[This is the edited chapter guys.
Sorry for the mishap and the bonus chapter coming soon.]
[Ace POV],
Something I've noticed in the true world is that, despite being the most dangerous place I've ever been in my life, it felt like home.
Unfortunately, mom and sister were not present.
I'm curious about when they'll arrive.
That is, I still believe they are alive, and for some reason, when this thought entered my mind, my heart ached, so I stopped and just continued to do what I was doing, removing all distracting thoughts from my mind.
After that, I continued deeper into the cave, eventually reaching the end after grinding magic gems and primordial records for several hours.
At this point, the second requirement for my job had been completed, leaving only the alchemy-related requirements to be completed.
In any case, I could finally begin working on an item capable of shaking the earth rat den and killing a large number of monsters simultaneously in a single hit, even if it was only one monster.
But I had to wait until I could leave the dungeon and return to the alternate dungeon to begin my experiments; for the time being, I had other matters to attend to.
As I considered this, I turned to face the monster in front of me, who was standing in front of a door.
There was a monster at the end of the cave, and I'm guessing this was the dungeon's exit because, aside from the fact that there were no more gems on the wall from a certain distance behind when I was coming here, it was reasonable to suspect that the door behind the slime monster is the exit and the slime monster is something like a boss or a guardian here.
At least, that's how it works when you apply the logic of video game dungeons.
In any case, I wouldn't know what the door's true purpose is until I killed the slime monster blocking my path to it.
[Rank 1 Slime Monster level 36],
The slime monster was a level above me, so I believe I can handle it, and given that all of the slime monsters I've killed, regardless of level, attacked in the same manner, I was expecting this fight to be a little easier.
As I was thinking these thoughts, the huge ball of slime in front of me began to move quickly in my direction, or should I say bounced.
Fortunately, I was already prepared for battle from the moment I saw the slime ball, so I wasn't caught off guard by its actions and was able to move away in time when an acid spray from the slime monster landed on the spot I was standing earlier, and before it could send another acid spell to me, I quickly did a quick chant for the magic arrow spell, but unfortunately failed at the first intonation of the spell, which resulted in it not working, and this was just enough time for the slime monster to send another spray attack.
I was already a little proficient in using the quick chant to cast the magic arrow spell, but I occasionally fail, and this was one of those times.
Apart from that, the fact that the slimes could spray acid from any part of their body didn't help them because they didn't have a face or head to limit their attacks, but thankfully I was able to successfully dodge the second magic spray sent in my direction by the slime monster, and since I've learned my lesson from the first failure at using quick chant in this fight, I didn't bother using it again and just circulated the mana in my body to purely manipulate to dish out pure elemental attacks.
Well, I could only do that after I dodged the slime monster's third attack, so after circulating the mana in my body to a certain extent, I conjured several fire arrows and shot them at the slime monster right away.
I avoided targeting the area where the crystal core was in the slime since I could see it through its transparent body, and because I couldn't attack with my earth element to avoid causing the slime to spit due to my attacks, I could only stick with attacking the slime monster with long-range fire magic, and thankfully, the style of attack and habits of the slime monster did not change much from the ones I've encountered in the dungeon before, so after a few more minutes of battle, I was finally able to kill the monster.
After taking several deep breaths to calm my rough breathing from jumping around in the fight against the slime monster, I moved closer to its 'melted' corpse to harvest its crystal core, adding it to the total number of cores I had on hand, which was quite a lot since the ones from the earth rat den was still there.
The epic-grade storage ring is truly a treasure because even with everything I had in it, it was still not full. However, it was messy, which was my fault, but since I could arrange it any other time, it was not a big deal. However, is this blue slime the only type in their race?
I had this thought because, since my journey through the dungeon cave, I had only encountered blue slimes and had not come across any other type or variant of slime.
Perhaps it was because of this particular dungeon, but since it was only a passing thought, I pushed it to the back of my mind and focused on the door beside me.
'I wonder if it's truly the exit outside," I thought as I slowly made my way to the door and opened it only to see a portal on the other side of the door and since there was no point in staying here anymore since I'd harvested the magic gems here, I made my way into the portal without hesitation as my vision suddenly went dark before finding myself right in front of another portal and after taking a look at my surroundings, I realised where I was.
This is where I saw the blue portal I initially thought of as something else in the true world, and the portal in front of me belonged to the slime dungeon, and since it was still here, it appears that it can be run through again.
This was my thought when a panel appeared in front of me and yanked me out of it.
[You have cleared the [Slime Dungeon] and received 1* level-up reward for the first clearance of the dungeon],
[You have acquired enough primordial chronicle to level up],
Seeing this, I decided to level up to 36 by using the accumulated primordial records.
I believe that in the true world, I already have enough strength to deal with some things other than ranked humans of the same level and monsters with the same potential as Anna summoned crow.
I suppose I could attribute this growth to luck since I just so happened to be in that particular location when the portal appeared, and the fact that it was one I could enter made it even better.
Unfortunately, levelling up was becoming more difficult, and the only way I was able to increase my level by this much was because I was the only one who soloed the dungeon, so I got a 100% of everything in the dungeon.
What concerns me, however, is whether I will be able to enter the dungeon again and, if so, whether the magical gems will still be present.
If this is true, this dungeon could have been a potential mining site instead.
Apart from the magic gems and the crystal cores which were the only raw materials I could harvest from the dungeon, only the primordial records to be gained was the other factor that attracted me to the dungeon.
I did have more than enough magic gems on hand now though.
In terms of resources, I could be considered rich but in terms of coins, I am poorer than poor.
As I thought of this, I turned to look at the blue portal in front of me and noticed a slight change in the information given to me by the primordial records.
...…
[Slime dungeon],
[Condition to enter: level 25],
[Difficulty: Normal],
....
The difficulty of the dungeon before was easy but now I am seeing its difficulty being set to normal.
What I believe is that the cause of this is that I had already cleared the easy mode or the dungeon so if I want to enter the dungeon again, it was going to be a level higher.
This assumption would have been proven either wrong or right if I had someone that hasn't entered the dungeon yet but thinking that they're will not be too much danger in the slime dungeon even with its increased difficulty, I decided to enter the dungeon again wondering how different it would be from the one I just cleared.
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