The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Sapphire Intermission 1

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The Three Hundredth Floor of the Beta Administrator Dungeon

Sapphire is a pretty happy girl right now. And a pretty happy spider. A very happy spider at that.

She has a wonderful father. She has plenty of video games to play and time to read while in her father’s shadow.

And now she even has a buffet of bugs to eat.

What more could a girl ask for?

Nothing more if you ask her.

So now she continues charging along through the Cursed Forest as she tears apart the insect monsters and eats them in the process. But she doesn’t stop there either, since she also goes ahead and stores the extras for later meals as leftovers.

Because if there’s anything her grandmother taught her while she was outside of the dungeon it’s to not be wasteful with your food.

Sapphire has absolutely no idea why her father is disturbed by the sight of her eating these delicious creatures. It’s just beyond her capability to understand.

He is the best musician she has ever seen – and probably the only one, but that fact doesn’t matter right now – and is even great at video games. He’s the strongest fighter at his level in the entire universe, a pseudo progenitor, and practically the god of his own species. One with so much influence that he can tell an entire species to do anything he wants and they’ll have no choice but to do it.

Yet for some reason he doesn’t like watching her eat bugs.

Sapphire will never understand it.

So she doesn’t even bother trying. Instead she just continues charging through the forest while eating and storing leftovers. And it isn’t until a few hours pass, and her stomach is full that she finally begins to grow more serious again. Getting over the rush of the delicious food from the forest.

Just where is this temple anyways?

Sapphire eventually returns to her humanoid form and begins walking around while freezing the bugs. Mostly because she has enough food at this point, and if she keeps going she’ll just end up sick of the particular flavor of the bugs here in time. Which she only realizes now after she’s gotten out of her food frenzy.

While she’s walking, she goes ahead and browses through the System Forums. Just looking for anything regarding her or her father. And the most trending posts she finds are all ones about one of two things.

The first is the changes to the Centurion Quinzel. With it becoming the System Centurion Quinzel and all. And the second thing being Sapphire’s prior food frenzy, which has her blushing a little.

At this point it’s become a bit of a habit for Sapphire to check the System Forums every now and then. Especially after she found one of her many fan clubs on it. Because while that is flattering to her, what isn’t flattering is how creepy she’s found some fan clubs to be.

So she occasionally goes around and flags things for deletion. And lo and behold, a lot of them actually end up being deleted.

She’s not sure who’s doing the deleting though.

Probably an Administrator or Moderator of the System. But as long as they’re being deleted I don’t really care.

Sapphire also makes sure to check the System Forums for posts about her father. But he doesn’t really care himself. And there aren’t as many posts about him in the creepy sense as there are about her.

She still makes sure to flag any creepy ones she finds though.

I don’t know if Dad even knows he can report things on the forums now that I think about it…

That thought gives her pause for a second before she eventually just shrugs it off and continues walking. Only occasionally stopping to glance at a System Message that comes her way from some of the people she’s met outside of the dungeon. Which number quite a few.

Most of the messages she ignores though. Because they’re not important.

Especially whenever she gets close to one of the big bugs spanning several dozen meters in length. Bugs that destroy large parts of the forest just from moving around. Because they give the best EXP out of all the monsters in the floor.

And more importantly, she’s found a few EXP orbs stashed away in their stomach while eating them. Which have quite a bit of EXP in them that goes straight towards leveling herself and her father up.

A small part of Sapphire actually can’t wait to go back to the outside world. Because the Beta Dungeon is boring. Even if it is full of good food in some areas.

At the end of the day though, the Beta Dungeon is like a jail cell. And she feels really bad for her father for not being able to physically leave himself. Not until they complete the dungeon.

Sapphire lets out a sigh while killing bugs.

I’ll head back outside once we reach the three hundred and first floor. After we defeat the Centurion Boss of the floor.

Of course, according to the messages she received from her aunt and grandmother, she’ll have to wait for someone to pick her up and bring her to the Empire. Since the others apparently finally left the Fae Realm.

A faint smile stretches across her face at that thought.

I’m glad they’re out of the Fae Realm and the battlefield. It was worrisome having them there.

Sapphire quickly kills any bugs she passes by freezing them to death, but eventually she begins to notice something. Specifically that the monsters are gradually rising in level.

They were already above her and her father in level when they arrived on the floor, but now they’re getting higher and higher with every passing minute. And some of them are even starting to eat each other for some reason.

A reason other than how tasty they are, judging by the frenzy they’re in.

Sapphire narrows her eyes even as she continues killing them, but eventually she pauses when her father sends a message through their bond, ‘I found it. Are you fine to be summoned back?’

‘Go ahead Dad,’ Sapphire answers while still looking around herself. Then she feels the pull before she is teleported straight to her father’s shadow, of which she immediately leaves to look around his surroundings.

And what she finds is rather surprising.

Not to mention intimidating.