Day 1 in the Deep Layer.

It felt like the resident monsters were rolling out the red carpet to welcome the new arrival—me.

A giant anaconda three times my size. Wolves that looked like they hadn’t eaten in days. A massive boar that had developed a taste for meat.

Just because I had entered the Deep Layer didn’t mean the mutated beasts from the Middle Layer wouldn’t appear here.
They were still around—just stronger and more savage.

Fortunately, being in the outermost edge of the Deep Layer meant that I wasn’t in too much danger yet.
The monsters …