A floor master of the 80th floor can be stronger or more troublesome than a random dungeon master. This is truly troublesome. In other words, this one is of a troublesome kind. Like, ungraspable-type?
ăWe will whittle it down, so donât overdo it. Just donât try to eat it before we weaken it, okay? Itâs bad for your stomach, although you donât have a stomach, but itâs bad for digestion, or rather, itâs hard to dissolve, or rather it would be a problem if it begins struggling inside you, so donât eat it for now? Kind of?ă
(Jiggle-Jiggle)
Looks like Slime-san got it? Sort of? I guess?
The boss of the 80th floor is ăGround Cloud Lv 80ă, no, not the one with a sword, an actual cloud. Since it even has ăGroundăin the name itâs a non-flying cloud. A cloud that cannot fly is just a cloud? No, if it cannot fly or even float, then it isnât even a cloud, but apparently, it is. A thunder cloud.
Shrouded in raging winds, and surrounded by ăWindstormă, itâs dancing with thunderbolts produced by ăLightningă, a floor master Ground Cloud! Slime-san is looking at it with a great appetite. I wonder if itâs tasty? Ground Cloud seems to have picked up on the hints of this overwhelming desire to consume it, and appears shaken by that.
A threat capable of frightening a floor master. And the name of that glottoniuous predator is Slime-san! Or rather, what do we do if it eventually begins going ăThis one still doesnât have a nameă?
Well, the idea of getting eaten usually is a terrifying one, even more so for a Lv 80 floor master, who probably never thought that it might one day be devoured.
Scanning Ground Cloud with ăRajingană, itâs core seems to be surrounded in mana and some sort of energy. Eating it should be easy if we remove that. Letâs peel it off.
So usingăSpell AbsorptionăofăStaff?ăI shave off mana and that energy of sorts, along with ăWindstormăandăLightningăsurrounding it.
Armored Pres-san already slashed away about half of the Ground Cloud, while Slime-san became a shield against Ground Clouds attacks, devouring bothăWindstormăandăLightningă, keeping it suppressed. A clean sweep.
ăWas it good? Itâs another rock, so you can have it, but can you at least show it to us first?ă
Looks like it devouredăWindstormăandăLightningăwithăGluttonyă.The earth element is now the last one to consume? It ate Jotun too, so it shouldâve devoured ăIce Boundă, and it mightâve eaten ăIce Speară, ăIce Shroudă, andăFreezing Cold Sealătoo. And Slime-san can digest skills. Itâs using something new every time I look at it, so I canât remember everything at all, but Slime-san already acquired an outrageous number of skills of every type and strength except for the earth element.
At this rate it might soon rival Armored Pres-san? Since both of them arenât exerting themselves to the limit of their abilities, they have too many hidden cards, so I canât gauge their strength, however, if such amazing Dungeon Masters or Dungeon Emperors are this common, then this world shouldâve perished a long time ago, what is going on here? A mystery.
And since lower floors have many enemies with rare skills Slime-san is overjoyed. But you know, Fly-san had rare skills too? Werenât you running away from it? Well, I was running away too, so whatever, but did it give up on eating it just from seeing it? Well, it would be a problem if it developed a taste for flies, so we shouldnât feed them to Slime-san. And I also donât want it to get ăInsect Fluidsăor any similar skill? It might be the strongest skill versus humans, but itâs still a big nope.
And so the menacing lower floors are being penetrated by the biggest menace around. Checking the hidden room on the 86th floor we head to the 87th. Is it going to have more than 90 floors?
Attacks causing Abnormal Status Effects are commonplace on the lower floors. The vicious design, where failing to resist even one attack can lead to a checkmate.
Well, not going to happen though?
But I wonder how effective the resistances of my classmates will be on the lower floors? My debuff resists are boosted by the effects of a mysterious skill ăHealthă, but how much can be resisted with items alone? I wouldnât have gone as far as to call it a trash skill, but I didnât think of it anything more than ăOh, not having to worry about getting sick in another world is niceă, for it to have such a hidden effect. I didnât get afflicted by a negative status effect even once, and I even got a skill that probably doesnât belong on humans, ăRegenerationă. Puzzling, but good for health.
But did I getăHigh Sexual VigorăorăInsatiable Libidoăout of overflowing health too? Thatâs indeed healthy, but not very wholesome, however, as far as rumors go, it seems that those two are the most useful and usable skills in another world. Since they already became objects of rumors and itâs not been 75 days since we came here, there is wild gossip around them. And Iâm tirelessly working night after night on the source of those rumors, investigating every inch and opening, feeling and tasting, that sigh of her moaning in pleasure is⊠There is also a sayingăSpeak of the devil and they should appeară, which seems to be true? I can see a shadow of a morning starâs iron ball? Naturally, I can see the morning star itself too? Looks, isnât thatâ(BAAAANG!) [1]
(Currently undergoing treatment, please wait for a while.)
