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Formatting/Extras: APM
Original Translation: Blastron
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Today, like every other day, I’m hunting centipedes. Maaan. It’s Centipede Heaven, here! They look pretty gross, but they’re really pretty awesome prey if you don’t look at them too closely. Well, my sensibilities really aren’t so delicate. I think their rustly little legs are actually kind of charming. Centipedes are the best!
My [Paralysis Resistance] skill is up to level three, and I’m going to hit level eight soon, right? Seriously, thank you, little buddies.
Just now, I tried to see if I could take two of them on at once, and I did remarkably well, considering. The first one I did in with a sneak attack, but the second I had a pretty tense battle with. In a straight-up fight, centipedes seem to be remarkably quick! Hah, well, not as quick as me. It looks like their attacks are largely limited to biting. Their paralytic venom would probably do me in if I were to get bitten… but, y’know, if I don’t get hit, there’s no problem at all. As long as I’m wary of the bite, everything else is easy. I’ve finally found an entire race of beings weaker than me!
It looks like it’s not just sneak attacks that are effective against these guys. I can hit them straight-on too! MwahahaHA! I’m so STROOOONG! I almost can’t stop laughing.
They’re also super-easy to eat, which is awesome. They may look huge when they’re still rustling around, but the actual volume of meat inside is surprisingly small. One of them is enough to sate my appetite in the short term, but is nowhere near enough to fill me up entirely. Thus, I’ve been eating every scrap of every centipede I’ve encountered, leaving nothing behind. Waste not, want not. I’m a pretty frugal person, so I understand well that waste is the greatest of sins. These centipedes are great, though, since I can eat the entire thing and not need to worry about wasting anything.
It’s really quite nice of the centipedes, to be born solely for the purpose of filling my belly! Eheheheheh. I’ve been living my life super-cautiously until now, so it really can’t hurt me to have some fun once in a while?
Humming and exploring, humming and exploring~! Well, I don’t really have any way to hum for real, so I was just humming in my head. …Vocal cords aside, do I even have a nose to begin with? Ah, well, doesn’t matter.
Oh? Looks like the path forks here. Neither of them look much like a dead end though.
It’s a little weird. This labyrinth is enormous, and I haven’t seen a single dead end! While I’ve been exploring the labyrinth, I haven’t hit any parts of a path where I needed to think about turning around. It’s great to know that I’m not going to run out of corridor if I’m being chased by something, but thinking about how huge this dungeon must be just makes me sigh.
What if this world, this entire world, is just one big underground dungeon? I don’t think that’s the case, but I’ve certainly not been able to find an exit, much less leave and take a look at the outside myself. It really could be true.
I’m sure that the outside world exists, but even so, there’s a chance that my ineptitude could wind up making me live out my entire life in this dungeon. If that’s the case, I’d really like to die of old age while searching for the exit, but it’s way more likely that I’ll end up dying prematurely. Hm, I was just thinking about old age, but I have no idea what my natural lifespan actually is. Just based solely on size, might I live only about as long as a large dog? At the very least, I’d like to live longer than I did in my previous life.
Well, let’s put these useless thoughts aside.
The path forks at the top of a huge cliff. Before me, an enormous cavern yawns. Has my journey through these maze-like tunnels finally come to an end? I wonder what’s next! I really hope it’s not a super-dangerous zone like the one I was born in, with all of the cannibalism and the giant spiders and the huge crowds of monsters. It doesn’t matter how long my lifespan is, it’s not enough to deal with all of that.
Ah, anyhow, what should I do now? I quickly glance down into the pit.
{Elro Ferekt – LV 2 – failed to appraise statistics}
{Elro Ferekt – LV 2 – failed to appraise statistics}
{Elro Ferekt – LV 2 – failed to appraise statistics}
{Elro Ferekt – LV 2 – failed to appraise statistics}
{Elro Ferekt – LV 2 – failed to appraise statistics}
{Elro Ferekt – LV 2 – failed to appraise statistics} and so on, and so on.
<Proficiency has reached the required level. Skill [Appraisal – LV4] has become [Appraisal – LV5]>
Grrk! My… head… HURTS! Information from [Appraisal] blasts into my brain like a punch to the face. Whoa, I almost passed out. That was bad, that was bad. If I overdo it with [Appraisal], I’ll get too much information for my brain to handle, leaving me with a monstrous headache. Well this is useful information to have, now isn’t it! Fainting would have only been natural.
……Hang on, I was too busy not passing out, what did [Appraisal] tell me?
I deliberately look over the edge of the cliff. Yeah, it’s a cliff, but it really only looks like it’s one meter deep. The cavern before me is pretty huge, but it really doesn’t feel like a vast, empty space. After all, it’s completely covered in centipedes.
Whaa?!
What what what what what what?!?! Centipedes! Centipedes!!!! All I see are centipeeeeeeedes!!!! This is disgusting! This goes beyond just gross, this is straight-up disgusting.
Hmm? Centipedes, might I ask what you are looking at? Me? I can’t imagine why you’d all be looking at…
I need to get out of here. I must become the wind! Quickly, from whence I came!
Rumble Rumble Rumble Rumble Rumble!!
Eeeeeeek! They’re chasing me! They’re chasing me! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!! I got carried away!!! Forgive me! Seriously, please!! Forgive meee!
My yellow stamina meter is empty. Ugh, it hurts to keep going, but if I stop, I die!! I don’t care if it hurts as bad as dying, I must! Keep! Going!! In place of my yellow meter, the red one starts to slowly decrease.
In the end, although it cost me about half of my red stamina bar, I escaped the army of centipedes.
Man, I seriously thought I was going to die.
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