Chapter 15: The Dungeon

“Hello.” The woman instinctively jumps backwards, not expecting Mun to appear so soon.

“Forgive me for earlier, I wasn’t myself”

“N-n-n-no, it was partially my fault too.” The receptionist trembled with every word.

“Can you ask your boss to come here?” the women nodded her head making sure to not make eye contact.

………..

“You again.” The guild Master Grumbled, rubbing the back of her head, Her face clearly annoyed.

“What do ya want.”

“Do you give loans?” The guild master couldn’t believe her ears. She stared at him for a few seconds before rubbing her eyes as if that would wash her frustration away.

“Yes, but only for our members.”

“how much does the membership cost.”

“2 silver”

“can I take a loan on that.”

“Your fool, aren’t you.”

“That is the god that watches over me, yes.”

“I’ve never heard of the god of fools.

I can’t do that.” Mun stares at her for several seconds. He sighs, not wanting to explain why, before speaking.

“Look, I need the money to keep that girl you saw yesterday in an Inn. I’d rather not have her walking around with all the slavers around. I promise to you that I’ll pay double the loan and double the membership cost if need be. But I promised the Inn manager that I’d pay her later today.”

“What’s that in your hand.” The guild master ignored his question, instead deciding to focus on the shoes Mun held in his right hand.

“There for the girl.” The guild master saw that he had wooden hands and a wooden mask. The man in front of him becomes more mysterious with each passing moment. Earlier he was filled with a powerful blood lust, but right she could feel something else entirely, a near warm feeling, the complete opposite of before. One thing was for sure, he wasn’t human, nor elf, nor draconian, a monster she thought. But why would a monster be caring for a demon girl?

“Okay, I’ll give you the loan, make sure to pay me back by tomorrow, ya here?” the woman heads to the back to fetch a silver coin. She doesn’t know, but her years of dealing with people tells her to help him, at least for now, she doesn’t want any more children being kidnapped in this place either.

“thank you very much!!” Mun shouted, startling even the guild master. Mun understand the value of what the guild master was doing, she was breaking policy. Mun had always been a man of obligation, he doesn’t break his promises if he can help it. Even if the woman had been his mother, if he made a promise, he would complete it.

Mun dashed out of the Guild hall.

“Soon, very soon.” She mumbled under her breath, she felt it. The monster would cause trouble.

Good, she thought before heading to the back to tell her husband.

………

After paying for the Inn, Mun heads off to the dungeon to fight until the sun goes down.

“I’ve noticed that my mimic body doesn’t require much sleep, 3 hours is about the time I spend a sleep, at least I think, judging by how long the days last after I wake up. Aura and the world sleep for a lot longer than I do, too.”

After a bit of digging, Mun found out that There are several dungeons in the area, one is only half an hour walk away from the town.

“Don’t go in alone, especially not in this time of year” The man tells him, Mun doesn’t hear, he is too far to from the man to hear it.

The dungeon is a low level dungeon so its relatively safe for new adventurers. Each floor you go down, the level of the monster increases together with that. The dungeon her is called “Seike lota” Meaning don’t enter in Demon tongue.

In this world certain materials have rating and levels. The higher level of the material, the stronger the item made with it. Its rating lowers if it is not removed from an animal or monster carefully, the lower the rating the more lower its level becomes.

“I’m still not sure how the whole thing works, but as long as I eat the creatures it should at least have a normal rating.” Mun recalled the information He learned from asking around

When Mun assimilates things into his body, the meat is digested and anything that can be used as a weapon is cleaned as well as a mimics body can, usually ending up with an average to above average quality rating. S quality is the highest quality and they are very valuable, especially when it comes to metals.

Ordinarily metals don’t have levels, but when it is eaten by a monster, that changes it. Much of how it works is unknown to Mun, he only know that Metal becomes valuable when its inside a monsters body.

“If I eat metal, I can probably sell it for higher price.” Not many adventures are monsters that can easily remove excess mass, this gives Mun a great advantage when selling items to the guild.

As Mun enters he can feel something pressing down on his mind, it wasn’t strong, but it made Mun feel uncomfortable. He didn’t recall this kind of pressure in the dungeon he was born in.

“Maybe each Dungeon has a different pressure” he tells himself.

