From then on it was a frenzied competition between us three for kills as we rushed through the dungeon lower and lower.
We had to slow down our kills though because we were killing them so fast they didn't notice most of our experience went into assasination.
The amount of monsters needed to kill per level increased well at least for goblins.
Took us 5 kills to get the level up notification for assasin lv 2.
Every level up was euphoric like a drug or something. Because you could literally feel yourself get more skilled and stronger.
The slaughter through the floors kept going and I had finally reached level 5 assasin when a new message popped up.
[Level up. Assassin lv 5. Passive Skill Silent Steps Acquired.]
I felt the usual surge of power and how to be a stealthy killer but something else changed. The way I walked became different and I no longer made noise.
We can get abilities?
My excitement only skyrocketed.
I told the girls what happened it only made them more eager.
After floor 5 we ran into different enemies. Kobolds.
Dog like people who had sharp claws and teeth they kind of remind me of werewolves but less wolf looking and more dog looking.
I had swapped over to a sword for killing. A group of kobolds had 3 to 5 members. This was no problem for us as some would be killed almost instantly on contact with our group.
Levels came much faster as I got 2 levels for 3 kills. I figure they must give more experience. That means I won't have to slaughter hundreds of thousands of monsters to go up levels i just have to go deeper and fight stronger monsters.
At level 5 swordsman I got passive ability. Basic swordsmanship. Which let me use my sword more effectively.
From then on we would swap between weapons and magical abilities.
Our levels skyrocketed.
At the tenth floor the level changed from a dungeon style to a swamp style.
There were lizard men and poisonous frogs. But there were also plants I could pick which could be combined together to form a antidote potion and raised my farming for picking them and alchemy for making the antidote.
We started to receive item drops from the frogs in the form of frogs legs. I could use fire magic on them and cook them for fast cooking levels. However I didn't eat them. Not a fan of frog legs. I did store them in the inventory as they could be used in my kingdom for a food supply.
We don't waste stuff.
Now at floor 10 there was one of the orbs near the stairs to leave the dungeon. There was no boss level on floor 11 so that was also new just more swamp.
I hate swamps cause water gets in your shoes and makes everything miserable.
We trudged through the swamp killing off frogs and lizard men and gathering stuff.
[Level up.]
[Level up.]
[Level up.]
Our levels just kept going up and up and we kept going deeper and deeper. We would stop for a while and I would grill up some meat for us to eat and get cooking levels. I'd make some antidotes and get some alchemist levels and then we would continue our journey.
We made it to floor 20 the floors had gotten drier the lower we went and more grassy and plains looking. We took the orb outside and it was already night time apparently we had spent the entire day just dungeon diving.
The girls went back to the internal world while i headed back to the castle. I would check around in the morning for a guild and some information on dungeons.
I made it back to the castle and decided to take a shower since I looked like I crawled out of a muddy bloody pit.
The squish squish of my greaves was ticking me off aswell having wet socks irritates me to no end.
Lucky for me my armor automatically cleans when going back to bracelet form. I took it off and then I just looked like a dirty guy with wet jeans up to his thighs. Some parts of the swamp were deep.
I was looking forward to a nice shower and hefty dinner. Trudging through sludge was more energy consuming than killing the actual monsters.
In hindsight I could have asked Silvia to just freeze everything so we could walk over it but I didn't think of that at the time dammit.
I made my way to my room before using a shower nozzle I had installed in the tub to scrub myself down and relax with the toasty water running over me. Perfect way to relax after a hard day in the dungeon.
After about an hour of relaxing I get out dry off and head down and grab some food from the dining room.
Some other students are there as they were hungry after a long days work with the soldiers. They all still avoided me.
I sat down not really caring and grabbed some sandwich stuff.
Lettuce, bacon, tomatoes, a bit of chopped grilled chicken then some sweet onion sauce from my sauce stores. Delcious sandwich man.
I was getting mixed looks from the kids with the throwaway skills they probably think I killed their friend or something.
I called her out of the internal world. Apparently she was also eating as she had a mouth full of spaghetti.
"Sorry for disturbing your meal but I'm pretty sure your friends thought i killed you. You can chat with them if you like however you won't be able to tell them anything about the internal world. It's a safety feature." I tell the confused girl.
"Ah okay I'll go tell them I'm fine." She says swallowing her food and walking over to them.
I don't need some more bad rumors starting or something. Especially when it's an easy thing to fix. I happily go back to my sandwich.