Day 301-310/Day 306

Day 306
With strengthened will power and mental focus, I immediately proceeded nice and quickly below into the depths of the dungeon. Having to move my ass, I stopped actively picking seafood ingredients and aimed straight to reach towards the deepest part while taking in what I can take as long as it's in my range. The deeper the dive, the less populated the place is, the internal structure becomes more complex, like an ants nest, and the frequency of dungeon monsters that attack become increasingly persistent.
Between the border of the shallow area before reaching the intricate corridors, apparently, to ward off those who come in by mistake, there are many fish-type dungeon monsters such as a heinous small fish with a human face that looks scary, called [Yakuza-Faced Fish] in this current place.
[Yakuza-Faced Fish] usually shout loudly while attacking in ferocious groups with their fellows, but in reality, it's just a small fry that, with its direct attack bites, is such low level that doesn't really count as damage. Since it has some sharp teeth, it would be painful if it bit you normally, but it is still on the level that couldn't leave a scratch on my exoskeleton.
Advancing down the corridor while ignoring the [Yakuza-Faced Fish], I then came across a huge octopus that took the form of an armored warrior, [Octopus Heavy Warrior], as well as a group of turtles, [Cannon Turtle], with bombs that shoot from their backs. The bombs that are being shot at me takes the form of a small turtle, which chase after targets and try to stick to them. This is also powerless in front of my exoskeleton.
I had been wondering, before recovering their carcasses from the instant killing and moving on, I couldn't tell whether the number of people, Mermen or Adventurers, who would come here is becoming less and less because of it getting too deep or because of the possibility of more attacking monsters, but I got an obvious answer from this encounter with the dungeon monsters.
There is also a place which is extremely narrow but eventually widens, with the probability of an assault by a pincer ambush. Although the monster quality is not that high, the monster quantity is becoming annoying. They did manage to make subtle scars here and there on the exoskeleton's surface, which were probably caused by the repeated attacks.
It is not a problem for me, but the narrow pathways, poor visibility and the intricate internal structure, adding the monster's quantity, will make capturing this dungeon pretty tedious. In exchange for those troubles, rare seafood ingredients also increased at this depth level. Since I'm at a location that's quite difficult to comprehend, the rate of engaging with monsters become smaller than before.
The quality of ingredients at this level is really stimulates my appetite, which seems quite tough to ignore. Even after suppressing the harvest of ingredients to a minimum, the more I advanced to a deeper part, the more irregularity in how many rare ingredients could be found, it's surely set against me or some natural law.
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RAWS
“三百六日目”
気を取り直して、さっさと奥に進んでいく。
根こそぎ海産物を回収するのは止め、採れる範囲で採りながら最深部を目指した。
深く潜れば潜るほど段々と人気は失せ、内部構造はまるで蟻の巣のようにより複雑なものになり、ダンジョンモンスター達が襲撃してくる頻度が増えていく。
比較的浅い場所では間違って入ってくる者を追い払うためか、凶悪なツラの人面魚型ダンジョンモンスター“ヤクザ面魚”が多かったが、ヤクザ面魚は獰猛な形相と大声で喚く事が主で、直接攻撃は噛み付くしかしてこない雑魚だ。
鋭い歯なので普通なら噛み付かれれば痛いだろうが、外骨格に傷一つ付けられない程度である。
無視して進めば、巨大なタコがヒト型になった重戦士“オクトパス・ヘビーウォリアー”や子亀型爆弾を背中の大砲から撃ってくる“キャノンタートル”などが突っ込んでくるが、これも外骨格の前には無力。
瞬殺して回収していくが、深いほど攻略者の数が少なくなるからか、やたらと遭遇するダンジョンモンスターの数が多かった。
それに極端に狭くなっている場所もあり、挟撃される事も増えていく。
質はそこまで高くないものの、流石に物量で来られると非常に鬱陶しい。
数を重ねたためか、外骨格にも微妙な傷跡がチラホラできている。
俺だから特に問題ではないが、狭さと見通しの悪さ、そして入り組んだ内部構造と敵の物量は攻略するのが面倒な分類になるだろう。
しかも深いほど珍しい海産物が増える事と引き換えに、かなり分かり難い場所にあったりするので、攻略速度はあまり上がらなかった。
俺の食欲を刺激しまくるココは、中々に手強いようだ。
採取を最低限に抑制しても、深いほど美味く、希少な食材が多いここは反則である。
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