--God's Ordeal] The innermost room on the ninth underground level
Since then, I've been wandering this blue corridor in search of a good opponent, but it's full of small fish.
It's a very poorly executed, beastly attack, no matter how much more physical ability they have than me, there's no way they can hit me with that. It's a waste of time. You can't just aim at the seam of the monster's skeleton and just stroke it with my wooden sword and it will break into pieces.
I'd rather have been wielding a sword for this.
In the past three years or so, my status has risen to an average of around 5, even in its bare state. The reason it took me three years to reach the 10th floor in a dungeon with only small fry in it is simply because this dungeon is ridiculously large. Moreover, the size of the dungeon seems to be structured to increase significantly as you go down the floors.
There is a safety point in the dungeon, where a magic circle is placed to transfer to the ground. And to move between these safety points in the labyrinth, it was necessary to spend about ten or so days.
There is a limit to the number of lunches that can be packed by the [Hard Poisonous Insects]. So, for food, we used those bugs monsters in the dungeon. Kill them, eat them, and move forward.
On the ninth floor, at the end of the innermost room, as you descend the stairs, a giant bee stands solemnly in front of you.
'The first trial, Defeat the Killer Hornet, is about to begin.
A woman's voice reverberates in my head, and I hold up my [absolutely unbreakable stick].
Maybe I've finally found the good enemy I wanted.
Let's kill each other to the fullest!
My throat screams with crushing glee, and I start walking towards the bee.
Suddenly, the entire body of the bee trembles and its figure goes hazy. I felt a chill, and when I slightly turned my center of gravity away, I saw that my left arm had been severely gouged.
You're not going to be able to see it. You're quite good.
I hold the [Never-Breakable Stick] while contorting my face into a frenzy at the first comfortable pain in a long time.
An enemy that cannot be seen. In other words, an intractable enemy. There is nothing more wonderful than this. I put my strength into my hand holding the wooden sword, while trying hard to suppress my racing heart.
"So this is the extent of it after all: ......
The more I expected, the more disappointed I was. It's true that I can't see his behavior. But that's only because he only moves in a straight line. Moreover, before moving at ultra-high speed, he would always stay in one place and his whole body would have to tremble. This is like asking me to avoid it.
On top of that, his inner hand - the one in the back of his head.
I hold my wooden sword upright as countless noxious purple blobs of water shoot out simultaneously from his tail toward the top of my head. And then--.
''Kai-ryu Kenjutsu Itto-ryu, Sang-no-kata--Gekiryo.
I send back a rush of venom clad in a wooden sword.
The purple blotch acts as if it were rewinding time, dissolving its tail into mush.
"I'm sorry, but that kind of flying tool won't work on me.
You can find a lot of people who have been in the market for a long time, but they are not interested in the same thing.
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to use it for the first time.
I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but it's not. I'm not sure if it had any effect on me anyway.
While screaming, the giant bee stuck to the ceiling to keep its distance from me.
Hmm, unlike the other bugs, it's not going to lose its will to fight, even in this absolute disadvantageous situation.
This thing is a bug, but apparently, I'm proud to be a warrior.
I'll end it.
I grip the wooden sword in my left hand, deepen my center of gravity and brace myself, and place my right hand slightly on its tip.
This is now my greatest fast-moving swordsmanship. And with that, I will answer.
I'm going to be able to say that his whole body is trembling and
"Itto-ryu kenjutsu, the second type - electric lightning.
It was at the same time that I was spinning my words. Several streaks of light ran through the room and I was behind him.
"Gigi?
As he tries to turn around quickly, his head zips off, followed by his limbs and torso, which also fall to the ground in pieces.
'Sleep.'
Shaking off the green bodily fluids on the wooden sword and strapping it to his waist
Defeating the Killer Hornet is confirmed. The first ordeal has been cleared.
Clearing bonus appears.
A woman's voice sounds, and a long, thin wooden box appears in the center of the room.
I open the box to reveal a longsword with a red glowing blade, which I examine.
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Flaming Sword: Uses the magic of the atmosphere to burn what you slice.
Rank: Advanced
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A sword that burns when cut. Now we can steam the bugs. It might taste a little better, or it might be a found object.
After healing my wounds from the Killer Hornet battle with the elixir, I walked down the stairs to the 11th level. The ground there was gooey, boiling lava.
Hmm. Nice! Great job! I call it an ordeal, even if it's only a trial. You have to do this much to make it worthwhile.
But what should we do? I can't go on like this. It would be nice to have heat-resistant shoes, but I don't have any such handy items.
Hmmm, resistance: ...... This could be a good experiment.
The place where the trial on the 10th floor was conveniently conducted is a safety point and can be transferred to the ground.
When you take off your tonsure shoes, you store them in the item box, put your feet in the magma and immediately pull them up.
I'm not going to be able to do it in one go. I can't do it in one go, after all.
When he fully recovered from the elixir, he repeated the same process, smacking his tongue at his right leg, which was incinerated from the ankle upward with a frown of intense pain.
Exactly 50 times in total, when the same process was repeated.
You have fulfilled the requirements to acquire 【Weak Heat Resistance】. Skill - [Low Heat Resistance] has been acquired.
A woman's voice rings in my head and a clear plate appears before me.
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Skill -- [Weak Heat Resistance]: Slight resistance to heat.
Skill acquisition: expose a part of your body to high heat 50 times.
Rank: Beginner
Rank-up requirements: exposure of a body part to high heat 500 times.
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Okay! Great job! Great! The time and elixir are infinite! Now we have another immediate goal. Let's repeat until we get [thermal assimilation].