Chapter 132 – District 2 (11)
16. District 2 (11)
[You have defeated the elite monster, the last gatekeeper.]
[?, The Last Refuge has been opened.]
After I hit the last blow with a fatal blow, I vomited out a shout of joy, went mad, and vomited blood. My colleagues were in a fuss for about 10 minutes.
The last gatekeeper had no rewards compared to the subjugation difficulty, so the lid was almost opened again, but the message that the last refuge, a space that seemed to have something at a glance, was opened, grabbed my mind.
‘Secret room!’
Last refuge. At first glance, it’s not a secret room name. After a long forced march, we caught a very tough monster, and it was difficult to say that we were in good condition even with empty words, but we raised our bodies. I was full of desire to rest, but it was because I felt like I wouldn’t be able to move my body if I rested now.
“Let’s go.”
The secret room in The Long Terror was a lottery ticket with a high probability of winning, and the monster did not appear with a high probability. It’s literally so secret that it’s hard to discover. Besides, since he caught the last gatekeeper before he even entered, there was a high probability that there would be no monsters inside. We led our weary bodies to the door the gatekeeper had guarded so tenaciously.
[You have entered the final refuge.]
[In the Last Refuge, mentality does not naturally decrease.]
‘Oh oh!’
Compared to the door, which was not that large, the interior space was wider than expected. Inside, it looked as if the landlord had been away a long time ago, and dust had accumulated on the crude bookshelves, desks, chairs, and other furniture.
“In case you don’t know, let’s look around. There is a lot of dust, so be careful not to blow it.”
“Yes.”
There were no monsters or traps. Then, with a sigh of relief, we pushed the furniture aside, wiped off some dust with a damp cloth, and set up the tent. It was like finding a resting place unintentionally, so I planned to rest with peace of mind.
‘I don’t think I’ll be able to recover my mentality and stamina, unlike the resting place.’
Still, somewhere you can rest in peace. As the tension eased, Illumina was already exhausted, and Kaya and Shay’s eyes were more than half closed.
“You guys go in and sleep.”
“Captain… ?”
“I’m trying to find out if there’s anything that will make money or help.”
“Me too.”
“You don’t have to suffer because of me. It’s just because I’m curious.”
“But rather than alone, two of us.”
“Rest. It’s an order. Shay, you too.”
“… Yes.”
Kaya Langshey let out a sigh of relief inside her and removed her armor and began searching in earnest for what might be her treasure.
“There are quite a few books… Is it likely to be a skill book?”
Judging from how dusty it is, it seems like it has been used by people for quite some time, but looking at the furniture and arrangement of the furniture, it was clear that someone had stayed there.
‘Has there ever been a place like this in a dungeon?’
Out of curiosity, I picked up something more like a bunch of papers than a book. After shaking off the dust and confirming that it was not a skill book, I turned over the blank cover.
「The first of the complaints for someone who may not be.」
“What is this?”
“Run, run, run. It was really luck to find this place. No, is it really luck? If there was such a thing as luck, this terrible space wouldn’t have been created in the first place, and I wouldn’t have been stuck in a place like this and struggled ugly.”
It was probably a diary left by someone who stayed here. In the official setting of The Long Terror, there were brief stories of people who were sacrificed or driven insane by fear, but it was strange that there was a story of a normal-looking person who was not a fear worshiper in the dungeon. It didn’t seem like money or help, either, but my hand was turning the paper.
「There were over 100 survivors, only 4 left. It wasn’t even that long after that day. Either die, go mad, or go insane once more and worship that horrible thing. Not wanting to go crazy, not wanting to worship that horrible thing, so I and the three survivors kept running away, not wanting to be captured by the cultists. And when I arrived here, I had a gut feeling.
This will be the last time.”
“…”
Sarah Rock-
“When I was in this space, my anxiety and fear didn’t get worse. But that was all. There was no food or water source. When you run away, you won’t last a few days with the little things you picked up when the other survivors died. They say they will survive somehow, but if you’re thirsty, you won’t last less than three days.”
Sarah Rock-
“We were exhausted from the rough escape life, so we blew the whole day. I don’t know if it was a day or so. It’s just a feeling based on hunger and thirst. If they wanted to live, someone had to step out the door and find something to eat, or at least a water source. But no one was willing to step out. Because it was hard. And because there was no hope. Aren’t I writing things like this after realizing that this is the last time? I don’t know why I was carrying a pen or something. I’d rather bring something else to eat.”
「The last survivors, including me, were talented people in their own way. One was a nun, one was a hunter, and the other was quite young but had good eyesight and good senses. Me? I was their great meat shield. They told me I was a good fighter, but well. I know me well I’ve been able to survive until now not because I’m a great fighter, but because I’ve been able to stick around great people at the right time.”
“In terms of feeling, less than three days have passed. It could have been two days, it could have been four days. No, isn’t it four days? In any case, most of the survivors, who had been lying in a daze, went out complaining of thirst. I didn’t go out. There were a lot of sore spots here and there, and it seemed like it would only get in the way. Cheered them on It doesn’t matter if you have income or not. They just nodded. Picture”
The article ended there.
“What. What. Why did you just write it!”
I wondered if I had turned over two chapters or missed something, so I tried to shake it off, but there was nothing behind it. I looked at the other wads of paper, but they were all empty.
