The Pitch-black Udaeus was, after all, a Floor Boss with potential reaching Lv.7.
It immediately released the hand gripping the greatsword, clenched it into a fist, and blasted out a cannon punch.
But clearly, this attack missed completely in front of Levi, who possessed 'Space Displaced'.
The pitch-black skeleton, having exposed a massive opening, tried to block with its shield. However, the connection point between its right arm and shoulder still took a solid hit from an upward slash infused with the Ice Element.
Following that, the entire severed arm was flung away.
Levi had no intention of fighting three hundred rounds with the Floor Boss.
At this moment, naturally, he would hit it while it was down. Using 'Space Displaced' in rapid succession, his figure appeared as if he had created clones, materializing in front of, beside, and behind Udaeus.
Missing an arm, the latter could only use the most primitive method of defense—holding the shield and spinning at high speed in place.
However, the moment Udaeus adopted this action, Levi suddenly disengaged from the battlefield temporarily.
At the same instant, the Electro Element Vision hanging at his waist began to flicker.
By the time the Pitch-black Udaeus stopped due to exhaustion, the divine weapon Musou Isshin was already gripped in Levi's hand.
"No thoughts, severed!"
The 'Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu', which could have originally destroyed a small portion of the 37th Floor, was firmly restricted to the blade of Musou Isshin by Levi using 'Cold Edge Martial Arts'.
In the next second, he used three teleports to arrive behind the Pitch-black Udaeus. Without hesitation, the katana in his hand slashed out horizontally like lightning.
In an instant, the Pitch-black Udaeus, along with the Magic Stone inside its body, was sliced into two halves.
"Aaee..."
The vitality of a Lv.7 Floor Boss was indeed tenacious; even with its Magic Stone destroyed, Udaeus could still emit a few whimpers from its mouth.
But that was the extent of it.
—Bang!
Accompanied by the sound, its entire body turned into black ash that filled the sky.
Leaving aside the black greatsword that had been discarded earlier, even the gigantic shield that ordinary adventurers couldn't lift at all fell to the rocky ground with a heavy thud.
[Levi Bright]
[Lv.5 (0% -> 7%)]
[Law Crystals: 64 -> 71]
Levi opened his character panel and found that his Feats progress bar had only increased by a very short segment.
He couldn't help but curl his lips. "I knew it."
His current base combat power rivaled the upper tier of Lv.6. After activating 'Mana Burst', he could touch upon Lv.7. Combined with the Tenkajin-constellation ultimate skill from his Vision and the slightly unreasonable Cold Edge Martial Arts...
As long as he didn't act recklessly and seek death, killing a Lv.7 Floor Boss—even if it were the so-called 'God's Assassin'—was far less difficult than imagined.
As for why he didn't take off the Tenacity of the Millelith artifact set and the 'Heaven's Feel Craft Essence' like he did when fighting the Pitch-black Triple-Headed Dragon before...
Firstly, because even if he did so, the progress bar for Feats couldn't be filled.
Secondly, according to the mission rewards, the Lv.5 dimensional card pool had likely already reached its cap. At the very least, rising to Lv.6 wouldn't unlock a new level of the card pool.
As for exactly how long it would take to rise from Lv.5 to Lv.7... Levi didn't say it aloud, but he was somewhat mentally prepared in secret.
—At that time, in order to gather enough Feats far exceeding the Lv.6 stage, there was a high probability he would really have to make a move against the One-Eyed Black Dragon sealed in the Dragon's Valley to the north.
Of course, if the Spirit Clones had already explored to the 49th Floor, that would be a different situation.
But clearly, even possessing Lv.8 level combat power, wanting to descend from the 27th Floor to the 49th Floor in just a short single day was simply impossible.
Fortunately, although the Feats for leveling up to Lv.6 weren't enough, Main Mission 2, 'Defeat Udaeus', had prompted as complete. The new mission, as expected, was to challenge the 49th Floor Boss, Balor. The mission reward was somewhat unexpected—not four Skill Star-Up Cards, but a High-rank Skill Star-Up Card.
Levi had originally intended to challenge Balor for the leveling Feats anyway, so seeing the mission reward now, it was naturally impossible for him to remain indifferent.
He immediately took out the Valkyrie and Dress of Heaven Class Cards and activated the Multiple Possession state.
Among the six Spirit Clones differentiated, this time, two were left in the Dungeon by Levi.
One of them would continue advancing towards the Deep Floors until leaving a Teleport Rune Stone on the 50th Floor. The other would remain on the 37th Floor for a long time, or more precisely, located in the 'Colosseum' within the 37th Floor—the Colosseum would spawn monsters endlessly at all times. For other adventurers, it might be dangerous, but for Levi, it allowed him to rapidly increase his 'Luck' level.
After doing all this, Levi took the remaining four clones and returned to the surface.
Then he found Alise, Gojouno Kaguya, and the Astrea Familia group who intended to observe the upcoming Heroic Spirit Summoning ritual. At the same time, he didn't forget Hestia, Hephaestus, Daphne, and Cassandra.
"Lady Astrea, and friends of the Astrea Familia, we will temporarily leave Orario now."
Seeing the brown-haired Goddess and the group of girls nod to indicate their understanding, he didn't hesitate. He controlled his mana to surge into his Magic Crests, activating 'Space Displaced', and resonated with the teleportation rune he had inscribed outside the city before returning to Orario.
In the next instant, as if erased by an eraser...
Everyone standing on the spot vanished completely. By the time they reacted, they had already appeared in a small grove.
This place was about a hundred kilometers away from Orario.
Even if The Guild sensed something was wrong and sent adventurers to investigate, from the order being given to their departure, it would take half a day.
It was completely enough for Levi to summon the remaining eight former members of the Astrea Familia.
In fact, that is exactly what he did next.
Lyra, Neze, Noin, Asta, Ryana, Celty, Iska, Maryuu.
Every time a member was stripped from the Reincarnation System and returned to the Lower World, a pure white pillar of light would descend from the sky.
Seeing such a spectacle, not to mention the girls and Goddesses right at the scene...
The gods residing in Orario simply couldn't endure it.
The first time, due to insufficient preparation, it was fine that they detected nothing.
If it happened a second time like this, they might as well smash their heads against a wall and return to Tenkai to save themselves from the embarrassment.
However, just when a god hurried to The Guild and requested Guild Head Royman to pass a message to Ouranos for permission to use the divine mirror, the latter gave a direct refusal.
"Lord Ouranos said that the abnormal situation outside Orario concerns the secrets of other Familias. Using the divine mirror to investigate would be a clear violation of The Guild's regulations."
Although he said this, Royman's reply indirectly proved one thing: the current spectacle, as well as the previous one that closely resembled a 'God descending to the Lower World', was truly caused by a certain adventurer, or adventurers, living in Orario!
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