I explained, “The power you’re using isn’t something you came up with by analyzing the dungeon’s power.”

Because of Demon Lord’s size, I didn’t know where to aim my spear. For now, I aimed at his gigantic neck and said, “That’s just the dungeon’s power.”

[…]

The Demon Lord didn’t say anything. Or perhaps I couldn’t hear him.

However, the dungeon was steadily creeping towards us to claim our lives. The earth shot up and the air froze. The river of blood I had gotten rid of earlier reappeared. The fragments of the moon I had destroyed with Shiva’s and Zeus’ power were falling as countless meteorites.

[Do you expect me to believe you? That I am being controlled by her?] he snarled.

I shrugged. “I don’t see a reason why you shouldn’t believe me.”

He asked, [She controlled me and put the dungeon’s power into me without my knowledge?]

I nodded. “Yep.”

[To claim you through me?] he continued.

I shrugged again. “I don’t know about that. Could be, or…”

I thought back to the first time I became a dungeon explorer. At the time, I was just an ordinary yet not so ordinary boy.

I climbed the dungeon and grew stronger through Sherafina’s help. And within a year, I was able to meet with her face to...