Original Translation: APM
Editing: Legit-rikk
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Eating.
Eating.
I am eating.
Little by little, in order to not be noticed I slowly nibble away my food.
< Proficiency has reached a certain level. The skill [Heretic Attack LV1] has become [Heretic Attack LV2]. >
I am a spider. And I am in a pinch right now as I am slowly getting cornered. What should I do?
The monsters all but disappeared. Are you kidding me? Why is there nothing here?
They won’t get caught in my nest, and I don’t see any of them once I go out. That is a problem isn’t it?
A dangerous monster from the middle stratum turned up all of the sudden. It’s a dangerous creature that releases a tremendous amount of intimidation, spreads curses and paralysis, and is casting spells non-stop!
What do you think you would do in such a situation? Of course you run away if you aren’t an idiot.
Ha-ha! Isn’t that crazy monster just me?
Right. Yeah. If you look at it that way, I am really crazy, aren’t I? And that is why the monsters run away.
Because if they don’t, they just get eaten.
haaa-
Really now, what is going on here. I have to go quite far to find anything in the upper level. In the middle level they are also all doing home office inside the magma.
I am not worried about starving to death, because I have enough food stocks left over, but if I don’t think of a countermeasure now, it may be at some point be too late to fix it.
Well, it’s not like I am totally done, I still have one last ace in the hole:
Spatial Magic Level 9 [Teleport]!
This dreamy magic can take me to any place I know. Moreover, it can be combined with Lady Wisdom’s map to give me an accurate way of pinpointing a location!
But I think I am not going to do that for now, rather I think it is time to start looking for a real exit. So I roam around and expand my scope of activities looking for prey and an exit, and when I get tired I just teleport back home.
I think I will repeat this process and continue to raise my [Fire resistance] while I am back home. If I can’t find any prey, I just transport to the lower level, where I run into Monsters just by walking a bit. I don’t think I will lose there unless the earth dragons appear again. Saying that, I am honestly not that keen on the lower level because of that risk.
Now that we have our thoughts in order, let’s go out and expand the map! And coincidentally get a meal on the side! Well, it’s not like the monsters in the upper level taste that well though…
Wandering around the upper level and teleporting back to my home. I’ve been living like this for a while now and my Upper Stratum map has expanded quite a bit because of it. But it is still only about 10% of the Middle Stratum. I lived in the Middle Stratum way too long.
I didn’t see a lot of Monsters while doing this, which is only natural considering they were running from me, right? But thanks to that I’ve had a hard time obtaining food and experience.
However, one time I got a treat, experience AND food. I came across a passage that was as wide as the middle stratums and ran into an earth wyrm – an Elroe Fenegrad. It looked like some kind of T-Rex, and I thought I saw it somewhere before, but it was just a part of the crowd of monsters I saw when I was just born. Though it is a long way from there to here, so it might just be a different member of the same species.
When we fought it was strong. Yes, strong. I might have restrained him with strings and stopped him completely with my [Inert Evil Eye] and sucked him dry with my [Jinx Evil Eye], but he was still strong.
There was no mistaking he was powerful.
But that’s all, isn’t it? I am a dragon slayer, and a mere wyrm is nothing to me. Come to think of it, even a fire wyrm could be beaten rather easily. There is an unconditional gap between a wyrm and a dragon in terms of strength.
Thanks to defeating him, my SP stock increased, and I got some tasty experience. But sadly, I cannot say the same about his flesh. Thanks to the Jinx Evil Eye, even my SP is getting filled up without eating, so it is great that I have more SP to spare now. Thanks to that function my fear of starvation has been put further back. I can just string up the uneaten corpse, and when my SP gets low I just can eat them bit by bit.
The experience was also very delicious. It was almost the same level as the fire wyrm, so I am very close to leveling up. It is still not enough, but at this rate I’m sure to level up soon. Then I am finally going to evolve. Evolving is not going to be the end, but a milestone. I think it is more efficient to have smaller goals and achieve them one-by-one.
Well, my next goals are the following:
– Evolve
– Level up Fire resistance
– Find a way out of here
As for the way out, I am in no hurry, so I just hope I find it eventually. It would be bad to encounter some humans unprepared.
Humans, huh..
What should I do if I encounter them? I don’t think I would be willing to kill them, but if they try to then I will fight back.
To be honest, I don’t think I have as much of an aversion to killing as I did when I was in Japan. Hm, maybe I didn’t have that much of an aversion about it in the first place. I just didn’t do it because it was troublesome and there was no point in doing it. Thinking about it, wouldn’t it also be troublesome to kill people in this world?
I don’t want to be noticed after all.
Yeah. I’m just going to run away when I meet humans. I don’t even know how strong the humans are in this world. There is no way all of them are dragon class, right???
Well, if they haven’t captured the Middle Stratum yet, they are probably not that strong. Anyhow, lets just hope I don’t run into them.
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