WHAT THE ADVENTURERS SAW
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!”
On the twenty-fifth floor, standing at the edge of the large lake that lay at the base of the Great Falls, Bell fought alone. Separated from his party by the raging current, he faced off against a flock of iguaçu, known to many as the fastest creature found on the lower floors. The swallow-like monsters dive-bombed him all at once, meeting their collective end as they ran headfirst into the wall of slashes the boy frantically put up.
Here, an adventurer was locked in a mortal struggle.
“…What’s going on over there?”
Meanwhile, a totally different adventurer was watching in the distance.
“A white-haired human boy? That’s gotta be Little Rookie…Or I guess he’s Rabbit Foot now.”
The adventurer and his upper-class party members stood at the base of the passageway that led down from the twenty-fourth floor, atop a cliff that offered a sweeping view of the entire cavern. Their jaws dropped at the sight of Bell’s struggle, taking place hundreds of meders in the distance.
They were a group of Level 3 adventurers who had descended from Rivira to challenge the lower floors. None of them were greenhorns by any means, and they fully intended on descending even deeper and breaking their current record…but watching Bell’s battle gave them pause.
Upper-class adventurers had a saying. “If you run into iguaçu, drop whatever you’re holding and run.” Yet Bell was doing the exact opposite.
“He’s taking them all on…That kid doesn’t even have a shield. All he’s got is his knife…”
“What a weirdo.” “What a weirdo.” “I once saw the Sword Princess training like that…” “What a weirdo.”
As soon as the Sword Princess’s name came up, all the adventurers were in agreement.
“Let’s call it here for today…”
“Yeah, I don’t think I can do this anymore. I think my confidence just tanked…”
And so, mere moments after reaching the twenty-fifth floor, the adventurers all turned around and headed back the way they came. Thus, they conveniently avoided running into one of the most powerful enhanced species ever seen but missed out on everything that transpired between Bell and the mermaid.
Soon, stories began to spread about the weirdo who massacred an entire pack of iguaçu by himself.
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