Chapter 35: Ch. 34 – Door to before

Floors 88 through 84 pose no real obstacle, just a speed bump with their hordes of meatheads. Technically there were several monster types that could kill me near-instantly with their attacks but all of them were stopped cold in their tracks due to safe zone abuse. Not my fault if dungeons are designed with such easily exploitable mechanics. I wonder why I've never heard of any isekai stories with heroes that abuse similar safety areas... commit war crimes left and right but face monsters in an 'honorable' way. Bah, damn hypocrites!

Meanwhile I've been digging through the brick of a book. According to the never-ending list of contents this world has over 8000 dungeons. I hope I don't have to fully clear all of them at some point to gather mac guffins needed to unseal a divine alarm clock because a regular one won't do...

The short introductory text tells me that out of that enormous amount of dungeons only about thirty count as major dungeons, the rest are only minor dungeons. But the exact scientific difference between the two groups is supposedly only elaborated on further back in the book.

The first 6800 pages are reserved for listing rough overviews over all known dungeons but since we don't know in which we are exactly I just skim through them. But it seems like each dungeon has some kind of theme to it. There are dungeons emphasizing traps or terrain effects, some are more puzzle-oriented. Others kick you out after a set time limit with maybe a gimmick to extend the duration of the stay. There are supposedly dungeons that try to emulate an honorable 1v1 tournament. And some are just needlessly deep with a near-endless supply of monsters.
This dungeon obviously belongs to the latter group.
Well, there might be more different types of dungeons, I stopped reading to close into it.

I'd like to just skip ahead to the in details explanations of minor or major dungeons - god knows what idiot decided to put the most important parts at the end! - but... well, this book just refuses to let me turn more than one page at a time or go faster than a page per minute... or rather what feels like a minute. The weird time distortion while 'idling' still seems to take place. At least I've no better explanation; it feels like a mere minute goes by but according to the system clock about an hour passes. And while the monsters are still alive and making noises time still proceeds roughly as expected, not that I can do much reading with all of those distractions.

(That's going nowhere, Elly. This book is cursed. I can only progress like thirty to forty pages a day. And so far there's nothing of value in them.)
(Maybe just keep flipping the pages and do something else at the same time?)
(It would still take about half a year to get where I want to be in it.)

You are reading story Deteoh – A Glitched World’s Isekai Story at novel35.com

(That can't be changed.)
(Yeah...)

I continue towards floor 83 - or rather try to.

whoosh

Before I can leave the safe zone suddenly an angel-like warrior stands before me and winds up to strike me with his(?) sword. I quickly step back and the strike barely misses. I run back a bit more and am back outside the previous safe zone, now on floor 84.

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