The dungeon my mom seo was about a 30 minute run away from where I was when she called me.

  When I got there I found a bunch of people surrounding the newly formed dungeon making sure no oered it.

  When it es to new dungeons, the association will send a team in to figure out info from the dungeon, like a yout ood level for it.

  If, for some reason, they do not have a team of a good level for the dungeon, they would tract out that dungeon iigation to a guild iy.

  But sihis one was low level, they only needed someoo deal with the monsters.

  This means I will be going in with at least a person with mapping and appraisal skills, to learn the yout and how strong monsters are.

  I could also be seeing something like a healer or crafter to round out the group.

  When I got to the barricade the association had put up, someoopped me. “Hey, this is an ongoing hunter association business. YOu o turn around” they told me.

  “I'm actually part of the iigation team” I tell him, while pulling up my id to prove it.

  “Oh, sorry, e right in” he says, lettio the barricade.

  Walking in, I see a bunch of people from the association cheg things about the dungeon, but then I see them.

  A group of people wearing hunter's clothing, and oands out to me.

  It's been a few weeks since I saw her, since we had that versation in front of my house. I don’t know why she is here, but from what I remember, she is a healer. So, in some ways it made sense she would join the association's hunter reserves.

  “Fuck…” I say, not fully sure what I should do. “Mom, what the hell?”

  And before I could figure anything out, or make a pn, someone walked up to me.

  ‘Excuse me, but are you here for the iigation of the dungeon?” a man asked me. Based on his appearance, I would guess he was around 20ish years old. He was dressed in cssiters gear, but his only on was a knife on his belt.

  “Um, yeah, I am. I was asked to be the fighter for the group. It’s my first time helping though” I tell him.

  “Oh, cool. You aren’t the only newbie with us today. Ill introduce you to the group” the man said and pulled me over to the group. “So let's start with the veterans of the group. I am Ryan, the crafter here to analyze materials in the dungeon, as well as the leader of our small group. This is Michal, our mapping expert, and Jessica, our apreaser”. He gestured to the two people I didn’t know in the group. They were both around Ryans age, and wore simir equipment to him, all with little ons, but stuff that would be helpful in their positions. “And stly this is Mia, our other newbie, she's a healer”

  The two of us just stare at each other for a little, not really sure what to say.

  Shit, I mean, the st time I saw her she told me she loved me and I had a mental breakdown, what should I do?

  Turns out that we were staring at each other for long enough for the others to notice.

  “Do you two know each other?” the uy, Micheal said.

  “Oh, crap, yeah. We do” I say, “But, hey look, a new dungeon no one has cleared yet. Lets go” and I walk towards the dungeon, without paying attention to anyone else.

  “Hey, wait up, shouldn’t we pn for being inside?” Ryan called after me. “We don’t know whats in there yet”

  “Yeah, so hurry up, and we start iigating” I say back to them. Notably speaking, the only person following my lead was Mia.

  “Alright then, we ’t let our juniors show us up” Ryan says, getting Micheal and Jessica to follow behind him.

  And about 10 seds ter, someone else calls out to me.

  “Wait, there is some stuff we o check befoing in” a girls voice, Jessica says.

  “Oh, yeah. Well you do that, we will wait” I say, stopping in front of the door for the dungeon.

  “Yes, thank you. I will get the detailed info we need from the dungeon before we enter.” she says, and pulls out a tablet to write the info down on.

  SHe was cheg for things like minimum level, and the name of the dungeon, but there is also a few things that she see that might be important.

  While this is happening, I walk over to ask Ryan a question about Jessica.

  “Hey, what level is her appraisal skill?” I ask him.

  “Oh, Jessica had the intrinsic skill of absolute appraisal, at the max level” he told me.

  “That's amazing. Absolute Appraisal gives all details of everything, without any exception. Even beyond what we see in our own status right?”

  “Yeah, she is quite helpful troup” he tells me. “Same with Micheal. His mapping is the highest level as well, being auto mapping”

  “And what about you?”

  “Me, no I just have basic crafting” He tells me. “But thanks to the two of them, I am here”

  ‘You all knew each other before joining the association?”

  “Yeah, friends since high school. Joiogether in college, but only one of our friends had bat skills, so we all joined in associations group”

  “But I was called since you don’t have a front line fighter?”

