324. Nihonium recapture




 Unarmed, I proceeded through the familiar Nifonium.

 It's a limestone dungeon that should look familiar, but it's more frightening than before, if it's my imagination.
 There's an ominous air in the air.

'Maybe it's because my abilities have gone down.

 I think I was like this when my boss ordered me to come to work in spite of having the flu in the past.
 I didn't like it because I was weak, even though the environment was the same as usual.

'Oh,'

 I winced.
 A little further on, there was a now-board that wasn't on the original Nihonium.

 He approached it and operated it with a familiar hand.

---1/2---
Level: 1/1
HP F
MP F
Power F
Strength F
Intelligence F
Spirit F
Speed F
Dexterous F
Luck F
--------- ...

---2/2---
Plants S
Animals S
Minerals S
Magic S
Characteristic S
--------- ...

 Then I got a status that I missed very much.

 It's the status I had right after I met Emily, right before I came to Nihonium.
 Her abilities are all F, but her drop is all S.

 It was a very nostalgic feeling.

''I see.''

 The question is, is this only in this nihonium or is it also true when you leave the dungeon? I just checked that. Currently, it's the former.

 By the way, if it's the latter - if it resets your abilities, that is, if it resets them back to normal after entering a dungeon, that's something to use.

Window Cutter.

 I used a magic I learned from the magic fruit that I don't usually use.
 It's a magic that can shoot one anyway, even if the MP is F.

 It didn't activate.
 It's a literal reset, and it looks like the magic fruit is reset too.

 If this is the case after you leave the dungeon, I'm sure there are plenty of adventurers who want to enter the dungeon.

 The magic fruit mess from a level canst, and the nihonium reset from failing to do so.

 In a world where 99.99% of adventurers are level-canned, the value of the experience is pretty low.
 If you can reset the magic fruit, there are plenty of adventurers who would be willing to start over at level 1 to get here.

...... at this point.

 Nihonium isn't the Nihonium it once was, it's going to be the adventurer that could be needed.
 I thought about that, but I decided to wait and see what happened.

 I left the Nowboard and walked around the dungeon.
 In a familiar place, another familiar monster appeared.

 It was a skeleton, a humanoid skull in clothes.

 I had eyes with the skeleton, no eyeballs on the other side, but I could clearly see it's eyes.
 It was coming at me.

 It wobbled closer - and then it accelerated tremendously and stepped in an instant.
 The acceleration was far more intense than the skeleton I knew.

 I immediately flew right to the side to avoid it, but the white bones of my fingers gouged my side.

 Landing, blood spurted out at the same time.
 My side is burning hot, the feeling of heavy damage for the first time in a long time.

 First of all, let's get some distance, when the skeleton is some distance away, its movements slow down and it goes into wandering mode--.

''--Kuch!

 He grunted and jumped further away.

 Even though I was far enough away that I would normally start wandering around, the skeleton didn't stop at all and came even closer.

 I was taken by surprise, and this time fresh blood flowed down my cheeks with a peck.

 The pattern of movement is different.
 It looks like the skeleton I know so well, but its movement pattern is completely different.

"An experienced killer?

 I said as if to spit it out and try to get further away from him.
 But the skeleton doesn't let up on its attacks and attacks even more.

 It's moving much faster than I am.

 I have nothing now.

 My abilities are lousy, and I don't have any guns, magic, or the various items I've collected over time.
 It's just like the first time I came to Nihonium - no.

 Back then, we had a bamboo spear.
 Now we don't even have that.
 The situation is even worse than the first time I came here.

 I didn't think it was a good idea.

 It's true that I have no abilities, no weapons or items.

 Instead, we have experience.
 It's as if I've accumulated experience for this day.

 I've been trying to find ways to beat it and move it, even when I was able to do brain-dead laps, and I didn't lie down.

 That experience is still there, my brain can remember.

 A skeleton that attacked me three times.
 This time I didn't take the distance, rather I stepped in from this side.

 I ducked out of the skeleton's sharp attacks with a single layer of skin, then ducked into his pocket and tackled him.

 Skeleton fell backwards with my weight and momentum.
 I took another step before he fell over.

 I take another step from being tackled to my waist and press down on the skeleton's head - the skull - with both hands.
 As it is, I add my weight to the momentum of falling backwards.

 Veki! Mekhi Mekhi!

 With his weight, he crushed the skeleton's head against the ground, crushing it.

 The movement has changed, but the hardness, or HP, doesn't seem to have changed.

 The skeleton, whose skull was crushed into pieces, stopped moving again.
 After a while, he dropped 10 seeds, all at once.