After playing around with my oversized dog I went to the 18th floor now that I'm here I might as well got there.
Riding my drake all the way down I reached a wall of 'magic' but it felt more like 'solid' Warp that it's just there static .
I wanted to touch it but my hand would just pass right through it.
"Seems like one of those bent barriers from my previous world" I could 'touch' it with my bent manipulation but it was like touching a steel wall, like whoever did it was very strong.
Going to the other side of the wall was a hall of marble? Some white rock, at the end was a path going down.
*Grrrr*
I look backwards only to see drake stuck on the opposite side of the wall.
'Not even my summons is allowed to step here...' I'll have to fix that later, or break the barrier.
As I was walking along the white hall, I felt the bent and warp in the walls were reacting, like when I prepare to use some spell.
I crouch to touch the ground and feel that the bent is 'aggressive'? Like trying to actually fight something and not just 'spawn' monsters.
Then everything starts shaking violently.
*Brrrrmm* *Crack* *Crack*
In an instant the ground and the ceiling cracked rocks fell from the ceiling smashing against the ground.
"What is happening?" I say as I dodge rocks that try to fall on me and catching some with my bare hands deflecting the force behind them and tossing them away.
In that I hear footsteps coming from the entrance.
I look at the entrance while dodging the falling debris and see Bell, carrying 2 other people that seemed to be unconscious.
He was being chased by a group of hellhounds that got crushed cause of the entrance collapsing on them.
"RUN!" he yelled while struggling to keep running.
In that I sensed his strength increasing again, not like that time when he was fighting the minotaur but still something.
"H-help us!" he said as he was nearing my position.
I was still sensing the dungeon feeling all the bent and warp in the area disappear in an instant.
"Huh?" how could it just disappear--
*ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRR*
Oh, that's probably nothing good.
I went to bell and 'helped' him by grabbing the small pallum off his back.
Then grabbing his arm, I threw him to the 'exit' making both bell and the redhead fly through the air going directly into the slope.
"WHAT?! I Said help---" he screamed as he neared the exit.
I ran past all the rubble in the floor and went to the exit carefully sliding along the slope while the hall behind me collapsed.
*sssssswwwwwwwish* *Brrrrrrmmmmm* *boooom*
Finally reaching the ground, Bell rolled a little before landing on his face while the redhead landed on top of him.
"augh" he let a pained grunt and went unconscious.
I put the little pallum in the grass on the floor.
'Wait! Grass?' I look around seeing a forest, looking up I see a lot of crystals hanging from the ceiling simulating the blue sky.
'So, this is Rivira the 18th floor' kinda like it, reminds me of my time in the forest, without the whole 'cannibals trying to eat me'
I breathe deeply the fresh air from the vegetation around the place 'this dungeon really needs some ventilation'.
Sensing someone's presence I turn around only to see Ais looking at the trio with her expressionless eyes.
"Oh, hi Ais, shouldn't you be at the 59th floor or something?" I ask her.
"We stopped at the 18th floor to regroup" she said looking at me.
"So, are you going to help them? I don't really have potions and stuff" I say showing my pouch filled with magic stones.
"hm" she nods and drags the trio to her tent.
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Finally reaching the small village we go directly to her tent and she calls some medics to take care of them.
I could but I'm not a doctor, I hurt people not heal them.
As we were waiting for them to wake up, I talked to ais.
"Ais did you sense that earthquake? Is that what happens when one of the 'quests' spawns?" I ask
"Hm, but it's strange as the goliath was killed just some days ago, meaning that it shouldn't spawn in a week". She spoke
'Just as I expected, the dungeon is really trying to kill something inside it' could it be that some gods entered the dungeon?
'I should be a nice moment to see what happens if a god happens to die inside the dungeon, or what kind of monsters the dungeon throws at them'.
After some minutes of talking to each other I left making my way to the large lake at the center of the floor.
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Reaching the lake, it was very beautiful but the feeling that it gave me was like that lake at the 'between'.
Looking at the tree in the middle of the lake I could feel something inside it.
Going to one of the trees beside me I put my hand on the tree trying to feel its bent.
And yes, pretty much everything here has the same 'Bent signature' of the dungeon, but these small fruits seem to have its own like when someone gives birth to a child, the baby's signature would be completely different to that of the mother or father.
Unless there is some bloodline in the equation, then the bent of the baby will be similar to that of the parents, and in this case the fruit its similar to the dungeon, making these fruits literally 'dungeon fruits'.
After debating for a while, I decided to eat the fruit, although it was super sweet It wasn't bad.
[18/30 bent remaining]
[the user has ingested raw bent, while not harmful to normal humans, the system automatically drained the bent inside the fruit guiding it to user's own storage.
Due to it being RAW bent the user may only eat 5 every 10 hours, past that number the toxicity will start to increase.]
"Just like I thought it's a more dangerous 'bent potion'" I said while eating 4 more.
[22/30 Bent remaining]
'I wonder how much will toxicity increase if I eat one more?' I thought while looking at another fruit in my hand throwing it in my mouth.
[23/30 Bent remaining]
[Warning!
Toxicity: 5% (1h30m)]
Suddenly all my muscles tensed and it was hard to breath.
*haaa* *haaa*
"Geez, this toxicity thing hits hard, like always" I say regaining my breath and trying to relax my muscles
I remember how kala almost killed me that one time making my toxicity go to 25%, that time it felt like my bones were breaking.
Well, no more fruit for another 10 hours.
But it's still 10 bent per day contrary to the normal bent regeneration of 1 per 12 hours
I wonder if I make a juice out of 5 of them and drink It, would it give me 5 bent?
'I should take some of these to the surface and experiment a little' I thought while looking at the many fruits in the surroundings.
After a while of looking at the scenery I went back to train, but this time making sure [Beli ma] hit level 10, and I even made a great discovery, by circulating bent to my feet and stepping in water the bent and the water will repel each other making me walk in Water!
'I should have thought of this before'.
[Beli ma has reached level 9,10! +2 Sta
Please chose an ability...]
[7/24 Warp remaining]
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Yes, it is Water walking from [Naruto] but it's just water walking not wall or ceiling, bent just doesn't mix with water no matter what you do, unless you have some sort of [Alchemy] skill.
And sorry guys but I'll be uploading chapters slowly now, because I've been sick for a few days now, (I'm worried it's going to be C0vid) and I can't really write if I feel like wet trash.
So, I hope you like the chapter and see you in the next one