You obtained the Shadow Assassin class.

You improved the Attack Speed parameter.

You unlocked the Aptitude: Way of Shadows.

You unlocked the skill: Great Fireball.

You unlocked the skill: Wind Shuriken.

Way of Shadows: Gain bonus points of experience for every successful attack from stealth.

Great Fireball - Launch a small ball of fire toward a target, dealing explosive fire damage upon impact. This attack has a chance to burn enemies, dealing additional damage over time. Cost: 50 Mana

Wind Shuriken :You can summon and fire wind shurikens at the enemy based on the level of the skill. Each shuriken deals dexterity-based wind damage and has a high chance to stagger or knock back enemies. Cost: 15 Mana per shuriken

It wasn’t the first time that something like that happened. I noticed it a bunch of times already… This world had a bunch of similarities with the lore from certain types of things on Earth. Still, to think that I would improve the ninja class and then be able to use the Great Fireball was a bit…

“Instead of Shadow Assassin, calling this a magic assassin would make more sense.”

“Squeak! Squeak!”

“You think so too? Well, at least this gives me some ideas.”

I began to work on dismantling the boss… this time around, I should work fast since I wanted those materials ready as soon as possible. The creature was quite big, so it took a while to do that, but after three hours, the job was done. All the parts had been carefully separated and I couldn’t sense the area trembling yet.

‘I guess I put some distance from that thing, but I can’t relax yet.’

It was time to head to the fourth section of the labyrinth. The environment changed a bit… Now I could feel my body shivering thanks to the cold. At the same time, Glacien looked pretty refreshed.

I felt like sighing even more when some ice coffins emerged from the ground and then a pair of ice skeletons emerged from it… surprisingly enough, they were fully armored and even had shields and swords made of ice. Their jaws clacked as they charged toward me and swung down their swords.

Still, in the next moment, they were engulfed by my Great Fireball and as the magic projectile flew to the distance, only two mana cores ended up falling from it after a couple of meters.

‘I guess my fire magic is reaching an entire new height.’

I didn’t have to worry even against enemies of this level, but I wouldn’t be able to recover mana while using that kind of skill, so I had to change my strategy a bit. In any case, I took my bike and then began to drive after putting some mana cores on it. I was considering improving my bow to gain some extra enchantment slots. If it worked with two, it should work with three, but I had to be certain about it before making anything to increase my magic power.

Enchantments that increase magic power are a preferable option to using a Fire Affinity enchantment when the material originates from an ice monster.

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My first idea was to add another balanced short bow and then change the position of the first to make them take the form of an X. That would give the balance of power and stability for the whole thing. It would grant four extra enchantment slots as well, but would that be enough? It seemed too simple.

I already had the strength to push the bow to its full potential, so the question was the magic effects of my Arcane Arrows. The new materials weren’t on the same level as of the monster that I had used to create my main bow, so perhaps the compatibility would be poor thanks to it.

I had no idea how to improve the bow itself for now, so I decided to focus on crafting new quivers using the leather of the monster. I need to be able to summon better arrows that will last longer, after all. I didn’t think that I would be able to summon anything like the Elven arrows, but any upgrade aside from the silver arrows would be welcome.

I didn’t have to waste time gathering materials from the ice skeletons, so that helped a fair bit. It made me gain time and focus only on that project, but my mind kept wandering back to how to improve the bow. Thanks to that, the quivers didn’t come at good enough quality.

‘I guess I should focus on this first… I still have some of the cobwebs of the boss spider. Perhaps I can use it instead of my old bowstring. It should be better with some adjustments.’

I began to work on that and after a couple of hours, I attached the new bowstrings and then made the power of the bow increase from 80 to 90. That kind of upgrade was indeed possible, and it opened new doors for me.

I decided to improve the limbs of the bow by attaching bone parts that seemed like bracelets on both sides… I even made them so that I could stock them on both sides like screw nuts, but it didn’t work. When I enchanted them, it didn’t change a thing. I also tried to make an amulet with that format… It took me hours to do that, but it didn’t work either. While the bow was made of bones, it wasn’t alive.

After failing that much, the best option seemed to be to turn the bow into an amulet as well. It would receive some power ups as long as it had a mana core stored in it. Still, that could damage the whole structure and make it fall apart a lot faster.

When I reached the 37th floor, I suddenly had an idea… I didn’t know if it would work since I would have to turn my main bow into a support one. The whole thing would be too big as well, but it would be a good idea to improve late if it worked.

I recalled that in the past, some people used crossbows with multiple bowstrings. They were designed to increase firepower, versatility, and efficiency in unique ways. They typically have more than one string and include multiple limbs, allowing them to hold and shoot multiple bolts or increase the overall strength of a single shot.

The mechanism works by drawing and releasing these strings either simultaneously or in rapid succession. By utilizing multiple bowstrings, the crossbow can generate more force, allowing for a more powerful shot. Some designs may even feature independent draw systems, where each string is drawn and released separately, offering additional flexibility to the user in choosing which shot to take. This setup can enhance the velocity, range, or power of the crossbow’s bolts, or even allow multiple bolts to be shot at once, depending on the configuration.

I wanted to use something similar on my bow… it was a bit different since bows were usually used to be held vertically, but the idea itself wasn’t so bad. Using the largest bone of the four armed trolls, I created a very large long bow. I took my time, though, to make the surface completely even and without instability.

I even ignored the boss’ chamber and then sat down to continue the process… some skeletons came to get in my way, but I got rid of them pretty quickly. Aside from the limbs, the bow also needed to completely be combined with the other two bows, so I created some holes in the middle of the body… the arrows would pass through the largest hole too, but the others would work to connect my main bow with the new one.

For that to work as intended, I also had to add some cylindrical holes in the main bow and on the short one as well. I also had to make some screws with bones that would connect all of them. It looked like a mess since I didn’t make some blueprints for it, but as I began to mount the whole thing, it began to look promising.

Still, just when I began to finish the whole process, Glacien began to growl in annoyance and I felt the ground shaking as well.

‘Damn… I lost the notion of time. That thing is already close by?’

The boss chamber will close when I began to fight the boss, but with a monster like that coming, it was hard to say if the blockade would hold up, even if it lasts for that long, I would guess that the monster would store a lot of energy to suddenly grow and come at me a lot faster once the blockades disappear.

I got inside the boss’ chamber in a hurry and then used my camouflage amulet. Soon enough, the boss emerged from a large coffin made of ice… it was a three meters tall ice skeleton also wearing full plate armor made of something like sapphire. The creature had a big ass sword on its hand and a tower ice shield on its back…

I completely ignored it and kept focusing on mounting my bow. The boss suddenly looked around confused… the entrance and exit of the chamber closed it. It could feel my presence too, but it couldn’t see me. For a while, it didn’t do anything, but soon began to fire blasts of cold energy in all directions.

The attacks made the chamber quake and covered some parts in dozens of meters of ice, but I ignored it since it didn’t hit me… eventually, some large impacts began to come from outside as well… the abyssal worm had finally caught up with me.

The boss approached the entrance of the chamber wondering if I was there. Much to my surprise, I saw the creature stepping away from it, as if it could sense the danger that the abyssal worm offered. I had no idea how that was possible… I didn’t think that monsters spawned in labyrinths were brain dead, but I didn’t expect that they would act like that… fearful.

In any case, the arrival of the monster gave me a few seconds… the seconds that I needed to finish the project. The hardest part was to make the three bowstrings usable, it wasn’t supposed to work given that the bodies of the bows were supposed to get in the way, but thanks to the shooting slots that I added on each bow, and the fact that they combined thanks to the screws almost perfectly, the three bowstrings were practically over each other…