Bell slept like a rock after he ate ao bed and I had no trouble getting to sleep either. The m I got up stretched and strapped on my new bracers before setting out for the dungeon. I made a brief stop by the hostess to enhahe ingredients and pick up the meal Syr made for me before setting off. It felt the same as usual when I went into the dungeon as the stone walls were just as bleak and quiet as normal. I didn't even bother testing my new bracers since I knew for a fact that these goblins couldn't even scratch the things.-

  As I went deeper and deeper into the dungeon I came across three goblins and two groups of mohat I separated and killed in a systematic fashion. I made sure to collect a whole lot of kobold hide using my teique before harvesting the stones and smoke from them. Thanks to not updatily I felt like I had three drops of whatever that stuff was saved up for my update which should be a good k of stats at that time.-

  The fourth floor was just like before with the blue and green walls that got more and mreen the closer to the fifth floor you got. I only ran into a single group of mohere with it being three spear wielding kobolds and two club goblins that apparently didn't uand safety sihey rushed ahead right when the spears were stabbing at me. I didn't have to move a muscle to watch two of the five die to their own side. The final three were stupid creatures that i threw cursed energy on making them panic thinking they were on fire before crushing their heads before they figured out that was not the case.-

  Monsters didn't start growing brains until the seventh ah floors from what I was told so using trickery like this was way too easy. The fifth floor had a plete rec and theme as the rooms got bigger and the hallways shorter while the walls were a light green color. I was cautious as I walked through this area as there were four new monsters on these floors that were slightly tricky to deal with.-

  Dungeon lizards were person sized lizards that hung from the ceilings and dropped down on unsuspeg adventurers. This was obviously not an ideal situation to be in and could very easily lead to death. The seonster was the frog shooters that were again person sized frogs but this time there was an unusual detail in that they only had a single eye in the ter of their head. This motacked by sending their long, fast and sticky to adventurers and trying to eat them whole. I was told it was an slow and gruesome death as the monster chews you while it tries to swallow.

  The third monster, war shadows, were vaguely humanoid monsters with the standard two arms, legs and single head but that was where the simirities eheir bodies were tall and slender with three sharp cws at the end of each "hand" and their magic stone in the ter of their heads oside without any other features beyond their bck body. Unlike goblins and kobolds war shadows were fast and stealthy as their preferred method of attack was ambush. For an adventurer who was not careful enough this element of surprise proved fatal whifortunately meant many newbies fell to them. I thankfully had the fht to ask about what I would o deal with in art of the dungeon and ko keep ao the shadows.-

  The fourth new monster was not all that dangerous on it's own but had the bad habit of calling friends if injured and not killed quickly. Killer ants were basically just red fire ants scaled up to the size of people and besides the hard carapaces that prove to slow down sshing ons they only became hard to handle if you either don't kill them fast enough et rid of the bodies fast enough. Iher of those sarios they release a pheromohat attracts more of them and the strohe presence of the pheromohe more e.-

  To put it simply they are swarm tactics maed ao be dealt with swiftly to preveing overrun. My first er turned out to be a war shadow that i spotted in a dark cubby against the right wall.

  "VVVVVVVV!" the monster hummed in anger when it realized that I had spotted it before charging at me cws extended.

  The monster was much faster than any goblin or kobold for sure but I repared for this as I deflected the right cws with my left bracer which made a screeg sound like metal against metal. The left cws were redirected by my on as I cleaved the creatures head from it's shoulders with the sharp side of it. The body filed about for a bit like a snakes would before stilling and allowio use my teique to make the things only drop, it's cws, a guarahing. Ohat was done I ripped the sto of it's head which was an unfortable feeling but i ig si ehe moment the monsters body went poof.-

  Like I expected I got more smoke for killing this stronger monster and khat I robably going to chase after stronger and stronger moo get that extra rge serving of smoke for my whole career. Grabbing my spoils and putting them in my bag I carefully move on and frown as I don't find any more monsters for quite a while.

  'It's probably just bad luck.' I thought and took out my meal to eat and leasantly surprised to find that it was four soy eggs and rice with beef in it.

  I ate quickly while keeping an eye and ear out for any newly spawning monsters but it was all quiet. I put away the box and no sooood up before hearing the sound of heavy footsteps approag my position. I thought it robably a frog shooter moving about and stood waiting at the ready only for a meaty dark hand to grab the frame of the hallway the sound was ing from and pull the rest of it's body into view.

  "Oh fuurphy!" I cursed as the bull headed minotaur stepped into the room.

  Minotaurs were seven foot tall humanoid monsters with thick skin, bull heads and the ability to wield ons, they were also level two monsters. My insane ass didn't immediately try and book it though in the face of this defio to fight monster. No I skipped flight a straight to fight mode as I took a stand fred my curse energy as adrenaline pumped through me.

  "RAAAAOOO!" the minotaur bellowed and our dance of death began to py out.