Bat type monsters started to appear on the 61st floor. The dungeon never made sense in terms of what monsters showed up, but bats were still completely outside of my expectation. I certainly couldn’t be blamed for thinking that they’d just be too weak.

Of course, they weren’t the small bats found on Earth. They were giant bats with blade-like claws and razor-sharp wings that shot out energy pulses. Their high agility and attack power made them more difficult to manage than I imagined.

On the 63rd floor, blood-sucking bats appeared. Since they constantly tried to stab their fangs between the gaps in my armor, I grew more and more irritated. If I could meet their eyes, I was confident I could petrify them. Unfortunately, they could move faster than I could turn my head unless I used Divine Speed.

In most situations, I just used Sharana’s power and cut the ones blocking my path as I rushed forward. That said, when they shot blade-like auras or tried to bite my neck, I couldn’t help but flinch slightly. I looked down on them, thinking that the dungeon had run out of its repertoire, but that wasn’t it at all. In fact, it was much harder than the 59th floor, which had both golems and mimics.

Regardless, the First Dungeon was no longer a place that...