Chapter 183 – 24 Hours(1)
22. 24 hours (1)
[Warning]
[Area 4 must be entered within 24 hours.]
[The dungeon will be reset if you do not enter.]
[Remaining time: 12 hours 58 minutes 42 seconds]
No what is this what is this sound.
Warning? Enter within 24 hours? But why is there only 12 hours and 58 minutes left?
My head was pounding. I felt like my eyeballs would fall out. My stomach was so nauseous. My body was also extremely tired during this time. It was a total mess.
‘Here… Ah. Did you come back… ?’
It was not the inn we stayed at. But she got used to it. Beautiful furniture that is not overly flashy in a cozy and cozy atmosphere composed entirely of white and light green. It was a monastery dedicated to Raella.
I turned my head. Even simple movements creaked and strained. It was like forcibly moving a very badly rusted machine. I had to do it though. It seems like there is a gap in my memory, but I had to confirm right away that I was the only one who came back safely, and that it wasn’t such a garbage ending.
“Ah…”
Kaya, Shay, and Illumina were nowhere to be seen. Anxiety crept in. I tried to get out of bed and pull up the futon. It was only then that I realized that the creaking of my neck earlier was nothing compared to now.
“Fuck…”
My body didn’t look like mine. Every time I moved a little, I felt the pain of being stabbed with a needle and cut with a knife, in other words, my senses were alive, but I couldn’t move as if I was paralyzed.
‘Then even crawling.’
At least I used my arms that could move a little. Her center of gravity shifted sharply forward and she fell flat. The body that hit the floor properly complained of pain, but I ignored it with clenched teeth. The room wasn’t even that big, but the distance from the bed to the door felt so far away.
Having managed to crawl to the door, I lamented my own stupidity.
‘You can’t hold the doorknob like this…’
I was so depressed that I didn’t even curse. The helplessness was no joke. Belatedly, memories from the dungeon came flooding back.
[## ### ## Hits the dragon#dae.]
[Go # uh ## #po # ## give ###.]
[Yeo##Ji Yong# ## came#.]
[#Ki## ## Well# #Kun.]
[That ##, ## foul### #yeah## good##.]
[# #Ji, boo # #hand # if it wasn’t #, it would be #.]
[.Danihab Yahaeipjin Ean Ganshi 42 Eunyeokgu 4]
[Do. Must enter within hours 24 zone 4]
[.Underground entrance to the old city before the foundation of Danihehe.]
[Based on Dungeon, never entered]
“Ah, ah, ah…”
Those memories were very violent. A significant part of the message in my memory, no, the message I am seeing now, was broken. Even the warning messages that seemed right when I just woke up were jumbled together.
It’s not just that the message is wrong… It felt like my memory, mind, and will were fragmented.
In the meantime, I was afraid of giving up fear, voyeurism, pervert, and chewing terribly… It really hurt my pride, but as soon as I tried to recall his ‘eye color’ or ‘voice’, the ‘shattered’ feeling recurred.
‘I’m not looking at it directly, I’m just thinking about it… Under.’
Someone is doing this as if they were worse than a bug… A sense of dejection, a sense of self-doubt, stuffiness, helplessness, etc.
“Haha… That’s why, isn’t it all pointless… Just thinking about it makes my whole body split… How do you deal with a guy like that… That baby, we’ll split up looking at the dungeon somehow. It’s funny how I’m struggling…”
Laughter kept coming out. They said that if it was too absurd, they would laugh, but it just stopped. Like a madman, he’s going crazy. In fact, I had to do something, whether I was angry, crying, or laughing like I am now.
I feel like I’ll go crazy if I don’t.
Jump-
“Hendrick! Oh my god!”
“Who… Ah… Haha… Cestia? This is Cestia.”
“Yes, Mr. Hendrick. It is me.”
“Cestia. Cestia. Cestia! Cestia!! My kids, where are the kids! Kaya! Shay! Illumina! How did it go!! Where are you!!! Uh?”
“I am resting on my own. Calm down, Hendrick.”
“… … Ah.”
My mind came back a bit. No, the expression “Returned” Means… When did I stumble?
It felt cozy and cozy. When I opened my eyes again, I was in Sestia’s arms. Kung-kung- Hearing the sound of her beating heart made me feel like I was falling asleep… [Remaining time: 12 hours 52 minutes 01 seconds] I went snow.
‘What did you do? It’s been several minutes since then…’
“In my heart, I wanted to have all of the warriors in the same room, but it was difficult due to the circumstances. There were no rooms that were that large, and each one was in a bad condition, so it was better to have separate rooms to take care of them. There are no life-threatening consequences, so please rest assured and rest again…”
“I don’t have time…”
“Yes?”
“I don’t have time for that… Call everyone here… No, I’ll move…”
“Hey, Mr. Hendrick.”
Still didn’t have the strength. She pushed Sestia’s breasts with her face. Embarrassed, she hugged me tighter. She couldn’t shake it off.
“Please… Because I don’t have time for this… !”
“Hendrick! Ji, calm down!”
Cestia’s breasts made her words stutter. I’m glad she understood what I was saying.
“Move, you have to… Please… !”
