After buying my new bow yesterday and spending the morning getting used to it while exploring the woods near town, I just killed a few magical animals to test the bow before heading to the dungeon after lunch.
I'm carrying more baggage compared to yesterday because exploring the moonlight forest dungeon and more complicated not only am I carrying an extra gun but I'm using a light gun that can help me during the exploration.
The Moonlight Forest is the only dungeon in the city that the open environment is subject to climate change. Its weather changes from an open one to a storm so use an insulating cape and useful in case I find myself in the rain, as I approach the entrance to the dungeon, I see an arch made of black wood with some branches of leaves coming out of it.
If the entrance to the arena resembles Roman architecture, this dark wooden arch represents the forest I will face.
As I pass through the portal, I find myself in a silent and dark forest. Not the moon in the sky on this floor, not the rain and not a breeze. If I weren't treading on grass, I would believe I'm inside a cave.
I direct my aura to my eyes and study the surroundings. Although my vision is more related to seeing mana, aura and elemental energy I still have an overall improvement in my vision, I may not be able to see the details of the moonlight forest trees as they are dungeon constructions and for min, they are practically invisible when comparing them to regular trees, but I can still easily see their outlines so I wouldn't be bumping into even one of them today.
As I move slowly through the forest with my bow ready to fire, I start to see some figures close to my position, although not one of them is looking directly in my direction I start hunting them.
I move silently so I have a good spot to fire my arrows at my nearby enemies. It doesn't take me long to be around the monsters in this dungeon which by the way is similar in shape to a werewolf, but they are very small they barely reach my waist.
They have hair that I believe is black or dark brown I can't see colors right in this darkness, their weapons are their fangs and claws they switch between walking on two legs and using all four legs for greater speed. I start my chase by shooting three arrows in three smooth cone moves, each of my arrows was aiming at a different monster, two were closer and one was isolated to my right.
My first arrow went to the monster that is farthest away and the arrows then went to the next pair. All my arrows pierce the beasts' skulls and as I feared when the first one died, she let out a grunt at having her canine pierced, that growl might have been low, but in a silent forest like this it's basically a scream more because of the order than I fired my arrows when the beasts heard the grunt of their families, they had no time to dodge and ended up dying a few seconds apart.
During the next hour I've killed a few dozen monsters I'm walking through the dark forest like the real predator, with the aid of my wind element to mask my scent and reduce the sound I make as I move through the grass, I'm killing all the monsters I find using my bow and as Calen had stated the arrows, I bought are tough enough to be used over and over again to kill these level one and two monsters.
I only found one type of monster on this floor and even their level two version are basically equal in size and appearance if it wasn't for the amount of mana, they have in their bodies I wouldn't know how to differentiate them, but even with superior defense and reflexes better they still can't escape my arrows only once i had to shoot a second arrow at the same target one of them barely managed to turn his head away and ended up surviving.
If you can call it surviving to have the upper part of your skull destroyed and to be bleeding on the ground the blow to the monster's brain had been so great that it became a standing target on the ground that I had to shoot the second arrow to finish killing the poor underdog.
On the second floor I faced was the floor with a new moon and on this floor I faced the furry monster and a monster that looks like a beetle that is small its height matches the height of my knee its strongest feature and its hard carapace his defense is ridiculously high for a level one monster his second important trait and his attack power is pretty weak but combine it with some friends he becomes a bunch of annoying bugs but luckily my arrow loaded with my wind element to increase its penetration capacity and able to pass through its hard shell.
I was even curious to know how tough it is, so when I had the opportunity to face one of them alone, I attacked it with my bare hands to see if I could kill it without having to break its shell because after breaking it and killing the beetle its bark becomes brittle and becomes a much less valuable material.
And to my surprise I managed to kill him without breaking his shell, I had to hit him several times to the point that my hands were sore, but in the end, I must have destroyed his brain or ruptured his internal organs with my punches, I aimed mainly at the connection of your head with the body. But when I tried to detach the carapace from it broke into bigger pieces than just undoing it as empty before.
