Oww! That was dangerous. I think I blacked out for a moment. I was surrounded in something, and after some wriggling to get out of it I discovered it was my peeled skin again. I leveled up, regenerating from taken damage. This meant that I succeeded in defeating the bunny.
Weapons sure are strong, if not for my thread techniques, I wouldn’t be able to restrain the rabbit at all, which I had to do before using my only damage source which was poison. This rabbit just ripped all of my webs and demolished my traps without even sparing them a glance.
Maybe it was a boss of this floor? It was certainly strong, and I don’t think that there will be more of them here. Let’s take a look at it’s body first, and then think about it. I searched for a bit, for a place where it died, but I couldn’t find the body.
I searched through the whole clearing, but all I’ve found was something small in a pool of blood. When I got the closer look, the things lying in the pool were just two small crystals. I tried touching one, and it stuck to my hand like it was glued. Then it started shinning and after a second it disappeared.
[Obtained skill [Water walking] ]
Whaaat!! Why did a crystal like that was just lying here? Did the rabbit drop them? This was the perfect skill I needed to cross the lake, and it just happened to drop from one of my enemies? Or was I actually supposed to beat this one before moving on? Was it actually a floor boss?
Let’s try touching the second crystal. The procedure was exactly the same and the skill I gained was
[Sonic step]. When I appraised it, I realized that this skill was the reason why rabbit was so fast. The skill function was to put a lot of power into a single step to create explosively fast movement.
One could do it normally, but with a skill, the power was increased beyond normal capabilities. I tried using it instantly of course, because I wanted that speed a lot, but soon I was dejected.
This skill was just not meant for a spider. When I used it, the power in my step was enough to penetrate the ground and instead of moving forward I effectively immobilized myself. Skills like that can only be classified as useless for me.
But this bunny sure was strong. It’s kind of bad for me that I can’t see stats of my enemies because they don’t have them. Skill that would estimate strength of a monster and then put it into numbers would be super useful. Hey system guy, can’t you give me a skill like that?
[System request recorded. Signature recognized. Creating this skill will use moderate amount of energy. Do you want to proceed?]
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WHAT WAS THAT? What signature? I can create skills? WHY!? And why didn’t I hear about that earlier? I wanted so many skills, and yet the voice stayed silent each time I though about them. Give me this skill, I need to test this feature.
[Proceeding…]
[Obtained skill [Greater appraisal] ]
[Energy procured from experience value, reduced level from 8 to 1]
This was too much for me. Why did I even have level eight from just one monster? And why did it all go down by creating a skill. Why was I even able to do that? Am I a god or something, since it's their responsibility to manage the system?
[Proficiency reached. Gained skill [Prediction lvl. 4] ]
It can’t be true! Why would I be here if I was a god? I am not a god! But why did system recognize the signature? I don’t even have one! Not thai I know what it is. I think my brain is going to fry again. Hey, if you are so generous, give me the skill that can alleviate my pain.
[Blocked.]
What is this? I don’t even care anymore. This system was bugged to the core, I din’t know the gods that created it but these guys seriously did a sloppy work there. I didn’t hear a thunder in the distance at all, it was my imagination.
Time to shut down my brain and move forward. All difficult things can be saved for later, because now I had new floor to explore. I reached the lake with the stairs, and then tried out my new skill. It was amazing, I could literally walk where I was pushed by waves before.
It stopped being fun after a few seconds, because I saw what was in water under me. A lot of slightly human looking, but covered with green scales and having fish tails instead of legs creatures were swimming in water while looking at me greedily.
I didn’t know spiders could get goose bumps, but I definitely got them. I fell into panic and started running towards the stairs. Nothing attacked me, but I was too scared to notice I was safe. What would happen if I tried swimming through?
It was a very good thing that I got the water walking skill. Thank you, you horrible rabbit. Stairs this time were made from stone, and were climbing towards sky-like ceiling.
I took a deep breath, and then started marching forward.
Speaking of bugged, why is the first floor of the dungeon so incredibly dangerous compared to what's next? The Queen aside, all the other monsters seemed way too much in comparison.
It's the dungeon master that makes the rules, they don't have to make it beatable. Also, this dungeon is quite special when compared to others.
I see.. he has been enlightened in the way of ninjas
When I used it, the power in my step was enough to penetrate the ground and instead of moving forward I effectively immobilized myself. Skills like that can only be classified as useless for me.
Well this'll come in handy I'd bet
Thanks for the chapter. Wonder if mrs. Spider will get a follower.
You know I was joking when I comented on her being shiaori's reincarnation
Spider has a hand? Earlier chapter spider tied something to it's back. I can't picture what this spider actually looks like but it's kind of odd.
No it doesn't have hands, it's a bit hard to portray everything accurately, but I only include things i think are possible
nice.