Chapter 62: To think I'd encounter the mystery of a 17 year old in another world, but it's my loss if I think too hard about it.

Day 29? The Faraway Labyrinth, the Lowest Floor.

Eehm? Soo? Nice to meet you? I guess?

Kind of?

I shake hands with Skeleton-san.

Thank goodness, it isn't mad aboutTaming.

Aah, I was really scared? I mean, I can't read its facial expression? It's a skull after all.

I wasn't even sure if I would be able to converse with it but it looks like it understands what I'm saying.DiiScver w storis on no//e()/lbin(.)c/o/m

Though I don't know what it actually thinks. Since it doesn't show on its face. I mean, it's a skull after all.

It might be an effect ofTaming, but I feel a profound intelligence from it.

The idiots, in whom one wouldn't be able to find even a single speck of intelligence no matter how hard they tried, cannot even begin to compare to how highly intelligent this skull feels.

Well, if by some chance their intelligence met the same fate as my affection rating and was teleported to this world, it must have gone way deeper under the ground and long since rotted away there.

Though I'm worried about the safety of my affection rating, right now Skeleton-san is more important. But I'm still worried.

Name: Angelica Race: Skeleton? AGE Lv Job

HP MP ViT PoW SpE DeX MiN InT Luk

Martial Arts: ? ? ? ?

? ? ? Magic: ?

? ? ? ?

And as expected, I can't see anything else.

Good old question marks.

But even after dropping to level one and losing most of the stats, she still gives off an aura of being super strong.

I guess that comes from her bearing.

Not stats or anything, but the habit, engraved in muscle memory, though she is just bones.

Even so, she is Lv 1, I can't make her do anything too challenging.

Yes, Level Wall exists after all, supposedly? Or so I heard? Never encountered it myself though?

I should be able to reach the surface if I go up. The question is which floor is this. It might take many days to reach the surface. Food is not a problem.

Or rather, lately I began to feel that I will never run out of it. But I just keep picking up more anyway? That's mushrooms for you.

And the biggest problem, monsters in dungeons get stronger the lower you go. That's the standard. No one would want it to be the other way. Imagine stepping into the dungeon to find the last boss on the first floor.

But since I fell down, my exploration started with the boss. From the lowest floor. Since I'm going up, next, I will find the strongest monsters that are waiting just before the boss.

It's not just bad, it's more like impossible.

The monsters undoubtedly stronger than the goblin emperor are going to come out in packs. It won't even be a fight.

It's not the situation where I can level up Skeleton-san, and unlike the boss fight, there will be multiple enemies. I can't fight them the conventional way.

TL Notes: 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikuko_Inoue Basically, the person that started the Forever 17 meme.

When asked her age, she often responds that she is only 17, which has become a running gag at events as well as anime shows 2: Black company (Japanese term) A black company (, burakku kigy), also referred to in English as a black corporation or black business, is a Japanese term for a highly exploitative employment system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_company_(Japanese_term)