozen in a running pose instantly crumbled into black ash, and Magic Stones rained down.

"Clink, clink, clink, clink!"

"What a haul!"

Lu Qiming glanced up at the falling Magic Stones, then began gathering his spoils like a diligent farmer.

Five minutes later, Lu Qiming straightened up and stretched. The Stainless Steel Basin in front of him was already more than half full, packed with Magic Stones and drops.

"Looks like I'll need to find a supporter when I come back to visit my cuties tomorrow. Otherwise, I won't be able to carry all the spoils back."

Lu Qiming scratched the back of his head and muttered to Divine Judgment, which floated beside him. If he hadn't run into those adventurers just now to carry back his Magic Stones and drops, he would have had to throw away everything he'd collected on the upper floors.

After saying that, Lu Qiming tossed the Stainless Steel Basin back above his head, picked up Divine Judgment, and slowly made his way down to the next floor.

"Ding-dang-dang-dang, dong-dong-dang-dang, Calabash Brothers! Ding-dang-dang-dang, dong-dong-dang-dang, steal your mom!"

"La-la-la-la, Calabash Brothers, Calabash Brothers, steal your mom!"

Singing as he went, Lu Qiming fought his way through the sixteenth floor and reached the entrance to the seventeenth. His quest count had now reached 6999/1000000. After a day's work, he'd already killed far more monsters than he had the previous afternoon.

His earnings were also several times greater than yesterday's. After all, each monster on the middle floors gave him an average of one hundred experience points, and every now and then he ran into an elite monster worth five hundred to a thousand.

As for the monsters on the upper floors, Lu Qiming had only killed the ones along the passage he'd taken. There hadn't been many.

"Right, let's go take a look at the seventeenth floor. The Floor Boss should still be alive at this point."

In the original story, the Floor Boss had been defeated by the Loki Familia's Expedition Team. But the Loki Familia's expedition was still being prepared, so the Floor Boss, Goliath, should still be alive.

He could use it to reach seven thousand. Besides, 6999 was an eyesore for anyone with a compulsion for neat numbers.

The Dungeon's seventeenth floor.

The moment Lu Qiming stepped inside, he realized it was completely different from the sixteen floors above. White crystals filled the place, and their radiance lit up the entire seventeenth floor.

Suddenly, the wall to Lu Qiming's left began to shake violently. Huge cracks appeared, and chunks of crystal came crashing down.

"Roarrr!"

A huge head emerged from the wall. It had long black hair, crimson eyes, and dark red skin. The moment the seventeenth-floor Floor Boss, Goliath, spotted Lu Qiming below, it roared furiously.

As it roared, the wall continued to crumble. First one foot emerged, then Goliath, nearly twenty meters tall, tore itself free of the wall.

"Roar!"

Goliath spotted Lu Qiming nearby and swung out its enormous arm, smashing it down toward him.

"Boom!"

After a tremendous crash and the dust had settled, Lu Qiming was sitting on the arm Goliath had slammed down, Divine Judgment in hand.

"Hey, big guy! Do you want to become one with me too?"

His black eyes gleamed, and his mouth stretched into an unrestrained grin. Terrifying killing intent coiled around him like a tangible force, while Divine Judgment's bloodthirsty hum echoed throughout the entire seventeenth floor.