Walking deeper Zhen Lun arrived in an empty area, scanning his surroundings he can't find anything

Weirdly, he can't find any ghouls or wraiths around him.

'Where did they go to? Did someone cleared out the monster?'

His system did say that he has beaten Goblin King 'alone' which means he could have fought with other people, but it was quite unlikely as blacky who hid in his shadow didn't come with him.

As he walks further in, he noticed an unfamiliar looking girl. Fortunately, she's a beauty as well. She has beautiful golden hair, but the one that stood out the most was her eyes. Her eyes were as though a gem, it was blue and was flickering brightly in the dark.

'Hm? There are really other people who existed in the dungeon?' He was unconvinced with what he was currently seeing.

"Welcome to my shop, Hero!" The girl welcomed him.

"Who are you? Are you one of them?" He asked warily. He suspected that the girl was part of the system.

"Huh?" The girl was confused. "Don't worry, I'm not the monsters you meet on the way." She quickly explained as she pointed the sign above her.

The sign has the word 'shop' but he won't call this place a shop. It didn't have an appearance that resembles a shop at all. It was just a wall that was dug, inside it has a few shelves with unknown items being displayed.

"Did the system created you?" Zhen Lun asked again.

"System?" The woman shook her head. "No, definitely not."

As she noticed Zhen Lun was still unconvinced, she explained it further in detail. "You meant the transparent screen right? Of course not."

"Are you not familiar at all with the dungeon?"

'Don't tell me, she also has System?' Hearing what she said, it was as though she has seen it before. He never expected that there will be another person that knew or have The System like him at the same time.

"Since you have just arrived on the fifteenth floor, I'll explain everything to you."

"Ehem..."

She acted as though she has expected this and has been doing this for a long time. As she cleared her throat, she puffed out her chest and started to explain.

"Let me introduce myself first, I'm dungeon guide as well as the shop manager."

"The thing you are seeing is the System."

"It has multiple functions, the most important function was to view your status menu."

'Status menu?' He has never heard of it before, was it has yet unlocked?'

"On the status menu, you can see a bunch of numbers. Of course, the higher the numbers were, the stronger you became.

"Depending on which stats, the stats will increase every time you leveled up."

'Oh, she means the character menu.'

"Other than that, it also has a convenient function called inventory menu which was to store items. The number of slots will increase as you level up."

'Number of slots will increase? He has already leveled up many times but his number of inventory slots stayed the same.' He started to suspect something suspicious was going on.

"You've discovered it right?" The woman asked.

"Uh, yes." Zhen Lun replied.

"Then there should be no problem anymore." The woman smiled. "Did you want to buy something, Hero?"

"Stop calling me hero, I'm not one." Zhen Lun bluntly said. She started calling him a hero out of nowhere even though he has never seen her before.

"You're not a hero?" The woman was bewildered. "Then why did you came here?"

"The system sent me here?" Zhen Lun answered in an uncertain tone. He wasn't really sure her system was the same as his.

"You didn't arrive here at your own volition?"

"Nope."

"That's weird, usually you will be given a choice to choose the difficulty."

"Choosing difficulty??" The system never told him about this before.

"Yes, you have arrived in Hell-Mode Dungeon, by the way, what's your class?" She was quite curious about it.

"Class? Mine is a Martial Artist, not Hero." Zhen Lun said not hiding anything from her.

Judging from everything she said, her system clearly different from his. He doubts the woman has a shop menu and other menus like him. He only heard the inventory and character menu from her.

"Martial Artist? I've been here for a long time and I've never heard it before." The woman was intrigued.

Though it's true that not only a hero could arrive here, it was nearly impossible to survive. People that enter the dungeon could freely choose their own difficulty but only the heroes dared to come here.

Last person with a class other than a hero that survived until the fifteenth floor was a mage and it was a long time ago. Maybe a million years ago?

"Anyway, since you could survive until this floor means that you are strong enough." She didn't doubt Zhen Lun's strength even though he survived due to luck, Luck was also part of someone's strength.

She wasn't too shocked as it wasn't her first time. The world is wide and limitless. There's always something that she has yet seen or heard before which made it interesting.

"Tell me about hell-mode. What does hell-mode mean?" Since his system wasn't going to tell him, he should just ask her.

"In Hell-Mode the monsters were stronger and tougher. They also receive new abilities that weren't given on normal or hard difficulty."

"Though it was risky, there are benefits as well from entering a hell-mode dungeon."

"Firstly was the experience points you received here. Compared to normal difficulty, you received an overwhelmingly 1000% bonus experience points. It allows you to level-up much faster."

"Compared to normal-difficulty to level up once take them a year and sometimes longer. The higher their level, the harder it was to level up."

