It has been 50 days since i have entered this dungeon.
The past 8 days have been rather monotonous.
My daily routine consisted of attacking heavily the spiders while periodically sneak attacking the bees to slow down their expansion rate.
At this point i am pretty sure i have covered around 40% of all the dungeon with gluttonus aura, the spiders are going down at a very fast rate and the bees have actualy lost some ground.
Now comes the annoying part.
I look infront of me only to see the ants are ignoring all the dust that is killing them and keep pushing forward towards the bees.
After the fall of the cenipede boss the centipedes quickly became extinct making the already bad situation of the ants even worst.
Even with me taking most of the attention of the spiders, they still weren't left alone even for a bit.
This had been going on for some time now, making the ants lose most of their territory.
I had thought that they would just die out but colour me wrong, these things are going for a miracle.
The ants have yet to come into contact with the bees so the don't know what to expect, little did these poor things know that only hell awaits for them should the meet the bees.
But it's not like i will allow such a thing to happen.
I have almost died twice in this floor, i am no longer in the mood to play around and create unnecessary problems.
Plus it is a bad idea to give the bees any more resources than they already have.
Thinking of this i began casting spells.
My actions were quick and merciless, taking all the ants by storm.
I was channeling all my fears and annoyance of this dungeon to these poor ants, after all i was and still am a normal person.
Not having the ability to communicate with someone is realy starting to grind away at my sanity, i had vauge hope at the beginning that i would at the very least be able to talk with the goddess but my hope were quickly shattered by my inability to connect to her at all.
And these damn cave are not helping at all, i know that there are 2 floors left and then the dungeon boss and i realy hope that the 2 future floor are more open, even though that would be realy bad for my current clearing tactic i realy can't handle anymore of this feeling of enclosure.
.....
In no more than 8 hours all the previously numerous ants were now gone, even their leader, the black ant queen fell to my gluttonus spear.
The battle was very strait forward and boring since the ant queen was both slow and week do to her only job being producing more minions, i realy hope this will also be the case with the queen bee.
Unfortunatly there is a drawback to her being weak.
Yes, there was no skill to be had after this fights.
Not that wasn't expecting it, i reckon that other than the floor boss only the queen bee migth be able to give me a new skill, there is also hope for the spider queen but i highly doubt something like this happening.
There was a silver lining though.
I look at the dark-blue potion that i was currently holding.
Originaly i would have ignored this potion like the rest since i don't actualy know what it's effects are but this one is different.
.....
"Rose have you ever heard of 'mind enhancing' potion?"
Rose put away the broom before she faced me.
She made quizzical expresion for a bit before she started to talk.
"If i am not mistaken, this should be a potions that enhances the capabilities of the mind."
'No shit sherlock!'
Keeping all the discontent in my head from such an unhelpful answer i pressed her to keep going.
"Emm, i have heard of it before, mages are after it all the time but i don't know very many details about it at all."
"Then Rose can you tell me what rank it is?"
Rose paused for quite some time before she finaly answered.
"It should be a top tier 2 potion, if i am not mistaken it should have a deep-blue colour but this is honestly all that i can recall."
"Bell, why are you asking for such a thing?"
"It is required for a skill of mine to evolve."
After i said this she frowned for a bit.
"Bell i don't think it posible fo us to get such money to buy the potion, even if we were to get the money we have no conections to any alchemists."
"Don't worry about it, i will figure something out."
These were my last words before i started walking back to my room.
.....
Yup, the only thing i know is the colour, for all i know there could be tens of such potions but still i realy don't care.
There were two reasons for me to not drink any potions whose effects were unknown to me.
FIrst, it could poison or some sort of potential drawing that gives you extreme power for a bit but will damage you body irreversibly.
Second, i could be some ultra rare drug that would have great affects only on surtain situations.
It was only after using my brain to the very limit that i figured out that this potion was indeed the mind enhancing.
Definitely using my brain, i didn't drink only a bit or something like that!
So now i will be getting back to the safe-zone.
I learned from my experience that evolving skills, especially one that you have no clue what their evolved versions would do, is better to be done at a safe space without any imminent danger.
.....
Arriving at the safe-zone i pushed my favorite to the side and prepared to drink the potion.
Sitting crossleged i opened (again) the bottle of potion, a refreshing mind fragrance spread to the surroundings.
Without any more delay i gulped down the rest of the potion.
It had a blueberrie favour only slightly more bitter.
'Finally!'
'I had been wondering just what kind of evolution 'study' was going to have'
A lot of time passed before a slight pain started spreading right from the core of his brain.
'Heh, this amount of pain is nothing, i can handle it with ease.'
A pridefull smirk apeared on his face, as if taunting the potion to do it's worst.
It was only 30 minutes in that i regretted my hubris.
At this point the pain could no longer be covered up by 'effect tolerance' and it was showing no sign of stopping at all.
Finaly at the 1 hour mark i heard the sound i had been waiting for.
[Ding]
[Mission has been complete, skill 'Study' has evolved into 'Genius']
[Ding]
[A mutation has taken place due to user possessing both the skill 'genius' and the skill 'bronze body', please prepare mentally for what is about to came.]
"...i had my suspicions in the beginning but now i am surtain, the system is actualy against me."
These were the my last thoughts before i lost my consciousness, again.
.....
"UGh, my head"
I slowly woke up to what felt to be my head exploding.
Fuck i hate this feeling, thankfully thought the pain is receding.
It wasn't until much time later that the pain receded to the point where i could have coherent thoughts.
OK, the time for the big reveal has come.
'system'
[Ding]
[Stat panel has been altered to fit the user's subconscious thoughts]
[Character Information]
[Name: Bell Nyhtous]
[Gender: Male]
[Age: 5 Years]
[Job: Jester]
[Title: The perfectionist]
[Level: 39]
[Attribute Points:]
[Strength: 262]
[Agility: 262]
[Vitality: 262]
[Stamina: 262]
[Defence: 262]
[Intelligence: 262]
[Mana: 262]
[Charm: 262]
[Unique skills: Gluttony]
[Group skills: Art tier 1 level 3, Production tier 2 level 3, Martial arts stage 2 tier 5 level 6, Bronze body level 2, Effect Tolerance level 9]
[Magic skills: Light magic tier 5 level 1, Earth magic tier 2 level 3, Mana manipulation tier 7 level 9]
[Magic spells]
[Tier 1: Clean level 9, Enhanced earth arrow level 7, Blinding light level 2, Weak stone skin level 4, Weak earth manipulation level 2]
[TIer 2: Weak rejuvenation level 5, Light spear level 1, Weak light arrow barrage level 2]
[Skills: Genius level 1, Weak faster thinking level 1, Magic cooking level 2, Bored level 3, Negotiation level 4, Hide level 6, Observe level 6, Danger sense level 6, Battle sense level 5, inventory]
[Current status: Normal]
[Comment: Be aware of the floor boss.]
Genius: User can now learn at an incredible rate, new and innovative ideas will be had periodically.
Weak faster thinking: The processing speed of the brain has been boosted, the higher the intelligence of the user the better it's effects.
"..."
I might bitch about it but the skill are definitely worth all the pain!