Wolf

  “So how many times are we going to be thrown somewhere relatively unknown against our will seemingly at random?” Sapphire asks me as I sit on the floor next to her in the middle of a very dark dungeon corridor. One with miasma slipping through the tiny cracks between the stone blocks making up its structure, and the sounds of groaning coming from down the hall. Or more particularly, sounds of groaning coming from the zombies – yes, more zombies, just like the twentieth floor theme of the dungeon – coming down the corridor before getting frozen by the massive amounts of ice element I’ve flooded the area, freezing everything in the corridor.

  Although for some reason, my ice element doesn’t want to plug up the parts of the walls leaking the miasma entirely. So it’s still flooding out rather slowly.

  “I’ve lost count,” I answer Sapphire before falling down onto my back, simply lying down on the frozen floor. “But it’s not anymore enjoyable than it was the first time it happened.”

  As if responding to our melodramatic complaints, a notification appears in front of my vision. One simply floating there and not on my interface.

  “That looks a lot like the first notification that appeared in the Beta Administrator Dungeon,” I mutter to myself before glancing over at the zombies who are surprisingly getting closer and closer to us as the ice element begins to run out within the corridor.

  Interesting.

  Out of curiosity, I identify the zombies. Just to find a rather glaring surprise.

  “These zombies are level 2203,” I mutter while staring blankly at them.

  They’re about twenty levels above me. How the hell is that starting at around the same level or slightly higher leveled than me?!

  Although they still can’t break my ice. Assuming they don’t have a fire ability user that is.

  Another notification appears replacing the first one.

  I frown as I read the notification. Most of this isn’t much different from the Administrator Dungeon, except for whatever that Positive Chest is supposed to be. But it’ll probably be explained later on.

  Out of nowhere, the notification seems to glitch out before disappearing. Then another one appears in its place.

  Oh?

  “I wonder if he heard my complaints?” I mutter to myself, making Sapphire giggle as she watches. But right before the next notification appears for me to read, I wave my hand to create two large walls of ice blocking us off of the zombies after my ice element seems to be having trouble keeping them all back. Although I can’t help but do a double take at the large pile of frozen zombie corpses that the other zombies are simply climbing over. “Just how many are there?”

  It takes me a little bit to read every last change, but most of them are rather brutal and make me almost want to go back to the Administrator Dungeon.

  Almost.

  After all, I wouldn’t be able to save Alexis if I did. Not to mention that it’s likely not possible.

  There are a couple of nice changes though. Like the beta dictionary thing, and the removal of skills and common chests. Because who knows how many common chests I’ve opened over the years.

  I glance at the zombies that are banging on the wall of ice next to me and Sapphire before focusing once more on the final notification that appears in front of me and Sapphire. Or as it turns out, not a notification.

  I can’t help but blink in confusion at the message.

  Uh… what?

  Those rewards look really nice, but there’s a lot to unpack in that message.

  Also, what’s with the ‘by all that’s tasty in the universe’ thing?

  I glance at Sapphire, who I find looking at me with confusion on her face before I ask, “Can the System even taste?”

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