  “They retly joined a guild with a really good tract” Ryan said, with some reservation.

  “Oh, I'm sorry fing it up” I say apologetically.

  “Its fine, but answer a question for me, whats your retionship with Mia?” he asked.

  “...” I wasn’t sure how to answer“We used to be friends, or maybe we still are? Its plicated”

  “Well, as long as you work together, we should be fine” He says.

  “We should be fihen” I say back.

  Shortly ter, Jessica calls us over saying she got all the information she needed from the dungeon, and we finally ehe dungeon.

  ?

  The dungeon opens up with what seems to be a jungle cave. Uhe wolves den I went to a while ago, this should have more diverse monsters inside, as well as slightly more iing terrain.

  Right away, Ryan and Jessica start looking at everything in sight, looking for any materials that are used for anything.

  If they do find stuff for crafting or maybe things that be sold for det mohat would increase the value the dungeon has, ging things for the association.

  Dungeons that have helpful materials i ged from public to private use only. panies rent out dungeons for a certain amount so they harvest the materials and hopefully make a profit.

  These dungeons normally sit around a C-A range, since you o bahe danger of the dungeon in parison to the value of the materials.

  Sihis is an E rank dungeon, or so we assume, it would take some very valuable materials to get this dungeon listed among those.

  Also, private dungeons are how guilds mainly train and hunt, so they do so uninterrupted.

  Allegedly in Europe, a pany tried to hold a tract for a S rank dungeon, only for it to outbreak during the tract, causing the deaths of hundreds of people nearby. After that is when the worlds associations decided that the regur pition of any S rank duakes prece over anything else.

  After a while, we are able to move on a little into the duo a point where I will finally be useful.

  As Ryan and Jessica tio work deeper in, we finally run into some monsters. They seem something like real world monkeys, but much rger and strohen any I have ever seen.

  “They are called Apekros, low level monsters, around 15” Jessica says.

  “Got it” I say, activating wind magid killing all three right away. I poured slightly more magic then I should into the attack, since I was so close to 10,000 mp.

  Apekros level 15 has died

  You gained 25 EXP

  Apekros level 15 has died

  You gained 25 EXP

  Apekros level 15 has died

  You gained 25 EXP

  …

  There were only a few of them, and with that, we are able to move fain.

  ?

  It took us lohen it would have normally taken me, but a few hours ter, we finally made it to the end of the dungeon.

  Michael had us go to every er in the duo plete his map, so that was normal.

  But Ryan and Jessica had to look at every pnt, or slightly different rock. It took them ages to catalog everything.

  THis left me with killing monsters, and Mia with just waiting around.

  Since I was at such a higher level, I could deal with any monster without even trying.

  ALso thanks to the time I spent waiting around, I finally hit 10,000 MP, meaning I could finish making the st few items for absolute creation lv.1.

  I also learhat monsters will respawn if you stay on one floor for long enough. This could be helpful if I wasn’t stantly looking to increase my SP, not level.

  The dungeon had a number of different monsters as well, but mostly just monkey like monsters.

  And now, the boss room.

  Entering it, we found a jungle room, like the rest of the dungeon.

  And in the middle of the dungeon was a boss I would reize anywhere.

  A sasquatch.

  Sasquatch, foot, was a urban legend for years before the first outbreak, and was a big deal when people started seeing them in dungeons.

  I read a number of theories about this, like how this means that magic must have existed before the fist outbreak or dungeons.

  That wasn’t the only evidence, but it retty funny oher evidencluded tings like monsters from fantasy novels or demons from mythology, but the stant idea that they want to kill us has ged some of those ideas.

  Its hard to say this has some mythological answer whehing wants to kill you.

  “Its level 25, but after everything we have seen from you, that should be fine right?” Jessica asked me.

  “Yeah, totally fine” I say, starting and ending the fight with a siack.

  pressing wind down into a bde, i send it at the sasquatd it dies as the wind cuts right through it.

  Sasquatch lv.25 has died

  You gained 250 EXP

  Jungle Cave has been cleared

  200 SP gained

  That message firms the dungeon is clear and the pletion of our task for today. Over the few days, they will open the dungeon up with the dition that any drops o be doted for the association.

  But then I got another message that I had never seen before.

  Apotheosis - You have cleared a new rank 1 area

  You gained 2500 SP

  What the hell is this?

  NamelessAlter