Chapter 62: Overdrive
The accumulated skill and experience from battles increased. When Liam faced a "Monster Party" again, it was much easier than his first experience. Relying on the vast numbers, the harvest of experience points and magic stones was considerable.
There was no sense of time passing.
The most direct indicator was stamina consumption. Continuously maintaining high-intensity combat, the process wasn't dangerous, just that the number of monsters was too large.
It wasn't until all the monsters in the current area were completely cleared that a sweeping sense of exhaustion seemed to engulf Liam.
He couldn't remember the final number of monsters killed.
He leaned against a withered tree trunk, his chest heaving with heavy breaths. His body was exhausted to its limit, yet his mind hadn't relaxed.
To be precise, it was excitement.
Before speed-running to the 10th-floor area, through the experience points accumulated from continuously killing monsters, plus this exhilarating Monster Party.
The Sword Soul template's class level had smoothly risen to 25.
"Phew…"
It was because of this that even his physical exhaustion didn't affect Liam's mood in the slightest. His gaze swept towards Lili not far ahead.
She was currently picking up the dropped magic stone materials and monster parts.
It was truly like having auto-loot now. After clearing the current area, there was no need to worry about safety. With a heart full of anticipation, he opened his cheat.
「Liam Moon」
「Level: 25」
「Experience: 0.003%」
「Skills: Secret Sword Art (Mastery), Triple Slash (Lv5), Moonlight Slash (Lv4), Backstep Cut (Lv4), Flowing Stance (Lv2), Flowing Stance - Pierce (Lv1)」
「SP: 80」
「New skills are currently available for learning. View them?」
「Overdrive」
「Level Requirement: 25」
「Cost: 20 SP」
「Skill Effect: Allows a weapon to break its durability limit for a certain period of time. Can increase weapon sharpness, but will accelerate the consumption of weapon durability.」
After his level increased to 25, the skill available for learning appeared before him. The skill's effect was also described very simply and directly.
Enhance weapon sharpness, at the cost of reduced durability.
Learning it cost 20 SP. There was no reason for Liam not to pump points into it. Currently, against ordinary monsters, he could easily deal with them relying on sword aura slashes.
What if he faced a boss-level monster with high defense?
The weapon sharpness enhancement effect of the skill "Overdrive" could very well be the absolutely critical, game-winning active skill!
"Overdrive can be maxed out."
It couldn't really be considered fleecing the Hephaestus Familia. He inexplicably recalled what Senior Tsubaki had told him yesterday about increasing the weapon's durability limit.
After raising his class level, he learned an active skill that consumed weapon durability.
So, could this be considered risk hedging?
Thinking of this, Liam looked at the other Second-Grade armament he had purchased from an ordinary weapon shop. This price, of course, came with no subsequent warranty service.
"The second weapon, if I had spent a little more money to buy it at the Hephaestus weapon shop."
"Could I have freeloaded on their weapon repair service?" His expression was inexplicably strange. To maintain the buff effect of Overdrive.
The solution was probably to commission the "Goibniu Familia" to forge a weapon.
A custom-made high-grade armament of the same type as Ais-tan's Desperate, with an unbreakable attribute. It was just that the price was currently impossible to consider.
Using ordinary weapons, repeated repairs would be an extremely huge consumption of Valis.
Liam didn't think that far ahead. After mastering the "Overdrive" skill, he closed the Sword Soul template's interface.
The combat methods he currently mastered hadn't yet undergone a qualitative improvement.
Instead, they were all active buff skills like "Flowing Stance" and "Overdrive," comprehensively enhancing his combat damage.
"If I want to master more methods, there's still a long way to go…"
"The path to leveling up is long and arduous!"
The process of leveling up next would gradually become longer, but Liam felt his efforts were completely worth it.
Skills like "Thrusting Smash of the Rushing Army" and "Drawing Sword"...
Would bring great amplification to battles against both Dungeon monsters and other adventurers.
