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I've been wondering around the forest for a few hours now, not that I can tell how long it actually was. And during those few hours, my spacial storage has now about dive rabbit, not including the half one I stored before.

"Maybe I should take a break for now" I mumbled, before looking around when I heard soft buzzing sounds. Learning my lesson with the chase earlier, I quickly hid in a bush.

But I didn't see any wasp coming, the soft buzzing sound just continued. "Where are they?" I mumbled as I poked my head of the bush cautiously.

'Should I go investigate where the sound is coming from or do I just leave it be?' I thought, trying to decide on what to do next before shrugging and decided to just go and investigate. I might even find some useful stuff, like mana crystals.

'Speaking of mana crystals, I didn't check on that dead wasp earlier' I thought before groaning at the potential lost of mana crystals which could eventually save me in tight situations where my mana run out.

"I'll just check the rabbits first then" I muttered to myself as I pulled out the half eaten rabbit from my earlier encounter and looked at its body. "Should I just eat it all to find where the crystal is or what?" I asked myself as I stared at the rabbit corpse.

"Well I am hungry so might as well do that" I said and began eating, carefully chewing each part just in case the crystal was in the meat or whatever.

Soon enough I finished eating the whole thing, leaving only the bones and furs that I shaved off of the rabbit before eating the meat. The crystal was located in its head, near the horns.

"Okay then, I'm keeping this" I muttered as I grabbed the crystal that was about the same size on a small orange and put it in my spacial storage.

After that, I went to investigate the buzzing sounds. Listening to the sounds for several minutes,  I hid in the bushes as I stared in amazement and a light fear on what was in front of me.

Hundreds if not thousands of the giant wasp were flying around a huge tree where a massive hive was build on the thickest and longtest branch on the tree.

The giant wasp went in and out of the hive, some carrying food while the others just went to scout the area near the hive or went to hunt more food to bring back to the hive.

"Woah" I mumbled out as I continue to hide in the bushes, observing the giant wasp more. "I probably should just go, there's no way the protal is in that place" I muttered to myself as I slowly backed away and quickly bolted out of the once I was far away from the hive.

I walked towards a different direction than the hive and tried to find the portal, hoping it was somewhere in the whole dungeon and not just inside the hive, that would be suicide to go there.

Now that I think of it...

"Hey system! Isn't this the third floor? So why the heck are some things difficult?" I asked the system, waiting for it to answer me.

[ well that's because this dungeon is located deep inside a dense forest filled with dangerous and blood thirty demons that like to bury under ground or hide in the trees so only strong adventures go here.

Some being knights from different kingdom as training but they would usually just use the first, second and third floor ]

The system explained, making me nod in understatement.

'Ah, no wonder those slimes from the previous floor had already acces to magic' I thought before shrugging it off and continued with my walk and search.

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Several hours, I think, has passed and I was now standing in front a giant tree that has a huge whole carved in the middle. And in that middle was a swirling crimson red dungeon entrance.

"Well, I think this it right?" I nervously asked myself before taking a deep breath as I step closer to the entrance but I couldn't help the nagging feeling in my head that I shouldn't enter just yet, so I didn't.

"Okay, I think I'll just go hunt and gain more exp for now. Maybe if I evolve again I might be okay with taking on the dungeon boss" I muttered to myself before my mind went back to the giant hive.

"Damn death wish of mine" I sighed and turned around. Intending to go back to the direction of the hive.

"Maybe I could pick those outside one by one, surely that'll give me some exp to level up. Albeit not the best way, but hey every exp counts" I muttered to myself as I slowly made my way back, intending to level up first before challenging the boss room.

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