Chapter 30 – District 1 (T2)(3)
8. Zone 1 (2 tracks) (3)
‘Not good.’
[Mentality]
Shay: -20
Kaya: -15
Eugene: -15
It was the start of a 1-2 battle, but my mentality was like that. It wasn’t that there wasn’t a way to recover, but no matter how much I thought about it, the difficulty here was insane.
My head felt more crazy.
[The speed of Shay and Kaya is the same.]
[Speed roll]
Shay: 5
Kaya: 2
[Shay’s turn will precede Kaya’s turn.]
‘Kaya is still out of luck.’
I don’t know what to think about Kaya individually, but it didn’t matter when I looked at the warriors as a whole. Anyway, the next turn will catch both of them rather than that fucking fearless warrior.
Shay used Crusader’s Tenacity to increase her speed by 1, and Kaya also blushed and peaked, increasing her speed by 1. Both have speed 5.
The turn came around again, and it was my turn for the second round.
‘Of course I know that the fearless warrior then and the fearful warrior we encounter now are different, but…’
I wanted to show the value of my skill name more clearly.
[Crush the head]
[Eugene deals 18 damage to the Dreadseer.]
[Remaining HP 46/65]
‘Uh? 18 dem? Is it average?’
I was dumbfounded. Unknowingly, I looked at the ax that was covered in blood. In the meantime, thanks to Javek telling him to use his main damage technique on the next turn, Shay gnashed his teeth and swung the claymore on his own.
[Judgement of Justice]
[A heroic blow!]
[Shay deals 19 damage to the Dreadseer.]
[Remaining HP 27/65]
[Justice brings severe judgment upon the Dread Prophet.]
[The Prophet of Terror is afflicted with a status ailment called ‘Stunning’ (1 turn).]
[The Dread Prophet cannot take any actions next turn.]
[The Dread Prophet is branded for judgment.]
[Courage rises in the hearts of the warriors who witnessed the heroic blow.]
[Shay Mentality +4]
[Kaya mentality +3]
[Eugene mentality +3]
Shining fatal blow that followed. And the battle situation messages that follow.
Before you even open your mouth. Before even praising Shay.
Shay, who returned to her place after finishing the attack, and Kaya, who jumped out with all her might as if touching a baton, swung her mace ferociously.
“Go, fear…”
“Noisy.”
Pooh-!
[Everything according to God’s will]
[A thrilling blow!]
[Kaya deals 27 damage to the Dreadseer.]
[Remaining HP 0/65]
[The thrill that fills the whole body of the warriors makes them forget their fear for a moment.]
[Shay Mentality +3]
[Kaya mentality +4]
[Eugene mentality +3]
I blinked and rubbed my eyes because I couldn’t understand what I was seeing right now.
“… Her?”
[The Dread Prophet is dead.]
[Reward: 7 gold, torch oil (3), holy water, skull necklace]
After checking the message confirming the death, the body with its head smashed to the point where it was difficult to find it was scattered all over the room. I realized that what I was seeing was extremely true.
‘Elite monsters… One turn kill? Three level 1?’
Who would have predicted that all of them would hit max damage or damage close to max damage three times in a row. Neither we nor that bastard would have expected it. It was absurd luck, as if he was going to take revenge on his absurd misfortune.
I cursed bad luck until right after I entered this room, or even after that, when I received a powerful mental attack from the start.
Haha.
The joy that had been stifled by surprise came all at once.
“Kaya! Shay!”
“Leader… !”
“Captain!!”
I hugged them once. The heavy armor they were wearing was annoying, but it couldn’t stop the joy that emanated from their hearts.
“In case you don’t know, let’s search every nook and cranny.”
“Yes!”
I searched 1-2 like catching mice with Shayran and Kaya, who were exhaling heavily, as if the excitement of breaking the fearless warrior’s bone pain hadn’t gone away, but unfortunately nothing came out.
[Health]
Shay: 16/17
Kaya: 14/14
Eugene: 14/15
[Mentality]
Shay: -13
Kaya: -8
Eugene: -9
It was unfortunate that the skull necklace that came out as a reward was redundant, but after dealing with the elite monster that popped out in 1-2, I got a bigger reward that my condition got better. Here, I was prepared for my mentality to go from -30s to -50s at worst.
‘I went from being lucky to being lucky in an instant.’
Still, I’m happy so far.
It wasn’t for nothing that many gamers called it a lucky game, and if you had this much luck, you could have bad luck that surpasses it in the next battle. Like when Shay unexpectedly entered her dying state.
So let’s not make it a day.
Of course, even if I promise like this, I’ll forget it again if a critical hit hits…
Our steps as we walked down the aisle from 1-2 seemed to be lighter than before we reached 1-2. It wasn’t that the tension was completely gone. It meant that his confidence had risen that much.
Her nose twitched as Shay wanted to hum her hum, but she seemed to be holding back to cover the time and her place.
Is it because of that momentum? A trap popped up in the middle, but luckily I was able to avoid it and even benefited from a small mental recovery.
Our unstoppable progress, which seemed to rip the boss’s head out at once, had no choice but to stop for a moment.
It was a crossroads.
I stood in the middle of the fork in the road and looked inward, but I couldn’t see anything. Scouting did not trigger. If it was 16%, it was about time to explode at least once, but I clicked my tongue in regret.
“Captain. Which way should I go?”
“Well. No matter where you go, you will go to where the boss is, but the process will be different. There’s no reconnaissance, so we have no idea what’s on the road ahead of each of us right now.”
“Can’t you go and come back?”
