Alexia

“Am I the only one getting sick of this?” I ask Luna after teleporting back up to the top of the most recent of what must be over a hundred traps by now. “Because it’s getting old.”

Luna, seemingly understanding what I’m saying, nods her head in agreement.

I’m honestly starting to wonder if I’m even supposed to be up here. It might be possible that the dungeon is meant to drop you down. That there isn’t anything actually up here.

Considering how few monsters I’ve run into up here, with no hidden areas and nothing of any importance, that theory is becoming more and more plausible.

I purse my lips before deciding to try one more room.

So I teleport to the other side of the room, enter the hallway, teleport through it, arrive at the door to the next room, open it, and immediately fall into another pitfall.

“That’s it,” I mutter. “Screw this fucking dungeon.”

I glance at Luna to find her tilting her head. Then I look down the pit and let out a sigh before dropping down. All while making sure I’m prepared to teleport at any moment. Just in case something dangerous is down there.

I end up falling for quite some time before an eerie purple light begins to shine from down beneath me.

But I just keep falling for a while, even after that.

All the way till I finally find myself entering some wide open world through a strange portal. One that seems to be leaking miasma.

Guess I was right.

Which also means I wasted the last few hours doing nothing of worth but getting annoyed at a dungeon.

I narrow my eyes, my fists clenching at my side slightly.

The next time I see that System Architect I’m going to punch him in the face for designing this.

Even if he didn’t design it. Because I can’t punch the System in the face, so he’s the next best thing.

Plus it gives me an excuse to do that other than my other excuses.

Can always keep the excuses to do that piled up.

Assuming I ever see him again.

A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.

There’s a decent chance I won’t be seeing one of his clones again. After all, I haven’t seen one yet. So…

Anyways, looking around the world I’m falling into, some sort of world prepared for the dungeon itself, the place is filled to the brim with miasma. The grass all over the ground is quite dead, the trees are dead, skeletons of animals and humans can occasionally be seen littering the ground, and there are an awful lot of crows flying around the air.

Oh, and the undead. Can’t forget the occasional masses of undead I find walking around.

Despite seeing that it looks just like the ones I saw in the endless trap-filled halls above, I go ahead and identify it. Just in case.

{Fallen Ancient Bones – Level 252}

Yeah, thought so.

They do have less armor though. Probably due to the number of them or something.

The skeleton I identify looks up in my direction, only to continue lumbering around without direction after likely realizing that there’s no way it can reach me up here. Considering that I’m teleporting to stay in place up here, high above the ground.

Well, skeletons aside, I need to find an exit. Since I still need to see what’s going on with that Dimensional Champion.

I just hope they aren’t bothering The Retreat.

My eyes narrow slightly at that thought.

If they are then I’ll have to add a Dimensional Champion to my list of kills just like the Dimensional Leader.

I shake my head at the thought, trying to convince myself that not everyone in power is out to attack me.

Still can’t help but wonder who or what they are though.

I begin to teleport through the sky while occasionally dropping a Quantum Paradox Blast down on the skeletons as I go. Because free EXP is always nice.

It’s too bad skills become a lot rarer the higher your level gets.

Wait…

My eyes widen and a grin splits my face.

Maybe… do I have enough soul now to use Quantum Phasing? Or one of those other skills that I got but couldn’t use due to the soul requirements?

Because that would help me a lot.

I was too focused on our earlier goal to think about it. On killing that dragon.

Actually, I could do a complete revamp of my skills list. Except Quantum Displacement. Maybe Quantum Bolt too, considering just how high a level it is.

And Quantum Infusion and Adaptation are staying too. Adaptation will always be staying.

I don’t really need Quantum Attunement all that much considering Energy Manipulation, since all Quantum Attunement does is make me a bit more sensitive to things that I’d already be able to sense. And Quantum Aura just makes some projectiles change trajectories slightly that are going to hit me.

There are better passives in my skills list than those.

The only problem with this is that all of my skills at this point are at level ten, on the border of Tier 2. Well, except Quantum Displacement and Quantum Bolt, the former of which is Tier 3 and the latter Tier 2.

It’s just too bad that I don’t have as much time to go around clearing dungeons for the cores that I’ll get from their final bosses.

I purse my lips while tapping my chin before glancing at Luna, only to find her jumping off of my shoulder and sending breath attacks at the skeletons below.

Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure one of the skills I just unlocked after that battle with the dragon was a breath attack skill.

Looks like it could be useful.

But… is it better than a bolt? Which type of projectile skill should I go with?

I’ll only be getting a skill every twenty-fifth level now that I’m Tier 3, but I still have a rather large number of skills built up from previous levels that I never or couldn’t use due to the soul requirements being too high.

Well, guess I can always go around testing skills.

Which means my next stop is to find a safe zone within this dungeon.