Route 1: The Dream 9.0

After what I had discovered, I immediately head back home, I did not use my teleportation magic to send me straight back to my house, instead I used it to transport me right before the door of the dungeon. It is safe to do that because it is already past eight in the evening, and no adventurer has the guts to enter the dungeon when the moon is already high up in the sky.

Why? Because monsters are a lot more active, many and deadly during the night. I am sure that by now, the lower class monsters that I have killed are beginning to appear again on their specific floors. I could actually stop the same kind of lower class monsters respawning from every floor, but that wouldn't be fun for the other adventurers like they should also have their fair share of challenges inside this dungeon.

I started walking towards the door and I knocked three times, which is a signal to give those knights outside to open the door because an adventurer is about to go out. Just about a few seconds later, the door finally opened and when the same four knights who greeted me months ago saw me, I noticed how their eyes immediately went wide.

Maybe it is because they never saw me got out of the door of this dungeon for a couple of months and maybe they thought that I am already dead. I took a step outside and once I am already a little far from the entrance of the dungeon, I immediately heard the closing sound it makes.

I stretched my arms up in the air and I even inhaled the fresh air. Well, it is just an act anyway.

"It's been few months hmm I guess it is a good thing that this place is the same as before" - I whispered, well actually it is not a whisper, but the volume of my voice is loud enough for the four knights to hear. Why do I need to ensure that they heard what I have said? Simply because I want them to start a rumor. A rumor that states that the new adventurer who is named Mila stayed inside the dungeon for months and got out without a single scratch on her body.

"Excuse me, Miss Mila" - one of the four knights approached me and I immediately turned around to look at him. I could see on his face that he is quite hesitant to speak.

"What is it?" - I asked in a nonchalant tone but what I said is a sign that I have given him the permission to speak so he shouldn't hesitate.

"If you do not mind, could you tell us what floor have you reached?" - he asked which instantly made me grin. Well, that's the question I am actually waiting for one of them to ask the exact question because my answer to that question will strengthen the rumor that will go around the town, and even around the empire.

It has already been months since I first arrived in this town, and not to mention it has already been two months since the start of the new year in this world.

"Oh I have reached the fortieth level of the dungeon" - I said and as if on cue the eyes of the four knights went wide and their faces even turned pale. Well, I guess I am the first person who reached that level and got out without a single scratch on my body. Damn. I can't wait to hear the rumors go around town.



* Three Days Later*



It's been three days since I decided to leave the dungeon for a while and focus on tracking that bastard who is making monsters out of human beings. And so far I haven't found anything just yet. I also informed both Alarick and Aesir what I had saw in the memory of the specter I killed; I simply projected to them the exact memory of the specter and the two are actually quite shocked to witness such thing.

They too are not expecting that there could be someone who could do such an ancient forbidden dark magic who could make human beings into monsters in just a few incantations. Alarick and Aesir became alarmed, and just like me, the two are also looking for a way to track that person down.

The also gave an order to the spirits to be careful, especially to those spirits who have already formed a contract with human beings because Alarick and Aesir thought that whoever that person is, he or she will surely target those people who have spirit familiars, because compared to a human being without a familiar, they are a lot stronger.

I raise my hands up in the air to have a little stretch because I have been replying to a almost a hundred of letters coming from different people from the territory of the empire and from other kingdoms. The letters commonly contain how excited they are to here stories about my journey inside the dungeon, some contain congratulatory note for being the first person to reach the fortieth floor of the dungeon and yet came out with no wounds and other letters are of course, just like the usual are inviting me to actually have a tea party with them or visit their lands.

Damn- if only I could leave the house after I finish writing all the replies to the letters, I would but heck, I will still review a few documents that Cain left two days ago. I need to see the progress of what I asked him to do since it has already been a few months and his due date is fast approaching.

He only have a month left if I am not mistaken to accomplish what I asked him to do, or if he is not successful, I will decline to help him but of course, I am not that evil to disclose the information we talk about to the authorities because whether I like it or not, indeed he is going to be the future emperor of this kingdom.

And he is way more better than the current one.

After I stretched my arms, I put it down and I grab my pen and I started writing a reply once again to a letter sent by the Duke of Franceschi. The contents of his letter is actually simple, he is just congratulating me for reaching the fortieth floor and getting out of the dungeon without a single scratch from my body, and also he said that his daughter, the second young miss of the Franceschi duchy would like to meet me soon to have a little conversation.

And of course, my usual reply is that, I would look into it, and that I will not promise anything to the young lady, because I don't want that kid to get attached to me and later will be disappointed when I finally start to do cruel and despicable things especially to the high society and to the imperial family.

Because just like the initial plan, I am going to embody being a villainess of this world.



*PRESENT DAY*

**SCARLET AUBRIELLE**

I woke up, sweating and I cannot help but to immediately got out from my bed. I begun massaging my forehead and I cannot help but to look around me and I cannot help but to let out a sigh when I saw that it is already midnight.

However, that doesn't matter to me right now - what matters to me the most is to know what the hell is that dream.

"Seriously, why did I dream of those things? Who is that person? Why does that person look like me?"



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