Reaper's Resurgence - Book 3 - Chapter 69 - Self-Delusions (Patreon)

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Alexia

Hmm, I feel like I might be getting used to it in here.

I kill more parasites while making my way through a track of some sort of body part that was connected to the stomach. Just ignoring the splashes of their blood that coat me and the strange, blue colored liquid that I’m swimming through.

It’s getting to the point that I’m not even disgusted being here anymore. Much.

Okay, I am a little disgusted still. I’m swimming through what I’m pretty sure is a vein of some sort after all.

Then again, there are worse place to swim through in a creature’s body.

I continue slaughtering the pests, just veeery slowly leveling my way up towards my goal.

Ended up choosing this route since I have no idea what sort of body I’m in. The organs may not be in any sort of placement similar to a human body’s organs, so what little knowledge I have of those organs is useless.

Not that I had much knowledge in the first place. Mostly just some stuff useful for battle.

Like important arteries, the heart, brain, blah blah blah.

Basically just important things that need to be cut in a battle. And important things I should avoid having cut on me in a battle.

Although I’m not entirely sure I have those anymore. Or if they’re even in the same place.

Just like whatever creature I’m inside.

The Horror.

I do hope I can find its brain or heart though. Either one should do for killing it.

And if this is a vein then I may be able to follow it to the brain. Assuming its veins are connected to its brain.

I end up spending over an entire month just traveling through the creature’s body, gradually leveling myself up through the constant wave of parasites. Each of whom are slowly growing stronger and stronger, with more powerful forms.

Like the one I cut through with my polearm that has five arms, two legs, and the length of a snake despite clearly still being a parasite in the form of a large worm.

A rather creepy creature, just like the creature it’s inside no doubt.

I think this place is making my habit of disassociating my mind and body worse though. Since I’ve been going off on tangents in my head for a large majority of my time here. Mostly to bring my mind off of the sensation of the creature’s bodily fluids that I’m swimming through.

Or the fact that I haven’t been dry for weeks now.

A very, very unpleasant experience.

Maybe I can ask the Quantum Architect to destroy this dungeon in particular permanently after I get out of here?

Then again, that may happen without my asking, since this is a Dimension-Wide Dungeon. A temporary one.

Unless it’s the same dungeon that’ll appear the next time this event happens?

That would suck.

I continue swimming through the vein for who knows how long until I begin to see a strange, glowing black light. A light that has me rubbing my eyes despite being inside of this vein’s liquid.

Not used to seeing light down here. Been going without light for months now, since my eyes don’t need light to see.

But if there’s light…

A faint grin stretches across my face as I quickly rush through, cutting apart all of the parasites in the way between me and the light. And as I do so, I make sure to check my level and current amount of soul.

Right now I am at about level 981. So I’m nearing the level cap for Tier 4.

Meanwhile my soul is at about half-capacity right now.

If this is what I’m thinking it is, then I may need to turn back and find a Safe Zone to rest in for a bit. Maybe also hunt some more parasites to level up more.

And if it’s not? I might cry.

Because it’ll mean more searching.

And I don’t want to be here anymore.

I continue rushing straight towards the light before eventually finding the walls of the vein opening up to some sort of massive open space within the monster. One with a large pulsating organ in the center.

A glowing black one at that.

Is that… its heart?

I try to identify it, but all I end up with is the same result I had before. The identify result for The Horror itself.

But it looks like it should be a heart.

I think.

Probably.

Not sure what a heart would look like for a creature this size, but I want it to be a heart so until I destroy it and find it to not be its heart, it will be its heart.

The heart isn’t alone though as there are hundreds of parasites all over the place, making me really question the health of this ‘The Horror’ thing. But that’s not my priority right now.

My priority is ignoring these many three meter all the way to ten meter tall parasite monsters and running away to find the nearest Safe Zone. Because I’m not taking on the final battle with half my soul gone.

So despite how against it I am, I quickly dive back into the thingy I was just in that I’m not sure is a vein anymore – considering that it may’ve led me to the heart – before pushing through it.

Also ignoring the army of monsters chasing after me from that ‘room’.

Fortunately, the massive parasites prove to be too slow, and I lose them before too long through just teleporting my way through this maybe-not-vein thing. Then I continue on my way until I eventually arrive at a Safe Zone marked on my Dungeon Map.

I love this map. Glad I got it.

But that aside, I need to be the first to clear a Tier 4 dungeon. And the fact that no one else has gotten the Legendary Feat means I will be so long as I destroy that probably-heart thing.

I’ll probably end up reaching level 1000 just from killing the monsters around it, so it should be fine to go and attack it after I recover my soul. Without going to train on some more monsters first. And I’m not sure if the boss itself can really, well, fight. Considering that I’m kinda inside its body, and I’m gonna be attacking its heart.

I lean against the wall of the small orb-shaped Safe Zone I’m in before staring up at the ceiling.

Not much longer now.

Then I’ll be out of this hellhole.