‘Lvl 10 Giant Boar. A really big boar.’

“Wow, thanks Identify, that really tells me a lot…”

Well, at the very least, it tells me how strong the boss was. It’s not even half my current Level. I probably could have just fought it by myself and been just fine… Damn, I really am cheating with my Death magic, huh? I definitely don’t think I am supposed to be facing this boss at Level 21. Oh, no wait, Level 22 now…

Rolling through the pains of Leveling-up and hardly feeling it now, Bug shoos her minions away from the corpse and gives it a look over.

Just from appearances alone, the boar is honestly pretty intimidating. Especially when considering that it is easily twice as tall as Bug and its tusks are practically the length of swords.

“Would definitely hurt to get hit by this thing. Well, it’s mine now. Time to play around a bi-“

Before Bug can finish her sentence, a flash of light next to exit door catches Bug's attention. Popping into existence is a small chest, which clanks to the floor after materializing a few inches off the ground.

Bug blinks as she looks at the thing. “What’s that?”

Looking back and forth between the corpse and the chest, Bug eventually decides to check it out. Walking over cautiously, Bug examines the mysteriously spawning chest.

It isn’t particularly big. Size wise, Bug could easily hold it in her arms. For a human, they could hold it with one arm with no problem.

Pointing to a mob skeleton, Bug tells it, “Hey, you, go open that.”

Hiding behind Sam the shield skeleton, Bug watches as the little skeleton opens the chest.

…

Nothing happens. It doesn’t explode. The skeleton doesn’t get teleported to some dangerous place. Nothing…

But why did it suddenly appear here?

Bug looks back towards the pitifully dead Boss and finds her answer.

“Is it a reward for killing the Boss? Bring it over here and show me what’s inside.” Bug orders.

The little skeleton picks up the chest and walks over before setting it on the ground. Tilting it forward, the skeleton dumbs the contents of the chest before Sam and Bug.

Out from the chest comes rolling out three shining crystals, a couple of silver and a bunch of copper coins, and finally, a piece of paper fluttering through the air.

Bug dart out from behind Sam with a cheer and snatches up the crystals and coins. “Mana Crystals! Hahaha, yes! Mine!”

You get rewards for killing Bosses!? This is amazing! If I had known that, I would have come here sooner, yes!

“Hahahaha, Dungeon! You see this? Not only did I kill your Boss, but I even took your treasures too! Ha!”

Done gloating towards the ceiling, Bug notices something on the ground. The piece of paper that had fallen out along with the rest of the treasure.

With three hands holding the precious treasures, Bug uses a fourth to grab the paper and brings it up to look at.

Written on the paper is a single sentence. ‘Kindly go kill yourself, please.’

Bug’s eye twitches as she reads the note.

“Oi! Damn Dungeon… I’m not going to kill myself, so you might as well stop asking!” Bug yells as she tears the note in half and throws it to the floor.

Geez, just how petty is this thing? It got blocked from sending me personal messages and not even the doors can stop me now. So, it resorts to sending notes? Ridiculous…

Disregarding the torn note, Bug returns her attention to her treasures and lets herself just be happy about her prize for a little while. She earned these, and they are hers now. Bug is allowed to be happy.

Once she is done enjoying her new treasures and gazing into their shininess, Bug stores them all away with the rest of her treasures and then returns to the boar’s corpse.

“Ok you guys, get to work on stripping this thing. Make it quick. I want to get to the next Boss already.” Bug orders with a snap of her fingers.

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After a short wait, and her minions making an absolutely bloody mess of the place, Bug is eventually left with the giant skeleton of a boar.

“Raise Undead! Rise my new porcine minion!”

With a rumble and a clatter, the bloody bones come to un-life and rise before their new unholy master!

Looking over her new piggie, Bug appraises it and smiles. Taking out a bunch of left over bones from last time, Bug uses Enhance Undead to make some slight changes.

Bigger tusks, sharper teeth, some horns for even more ramming power, and… let’s use the rest for making some bone plating on its front shoulders… there we go, much better!

“Hahahahaha! You see that Dungeon? I just made it even better! Your pig is mine now! Now just you wait, because I am coming for you! Let’s go minions!”

Leading her army towards the exit, Bug finds the switch next to the door and jumps up to smack it. With a flash of green, the switch accepts her and opens the door.

Standing before the opening doors, Bug gasps as she sees the sights before her.

Floor six is not more caves. There are no moist rocky walls covered in moss and glowing mushrooms. There is no dirt covered stone floors. Instead, there is open space, lots and lots of open space.

And trees.

