What the dungeon wanted was widely accepted to be nothing short of killing all the gods and people on the surfad this meant that any adventurer who delved was a target. Most of the time the dungeon followed a tried and true methodology and ruleset when dealing with adventurers but for select few sarios it was uood that the dungeon might even go out of it's way to bend some of these rules. One such rule that was broken was if the dungeoermihat a monster was too helpful for an adventurer and thus prevehem from meeting them.-

  This could be overe of course if you were stubborn enough about what you were after sihe dungeon still had to deal with other adventurers likely on the same floor but for casual delving like mihat wasn't something I was after. Last time i had harvested close to a hundred or so ants so the dungeon had decided that I shouldn't get that oppurtunity again. I didn't have any issue at all with that since just by going deeper I could go for quality rather than quantity of smoke.-

  The eight to ninth floor had another décor ge as the size of the rooms began to get bigger and the ceilings taller while moss grew along the walls. There were no new monsters on these floors but the ones from the previous floors appeared stronger here. Everything got faster and hit harder while also getting slightly smarter in how they fought. My stats were almost equal to a weak level two at the moment except in magic but since I wasn't using that at the moment it didn't matter. These were still level one mohough so I had little issue smashing through them.-

  Floor ten was were things got tricky for me as Needle rabbits, Orcs, Imps and Bad bats all start appearing and were all cssified as high level one mohat a normal level one least B rank across the board to even attempt to fight. Needle rabbits were as the name implied rabbits with sharp horns on their head. They are fast and hard to spot in the misty terrain of the floor as they are white in color. Orcs were the first rge css moo appear in the dungeon standing over teall and being fat green skinned humanoid creatures with pig snouts, tusks and ears. -

  They also used uprooted trees as ons so obviously you don't o be told what getting hit straight on by them might do to you. Imps were small thin red skinned humanoid demoures with small bat wings and a single sharp horn of their perpetually grinning heads. They were also known as duhieves sihey had a habit to snatch bags or loosely held ons while the adventurers were distracted. Finally there were the Bad bats that were just really annoying bats that swooped down randomly to cause problems sihey stayed on the ceiling otherwise.-

  None of these were a problem individually but the issue was that monsters never spawned alone on this and the floors but rather in groups. Each group was also never smaller than three monsters so I had to stay on my toes on this floor. Orcs proved the most troublesome as their tall heights and long reag o that I couldn't easily smash their skulls and be doh it. Those swung trees moved armingly fast and when there was more than one ing at you it was hard to do anything beyond dodge stantly.-

  I eventually got used to the way things operated on this floor and got my first kills on these Orcs when they over exteheir swings aheir knee caps open briefly.

  "CRACK!"

  The sound of my blunt end snapping the bones in the left leg of my target was musiy ears as I dodged the falling monster and his friends swings. Quickly dashing behind it I brought my on down on it's head that was now within read left that Orc dead.-

  Monsters were ruthless though and the two remaining Orcs swung their on into the corpse trying to get me in the process but i had already move out of the way having expected it. The corpse exploded into smoke that got sucked into my tattoos as the heavy strikes crushed the magic stone. Using that brief window i dashed to the Ord swung the sharp end of my on across the right knee of the sed orc, cutting through it like butter. My neon was badass and these monsters didn't stand a ce against it.-

  Blood sprayed out of the wound and the Orc roared in pain for a moment before it's friend struck it with it's tree trying to hit me and only pletely crippling the orstead. Movement is key in the dungeon, a fact I had learned and made sure I implemented stantly. If you stand still for more than a moment you bee vulnerable to attacks. The final Orc was dispatched shortly after that and I got to harvesting my spoils while maintaining my vigihis floor and the two after it were well known as the pce that most robberies happened and I preferred not getting taken by surprise.-

  Reason being that these floors were deep enough that adventurers were now worth robbing and that the stant mist made it easy to set up ambushes. Add these things together and well you figure out why it's not reeo e here aloo be fair though it's not reeo delve aloher but people still do that so it is what it is. I myself oor target for robbing as I didn't wear armor and was stantly vigint. Not to mention after watg me dismantle Orcs without getting even a little winded showed I wasn't some soft target that wouldn't fight back.-

  So while I wasn't ed about getting robbed i was still paranoid enough not to take that franted. I hunted down another set of Ord some needle rabbits that decided today was a good day to die as well before calling it for the day. I earhirteen thousand valis from my loot which showed that the deeper you went the more valuable loot was. Rose was a little upset at me foing that deep alo after I showed her that I was without anything more than a few cuts and bruises from near misses and dodges she left it at scolding me for my recklessness.-

  I loved how walking through the dungeon square no longer smelled of blood, sweat and other unpleasahanks to the new potions that had takey by storm. The potions worked so well and were so popur that even Ishtar had issioned perfumed and airborne versions that she used in her brothels to remove that particur stench from them without burning an ungodly amount of stupidly strong inse. I only know this because Naaza pio me about it when I went to drop off my vials a more potions.