I went through this floor almost as smoothly as the first one I don't hear many challenges because the moon's effect on this floor is that monsters can regenerate their wounds, but as I basically kill them with a single attack this regeneration is negated.
The next floor was a floor with the crescent moon, and it caused the monsters to be more violent and run around the map looking for me and adding that on this floor there was a bat type monster I was attacked by several monsters in a row I checked to kill more than thirty-four monsters in a row and only after passing the count of five hundred dead monsters the floor was finally empty and I was exhausted.
The moonlight forest and much more intent when the moon is in the crescent stage the monsters don't stop if the number was a little higher, I would be basically facing a mini mare of monsters. I'm afraid to imagine what a mare of monsters would be like when a group of more than a dozen enter this dungeon, they must face thousands of monsters on a floor like this.
The next floor I faced the full moon effect which makes all monsters stronger and a form of strengthening in all aspects of monsters and our floor I faced some level one and two werewolves to strengthen the full moon theme and mine bad luck I couldn't make it through the floor without unsheathing my bodily weapons. Luring with werewolves strengthened by the full moon became an interesting challenge I ended up walking with superficial wounds caused by the werewolves' claws.
I'm lucky that in this world werewolves are monsters not people infected with a virus or curse I particularly wouldn't want to become one of those monsters their bodies have a very distorted shape compared to either wolves or any humanoid creature, even wererats has more human-like characteristics than this monster they call a werewolf.
On the fifth floor where I will face the first keeper of the moonlight forest on the moon will be in the waning stage and this increases the monsters' perceptual ability so the keeper will probably be able to detect my presence and hunt me down so hopefully, he's not a monster complicated to fight.
And as I pass through the portal and see the moon in yours, I hear a howl in the forest and realize I'm screwed. I'm facing a werewolf probably from the boss category that can track my scent because of the moon
It didn't take long to see the werewolf running towards me I didn't put my bow away because I still have the chance to shoot an arrow that can help me a lot in this fight, I run against the werewolf's position to be able to control the path he will use to get closer. To a hollow between two trees that I believe the werewolf had passed while chasing me.
Even though werewolves have a natural extinction to avoid ambushes, his bloodlust clouds that ability he usually has. I fire four arrows between the two trees when the werewolf is jumping between them.
I can only hit him with three of the four arrows fired, I hit his leg, chest and neck. My arrows may not do much damage to his body, but my arrows hit very good spots, one of them pierced his neck and the arrow taped between his ribs, will greatly hinder the werewolf's momentum.
Since a werewolf's body has its weaknesses in the same places as a human despite its deformed limbs. I advanced against the werewolf who is breathing poorly, in this fight as I don't have to worry about attracting more monsters, I use my fire element to attack the werewolf and when using it I create my flames not only to burn him but to light up the environment.
Although I can't generate a strong light like a lantern-type magical beast, a flaming sword so close to a night creature's eyes still affects the werewolf's visual ability. I can barely dodge his claws, but because of my arrows he can't attack me in the frenzy of a werewolf's natural characteristic, and this allows me to make several cuts to his body.
It didn't take long for the werewolf to die from blood loss, I had an easy fight because of the level three arrows I bought from Calen if I had been using weaker arrows, they would have broken and wouldn't have been able to get stuck and hindering the werewolf's breathing.
But everything comes at a price, even though they haven't broken they have bent a lot and that makes them rubbish, maybe Lofar can fix them or just compare mine to scrap. From the werewolf's body I can only extract his claws and main fangs the rest of him and basically useless his skin is not good for breeding leather.
Coming out of the dungeon I'm in a deplorable state even though I haven't been seriously injured as much, my rips and clothes are all cut and splintered from the blows I've suffered from the claws of werewolves. I will have to spend a portion of my earnings to repair my maturation, and unfortunately, I will not enter this dungeon again until I improve my combat skills I suffered a lot in the first five floors, and it would be too risky to try to advance to the tenth floor.