After everything that has happened, the only thing that I care about is:
Are they level 16, or not!?
I want to slug the author / mangaka for this shit. This is not even "for the cliff hanger", this is just downright bad story telling.
You can't tell me the MC did NOT check his status first thing he got in his room, back at the city! That's a load of crock and shit. The whole reason they went off to hunt that lizard was specifically to "break the ceiling", and they didn't even verify it in the church or something? FFS.