Learning

Thereafter, Riveria and Ais spoke with the adventurers about what they knew about the Goliath suddenly appearing and disappearing out of nowhere. As they also had no idea, Riveria just cautioned them to be wary of a possible attack on the 18th floor because of this weird occurrence. Then, I merely accompanied them silently as they went onward to the lower levels. After a few moments of silence from all three of us, Riveria spoke.

"By the way, Reza. Were you not the one to kill the Goliath? Alone, even?"

Although I stayed silent along thee way for the purpose of not giving them any hints of what I did, it seems to be that Riveria figured something out. I gave off a sigh as I thought about what I was about to say next. Even Ais was looking towards me in anticipation of the confirmation of my accomplishment of killing the Goliath.

'Well, it would only become more sketchy if I denied it now with Riveria most likely sure that I was the one who killed it... Also, my 'divinity' wouldn't be exposed either since they weren't able to see that the Goliath was 'abnormal... No harm in telling them now.

"Yeah, I killed it. However, I didn't really defeat it head-on so I am kind of ashamed of showing off..."

Hearing that, both Ais and Riveria looked at me with relieved and happy eyes.

"Good job, Reza."

"Mhmm, truly a well-done job. Although I have no idea how you made a part of the dungeon's roof collapse on it, that in itself is also quite the achievement Reza."

"You flatter me too-"

"But at the same time, you should know that trying to destroy the dungeon is incredibly stupid. If you were to have done such damage to the dungeon at the lower levels of the dungeon, we would have been in quite a dilemma. Luckily, that Juggernaut's magic reflect couldn't reflect magic of my level..."

Hearing that, I got quite confused and decided to ask Riveria to clear my doubts.

"Wait, why would it be more dangerous if I were to damage the dungeon at lower floor? Or any floors of the dungeon at all?"

Hearing my question, Riveria whom was walking in front of me suddenly turned and looked me in the eye.

"... Damaging the dungeon results in the spawning of a Juggernaut, Reza. Why don't you know that?"

Saying those words, her eyes seemed to observe the very depths of my soul, as if inspecting to see if my next words were to be the truth or a lie. After a moment of silence, I simply answered her question honestly.

"... To be honest, Riveria, I don't have much knowledge of how the dungeon works-"

"Meaning that you've been diving the dungeon, oblivious of the dangers that are held within?"

"... Yes"

Hearing me confirm my lack of knowledge when it came to the dungeon, she gave off a long sigh as she face-palmed with her hand. After a moment of her trying to get her thoughts together, she spoke once more.

"Ais, I'm sorry to make you do this but only you'll fight the monsters towards the going towards the 37th floor. For now, Reza will stay behind you with me so that I can teach him about the dungeon."

"Okay."

Ais said as she apparently had no opposition to Riveria's proposition. However, I wasn't so accepting as I tried to convince her otherwise.

"Wait wait wait, Riveria, although I'm clueless about the dangers of the dungeon, surely I can-"

"Precisely because of the fact that you are clueless makes the dungeon all the more dangerous! Be obedient now and learn."

"... Okay."

I sadly responded as I really couldn't find anyway to oppose Riveria's decision. As we finished our arrangements, we headed towards the 37th floor with Ais leading the way and with me at the back with Riveria, teaching me all sorts of things about the dungeon.

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"... and beyond the 59th floor, the lowest floor any familia has ever reached, is a place called the 'Glacier Territory'. We currently do not have the means to traverse over those floors so we do not have much knowledge beyond the 59th floor. With this, I have taught you all that is needed to be known about the dungeon at the moment."

"Mhmm... Thank you for quite the comprehensive lesson, Riveria."

Although I was quite dismissive before of the knowledge of the dungeon that Riveria was imparting to me of the floors near the top of the dungeon, I started to become quite invested when I learned about the middle-to-lowest floors and even asked plenty of questions along the way. Seeing as I was genuinely listening before and thankful for her teachings, Riveria gave a smile that even enchanted me for a bit as she responded to my thanks.

"No problem. The safety of the members of my familia is of top priority. You can join Ais in the front now if you want."

Hearing those words, I snapped myself out of my dazed state and thanked her once more. Afterwards, I rushed towards the front where Ais was and began to fight alongside her. Whom was fighting what I learned to be called as a 'Skull Sheep' from my lesson with Riveria earlier. It was quite easy to defeat the Skull Sheep as we fought side by side. Before Ais was about to kill it, I secretly timed my [Devour] skill with when she dealt the final blow and felt the soul to have quite the delicious taste as it empowered my stats by quite a bit compared to all the other monsters that I've killed except for the Juggernaut and Black Goliath.

'Ah, that taste and feels really good..."

While I was relishing in the taste and power of the Skull Sheep's soul, Ais came beside me and spoke.

"Did you listen to Riveria's lesson well?"

"Yeah, I did. I learned quite a bit..."

"Mhmm, that's good. The more you know about the dungeon, the safer that you'll be."

She then tiptoed as she gave me a quick pat on the head and swiftly got into moving forward once more. Her act once more made my heartbeat quicken and my mind fluttery

'She truly is one of a kind.'

After staying there with my thoughts for a bit, I quickly caught up to her as we fought our way going towards the Throne Room of the 37th floor.