These last couple of days have been rather bland, other than watching Bell fight for his dear life and bushing Myria's skull i haven't done anything else.
"BangBangBangBangBang"
Myria at some point stopped even begging for mercy, she new full well that i wouldn't hurt the egg and since it was her fault that my poor Bell was suffering like this she let me use her as a punching bag.
Truth be told, i am not hitting her from anger but from stress.
Why?
Well thats simple, this exclamation mark difficulty is completely insane!
To give a comparison, then in a solo doom level dungeon a single drake would be the final boss and the big vampire bats\ape elder and huge ape duo\normal bee queen would be the floor bosses in terms of strength.
AND THIS IS FOR THE DOOM LEVEL DUNGEON
A single big vampire bat could very well be a final boss on a solo very hard level dungeon.
But this is not what is stressing me out, what is stressing me out is in fact the complete randomness of this dungeon.
I am refering to 2 things, first is the type of monster in a dungeon are almost always the same with the only difference being that the lower down you go the stronger and more evolved they become which doesn't seem to be the case for this specific dungeon.
The second thing is the mutation factor.
What i am referring to is the change that monsters will sometimes have inside the dungeon but that is usualy limited to something like changing colour and having better affinity\resistance to curtain elements or being slightly bigger and stronger.
As you can understand being almost double in size is not a normal mutation nor is it to be able TO ABSORB OTHER MONSTERS AND BECOME SOME KIND OF CHIMERA!
Had it been anybody else other than Bell then they would have already died long ago, hell even i would have been done in by the random nonsense that this dungeon is throwing at it's participants, even someone with a unique skill surviving more than one floor would be very difficult.
I don't want to think about it but the chances of Bell finishing the dungeon are slim to none and that is taking into consideration his skills and his title which are not only a perfect match but also completely overpowered.
Such a dungeon should have never existed in the first place, the system would never make an impossible dungeon, close to impossible like the doom difficulty yes but a completely impossible dungeon would never be created.
There is also another thing that is driving me crazy, Bell has yet to be baptised!
Originaly getting power from a god comes after you are baptised, with baptised meaning that you ingrave in your soul who your saint patron is at a church of said patron but i wasn't worried that Bell would betray me so i went ahead and give him the most power i could.
This is a huge issue since that mark in their soul is what guides the souls of the deceased into the god's domain!
Meaning that in the rather big chance that Bell dies he will reincarnate normally.
Not only has he not committed any good deeds but i also can't help him for a second time which means that he will forget absolutely everything and be reincarnated into some random world.
Absolutely unacceptable!
For the first time in eons i feel completely useless!
I can't send power, i can't communicate, i can't even see what the rest of the dungeon looks like since i can only see Bell's vision.
Bell must be so afraid by now all alone and helpless!
While i was racking my brain to figure out a way to save Bell both me and Myria froze at the preposterous sight displayed from Bell's vision.
He was humming happily while eating vegetable soup.
"I demand all my wasted emotions back you bastard!"
.....
After the fight with the bee queen i spend a couple of days leisurely by sleeping, eating or clearing out the all left over monsters.
SInce it is one of the very limited times i can truly relax outside the safe-zone i didn't train and just relaxed for a bit, yes i am indeed in a rush to help Yumi but 2 or 3 days aren't going to make such a big difference.
Finaly, after i spend a full 2 months inside this dungeon i preceded to move on to the third floor.
Entering the third floor forced me to squint my eyes as it possessed something that the 2 previous floors didn't have, light!
This floor is nothing like the 2 previous ones, it's a huge open space with a ceiling hundreds of meters high with crystal hanging from the top.
The crystals were the source of the light, illuminating the space so well that i initially though that i was outside, even if it was just for a bit.
There is also something that i really dearly missed.
"Finaly some veggies!"
It has been 2 months and i have gotten sick and tired of eating meat.
From roasting, broiling, grilling, braising to even boiling, i tried every possible recipe that my 'magic cooking' skill gave to me with meat from most creatures i killed but i got sick of all that.
Still it is a dungeon so i would refrain from eating random grass if all posible but within my 'production' skill exist not only alchemy but also botany so not only am i sure that it is not only is it safely edible but i can also make it into a nutricious soup that can help raise the level of my 'bronze body'.
I began to make the medicinal soup while i was thinking how to grow stronger.
While magic is indeed rarer and most often than not stronger than martial arts it possesses a fatal flaw, lack of adaptability!
I noticed this during my fight with the bee queen, while i could cast spell my attack spells did negligible amounts of damage and my defence would do nothing in the face of this level of strength.
In the end gluttony did all the work and i only made some quality of life improvements with my normal spells.
Thankfully i have the ability to learn an infinite amount of spells so i don't realy have to worry about that but my chances of learning all the spells i need to become an allrounder mage inside this dungeon are slim to none.
So, since gluttony can't get stronger in any other way other than leveling up and magic is imposible to improve enough to be helpfull until i get out of this dungeon then i will go ahead and train my martial arts.
If magic made you into a glass cannon able only to deal huge amounts of damage by using attack magic, or only be able to support your teamates in a party with either healing, boosting or shielding magic then martial arts makes you decent at most things.
Other than how to use your weapon it also teaches you how to properly run with that weapon and even how to sustain your energy.
Although it does lack in some areas if i were to choose between magic and martial arts then i would choose.... BOTH.
What a joke, my job's description is literaly 'he who exceeds in everything' i don't need to make choices!
Imagine a world where a single person can cast every spell and use every single martial art that is know, naming that person anything else other than OP would be ridiculous!
I might have been painfully average in my previous life but since i have the chance now i shall reach the top and rule them all!
But this isn't going to just happen in a single day, it need years of training and dedication.
Baby steps, first i will try to use martial arts as much as possible for the time being and i will figure something out when things progress a bit.
These thoughts were in my mind for about five minutes before all i could concentrate on was the soup.
I start humming while enjoing the taste that i haven't had in 2 months.
Drinking this soup i couldn't help but think of a very specific British chef.
'Finally, some good fucking food!'
I realy hope that poor chef found his lamb sauce in the end, he seem very attached to it.