Lonely Attack on the Different World (WN)

Day 81 – Afternoon, Dungeon, 96F

Peeking inside the hidden room on the 95th floor, I find a cute girl in a middle of changing clothes, but not in this reality, what I find here in fact is『Giga Blob Lv95』getting brutally beaten up, and a treasure chest. Armored Pres-san and Dancing Girl-san are going so hard, that it almost seems like they have some sort of a grudge against it.

Aah, bumpy tentacles are getting cut down, hanging down powerlessly. That’s where you should’ve gone to restrain them first, and then grab them by the legs and spread them apart? Yes, yes, those gorgeous legs splayed at a perfect 180-degree split, that’s the real highlight! And then come the true wonders of tentacles, that’s where all those handy appendages really come into play, and yet what is it even doing? Too bad, this tentacle monster is utterly useless. Can’t even do that right. And it’s dead.

For some reason, they also cut it to pieces after already killing it, and even went for some rare magic attacks, absolutely blasting it, leaving not even dust behind. Even Slime-san is unhappy, since it didn’t get to eat much? I wonder what is with this hate and rage that I’ve felt coming from them?

……(Because of this thing a bumpy screw tonight?) (That mushroom, shape, is dangerous… That… thing Is dangerous!!)

Well, it’s very dead?

This treasure chest, as expected, also wasn’t locked. Inside was『Ring of Necromancy – Int 40% UP, Bonus to Sorcery Control, Instant Death Resistance, Create and Control Undead』…… Yeah, InT 40% UP and also Bonus to Sorcery Control! Instant Death Resistance is well, whatever? And I’ll pretend I didn’t see the last effect. Without that it’s a pretty good item, and if that’s seen it’s another another Affection Rating Crisis, this time it might end up as a incorporeal spirit and try to cross to the other side for good!

The rings already had a complicated neighbourship situation with『Demon God’s Ring』and『Faerie Ring』but now there is also『Ring of Necromancy』added to the mix. Well, it’s not like I have any fey from『Faerie Ring』so I’ll only need to confirm with the Demon Scythes if they are cool with undead.

And then 96F. I’m conserving my mana for the Dungeon Master fight, using only swordplay to dispatch enemies, so self-inflicted damage is kept to the minimum, but the moment I let my guard down, my hip bone snapped, and now I’m getting a massage. It hurts, you know?

I’m being indecently healed by the captivating body of now armorless Armored Pres, it’s a secret that I’ve long since regenerated and is totally fine by now! I’m also not against getting stepped on and massaged by those beautiful legs, but if I ask for that now, the bones that just got healed may get shattered with a kick.

The monsters on this floor are skeletons, something I haven’t seen in a while. Namely 『Skeleton Lord Lv96』-sans, masters of orthodox swordsmanship and sorcery, genuine combat specialists.

I tried taking them on solo, as a part of final tuning before fighting the dungeon master, but they were absurdly strong. Intelligent skeletons possessing level 96’s stats boosted by proper swordsmanship techniques on top of being equipped with shields and armor, are coordinating their attack to corner me. Well, midway it seemed sort of impossible, so I just burned them away? No, I mean, that’s actually impossible!

Thanks to the effects of『Ring of Necromancy』I managed to go even deeper into the accelerated world of Slow Motion, but it might’ve been an issue in itself? In the middle of it, , my body sort of couldn’t keep up anymore, so it all crumbled. As I thought, my stats are the biggest issue at this point.

And as expected, when I attempt to 『Vanish』through『Teleportation』on strong enemies, they target the location where I would reappear with pinpoint accuracy. The moment they read my point of reappearance, I get targeted and cornered. From here on, I can’t make it without using『Kyojitsu』, even if it means self-destruction. It huts though.

「Alright, I recovered, so shall we go? No, I mean, as much as I’m reluctant to part with Thighs-san here, serving as my lap pillow, if I linger, I’ll relax, and if I do, I won’t be able to hold back from massaging those lovely thighs, and next thing you know, we’re locked in an endless break time, filled with back-to-back battles, and the looming threat of permanent residence, so I’ve decided to tearfully say goodbye, okay? Yeah, it’s so regrettable!」

I figured out what needs work in my sword dance, rapid continuous strikes are easy to read. But just carelessly mixing up the rhythm is risky too, once they catch on, the slow parts will get targeted. Irregular tempos only work if you can read your opponent’s movements and draw them into your flow, otherwise, you’ll hit a dead end somewhere.

Reading and anticipating, turning that into strategy. That’s Armored Pres-san and Dancing Girl-san’s strength – the flow.

