Still on day 86 of my isekai adventure.
Quick rewind—remember how the monsters call this place Root Tower? Why's it called that, and why did I say it's "right under every hero's feet"? Simple: every single starter dungeon in the capital cities across this continent has a secret passage leading here! Sure, the distance and paths vary, but they all connect. To put it plainly, floors 1-99 might differ in each dungeon, but they all converge at floor 100—the Root Tower, straight from the monsters' noggins.
With almost all the intel in hand, it was time to dive into the Root Tower. My goal? Sneak in as stealthily as possible, no suspicions raised.
Step one:
[CurseHBless]
(Miss me? It's been a while since I flashed this bad boy, but trust me, I've been using it on the sly!)
Curse 5-77: If anyone's secretly watching or analyzing ["monsters moving abnormally in Root Tower"] from a spot where [said monsters] can't see [me], my HP drops by 144, and I get the name of whoever triggered it. Cooldown: 5 minutes.
Blessing 5-77: If anyone's secretly watching or analyzing ["monsters moving abnormally in Root Tower"] from a spot where [said monsters] can see [me], my HP increases by 77, and I get the name of whoever triggered it. Cooldown: 10 minutes.
Next, I unleashed my army of fake bodies, disguised as Huslime LV.99999, a soulless dungeon monster with top-tier stealth and level-hiding skills. (This was a new prototype back then—I hadn't even thought about [Trueform] yet.) They slipped into the starter dungeon's first floor. Whenever I ran into a monster, I used Perfect Shapeshift LV.100 to copy them down to the last detail. Except for the first unlucky sod—I warped it to one of my pocket dimensions, where time runs 10,000 times faster. After copying its data, I had my Huslime LV.99999 take it down no sweat, then used a classic slime trick straight outta 18+ doujins: mind/body possession. Sent it back to its spot like nothing happened. (Okay, normal slimes in this world can't do that, but crank a slime to LV.9999+ with some cheats, and boom—new skill unlocked. Hmm, food for thought.)
This process took 1-2 minutes in my dimension, but in the real world? That's 1/10,000th of 2 minutes, or about 0.015 seconds. Then, I had my possessed monsters swarm through the dungeon to the boss room. After a quick check—no one from above or anywhere else was watching, since my real body's HP didn't drop—I sent the Huslime-possessed monsters from each floor to smack the floor's boss.
Spoiler: they got smashed. The bosses? Nah, my possessed monsters. When a possessed body died, the ultra-stealth Huslime popped out and slipped through the door's cracks to the next floor. (No magical wards, huh? Makes me wonder if someone with stealth skills could sneak to the bottom… but probably not. Even monsters with LV.10 stealth on some floors couldn't hide from the bosses.)
I kept this loop going, and it worked like a charm. Quick rundown of the floors:
Floor 1: Monsters LV.225-300, boss LV.300.
Floors 2-9: Monsters LV.400-500, bosses LV.500.
Floor 10: No monsters, just a long hallway from floor 9, leading to a LV.999 boss—the one that wrecked that legendary party, per the intel.
Floors 11-19: Monsters LV.400-1000, bosses LV.800-1000.
Floor 20: Boss LV.1499.
Floors 21-29: Monsters LV.800-1500, bosses LV.1300-1500.
Floor 30: Boss LV.1999.
Floors 91-99: Bosses hit LV.4999.
After my Huslime (aka me) slipped past the LV.99 boss door, I was buzzing with excitement—jelly vibes on max! (No hair to stand on end when you're a slime, and I hadn't switched to a human form.) I stepped into a massive, jaw-dropping lounge, decked out with rare minerals that'd fetch tens of millions of Zen if I pried 'em out. Around the room, there were 11 doors total—10 plus the one I came through. Gotta be the entrances from other cities' dungeons, all linking to this hub.
Straight ahead, past the long walkway from all the doors, was a colossal gate. One flip upside-down, and it screamed "classic RPG final boss room" louder than anything. That's gotta be Ragna's lair.
One last check… no HP drops. Perfect. Shame the other Huslime bodies are still slogging through the longer routes from other dungeons—they're too far to join me. But one's more than enough, right? All I need is to check if Ragna's an Imposter or not. So far, the other monsters and bosses I've passed? Totally normal, no "Player from the other side" vibes.
Alright! (My real body's rubbing its hands, hyped like a gamer warming up for the final boss.) Here we go! With Huslime LV.99999's god-tier stealth, I've made it this far. Just to be extra sure, I'll swap to my trusty Hu—
Geng (Real Body): HP -144
What the?!
End of Chapter 38
Root Tower