The dungeon is an elaborate series of tunnels and paths, but they all lead to one location, the boss room. Mun doesn’t know the exact time it takes for him to stop being the boss of a dungeon room but he is going to have to find out.

Mun moves forward, trying to get his dark vison to become accustomed to the darkness again. He Kills whatever creature, he finds, making sure to swallow the dead creatures whole.

This dungeon in particular has goblins and kobolds roaming around, just waiting to be killed.

They were easy prey for Mun, who had already exceeded their levels by over ten. Of course killing such low level enemies wouldn’t be worth much, but Mun ate the creatures anyways.

After what he felt be an hour, Mun decided to speed his trek through the dungeon.

Mun stopped, morphing his out of his human form and changing into a wooden quadruped, his body shaved to look like fur and a snout to increase biting power.

The anatomy wasn’t completely right, but after just one look at his Familiar, he was able to recreate it thanks to the naturally incredible memory of Mimics. Mun ran , killing a monster every now and again, the uncomfortable feeling never completly going away.

He did this until he finally reached the boss Room.

The door was different than the one he saw in his dungeon of origin, it is adorned metal and the design was in the shape of several spirals all over the edges of the door.

I don’t know how well this going to go, Mun thinks to himself.

Like most boss floors the Room was small, the size of a living room. The walls lit by bright glowing stones. The stones were scattered all throughout dungeons, but even with their assistance most of the dungeon was shrouded in black.

At the center of the room, lay a goblin, its skin bright red

Level: 15 Red Goblin

The red goblin was not much different than an ordinary one, it was a bit bulkier and red but not much else. Mun attacked with a tendril, aiming for the goblins head, but the goblin is no fool and swiped with a powerful back hand.

“oh, so you can fight?” The goblin charges for Mun, its much faster than He can dodge, but Mun is a no fool either, just as he is about to be hit by the goblins charge, Mun extends several tendrils around the goblins neck, at the same time of the goblins tackle, Mun has several tendrils sharp, tipped by the done bones of former foes, pointed at the back of the goblins head.

Mun loses a bit of health, the staggers disoriented by the attack.

“Why?” The goblin wept a haunting cry

“What” Mun didn’t move and in that instant, the goblin slashed Mun with its claws, slashing his eyes, Mun backs away, being blinded by the attack. The goblin continues a fury of attack on Mun, the damge is almost to much for Mun to handle.

“Hungry?” It spoke again, but this time Mun didn’t let it weigh on his mind, he couldn’t afford to let it weigh on his mind.

Mun swipes the goblins feet causing it to fall to the ground, with a sharped tendril, he pushes it into the goblins stomach as strongly as he can. The goblin can’t take many more hits, Mung raps the goblin in his tendrils and flings the poor goblin like a rag doll across the room. The goblin’s head smashed against the stone floor over and over again.

It screams in agony, Mun flinches for moment, before continuing his merciless onslaught.

“Screams. Pain, dead.” The goblin uttered incomprehensible sentences, from a language Mun had never heard before, and yet he could understand it. Mun turns into his humanoid for, with the goblin still staggered from the last hit, Mun steps on the goblins chest with one leg, he then stretches his arms around the goblins neck.

“geh, die, we.” The goblin still trying to utter nonsense; even Mun is disturbed as he pulls, nearly losing his spirit as he hears the battle end with the soft cracking of the goblins neck. Mun shivered as he heard the cracking reverberating through out the small room.

…….. Mun stood there, in front of the dead goblins corpse. He couldn’t say anything.

After several seconds of pondering it he finally muttered in disgust “What the hell.” Mun felt disgusted, it felt as if he had killed a mentally unstable person. He couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but what he did understand was the chill that had run down him as he ended the goblins life.

Svve, a sound of the dungeons door opening, came to a wonderful surprise. Mun checked his status to see if he hadn’t become the boss of the room.

Somehow or another, I am not the boss of this room, well that’s better for me that getting stuck at every floor. Mun quickly consumed the Goblins corpse, trying to forget what just happened, and exited the floor, entering a lower far dangerous place.

“I wonder why nobody is down here?” Mun thought it peculiar that a well-known dungeon didn’t have an overabundance of adventurers trying to farm all the materials from the dungeon.

“For now I should just be happy that I have such good opportunity.”