Chapter 38 Hey Welcome to Jackass. This is the Jake vs Goliath.

Chapter 38 Hey Welcome to Jackass. This is the Jake vs Goliath.

As we sat there in the church discussing how we were going to stick to the seventeenth floor as we had before I stomped my foot to get the occupants of the Churches attention. "Bell Lili we are leveling up today." I said simply and Ryuu glared at me with laser focus.

"You are going to fight the Goliath that just spawned right..." She murmured making Hestia shake her head in denial to what I was planning.

"Look." I gestured at my fully armored form, and after Loki left with the stuff, she wanted I spent a number of materials on my boots giving me my own flight capability by making them rocket boots. "We can't level up unless we go deeper into the dungeon and past Rivira but none of us have the stats to keep up with the waves of monsters that start coming past Rivira.

"Me and Bell have the weapons and pure strength to hurt the Goliath. But yeah, it's going to be a slug fest," I admitted "But Lili could blind it and maybe even kill it by shooting it in the neck enough times."

Lili weakly raised up her hands. "I don't think this is a good idea..."

Yeah, well people don't count midgets as a minority for a reason during elections for a reason....

Bell also looked slightly pensive, but he had a whole different reason for his fear. "Jake wouldn't this be exactly what Eina means when she says Adventurer's shouldn't go on an adventure."

I sighed theatrically making the girls give a dirty look as I played Bell like a fiddle. "Man, I was hoping we could level up together and set a new record for the fastest level up in history but if you are too scared to fight beside me to make history." I shook my head and said the lines that no matter what would break someone's heart. "Bell its cool I'm not mad or anything. Just disappointed you know?"

"No! Jake, we can do it!" He shouted jumping to his feet. "Actually, let's go now!"

Bell launched himself around the monster with his insect glaive keeping him in the air as he swung around to, I believe attack the Goliath's neck on its backside.

But I couldn't be sure as I wasn't able to see as I flew around while being propelled by my boots as the Goliath seemed to find me the most attractive foe even with Lili missing its eye and lodging an explosive bolt within the poor Goliath's nose.

I was just franticly dodging the endless swipes from the Goliath as it tried to impersonate a fly swatter but finally it seemed Bell made some head way in whatever he was doing behind it as one of the Goliaths arms just stopped working and it tried using the other one to smack the back of its neck.

For a moment I was scared Bell was going to be crushed but I saw a flash of fire and him be blasted away from the monster rex and even though the landing looked rough as he smashed into the ground, I knew he was alright as he soon staggered back to his feet.

As the Monster Rex sent a wide slap at me as I flew around, I brought my axe down and combined with the speed of my flight and the momentum of the monster's arm. made my axe cut straight through its arm.

Now the monster was much less dangerous as me and Bell took our time dismantling it until finally as I managed to almost chop off one of its feet Lili managed to finally shoot it directly in the ear making it poof into smoke as its brain was destroyed.

For a moment I was disappointed as me and Bell weren't the ones to get the kill but my exhaustion overwhelmed my disappointment as I gladly faceplanted in the thankfully cool ground as I was pretty close to Mind Down from all the flying.

"Ryuu get the crystal and drops pls." I asked trying to fight off the calling of sleep as I staggered over to Bell and seeing him actually cradling his arm and blood leaking out of his ears I knew he must have gotten caught a bit of a roar and one of its swipes, so I force fed him one of the Elixer's I was able to salvage from Loki's shipment as he was too groggy to reach his own if they even survived to begin with.

We spent the next hour just recovering before Ryuu reminded us, to get moving before another Familia came to claim our loot making me groan as I stiffly got to my feet and put the monster stone inside a padded rucksack, I was going to carry back along with the Goliath's skin and tooth drops.