It hurts.

It use to be just my arm.

Now its my stomach as well…

Ahhh, it hurts~

Now that I think of it, it’s kind of cold here too…

Don’t tell me I’m sick?!

Arrow must have nicked my intestines

Hah~, I’m going to die of septic shock at this rate.

What I need right now is another one of those chosen ones.

Sleeping, preferably.

If only…

As I round the corner, sure enough, there’s a sleeping goblin on the ground.

What?!

I rub my eyes.

What the hell?!

This is too good to be true!

Wait, I have a secret weapon!

What is that, ASA?

「Augmentation System Analysis (ASA): Mirage

Low level illusion generated by a Mirage Variant on the Curse tree」

Wut.

I’m being fucked with.

Suddenly, I felt a burning anger fill me.

I stand still and inspect the area around the mirage.

Footsteps, at least four.

That means there’s probably more standing still in ambush.

Multiple arrows appear out of nowhere and sail towards me.

Since I’m partially expecting them, I almost lazily reach out with my sword and smack them out of the air.

Some of them outright miss.

Now, in the time while you’re drawing another arrow…

I throw a rock.

*crack*

I throw another rock.

*thud*

A rock finds a target.

Unfortunately, it’s a rather small rock so it doesn’t outright kill the goblin.

A third rock finishes the job.

《EXP Threshold reached, Human LV16 > LV17》

Complete silence.

The illusion vanishes.

I suppose they gave up on that.

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Invisibility and illusions.

What’s wrong with this place? The developers must have accidentally set the difficulty too high.

Or god hates me.

Based on recent events, strangely, the second one seems more probable.

Where’s my shotgun?

Well, I probably don’t even need that.

If my augmented throw can destroy a goblin skull, surely, their bone strength must be pitiful… even if they are mark twos.

I stare at the wall and in a figurative sense, the wall stares at me.

If you aren’t going to make a move, then I suppose I will.

I run around and wildly swing my sword.

It hurts my stomach, so after about three seconds of this I have to stop.

Footsteps? About ten feet ahead of me!

Die, bastard!

I rush forward and swing in broad strokes. My stomach hurts, but it’s worth the sacrifice.

My sword finds a target in the darkness.

A goblin is split in two at the waist.

An arrow sails over my head.

Another grazes my shoulder.

I whip around and search for the perpetrators.

The bisected goblin can bleed to death.

Considering the two arrows earlier missed, they are either very far away or can’t aim.

If either condition is true, they probably don’t matter.

I’ll prioritize the closer ones and the ones that can aim.

After all, if they can’t hit me, I can probably ignore them.

Hmm, if they stand perfectly still while cloaked and sit in a corner, there’s nothing I can do.

Another arrow sails through the air.

Surprisingly, it hits another cloaked goblin who falls to the ground screaming.

Hahaha, so they can’t see the other cloaked ones either?

I walk up to the unlucky bastard and stab him in the face.

Haha killsteal!

Is that even how this works?

Does the finishing blow determine EXP or does contribution amount determine it?

I’ll have to perform experiments later.

I immediately run back to the wall so I can’t be shot from behind.

Dammit... if they weren’t cloaked, this would be dead easy.

I would repeat the randomly swing my sword tactic, but I feel like I won’t be as lucky if I’m shot from behind again.

I have no choice but to walk with my back to a wall.

Wait a second.

I pull out the bow and arrows I looted off the goblin assassin’s corpse.

Although I can’t sword-deflect while I’m holding the bow, I’m kind of feeling lucky.

I send a shot in the general direction of where the last arrow came from.

As expected, my shot misses where I was aiming by several feet.

I correct my aim, but this time I overcompensate slightly.

None of the arrows hit anything, but I hear panicked running.

You think you can run?

I shot again… and missed.

Dammit, he ran away.

I hate this place.

Why am I even fighting these guys? I have no good way to de-cloak them.

I’m going to die if I keep fighting these invisible goblins. They hardly give EXP, they’re impossible to kill and they randomly shoot arrows at me.

Should I just run?

If they just hide, I’m screwed.

Yeah, I’m going to run. Time to go.

I shift my bag to a slightly more comfortable position and flee.

❦

As I run down the narrow hallway, I suddenly stop, pick up a rock, and fling it down the hallway behind me.

There’s a distinctive *thud* as a goblin is taken out.

Fuck you! Stop following me!

I turn back around and keep moving.

Can’t go upstairs because of the stupid spider.

My only choice is to go down.

Wait, since the spider is blocking off the path up, does that mean that the cross-floor attack gets stuck there?

Mmm, I may have killed off most of the special forces already if that’s the case.

Except I don’t know BECAUSE EVERYTHING’S INVISIBLE!

Where are the stairs to the next floor?

I need to find the stairs.

After around fifteen minutes of searching, I find the stairs down.

Thankfully, there are no spiders on these stairs.

Screw all you fuckers, I’m out!

I leap down the stairs and into the next floor.

I shield my eyes as I’m bombarded by the bright light.

Why is it so bright inside of a dungeon?

Slowly, my eyes adjust.

I look around.

That’s really green.

How is this in any way a dungeon?

No matter how you look at it, this is clearly a jungle.