Since the ancient times it was saidăRumors blow everything twice out of proportionsă, but that attack power was triple that? Itâs fine to call it a beautiful rondo with an unavoidable iron ball. Yeah, so now Iâm a bit busy kneeling? Currently undergoing medical treatment (a lecture). Seriously. In addition ăRumors always come from afară, but this one came from point blank distance.
As I thought, lower floors were full of dangers, or rather, they are, presently, and it hurts a lot?
But I still donât get the principle behind her ability to show blush with the helmet on? The only thing I learned for sure is that red means danger. It was carved into my body and branded into my soul that this signals DANGER! How do I take the morning star from her? Itâs enchanted with ăAccelerationă, so itâs seriously undodgeable, demanding constant alert and speedy recovery.
And with the Iron Ball Rampage Express we reach the 90th floor. The next floor is the 90th, since it is us who will have to go down, so Iâm not going to forget about that? There is an actual risk of forgetting, so I have to be careful.
But there is something Iâd like to check before we go down. Perhaps, I might even be able to do a bit of an experiment.
ItâsăEntwined Tree Branch ? ? ? ? âŠăthat we found on the 88th floor. An item with a whole bunch of ă?ăthat I havenât seen in a while.
With no clues for even its possible use, an All ă?ăitem, but the part Iâm curious about is that itâsăLiving Tree Branchă. That is a very interesting part, after all ăWooden Stick?ăturned intoăLiving Wood Stickăand fused withăParasitic Vine â Strengthen Wooden Sticks and Staffs, Magic Absorption ? ? ?ă And now itâs an unexpectedly overpowered weapon. Well, there is an issue of it still looking like a stick despite havingăHeavenly Sword of Gathering Cloudsăslotted, but I shouldnât let it bother me.
I especially shouldnât compare with the person in shining armor right next to me. Iâve seen a vast number of weapons and armor since then, but there was nothing as outrageous as that ăFull Silver ArmorăComplete ImmunityăăEnhance AllăăSkill: Guardiană? ? ?ă. And those 10 living swords are likely extremely OP as well. Thatâs why I shouldnât compare their appearance with my wooden stick? Iâll cry? For real.
Wiping away the tears, I investigateăEntwined Treeâs Branch ? ? ? ? ă, thatâs a branch. But it came from the lowest dungeon floors, moreover, itâs ăLiving Tree Branchă. Slightly nervous, I hold it together with ăWooden Stick?ă âŠâŠWas I overthinking it? Nothing seems to be happening⊠Is this for real?
Certainly,ăParasitic Vineăalso merged with it without slotting it, are they the same? And the number ofă?ăincreasedâŠâŠThisăSeven-Branched Swordă, is it that Seven-Branched Sword, the sword of seven scabbards? [2]
But entwined trees are the trees that had their branches tangled up with the branches of another tree to the point of merging, and becoming one, thus coming to be used as a metaphor for married couples, but with the involvement ofăParasitic Vineăit immediately became an unsightly love triangle, from which emergedăSeven-Branched Swordă, suspect of 6 timing, becoming a weapon with a soap opera-like love and hate relationships?
That is certainly an incredibly terrifying weapon.
I can already seeăNTRăorăInappropriate Relationshipăpopping up among the skills! I will run sooner than the enemies! Such offensive power is too heavy for a highschool boy, and what is more importantly, I donât want to awaken to any fetish of that sort! Absolutely!
ăStaff?ă-san that keeps turning into something more and more inexplicable turned out to beăStaff of the World TreeăâŠâŠâŠâŠSo not only were the skills lying to me, but equipment too! All this time it was only pretending to be a simple wooden stick, hiding in plain sight! How come all of my status is nothing but lies? Whatâs the point of looking at it then? Itâs the root cause of all this confusion to begin with!ăWell, I was suspecting it all this time, but it actually was deceiving me! Moreover, this deepened Villager Aâs mystery even further. Then that ăDiaryăis actuallyâŠ
Well, letâs try it out, I probably wonât learn what I wanted to, but it might reveal something else.
But if even the 90th floor is not the last one, itâs pretty bad? This dungeon shouldnât be that old.
[TL Note:
[1] As the saying goes, Totally unfounded rumors tend to die in 75 days, or less than three months.
[2] The Seven-Branched Sword is a sword of continental manufacture believed to be identical with the artifact of that name, a present of the king of Baekje that was granted upon a Yamato ruler as a present, which is mentioned in the Nihon Shoki in the fifty-second year of the reign of the semi-mythical Empress Jingƫ. Often pops up in fiction as a very powerful weapon, but its real life counterpart is likely a purely ceremonial weapon.