It’s dungeon time again!!


    Twilight Grotto


    For the girls to capture the beginner dungeon without me, I made them a simple guide and gave them somebat advise. Afterward, they left to capture the beginner dungeon again by themselves, since they are aiming to get all the skills they can get there, they will probably dive in three more times


    Later, I pondered about the dungeons that I would want to dive into first before I challenge the Tsukuyomi dungeon and came up with three candidates. The three dungeons are the ce that you can challenge after you beat the beginner dungeon in Magiero. They are ces that I think even the current me can capture.


    Considering what I want to do in the future and its difficulty being the easiest, the ce I want to capture first is……gotta be this one.


    “It’s here right…..? No, there’s a mark that looked like a magic circle here too, This should be the ce right?”


    I can’t help but get anxious.


    Comparing the field map from my memory and the map from this world, the ce that I found is a stone altar covered in grasses and two stone pirs. ced on top of one of the pirs is a stone imitating the shape of the sun, while the pir itself is being entwined with ivies.


    “But everything was covered in dirt and there’s no other suspicious ce around here, the only possible ce is this one.”


    I found something like a magic circle on the altar but I don’t know whether it will be able to activate or not.


    Using body strengthening I remove the ivies to take a look at the altar as a whole. One part is missing from this magic circle, is it gonna be alright if I activate it?


    I am a little anxious but for the time being, I prepare to activate the magic circle. To activate it, you have to ce a sunstone on one pir and moonstone on another. One stone has already been ced, after removing the ivies, the other stone seemed to be missing. In the game, Iori trip on it and fall down but of course, I didn’t (I stopped myself in time (barely).)


    I lift the moonstone with third hand and move toward the pir. At the top of the pir, there’s a hollowed-out ce that shaped like you can put it there.


    A change came the moment I put the stone on the pir. A bluish-white light shines through the outline of the stone. The light then moves from the pir toward the magic circle on the altar. After that, the whole magic circle shines lightly and the damaged part of the magic circle was repaired using the surrounding soil and stone, making a new magic circle.


    It seems like this magic circle has an auto repair function.


    “…….It moved.”


    Fuh, after I let out a small voice, the center of the magic circle shines a pale light. I checked my baggage and walked towards it.


    —


    The destination of the transfer magic circle is not a temple like the one from beginner dungeon, it is a cave that I can’t feel any sense of artistry from. The content of this store’s exclusive DLC dungeon [Twilight Grotto] is as the name suggests, pretty gloomy. Like a cave, the walls are covered with hard stones. If a powerful monster were to smash you against these walls then it will cause a lot of damage to you.


    “Well, I collect a lot of magic elements and my body has gotten stronger ever since I came to this world……It feels like I should be fine.”


    While hitting the rock wall I recall the practice I had with ris-san and the others. Looking at ris-san or Yukine-sempai normally, they would look like any normal girls (with their particr part that overflowing with femininity.) However, their strength is on a gori level. If you are deceived by their appearance and blindly charge in, you would be in for a world of pain. But recently, since I challenged a lot of dungeons, experience a lot ofbat and acquiring Mind Eye, I have been able to estimate the strength of my opponents from their appearance.


    “Comparing to them, that guy is just a small fry.”


    I take my hand away from the wall and increase the magic power in my stole a level. Then smack a kid with height around 130 cm with fourth hand.


    “Gubehhh, w, wait a……..Bugyaah.”


    I hit it before it can say anything. Its appearance may be close to a goblin but this guy was not one. This guy has a horn that goblins don’t possess, a hair that looks like an army deserter and on top of it all, it can talk.


    “You have to kill an Amanojaku before it can say anything. They will mostly be lying and try to confuse you, was that right?”


    Gathering the information about the monsters that will appear in the dungeon is very important when you are trying to capture one. In the book for dungeon beginner that Takioto has, it said that it is a rule to investigate the dungeon structure and monsters that will appear inside in detail before entering the dungeon.


    However, that was only in the case of the dungeon that has been captured already. In an unexplored ce such as this, there’s no way to get such information. That’s why you have to be prepared to handle anything that may appear and be more vignt than usual.


    But I have the knowledge from Magiero.


    This ce might be unexplored to others but to me, it is as good as naked. It is me who is weak so there’s not a lot of ces where I can challenge yet.


    “If I am a character that can use long-range magic then will I be able to challenge more ces? No, I won’t have enough magic power then, since I specialize in close-quarterbat now, I may be better off as I am now.


    I retrieved a small magic stone that dropped from the amanojaku and moves deeper inside.


    After that, I defeat a lot more amanojakus and when I was thinking about proceeding deeper, a new monster appeared.