Only, the trees are massive, and they are actually the floor…

Stepping out from the opening in a cliff face, Bug’s feet alight to a massive branch that extends from the body of a tree so big that it would take Bug quite a while just to walk around its trunk. Looking around, in the distance, all Bug can see is more and more of the massive trees for as far as the eye can see. All of them are interconnected by twisting branches and dressed in leaves more than big enough for a human to lay down on comfortably.

Looking up at the sky, Bug’s vision is cut short by an unreachable canopy of leaves and branches, but through the gaps and openings, light streams down in beams and grants ample visibility to the forest below. Even though Bug can’t see where the light is coming from, she is certain that it is not the Sun. Even if she has only seen its light once, Bug can tell that this light is different. Something about the warmth it radiates is just, not the same, almost artificial… They are still underground, deep underground.

Finally, Bug walks over to the edge of the mighty branch she is standing on and carefully peers over the side.

She immediately backs up and grabs Sam’s leg for support.

Way too far! Just how high up am I right now? How far down does the Dungeon go!?

Resolving to make sure that she does not fall no matter what, Bug gives another look around the ‘floor’ and takes in the sights.

Ignoring the horror of being Admin knows how high up in the air, it is honestly very pretty here.

There are flying creatures that flitter from tree to tree, singing as they fly about on colorful wings. There are all sorts of flowers and plants everywhere growing from the trunks of the trees and hanging from branches. Bug squints her eyes and is pretty sure that she spots some fruit growing in the distance.

Off in other areas, Bug sees water falling from the sky as great waterfalls that poor into the forest below and leave clouds of mist that hydrates everything on the upper branches. And after thinking for a bit, Bug comes to the conclusion that the water is probably coming from the upper floors and possibly even from the surface somewhere. The water has to be coming from somewhere…

Breathing in the fresh, slightly humid, air of this new place, Bug smiles as she takes in the beautiful sights. She even sits down to simply enjoy a break from everything and just take it all in.

No more cramped labyrinthine caves that all look the same. No more smelly, musty, moldy rooms full of trash. No more seeing by the blue light of glowing mushrooms. Now Bug has so much more to experience.

After a few moments of relaxing, Bug catches sight of one of the colorful birds and decides to watch it as it flutters about and sings its lovely songs.

Flying around, the bird happily moves from flower to flower, drinking its fill of nectar.

This floor is so much nicer than the ones above. Ah, why couldn’t I have been born on this floor instead of the first? If I was, I might not be wanting to kill the Dungeon… I might have been different…

Watching the bird with a smile on her face, Bug is shocked as she watches on in horror as a seemingly harmless plant suddenly snap the bird out of the out the air and crunches it with a colorful maw full of dagger sized teeth.

“Holy shit!!!”

Gawking at the plant as it chews on its food, Bug pales as she looks around and sees all of the plants and flowers that are literally EVERYWHERE.

“That… That bird was as big as me… Maybe it’s a good thing that I wasn’t born here…”

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Cautiously working her way towards the trunk of the nearest tree, Bug and her minions follow the lengths of the branches as they carefully navigate everything and give a wide birth to all of the flowers.

Many of them are human sized, and Bug keeps a warry eye on all of them as they pass by.

Up above, the birds continue to sing their songs and dance in the sky. Bug tries to Identify them, but they are too far away for her to be able to scan yet. As an aside, the flowers all come up as the same thing, even when they look different…

‘Giant Dungeon Flowers. Man-sized flowers of varying species. Some of them can be carnivorous.’

Wow, thanks Identify! That is really helpful. Thanks for not telling me which ones aren’t carnivorous!

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After a fearful walk to the tree, Bug lets out a breath of relief as she and the help finally make it. Because of how big everything is, the distance between two points ended up being a bit deceiving. The branches that they had been walking on where already massive things, but the trees themselves are so large that they take up Bug’s entire view now that she is near.

Looking at the thing, Bug finds an opening where the branch meets the tree, and further along the sides, there are more openings where Bug can peer inside. From a quick look, it would appear that the trees are mostly hollow on the inside.

What the heck is up with these trees? Going by the Knowledge I have, trees shouldn’t get anywhere near this big. Well, except for one, but it is a special exception… Identify.

‘N/A. This object’s data cannot be accessed. User’s access privileges are below required level.’

“The hell? Why can’t I scan a giant tree? If it was just a part of the Dungeon, it should have just said Dungeon Tree Wall or something… Weird.”

Not having any way of solving this little mystery yet, and not wanting to keep standing around outside, Bug makes her way to the entrance of the tree and heads inside.