Ank
Unfortunately, we weren’t all sent back after defeating the pair of bizarre monsters, but the portal that brought the enemies in stood open. The implication was obvious: without a [spell] to get out of the [Dungeon], we all would need to follow the trails of the [Treppaned Experiments].
And so we did:
[Name: Sssssssspace! !$@#%¨&@#$…
Race: Parasitic Dungeon Extension
Floors: 1
Type: Unborn Star
Difficulty: 15/100]
That small pocket dimension inside a pocket dimension had a single floor only, but this one revealed itself to be so incredibly extensive and dangerous, we must have passed double the amount of time in that extended challenge, than we did inside the principal [Dungeon]… No, maybe this wasn’t true after all. Maybe it was just the constant fighting against incredibly strong monsters; that gave us no rest, but kept coming from nowhere at every moment, day and night, and put Hunah and I in alert constantly, we never even able to refill our [SP], [MP] and [HP] fully before the next battle; that distorted my perception of time.
Honestly, it didn’t matter.
We were tired, so tired; the already hard battles made almost impossible once that we had to fight multiple monsters over [Level: 100] while keeping the rest of the [Party] safe. And that wasn’t all: in difficulty, that single floor reached a frightfully high 15 points. That meant that its boss should be around [Level: 150].
“Do you think we’re gonna make it?”, I asked, as Hunah laid over my chest.
We were all camping over a floating rock the size of a big house, and I absorbed the unimaginable view, which put our so immense sun so far away from us, that it looked the size of a thumb.
The size of a thumb. The same sun that captured the entire universe with its sheer gravitational insuperable magnificence; the two planets, the moon, the 800 stars, and the multi-colored night skies clouds. I knew that that space must have been some kind of illusion; in actuality much smaller, obviously no [Dungeon] was powerful enough to simulate the entirety of existence; but it was a bizarre perspective to observe with mortal eyes nonetheless: the very edge of the universe, where the light of the sun barely reached us.
“Us? Well, we’re [Level: 143] now, so, maybe, if we go straight for the boss, before we get any more tired…”, Hunah commented, and I turned my eyes to the tents beneath the small rocky hill we were standing on, and to the other three who were looking so much full of guilt and shame, too self-aware of their burden status, finding it difficult to even approach us anymore. Then, sighing, she corrected herself: “What am I talking about? There’s no way we’d just abandon them.”
Stroking her hair, I simply hummed in agreement. I knew it already.
“We can only hope our new strength can pull it up, somehow”, I concluded.
[Name: Ank
Race: Half (Messenger + Filled Teeth)
General:
Level: 143
Class: Summoner Boss Maker
HP: 1115/1415
MP: 2400/ 3550
SP: 502/720
Attributes:
Strength: 144
Resistance: 283
Magic: 710
Perception: 283]
[Name: Hunah
Race: Half (Messenger + Filled Teeth)
General:
Level: 143
Class: Military Collector
HP: 1005/1415
MP: 507/720
SP: 1899/3550
Attributes:
Strength: 710
Resistance: 283
Magic: 144
Perception: 283]
About our new [spells] and [skills]: I invested in some of the new snake creatures I collected from the [Dungeon], my two newest strongest summons being [Jaguar Headed Snake, Level: 90] and [Treppaned Experiment, Level: 114], [Acidic] so I could infuse my items with the dark acid those monsters spat, and elevated the general [Level] of my summons in every to [Class] branch to 70; Hunah’s weapons and armors efficiency reached 65% better efficiency, and her [Weapon Soul] skill passed to give an extra 150 damage.
Then, right as I was about to fall asleep, I heard the summon I left in guard duty screaming:
“Grooow!”
“Shit, we can’t even rest”, I complained, getting up and spotting the enemy coming from the absolute darkness beyond; being completely different from the first monsters of that type we killed, and yet just one of the dozens of variations we’ve seen, it was made out of a bunch of creatures stitched together sharing a single exposed brain:
[Treppaned Experiments, Level: 111
HP: 3500/3500]
Why are creatures with a lot of brains dumb? Cuz it was Brain"s" dead XD
Where does a farmer learn about the universe?
Looking up: not only does this world have an obviously weird shape, but to have astronomical knowledge is quite important for primitive farming societies, to know when exactly plant their crops and such. You can argue that, even then, they shouldn't know everything that there is to know about the universe, but then it's just the twin's ignorance speaking for them, the common knowledge they possess being taken as absolute truth for Ank and Hunah~
Thanks for questioning and commenting!
I hope I didn't sound too aggressive nor anything...
@TrashWithGlasses no no you sounded fine. It's fine i assume that the world having a weird shape is part of the lore but farmers usually don't have any access to astronomy it wold be the noble class that wold have access and with them being isolated it weirded me out a bit maybe a skill
Yes, @adrad555, what you're saying makes sense; in the real world, usually, priests were the ones who had the job of observing the stars and saying what season it was, and everything (at least when it comes to my favorite historic societies... though I can't really tell if it was like this for the smallest villages). But here, [Gods] literally walk the earth and are quite needy, so I thought it would be more natural to have the priestly class existing more like personal servants for the Gods, and just give the ability to read the stars to the farmers, cutting the middle-men altogether.