After ensuring no monster drops were missed, Lili advanced towards Liam's position. The harvest from this round of exploration was truly rich. It was already the equivalent of an ordinary adventurer party's entire day's earnings…
The monster density in the Dungeon wasn't that high, and besides, no adventurer would be crazy enough to choose Liam's special training method!
With the disappearance of the Monster Party.
The mist shrouding the current floor gradually dissipated. Lili took out the prepared supplies, simply processed them, and handed them to Liam.
Her eyes were concerned as she looked up, "Have some water. Want something to eat to replenish your stamina?"
"Okay."
Liam didn't refuse Lili's suggestion. Accompanying the muscle soreness was the hunger caused by excessive energy consumption.
Not minding the ownership of the waterskin.
He took several gulps in a row. After the burning sensation in his throat disappeared, he focused all his attention on replenishing his energy.
Looking at the young man wolfing down his food, a smile unconsciously appeared on Lili's face. But recalling his excessively risky actions just now.
She tried hard to manage her expression and finally advised, "During this period... the situation is rather special. From a supporter's perspective."
"...Actually."
Actually, Lili really wanted to express her concern for Liam. This kind of action was undoubtedly putting himself in a dangerous situation. It was just that the young woman's duplicitous and awkward personality.
Caused her words to come out sounding a bit off.
"I hope you can pay more attention to your own safety. Even if you really don't consider yourself, you should at least consider your teammate's feelings, right?"
"Although I'm working for you for free, it doesn't mean I'll follow you to my death!!" She turned her head away to avoid Liam's gaze, adding an explanation.
Without day and night as a reference, the passage of time could only be calculated by the meals eaten. The deeper one explored, the stronger the monsters became.
This perfectly fit Liam's idea. The floor environment gradually became more complex, but with Lili as the team's guide, the process went without a hitch.
They explored the upper levels steadily.
It wasn't until they reached the starting floor of the middle levels, the "First Death Line," an area that required Lv2 adventurers to explore safely.
That Liam finally stopped.
Exploring with his current ability scores, he didn't need to particularly consider safety issues. What he was more concerned about was the supporter, Lili.
Without monster intelligence, encountering a Monster Party in the middle levels would make it difficult to ensure Lili's safety.
Pausing his exploration, Liam looked at the Pallum young woman carrying a huge backpack and asked directly, "How many supplies are left?"
"There are still two canteens of water, and only dry rations are left for food…"
Calculating the remaining supplies, Lili looked up, her eyes incomparably grave, "Liam, do you need me to return to the surface to restock?"
"No need."
"Let's head back first."
With the carried supplies depleted, Liam felt there was no need to continue lingering in the Dungeon. Killing monsters would still yield experience points.
But maintaining high-intensity training, he could feel that the improvement in his ability scores was already minuscule.
Two days had passed since the destruction of the Soma Familia. Setting aside whether the Ganesha Familia and the Adventurer's Guild had locked onto their target.
Staying out all night, at the very least, Hestia would worry about him.
Similarly.
He was very much looking forward to the results of these two days of high-intensity Dungeon exploration. Setting aside his undeveloped magic stat, his comprehensive stats in other areas…
What level could they reach?
Following Lili's footsteps back to Orario, recalling the strange judgment method for a "great feat," Liam's mood suddenly became a bit complicated.
Keenly sensing the suddenly heavy atmosphere.
Lili paused her steps, turned around to look at Liam. This tension was probably caused by the aftermath of the Soma Familia's destruction. And at this time.
All she could do was encourage him.
The young woman's face was brimming with a smile, she even used a clumsy honorific, "Liam...kun, I don't know what to say, but I believe in you."
"I'm just a little confused."
"Hmm? Although I may not be able to give useful advice, I'm fine as a listener." Lili wanted to help Liam more.
She tilted her head slightly, trying to lessen the pressure Liam was bearing.
It was just that when she heard his confusing question, the young woman's rare gentleness and patience instantly vanished, replaced by a deep resentment from her eyes.
"Massacring the Soma Familia, that wouldn't be classified as a great feat to raise my adventurer level, would it?"
"?"
"Are you even speaking human?"
(End of this chapter)
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