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[14th Everdusk 2103], CGA Branch, Dyna Crest country.
"So kid, are you ready for the test?"
"Yes sir, just got dazed to see such a type of dungeon which can even shock a high-ranking hunter who hasn't seen it before."
"Yes, it's correct. Even I was baffled when I first saw this dungeon, but now it's normal for me."
I grinned a little and nodded in agreement. Then I stood up in front of the dungeon, just about to enter, but a field agent stopped me by clutching my shoulder with a confused look.
"Kid, are you entering to die inside? Why aren't you wearing your armor and gear? And most importantly, where is your staff or weapon?" He asked while looking at me. I nodded and began to put on my gear as I couldn't break free from his grip.
"Listen, kid, I'm telling you this and maybe no one else will: whenever you enter a dungeon, be prepared and always put on your armor before going inside to stay safe."
"Okay sir, I won't forget your advice," I said as I put on both items that I had with me since I didn't have others.
I nodded toward him and was about to enter when I looked back and said,
"Sir, maybe the Branch Manager may come to check as she mentioned on the call." Without waiting for a response, I entered inside while the agent officer was baffled to hear that the Branch Manager might come to supervise the test.
"This kid really is something, to even get the manager to come here to check on his test."
He sighed and went toward the junior officer who was holding a machine analyzing the power of mana fluctuation to see if the dungeon was reacting strangely or not.
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While in the dungeon, I was standing in front of a cave formed in a large mountain, with a vast forest behind me that covered it from the outside.
I walked into the forest to see if I could find something, but after a few meters, the field of the dungeon was closed off. I couldn't see the further forest ahead of me due to a thick fog-like substance. It was impossible to go inside the fog.
"It looks like I've reached the limit of the dungeon here, so I have to enter the cave to fight the boss."
I looked back toward the cave, which was slightly visible from my position, and started walking towards it to get inside.
I first tried to look inside but saw nothing. Taking the agent officer's words as truth that the boss is the only monster here, I walked inside to confront him directly.
However, it wasn't possible for a few minutes as I went further into the cave. It was getting darker, and the surroundings were becoming gloomier and colder as time went by.
I even found some sword marks on the cave walls, which looked quite old. It seemed like some enraged person or maybe the boss himself had made them in anger someday.
As I left the area and moved inside, I finally saw a little light in front of me. I thought it was an open area inside the cave and rushed toward it, but what came in front of me was something much different.
When I entered the area where light was illuminating, I found the source not to be sunlight but mana crystal-like stones illuminating the whole area inside the cave.
As I walked in and moved forward in search of the boss, I found the being I might have been searching for.
A skeleton wearing the armor of a knight was sitting while leaning against the wall. A rather large sword, but not a broad one, was standing beside him. It appeared to be a long sword. With a pile of bones beside his few meters away, maybe it was off a monster or creature with him, or he hunted before.
As I approached him, I noticed a twitching sensation on the skeleton's body. I had already been informed about the boss and wouldn't fall for its tricks.
"Oii, come on, get up already. I know it's you, the only living bei... oh, sorry, the one residing here."
As I spoke, the vibrations in the dead body increased until a deep yellow flame ignited in the skeleton's eye. He started standing up from the ground and grabbed his sword, which was plunged into the ground beside him.
He stood completely straight and pulled his sword from the ground, facing me. The name and level appeared on my system for the first time in my life, perhaps due to the unique dungeon effect.
{The Vengeful Spirit of the StormbladeSkeletonKnight (Lv.27) is emerging to eliminate the intruder.}
'Oh boy, looks like my death is confirmed today,' I thought as I noticed the boss launching toward me at high speed.
"Bro, at least we should have talked first," I said to him, but no one was going to answer me anyway.
I didn't even try to block or parry his attack, knowing that without testing the waters, there was no way to do it.
I moved away and found that my agility was just slightly behind the boss's. I knew how to solve it.
I was getting joyful that I could actually defeat this boss when my joy turned into extreme shock. When the attack landed on the ground, a huge slash mark appeared making me realize that this boss was really focused on attack power. Maybe there were other aspects he specialized in as well.
"Taste this to show me your aspect, you big slicer," I said as I used my skill to test his defense. If it was low, then he was surely dead for now.
[AracneBolt] {-15 MP}, I used my mage class skill for the first time to test the waters, as a bolt made of mana formed and conjured into a mass of blue matter.
It shot straight toward the boss, who looked at it approaching but did not dodge or try to deflect it, as if he didn't care.
My excitement turned into a total nightmare as my experiment took not even 1/100th of the HP displayed on the boss's health bar. The armor adorning the boss's body didn't even flinch a little. I finally understood what type of build this boss had: Strength, Health, and Endurance.
It was a total knight class with properties of wind and storm elements, which may be hard but still not impossible to defeat after I played my trump card.
I my trusted skill, which could turn my chance of winning into success, but maybe it was my biggest mistake ever.
And the reason for that was because....
-- To be continued --