"Huh? Why are you guys looking at me funny?"
A few seconds later, Evan was crouching on the ground while holding his sore forehead, the reason the two looked at him 'funny' being apparent with the slight bump on his head.
"...teaming up against me is not fair."
Eliza's timed glare shut the young hero up as he turned his gaze upwards, only to realise something and hurriedly look back down.
"Um...Miss child of life, can you kindly put your leg down?"
Hearing Evan's words, Eliza looked at her leg and realized she still had Evan cornered to the wall, placing her leg down and pulling her staff out of the wall the moment after.
Meanwhile, in Evan's head, he was struggling to the sight he saw earlier out of his mind.
'I looked up and all I could see was white...'
It took the young hero a few more seconds to snap out of his daze and act natural so as to prevent the Radiant Codex from being tossed at his head once more.
"Alright guys, let's eat and rest here for the night and then continued dungeon diving tomorrow. The goal is to arrive at the tenth floor by the end of the week, so we can challenge one of the floor bosses before next week."
"Is it gonna be that easy?"
Eliza narrowed her gaze at Evan sceptically as she asked, but the young hero only replied with a smug grin.
"It's gonna be a walk in the park."
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"It really was a walk in the park."
Eliza's voice rang out as she blankly stared at the boss room door in front of her.
An ominous metal door blocked her path forward. Messages in strange languages were all over it in green, somehow untouched by time and the elements.
Taking a step closer, she attempted to inspect it, only to hear a loud bang in the distance from which she came.
She turned around and was met with the scene of Evan pummelling an unfortunate blade wraith that was no weaker than Elecrus to death with his fists.
Lightning crackled around his fists as he seemed to be hell-bent on recreating some sort of skill he had probably seen elsewhere to no avail.
'Wasn't his power the ability to copy skills he sees? Why didn't he just copy it?'
Of course, Eliza did not know that Evan had seen said skill before he gained his mystic eyes and the original owner of the skill wasn't on the same continent so Evan could not go meet him even if he wanted to.
The loud noise shook her out of her thoughts, her eyes looking up to see Evan stretching his arms as he would after a quick workout.
Perhaps sensing her gaze, Evan turned in her direction and gave her a small smile, one which she felt her face heating up at the sight of.
'Hold your horses girl! He's y-'
Eliza was about to sink into her thoughts once more when Evan's face suddenly filled her vision.
"What's wrong? You're spacing out."
The blonde teenager pushed his face away from her while muttering something about being too close.
She then noticed that Evan's arms seemed to have burns on them, ones he sustained from battling the now deceased blade wraith on the ground. Googlᴇ search NoveI(F)ire.net
Eliza decided to take advantage of this chance to test out something she had noticed in the past week.
"Hey Evan, gimme your hand."
Grabbing one of the young hero's arms, she activated her breath of life skill, eliciting a comment from Evan about how that was unnecessary for such minor wounds but she ignored his words.
'As I thought, it's back to normal.'
She didn't heal the wounds on his other arm, instead choosing to wait for a few more minutes until footsteps resounded in the distance, indicating that someone was coming closer.
Immediately, Eliza was hit with a sudden wave of familiarity for whoever was walking toward them, choosing this time to activate her skill on Evan's other arm.
Before she could even complete the activation process, the burns instantly disappeared, returning Evan's fair skin to its original state.
"...just what are you up to, Liz?"
Evan called out to her but the battle priestess had sunk into her sea of thoughts, trying to understand exactly what was causing the current phenomenon.
Said phenomenon was her skill's increased power whenever Pride and Amy were present.
She looked up to see the incoming figure of the high demon flicking the blood off her sword as her recently contracted flame spirit sat on her head and played with her hair.
'And it's just my 'Breath of Life' skill. Oh well, I'd ask Evan later, he seems to know more about my skills than I do.'
Deciding to push the matter to a later time, she took a quick peek at her status and couldn't help but heave a sigh of exasperation.
'They really did power level me over 100 in a week...'
Looking at her level sitting at 106, the young battle priestess remembered how Evan and Pride pretty much brutalized everything from the third to eighth floors due to the level difference between them.
By the time they arrived at the ninth floor where opponents of Leviron and Elecrus' level could be seen commonly, the duo had already levelled up higher than that so they were able to easily breeze through the ninth floor in just three days.
The only reason it took them two extra days was that they were trying to hunt more monsters and ended up getting lost in the process when they had chased a swarm of blade wraiths that took to their heels upon spotting them.
'The poor monsters were scared.'
After murdering the unfortunate monsters, Evan sat Eliza down and poured out all the magic stones from the monsters they had killed since the first floor and spent the next half day, instructing her on how to absorb the energy within the stones and increase her existence level.