Chapter 118

{White mage has increased to level 19.}

{Healing Circle has been unlocked.}

I continued to work my way through level seven, and my levels continued to climb, albeit slower than they might have had I had my 2X experience unlocked. However, I wasn’t willing to abandon the sword and the exorcism skill. They were too valuable in fighting 90% of the creatures in this dungeon. Healing circle was basically like creating a temporary high regen area. Great for taking a break, but not practical in fights. I also made two levels in True Dungeon Diver.

{True Dungeon Diver has increased to level 7.}

{Detect Treasure has been unlocked.}

The other skill wasn’t reported to me, but I realized what it was when I noticed I could sense life with both Hero or True Dungeon Diver equipped. I could have used skill analysis, but it only works on skills that are equipped and I haven’t removed white mage since I entered this dungeon. Since most people only had one job, skill analysis really only worked when looking at others. Fortunately, I could equip a second job, so I bypassed that problem.

I was quickly getting a feel for the dungeon diver perks. Detect treasure was sort of like detect magic. It would ping an area and I could get closer and closer to it. The first time I tried it, it took me three hours and I ended up finding a single gold coin that had been wedged in a door. After that, I decided that detect treasure wasn’t that useful.

“Hey, listen!” Celeste flew over to me while I was checking my stats.

“What is it?” I asked flatly.

“What do you plan to do?” She asked, her expression hesitant.

“Do?”

“When you reach the end. When we discover the rest of the lore. What do you plan to do?” Celeste demanded.

“I’m just looking to get out of here for now.” I sighed. “But if I can help your master find peace, I’ll do it.”

“…”

I looked down to find Celeste with furrowed eyebrows as if she was deep in thought.

“Celeste?”

Celeste shook her head and then floated back a few feet. “What will happen to me?”

“Isn’t that up to you?” I asked. “You’re free now.”

“Free?”

I nodded. “You can choose the direction you head in the future. Do what makes you happy.”

Celeste nodded to herself, “Being next to you makes me happy.”

I broke into a cough. “Ah… that… well, let’s not jump to extremes here. There is still a lot of story to learn. Ah… actually, I don’t know how big your dungeon is. Here’s a question. That thing that allowed you to teleport to the other libraries, how many of them are there?”

“There are 5 deeper and 1 above.” She nodded.

“If it’s 1st and 5th… then perhaps they appear every five levels. In that case, this dungeon is 30 levels deep. The other dungeon was roughly around 10 levels, and since this one is 20 years old does that mean dungeons gain roughly a level a year?”

“What is Master talking about?”

“Eh? I’m just thinking about… w-wait… I’m not your master!”

Celeste’s face went red. “Of course, you’re not my master, who said you were my master!”

“Um… you.”

“Nonsense! I don’t like lies! I’ll leave again if you keep spreading lies!

I sighed. “My apologies. Shall we be going?”

I found it best to change the subject when she got like this.

“V-very well!” Celeste nodded. “Let’s go!”

“Just 23 levels to go,” I mumbled to myself with a sigh.