'That long?' Zhen Lun was shocked. It only took him a while, back on the first floor. Though it was true that lately, leveling up took a long time at least a single level didn't take him a year.

"I see, can you tell me more about you?" Zhen Lun said honestly. He wanted to know more about her as she was someone not from his world.

Unlike what he expected, the girl's expression changed instantly, from cheerful to disgusted. "...You're not my type."

"..." He just realized the question he asked has another meaning to it.

"No, that's not what I meant. Where are you from? What kind of world did you live in? What is your ability?" He wanted to know more about his system. He might receive a clue if he asked her.

"Still no, I'm sorry, I have explained everything that you need to hear. If you won't buy things from me, please leave."

"If I buy things from you, will you talk?" Zhen Lun looks at her sincerely.

Sigh*

"I'm definitely not doing this for money." Though she said that, her eyes were glimmering with greed.

"Listen carefully! You cannot go around and ask for a lady's private information. I understand that you don't have an ill intention but it was still inappropriate."

"I understand, I apologize for being impolite." Zhen Lun apologized with a deep bow.

"Don't apologize, buy an item from me." The girl glared at him.

"I understand." Zhen Lun averts his attention to the screen that appeared.

A menu resembled his shop menu appeared.

[Auruelle Florenze's Shop]

Auruelle's Health Potion: Cost 1000 Gold

Auruelle's Mana Potion: Cost 1000 Gold

Leather Armor (Level 25): Cost 8500 Gold

Leather Helmet (Level 25: Cost 8500 Gold

Leather Boot (Level 25): Cost 5500 Gold

Leather Greaves (Level 25): Cost 5500 Gold

Steel Sword (Level 25): Cost 10000 Gold

Steel Shield (Level 25): Cost 10000 Gold

Wraith's Lenses: Cost 50000 Gold

Holy Water: Cost 10000 Gold

'Hm... They're not that expensive.' Zhen Lun has earned over four hundred thousand golds on the way here.

"I'll take all, give me one of them each." He wanted to repay her by buying her items. At the same time, it also benefitted him since he wanted to know if there's any difference between her shop and his system shop.

"Huh? Are you sure?" Auruelle was shocked. It's rare to see someone that spends so many golds on her shop. "There's no refund."

"Un, How do I pay?" Zhen Lun asked as he nodded. There's no button for him to press at, unlike his shop menu.

"Wait." Auruelle was apparently pressing her System.

In a while, a screen appeared on his side.

[Would you like to give Auruelle 99000 Gold?] Yes/No

Every item cost 110000 golds but Auruelle gave a ten percent discount as Zhen Lun bought many items from her.

Zhen Lun clicked 'yes' unhesitantly.

When she received her gold, she was very excited. "Wait, I'll get your items."

In a few minutes, all of the items were given to him and he started to inspect each of them.

[Health Potion] (Consumable)

A Health Potion, when consumed it will heal 1000 HP

Cooldown: 30 seconds

Crafted By: Auruelle Florenze

'...This is a rip-off.' His shop menu which was selling the same health potion only cost 200 golds.

"What's wrong? There's no refund okay? When you buy it, it's yours." Auruelle noticed his grim expression and decided to point it out again.

'Let's see the equipment, maybe I could replace them?'

[Normal Ranked, Leather Armor]

Level Required: 25

Defense Power: 500-600

'...This is much worse than my armor despite being a level-25 armor.' Zhen Lun was shocked.

When he checked the other pieces of equipment too, they're all the same. There's no need to replace his equipment.

'...What about the Wraith's Lenses, they should be useful right?'

[Normal Ranked, Wraith's Lenses]

Level Required: 25

Defense Power: 0

Additional Skill:

Spirit Vision: Allows you to see something that you can't see with your eye.

As expected, it allows him to see wraith. At least this item was not a rip-off.

He immediately wears the item. Fortunately, it also disappears like other equipment. Otherwise, it will bother him.

Next is Holy Potion.

[Holy Water] (Consumable)

A bottle that's filled with water that has Holy Element

'Holy Element?!' It was one of wraiths and ghouls' weaknesses. He could throw the holy water at the wraith or ghoul to injure them.

Zhen Lun wanted to buy more of them but he shouldn't be hasty. Though he indeed has money, there's no need for him to exorbitantly spent his money.

It won't be late for him to buy them after he reaches the 29th floor as there's no guarantee that the holy water will work as the higher he climbed, the ghouls and wraith will get stronger.

At that time, he wasn't sure whether the holy water will work against them or not.

"Should I call you Au-rel or Flor-enza?" Zhen Lun struggled in pronouncing her name.

"How do you know my name?" Auruelle was perplexed. She never told him before.