    “A Nopperabou, huh.” (TLN: Do you guys prefer faceless ghosts?)


    Among the famous Japanese Youkai (TLN: Ghost/Demon), Nopperabou was one of them.


    The nopperabou that was well-known in Japan had a strong image rted to the summer specialty [Ghost Story]. That’s why when you are talking about nopperabou people often think that nopperabou = scary youkai. However, nopperabous in this world are more disgusting than scary.


    (TLN: In Japan, people said that if you tell ghost stories in summer it would give you the chill to fight off the heat)


    Nopperabou’s face doesn’t possess an eye, nose, or mouth. They always have smooth skin in Japanese illustration but here, their faces are full of pimples and wrinkles, there are also some blood vessels visible which made its appearance so graphic and disgusting. Additionally, since their faces are always expanding and contracting, it made you think that their heart is on their face which ys a role in increasing the difort feeling you felt from them.


    “At least they are weak.”


    I block the nopperabou that tried to rugby tackle me with fourth hand and smack it down with third hand from above. The nopperabou was forced to kiss the ground violently. Since it got no mouth Isn’t the expression “kissing” wrong though?


    I immediately try to do a follow-up attack but it already turned into magic elements. I stop my attack and retract the fourth hand.


    Oh, almost miss it.


    I turn back to pick up the dropped magic stone and keep going in deeper.


    “Come to think of it, why can I see despite this ce having no light source?”


    I can strangely see so well despite theck of light sources. Well, it’s a little dim though.


    Are the walls themselves the light sources? Well, since even the schrs are still clueless about the dungeons, it’s useless to think about it.


    “The map of this ce is the same as the one from beginner dungeon but…I don’t remember this ce.”


    The Twilight Grotto is a dungeon that you can skip in an additional ythrough. The reason being, after you cleared it, you would already obtain everything you can from this ce, its rewards can even be used after you have finished your ythrough. You can get strong immediately after you start a new game.


    “The earning from this dungeon is bad too….”


    The monsters that appear here are weak and easy to hunt but in return, the exp point they give is also low. It might be on the same level as the beginner dungeon but there’s nothing good that you can get here. You should challenge a different dungeon instead of diving into this one again, that being said, it can’t be helped, huh.


    Later, I dive deeper inside after I defeated more amanojakus and nopperabous.


    —-


    After I descend the stairs, I was met with another stone cave no different than the previous floor. I already descended four times, so I already expected this kind of environment.


    But, can youe out already, monster?…… Rather, there’s only Japanese Youkai here but there’s not much of a variety. Going deeper inside while defeating only these amanojakus became such a chore.


    An Enenra (TLN: Smoke monster) appeared after I reach the fifth floor. Their appearance is the same as the game’s illustration, a white smoke a little bigger than a human head with a face like a Haniwa.


    Enenra


    Haniwa


    I enchant the stole with water attribute and taking a stance with third and fourth hands. At the same time. A magic circle the size of its body emerge from in front of the Enenra’s eyes.


    The magic that flew out from that magic circle is an elementary magic [Fear Ball]. Since I had prepared in advance I received it with the water enchanted third hand and swung down the fourth hand on its face as I approached.


    Contrary to its appearance, the impact I felt was big. I thought that since it was called Enenra their body would be made up of smoke. However, it received a critical hit from fourth hand and fly away like a drunk sryman.


    “Is it okay?”


    Since it shows no sign of attacking me, I tried experimenting with them for a bit.


    I take a wooden sword out of my baggage and swung it down. But there was little respond when I attacked its face. It yields the same result when I cut off then enchantment for one end of the stole and try attacking it with no element strengthening. It did some damage to its face but the attacks slipped through its body. However, after I enchant it with a simple water attribute, its body also got damaged from the attack.


    When I keep attacking it with the wooden sword several more times, it eventually turned into magic elements and magic stone.


    After that, I experimented a lot with the enenras as I keep diving deeper.


    In conclusion, attacking the enenras with attribute less physical attack is not effective. But if I enchant the attack with attributes, especially water, it will be very effective. And if you hit its face, there’s a high probability that you will stagger it.


    “To stagger it, I felt like hitting its jaw is the most effective. It’s like they are human, are they also possessed brain?….. And hitting it with fire attribute attack wasn’t effective as well.”


    Its characteristic was going ording to the game for the most part. But annoying difference they have from Magiero is…


    “They are hard to hit since they are always flying around….”


    It might be good to throw a rock at its face but it will take a lot of time. The question remaining is that, is it a monster that worth using a battle magic stone to defeat? It would be better to flee while being careful not to get surrounded and pincer attack by them.


    Decided so, I erase my presence and run through the nopperabous and enenras without getting noticed.