**Day 31? The Farthest Labyrinth 80F**
I'm completely roasted-out. Done with the tsukkomi life for today.
Anyway… snagged "Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi (Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi) – Divine Sword, severs and extinguishes evil, PoW SpE DeX LuK +30% ???" but the living incarnation of avarice, Jito-eyed Armor Committee Chair, turned it down? Skeleton body, so divine sword is incompatible? But she's totally fine with blessings and holy stuff? Super picky. Probably all about aesthetics. It does look pretty badass, to be fair.
So maybe the intended storyline was: grab divine sword on 80F, then use it to fight the final boss at the bottom? Seems tailor-made for purging darkness and all that. Yeah, plot-wise it fits perfectly. Then don't drop me down here, damn it!!
Triple 30% boosts too—shove it into "Wooden Staff?" now. Third insert? Still room for four more? Why doesn't the weight increase? Why does the appearance stay exactly the same wooden stick? Black hood + wooden stick = ultimate background mob aura now. Meanwhile the girl next to me is strutting around in glamorous silver armor? Total contrast.
Next stop, 79F. Finally cracked the 70s. Still gotta climb 79 more floors. Can't go home. Never heard of a hikikomori who literally can't return home! Feels like the actual days I spent living in that cave are outnumbered now. Spent half the time tent-camping right outside it anyway. Zero hikikomori lifestyle achieved. More homesick for my isekai house than my original-world one.
Turning into a full dungeon resident, but "Spatial Grasp" means I literally never get lost. Dungeon? I've never been lost. Not once. Don't you wanna do that classic light-novel explorer thing? "Left or right? Which way?!" I wanna yell that! This ain't it! Exploration? Adventure? From the start it's been straight-path walking, then pure GPS via "Spatial Grasp" and "Map" skills. Zero discovery element. Super convenient, yeah—I'm using it—but come on? Isn't this supposed to be an adventure??
And 79F is "Spike Viper Lv79." Snakes, right? Pit vipers? Bushmasters are the famous giant ones, but mamushi, habu, cobras—related species too, I think? Poison obviously. But why the spikes? Traction?
Whenever reptiles appear, standard procedure: chill them out. Did it to the fish too.
Not sure if they stopped moving, couldn't move, or went into hibernation. Either way—motionless.
Chop heads off one after another. All of them easily over 10 meters? "Swallow whole," "constrict," "crush"—those are martial techniques? Listed as martial arts in Spike Viper status. Do they hiss "SHAAAAH!" while activating weapon skills? Constriction with spikes sounds like pure torture—total impalement city.
"But they're vipers? Pit vipers? Pattern looks chain-like too? Why spikes? Why spiky? Didn't like plain chains? Individuality flex? 'I'm different from other people~' vibe? Or 'different from other snakes~'? No, you're a snake."
In the end, all frozen Spike Vipers got their heads lopped off, turned into magic stones. Had "Temperature Sense" or whatever, but couldn't keep up with the change. Ice magic probably couldn't handle the sheer numbers, but temperature magic has huge effect radius and potency. Reptile specialization? Snake leather would sell for a fortune if it didn't vanish with the monster… Maybe build a frozen storage cave? Ice room + shaved ice stand? What exactly is this isekai demanding I become? A food cart vendor??
"Kusanagi Sword" probably has "Magic Blade" effect too—cuts insanely smooth. Could slice with mana cladding or packing magic alone, but sharpness is on another plane. Touch = instant cut? Feels like it. What is "Wooden Staff?" even trying to become? Started life as a stick, still looks like a stick. Swinging it around all elegantly just looks like clubbing. Not elegant at all!!
"Up is 78F… Lv40s… no chance, right? Lv30s maybe I could scrape by? But numbers are insane, so probably Lv20s at best? That means another 50 floors before I can fight for real? In a dungeon?!"
Upstairs residents: "Banish Wolf Lv78." Normal wolves. This world is criminally short on monster-girl content. If there were any, I couldn't beat them anyway—probably employ them on sight. Get lectured later. Already getting lectured over Skeleton-san probably.
Banish, banishment. Not falling for it. No monster self-vanishes, self-destructs, or self-extincts for real. Guaranteed they reappear after disappearing. Absolutely. Otherwise they'd be gone forever. From their own skill.
Probably vanish when attacked, reappear to attack. Super annoying.
But Lv78 anyway—no win even without the banish gimmick. 80 of them, pack coordination skill, 80-wolf synchronized assault. Nope nope.
Vinegar time. Spray everywhere. Mist mode. Barrel of vinegar. One barrel enough? Pack it, disperse with wind. Glad I bought it. Kinda wasteful, kinda not—seemed cheap and always in stock.
When cornered, sprinkle paralysis mushroom powder too. Not wasteful—unlimited free refills. Chili reserved for last resort—too precious.
Wolves pinch noses with paws, "KYAIN～!" crying while driven into dead-ends, finished off by Jito-eyed Armor Committee Chair.
Cat-types and dog-types hurt the soul. But these guys would 100% chew your arm off while it's still warm. Guaranteed.
Even when vanished, only 2–3 seconds tops. Pop back → get sliced. I'm just spraying vinegar. Probably the rarest thing in dungeon history: someone misting vinegar everywhere. Even I think it's weird.
I'm using Earth Needle too—corner, stab, corner again, stab. While misting vinegar.
The whole dungeon reeks of sour now. Air sour. Eyes stinging. Nose burning. Grab stones quick and bolt to 77F.
Can't stay in this vinegar dungeon. Even though I'm the one who made it this way…