The good kind of insanity.
After waking up, a thought crossed my mind.
"How strong would the boss of the dungeon be if a single monster was this difficult to kill?" And with that, I looked around the room.
I can check whether this is the boss or not pretty easily.
Having spent around 20 minutes searching for the chest, I confirmed that this? In fact, wasn't the boss, otherwise the chest would have been in this room.
"I won't be able to kill him on my own for sure.." But I don't have to do it on my own, I can use a helping hand from this group.
Although if they also faced something like this worm, I'm not sure whether they are still alive or not. If they got killed, I'll just leave the dungeon without killing the boss, I suppose.
"Hmm, it's about time to finish you off, buddy." I patted the worm's head, and he didn't even react. He has no stamina to do so.
"Well, just like all the other thing I killed, you won't be missed." Nobody will miss you. Someone saying that to you just before your death is another great way I wouldn't want to die. I'll add it to the book sometime later.
I put my hand inside of the worm's mouth and cut him form the inside.
{experience gained + 3000}
{experience gain multiplier due to level difference: X54}
(Experience X2 due to killing special enemy)
{total experience gained + 324 000}
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
[Level Up!]
...
{total: [Level Up!] X36}
"What?!? That can't be.. I'm probably hallucinating. That's right." I doubted my ears and eyes - this just seemed too good to be true.
I couldn't believe it, until I felt all the veins in my body bulge and a huge surge of power flooded over me.
"Ha. Hahahaha. Hahahahahahahah!!! Ahaha!! Hahahahahahahahah.." I started hysterically laughing.
This felt surreal. I lost connection with my body, and felt like I was watching myself from a distance.
My body went insane, and I started rampaging through the maze, killing every single thing I found along the way.
I I didn't feel like it was me. No, I felt like it was the "other" me. The real me. This part of my mind managed to stay intact thanks to [cold-blooded], and I was just observing my other self lose sanity.
I am starting to feel like this last self conscious part of my mind is fading merging with the other, and the all of the surroundings are becoming more and more real, the muffled screams of the monsters and my own insane laugh didn't feel fake anymore.
So the skill started to disappear because of how much mental shock I experienced. If it's level was higher, there would still be a chance to keep it, but..
*I smiled*
"I actually love this so fucking much, so I don't need no mind stabilization!" And with that, I finally had a mental breakdown.
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??? Days later, I found myself laughing on the ground, taking deep breaths.
All my feelings were numb, so I decided to check my status to see what condition my body was in.
[Name: River]
[Level: 64]
[Race: 98% human, 2% ?????]
Health: 56/740
Mana: 11/740
{Intelligence:10
{Agility:29
{Strength:25
{MovementSpeed:30
{Stamina:20
[free skill points: 0]
[Abilities]
Chilling touch C-
[Titles (passive abilities)]
Anti-hero MAX
Strength of the weak A+
(Corrupted skill)
Analytic thinking D
Hmm, now that I think of it, when did I even distribute the stats? What's more, all of my titles and abilities leveled up, and I don't even know what [strength of the does], yet I somehow managed to level it up.
Ebony about that, I have more pressing issues to deal with.
I'm nearly dead.
I checked my surroundings, and realized that I was inside the boss's room. So I killed the boss, and then lost consciousness. That's my guess, anyways.
There are always some potions inside the chest, so at least I don't have to worry about dying.
I crawled over to the chest and found 3 pretty big potions of healing, and 1 medium-sized potion of mana recovery.
I drank all four potions, and after Lesley vomiting on the ground, I finally managed to get up to my feet.
I haven't eaten or drank anything for a while, because if I want so hungry the potion wouldn't have made me feel sick.
I've heard people say it a couple times - don't drink on an empty stomach.
Though I didn't know that the saying also applies to potions.
I'm not hungry or thirsty anymore, so I guess potion can be used as a replacement for food if you're in a desperate situation.
As my physical and mental state started improving, the memories of the last few days started flooding into my brain.
"Haa, I wouldn't mind experiencing all of that again." What a great time I had. Sadly, all good things are short-lived.
With an upraised mood and a beaming smile, I started heading out, but before leaving I put all of the contents from the chest into my inventory, which now has 6,4kg of weight capacity.
I was too busy thinking about how much stronger I got to bother about something like dungeon loot for now.
I'll look at it tomorrow.
On that note, I pulled out my book and added a few more ways to kill others and a few more ways I wouldn't want to be killed myself.
"I guess it's finally time to check what [strength of the weak] does." I said and pulled out my status plate.
It started raining, and the holographic display stopped working properly. Oh well, I'll just check it when the rain clears.
It was the next day, and I started looking through the loot I got from the chest.. of course, I forgot to check what this peculiar skill does.