“Right now Hendrick-nim is in the worst condition. Where and why is he moving? Didn’t you just come back from the dungeon?”
It was frustrating. I wanted to shout. Cestia was not the one to share her secrets. But she was the woman with my child. She deserved to know my secrets too. But now, there was neither the time nor the mental space for that.
“Hurry… ! When we get together, I’ll explain… Please…”
“… All right. Hendrick is here. I will bring you soon.”
Cestia gave me a hug, put me on her bed, and disappeared. She did, and shortly thereafter she returned with Illumina, who walked away relatively unharmed. Both were carrying one by one.
“Illumina!”
“Hendrick.”
Illumina carrying Kaya on her back carefully laid her down next to me. Cestia laid her Shay down on her couch and gave her a lap pillow.
Within a few minutes, the pain subsided a bit. She even got a little comfortable talking. Her posture was a bit like that, but she was just sensitive to this.
“I have something to tell you. It is urgent and important.”
“But Kaya and Shay…”
“Cestia. How not? Any way?”
“It is possible to force wake up, but it takes a lot of strain on the body. In its current state, it would be more.”
“What is it? You better tell me first.”
The mentality itself was not good, but Illumina’s complexion was the most normal among the four of us, perhaps thanks to her awakening and few physical injuries. I recognized my unstable mental state and listened to Illumina’s words, which seemed most normal.
“… I wish I could have listened to everything at the same time and decided, but the situation is like this, so I can’t help it. After all, we have to decide whether or not to enter the dungeon again in about 12 hours and 50 minutes.”
“12 hours and 50 minutes? No, before that, why?”
“If you don’t go in, the entrance to the deeper place will be blocked… Because all the places I’ve broken through so far can be reset.”
“What? No, where is that?”
“Ah… So so…”
“I don’t have anything to ask you to do. In a dungeon, it’s like his house, and from his point of view, we’re like bugs in the house. We have to decide when it’s time to ask why or where there is such a thing. Do you finish the preparations within 12 hours and 50 minutes and go to kill him, or plan the future?”
“It’s crazy? It’s not what I have to say to cheer you up, but what I have to say. I need at least three days, not 12 hours in my current state! And that’s in view of your monstrous resilience! We must plan the future unconditionally!”
“It is.”
“It’s a story you don’t even need to wake up and ask. No, I’m glad I didn’t wake you up. Kaya and Shay, the moment they heard your words, they would mention the captain’s fate or goal and say they’re going to the dungeon at least crawling?”
“…”
“Right. Is this a story that requires everyone’s consent? If you think about it common sense, the answer comes right away. Since you can’t move right now and you’re lying down, what dungeon are you considering going to again?”
Illumina’s words were absolutely right. Cestia thought that she was not in a position to intervene, so she just listened quietly, but judging by her expression, she seemed to agree with Illumina’s words. She even agreed with me.
“Why? Why aren’t you answering… Uneasy…”
“Because I am uncertain.”
“What!”
“If the road to District 4 is blocked because you didn’t enter this time, if the dungeon is reset…”
Will only the dungeon be initialized?
Areas 1, 2, and 3 are reset.
By the time he broke through to Area 3 with No Death, his level would rise again.
Shall we, who have reached at least level 8, maybe level 9, start running again from the initialized zone 1?
The guy who broke through District 3 and put a very tight limit of 24 hours on us who became rags.
Indeed.
Shall I leave it like that?
“It’s also possible to miss the root of the dungeon, that is, the ‘longest fear’… In addition, I think that the level we have accumulated can be initialized all at once.”
“That makes sense… ?”
“There is nothing to be done. Does the dungeon itself make sense? It doesn’t matter what happens in the dungeon. It’s a very disrespectful word for a goddess, but when you say that he is equal to a god, it’s not a lie that he ‘resets’ only in dungeons. Then, what if we break through the dungeon and our strength itself is reset?”
1 level.
If it wasn’t putting sandbags on and off, and vice versa, it was awful. How did you break through I almost died a few times
Repeat that again?
Did I go through that hardship because I had no knowledge?
To be sure, even if we reproduced exactly the same things we went through, there was very little chance that we would be safe. Every time it was that important, luck followed.
“Well, even so, since I have experience, if I do it all over again…”
“Let’s say that we were really lucky, so we tried again and came this far. Do you admit that too? Let’s assume that we can meet him again. But what if the situation is the same as now? Are you going back then?”
“But, going in now!”
“In my opinion, giving up here is the same as giving up on clearing dungeons forever.”
“Hendrick! That time limit is what makes people impatient! Think soberly!”
“I admit my mental state is unstable, but I’m fucking colder now than ever. My life depended on what I had done so far. Wouldn’t you like to rest? Wouldn’t you like to choose a safe path? I have not lost my intelligence nor lost my cowardice to the point that I do not know that you are right. I’m more of a jerk. Still, I have no choice but to consider a forced breakthrough. Why? I don’t have the confidence to go through that pain again. It is because the fear that the terrible pain we have suffered, which we know and have no choice but to go through again, may have been the ‘best result’.”
“That…”
“You have to decide. Even now, time is running out.”
[Remaining time: 12 hours 40 minutes 57 seconds]
