Now then you folks,you've seen so far only this town, specially the beginner dungeon and my little apartment.Well other than the few bars and the market there's no really anything special about this town.
Now let me tell you that I live in a town located far away from the capital of the human kingdom but at the same time this town didn't encounter too much change since the appeareance of monsters and dungeons,from time to time there are people who would obtain a system but after obtaining it they would go towards the capital or more economically developed towns hence the explanation of the absence of other people with a system and maybe because there's only a beginner dungeon here.
Since I am only good at fighting,I tried to enroll myself in the human army to fight against the monsters, but because I didn't a system I was rejected and because dungeons only allows people with a system with nothing to do and maybe with my lack of motivation at that time for various reasons I decided to return in my hometown.
By no any means I'm weak, since I was trained and taught all kind of knowledge years ago by a mysterious traveler.
She trained me like I did with Velena and Ira but longer and more extreme and taught me the meaning of the terms like:gacha,yaoi,chuunibyou,hentai,manga,yuri...etc.
Despite not knowing what exactly they were I still absorbed that kind of knowledge in my head...
But no matter where I looked in the books I never found these kind of terms,mhh...well she was stange herself as she always proudly proclaimed herself as a lolicon yet no matter how hard and how many times I asked the meaning she would always refuse,"They would come to me and lock me up again..." that is what she would often mutter after I asked her...
A-anyway,the dungeon where we are currently going is situated in between the borders of the elven kingdom and the fairy kingdom leaning more in the elven kingdom, it recently appeared few days ago and it seems that the elves are particularly hiding this information from the people especially from their fairy neighbor as to why they are doing it I don't know, and as to how I managed to obtain this information I can only answer that I have a few connections, other than that I'll leave it to your immagination.
Thankfully my town,being in the outskirts of the human kingdom, is near the location we are currently going.We just need three days of worth of travel and then we would arrive to the location.
The dungeon is named as Tower of Trials where the minimum and maximum level to enter is from 5 to 40, a tower type dungeon which instead of a boss to proceed in next floor you need to pass a test or trial given by the core.From the information I got,no one was able to proceed in the second floor but there are two different interesting piece of information;
The first being that only a person can enter at a time to do the trial,and that person has to talk with a being.
The second is that the elven royal family's army is personally going to enter the dungeon,not to conquer it but to obtain an item within a floor of the dungeon, and accompanying them is the only princess of the elves.As to what is the item, I don't know.
The three of us decided to not get a carriage but just going there by feet,and taking advantage of that we enjoyed walking in peace observing the nature around us and especially in the night we would watch the myriad of stars in the dark sky while lying in the soft grass.
By the time we arrived in the place,five days already passed and since we've taken our time to arrive the princess has just entered in the dungeon...
"Hey...it's really okay for us to sneak in like this?"
"Why are you asking?"
"Well...It's like that the entire area is guarded by elves...and powerful ones too."
"No problem.This dungeon is still has no owner,so it's okay.In the first place they have no right to do this kind of thing...jeez!What's so important inside to make the elves behave like this.Well news about this dungeon should soon spread no matter how much they hide it.Unless they obtain the item they are searching for or the other races would find it suspicious and send more competition."
"Wouldn't they chase us the moment the moment we enter?"
"Don't worry about that, all of them are above level 40 so they are unable to chase us the moment we enter."
"Don't really know whether to feel glad that they won't chase us or dread that they are so much of a high level."
"If you attack them one by one,I think you should be able to kill them Velena.Anyway here we are."
We arrive unnoticed in front of the gigantic door, different to the beginner dungeon the door is made of silver and on it is written,
[To those who are ready to take this thorn path towards the end.Start by fighting yourself. Level 5-40]
[Do you wish to take this path?]
Huh.It is different from the other one.
"Yes!We are ready."
Abruptly we hear yelling and steps running towards as the elves have noticed the silver door opening.
"What going on!?" "Intruders!" "Humans!They are human scum!" "Get them befo-"
Too late,buddy.We are already inside.
"Oh!""Wow" The two gasp amazed by the beauty of the dungeon.
Everything;floor,ceiling and walls are made of translucent silver,with it I could see my own reflection.Yet despite the beauty there's a bit of oddity as there's no sign of life.In the background you can hear a mechanical voice singing,a mermerizing song is being sung yet it is too far to understand the words.
[Find the room of the trial of humility and pride.And pass it.]
Mhh.[Navigation] makes me able to somewhat understand the layout of this floor,obviously it has its limits like that I cannot completely 'see' all the layout of this floor if I don't move, I can barely 'see' a tenth and it doesn't pin treasure chests,traps and other beings but to cover this flaw there are Velena and Ira with their [Perception] that increases Velena's five senses and her [Trap detection].And with [Detect hostility] that makes Ira able to point the positions of the enemies the moment they aim their hostilities to us.
"Mhh...I think that within the range of my [Navigation] there are some rooms that may contain some treasure chests,ah it seems there's even a secret room near us.Velena,Ira what about you?"
With her eyes closed she says,"I sense a pair of forty heavy footsteps and a pair of lighter ones and they seem going fighting against some monsters with the triple of their numbers, they are located in our right but distant from us..."
"I don't feel any monster near us meaning they killed them or just drawed to themselves..."
"Okay let's first get all the treasure chests and then quickly find the trial room, Velena warn me the moment you sense a trap,okay?Then let's hurry up!"
I don't want to be involved with the princess at all so the faster we are the better,well if you ask me whether I prefer taking the risk of taking all the treasures or being encountering the princess...then I'll always chose the treasures over the princess, treasures contain enchanted weapons,rare metals,grimoires,all kind of books,artifacts and unique items after all.
After plundering-ahem found the all the chests of this floor we directly went to the trial room that we found in the middle of exploring this floor, and it seems that after they defeated the monsters they took the liberty to take a rest.Ha!Fools!
"Ira,Velena for the time I will be inside the trial room hide yourself,okay?"
""Understood""
We then found ourselves in front of a smaller silver gate on its sides two silver statues: to the left a statue of a expressionless nun bowing to the statue to the right and that is of a grinning horned woman.
Taking a step forward, the statues turn their heads towards me and start to speak with their identical voices.
[Oh,a new candidate.Are you ready to answer our questions?]
"Yes..."
[Very well,welcome to our test,candidate.]
Without further notice I was teleported inside the room leaving Velena and Ira wishing me good luck in the back before they used their skills to temporarily hide.