“No, you wrote the first one at the beginning, but you didn’t even finish the second one, did you?”
It didn’t change anything even if I was annoyed at someone who seemed already dead. It was just a pity to be cut off in a car that was getting more and more exciting. What mattered was the treasure.
‘When I first looked around, I couldn’t find anyone. No way… Wouldn’t it be a joke?’
Voila, the final shelter turned out to be a half-hidden resting place?!
It was not a story without possibility, but I was nervous.
‘It can’t be! Why the fuck would you put a monster like that in front of a halfway shelter! No, how did these survivors break through and enter in the first place?’
I am the captain of HAT. Although Shay took this path, she eventually ordered the entry of her fork in the road and it was I who commanded her to pick her path. It went through a long battle with the forced march. But nothing?
Maybe that’s the case with them, maybe it can’t be helped, it’s good that they took a break… You might think like this. But if that really happened, I felt sorry for them and couldn’t lift my head.
I definitely got the feeling that this is a secret room!
I searched for over an hour in a space that is not very large. More and more came. It’s like when I saw my game record, which was just one game short of a 10% win rate, and there was a mistake. Maybe it was because there was no reward from the last gatekeeper. Compensation mentality to get compensation for all the hard work somehow. At least, it would have been less if this space had at least helped me to recover my condition like a real resting place…
‘It can’t end like this. No matter how unkind the Long Terror is, I have followed this one rule of high risk, high return. But there is no treasure in the place guarded by such a monster? Most of the warriors who would go in and out of the dungeon much easier than the dungeon I’m in now also collect gold coins like that?’
I thought it was not that I didn’t have the treasure, but that I couldn’t find it, so I turned it all over so as not to wake my colleagues. I ate a lot of dust in the process, but I didn’t die just because I ate some dust. But the body was the limit. The battle was also a battle, and the big thing was that I was carrying Illumina for nearly ten hours. My limbs were heavy and my eyes were closed. Suddenly, Hyeonta came to ask me why I was doing this. It got so annoying
“Miss Ha… It would be better to get a good night’s sleep and find it together.”
When they woke up after a good night’s sleep, I wanted to make them feel good, but I decided to go back to the tent thinking that I was done.
Took-
“Huh?”
Right in front of the tent.
I heard something grabbing my body, so I turned my head…
Dripping-
“… Under?”
There was an ‘inside’ where I thought it was a wall.
“Not a box within a box, but a secret room within a secret room. Hey.”
I went inside as if possessed.
Dripping-
**
“Mina! Where else have you been wandering around like that! Uh?”
“Oh, you didn’t go around?”
“I’m not going around… ? The one who disappeared right after breakfast and returned late at night?”
Slap!
“Ah!”
“Mom! I said! Out of town! Alone! Going out! Dangerous!”
“Evil! Aww! Against violence! Aww!”
“Oh no, really. Maybe I like this wig!”
The young fox fell on her mother’s lap and was beaten on the buttock. The fox loved her mother, but still thought her mother’s worries were too much. He wasn’t quite as young as he was, and he was a fast runner. He always said that it was dangerous outside the village, but he had never been in danger. Her mother’s excessive worry has more than doubled since her father’s disappearance.
“Seeing… Spore…”
The young fox, who had been rubbing my butt, lay quietly on the bed. But he couldn’t sleep. It was partly because his ass was hot, but it was also because he kept thinking about a spot he had recently discovered that bothered him. The problem is that the place is a little far from the village, so I don’t have the confidence to take permission. The little fox tried to force herself to sleep, thinking that as soon as tomorrow dawned and her mother left her work, she would have to go again. The moment she closed her eyes.
– It’s fire! It’s fire!!!
– Fire… It’s an attack! It’s wet!! Cuckoo!
I woke up at the sound of a loud voice. The door burst open. The mother in pajamas hugged the little fox and straightened her up.
“Uh, mom? What happen?”
“It’s on fire.”
“Fire? Uh, where are you?”
“All beggars.”
“Yes?”
“Mina. Hurry.”
The young fox mother and daughter ran out of her house in a hurry. The mother took her strides down the road that she usually told her daughter never to go to.
“Uh, Mom.”
“Mina. You have to eat hard.”
“Yes? Mom, go, why are you doing this all of a sudden!”
– Catch!
– Don’t miss a single one!
“Wait, what the hell is going on?”
“It’s Mina.”
The mother pointed in one direction for her.
“If you run all the way there, there is a stone sculpture that looks like a fox. If you look closely under it, you’ll see a hidden space, and it’s in there.”
“Uh, mom? What about mom!”
– That way! It’s over there too!
“Mom will be there soon too.”
“Sir, no! Go with me! Mom too…”
“Go.”
“Mom!”
“…”
“Mom!!”
“…”
“Mommy!!!”
“Not Mom.”
“To… ? Mom… ?”
“I’m not a mother, but if this settles you down, I’ll be happy to hug you.”
In front of Illumina was Kaya’s chest. After blinking her eyes a few times, Illumina asked, realizing it was her dream.
“Oh, no, not that. Hey, Hendrick. What about Hendrick?”
“…”
“Where have you been? Why, why don’t you answer me?”
“Captain… Gone.”
Illumina’s complexion turned pale.
