Eero glanced at Hestia and smiled but didn't say anything. Even if she announced the 9th level, it couldn't affect him now. Except for those unleashed gods, no one could defeat him among human adventurers, not even 10th level adventurers.
...
Soon the whole Orario Familia received the news about the God's banquet held by Hestia Familia. They were surprised by the fact of Eero ranking up to 8th Level.
'What kind of race is he? It almost feels like a god incarnated himself,' few Gods and Goddesses thought to themselves.
During the banquet night, all Goddesses and Gods from the whole Orario gathered, congratulating Eero. Loki, as always, teased and fought with Hestia.
Eero met with other Familia members, Ais and Riviria. Riviria still gave him bad looks for that day.
'This girl is 99 years old and still holding grudges like children,' Eero thought speechlessly, looking at Riviria. Then he walked toward the banquet table, his favorite spot in these types of parties.
"Can you tell me how you upgraded so fast?" a voice sounded beside him.
Eero turned around and glanced at Ais, surprised by her curious expression.
"It's my talent and skills," Eero replied calmly.
Ais then nodded expressionlessly and asked, "Will you accept the three great quests? I think you can complete them."
"Three Great Quests, you mean hunting Behemoth, Leviathan, and the one-eyed black dragon," Eero asked thoughtfully.
Ais's eyes widened in surprise, looking at him.
"How do you know?" Ais suddenly asked, her expression fluctuating.
Eero smiled at her and said, "I will soon slay them one by one. I heard they are roaming around freely on the surface, spreading chaos and destruction."
Hearing Eero's reply, she fell silent, looking at his confident smile. She clenched her fists then released them, nodded, and said, "I understand," before turning and walking away.
Looking at her back, Eero became thoughtful. 'It was probably because of her childhood encounter with the one-eyed black dragon, and also her father's death.'
Soon the banquet was over.
...
Few days later, Eero stood on the 71st floor, looking at the dark dragon-shaped monsters.
Lord of Space and Darkness!
Instantly, his hair turned silver-dark, and he grabbed his sword, unsheathing it.
Space Slash!
Instantly, a lot of huge silver slashes appeared around him, illuminating the whole floor and piercing through everything. Everything was cleaved into pieces instantly, including those dragon monsters.
"My power and strength really increased a lot instantly. So, is this the effect of Slayer?" Eero muttered thoughtfully.
Then he walked toward the middle of the floor thoughtfully. 'As expected, I haven't found the one-eyed black dragon. I thought after him leaving the dungeon, another monster would pop up. It seems I was wrong.'
After killing all the monsters on the 71st floor, Eero appeared in the middle of the floor, standing beside a huge ground with a lot of bright dragonflies floating around, illuminating the whole area.
Instantly, the floor below his feet trembled, and a section revealed at the edge of the ground, looking like a bunker entrance.
Eero was surprised and muttered intriguingly, "So, there are other floors below, and it is revealed after I killed all those monsters inside, it lookslike some mechanism."
He walked and appeared beside the dark entrance.
Lord of the Light!
Instantly, his hair and eyes turned white, a white layer shrouded his body, brightening everything around for miles.
He jumped directly inside the cave. While falling below, he saw white particles bypassing him, and then they slowly increased.
Next second, he landed on the floor instantly, and dust spread around. Eero smelled a familiar smell in the air. He raised his head, looking at a lot of white particles that looked like fireflies.
What surprised him was the environment around. Everything was made from metal, the floor, and the walls, everything.
Eero's expression became strange, and he muttered thoughtfully, "Metal floor, what's next? Lava or something?"
He walked forward, looking at metal ores scattered around, even those pure rare metals could be found everywhere.
Tsk!
Eero felt a crisis and dodged aside instantly. A long spike made from metal passed by the previous place.
Looking at the humanoid monster with a hedgehog shape, metal spike on all his body, aiming at him using his arm, Eero instantly ran and appeared beside him. The next second, he unsheathed his sword and slashed his neck.
"~~~." Instantly, the blade stopped near the neck of the monster, and the air regressed around at a fast pace.
The monster was full of sweat, looking at the shining Eero standing beside him and his blade resting on his neck. He rejoiced and sighed a relief in his heart.
"~~~~~," the monster said again.
"You can probably talk, but I don't understand you," Eero replied calmly.
He slashed his sword, and the monster's head flew above in the air, fell to the ground, and melted into a metal liquid that looked like slime.
"As expected, monsters are more dangerous here. This guy almost confused me just now," Eero muttered, looking at other humanoid-shaped monsters standing up from different areas around. There were more than a thousand monsters in his perception.
Lord of Space and Lightning!
Instantly, his figure flickered into a thousand afterimages, materialized behind all monsters, as if thunder layers. He looked at all of them, calling and turning them into liquid and crystals.
Picking up one metal liquid remain of a monster, he was surprised.
"It's a new type of metal. It looks like memory metal," he muttered after checking its function.
Putting all liquid metal inside his storage and eating all crystals increased his attributes. These floors looked more dangerous than the upper dark floors.
Eero walked through the floor, killing a lot of monsters. He encountered metal slimes everywhere on this floor, as if they didn't have any limit. Each slime was level 5, and some were even level 6 and 7, which was absolutely terrific. Right now, no Orario Familia could survive on this floor.