The next few floors are more of the usual situations. A lot of monsters that are helpless to enter the safe zone while freezing to death. No peculiar item drops either.

Boss floor 50 though is a literal wall - a slime wall.

Really? Way too many HP paired with OP regeneration AND avoiding exactly all weaknesses I could exploit? Fuck you!!

(At least I 'only' have to worry about the boatload of bulk...)

(Well, it doesn't reach to the top of the room so we could theoretically get behind it, Jared.)

(Wouldn't do me any good. The door to the next floor should still be closed until we beat that goddamn thing. Let me quickly check how bad it is...)

(Perfect. I only need to cast eighty spells within one minute before the HP regeneration sets in... is there any way to negate the regeneration? This seems impossible as it is.)

(None I know of. Did you ever check what status dark spells inflict?)

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While talking the immovable boss has finished casting its earth spell which shatters without effect on the safe zone barrier. Afterwards I try a dark spell for the first time. I actually have no idea what shape that will take.

Once I've finished casting the spell a black laser beam shoots forth from my hand.

Great... I wait for the boss spell to expire again then give the dark magic another try.

The status screen says:

And then the boss's spell fizzles.

(So it stops its spell casting and drains MP. Nice but doesn't solve the problem at hand.)

(I'll remind you when we fight a spellcaster, Jared.)

After a moment the status disappears. So that is all the status does. Might be useful some time but not what I need right now.

(Great, this boss is a total show stopper. Just checking my options - could I take any class right now that would give me any of the three elements?)

(There would be some classes that grant those magic types upfront but I think your stats are too low to take them right now, Jared.)

(Good, so if this is the only way out I have to count that our friend Manni was right on Wizard level 15 giving another element and then hope the element is one of those three.)

(So how does that help? Nine levels of exp don't just drop from the sky like that.)

(Simple, I still have some floors in the other direction. I either get the necessary exp there or maybe find an alternate exit. If it ends with a dead end and still too little exp to make progress here... well, we'll think about it when it comes to that.)

(Sounds like a plan.)

(At a minimum I can check if monsters really do not respawn. The nineties floors were quite some time ago.)

With that plan in mind, I make my way towards floor 100.

There are in fact no monsters all the way to floor 99, so the information about no respawns seems to hold true. Given the wall on floor 50 that is bad news as it limits how much exp I can gain easily within my nine-year time limit.

The floor 100 boss room is populated by a lot of zombies. So the boss comes with adds this time but where is the main boss?

Eh, each and every single one of the thirty zombies is the boss?

(So despite the very different setup this is just the grandpa floor all over again?)

(Gotta love area damage for slow-moving low health targets in large amounts.)

228 HP down, so five hits each and I've enough for a dozen shots. Just need to group them up a bit better and they die in record time. Never would've thought a boss fight to end that quickly.

Despite just beating a huge amount of bosses I still haven't gotten any more special loot. Guess the truth gem from the big golem boss was just dumb luck.

At least if I ever get back I have a ton of random materials to sell. Might be enough to apply for a 'Class Core' on the black market - should I happen to find that one. No real idea what else to do with money currently. But that is a sorrow for future me.

Floors 101 through 109 are more of the old stuff, hundreds of high-level monsters with the lowest starting at level 30.

(The amount and levels of monsters here are getting out of hand, Elly. I get barely through their magic defense with my area spells. I think I just hit about 20 of those Lv58 'Ice Scream Cones' and I barely broke 2000 damage total.)

(Well, that was ice damage on a highly ice-resistant target.)

(Maybe, but I don't have any other damage over time status and I'm not doing over 4000 damage per target directly.)

(Yeah, that is something we need to change soon.)

Time for some pudding on floor 110. Wait, I can't drink that!

Despite its name, it is still a green-colored slime. A bit bigger and wearing a crown but still green. A slime just like all the previous, slow-moving, painful to touch, high regeneration... wait, no, it doesn't have that?

Man, I'm glad I didn't take this monster type then, huh? No regeneration, no human compatible form, nearly unable to move. Sorry, these are not the puyos you're looking for. 

(Do I read that right? The evolved slime has LOST its most annoying ability?)

(It looks exactly like that. Just tag it with the usual cold effect then avoid dying to the acid vomit attack and you're good to go.)