"System told me." Zhen Lun bluntly said as there's no harm telling her that.

"So you have an Inspect function? I guess it's not weird for you to have it."

'Inspect? Does she mean peering her stats?'

'Right, can I use them on her?'

[Auruelle Florenze] (Level ?)

HP: ??? MP: ???

STR: ? VIT: ?

AGI: ? LUK: ?

INT: ? MAG: ?

Skills:

???

'They're all question marks!' It's the first time he saw it.' If someone was stronger than him, he wouldn't be able to see anything, not even a screen would appear.

There must be a reason behind it. Should I ask her?

Nevermind, it's not like knowing it will be any use to him.

"Pronounce it correctly, Au-rue-lle!"

"Au-ru-el." Zhen Lun tried his best to pronounce it correctly.

"Acceptable, I guess." Auruelle nodded. "So, what question you wanted to ask?"

"Where are you from?"

"The dungeon."

"Then, what about the hero you're talking about?"

"The people such as you, each one of them came from entirely different worlds. The reason we could understand each other was because of the influence of the dungeon."

"So you're saying that everyone might not come from my world?"

"Mhm, there exist many kinds of worlds that you never saw or heard about. I've only heard from them but I've never actually seen them before."

"I see..."

'So she was trapped in this place by the system too?'

"Then, Aurelel I'll come here again if I need your item." He suddenly pitied her. There was a chance she was part of the system and she was lying to her, but there was also a chance that she was like him.

Zhen Lun waved his hands as he climbed to the next floor.

'...Ah, I forgot to tell him that we'll meet again on the next floor.' Auruelle forgot to mentions that from now on they will meet each other on every floor onwards.

Zhen Lun advanced to the next floor. The wraiths on the 16th floor became more powerful and the damage they're dealing was increased too.

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With the Lenses, he could see the wraiths now. It made him much easier to kill them as there's no need for him to randomly use his skills just to find out their location.

With the help of Wraith's lenses, he easily kills the wraiths without letting them stay any longer near him to deal with any more damage.

The blood ghouls on this floor were much more aggressive than before. It was much resilient toward physical attacks.

It needed him a couple of minutes to actually kill it with sheer physical attacks.

Also, on the sixteenth floor, he found a new monster. It was literally walking bones that are wearing armor and holding a weapon.

[Skeleton Warrior] (Level 30)

HP: 38000/38000 MP: 4000/4000

The skeleton was the same as blood ghoul. It wasn't immune to physical attack but it has high resistance toward them. In fact, the skeleton was tougher than the ghouls.

When he separated the skulls from its body, it will float back to its position as its original body attacked him with his sword.

When the bones were shattered into pieces, they will be assembled together back as though they were glued.

[You received 85000 Experiences points]

[You received Skeleton's Bone]

[You gained 7000 Gold]

...

...

...

While he was on the search of the next stairs, he killed a few of them on the way and leveled up.

[Leveled Up]

At the same time, Some of his leveled up and was upgraded to tier-two skills.

Above-Average Mortal (Level 27)

HP: 3740/3740 MP: 10680/6680

STR: 648 VIT: 189 Qi: 445

AGI: 528 LUK: 79

INT: 536 MAG: 88

Skill:

Martial Artists: Fiery Palm Lvl 4, Shadow Clone Lvl 1, Water Sword Technique Lvl 10, Wind Run Lvl 3, Destructive Stomp Lvl 3, Cultivation Technique (Tier-2) Lvl 3, Mortal Realm Lvl Max, Transcendent Mortal Realm Lvl 3, Dragon Dance Lvl 1

Classless: Physical Abilities (Tier-2) Lvl 10, High Willpower Lvl 5, Tenacity Lvl 1, Mana Manipulation (Tier-2) Lvl 1, Mana Sword (Tier-2) Lvl 1, Basic Element Mastery Lvl 10, Mana Shield (Tier-2) Lvl 1, Double Slash (Tier-2) Lvl 1, Recover Lvl 7, Fireball Lvl 4, Wind Blade Lvl 2, Spray Lvl 2, Earth Spike Lvl 2

Title: Pure Bone (+20 VIT), Pure Meridians System (+40% Efficiency)

'Hm?' He arrived in an unpopulated area again. There are no monsters whatsoever around the area.

As he walks in, he found the same shop again.

"Wow, you're really strong." Auruelle praised him.

'It's her again? Did the shop moved?' Zhen Lun was shocked to see her again.

"You're not Auruelle's twins right?" Zhen Lun asked sheepishly.

"No, I'm still Auruelle. How rude of you to forget me, we just met a few hours ago."

'...'

Zhen Lun decided to proceed to the next floor without visiting her store.