Chapitre 55: Sunken temple
Floor 70th, Sunken temple
Entering the new floor, he did not have high expectations after the slime paradise. That serves to be quite great however when he laid his eyes on the area.
The new floor amazes him, from the window he could see what seem to be the ocean floor filled with colorful corals and schools of fishes swimming here and there. The body of water then is stopped by a translucent barrier at each windows making it seem like he is looking through aquarium glass.
Even though the air felt heavy with humidity, the faded stone interior of the place is dry although there are signs of corrosion here and there.
Walking around the place he couldn't help but notice that the corrosion are heavier around the windows and what seem to be magic circles at fixed intervals on the ground, he doesn't recognize the markings nor the runes in it, however.
Feeling a little tug, he turned to his companion. She is pointing to one of the rooms along the crumbled corridor, the room looks like a place of worship with statuses whose features have faded or outright missing from corrosion.
What draws his attention, however, is not the moss growing at unusual areas of the statuses but the black substance smearing the floor and walls.
Walking to one of the substance, he pokes it with his hand to find it a bit sticky yet smooth texture and a slightly foul smell, almost like that of ink. Looking around the room one last time, he concluded that nothing useful is there and was about to leave when the ground shook. Torrent of water then come gushing in from the windows and quickly flooded the area he is in.
Turning to his companion, he is glad the slime had done its job and engulfed Valerie in a translucent bubble-like before, he could see the worried expression on her usually stoic face.
Giving her a smile, he reaches out to the bubble and grabs it, before swimming down the corridor while pulling it.
Outside, the whole scene has changed. The moss growing around the stone bricks gave a faint light, illuminating the place and giving it a slight magical feeling, although the seawater is limiting his range of sight, it is still enough to navigate through the corridor.
Taking a turn at an intersection, he was startled by a whip of a tentacle that almost got his hands. The tentacle look like any ordinary ones except these are have saw-like tooth covering them, the tentacle comes from a group of small and agile squids. Killing them aren't hard even underwater but they are using some kind of stonefish as their vanguard and tanker, it's hard shell isn't in any way inferior to the boss's scales and was a tough opponent to kill as he had to crush the thing by hand.
After clearing the creatures, he continues exploring the floor, after a while, the circles let out a dark blue glow and the water started receding, absorbed by the circles like a drainage system.
The usage of the circles actually intrigued him so he copied them to one of the blank pages in a book he found. His exploration took a while more, and by now he thought he figured out the intervals for the water rush.
If he is right, then the water comes in every 20 minutes and last for 15 minutes before being drained, every time the water comes in, monsters will spawn inside the place and they will disappear once the water dries up.
His exploration seems to have taken 3 days since the light cycle out on the water surface has pass that much, through all this time, Val did not read a single book, maybe she is afraid of them being ruined by water?
It is also to note that unlike before, his map recorded multiple floors for this one dungeon floor and it is starting to annoy him since there are times he fell down some stairs when the water receded.
Sighing, he could only hope that he'll find the exit sooner than later.
État de l’alimentation hebdomadaire
-- Classement
Power Stone 
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