Alexia

I end up spending more time than I would like getting across the room – which isn’t hard considering I’d rather not spend any time at all in this room – before I move on into the next hallway. And the very first thing I find there are frozen skulls. Skulls made out of pure ice floating through the air while breathing out a freezing spray of water.

Thankfully I can use my magic again now, so I teleport out of their attack’s radius before cutting through the skulls without too much trouble.

The Chaos Monsters filling this temple have been pretty good for EXP, so I’ve already leveled up to level 234. Which basically makes these monsters not too much of a problem anymore.

Although they are a bit higher leveled than the piranhas were, what with these being around level 239 to 241. But that’s still not much of an issue.

It would be different if I didn’t have my ice adaptation though.

I continue tearing apart the skulls one after another, focusing more on brute force strength than piercing so that I can crack them and send them flying. Meanwhile I keep them away from my through Quantum Burst and mess with their attacks through Waveform Manipulation.

Unfortunately Waveform Manipulation is as reliable as ever in this situation where only a few of their attacks turn into anything useful for me. Specifically one that turns to air, another that turns into a flamethrower instead of a spray of water that then burns another skull, and another that just turned it into a solid block of ice that lost all momentum. But Quantum Burst is doing its job of keeping them away, letting me use Quantum Bolts along with my polearm to finish all of the skulls off.

After dealing with the floating skulls I continue moving through the long and drawn out hallway for who knows how long.

This dungeon would be a major pain if I still had to eat and drink. That would end up being a lot of supplies to make it through a dungeon like this.

Then again, that’s another reason why Class S species often top the level leaderboards. Since we don’t have to stop to eat or drink anything. We can just continue going, only occasionally sleeping, and pausing to regenerate our mana – or in my case soul.

I smile a little at that thought before narrowing my eyes when I eventually find a wall made out of a bright purple light.

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Is this the final boss area?

I look around for a bit before noticing a random door next to the purple wall. And almost right away I realize it’s a Safe Zone simply due to the dimensional rift around the door.

Cool.

Looks like a short nap’s in order.

I walk over to and open the door before walking inside of the rather luxurious bedroom, feeling the safety of the Safe Zone washing over me as I do so. And without hesitation I walk over to the bed where I lie down and proceed to stare up at the ceiling.

Almost done with the stupid dungeon.

I almost begin to fall asleep before I glance at my map and sit up again, turning around to look behind the bed.

There’s a hidden area in this Safe Zone. Who would’ve thought.

I get up from the bed and begin searching for the entrance to the hidden area, eventually finding some sort of staircase hidden beneath the bed. And when I go through it, I find a loot box just sitting in the middle of a hidden room.

But instead of walking up to the loot box, I narrow my eyes as I sense a source of magical energy from the loot box.

Don’t tell me…

I identify the loot box, but nothing shows up. Which is to be expected considering the situation.

After a brief hesitation, I raise a hand and send a Quantum Bolt straight at the large chest, sending the thing flying as the lid opens up to reveal a mouth instead of whatever would be inside of the chest.

A mimic.

Now I identify the creature again, finding the creature to now be in monster mode instead.

{Fallen Mimic – Level 248}

That is not a normal mimic.

The creature is black and blue in color and in its monster mode looks like a chest with sharp bones sticking out of the edges, the legs of some sort of centipede, and a bunch of sharp teeth with a bottomless black hole in its mouth with a tongue sticking out of it as the thing screams. And the front of it, the part that was hit by my Quantum Bolt, is letting off steam as some frost that had accumulated there slowly falls to the ground while glitching apart.

My attack barely even dented the thing…

Guess a boss is a boss.

And as if on cue with that thought, I hear the System Message playing out in my head.

[You have entered the Tier 2 Hidden Area, the Mimic’s Trap.]

Yeah, I don’t like mimics. Most people don’t.

The creatures are able to transform into an actual loot box. Not a mockery of one, but an actual loot box. And when the monster mode of the mimic dies they just return to their loot box mode but with the monster part no longer alive.

So there’s no way to identify it if it’s in its loot box mode. Except for some minor oddities.

Like it having a source of magical energy. Something most people wouldn’t be able to sense.

But a Fallen Mimic… what even is that? Just a more powerful mimic?

The mimic in question suddenly lets out a loud screech, opens its mouth wide, and sends a icy breath attack at me that freezes everything in between us, only giving me a brief moment to teleport out of the way before it blasts into the entrance and freezes it. Completely sealing me inside of the room with it.

Oh. That’s the difference.

It has magic.