My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1587-1589

Chapter 1587

The Rampaging Sasquatch didn’t seem to be the type to gain respect for pervertedness. Plus, the only woman I had with me was Alysia, and she was a bit busy acting as my sword at the moment. My only choice was to go all out and fight the Sasquatch. As long as I could build up some hits on it, I believed that I could eventually bring it down. I would need to depend on my healing to get me through this battle.

The sasquatch threw numerous long and wide swings with the trunk it was holding, and I kept jumping back as it knocked down tree after tree. Thankfully, its violent nature meant that most of the other monsters had already fled the area, so I didn’t need to worry about being jumped.

I used several successive quick attacks, depending on Alysia’s sharpness to cut through the iron-like hide that he had. Every time I struck him, he would howl with rage and become even more violent. My only option was to jump away and flee, and that still left me getting hit a few times. At least the Sasquatch earned its name. I imagined this was what fighting a barbarian with the rage ability felt like. The more I damaged him, the harder it became to get the next strike on him. Soon, I was on pure defense.

The Rampaging Sasquatch let out a roar, leaping up into the air. Realizing my chance, I leaped up as well, not allowing it a chance to do an attack from above. As I met the Rampaging Sasquatch in the air, it seemed surprised to see me. I used Created Step as support and then launched an attack. The Rampaging Sasquatch blocked it, but the attack was intended to harm it, but knock it higher into the air. I pushed off from the step, following the Rampaging Sasquatch.

The sasquatch had intended to use his momentum and the power of gravity to cause more damage, but as soon as he launched himself in the air, he ended up in my domain. I had long perfected the ability to create steps and launch myself off of them, allowing me to all but fly. I did that now, striking the sasquatch with one hit after another. He was useless in the air. Once his momentum was broken, he could no longer put any power into his strikes. As for me, while my sword strikes were also weaker, it was ultimately Alysia’s sharpness that made the difference.

“Blade Slash, Blade Strike, Blade Hit!” There were a lot of sword skills that just happened to be the word blade followed by some variation of the word hit.

A more skilled swordsman might have known exactly what each skill meant and how to use them to their greatest advantage in every situation. That was the power of having a teacher and learning the sword compared to accepting the lore and reasoning it out. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any such training. I was just spamming them to keep the sasquatch in the air and ping-ponging about the forest below.

This flurry of attacks couldn’t last forever though, and I finally allowed the sasquatch to fall back to the floor. He crashed into a nearby clearing, and I landed on the opposite side. As the smoke and dust cleared, the Rampaging Sasquatch was standing on his feet. He let out an ear-splitting roar. Compared to King Roth’s lion’s roar, it lacked much punch, but it was still loud.

“This guy is tough!” Alysia cried out.

I lifted her, ready to launch another attack. At that moment, his body broke away, turning into the miasma. He died standing. Before I could let out a sigh, I noticed something else.

“Huh? The fog has disappeared.”

Chapter 1588

While I was fighting the sasquatch, whatever spell was clouding the island was suddenly lifted. In an instant, my map was updated to the current appearance of the island. It wouldn’t differ much from the map I had already copied, but it was at least more detailed. Sense Life was presumably working as well, but there were no enemies within range at the moment. The fight had caused any monsters to scatter.

“Master, if the fog is gone…”

“Then the ambush is over.” I finished, making an irritated noise as I began to move through the island.

I was able to move much faster. With Sense Life, I could quickly determine where enemies were and avoid them. It took another half-hour, but I finally found the clearing that the trap was set in. At the very least, I could see the cut ropes, and there appeared to be some struggle. As for Carmine, she wasn’t present, nor was anyone else.

I didn’t have a hunting job, so it wasn’t like I was one of those people who could construct a scene. However, I had to give it a try. After searching the place thoroughly, I accidentally stumbled over a piece of metal embedded in the ground. When I pulled it out, I found a small piece that had been broken off the front plate of armor. It appeared to be the typical bright and shiny armor that Carmine would have been wearing. To be struck hard enough that a chunk of it broke off, it didn’t speak well. I immediately tried a resurrection, but that didn’t come either. I used the track skill, and that also didn’t work. The fog that dampened mana also prevented a mana trail from being formed.

“They kidnapped her,” I concluded, throwing the broken armor into my soul world.

