The speed increase that he received from it on top of the rabbit strike was incredible – and he could use them at the same time for an honestly ridiculously powerful combination!
Honestly, the first thing he thought next was to turn the two massive femurs he strapped to his back for safety into the trash and use them immediately to upgrade his soul artifact, but even with all the skills in his possession, he could not break or even put a dent on them.
"...the guy at the shady restaurant makes mole-rabbit bone bread... maybe he has the right equipment to...? Huh...? And what are you doing here?"
Viria thought to himself, squinting his eyes at realization before he turned around and saw a gold-haired young woman fidgeting timidly while looking at him with sparky eyes and blushing.
Viria certainly didn't like the look on her face.
It reminded him of the way a girl called Emma looked at him in his previous life right before she confessed and he rejected her, which caused his so-called friends to turn their backs on him from jealousy.
"Ehehe... oh, you know... Wait... no, you clearly don't know!"
"...?"
Lithsar fidgetted all blushed and acting ditzy in the spotlight of the grim glare, but as she spoke she reminded herself about her reason and straightened her back returning to normal, making Viria raise his brow slightly intrigued.
"Indiscriminately killing monsters in the spawning ground can offset the balance of the first floor! The more you kill the more powerful rare breeds will spawn – an indiscriminate slaughter like this might even force a monster that's equal to the floor boss to appear! In such case, the spawning point might change and the layout of the first floor would be ruined! Do you have any idea how bad that would be?! People who cannot fight would die!"
The gold-haired woman called out waving her hand to the sie to make the situation that she describe seeming more urgent and important.
"...location of the floor boss monster changing...? I've read about the type of floor boss changing, but nothing about the location."
And yet, the young man didn't seem particularly scared or shocked – if anything, he was more doubtful and hesitant.
"Prison dungeon is different! Even the most explored dungeons are not habituated like this one! In other dungeons monsters roam the entire floors, here you have clearly defined boundaries and a full-blown human settlement!"
Lithsar waved her hands around, speaking with them as much as she did with her mouth.
"Pretty cool observation, you may consider writing a book, or at least a pamphlet for the dungeon explorers."
"SCWEEE!"
Viria shrugged his shoulders and turned around as another mole-rabbit just charged out of the tunnel.
*WHAM* *CRACK*
As it was merely another common spawn, it was not matched for the punch augmented with two speed-increasing skills, and the monster's skull was turned into splinters and essentially blown apart into a bloody mess as Viria's fist connected with it.
"Say, since you are here it means that it's already day again, right? Do you perhaps know something about the spotty spawning rate? Wasn't it supposed to spawn groups of mole-rabbits? What's with the single ones showing up instead?"
Viria not only wasn't bothered by what he just did, he merely shook his hand to get the excess of blood off his left hand and motioned at the stunned Lithsar with his chin.
"Wha...?! Did you just...? Hold on, what levels of cultivation are you on?! Be honest this time!"
The gold-haired woman stared between the headless mole-rabbit corpse that hit the ground and tumbled under her feet and the young man that created it and asked in a tense voice, backing off having the sense of danger topple the excitement she was feeling.
Barely, but still.
"I never lied about it though? I was in the low-low levels but now I'm in the middle-low levels. You know the benefit of having only one step between them. The jump in power is quite explosive instead of a steady increase. Still, I would prefer not experiencing all the side effects at once – it's a killer for the stomach."
With the warden already knowing about the change, there was no need for Viria to hold back the information about his cultivation level. It wasn't like it mattered all that much, in the world of cultivators as long as one didn't break through the overall lower levels, they were basically treated as normal people despite being many times stronger.
"Excuse me?! Did you just say that you have one step between the minor levels and you still managed to brave it?! How?!"
Lithsar shook her head and kept backing off as if she expected some foul play at work.
"I guess the environment is perfect for my training. What about those spawning rates?"
Viria shrugged his shoulders dismissively and repeated his question while looking back to check whether new monsters spawned in.
"Nnngh...!"
"...?"
The gold-haired woman blushed and clenched her legs together rubbing her knees while biting her lips and holding back the urge the attitude of the young man has reawakened within her – to the great confusion of the main culprit.
"...the spawning rate is increased, it doesn't always mean that groups would spawn at the same time. The behavior of the monsters during the day is what changes the most. The day is when they group up, boss."
Lithsar explained timidly, looking up at the stone-mask-faced Viria as if she hoped to get praised... or punished, whatever exactly her kink was...
"What level is the floor boss supposed to be anyway?"
Viria didn't feel like opening that can of worms and instead of addressing the actions of the gold-haired woman, he simply ignored it while keeping up the subject that interested him.
"When compared to the human cultivators, the current boss monster is at the medium-low level of cultivation. But to make it more obvious why it is dangerous – the warden revealed that it is as strong as someone on the eighth step of the medium-low levels of cultivation. No joke. And considering that it is a monster, a one-on-one between it and a cultivator of the same level would not end up in human winning, boss."
Lithsar wrapped her arms around her torso and trembled with excitement under the cold glare she received from the younger man.