(Then do that I shall.)

Plan devised and executed.

And that's all she wrote. For a day and a half but all nonetheless.

Floor 111 changes scenery; it goes from the previous jungle to what looks like an art gallery? Sorry, that is wasted on me. Never was much of an art connoisseur.

Luckily the different area doesn't come with a change in monster tactics. The next nine floors fly by as usual.

If this is the previous dungeon and the info was correct this is the last floor. And here's an old acquaintance.

(Should I beat her and hope there's an exit behind or should we farm her little children via rain? Decisions, decisions...)

(Definitely rain, Jared. Even if there should be the exit behind this you can really use every level you can get.)

(Yeah that makes sense.)

I wait a few minutes so the queen had already some time to spawn some more regular ants.

I see the boss HP go down in 4 HP increments each time it takes a hit from the rain spell about 20 times per rain cast... which means I can grind this room for nearly 1000 rain casts...

Only about 125 exp per cast but by now my increased regeneration allows me to cast it 4 times per day. After a while, some ants have dropped low enough that I can weave some [Blood Bursts] in as well to free up some space for the queen to pop more of her children in.

After about 70 days the queen seemingly has had enough... and orders her children to eat her, the fuck? Hey, no kill stealing, that is my exp!! FML.

"Seriously, I could've done without viewing that scene. Thank. You. Very. Much."

"Umm... sorry, my bad."

(Uh, Elly? Did you just say something?)

(Not a word. I was... busy cleaning up vomit. Sorry.)

(I have seriously been too long here. That almost made sense to me.)

No one else is around and if it wasn't Elly I've no idea what that was then. I need to get out of here... the lack of real people to talk to seems to get to me.

The whole ordeal cost me 12 blood packs, only 609 left. Well, 'only'. I've only been here for about half a year and used up that much. But I've no way to increase that stock anymore. And if my intuition is right that I'll need to spend a lot more time grinding or conquering dungeons...

During the last few days, I finally managed to reach the interesting section of the dungeon book. It was... enlightening.

Supposedly minor dungeons only reach 30 floors deep at most and there's no reward at the end. Just all the stuff you get from the defeated monsters. Those dungeons are just there.

Major dungeons... can do whatever. Each has a fixed gimmick to it and supposedly offers a reward for beating it properly and reaching the dungeon core. It doesn't specify what kind of reward it is. Whoever wrote this probably left that up to the reader's imagination so that desperate fools would go and throw their lives away in hopes that the reward would be whatever miracle they need at the time...

Theoretically after claiming said unspecified reward you can then choose to destroy the dungeon core itself to end the dungeon's existence but considering the resources that are found in it that seems like a bad idea.

As for monsters... it doesn't say much besides to reference the 'Maniac's Monster Manual', helpful.

I'm not sure I even remotely understand the little info it gives on monsters:
'Usually monsters are assembled from part fragments. When the unit's duty is completed it is again disassembled. In case of overflowing part stocks, the remainder is transferred to the main unit.'

So what does that mean? Monsters that weren't killed just get recycled for the next dungeon instance? And where do they get replacement parts for the slain monsters from?

Also if they are just put together like machines why would they need the [Mindless Monster] skill to suppress the will? Why create a will just to switch it off?

As usual, nothing makes sense here...

Why do I get the feeling the boss lady's strange behavior should solve this riddle?

Almost three months just on this set of floors and I still haven't reached the next milestone...

I got a lot of exp out of this but I still don't feel ready to beat the floor 50 boss. 4938/13906 to the next skill. Assuming that Manni was right and I get the right element that is probably still far off from what I need... So let's see what comes next.

Behind the boss are stairs as usual. The stairs lead up to where the usual resting spot of a safe zone should be but the stairs just stop at a wall. A dead end. Shit.

(Great. So that's the end of this side. If there should be something at the very end of a dungeon it didn't appear. Probably because of the glitched nature of this dungeon trip.)

(Yeah, so I guess it is time to go back and see where we stand.)

(Yeah, let's.)

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Jared 'only' got 70 days worth of exp grind there, the full 250 days were just way too much of a power spike for him.

Given his apparent age, a regular soldier of that world would've about level 17 in race and two classes. So he's still ways behind the curve.
The whole dungeon clear will probably not even get him up to par.