In the first place, I wasn’t entirely sure how her ability worked. If she could erase the dungeon’s power completely, my qualification as an explorer might have disappeared in the worst case scenario. The fact that this didn’t happen meant that there was a limit to her ability. Knowing the extent of this was the key to victory.

Since she would never explain it to me, I tested her limits myself instead of using Overlord and driving her to a corner from the very beginning.

The first thing I found out was that she could suppress the explorer’s stats and the skills I gained from the dungeon. The Spear Technique skill and the Elementalist skills were also included, but when the dungeon created a skill out of a power I learned myself, only the dungeon’s power was suppressed.

Like I mentioned before, her ability was something like a blessing that removes impurities. It did not allow her to completely erase the targeted power. Skills that the dungeon greatly influenced were weakened, while skills that were closer to my own ability were affected only slightly. That was the reason my Spear Technique and Peruta...