Yesterday was tough.
I woke up past midnight, so I got pretty flustered.
The last train was gone, so I had to walk back to my apartment, that’s about two hours from the dungeon on foot.
If I didn’t manage to heal my leg, it would’ve been game over.
Yes, I did heal it. There’s not even a scar.
I’m glad I have Healing Magic, I would’ve died without it. It really is fortunate. I should visit a shrine on my way back.
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Well then, I’m now on the sixth floor, but there aren’t any new monsters here.
But I guess they make up for it by having more of them.
The encounter rate has gone up, and it feels natural to fight three monsters at once here.
Fighting monsters of different types at once is rough. I pay attention above and below, and then I’m attacked from behind.
I manage to dodge thanks to the Spatial Grasp skill, but it’s hard to beat these monsters.
I guess I could get used to it, but there’s no time.
I just keep fighting until I find the staircase to the seventh floor.
It was pretty fast this time, but there aren’t any monsters like before.
I look up, look down, and see nothing. But then as I approach the staircase, I see a treasure chest.
My excitement peaks.
I skip my way to it, bow, clap, bow, clap, bow, and open the treasure chest hoping for something good.
I’ve heard that the cheapest things in treasure chests are worth tens of thousands of yen, with some going up to the millions.
I open it full of hope, and see a bracelet.
I take it and inspect it. It’s a simple silver bracelet with some horizontal lines, but no ornaments.
As the thought that I may have gotten a dud crosses my mind, I notice a lot of presences behind me.
…Eh?
I turn around, and see over a hundred monsters looking at me.
Up until now, the groups of monsters I fought were all just one type of monster, but here, there are four types.
This isn’t good. I try to run to the staircase, but a wall with a different color from the rest of the wall goes up to block it.
This is a trap.
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I thought I was gonna die.
I was thinking it would take time to get used to this, and then it was forced on me.
But… I was right.
I won because I moved faster than before. But it was a close fight, and my magic energy is all gone.
I stumble as I sit on the ground, and a glass ball drops.
Seriously, what is this? It gets sucked into my hand and disappears.
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Haruto Tanaka (24)
Level: 8
Skills: Earth Magic, Trace, Healing Magic, Spatial Grasp, Toughness, Magic Energy Control
Equipment: Agility bracelet
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