Chapter 11 - I finally have a job after 26 years

By my estimate, it had probably been a few days since I had been reincarnated. While trying to leave the 87th floor, I slept for about an hour at a time to reduce how vulnerable I would be, and ate the [Hydra Wolf] meat that I had been storing in my subspace. Counting the time I had spent here on the 86th floor, it would probably be around the fourth or fifth day that I was here? Attempting to measure time in this [Labyrinth] really wasn't going too well, and I guess it wouldn't help too much either. The main reason I was attempting to keep time was to make sure I ate regularly and rested at proper intervals to keep my strength up. Being constantly shrouded in low light could easily warp my sense of time, and if I didn't pay attention, I could potentially fall into a state of exhaustion and be extremely vulnerable.

Consulting my map, I noted that there were certain areas labelled as hotspots for monsters of different ranks. The chamber that I had earlier left was not labelled as containing the [Unbound Hellapes] that I escaped from, but a connecting corridor to that chamber led to the den of the [Unbound Hellape King (S)]. I felt shivers running down my spine as I considered the possibility of running into that level of monster while attempting to escape the [Unbound Hellapes]. Apparently, these [Unbound Hellapes] usually roamed individually around the area near the teleportation formation, but the activation of said formation drew them close when I left the 87th floor.

There were certain areas that had far more manageable monsters, though. Besides the area near the exit to the 87th floor being nigh overrun by [Unbound Hellapes], the areas closer to the exit to floor 85 had a good number of areas that were marked as containing C ranked monsters. With my current strength, I was sure that I could handle at least two or three C ranked monsters on my own without too much trouble. Facing a group, however, would probably spell my doom.

I have pretty insane damage output for my rank and level, I think. I'm just super squishy and can't take a hit. Man, what an unbalanced character. Which idiot did the stat allocations?? Ah, it was me, wasn't it...

A few more days passed as I made my way through the 86th floor, killing the monsters I could manage and furiously teleporting away from those that I couldn't. Finally, I arrived at one of the marked locations on the map which indicated that it was a hotspot for [Greater Arachnophobos (C)]. Basically, giant scary spiders. I selected this area in particular as these monsters seemed to be ambush predators, constantly fighting and preying on the similarly ranked [Hellape (C)], the smaller and unevolved versions of those [Unbound Hellapes]. I preferred not to risk the wrath of the [Unbound Hellape King] by killing off his minions, so I thought that killing off their opponents would probably be alright.

Furthermore, the fact that they were arachnids meant that they probably had pretty high defensive stats, but a smaller HP pool. I was okay with that. If I could hit them with a [Critical], the bonus damage from that plus my [Cull the Strong Lv.1] would probably be able to take them out relatively quickly.

Sure enough, I happened upon a small cluster of three [Greater Arachnopobos (C)]. The information that I had gotten stated that they usually hunted in small groups of 2-5 individuals, and often would create a web that blocked the whole corridor while staying out of sight. However, my [Sense] detected them, albeit faintly. It seemed that they had some kind of stealth skill that could evade a certain level of detection. Knowing where they were, however. I decided to cast [Identify].

[Nameless Greater Arachnophobos (C)]

[Greater Arachnophobos Lv.13]

[Normal]

[HP: 682/700]

[MP: 843/1350]

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[Gluttonous (C)] [Enemy of the King (D)]

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[Nameless Greater Arachnophobos (C)]

[Greater Arachnophobos Lv.21]

[Normal]

[HP: 752/780]

[MP: 843/1750]

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[Gluttonous (C)] [Enemy of the King (D)]

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[Nameless Greater Arachnophobos (C)]

[Greater Arachnophobos Lv.18]

[Normal]

[HP: 733/750]

[MP: 843/1600]

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[Gluttonous (C)] [Enemy of the King (D)]

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Yosh...I can do this!

Psyching myself up, I cast {Subskill: Short Range Teleport} to move myself into the blindspot of the highest-levelled spider, right behind and on top of its head. I then instantly released 6 consecutive casts of [Spatial Slash] into the highlighted area for 6 critical hits. The other spiders reacted, but it was too late. With spurts of acidic blood, the head of the level 21 spider monster fell to the ground and I had already teleported again. Within 3 seconds, two monsters were dead. I had run out of casts for [Spatial Slash], but I was facing down the weakest spider monster of the bunch. Teleporting to keep my distance, I activated {Subskill: Spatial Severance} multiple times, and in a matter of seconds, it too had its head lopped off.

I feel like an assassin, pulling off these speed kills.

-Conditions have been met.