The 97th floor is being trampled in an instant, a total punishment before I could even say,『Teach them a lesson』 and there’s no time given to reflect, it’s straight-up execution. No intentions of letting them learn any lessons, huh? Well, perhaps they are striking with the back of their weapons? But I’m pretty sure all of the weapons are double edged? In any case, even a blunt weapon is guaranteed to kill if swung at that speed, so the result wouldn’t have changed.

Muscular green-skinned giants -『Death Gigant lv97』, who possessed an instant kill gaze, went extinct as soon as they showed up. Let’s keep going, there are more floors still.

Dealing with scattered monsters takes a while, but everything ends instantly if they stay as a group or come to us on their own. After all, it’s also much easier to gather magic stones this way. Yeah, in the end, the most time consuming part is picking up magic stones?

And now the 98th floor, ooh, and it’s still not the last one? This one was really close, huh?

Grotesque creatures with a warped form, their entire bodies covered in scales,『Reptile Chimeras Lv98』! The four of us charge in and slash them to ribbons. I go all out, trying to end it swiftly, using『Magic Wrap』into『Kyojitsu』, despite the accompanied self-inflicted damage. Dragging this one out is dangerous, they have 『Super Regeneration』after all. Well, they are going to die instantly anyway, so『Super Regeneration』doesn’t really make any difference.

Yeah, since they are reptile-type chimeras, it’s sort of unfortunate for them. I’m pretty good with reptiles, you know? If those were『Insect Chimeras』then everyone would’ve run away. I mean, chances are, they could be part roaches! Can you imagine that?! I’d be getting out!

When I started freezing them, Slime-san helped out with『Ice Bound』too, so any『Reptile Chimera』that wasn’t fire-type turned into a slow, easy target. And even the fire-types, who resisted and nullified the freezing, got eaten in the end, either way, they were fated to be food.

And finally, the last episode, thanks for everything, everyone. Eh, no, I meant, the last floor. 99F.

Level 99 Dungeon Master. Yeah, this one is no joke, if such a monster showed up outside it could deal tremendous damage even just on its own, and a stampede from such a dungeon could obliterate the entire Frontier. It’s a Dungeon Master with Undead attribute.

Wearing armor so dark it seems to swallow the surrounding light, wielding a jet-black sword, a death knight cloaked in black shadow,『Shade Lv99』, the presence is quite ominous.

That darkness makes my skin crawl, while Armored Pres-san and Dancing Girl-san are clearly afraid. Even Slime-san seems wary.

「You three, stand back, I’m having this one, okay~? Maan, it’s been such a long while since I last did anything, so I just have to strike a cool pose here, otherwise my highschool boy-like coolness will miss the last chance to show off, and my Affection Rating will become totally untouchable? So, Please! Okay? 」

I don’t like this one, it’s super creepy. The ancient and long-forgotten word Choberiba [1] must’ve been made for something like this. This one resembles the darkness shrouding Armored Pres-san when she was trapped in the Great Dungeon. It’s not as deep or sinister, but this disturbing feeling is very similar.

That’s why I’ll take care of it.

I won’t allow the darkness to take hold of them again.

I’ll never let the darkness take anything from them again. I won’t let it steal even the smallest thing. I’ll rob it all back, even the darkness itself, and erase it completely. Yes, that’s my robbing way!

My dictionary has no word for being stolen from, only for taking from others! Some typos could be present!

Parrying the giant black sword swung with the power of stats in 4 digits, dodging the black shield, I stab the black armor. As I thought, the black armor has only incorporeal darkness inside. You can’t kill such a thing, that’s why I’ll do it.

The thing that completely exorcised the darkness once possessing Armored Pres-san back there at the lowest floor of the Great Dungeon, was this 『Evergreen Staff?』And its true identity was the『Staff of the World Tree (Yggdrasil)』. Said to be a being that contains nine worlds within it, a great tree that supports the world, and even connects worlds transcending dimensions! A branch of that? Well, it’s a stick.

Anyway, the tree from which it’s coming is supposed to be a cosmic one, so even a branch should be amazing! I’m sure of it! That’s what I decided to believe!

So it should be able to cleanse away darkness, death, and sermons! Well, as expected, sermons might be a bit too much, but the remaining black stuff shouldn’t be a problem. But what actually can counter sermons? It sort of seems like they are getting beyond even cosmic scale.

A black sword raging like a violent storm, its dangerous slashes howl through the air like a typhoon warning siren.

I strike back with a sword dance, wild and frenzied, to match the frenzied, raging onslaught of black death.

I strike down the descending blade, slip past the sweeping horizontal slash.

I control the space, 『Teleport』 into the range crossing the swords while keeping the momentum from hyper acceleration, chipping away the darkness.

