A couple weeks later, Hilda is lying in the floor, ignoring the discomfort due to her severe boredom due to the lack of anything to fight since white created an alliance between the other 8 people and will definitely win if it's just the villagers and Shila winning every board game Hilda bought.

  “Hilda, it's done, wanna g—” Shila says, getting interrupted by Hilda half way, “1st floor, let's go first floor.”

  “Sure.” Shila says, not bothering to get annoyed at being interrupted due to also being curious about the 1st floor.

  “Hey, Jamine, let's go?” Hilda calls out to Jamine who brings along as many board games as she can in her arms which isn't a lot.

  “Ok!” Jamine replies, dropping a couple pieces of the board games as she walks, trying not to drop the small stack of board games as Hilda sighs, holding it for her.

  “Let's go.” Hilda says to Shila who teleports them while Hilda places the board games into her inventory.

  “No, no, no, no, no!” Hilda says, repeating ‘no’ non stop as she looks around the first floor which is now a training room, the walls like the guides room which is very big, has a ceiling, walls and floor, has tiles is all white and has a function to summon monsters which is what Hilda assumes is how they beat this ‘level.

  “No! What the hell has the guide done?!” Hilda shouts, mourning the loss of her favourite floor as Shila taps her back, catching her attention.

  “What?” Hilda asks as Shila points to her right, Hilda's eyes following the direction.

  Warning.

  You have gone 29 floors down from your highest floor, stats decreased by 30 percent.

  “fucking guide!” Hilda shouts angrily as Jamine suddenly hugs her, causing her to look down at Jamine, “what are you doing suddenly?”

  “Hugging mom?”

  “No, why?”

  “Sis told me if someone is angry, you can hug them to help.” Shila says, causing Hilda to look at Shila who just shrugs and nods in confirmation before turning back to Jamine.

  “Did it work?” Jamine asks as Hilda sighs.

  “Technically yes, but hugging won't fix people being angry every time.”

  “Ok!”

  “Hilda.” Shila says, causing Hilda and Jamine to turn towards her as Jamine lets go of Hilda.

  “Yes?”

  “The way the stat decrease works is the first ten floors you go down, you lose 10 percent, the next 10 is 20 more, the next 10 is 30 more, so 30 floors would decrease stats by 60 percent. The total state decrease you can get is 99 percent.” Shila says as Hilda gets slightly annoyed.

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  “Why is the stat decrease so much?” Hilda asks, clearly annoyed.

  “Think about it. When you were on the 10th floor, you were over level 100, combined with your skills even if you lost 90 percent of your stats you'd still be around level 50 strength since sword qi isn't affected and neither is passive skills though if you were level 10, you'd still be a level 200 strength since your sword qi is pretty high level though your defence would suck along with agility and pure strength and mana, so every stat.” Shila says, somewhat making Hilda happier and more annoyed at the good and bad news though the bad news is pretty much just a reminder of the stat decrease.

  “So shouldn't the idk? New people be here?” Hilda asks as Shila shakes her head.

  “Nope, they're stuck in the tutorial cus they suck.” Shila answers with Jamine in the background, killing the monsters who are just goblins but level 5 and without weapons, meant for the newbies.

  “Let's just get out of here.” Hilda said while Jamine has fun by killing the monsters just touching them.

  “Sure.” Said Shila as she teleports them to the 2nd floor.

  “Nope. Send us to the 31st floor, we've been putting off climbing the damn tower for a couple weeks already.” Said Hilda, immediately teleporting high enough so nothing could reach her, well except Shila and Jamine.

  “Fine.” Shila said, teleporting them to the 31st floor.

  As Shila teleports them, Hilda finds herself at another port, a much smaller one with a couple of boats, some for sailing and some for paddling with fishing rods at the side. The port being connected to the island they are on which is entirely made of sand and a couple palm trees with the island itself bigger than a football field. The island itself surrounded by water with no other islands in sight.

  “Could I ask why we’re here?” Hilda said, turning to Shila and finding Jamine running into the ocean to have fun.

  “Fishing.” Shila said, her voice monotonous as she looks away at Jamine, not bothering to entertain Hilda's now confused expression.

  Hilda turns over to look at the fishing ports with the boats as she starts walking without questioning it any further, Shila following behind as Jamine starts sinking into the ocean since her body is denser than water which she has now found out.

  “Aren't you gonna help her?” Shila said, pointing to Jamine who is sinking but not struggling or drowning due to not even having lungs or needing oxygen.

  “Nah, she'll probably be fine.” Hilda said while waving her hand dismissively, getting on a paddling boat along with a fishing rod as she starts paddling out slowly.

  “Hey, this is taking a while isn't it?” Hilda said while continuing to paddle as Shila sighs, “so what are you going to do about it? You can't even swim and you're not Jesus so no walking on the water which is, by the way, almost as acidic as Jamine.” Shila said, buying a small pebble for a point and throwing it into the water as it dissolves nearly immediately.

  “Waste of points.” Hilda grumbles softly, finally reaching what she deemed to be far enough as she starts fishing, the fishing string itself being near immune to acid as Hilda turns back for a moment, finding a new boat and fishing rod reappearing there.

  “Oh nice, can I just take a bunch of them?” Hilda said, her mind filled with many ideas on how to make Jamine happy since even the board games she bought had to be a unique acid resistant version.

  “No, don't even think about it, they can't be placed into your inventory and dropping them into the ocean just causes them to disappear so don't even think about polluting the 31st floor.” Shila said, causing Hilda to sigh, somewhat annoyed Shila guessed what she considered doing.

  “By the way, the 31st floor changes based on the number of people in it. If there's 10 the island will be twice as big, if there's 100, it'll be 20 times as big and other non-users can't enter the 31st floor.” Shila said as Hilda processes for a moment before stopping her fishing and facing Shila.

  “You mean multiple users share the same level for the 31st?” Hilda asks as Shila nods in response.

  “What the hell? I hate this.” Hilda says while continuing to complain softly, stopping as something tugs on her fishing rod.

  “I got something? Guess this level will be fast.” Hilda said while pulling it up.

  As Hilda keeps pulling, the thing doesn't struggle, “almost there!” She shouts as she finally pulls it out, Jamine flying out of the water onto the boat.

  “Hi mom!” Jamine shouts, absorbing the water into her own body as Hilda and Shila stare blankly at her.