It was difficult for Eliza at first as she had actually never had to absorb energy from magic stones, but it was a process she had seen quite a lot when she was at home so she was able to get the hang of it relatively quickly.
After a few dozen magic stones were absorbed, Eliza found that she seemed to have hit some sort of barrier and could not absorb any more, so Evan got her to level up some more, and in the process, the barrier broke and her level shot up by two instantly.
She then spent the next few hours writhing in pain due to the fact that her body was in the process of strengthening itself and she couldn't heal herself since her magic power was going haywire and even the most basic healing spell couldn't even be constructed.
Evan was worried since her situation was far from his expectations but Artemisia assured him that it was simply because her body was in the process of strengthening itself by a huge margin since Eliza, who was apparently still at the lower stages of the gold existence level at the time, was suddenly breaking through into a whole new existence level in one go.
Even then, the young hero was still restless until the pain stopped and the blonde teenager passed out from exhaustion.
They then spent another day on the ninth floor so she could rest some more after waking up, before finally making their way to the next floor the next day.
During their speed run week, they came across other adventurer parties and a few solo adventurers who were braving the dungeon, with a few of them being hostile and even fewer being friendly.
However, the majority of them were simply indifferent and carried on with their dungeon diving after acknowledging Evan's group with a nod.
"Hey Liz, why don't we change our party name to 'Anomalies' after we leave the dungeon?
You know, since none of us is normal?"
Of course, Evan chose the best time to bring her out of her reverie using something that was considered a sore spot for the teenager.
'I wanna hit him! But it's futile since he's just gonna dodge.
And when did he even start calling me 'Liz'? Before I knew it, I had been answering him like normal.'
Evan, had for some reason decided to shorten Eliza's already short name and was now calling her a nickname that only her parents called her.
'It's not like I hate it so there's no problem.'
The girl just decided to go with the flow, casually swinging her staff towards Evan's head as she walked towards the boss room door and pushed it open.
"Let's go to the next floor already, shall we?"
As she spoke, she walked into the room, her grip on her staff tightening as the radiant codex floated in the air beside her.
This particular boss room looked like a small throne room, with narrow braziers at the bottoms of each of the six ivory columns lighting up every part of the room and engulfing it in a brilliant glimmer.
A magnificent throne of bronze sat atop a small elevated platform and was covered in intricate etchings.
Seated atop the throne in a lazy position, was a blade wraith that was noticeably smaller than the others in the dungeon as evidenced by its shorter legs and slender body structure.
It was dressed in full body armour like its brethren, with a flat top helm and half-rounded face guard with two openings for its glowing blue eyes.
The upper and lower arms were protected by rounded, half-covering rerebraces which sat perfectly under the shoulder plates and similar vambraces respectively.
The breastplate was made from one large piece of metal, covering almost everything from the neck down. It narrowed near the groin and left part of the sides exposed.
Stabbed into the ground beside the throne was a simple one-handed sword. No decorations of any sort were on it, with the exception of the small scratches from battle, which were perhaps the best marks for a weapon.
As soon as the trio walked into the room, the door closed behind them, something the blade wraith on the throne took as a cue, as it stood up and picked up its blade before approaching them slowly.
"Yo! Whatsup."
Evan casually called out to the monster with a smile, however, it remained silent as it continued drawing closer to him.
"Hello?"
The young hero kept calling out to the monster, trying to make a conversation but it remained silent and continued approaching him.
Seeing this, Evan frowned for a moment before a flash of inspiration hit him as he spread out his arms slightly and spoke with a cockney accent.
"Ho? You're approaching me?
A mere Blade wraith: Raja at level 126?"
Evan casually remarked as he slowly pulled out his sword, an evil grin spreading on his face as he noticed the monster flinch upon hearing his words.
"The trio from the monster room on the third floor could kill this guy with ease."
The monster's grip on its sword tightened as Evan spoke, nevertheless, it remained silent and kept on slowly closing the distance.
"What, you can't defend yourself? So much for being a Raja type."
The young hero continued his attempts to taunt the monster, something Eliza was about to stop him from doing but Pride held her back.
"Tsk...Tsk...to think that a useless creature who can't even refute my words is the boss of this floor, it's very disappointing.
I've seen stronger blade wraiths on the lower floors, they deserve this position more.
Even your name-"
"Human."
Evan's words were cut short when an unknown voice suddenly echoed in the room. Eliza's eyes widened as she traced the source of the voice and realised why Evan had been taunting the blade wraith all this while.
"You finally spoke, huh?
Why didn't you answer me earlier? I only wanted to talk to a blade wraith that was capable of speech."
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