Risks = Rewards

Armin was staring at a notification and he was currently wondering if he should accept it or not.

[Special Dungeon available!

Time dilation: 1/1000

Ranking: N/A

Description: An one time offer to hone your abilities! One second out here will be one thousand hours inside, your skills will be put to the test, and depending on your revaluation you will receive rewards.

Reward Possibilities: Levels, Items, Skills, Gatcha Tickets, knowledge. ]

The reason Armin was wondering if he accepted it or not was because of the ranking.

'Why is the ranking showing not available? If even the system can't rate the dungeon there is no way I'm going to accept this.'

[The reason it's showing N/A is because it will scale to your skill. First, it will start off as a Low-F rank and will become harder and harder over time until you die. Please note that once you die within the dungeon you will not die in reality, Think of it as an illusion as your body will remain here but your mind will be within the dungeon. ]

Armin was surprised, to say the least, he instantly decided to accept the challenge but due to just getting back home from the dungeon before he wanted to rest his mind.

After an hour he noticed it was 6:30 AM and Eve would be waking up soon but due to the time dilation, he wasn't worried. Armin then got comfortable and was laying in bed and he accepted the special dungeon.

Armin suddenly felt beyond tired as he fell asleep only to wake up within a white room with a screen in the sky showing a countdown.

"Now what?"

As Armin said that a screen appeared before him showing multiple weapons but most were grayed out only leaving the first five. The weapons available were -Wooden Toy Sword- - Wooden Toy Dagger- -Wooden Toy Great Sword- -Wooden Toy Staff- -Wooden Toy War Hammer-.

Seeing these Armin had a bad feeling as he tried to summon Asura Calibur but it never appeared. Then he received a notification.

[All Weapons have been sealed. All Skills have been sealed. All stats have been sealed. While within this dungeon you must use your own skill, stats have been adjusted to be slightly weaker than your opponent. Every opponent defeated will increase your stats for the next fight until you die. If you are a disappointment you will suffer a punishment such as losing items, levels, stats, and skills. ]

Reading this Armin had only one thought.

'Well, shit...'

Armin then selected the -Wooden Toy Great Sword- and once he pressed confirm a large wooden sword formed within his hands. Armin then looked towards the countdown and noticed there were only ten seconds left.

Suddenly there was a beam of light and a monster suddenly came out and when he noticed the monster he felt funny.

'So the first monster is a Blue Slime Huh'

Armin dashed towards the slime and slammed downwards and cut the slime in half but the slime just reformed but slightly smaller.

'Slimes are incredibly weak to magic but have surprisingly high physical resistance'

Armin tried to use his demon slayer art but nothing happened as he remembered he wasn't able to use his skills. Armin then attacked the slime over and over again while dodging whenever the slime tried to attack him but due to fighting so much he easily defeated the slime as it slowly dispersed into the light.

[Congratulations on defeating a -Blue Slime- stats will now be adjusted for the next encounter.

Rank Evaluation: A+

All Rank Evaluations will be combined at the end of the dungeon. ]

Armin suddenly felt stronger as another countdown appeared within the sky showing 30 seconds. Similar to the countdown a window appeared before Armin showing weapons but this time the wooden weapons weren't on the screen anymore. Armin then selected -Broken Rusted Great Sword- and waited for the countdown to finished as another beam of light appeared and soon another monster came out.

'So now its a kobold... So it's going from a Low-F rank monster to a Mid-F rank monster and I'm guessing next will be a High-F rank.'

Armin then dashed towards the kobold but the monster blocked with his club and then tried to counter-attack but Armin quickly darted back.

'So they also get smarter... Yet your still a monster!'

Armin did the same move again but his downward swing was actually a faint but the monster didn't know that as Armin quickly changed from a downwards arc to a sideways slash. If Armin looked closely he would have seen the Kobold's eyes widen as Armin's sword cut off his head.

[Congratulation on defeating -Kobold- stats will now be adjusted for the next encounter.

Rank Evaluation: S-

All Rank Evaluations will be combined at the end of the dungeon. ]

Once again a timer appeared as Armin selected a new weapon. But this time Armin received a new notification.

[Due to Selecting -Great Swords- multiple times would you like to only see -Great Sword Weapons-? ]

Armin pressed yes and all the weapons vanished from the list except for the greats sword. The weapon Armin selected this time was a -Rusted Iron Great Sword-. When Armin selected this he remembered the start of his journey towards the apex.

'It looks exactly like my original great sword...' Suddenly two beams fell towards the ground as a Blue Slime and a Kobold appeared.

'Oh looks like I was wrong.'

Armin ran towards the Kobold as it would be quicker to kill than the smile but what Armin didn't know was that both The slime and Kobold were the same ones that he killed just a few moments again.

As Armin tried the same trick from before the Kobold blocked his hidden attack as the slime jumped towards Armin only for him to sidestep the slime but in doing so ran right into the Kobold swing.

Armin received the attack onto his shoulder as his HP lowered by a tenth. Armin Then dashed swords the small Kobold and smashed his other shoulder into it which stunned the Kobold for a few seconds as it didn't understand why the thing in front of him didn't run away from the pain it should have been in.

But to Armin those few seconds sealed the fate of the 'new' Kobold as he slammed his weapon into the monster killing it. He then made his way towards the Smile and spent a few minutes of constantly attacking until it died.

[Congratulations on defeating -Blue Slime- and -Kobold- stats will now be adjusted for the next encounter.

Rank Evaluation: B

All Rank Evaluations will be combined at the end of the dungeon. ]

Armin looked up towards the sky and noticed it showed five minutes.

'Guess it's giving me a small break...'

Armin then selected his next weapon then waited for the timer to finish and once it finished a single beam of light fell towards the earth as a Large Red Lizard walked out as stared directly at him.

'Is that a salamander?'