One week passed before William and I thought we should get going. We had no way to exit the dungeon so we decided to just go up. We began packing all our materials, even though we didn't have much to pack. All I needed was my golden egg and iron sword. I felt tense as we went towards the gate to the next floor. It would be the beginning of something new...for the both of us.
We walked up the stairs and the second we reached the next floor we were shown this message:
You have now reached the 47th floor of this dungeon. At this point, all monsters have a boost that gives them double their stats.
“Hey?!”
“What happened?”
“I…got double my stats!”
That makes sense! William is technically a monster too so he would have double his stats like every other monster! I checked his stats to see how much he got stronger by.
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Name: William
Effects: MONSTER BOOST
Age: 5
Level: 9
Race: Orc
Strength: 90(UP 45)
Vitality: 40(UP 20)
Agility: 60(UP 30)
Magic: 32(UP 16)
HP: 83/83(+1.5 per/minute)
MP: 21/21(+.5 per/minute)
Skills:
「Stone Body Lv.4」「Night Vision Lv.7」「Humanity Lv.9」「Mapping Lv.5」
「Human Language Lv.3」「Telepathy Lv.1」
Titles
「Orc Lord Kin」
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His stats were incredible! Even if I couldn’t do anything William would be on par with a lot of monsters. Then I could easily finish them for the XP. It would work easily.
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「Thought Process Lv.1」has become Level 2 through your actions
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「Determination Lv.1」has leveled up to level 2.
The user now gains a 4% boost when you are determined.
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What? It seems that I progressed towards my goal so my skills leveled up. It only left me thinking one thing, I’m actually OP! I knew I was the main character! Despite everything going on that was the biggest thing for me. I knew that one day I could exact my revenge on everyone that left me to die. I could show them to never judge a book by it's cover.
“So are we going to get started now?” (William)
“I’m ready to let’s go kill some monsters.” We searched for about an hour and found nothing! There were no monsters around us. It was strange. Another hour passed and we were on the steps to the 48th floor.
“This is really weird. Maybe it's why everyone who came before us died.” (Kaori)
“What does that have to do with this?”
“There were no monsters so everyone just kept going on and on but at some point because of their greed they got trapped in a certain level of the dungeon and died there.”
“But, wouldn’t it be much easier to just fill the place up with weak monsters?”
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“No! It would be a waste of mana for the dungeon boss. They would have to make more each and every time and when new people come up here they would think their subordinates from before killed all the monsters. It really is a good idea.”
“So what do we do?”
“You die!” (???)
The voice came from everywhere in the dungeon and soon I felt myself becoming dizzy. William who wasn’t as sturdy as a human in terms of mental power immediately fell to the ground. But, what happened next really showed me the true extent of my skills!
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Your「Growth」skill has worked together with your「Learning」skill to create a new skill.
New skill achieved:「Mental Resistance Lv.1」
This skill makes the user more resistant to all types of mental attacks.
No mana is required.
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The felt the pain easing down as I got this skill but it was still there. The talking wall was surprised at this and increased the intensity by a ton. I almost fell unconscious but another miracle happened.
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「Mental Resistance Lv.1」has leveled up to level 10.
The user has very high mental resistance against all mental attacks.
「Mental Resistance Lv.10」is ready to evolve. Confirm evolution when you are ready.
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The pain eased a lot. The only pain I felt afterward was the after effects. But, the problem was that it was just a weakened me and an unconscious William. There was nothing we could do to fight back against the creature that killed multiple top notch warriors.
The only thing I could do was go onto the stairs to the next floor. The stairs in between were always safe zones that healed! I grabbed William and he was incredibly heavy! I almost couldn’t carry him! I have to do this! Uggggg This is for both of us! We need to make it to the TOP!!!!!!!!!! I felt a sudden boost in my power and realized the「Determination」skill leveled up to level 3! The effects didn’t increase to 6% but 10% which was incredibly high! Williams weight became a little bit less of a burden.
The talking walls seemed to notice what I was doing as it started making this SCREECH sound. I can tell you first hand that shit hurt. I didn’t know what to do at this point I can’t move on like this! This time I can’t get a skill right? There's only one thing I can do at this point! I just pushed through ignoring all the noise and the pain. I’m almost there! I was close and the sound got louder as the talking walls noticed I was getting passed its mental assault. Just a bit more! And WHOOSH as I reached the safe zone the sound and pain to my brain completely disappeared. I could for once lay down. But, immediately I fell asleep.
When I came to William still wasn’t awake. Then I remembered that if I could Inspect him he was still alive. Whew, it's all good. But, I began to wonder. What was that? Although that sound and mental attack could and would knock most people out it wasn’t enough to kill them. And countless of people in the empire had resistance from mental attacks like such! It really makes no sense. There’s no way to go but up so, I’ll wait for William to wake up and we are going to go.
I waited for a day and William was still unconscious. I ate some meat that he collected for both of us. I decided to check my stats while waiting for William woke up. I guess I’ll see what I’m going to try and upgrade.
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Name: Kaori Hiraoka
Age: 17
Level: 3
Race: Human
Strength: 34.1(UP 3.1)
Vitality: 26.4(UP 2.4)
Agility: 28.6(UP 2.6)
Magic: 17.6(UP 1.6)
HP: 35/35
MP: 53/53
Skills:
「Learning」「Language Understanding」「Growth」「Night Vision Lv.2」「Thought Process Lv.2」 「Determination Lv.3」「Mental Resistance Lv.10 (READY TO EVOLVE)」
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Huh? The Mental Resistance skill was ready to evolve. What would it evolve into? I was curious about that but I was also happy about my growth! The determination skill would always be there and it would continuously make my skills grow at an incredible rate. What's going to happen when it reaches level 10? Would I have double my stats? If I really thought about it this skill would end up becoming OP. It was like a quest. If I reached the end of the dungeon, which my goal is to do. Then, I just might be able to get level 10 of this overpowered skill.
The only problem was the wall monster and what lied ahead. Whatever let's evolve this Mental Resistance skill.
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Would you like to evolve the skill「Mental Resistance Lv.10」into 「Advanced Mental Resistance Lv.1」
YES / NO
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My immediate answer was yes!
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You have evolved the skill「Mental Resistance Lv.10」into 「Advanced Mental Resistance Lv.1」
Your resistance to mental attacks has increased exponentially.
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There wasn’t much of a difference but, somehow, this gave me motivation. I actually had a thought about what I would when I get out of this dungeon! William woke up soon after me and we began to prepare again to go to the next floor even though we didn’t have much. Even if we ever reach the 100th floor it wasn’t going to be easy. Sigh.