Widow’s Dungeon was a surprisingly different sight to see. The dungeon was covered in greenery, making it feel like an arboretum. Of course, it still had corridors, but they were lined with impassible bushes, roots, and vines. Although the place was green, it wasn’t very bright, so it still had the imposing nature of most dungeons that attacked your psyche.
“We’re going to progress slowly and safely. Just a level or two a day.” I explained.
In the past, there was always a bit of pressure. We were either being chased by a bandit king, or running out of supplies, or trying to save someone. This is the first dungeon I entered where I could enter and leave it freely. In fact, it was advantageous for me to leave it because no one would suspect I had the portal spell.
As long as I was seen in the small miner’s town, then Lord Reign would think he was successfully stopping me. In other words, he wouldn’t be trying to cause me any more trouble. Therefore, it was my plan to teleport back after a bit.
First things first, we explored the fifth floor where we entered. The monsters on this floor were called a glimmer, which looked a bit like pixies, and a type of rabbit. The rabbit’s fur was apparently quite comfortable and thus valuable. I guess that was what made this level tempting. You’d come to hunt rabbits for their pelts, only to get trapped by the floor boss. I wondered if every level had such temptations, or if it was reserved for the boss levels.
I actually didn’t have True Dungeon Diver equipped right now. I was still leveling cook when I noticed that the rabbits also dropped rabbit meat. Raissa was really excited about it and said it was a rare drop, but the fifth time a rabbit dropped it she started to doubt her memory. I’m sorry, Raissa! It’s just my Cook job that increased food drops! I wasn’t quite ready to explain all of my secrets to her.
Either way, Raissa was pretty useful. I was depending on her to detect traps and sense enemies. Her instincts were good enough that I wasn’t worried about the higher floors. As we went deeper, I might need to switch back to True Dungeon Diver. It’d be nice if I could get one of the girls to learn that skill. In fact, Lydia already had Basic Monster Identify and Sense Life. If Scout got her Detect Trap, maybe I should depend on her more. It should, I’d think, but I didn’t know what level.
Well, even if she had the skill, if she didn’t know how to use the skills, they’d be useless. Thus, I encouraged Raissa to show Lydia the ropes of Dungeon Diving. As for me, I was happy continuing to cheat by combining detect traps and sense life with maps.
“Beyond level ten, this dungeon also has treasure chests,” Raissa explained, mostly to Lydia. “However, you must be careful. Some of them are mimics, and others are trapped! Many of my party… they lost their lives because they were eaten.”
“Does sense life work on a mimic?” I asked curiously.
“Only once they’ve begun attacking,” Raissa explained.
“Ah… then how do you detect them? Basic Monster Identify?”
“You’re familiar with the dungeon diver job as well?” Raissa’s eyes brightened.
I made an awkward laugh and scratched my chin. “Something like that.”
“There is a high-level ability called sense danger. That can also be used, but you’d need Moderate Monster Identify if you wanted to detect a mimic before it attacked. If you can detect a trap in a chest, you know it’s not a mimic. Well, then you’d need someone with a Disarm Trap skill. That’s another high level for Dungeon Diver. Otherwise, avoid treasure chests. I always told people this, but there are one or two always tempted by the promise of loot.
“Ah, we’ve found a safe zone.” She stopped, gesturing to a door. “Let’s take a small break.”
It appeared to be one of the Kiosk rooms. It looked like Dungeon Divers called them safe zones.