I wake up the m in what seems to be a somewhat familiar pce.

  The medical wing of the association building.

  I remember colpsing after leaving the hidden dungeon, and I guess that someone brought me up here.

  My track of time is super messed up right now, since I have no clue how long I was in the dungeon, no clue how long ago I left the dungeon, and even before that, I was all over the pce time wise.

  I look around the room and see several iing things this time.

  My pletely destroyed armor, and the ripped clothes from underh, all still covered in blood.

  A bunpty potion bottles, probably from the associati to help me. I already drank one, so they probably didn’t do much.

  And stly, a surprising ck of people. The st few times this happened, both after the Christmas stuff and after new years, my family was waiting ihe room.

  Though, they were also asleep then, and they might not need sleep now.

  As I stand up, I feel the ges in my body sihe st time I colpsed. I had increased in level a bunch during the hidden dungeon, so I was much stronger now.

  In terms of strength, I robably still in the D rank hunter range, but that was still a whole rank up.

  D-rank goes from level 50 to 200, and that is just level. In terms of things like skills, d rank is where you start seeing a lot more variety in skills.

  E-ranks normally only used basic swords and spears, and if they had magic, it was rare and only one element.

  I was an E rank with a bunch of others, but I was also an anomaly.

  My body felt a lot lighter, and more eic.

  As I was looking around my hospital room, someone opehe door.

  “Wheh wakes up, he’s going to need new clothes. His were pletely destroyed” Aria said, walking into the room.

  “Yeah, but he has clothes at home, we could have gotten those” Anthem said, walking with her.

  Then they both stopped when they noticed me walking around.

  “Zenith!” they both yelled.

  “What are you doing? You should still be in bed. You were pletely covered in blood after that dungeon” Aria said, pushing me bato the bed.

  “What the heck happened in that dungeon?” Anthem asked.

  “Oh, nothing super strange” I said, totaling lying. “But, I should probably tell uncle Gideon about everything first”.

  I o tell someone important about what I learned, and he was the highest person in the hunters association I knew, so…

  “You tell us first” Aria said, sulking.

  “What the hell happehere?”

  ?

  After ging my clothes, Aria, Anthem, and I headed to uncle Gideons office.

  His assista us in right away.

  “So, this is about the inside of that hidden dungeht?” he asked me.

  “Yes”

  “Then go ahead”

  I proceed to tell them about the writing on the walls in English, the different puzzles I had to solve, and the rewards I got.

  Then, when I got to the library, things got iing.

  “You're tellihat those books were in English, and talked about the end of the world?”

  “Yes, I even tried to keep a few of them,” I said, pulling the three books out of my item box.

  When I hahem to uncle gideon, he flipped through them, only to speak up. “Zenith, these are all empty” he said.

  “What” I said, taking them back.

  When I looked at them again, I found that they were pletely empty. Not evele on the spine was there.

  “What the hell? I promise they said stuff in the dungeon” I say.

  “I believe you. But it is strahat it no longer does. Dungeon items maintain their properties normally, but this is strange. you tell us what they said?”

  “Yeah, but it wasn’t much. Just about the different ideas of how a bunch of worlds started, then a bunch of stories from those worlds. And the st set talked about the end of the worlds, whially was from a massive amount of monsters invading from a cra the sky” I tell them.

  “Iing… What else happened?”

  “Nothing until the st floor, where I fought the boss.” I thought back to the angel I had fought, and how I almost died. “The boss was an angel” I told them.

  …

  “What?” they all said.

  “Yeah, it was an angel. Wings, halo, bunch of eyes. It was strange, and strong” I said.

  “And you killed it?” uncle gideon asked.

  “Yeah, just barley. It was immuo physical attacks at the start of the fight. Then it was immuo magic. But for the st part of the fight, nothing I did hurt it. I don’t even know how it died” I said.

  “And that was why you were so hurt?” Aria asked.

  “Yeah, the only other monsters were on the first floor, and they were easy to deal with. But then that fight… it was bad”

  There was about a sed, before anyone spoke again.

  “Was there anything else?” uncle Gideon said.

  “Yeah, I was shown this message after I killed the angel, and it said that unless I, or I think maybe humanity gets strohe world is going to end”

  ?

  After I told them about the hidden message, I told them about the other things I received.

  “So, you ended up with two titles, and a new intrinsic skill?” Aria asked.

  “Yeah, I haven’t checked what they do yet though?”

  But before we could tinue, Uncle Gideon spoke up. “Aria and Anthem, you leave for a sed?”

  “What?” Aria said.

  “I o talk to Zenith in private” he said, getting really serious.

  “Ok” they said, ahe room.

  “What is going on?” I asked uncle gideon.

  “Zenith, do you know what the 5 national rank hunters have in on?” he asked me.

  “I know the basics about them. All 5 are said to have the power to plete a S rank dungeon all on their own” I say.

  “That is what the public has been told about how that designation is given, but there is ahat is the existence of a sed intrinsic skill. Ohey all have”

  “Oh, what is it?” I ask. I uood what this had to do with me, but was lost. I was nowhere hat level of power.

  “No clue, but they all cim to have gotten it after clearing a S rank dungeon. That is all I know” he tells me.

  “So, it could be the same one, or something different that happens when you solo clear a S rank dungeon?”

  “I don’t know, but you should keep quite about this, at least for now” he told me. “Anyway, what about the other things?”

  “Well” I said, looking at the two titles.

  Novice Master - +50% in all base stats when fag an enemy of a higher level

  This retty strong title, giving me a boost when fighting above my level, something I have been doing quite often.

  Then there was the other one.

  Genesis End - +????????1?????????0???????0???????%????????? ????????????i????n??? ??????a?????????l??????l??????? ????????s????????t??????a?????????t?????s????????????? ?????????w???????h??????????e?????n????? ???????f???????a???????c???????i????n????g???? ??????a????????n?????????g?????e?????l???????????i????????c????????? ?????a??????????n?????????d?????? ??????[??????e?????????r??????????r???o???r??????????]??????????? ????????????e?????n???????????t??????i????????????t?????????y???????'???????s????????????

  I couldn’t read the info for the genesis end title. It was all corrupted, like a bunch of stuff surrounding the angle fight.

  I make the s visible to others and show it to uncle Gideon.

  “Hey, this is what I was trying to tell you about. All that corrupted text” I tell him.

  “Iing… I wonder what this is? What about the sed intrinsic skill?”

  “Got it” I say, then pull up the info for apotheosis.

  Apotheosis 1 Lv.0 - N% of the power necessary to achieve godhood

  “Well, I have no clue what this means” I say, showing uncle Gideon the s again.

  “That is strange, but it makes sense, given what you told us and the skill name” he said.

  We tio talk about a few things involving the skills and the titles, but eventually, I didn’t have any more answers for him.

  After that, it had gotten te, and mom and dad were done w for the day, so we all headed home. Uncle Gideon came home and had dinner with us as well.

  After dinner when I headed bato my own room, after the long st few days, I colpsed onto my bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

  I was ready for more hunting over the few days.

  NamelessAlter