The sword and the staff, clasing freely from every direction, creating numerous, no, innumerable, trails of slashes as they accelerate, clash, and dance.

The wounds inflicted by the black sword are slow to heal. Despite evading clearly I’m still getting cuts, even through Vanish. The cuts aren’t deep, but they keep appearing. And small cuts that should’ve instantly closed with『Regeneration Lv9』are still bleeding.

That’s why I keep diving deeper and deeper, sinking into the heavy and viscous flow of time. With Wisdom accelerated thinking, time stretches endlessly, blue, deep, heavy, and sticky, toward the bottom of slow-motion time.The place closest to death, the end of the flow of time… or maybe just slightly diagonally off to the side of it. No idea, actually? Probably? I guess?

I bend my body to narrowly evade the sweeping black sword, vanishing like mist, wrapped in Illusion, fading and reappearing as I engrave infinite slashing lines into the black armor with a phantasmal sword dance.

With no room to hold back, I cross blades using the Seven-Branched Sword, but even that is not enough to overwhelm it.

I have to keep dodging since I will die in one clean hit, yet at the same time, I must keep landing attacks while dodging, but none are that deeps.

Even though I’m dodging perfectly, seeing through every attack with Rajingan, but something keeps gnawing on my HP, gradually decreasing it bit by bit. And since regeneration is too slow, it keeps going down.

While signaling with my eyes to hold back the three who look like they’re about to jump in at any moment, I slip through the space between life and death, slashing and sweeping through the bottom of infinitely delayed, nearly frozen time that never once stops, not even for a blink.

I’m barely managing to keep the chain of slashes going with『Kyojitsu』, just barely cutting my way through.I’ve slashed off quite a bit of darkness already, but as the fight keeps going, my body is beginning to crumble.

Not yet, I guess.

I cut without motion, without rhythm, leaving no gaps, pouring everything into achieving the single result of 『cutting』: my body, my skills, my magic power, all wrapped within『Magic Wrap』and unleashed.

I just forcibly make the fact that I 『Cut』it a reality, forcing the process to obey that conclusion, That is『Kyojitsu』. That’s why my body can’t handle it and starts breaking down.

And then it made a move.

The knight of darkness charged forward, holding up its shield. A sacrificial all in attack, it’s aiming to take me down with it.

And that’s the correct answer.

Given our overwhelming difference in stats, this becomes the rich approach. That is a surekill attack, impossible to dodge.

The approaching death is painfully slow, as if it has to crawl through a thick, viscous flow of time. A self-sacrificing, surekill strike with not even the slightest room to evade, not even with『Future Sight』, is very gradually drawing near.

Within this extremely slow and sluggish flow of time, the death under the name of a sword, draws closer and closer. The death knight covered only its soul behind its black shield, discarding everything else. What it was trading for was my life. It had staked everything on this self-sacrificing exchange.

The black sword it unleashed slowly carved a line through the air, its target unmistakably my life. A fatal, unavoidable, unblockable slash thrown with total abandon, snailing its way through a long long stretch of time toward me… and then it tripped.

Aight, it’s down. Let’s beat its ass!

(Beating in process)

Even though it was going all in, it still hid its soul behind the shield, that was its true weak point. If it’s a death knight, there’s gotta be a soul. And since it tripped, it’s open season for beatings. It might’ve gone all in, but in the very end, it gave away its weak spot, so this isn’t my fault, right? Yeah, basically I’m always doing the right thing, but somehow I always end up under false accusations.

For some reason I feel some very flat stares at my back, but I’m beating the hell out of it. It’s already dead, but I still have a few kicks to spare. I’ll just keep whacking it until all of that darkness vanishes.

It just had to trade lives with me, that alone would’ve allowed it to easily win. Don’t be so afraid to part with your life, when you are already a specter. Instead of throwing its life away, The Death Knight decided to gamble it. It took a chance against someone with Epic Luck, LuK Lv MAX with Limit Break, because it held its life too dear. It made a bet… and clung to its life. And that’s why it’s dead.

To be honest, there was no real chance that『Ring of Necromancy – Int 40% Up, Bonus to Sorcery Control, Instant Death Resistance, Create and Control Undead』would work on a level 99 dungeon boss, but that bet made it fall, and since it’s down, I’m going to beat it real good. Yeah, a total beating! A very thorough one?

The reason it stumbled over its own feet when hit with 『Undead Control』, was that it bet its life while still afraid to lose it. It rolled the dice with its own future, and when it fell, it died.

A brilliant, elegant, and intellectual victory, yet I’m being stared? No, that was perfect, wasn’t it? Normally, there’s no way to win that. That’s impossible? Huh? Huh~?

They are just staring at me?