Live Dungeon, a free MMORPG where players aim to conquer dungeons and reach the lowest level. Tsutomu Kyotani, who lives alone in an apartment, was working on character development today while running five laptops.

　With a sip of his jelly drink in his mouth, Tsutomu looks at the characters displayed on the five laptops. The first healer position that he developed first. In addition, the tank, attacker and all of them are level canned. The last magic tank you are raising will soon be a must-have as well.

　This game is a dungeon game in which the players must conquer the dungeons and aim for the lowest level, but since this is a MMORPG, the basic idea is to form a PT with other players. However, two years ago, Tsutomu used to dive into dungeons with his guild, friends or strangers, forming a PT.

　However, the MMORPG Live Dungeon, which started its service seven years ago, will be shut down in a month.

　Tsutomu first played Live Dungeon when he was in high school, when he got a computer. Tsutomu played this game for about six years. It was a fitting end to the game. Tsutomu came up with an idea.

　He was going to capture the lowest level of the dungeon by himself. However, Live Dungeon is a MMORPG, which is not designed to be conquered by a solo player. Therefore, Tsutomu bought a second-hand laptop and borrowed the other three from his friends and seniors. It was a game that was played seven years ago, but the required specifications of the computer were so low that even an old raggedy laptop would not be a problem.


(I'm done...)


　After confirming that the last character's level was up to kanto, Tsutomu randomly threw the empty jelly drink into the trash can. He then gooped his hands and snapped his fingers as if to get his spirits up. This is where the best part of the live dungeon begins to deliver the game.

　This game called Live Dungeon, as the name suggests, has the ability to deliver dungeon strategies in-game. It's a feature that the gods who manage dungeons have installed in order to pass the time and watch humans fight. This function was updated to allow the dungeons to be streamed over the Internet, and many people said "God, the Internet is coming!

　However, Tsutomu dared to transmit the games only within the game. Although there was only BOT on this server, Tsutomu was happy about it. It was obvious that he would be criticized as a lone BOT if he distributed on the Internet.


'Well, let's do it,'


　Tsutomu tightens up his face, which his friends often tell him to get a grip, and connects each character to the same server. You'll be able to apply for a PT by sending a standard "hello" message to the PT chat room.

　The role of the PT is divided into three main parts in this game. There are three main roles in this game: tank (shield), attacker (attacker) and healer (healer). Tsutomu is a physical tank, a magic tank, and a physical attacker and a magic attacker. And I took on the dungeon with the recovery role.

　The environment of the dungeon changed every ten levels, with the lowest level being the hundredth level. That's where the final boss, the fiery old dragon, will appear.

　There are also back dungeons for criminals, but the dungeons are not so sweet that one person can attack them by using five machines. Therefore, Tsutomu set his sights on the front dungeon.

　However, the dungeon attack plan had been planned during the creation of the character, but this was the first time that he had actually participated in a dungeon attack. It's a good idea to use all of your summer vacation time, he thought, and pressed the Enter key.

The grasslands from the first level to the tenth level. The forest from the eleventh level. The swamp from the twenty-first level. The wilderness from the thirty-first level. Although the poison status abnormality was troublesome, it was manageable up to this point with a level push. The problem is the beach from the forty-first level. In order to defeat the Shell Crab, the boss here, you need to take measures not to let it dive into the ground.

　The theory is to cut down all of them before they dive, but Tsutomu had difficulty cutting down all of them by himself, so he had to get to the move point ahead of them. There are three movement points that change according to the ratio of their strength, and as long as you know them, you won't be able to recover all of them, so Tsutomu was able to draw on the second one and defeat it early.

　The ravine from the fifty-first level is an instant death if you fall. Therefore, there are a lot of traps and enemy MOBs that will try to drop you in this way, but they can be nullified by granting a PT with wind magic. Tsutomu carefully moves them one by one to avoid being targeted by the flying dragons that fly around.

　The boss of the canyon is a fire dragon. If you don't have a flying dragon, you won't descend for the rest of your life, and you'll be spitting out breaths and hell, but if you have a long-range attack, it will weaken your wings and end up sacking you when you land on the ground.

　The volcano from the sixty-first level. There are many instant-death installations here too, so heat protection is essential. You need to prepare heat protection equipment. The mid-boss and the giant of the boss who swims in the lava is a tank-killer that uses the lava and sprinkles instant death, but it's no problem because you can withstand it if you have heatproofing measures.

　From the 70th layer, you'll be in a snowfield. It's not so scary as long as you have protection against the cold and freezing, but the snow wolves, which are small fish enemies, spring up infinitely, and that's the tricky part. Mainly the control surfaces. It's hard to take on multiple enemies when you're operating five units by yourself. This is also the place that Tsutomu was most worried about.

　It's a good idea to be able to have a good idea of what you're going to do with it. The end of this game was in sight.

　From the eightieth layer, it was light and darkness. The main enemy MOBs were the divine messenger who created the dungeon, the demon who claimed to be an angel, and the angel who was dropped by the demon and turned into an undead who couldn't speak. The holy and dark attributes are essential here. Countermeasures against confusion and implicit abnormalities are also essential.

　And the boss is the end of the archangel's life. The implicit state abnormality that makes magic unusable for the combined range attack of the holy and dark attributes. It is mainly famous for killing healers, and it depends on the healer's ability to avoid or prevent the boss's attack.

