Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 143

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Chapter 143 – Deepest Part

“Hey, Yuto. I’m going out now.”

The rooms we booked at the inn were separated by gender.

There was a moment when Honoka-chan wanted to share a room with me, but that would have meant that Haruhara and Sayuki would have had to share a room, so we decided to go with the boys’ and girls’ rooms.

It was a healthy, high school-like decision to divide the group into boys’ and girls’ rooms.

If we’d been staying in a hotel, we could have booked separate rooms, but that wasn’t possible in this inn.

“At this time of night?”

“Hehe. I got a call from the older sister I met earlier. She wants to watch the fireworks with me.”

“Really?”

I said with a grin,

“When I come back in the morning, please don’t tell Honoka-chan and the others.”

“Okay. I’ll tell Haruka-san.”

“Stop it! I said stop it!”

After this exchange, Haruhara left the boys’ room.

I can’t help but wonder if it’s okay to call out a high school boy at this time of night… but even if he gets into trouble, there aren’t many people who can do anything about Haruhara right now.

Then it’s just a matter of romantic freedom.

It would be a bit rude to say something like, “I think there’s a good chance that an adult woman doing this with a high school boy would get in trouble with the law.”

Personally, I’m hoping for a happy ending where they go to the fireworks with high expectations, but it turns out to be a perfectly normal, wholesome event.

“Honoka-chan and Sayuki said they were going to sleep.”

The two of them, who had been swimming in the sea during the day, looked really tired.

Especially Honoka-chan, who had been swimming alone for a long time.

“Am I alone?”

I look out of the window of my room.

The inn is situated on a small hill, and I can see the sea at night beyond the gently sloping forest.

“Come to think of it, there was a dungeon over there.”

There was a dungeon of the lowest rank on a strange rock jutting out of the sea.

If I set out now to conquer it in a straight line, I’ll be able to finish it in no time.

Once I’ve finished it, I can use Dungeon Travel to teleport from the entrance portal to the post-collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon.

“Serika…”

Her name slipped out of my mouth.

It goes without saying that Honoka-chan is cute, but even Sayuki started saying meaningful things on the beach.

And I’m beginning to feel attracted to Sayuki as well.

In the skill world, she committed suicide, and I was traumatized by her suicide note.

“After all, this world is just a convenient fantasy for me…”

It’s not just convenient for me.

My father was promoted to a branch in North America, and Sayuki won a literary prize.

My father’s promotion was thanks to the Dungeon economy, but Sayuki’s award had nothing to do with the Dungeon.

I don’t doubt Sayuki’s talent, but there’s no doubt that it’s an incredibly narrow gate.

In the skill world, I couldn’t protect her and let her die, so I gave her fame in my imagination.

I even made her confess her feelings to me on the beach… Is this what I want, to make my past mistakes disappear?

Did I make her say those things in my fantasy to free myself from my guilt?

If that’s the case, then this world…

“No, this can’t be right…”

From my experiences over the past few months, I know that this world isn’t as strange as I first thought.

This world is a world in itself, and it exists naturally as a world.

I think it’s strange that there are things like dungeons, but the same goes for the skill world.

If you’re talking about whether it’s a separate world or whether it has a sense of reality, then the skill world and the job world are about the same.

If anything, it’s my existence as someone from the skills world that’s distorted in this world.

“Am I a foreign body?”

After the memories of this summer, the bonds between the four of us will become even stronger.

These ties will bind me to this world even more than before.

During this three-day, two-night trip, I’m sure the distance between me and Honoka-chan will close as well.

“It’s about time… right?”

While I was on the banana boat at noon, I suddenly had an idea.

If this idea is right, then the strategy for the four floors that had been stuck in a rut will advance all at once.

Of course, it may not be possible to conquer them all in one night, but I want to at least try and see if this idea is correct.

More than anything else, I can’t stand the fact that I, who shouldn’t be here, am interfering with the high school students’ summer trip.

“Just for a little while.”

Maybe an hour or two would be all right.

I slipped out of the inn.

* * *

After thirty minutes of exploring the strange rock dungeon, I reached the fourth floor of the post-collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon.

Blocking out the resort atmosphere from my mind, I checked the map I had taken from my Item Box.

“I knew it.”

I had thought the chart was more complicated than it needed to be, but I was curious as to why.

I thought it was about right for the last floor of an S-rank dungeon…

I felt like that was the case, but I still felt like something was off.

Basically, dungeons are designed to be conquered.

This is a principle that is widely accepted among explorers and dungeon researchers.

Among researchers, it is known as the “principle of conquerability.”

To put it in extreme terms, if you don’t want people to conquer the dungeon, you can just make the passages dead ends.

In this sense, however, there are no dungeons that are physically impossible to conquer.

There are dungeons with vicious monsters along the way, with lots of traps, or with complicated gimmicks, but there is a certain amount of moderation.

Compared to the market value of those dungeons, the fourth floor is too complicated.

It’s not made in a way that a human mind can organize it…

I even feel that way.

However, when I think of Oceanus’ patrol route that I wrote down on the map,

“Floating”

Using the Demon King’s skill, I activate levitation magic and land on the giant head of Oceanus, hiding my presence.

Even now, if it were to go on a rampage in this state, it would be no laughing matter.

But Oceanus does not rampage.

Or rather, it does not even notice that I have climbed onto its head.

Maybe it’s because it is so big that it doesn’t notice when something as heavy as me gets on its head.

Or maybe it’s just insensitive.

By now, you should have figured it out.

The fourth-floor gimmick isn’t just about drawbridges and raising and lowering the water level.

It’s about standing on the head of Oceanus and navigating the waterways.

The waterways have been designed with this in mind.

The raising and lowering of the water level and the operation of the drawbridge are also gimmicks to ensure that the water level and width are sufficient for Oceanus to pass through.

Since I overlooked the existence of Oceanus, which is the key premise, it’s only natural that the water level and drawbridge operations would be complicated.

Then why did I overlook this possibility?

“It’s a curse that I’ve become so strong that I can defeat the Oceanus…”

Common sense tells me that it’s strange that the monsters along the way are as strong as the floor bosses.

At that point, I should have realized that the Oceanus shouldn’t be defeated.

I’m the only one who can fight it now, but normally, even for an S-rank explorer, it would be incredibly difficult to fight a giant monster that moves through the water.

Once I realized that, it was nothing.

“Well, I guess I’ll just have to think of it as a way to gain experience for the hero.”

Still, I can’t help but think that if I had realized this earlier, everything would have been sorted out before the summer trip.

My current job composition is “Hero/Demon King/Magic Swordsman/Usurper/Dungeon Master.”

All my job ranks are S, except my hero rank, which is B.

The monsters I encounter on my journey are at a higher level than me, but they are no match for me now.

I combine the Hero’s sword skills and the Demon King’s magic with the Magic Swordsman’s [Rondo of Magic Swords].

The Hero also has the unique ‘All stats get an abnormal boost’ bonus.

If that wasn’t enough,

Job──────────────────

◇Ability

Overlimit

Explosively boosts all stats of a specific job for a very short time.

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I can use this ability to get things moving.

Depending on the chain, I can use this ability to boost the Hero if I’m using a sword, the Demon King if I’m using magic, or the Magic Swordsman if I’m using a magic sword.

“Eat this!”

I let out a ferocious roar and cut a bloody path through the enemy.

‘The Hero job rank has been raised to A!’

And I had finally arrived.

The S-Rank Dungeon, the post-collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon

On the fourth floor, the last floor.

There, waiting for me, is the S-Rank Dungeon boss that no one in the world has ever defeated.

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