Chapter 219: That’s too heavy for a highschool boy, and more importantly, I don’t want to awaken to that sort of thing.
Day 58 Early Evening, Dungeon 80F
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?
We will whittle it down, so don't overdo it. Just dont try to eat it before we weaken it, okay?
It's bad for your stomach, although you don't have a stomach, but it's bad for digestion, or rather, it's hard to dissolve, or rather it would be a problem if it begins struggling inside you, so don't eat it for now? Kind of?
(Jiggle-Jiggle)
Looks like Slime-san got it? Sort of? I guess?
The boss of the 80th floor is Ground Cloud Lv 80, no, not the one with a sword, an actual cloud. Since it even has Groundin the name it's a non-flying cloud. A cloud that cannot fly is just a cloud? No, if it cannot fly or even float, then it isn't even a cloud, but apparently, it is.
A thunder cloud.
Shrouded in raging winds, and surrounded by Windstorm, its dancing with thunderbolts produced by Lightning, a floor master Ground Cloud! Slime-san is looking at it with a great appetite. I wonder if it's 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 This one still doesnt have a name?
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 Rajingan, it's core seems to be surrounded in mana and some sort of energy. Eating it should be easy if we remove that. Let's peel it off.
So usingSpell AbsorptionofStaff?I shave off mana and that energy of sorts, along with WindstormandLightningsurrounding it.
Armored Pres-san already slashed away about half of the Ground Cloud, while Slime-san became a shield against Ground Clouds attacks, devouring bothWindstormandLightning, keeping it suppressed. A clean sweep.
Was it good? It's another rock, so you can have it, but can you at least show it to us first?
Looks like it devouredWindstormandLightningwithGluttony.The earth element is now the last one to consume? It ate Jotun too, so it shouldve devoured Ice Bound, and it mightve eaten Ice Spear, Ice Shroud, andFreezing Cold Sealtoo. And Slime-san can digest skills.
Its using something new every time I look at it, so I cant 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 aren't exerting themselves to the limit of their abilities, they have too many hidden cards, so I can't gauge their strength, however, if such amazing Dungeon Masters or Dungeon Emperors are this common, then this world should've perished a long time ago, what is going on here?
It'sEntwined Tree Branch ? ? ? ?
that we found on the 88th floor. An item with a whole bunch of ?that I havent seen in a while.
With no clues for even its possible use, an All ?item, but the part I'm curious about is that itsLiving Tree Branch. That is a very interesting part, after all Wooden Stick?turned intoLiving Wood Stickand fused withParasitic Vine Strengthen Wooden Sticks and Staffs, Magic Absorption ? ? ?
And now it's an unexpectedly overpowered weapon. Well, there is an issue of it still looking like a stick despite havingHeavenly Sword of Gathering Cloudsslotted, but I shouldn't let it bother me.
I especially shouldn't compare with the person in shining armor right next to me. I've seen a vast number of weapons and armor since then, but there was nothing as outrageous as that Full Silver ArmorComplete ImmunityEnhance AllSkill: Guardian? ? ?.
And those 10 living swords are likely extremely OP as well. That's why I shouldn't compare their appearance with my wooden stick? I'll cry? For real.
Wiping away the tears, I investigateEntwined Trees Branch ? ? ? ?
, that's a branch. But it came from the lowest dungeon floors, moreover, it's Living Tree Branch. Slightly nervous, I hold it together with Wooden Stick? Was I overthinking it?
Nothing seems to be happening Is this for real?
Certainly,Parasitic Vinealso merged with it without slotting it, are they the same? And the number of?increasedThisSeven-Branched Sword, 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 ofParasitic Vineit immediately became an unsightly love triangle, from which emergedSeven-Branched Sword, 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 seeNTRorInappropriate Relationshippopping 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 dont want to awaken to any fetish of that sort! Absolutely!
Staff?-san that keeps turning into something more and more inexplicable turned out to beStaff of the World TreeSo 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? Whats the point of looking at it then? Its the root cause of all this confusion to begin with! Well, I was suspecting it all this time, but it actually was deceiving me!
Moreover, this deepened Villager A's mystery even further. Then that Diaryis actually
Well, let's try it out, I probably won't learn what I wanted to, but it might reveal something else.
But if even the 90th floor is not the last one, it's pretty bad? This dungeon shouldn't 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 Jing.
Often pops up in fiction as a very powerful weapon, but its real life counterpart is likely a purely ceremonial weapon. ]