My departure was scheduled for the next day, so I got to spend a little more time with my mother. There wasn’t much to talk about, but I was enjoying being close to her. When we went to sleep, I thought that I want to spend more time with her, but it was impossible.

Next morning I was brought to entrance to the second floor. It looked like plain stairs going up, but I could feel overwhelming power coming from them. From what my mother said, stairs are only safe places in this dungeon, and there is only one pair going up on each floor.

Mother didn’t know what I could meet in the dungeon itself, but apparently the layout was similar in all dungeons, and it was a common knowledge between humans and monsters. I wonder why wasn’t it included in my alien memory.

There was one last, sad goodbye and then I left for the stairs. They were made completely out of wood, and when i looked at it, walls and ceiling were the same. It wasn’t made by someone, it’s more like it grew that way. Maybe this dungeon was just a giant tree? I forgot to ask about this before I left.

I got a lot from meeting my parent. Now I know that I was always a spider, and was kidnapped by someone. But I still don’t know the source of my knowledge and how exactly I was connected to the system. I couldn’t understand the reason why I was taken from my mother. Why did that guy need a spider’s egg?

And why was he dead when I regained my consciousness? He was just a skeleton when I met him, but I don’t remember killing him. I was still level one when I woke up so I couldn’t have done this. Maybe he killed himself? But again, why would he do this.

Man these stairs sure are long, I feel like I’ve been climbing them for half an hour. This reminds me, that guy who connected me to the system was a skeleton, meaning that I wasn’t conscious for long enough for him to turn into one, that’s if he wasn’t eaten. Maybe I didn’t kill him but I did eat him? And that’s why I remember the taste of human meat?

But did I really eat him unconsciously? Or was I not myself back then? Maybe my self was changed in the process of connecting? Now I really wanted to finish this dungeon to get answers from gods. And now I could see the light at the end of the stairs meaning I was close to their end.

I finally reached the summit, and peeked through the entrance to the second floor, and what I saw was quite unbelievable. I’ve never seen this much light before. A forest that I’ve been living until now was a very dark place, even with my spider senses. And now, a giant sphere at the floor’s ceiling was giving enough light to blind me.

Overall this floor could be called a grassy plain with lakes and ponds in some places. It was most beautiful thing that I saw in my whole life. I decided to go sightseeing and see if I could find any weak monster.

When I entered the grass, I saw it was much taller than me, so I had a hard time seeing anything. I was relying on my sense of hearing to notice anything getting closer to me but soon this too have been disabled by wind and grass rustling.

Now relying only on smell... wait why my nose isn’t working? The grass gives off a strong scent that blocks it? What I am supposed to rely on now? Isn’t it a bit unfair for me? Lets just try do get to nearest pond, and then try to find my position.

I was lost in the grass, trying to walk straight towards the pond I saw earlier, but it was harder than I though. After couple of minutes I saw the end of the grass and was relieved, but what was I saw when the grass disappeared shattered my heart.

I came back to the stairs. I got lost and made a full circle in the grass. This was going to be a lot harder than I thought.