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Original Translation: Blastron
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While I was lazing about in my home(TL.1), my threads started to vibrate. It looks like I’ve caught my second victim! Good timing, too, I was just starting to get hungry. I approach my prey with a skip in my step. …Honestly, though, a skipping spider is a little bit too surreal.
Last time, I was a little too careless and walked straight into my opponent’s counterattack. This time, I approach much more cautiously. Now then, what do we have here?
{Elroe Frog}
Oh, my stars and garters! Ain’t this another frog? How in the heck’d this happen?! Ain’t there a right pile of other monsters in this here dungeon?! Why’d I get the lousy luck of seeing this sucker twice?!
Haah, haah, hah. I dropped into my fake Southern accent, didn’t I. Seriously, why’d th…
Splash!
NOOOOOOOOOO!
While I was busy doing my one-man standup routine the frog spewed acid on me. I can’t believe it took me two lives to figure this out: I am a huge idiot!
Ahh, yeah, the pain helped me calm down a little bit. This time, my [Acid Resistance] level didn’t go up, so I guess my skill proficiency wasn’t raised enough. Well, that’s okay for now.
I wrap the helpless frog up in my silk until it can’t move an inch, and bite it. Crunch. Just like last time, this frog doesn’t die from one bite; perhaps they have poison resistance. Even still, the frog grows weaker as it struggles against its bonds. I quickly drag it into my home, then spend some time fixing my broken webs.
All right, all done here. I turn my attention back to the frog as it rolls around helplessly on the floor. Looks like one bite isn’t going to cut it.
Crunch!
I bite it again. Last time I wound up biting the frog over and over, but if you think about it that’s probably not necessary. My fangs are coated in venom, so biting it a couple times and letting my venom do the work is just fine.
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Poison Fang – LV1] has become [Poison Fang – LV2]>
Oh! A skill leveled up! And it’s one I’ve never seen before, too. The frog stopped moving almost immediately after my skill leveled, which was a little bit surprising. Ah, but this makes sense: if my [Poison Fang] skill increased, then my poison must have gotten stronger as well. That’s very nice!
<Experience has reached the required level. Individual Small Lesser Taratect has increased from LV1 to LV2.>
Hm?
Hmmmmm?
Ah! Something feels weird!
Uh?! What’s this?! My skin is peeling off! Am I molting? I’m molting!
<All basic attributes have increased.>
<Skill proficiency level-up bonus acquired.>
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Poison Resistance – LV2] has become [Poison Resistance – LV3].>
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Spider Thread – LV3] has become [Spider Thread – LV4].>
<Skill points acquired.>
Mmmm! No! W, wait up! That sounded really important! I was busy, and you were mumbling at me when I wasn’t paying attention! Please, say it again! One more time!
Silence.
Oof. Seriously? Ah, no, no, let’s keep calm and try to remember. She said “level up,” right? I wasn’t hearing things? Aaah, I really wasn’t paying attention, since I was unexpectedly shedding all of my skin at the time! No, wait, now that I think about it, isn’t spontaneously molting kind of unusual to begin with? I wonder if this is an effect of leveling up. Did my body change at all?
For now, let’s get the rest of this dead skin off of me. Whoa, check out this huge wound that was on my back! That must be from when I got hit by that frog’s acid earlier. I couldn’t see it at the time, but this looks really serious. Hm? Now that I’m thinking about being able to see things, it looks like that hole in my field of vision got repaired! Ohhh! I must get fully healed when I level up!
Yep. This is, without a doubt, leveling up. I feel so light and refreshed, like everything is in perfect harmony. This must have been caused by gaining experience after killing the frog, yeah? Ah, right, the frog, I should be eating. Multitasking, right.
Okay, so, let’s try to remember everything, in order. The first line was definitely about my level going up. I started to molt immediately after that, so I really wasn’t paying that much attention while the “Voice of Heaven” kept mumbling. Remember, remember… ah! Skills! There was something about my skills going up, right? Not just once, but two at a time right? …what’s up with that?
Oh! Right! There was something right before the skills. Something about… bonus proficiencies? Ah! Right! Bonus proficiencies from leveling up, or basically bonus points that I get for free whenever I level! That would explain why two skills leveled up simultaneously.
The skills that went up were, hm…
and… [Spider Thread]? Hmm, even my silk is from a skill, huh…? I only really found out about it when I leveled, though. Hmm, if I just keep spinning thread, this is going to be super easy to level up. This is great information!
Also, when I leveled, I was fully healed. It feels kind of like my stats have gone up too. But the most important thing is that I get bonus skill proficiency when I level! I don’t know how much I get, but since I got ranks in two different skills at the same time, it’s probably a pretty decent amount, right? Looks like getting levels is a pretty efficient way of getting skill ranks as well.
Levels, though. I was kind of hoping that they existed since I found out about skills, but they seriously exist! This world really is like a game, though I try not to treat it as such. Living my life as if I were in a game is kind of a scary concept, you know? It might be a bit too late, though. I can’t help but already be a little bit excited about all of this. After all, I’m a gamer down to my core.
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