Dungeon Exploration with Absolute Accuracy ~ Level Up by Shooting Arrows from a Safe Zone ~

An Abnormal Situation Occurred!

“Whew, …… this is my 14th.”

It’s been about three hours since I started collecting hard caterpillar threads.

Since then, I’ve been taking the hard caterpillar to collect the threads, digging up the regenerated trees again in the meantime, and collecting hard caterpillar threads again.

“I’ve got one left. Where’s ……?”

I was doing well until I got to the point where there was only one left for now, but I couldn’t find the last one.

“Oh?”

I was thinking, “Oh?” and then I got caught up in my [Enemy Search].

But.

“That’s strange. Why is it moving so fast?”

My [Enemy Search] is responding to that hard caterpillar.

And it’s not too far from where I am.

Yet, for some reason, that hard caterpillar was moving strangely fast.

“There are no human-like signs around the hard caterpillar, either.”

I would have thought it was a party or individual failed to defeat it and was running away, but that’s not the case, because there is no human sign reaction.

The other difference is that I don’t sense the presence of other hard caterpillars, and they don’t fight between monsters of the same species in the first place, so that’s different, too.

“Hmmm ……”

I don’t know.

I thought I was missing something, but I’m not.

The only thing currently stuck in the [Enemy Search] is the hard caterpillar, which is moving at an abnormally fast speed.

“Well, there’s no point in thinking about it.”

That said, I don’t think I’ll get an answer if I stay here and think about it.

“I guess there’s only action!”

I concluded and chased the hard caterpillar through the trees.

I chased the hard caterpillar for a while.

At last, I caught up with the desired hard caterpillar.

Or perhaps it would be correct to say I almost caught up with it.

For some reason, the hard caterpillar in sight was moving in a rotation that it should not have done unless there was an enemy.

Because of this, just as I was about to catch up with it, the hard caterpillar suddenly changed direction without changing speed and went toward the far end of this tree-filled dungeon.

“But where is this thing headed? There shouldn’t be anything this way, right?”

That’s where the funny thing is.

If this means I’m heading toward a staircase that still leads to a lower floor, I don’t want to convince you, but it makes a certain amount of sense.

But that’s not the case because there are no stairs down around here.

“… I have no choice but to go there.”

I agonized a bit and eventually decided to go after the hard caterpillar that was acting strangely.

If I left it there, it would only cause trouble. If so, it would be easier and safer to go after and finish it off.

After all, I have to collect another string of hard caterpillars by the end of the day.

Besides, I still can’t feel any other signs except for the hard caterpillar I’m chasing now, so I have no choice but to chase it anyway.

“By the way, how far does this guy go?”

Just as I muttered that, the hard caterpillar in front of me went through the trees faster than ever before and suddenly stopped.

“What?”

I wondered, and I stopped, hiding in the shadows of the trees.

I watched the hard caterpillar for a while, but its belly legs began to move.

And then, after some progress.

“What?”

─ ─ The hard caterpillar suddenly disappeared, and I couldn’t help but shout.

And when I immediately checked the [Enemy Search], the response indicating the hard caterpillar, which should have certainly been there a moment ago, had also disappeared.

“What!?”

It was definitely there a moment ago, and the reaction should have been there, right?

I don’t think it’s a ghost.

…Right?

“I’d better check before I think about it.”

I have no idea about this stuff, and I don’t think I’d know if I thought about it. If that’s the case, it’s better to check the current situation first, than waste time on something strange.

I decided so, and after checking the surrounding situation once again with [Enemy Search], I left the shadows of the trees and headed for the place where the hard caterpillar was just now.

“Well, well, what’s going on? This.”

This was my first thought when I saw the place I arrived at.

There is nothing unusual about the place. That’s all.

“The hard caterpillar disappeared here, so there must be something here. ……”

But when I looked around, I didn’t see anything that looked like it.

I took a step forward, thinking that way.

After a certain point, my right foot suddenly disappeared, as if assimilated into the landscape.

I was so startled by this that I couldn’t move.

“Whoa!”

An incredible amount of force pulled my foot. And it disappeared into the air as if being sucked into it.

“Wooooooooooooooo!!!!”

I fall to the ground in a spur-of-the-moment decision, grab a nearby buried stone, and use all my body strength to step on it as hard as I can.

But the force of my inhale is too strong, if I keep going like this.

“Ah…”

I was thinking, and the buried stone was gripped by my hand.

Ah~ that’s right.

I’m an explorer, and my level has gone up quite a bit, so my power-related attack power has gone up quite a bit.

That’s what happens.

While I’m thinking about this kind of escape from reality, my body was completely sucked into the stone and disappeared from the spot.