"Inferno."

Suddenly, the heat around the surrounding started to rise until it reached the point that one would think they were on a desert, the heat is simply too strong yet the center point of it was much stronger than that. In the center of the forest stood two figures, one small and feminine while the other is huge and monstrosity, but the scene that was happening currently is completely out of one imagination, the huge and monstrosity was currently in raging mode yet it couldn't do anything and stood on the spot due to being bound by its own shadow. It could only fiercely glare with its bloodshot eyes towards the small and feminine figure in a distance as if wishing that the figure would fall to death from the glare.

But what greets it to its death was a blazing inferno-like flame flying straight toward it and blast it to ashes without being able to put any resistance before getting annihilated. And just like that, an Ogre, the Boss of the Fifth Floor was slain by Sheila in one single hit. 

Well, I had been putting it off for a while now since I was more focused on leveling my skills instead of ascending to a higher level floor. Now that most of my skill has leveled up quite a bit, and with the leveled up from slaying the Ogre in reality, my current stats are much stronger than the Ogre I had just slain. I don't even need to use my trump card against it, kind of anti-climatic since I was hoping for a good fight. Sheila heaved a sigh before shaking her head at her hot-blooded thought.

Though the fire had burned a few trees that stood behind the ogre, it didn't escalate to the whole forest as she expected it to be, and just in case, Sheila also went out of her way to shut the fire down before it could move to another tree. Even though that was unneeded for as it seemed that the tree had quite the resistance against magic, seeing as it didn't immediately burn after getting in contact with her flame. If it was a tree in the real world, it might have burned and spread much faster than this. As to how she come to such a conclusion? Sheila had activated the passive skill, mana eyes, to look at the scene and that's when she noticed that there's mana, although faintly, around the tree.

She had been practicing quite a lot of her skill and the fact that her pupils had turned deep bluish when she active the skill just showed how much effort she put into it, though Sheila didn't know about it as of yet since she never looked into the mirror when the skill was active.

『 You have leveled up! 』

『 You can now ascend to the Sixth Floor, do you wish to? 』

"Nah, I'm going to grind a few more on this floor, perhaps I might reach level 30 before the day ends."

With that said, Sheila only had a couple of hours left before she had to leave since she had a meeting with someone after this. Without wasting any further, Sheila immediately picks her pace up and run toward the place where she had detected a presence with the gun in hand. The Ogre's drop item was pretty disappointing even though it was a boss, she hopes that the second time it won't be that stingy or, she might start questioning whether her high luck was true or not.

After the discussion regarding the rift has come to an end, Sheila was expecting for Angelica to ask her about her ability yet, to her disappointment(?), the latter never ask even till she went home at dusk. The three had spent their time talking about school and stuff that girls in reality usually spoke of, nothing about her being a mage was involved, simply an ordinary conversation, that's all. She had been preparing to lie thoroughly about her being a mage yet the situation never came, her effort had been in vain. 

And before Angelica took her leave, she had asked me out to meet up at a later date but, before you could go on your wild imagination, it's not the kind of date you were thinking about.

Sheila didn't know for what reason the meeting is and was worried if Angelica was planning on something yet nevertheless, she was not scared, at least not within the district. Though that might not be the case, it was better to be careful since she hadn't known her for too long as of now. 

Bang! Bang!

While she was having such thought went through her mind, her hands and feet didn't stop moving of killing one monster after another. After killing the hobgoblin and picked up the dropped item off the ground, Sheila immediately departs to another. She was never been caught in an ambush after acquiring a detection skill of her own as whenever she stepped to a certain range, the skill would alert her of their presence before they could ambush her. It was sort of funny to see hobgoblin hiding within a bush or behind a tree with the plan of ambushing her, unfortunately for them, Sheila had already known of their plan. 

She had shot at them from a distance with the magic handgun at such accuracy that would make the veteran widen their eyes in shock. The bullet precisely pierced a hole into their head, and that's how the hobgoblin was slain without even knowing of their death. While Sheila was killing hobgoblin after another, she was also pondering on what kind of monster would show up on the Sixth Floor. 

It should be much stronger than an ogre but, so is it a Troll? or perhaps a beast-like monster? so far, I hadn't met any beast-like monster in the Trial Tower so it should be about time for it to appear. Though I can't say I'm already used to fight against humanoid creatures by now, I also want to fight with another being, such as beast in preparation, just in case. Knowing the fact that a monster like that Earth Dragon exists within the portal is already scary enough and with my current level, I still couldn't put a scratch on that dragon. Though I won't know the result since I had never fought against it and never will until I'm sure I was strong enough to survive the earthquake. 

With that being said, it wasn't long before a fearsome yet familiar aura suddenly appeared in the center of the forest, alerting her that the Ogre had been respawned. Talking about respawning, Sheila could technically respawn too if she were 'killed' in the Trial Tower, or so the system said. But she had never tried it out because she was scared and afraid of the pain that she might suffer at her death, and who knows whether it is true or not? Knowing that there's someone behind the system already caused her to be quite suspicious toward it.

Sheila shook her head before a grin appeared on her face that looks certainly identical to those who were a hot-blooded as she immediately sprints toward the center of the Forest. Although she hates pain, it seemed that she didn't really dislike fighting in general, especially when it makes her stronger. After all, what doesn't kill you, make you stronger or so the wise once said.