"We're here. This is the floor boss Goliath's room."
The lively Tiona gave Roland an enthusiastic smile, looking nothing like a first-class Adventurer and more like a follower.
This was the most distinctive trait of the Amazons. Once they took a liking to someone, they would do everything they could to please that person until they won them over. If the difference in strength was particularly great, quite a few would even resort to force. Many farcical crimes in Orario had resulted from this.
Unfortunately, while Roland was no prude, he would not act overly familiar at a time like this either. He simply looked at the cavern before him with a questioning gaze.
Unlike the other floors, the eighteenth floor was an enormous rock chamber. Viewed as a whole, it resembled a flat rectangular prism, with rough stone forming its walls, ceiling, and floor.
On one side alone, however, the wall's structure was entirely different. As level as the surface of ice and as smooth as polished marble, it stood quietly to the front left of the passage, awaiting challengers.
Special rooms like this appeared only on particular floors, much like dedicated boss fights in an instance. The monsters spawned within were extremely powerful, but their respawn times were also much longer.
In terms of level, a floor boss's potential was roughly two levels higher than the monsters on its floor. The monster named Goliath was around level 4.
However, its title, "The Lone King of the Labyrinth," made it clear that judging it by level alone would only lead to a painful lesson.
The floor boss template also ensured that they differed from ordinary monsters. Though nominally only level 4, Goliath's attributes had already reached level 5. Level 4 was merely its nominal challenge level, meaning a team