The fairyfly disapears.

[Fairyfly Vanquished]

[Skill Gained: Magic Immunity]

[Magic Immunity at Max Level]

[Skill Gained: Acid Skills]

I don’t know how much longer I can stand this repetition. I’ve gone through these same rooms more times than I can count. I take breaks, although there’s nothing to do in those breaks so they usually end up short. I can’t even sleep. I finish the run, now gaining skills with the “poison attribute”. I hadn’t used all my skills yet, and now I’m getting new skills more often.

I don’t want to try using all my skills now, if I try I’ll gain so many skills in the meantime that I will inevitably lose track of which I’ve done and which I haven’t.

It feels weird to procrastinate when I have literally nothing to do, but yet I run through the dungeon time and time again, setting new milestones to start my run through of all the skills at. When I max out all the standard skills, when I have all of the different skill type skills, when I complete fifty runs in a row without gaining a new skill.

But just as I max out all the standard skills I gain Magic Skills, and that once again increases the amount of new skills to gain. Gaining all the skill type skills was a stupid milestone to start trying to use my skills after, because it guarantees I’d be getting new skills right after.

My streak was at thirty-seven completed runs without a new skills, I kill the fairyfly.

[Skill Gained: Ice Poison Spike]

“Damn”

I’ve started swearing since being trapped in here, only the words I might have let slip out beforehand. But I say them all the time now. Practically the only things I say.

I take a break, scroll mindlessly through my list of skills. It’s a lot. I scroll as fast as I can, and still I get bored scrolling through the skills. I’ve never had near this many skills before. I don’t think anybody has.

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After checking a few random skills throughtout the skill list, I finally reach the bottom. I click through the few skills at the bottom, then get up to do a few runs more.

I get through twelve runs with no new skills, and so I start the thirteenth run through.

I’d long given up teleporting around the tiny tutorial area, so I head straight to the ant and hit it.

[Skill Gained: Magic Fire Light Ray]

“Crap”

I’m not going to stall this time, I know that soon enough I’ll get a run long enough–

[Max Skills reached. Choose a Skill to delete]

I never knew there was a maximum. I scroll through my skills, pick a random one. Overheat. I don’t think I ever used it, I won’t miss it.

[Overheat deleted]

I continue on. As I mow through the bugs I think about the deletion of the skill. I could have chose the Standard Immunity, try to skip all my turns, it would take forever. Magic Immunity. I should have deleted Magic Immunity.

If I gain another skill, I should reach the maximum again. As fast as I can I kill bugs.

I don’t see what skill I gain, but my skill list gets brought up, asking me to delete one. The scroll to find Magic Immunity is torture, the slow scroll, leaving me to my thoughts. If this deleting Magic Immunity doesn’t change something– I– I don’t want to think about it.

I select [Magic Immunity].

[Magic Immunity deleted]

I go forward, and crush the ant egg. I can’t hold an extra skill anyway.

The portal lights up, I step forward controlling my breathing, my arms shaking. I close my eyes and take the step through the portal.