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Chapter 120 – Post-Collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon
――It was Sunday of the same week that I received useful information from God at the Dungeon Shrine.
I came alone to a man-made lake in the mountains on the western outskirts of Tokyo.
It is an S-rank dungeon, the “Post-Collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon.”
The collapse of the dungeon was stopped by our efforts in this world, but the A-rank “Okutama Lake Dungeon” was later transformed into the S-rank “Post-Collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon.”
There are only a few S-rank dungeons in Japan that can be counted on the fingers of both hands.
From the portal floating on the surface of the lake, there is an incredibly dangerous presence.
Even if you don’t have a scouting job, or even if you’re not an explorer, to begin with, you can feel this sense of danger.
It is said that this is done out of consideration so that no one will wander into the extremely dangerous dungeon without knowing it, but as usual, we do not know “who” is taking such consideration, “why,” or “how.”
After receiving information from God at the shrine, I decided to put the newly available job on hold and left the dungeon with Haruhara as a magic swordsman.
On Saturday, my party, “Saber・Saber,” will have its regular exploration.
If I had changed jobs there, I would have been bombarded with questions about what the hell had happened.
Saturday’s party exploration went as smoothly as ever, and then I went to the shrine again alone.
There, I set the newly unlocked quest, and the next day―today―I made my way to Lake Okutama.
My goal, of course, was to complete the special condition “defeat a dungeon boss 400 or more levels higher than me, solo.”
But it’s not as easy as it sounds.
“…How in the world did I ever fulfill such a condition?”
I muttered to myself as I broke out in a cold sweat at the portal that emitted a dangerous atmosphere.
My current level is 9999.
So, in order to fulfill this special condition, the boss’s level must be 10399 or higher.
It is said that there is a rough rule between the rank of a dungeon and the level of the monsters that appear in it.
For a C-rank dungeon, the monster levels range from 1 to 40.
B-rank dungeons have monsters with levels between 41 and 100.
For A-rank dungeons, the range is 101 to 1000.
Only in S-rank dungeons can a monster’s level exceed 1000.
But the level of the boss I need now is 10399.
That level is not enough for the lower S-rank dungeons.
In fact, most of the S-rank dungeons in Japan have monsters whose levels do not reach 10,000.
Even in the Shinjuku Station Underground Dungeon, which is said to be the largest dungeon in Japan, the level of the monsters on the first floor is in the 6700s.
After defeating the bosses on each floor and advancing deeper into the dungeon, monsters with levels in the 8000s finally appear on the seventh floor.
Due to its convenient location, the Shinjuku Station Underground Dungeon is constantly visited by prominent explorers from Japan and abroad.
The seventh floor is the front line of attack.
Even on the seventh floor, the monster level is only in the 8,000s.
In addition, the Shinjuku Station Underground Dungeon, like other S-rank dungeons, has not been reported to be completely conquered.
If the deepest floor of the Shinjuku Station Underground Dungeon were 16 or more floors deep, the bosses would probably exceed the 10,500 level mark.
However, there is a possibility that the deepest floor is even shallower, or conversely, that it is so deep that it is unfathomable.
If it is too shallow, the special conditions cannot be met, and if it is too deep, it would be difficult to solo through the dungeon.
What about other S-rank dungeons?
The conditions in Ekichika were even worse.
First, the level of the monsters is lower than that of the station basement.
Second, the deepest part of the dungeon is shallow.
Although the dungeons have not yet been conquered, it has been estimated how many floors are deepest in each dungeon based on structural trends.
The deepest dungeon has 20 floors, and the shallowest has 6 floors.
In addition, the accessibility is also poor.
Lake Mashu Dungeon, Fuji Summit Dungeon, Fuji Sea of Trees Dungeon, Azuchi Sky Castle Dungeon, and Iwo Jima Dungeon are all located in remote areas.
Shuri Castle Dungeon is not remote because it is a former tourist attraction, but it is too far from my hometown.
Some of the other dungeons have bosses that are no higher than 10399, considering their level and floor.
Other dungeons are difficult to solo at all.
…Well, soloing an S-rank dungeon is insane.
Even doing an S-rank with a party is unprecedented.
In this regard, the monster level in the “Post-Collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon” is already over 9,500 at the entrance.
The original (pre-collapse) “Okutama Lake Dungeon” has only four floors, but even so, it is calculated to just barely meet the level requirement of the boss.
Also, both I in the original world and I in this world dived into the Okutama Lake Dungeon before it collapsed.
That would be better than diving into a complete stranger’s dungeon out of the blue.
By the way, God said that it is hard to understand, so we call the original world “Skill World” and this world “Job World.”
The terminology is only understood between God and me, but I think it is easy to understand.
The biggest problems in solo exploration are rest and resupply.
It is possible that the Post-Collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon is deeper than the Pre-Collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon, but according to the survey team of a famous guild, at least the structure of the first level tends to be the same as the old Okutama Lake Dungeon.
However, the monsters that appear in this dungeon are said to be a variety of powerful species previously unknown to the public.
The survey team left in a state of shock.
You will now enter such a dungeon alone.
No matter how much I knew about dungeons before they collapsed, you never know what might happen in an S-rank dungeon.
However, it is impossible to meet the “solo defeat a dungeon boss whose level is more than 400 higher than yours” requirement in any dungeon other than this one.
If my level was lower, there were other candidates…
“I’m jealous of myself for being so smug at level 9999.”
There is another problem.
If you conquer a dungeon where the monsters are higher in level than you, it is inevitable that your level will increase.
Unlike skill, experience is a fixed value, but it stands to reason that the higher the level of a monster, the more experience you will gain.
Also, experience is divided by the number of people in the party.
If I continue to fight high-level monsters alone as a magic swordsman, my level will increase.
As my level increases, the level of the dungeon bosses needed to fulfill special conditions will also increase.
Even now, there are only a limited number of candidates, but if the required level increases even more, it will be even more difficult to return to the original world.
In other words, while conquering a dungeon overrun with high-level monsters, you must keep your level as low as possible.
In the common sense of this world, or even in the common sense of the original world, it is an impossible game.
“…Well, I think I found a weird trick to that.”
That’s enough of a review of the current situation; let’s get on with the dungeon.