Quest - The Second

Kaito was meditating in a lotus position. It was his trademark way of entering his Instant Dungeon. His face was frowning and sweat was running down his otherwise tranquil expression.

Inside the inner space stood a massive rock akin to a mountain with a door embedded in it.

The door itself was also humongous and the frame of the door had eerie oni faces depicted on them. They were what one would describe as the typical demons from Japan with horns or long noses and black wings and many more like actual Kizune.

And what was depicted on the door was also what was inside it. Kaito had entered this created monster den and was currently fighting demons of various strengths.

Monster dens were those places where Kaito mainly could farm experience and level up and he had done so with his other available monster den to him that was goblin themed.

Until now that is.

At first, he stopped using that den because it was barely giving anything back anymore.

But when he finally reached level 20 with hard work this new monster den was able to be summoned. Kaito immediately got curious and intrigued at what level this den was, which is beside the fact that it had an interesting theme like horror.

Little did he know that horror...had two faces. Hearing stories was fascinating. Experiencing them was another matter.

Entering it he was at first a little bit disappointed by seeing level 2 monsters running about like wisps.

But what made him jump around erratically now and avoid getting stabbed to death was a very special monster he would have definitely tried to avoid at all costs.

*Jorōgumo - Level ?? - Skulls 3/5*

That was about everything he could get as information from the mythical spider demon that devoured souls.

It was already one thing to even see monsters out leveling him but also getting attacked by a Legendary monster that also had a skull ranking added to it meant it was even stronger than the monster den bosses that would spawn after Kaito defeated a certain amount of monsters in the old monster den.

Until now he only met one monster with a skull ranking and that was the Goblin King. Now, he saw this.

And what made him slightly despair was the door in monster dens reopened only after a certain time inside them when one entered. They were double-edged swords with a lot of gains and of course...death.

Well, Kaito would have thought about challenging this humongous spider that was crawling around the trees and spitting acid at him. But that one spider was sadly not the only one surrounding him.

*Baby Jorōgumo - Level ?? - Skulls 1/5*

There were many small fiery red spiderlings running about everywhere. Those small death skulls on their bodies only told death to someone and in this case, that would be Kaito if he even let one of them get him.

Also...HE FUCKING HATED SPIDERS! Those disgusting creatures brought the worst out of his goosebumps.

'Fire Style: Roaring Dragon Bullet!!'

What made things worse was that Kaito had little to no are of effect jutsu in his arsenal that could damage these critters. That is at least not heavily.

He had some fire ones but that would not work.

The reason simply being because those shits were actually emitting flames themselves. So they were born with fire affinity and could resist it well.

That information of course came at some cost of him wasting chakra he needed currently to keep his body vitalized and to not get any slower. Those critters were rather quick and strong as well.

*Lightning Release: Thunder Steps - Level 13: Overclocks brain capacity with lightning to increase reaction speed. As long as chakra is supplied your speed enhances accordingly. The current maximum safe increase is 1.2 times. Beware of any further increases may results in damage to life.*

Good thing he learned that skill. It was created after he was experimenting with his chakra natures and tried to copy the Raikages techniques.

In some form or fashion, Kaito even thinks he succeeded and there was something else.

The message that followed after his level up from his system made him even happier because after such a long time he did not expect a certain thing to happen again.

That being said he thought he would never see it again because it became a complete rarity. It was like you had more chances to get the jackpot in some lottery than actually triggering a quest.

But being actually in the monster den now, he understood that the quest was a freaking bait of the reaper.

*Quest: Investigate the Monster Den "Spectral Oni Forest".*

*Reward: ???*

*Failure/Deny: Monster Den "Spectral Oni Forest" vanishes from available options.*

*Bonus: Defeat whatever monster that challenges your abilities. The rating will be pending. At S rank completion a special scroll with "Senjutsu Skill: Gaia's Empowerment" will be awarded.*

'You are fuckin trolling me!! I was so fucking baited into this!!' Kaito could only further grit his teeth while thinking about the quest again until he had to refocus and play tag-and-dead-I-am with the spiderlings.

The only solace he could find was that the big Jorōgumo was only spectating mostly and only supporting her children?

When Kaito finally heard a crisp sound of a door unlocking somewhere he immediately pumped his last remaining chakra into his technique and sprinted to the exit of the dangerous den.

Charging right out of it he released his technique and breathed heavily with having nearly no stamina left to even stand properly.

Supporting his upper body on his knees he wheezed and started to get back some air.

*Ding*

*Quest complete --- Your investigation brought to light that "Spectral Oni Forest" is a C-S Rank Monster Den.*

*Rewards --- Fighting the C-Rank Demon Spider Jorōgumo and fleeing with your live grants you the F-Rank Reward: Eye Technique(Doujutsu): Eye of Aura (Rank D)*

*Bonus: You fled so there is no reward here. Try your best next time~*

Kaito was flabbergasted after reading all that and then looked at the scroll that was magically in his hand now. Was he made fun of or was the system actually serious and simply stating facts?

He became angry at this outcome.

What the hell would he have gotten at an actual rank? For fucks sake. F may be a rank, but goddamn.

That was like the worst and such a humiliating result. Kaito clearly felt that his ego that he seemed to have built up unconsciously took a hard hit.

And really now. What would have he gained as a reward for better ranks? And what exactly is that S rank skill mentioned? His denied curiosity is infuriating him even more now.

He felt like a fucking moron not trying his everything and running because he felt threatened.

If push came to shove he could have just thrown million of freaking explosion tags and pulverized everything in that damn monster den.

Cursing himself and opening the scroll he could see a depiction of an eye that had a skull as a pupil.

"Urgh...creepy." That was his first impression of the design of the eye.

And when it actually reminded him of the Jorōgumo abdomen pattern it festered his regret. It really nearly pushed him to tears like a small child, sobbing for what is not there.

Calming down a little he started reading more.

'Hmm? It shows the world in black and white, opening the nerves to the supernatural?'

After reading the description of this technique he was actually really interested. Also, it would become his own Doujutsu! That meant the possible birth of a new Bloodlimit!

But that thought was soon shattered after reading the last line.

*The one who contracts with the Spider Demons will receive their blessings in return. This Doujutsu is not inheritable and a summoning exclusive. Please pay with a drop of blood to accept.*

'Fuck. That. Shit.' Closing the scroll Kaito ignored the prompt if he would want to learn the skill and pressed no and lastly just stored the scroll in his inventory.

Sighing deeply he just went out of his instant dungeon since there was little to no use remaining here.

After all, the Golbin Monster Den was F-Rank and this new one had a freaking power curve with skull leveled monsters being at level C.

He is better off training outside for now.

When he left through his hut there was a small black orb that floated from the sky inside the instant dungeon and a soft sighing female voice resounded. "He could have done something if he used his status points...Does he even remember them?"

The orb jiggled lightly afterward. "Well, more fun for me."