Wolf

The entity stares at me for a few seconds before stating, “You’ve become too powerful for the Administrator Dungeon to be much of a challenge to you, outside of pure bad luck. So I’m moving you to a place that can be a challenge to you.”

My eyes widen in shock at that. But right when I open my mouth to speak, I feel a small amount of void energy forcefully shut it close.

This is what he meant by a beta before! Are you fucking kidding me?!

“Calm down,” The Reaper says, still not showing a single emotion on his face as I feel a strange energy entering my head and somehow forcing me to calm down. “That’s better. I won’t bother telling you who I am, since you can easily guess that. I will tell you that while this new place that you’ll be going to may be more dangerous than the Administrator Dungeon, it’s also a lot more rewarding.” His eyes narrow. “Especially for you, who isn’t connected to the System.”

The irritation I was feeling at him forcefully altering my emotions – which I feel would probably be greater if he wasn’t, well, altering my emotions – fades away even more at the thought of benefits from this. Since being disconnected from the System has been rather annoying, even if I know it’ll help me in the end. What with me not relying on something made and controlled by another person to use my powers.

But finding Mythic chests or killing bosses and getting skills as a reward for them only to have the skills vanish? That is incredibly annoying, regardless of the upsides.

“You’ll be entering the Beta Administrator Dungeon, which is, of course, the beta I used when designing the Administrator Dungeon in the first place,” The Reaper explains before snapping his fingers once, causing a portal to open up, showing a very familiar floor. Except with a lot more monsters, all of which are more powerful than the first floor theme monsters were. “The beta was tested using my own void creatures over a period of many decades, and it has several differences in it that aren’t included in the Administrator Dungeon that you know of.”

I stare through the portal at the floor as he speaks. It’s obviously a more difficult version of the first floor theme of the other Administrator Dungeon, but the image only shows me the higher leveled monsters that roam the floors and the fact that they’re all a little bit stronger than the average monster.

“You can figure out the biggest differences between the dungeons on your own, but I will go ahead and explain the most important ones to you,” he says before glancing behind him, then back at me again. “Unlike with the Administrator Dungeon, the Beta has every floor adjusting its starting strength to the Beta Participant’s level. Meaning that every time you enter a floor, the monsters begin at the same level as you on average, with many of them starting at a slightly higher level than you.”

My eyes widen in shock at that.

Looks like I won’t be plowing through floors anymore.

“The monsters on every floor will not be limited to attacking only you and will all be able to attack each other to grow, making each floor more like an environment of its own,” he continues, “but the floors will only come into existence when you reach them.”

I grimace at that.

This means that the monsters will be growing stronger on each floor just like I am. Which’ll make things a lot more difficult.

“Some bosses and mini bosses will have their own lairs, while others won’t. And an exit to each floor will only spawn after you kill a mini boss or boss for the floor, unlike the other dungeon where you can just avoid fighting it entirely and simply leave,” The Reaper says while waving his hand to have the portal show an image of a bloodling – which is a vampire’s instance of a primal werewolf – going on a rampage through the corridors of the first floor theme. “New System Stores I’ve come to calling Void Stores are within the dungeon where you spend FP, or Floor Points, alongside the regular System Stores, and you will still be broadcast across all of existence. But with a set price of SP that must be paid to watch you inside a unique viewing room for and you alone.”

Floor Points?

I frown at that, but The Reaper seems to ignore me as he claps his hands together, his eyes beginning to glow with an even stronger black light than before. At the same time, I feel the energy leaving my mouth, allowing me to speak again.

“You may ask me three questions, and I will either answer them truthfully or not at all,” The Reaper says, his voice resounding through the area. “Be quick about it, and be picky with your questions, as this is the only time I will allow this.”

My eyes narrow for a second before I immediately jump right in and ask a question that’s been bothering me for a while now.

“Why did you create the System in the first place?”

The Reaper responds just as quickly, as if expecting the question, “There are two reasons. One is purely for my own entertainment, and the other is to create my own forces to use against the Fae.”

His first answer has my eye twitching in irritation, but it makes some level of sense considering how the System is designed, while the second one… how does he actually plan to do that? It’s not like the Players of the System will just go around following his orders just because he asked them to.

And if I ask him about this, he’ll likely use it up as my second question.

I try to think for nearly an entire minute on other questions to ask that might be important, but The Reaper merely states, “You have two more minutes to ask. After that, I’ll be sending you to the Beta Dungeon.”

Seriously? Guess he’s in a rush?

He did look like he was watching out for something earlier when he was talking.

Overall, there are several things I’m curious about and would love to ask him. Like why he made the Administrator Dungeon, why he has the System spreading at the will of the Administrators, why he made the Dungeon livestreamed, and so on. But most of them are just superficial questions.

In the end, I decide to go ahead and ask.

“How do you plan to force the inhabitants of the System to fight against the Fae?”