　And then there's the old castle from the ninth level. You can open the door by raising the boss drop in the dungeon. In addition, you can use boss drops as materials for weapons, armor, and tools. If you use the boss drops as materials for weapons, armor, or tools, you'll have to hunt them down again, which is a nuisance. In the old castle, you'll find every enemy MOB you've ever encountered.

　The 100th level is like an arena, and defeating the fiery old dragons in there is the only way to complete the dungeon.

　There are many breaths and ranged attacks that will reduce the durability of weapons and armor. Every time you attack, your weapon's durability will decrease. It's an attacker-killer with a high magic resistance, but its holy attributes make it easy for the healer to participate in the attack, so you won't be lacking in firepower.

　Tsutomu defeats the fiery old dragon with his familiar controls and unconscious thinking. Back Dungeon Release! Tsutomu, who checked the display with four characters now, let go with a tired look on his face.


(A lot has happened.)


　The first time I dove solo into a dungeon and returned with flying colors. Getting red in the face after being provoked by a provocation action in a dungeon where I was repatriated when I died in the dungeon.
　Recognized as a mine when I took on a healer in my first wild PT for making too much hate when I took on a healer for the first time.
　In my first guild, the boyfriend group and the non-boyfriend group split up and disbanded. The next guild I joined was disbanded due to the encounter kitchen. In the end, the guild I created lasted until there were no more people in it, despite the difficulties.
　In my first defense battle, I got caught in a penalty kick and lost all but the rarest items.
　My first dungeon conquest was parasitic, and I was boycotted by attackers and tanks.


(Huh?　(Not much of a good thing!)


　No, no, there were some good things about it. Tsutomu went back to the plaza, forcing himself to agree with the fact that it was fun to be a healer since he learned his role, and the tank and attacker were both okay, and he was having a good time. Then, in the center of the square, there was someone doing the clapping motion.


(No name display........is it an NPC?　(I'm sure you won't find this guy even if you conquer the dungeon.


　With that in mind, I was making familiarization gestures with the five characters when a private chat was sent.


'Congratulations on conquering the dungeon on your own!　For those of you who do, I'll give you this!


　A hand-off motion from that NPC along with such a chat. Tsutomu's hand stopped at the word alone. He could immediately think of a reason why he knew he was alone.


(Was he being watched...?)


　If someone who has played live dungeons to some extent can see the behavior of freezing in places, they can infer that maybe they are playing alone. But this guy is not named above, and if you look at the people who are in on the server, there's only a BOT.


(Maybe it's the management guy...?　Wow. (That's a neat move.)


　Although he was absent-mindedly in tears, Tsutomu received an item from the manager, thinking that he would write about it on a nostalgic bulletin board and brag about it.


'I have received an invitation from God.


　The moment he received the item, the laptop glowed with vigor.


(What?!　(Freeze?!)


　With that thought, Tsutomu's consciousness was cut off with a pause, like turning off his laptop.


　--~~~


　An old castle whose existence was forgotten by the people. Tsutomu woke up in the arena of the ancient castle of oblivion.


''Hmm. What is this place?''


　I looked around and saw that the surroundings were very dim. All around me is a 'live dungeon! It's a bit like the hundredth layer of, in my blurry mind.


(Dream.)


　After concluding that, Tsutomu stood up and slapped his buttocks as if to clear the dust. The clattering of his own clothes surprised him, and he was wearing red leather pants. On the upper half of his body, he wears chainmail and black robes. He even wears brown boots and a staff with a black crystal inlaid into it.


It's a high reproduction rate. I can even shoot magic!


　As he raised his staff and was frolicking in various poses, Tsutomu was hit by a roaring sound that seemed to resonate in the pit of his stomach. The impact was so great that it knocked him over and he looked up at the cloudy sky.

　At first, a small black object appeared in the sky in the distance. It grew larger and larger and seemed to be rapidly falling towards Tsutomu.

　Covering his ears to the roar that was still being released, Tsutomu staggered to his feet and ran to get away from it. He ran anyway, forcing his stumbling feet to move. And then the giant crab landed in the center of the arena, scattering wind pressure.

　Decayed eyes. The body of a rotten old dragon with several holes in it. Tsutomu sat down on the spot with his legs trembling at the too large substandard creature.


(Battered old dragon... right?)


　I think this is a dream, even though I clink my teeth together. I'm not sure if I'm dreaming or not, but I'm sure I'm dreaming, as I clench my teeth into the dirt on the ground. He feels the soil crumble in his hands, and the thought that maybe it wasn't a dream passes through his mind.

　Tsutomu is dominated by such thoughts. The blazing old dragon looked at him without eyes. And then, as if it were an aching body, the blazing old dragon shrank back and spat out a breath as if it were spitting towards the ground. This is a vomit-like breath that corrodes everything it touches. Unable to move from the spot, Tsutomu was hit head on by the breaths that surged in like a tsunami.

　As soon as he was hit by the breath, his hands began to melt like syrup. In the blink of an eye, the tip of Tsutomu's wrist rotted away.


(Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!


　The bracelets soon covered my entire body, and the pain was as if I was being swarmed by a swarm of insects and bitten all over my body. More and more my body falls off as if it were sinking into a swamp. My face also begins to decay from the bracelets, and I lose my sense of sight, hearing, and smell. All I have is pain.

　That sensation of pain suddenly disappeared from Tsutomu.

　And then Tsutomu's body became a pale particle of light and disappeared from the arena of the ancient castle.

　All that was left was a blazing old dragon standing there without a care in the world and the equipment that Tsutomu was wearing.