Warlock of Oceans: My Poseidon System

Chapter 13 Dungeon: Sentient Sludge Sewers (5)

My body had practically been in overdrive for the past week or so... so I took my well-deserved nap.

...

As soon as I woke up, I was met by tons of panels that just displayed the god's reactions to the outcome of this battle.

Some were hoping for me to get tortured to death, some just wanted to see me die, and some even wanted to see me survive and overcome the battle in the face of despair.

I mean, I don't know if I really despaired at any point, but I did feel hopeless for a second until my mind slowly melted again.

That was a strange experience that I'd rather not go through again if possible.

But I did gain a pretty good skill that helped out tons in that past battle.

"Urk... *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough*... Seems my internal injuries weren't healed that much," I muttered, and upon glancing at my status, I clicked my tongue.

[HP: 24/35 MP: 10/10 SP: 15/15] - Normal Human

My health was stuck at a decent number because of my injuries that wouldn't heal, so I slurped up some more water and felt the taste of it linger in my breath and mouth.

I gagged a few times before finally pushing it down and seeing my health begin to rise again... very slowly.

It was one health point per five or so minutes, so I decided to just hang out here for now and wait for my body to fully recover.

"Fooooooo... Let's upgrade my strength and mana while I'm at it,"

Upgrading your strength was simple... all you had to do was just workout, but the process of gaining more strength was probably much slower than mana.

Also, it could just be that I'm too talented in mana, fufufufu.

After about three hours, I stretched out my entire body to try and feel out any injuries, and thankfully, nothing came back in my investigation.

But, I wasn't done with my rest break as I wanted to reflect on what I did wrong in that past situation.

First of all, I didn't run away when I had the chance and instead attacked that rat ruler, which could've been lethal.

It could've known some type of magic that I'm unaware of, or it could've had some special skill up its sleeve.

That was really dangerous...

Killing them was easy as smashing an ant, but the sludge which continuously tried to close in from all sides was annoying.

I had to waterboard them once at a time, making the process just tedious and not worth doing.

...

A few weeks later, I had assumed that I finished looping around the entire dungeon at least twice, and my status had grown... kind of.

『Status』

[Name: Cyrus]

[Race: Human]

[Class: Water Magician]

[Level: 9/25] (81/100) XP Needed

[HP: 35/35 MP: 10/10 SP: 15/15] - Normal Human

[Strength: 5] - Normal Human

[Defense: 3] - Normal Human

[Magic: 13] - Normal Human

[Speed: 3] - Normal Human

[Aether: 5] - Non Human

[Skills: [Tidal Strike] [Water Manipulation] [Water Ring]

[Passive Skills: [Water Body]

...

I only gained three levels over the past few weeks, which is extremely disappointing, and what is even more disappointing is that I couldn't even find a secret area or an entrance... meaning the well was the entrance the entire time.

I cursed internally multiple times as I made my way towards the long stretch leading towards the boss room.