“The question is… who are they?” Alysia asked.

I didn’t have an answer to that. I started to understand Calypso’s vague story. Whoever they were, they did cover their tracks. Furthermore, they’ve arrived and had some interest in this dungeon.

“We’ll have to find out.” I reorientated myself on the map and then started heading in a certain direction.

“What do you have in mind?”

“There may be one person who knows who is here. I just hope I can get them to talk to me.”

“You don’t mean…”

I nodded. “I just need to give him a wake-up call and hope he’s not too offended.”

My plan wasn’t that complicated. Dungeons were giant recorders. Anything that happened within them was incorporated into the lore. Even with their fog, these mysterious people wouldn’t be able to enter the dungeon without being seen. As long as I could talk to the dungeon master, I was hoping to get them to show me who they were and where they were, just like Matty had done to help me find Miki.

Ideally, I would go to the seventh island and fight my way to the final boss room of the dungeon, but that was an SSS floor and I was already having difficulty dealing with just the S island on my own. Thus, I intended to confront the boss of this floor and to use them to get a hold of the dungeon master. There were a couple of methods that I could think of to get him to expose himself.

It still was risky though. This was the 5th island, which meant that this boss would be the equivalent of a level 50 dungeon boss. In reality, I had never fought a boss this powerful, and I was going to confront them solo.

Chapter 1589

When you were in an open concept dungeon, it was far easier to avoid enemies than when you were moving through the closed off corridors of the typical dungeon. Occasionally, you could pick one path over another path to encounter less enemies, but avoiding enemies was unavoidable.

That didn’t mean that an open dungeon couldn’t make it very hard to avoid enemies. In some ways, it was more difficult, because during a difficult battle, you could end up drawing lots of enemies who investigate the noise, and then quickly become overwhelmed. This was ultimately why I felt the S-ranked island was about my limit. On a one on one, maybe I could compete with an SS creature, but if I was overwhelmed by S-ranked creatures, I’d die as quickly as anyone else.

Without Terra’s ability to erect barriers or Celeste’s ability to crowd control, I couldn’t hope to fight even a small group of S-class creatures, and as I went closer and closer to the center of the island, they were in groups more often than not. It took all of my skill and stretching my Sense Life to the max to make sure that I avoided them all. I finally came before a large building with a shrine-like appearance.

I recognized this building as well. It resembled the shrines I had once visited in Twilight’s dungeon. Don’t tell me that the Twilight dungeon borrowed those safe rooms from this dungeon’s boss room. Just what was with this dungeon? The more I saw from I, the more mysterious it seemed to be. Making sure that I hadn’t attracted any unwanted attention, I continued toward the entrance to the shrine. Using a Light spell, I entered into a fairly familiar room.

This was a safe room that proceeded the dungeon. It had the typical transportation array that allowed someone to move throughout the dungeon. The general theme matched the Twilight dungeon rather closely. It felt a bit like a bad video game that was reusing assets to save money. The room wasn’t necessarily identical, but it wasn’t different enough either.

As I looked around, I ran into the mural as well. Even this dungeon that had seemingly been around longer than most contained some kind of story. The image seemed to be showing some kind of great battle. The battle seemed to be between these dark creatures emerging from the dungeons, and a people with light blue skin.

In the past, this mural might have confused me, but I had learned a great deal since then. I knew that the light blue skinned people weren’t just a strange stylistic choice. The light blue was a reflection of their mana, which is what dungeons understood the best. These people were likely the natives of this continent. They were the Fae. As for the dark miasmic creatures rising from the depth of dungeons, I was almost certain that they were humans and the other races that spawned from dungeons. That is to say that this dungeon has some connection between the fae and the great war from long ago.

I didn’t linger on the mural for too long. I wasn’t looking to solve the dungeon. I was going to pass the array up too. In a normal dungeon, transportation arrays were the only trustworthy form of travel. However, I could create a portal into just about any dungeon, and unless the dungeon was dedicating a lot of resources specifically to block my mana, I could move throughout it pretty freely thanks to my blessings. That’s when I remembered the fog which I couldn’t portal through, and decided I might still depend on such an array.

After registering, I found the stairway leading down to the boss room. However, as I took the first step down, the light glow around me touched the stone door. It was closed. That only meant one thing.

“Someone has recently fought and killed this floor’s boss.”