Okay! This is honestly very very bad! This snake guy looks super strong, and I really don't wanna fight it. Why? Oh, I don't know, maybe because I don't have a single stat over 1, Gluttony is unreliable since this guy's wisdom stat might be over six, and I have no other skills that could help me!

The scariest part about this is that it's not even attacking me, just staring deep into my eyes! Those yellow eyes, slitted in the middle, those eyes of a predator... Yeah, the thing looks big enough to swallow me whole, especially considering it's a snake... I don't have any idea how I'll get out of this situation.

[I request you accept your death humbly, as shall I.]

Come on! Don't just give up like that! Uh, I could run! Wait, I'm a super slow runner in this form, really, just in general. It might have no legs, but I don't wanna risk the possibility it's many times faster than me...

Maybe I can befriend it...? Oh, damn it, this isn't a children's cartoon where friendship solves everything.

Ugh, seriously! Why is it just staring at me?! Come on, the tension is seriously killing me! I'll die of a heart attack before it eats me! What to do, what to do... I'm coming up with a blank, here...

Uh oh! It's finally moving! It slowly slithered closer to me, not wrecking the eye contact we held... well, A.I guy, looks like I really will just have to accept it... it was a great but short life, a life worth living for, maybe even a life worth dying for...

... huh? The huge snake thing passively rubbed against me, lightly, And, then, it just slithered away...

Eh? Wait, what just happened?! I expected it to go and eat me whole or something! Why didn't it do that?!

[I admit that it was incredibly humourous by the current concepts of comedy that exists for you humans making you believe the snake-type monster was hostile]

It wasn't ever actually going to attack me...? Huh?

[Correct, fool. In the form you are in now, you will be recognized as a fellow dungeon monster. The snake-type monster was staring at you for so long due to the fact it was trying to certify you were also a dungeon monster, which it did by the monster you are in the form of now. This, was, of course, a part of my plan.]

Oh, geez, you thought that far ahead? What are you, some sort of super evil villain that says 'It was all part of my master plan, you utter fool! Now, cower in fear as I unleash my ultimate attack!'

[I would never say that, nor do I have an ultimate attack as of now.]

Right, right... wait, as of now? Are you going to come up with something like that in the future? I thought you were an A.I, not delusional!

[I am not delusional.]

Oh, what, did that hurt your feelings or something? Let me guess, you're not programmed to have feelings?

[I am not programmed to have...]

Hah! It's exactly what I thought! You might act all high and mighty, but you're not! Now, with that swift victory, it's time to move on! I don't have time to completely outperform you both physically and mentally, okay? I'm a busy guy! Or, slime... Slime guy. Yeah.

So, I move along, sticking to the walls mostly. It's a while before anything of intrigue actually happens...

In front of me, the walls start to become wider, and then the floor is indented with strange symbols every on every slab. Well, weird, but I'm sure it's fine! I take a step forward into the room, and...

immediately, an arrow flies right above my head at an astounding speed. If I was just an inch or so taller, my head would have seriously been pierced through... I could have died! This room has a bunch of traps, then? Come on! Give me a break!

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Well, the fact this room is trapped clues me in on one thing, there must be something on the other side. Why just trap a random room when there are a bunch more ways to go either than that one? There must be something this way! Like, perhaps the exit? Yeah, the exit! These traps probably won't hit me, I'll be fine!

With that said, I take another step forward... right in front of me a huge pit appearing. At the bottom, there seem to be these spikes... with bones, human-like bones. Okay! Good thing I stopped there when I did or I seriously would have fallen right into there. I simply walk around the giant pit, a few arrows flying over my head the same way as the other one did. So, the arrows won't affect me, which means I don't have to worry about them!

After a few more steps, I'm almost at the other side where the hall continues! Just a couple of steps to go! One, two, three steps, and three arrows fly over me. Just one tile to walk over! I'm sure it'll be an arrow one just like the others. I step on it, continuing forward. Weird, though, there wasn't an arrow shot at me, must have been some malfunction or something...

Or, maybe it wasn't... there's a noise coming from above me, these sounds of some sort of mechanism going off... That's my queue to run! I don't want to see what happens next! I move as quickly as possible, getting away from the location of the sounds... and then a huge boulder drops from the roof.

You have lost 2 HP.

Ow! Ow, ow, ow! It landed on my tail, squishing it! Oh god, now it's rolling towards me! Time to run! Or, walk sorta fast! In front of me! The path splits off to the right! Without a moment's notice, I dash to the second path, getting in while the boulder rolls by me. It seemed to crash through the wall... and then, stop, or maybe fall... I'll ignore what happened to it for now.

Phew... that was close, and now my tail hurts... Hm, lizard tails grow back, right? To escape predators and stuff, they can detach their tails, I think. Not like that matters, I don't think I really need a tail or anything for this form.

Well, I got past the traps! Those must have been guarding something good, especially considering I could have died like nineteen separate times... now, let's see here, at the end of this way, there's... a...

A chest! A staple of dungeons, the reward for getting this far! Now, this seems all worth it for this!

Er, but, what exactly is the worth of a chest to me? I mean, you'd think a chest would have weapons or that kinda stuff, but for me, I don't even have human hands. Or, I don't know, a chest is still a chest! And I'd never give up an opportunity to get something good!

Now, I approach the chest, but a problem arises, how am I supposed to open it? I'm already shorter than the chest as it is, but I can't pull it up to open it... oh! I've got it, I'll just push it over! It doesn't seem to be locked, so with the force from the push, it'll probably open itself! I'm such a genius, truly.

With that said, I ram myself not the thing as hard as I possibly could, the chest made of a brown wood toppling over just like that. Yeah! Good thing it wasn't stuck to the floor or anything.

Oh, oh! The top opened up! I'll just go and see what's inside...

Oh.

Two long, thin, and gray arms come from the inside of the chest, the hands tipped with these extremely sharp nails. The arms repositioned the rest of the chest, putting it back on its bottom. There was a noticeable single black eye on the inside, along with what seemed to be... exposed organs, along with a large red tongue.

Okay! Not a chest, definitely a mimic or something! This dungeon is seriously ruthless, first the traps and then this? How could a normal person even survive this?! Uh oh, I just realized this thing might want to eat me or something... Yep, it's staring right at me, I'm gonna die...

Yeah, it's totally going to attack me... those sharp nails could cut me in half! Not to mention how creepy it looks... Weird, it looked at my completely squished tail for a second or two, which, to be honest, still really hurts...

Huh, what's it doing...? The mimic stuck its own arm into itself from the open-top, pulling something out... a small glass, filled with a red liquid and sealed. No way, could it be? A potion!

Right, I almost forgot, these monsters think I'm one of them! So, it's probably not going to attack me... but I wonder why it has that potion out for...

The mimic opened the potion, and then... forcibly opened my mouth! Hey, you can't just do that! I know my rights, and that's like, a crime or something! Let go of me! I don't want your gross mimic hands touching my mouth, who knows where they've been?

Ew, ew... it dumped the potion into my mouth, and it tastes terrible. However, I still swallowed, even if I almost spit it out... Oh, whoa, my tail regenerated in an instant! Potions are pretty potent, huh? I mean, the process of watching my tail inflate back up was sorta gross, but still!

It finally let go of me, gave me a light pat on the head, turned me around and sent me on my way... I'm being treated like a pet, aren't I? Damn it! I'm not some dog or something!

I'd let out a sigh if I could... even so, at least that mimic was nice to me. I don't wanna imagine would have happened if I looked like a slime, then...

Well, there was one other way to go, so let's just hurry up and move forward to my destination!