“Once you enter the room, you know it because you went through it, but you can’t get out. As long as I’m in the room, I can come back here, but… It doesn’t make any sense. Unless you’re coming back without checking what’s in the room.”
“… Then it is completely a realm of luck and intuition.”
Kaya sighed.
“I will fall. The captain and Shay decide for themselves.”
“Sister. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the same neighborhood, but you can confidently assert yourself!”
“This is my argument. I am… It doesn’t feel very good. No matter which place you two choose, I will not express my dissatisfaction.”
“Oh, yes.”
Shay shook her head and looked at me and talked.
“Kaya-sister is too obedient. She doesn’t know either of them, and no one will say which one is better. Right?”
“That’s right. But if that’s what Kaya thinks, then she should be respected. For now, I’m right.”
“Then to the right!”
I wouldn’t know if it was scouting, but now that there’s no information, it really doesn’t matter if it’s left or right. I feel sorry for Kaya, who cares about her own opinion even in this situation.
‘Well, I don’t know exactly how old Kaya is, but it’s strange that her trauma, which must have been accumulated for quite a long time, and her current personality change all at once. It’s a matter of time.’
Thinking she’s lucky to have Shay who takes good care of Kaya, she enters the right path.
Sssss– Saaaaa
[The fear that has penetrated the small gap in the hearts of the warriors is wriggling.]
[Shay mentality -3]
[Kaya mentality -4]
[Eugene mentality -3]
‘The time spent walking in the aisle cannot be ignored either.’
This fucking feeling… I couldn’t easily express it in words. It was fundamentally different from the fear or bleakness experienced in places like abandoned houses, closed schools, or haunted houses. It’s still insignificant, so it feels similar to that feeling, but it was ‘similar’ to the end. I couldn’t imagine what kind of horror would be in the prison if I went deeper.
‘No. Let’s not keep falling into it.’
Once I recognized it, I kept thinking about it. Why am I feeling this fear, where did I feel it, when did I start feeling it, how did I get into this place, whether nothing was wrong with the two women who cautiously moved ahead of me, whether it was right for me to be here, I lost my senses. I won’t lose it, my head won’t be crushed, not the enemy’s head, and the brains that flowed from it won’t stain the boots of my comrades…
‘Fuck! Stop! Stop! Stop!’
[Severe darkness darkens the hearts of the warriors.]
[Shay mentality -3]
[Kaya mentality -4]
[Eugene mentality -4]
Gritted it I clenched my fists. To move forward safely and finally break through. The first goal was repeated over and over again. Except for that, everything else was treated as trivial. This was to avoid interfering.
It’s been over 30 minutes since I defeated the Fearless Warriors in 1-2 and went to 1-3. In The Long Terror, it was a distance that could be crossed within 15 seconds at the shortest and 30 seconds at the longest. But we still haven’t found doors 1-3.
I got nervous again.
‘No. In The Long Terror, the fork in the road is just the one that divides the Fucking Road and the More Fucking Road, and there is no dead end road where the room doesn’t appear. 1-3 may be a dead end room, but this passage right now is not the way to a dead end. Never.’
But why doesn’t it come out like this? Feeling impatient for no reason, I touched the poor torch.
[Like the hope of the warriors, the small torch has become a little brighter.]
[Brightness: 88]
‘Baby.’
How small is our hope? He’s a warrior who aims to clear the dungeon complete, which no other warrior squad in Salem can achieve.
Fuck.
I cursed at someone I didn’t know who it was, but my grumbling was like incompletely burned garbage.
Avoid talking in the aisle if possible and always be vigilant. If you must speak, do it when absolutely necessary or in an emergency.
Nothing was said between us because we had said these two things beforehand.
“Captain.”
“What.”
“Captain, what do you want to do after defeating the dungeon?”
“… Shay.”
“Isn’t this enough? I think it’s too stiff.”
However, for Shay, who was not the type to talk a lot, the atmosphere in the dungeon was full, but the silence seemed stuffy. She quietly lowered the volume of her voice, but it sounded like she was screaming at the cave.
‘It would be better to answer quickly and end it than to forcefully threaten.’
Nothing much had happened so far, and because of the battle in 1-2, Shay hadn’t felt a proper hardship in the dungeon yet. She could
“I want to stop beating monsters and live a normal life. Eat what you want, go where you want to go, and sleep when you want to sleep.”
“Are you challenging the most difficult task for the sake of something ordinary?”
“… I know. Well, why did it happen like this?”
“Huh.”
There was no warrior without a story. Shay must have that kind of common sense.
Shay shut her mouth again, as if this short conversation had gone to some extent, but instead, her question caused a ripple in my heart.
‘Challenge the most difficult job for the sake of an ordinary thing…’
The house of ‘Earth’, which I had forgotten for a while, came to mind. An ordinary and small studio, a computer that boasts a unique presence compared to the condition of a room that is neither too messy nor tidy. Chicken, cola and chicken radish placed near the keyboard. The appearance of ‘Han Yu-jin’ playing The Long Terror while eating it.
My situation, which was such an extremely ‘normal’ daily life, was confronted with the ‘most difficult thing’ that no one has ever been able to do. Will my co-workers understand?
“Leader.”
“… Uh.”
“I see a door.”
The notion is broken.
Not good. It’s not a resting place, it’s bruising. That’s why I didn’t want to chat.
I didn’t blame Shay. It wasn’t that the accident happened because of that small talk. But, let’s end it with caution next time.
I glanced at Shay. Then, without hesitation, she opened the door to 1-3.
Kiik-
[You have entered the Box of Fear room.]
“Ugh, that… !”
Well, it looks like the pattern is the same as last time. Is it because of the mood?
