Chapter 38 – Shouldn’t We Pursue Weird Situations in Dungeons? (7)
I feel like my body is floating somewhere.
When I open my eyes, a completely different landscape spreads before my eyes.
A dark cave where darkness has descended.
[You have entered the Trial of Kalash.]
The message that popped up makes me realize that I am in a completely different world.
“Tch, it’s darker than I thought.”
Shin Yoo-jung, who entered earlier, grumbles as she clicks her tongue.
It’s definitely dark.
It’s not that you can’t see it at all, but if you do it wrong, you could get an unexpected blow.
It is an unfavorable environment for the vanguard in many ways.
“Write this.”
Yun Jian, who entered last, handed us one of her bracelets.
“A bracelet with built-in light magic. Three hours should suffice.”
“Oh, thank you….”
When Shin Yoo-jung smiled and tried to receive it, she stretched out her hand and blocked the two of them.
Then he frowns and glares at me.
“Hey, what are you doing?”
“Even if you don’t have that, it’s enough.”
Immediately, he drew the magic around her and created a sphere the size of her palm in front of her eyes.
If you enter a starter word here.
“Light.”
The sphere that was floating in front of the guy’s eyes and emitted a soft light flashed, and light burst out.
“Ouch!”
Oh, I forgot.
Light is magic that is more efficient than you can imagine, so even a little bit of it will make the light stronger.
“Hey, you Mr. Lee… !”
She stretched out her hand straight for the guy who was running towards her with her tears streaming down her face.
“Mi, sorry! It was never intentional.”
As soon as I begged him to be sorry, his steps stopped.
“… Be careful. I know there will be no soup next.”
“Okay.”
Perhaps it was awkward for her to get mad at me randomly in front of a strong competitor named Yoon Ji-an, but she gets over it more easily than I thought.
“Well, wouldn’t it be better to use a bracelet….”
Yoon Ji-an, who was behind me, gave a hint.
I shook my head and declined her offer.
“Now that you’ve entered the dungeon, Jian-san should be completely bystander.”
“If that’s what Kim Do-jin meant… , All right.”
A heartwarming smile hangs on Yoon Ji-an’s lips as she turns around.
My mindset in refusing her own help must have gotten to her liking.
I adjusted the position of the light sphere above Shin Yoojung’s head.
“Does it look good this way?”
“Uh… , Yes.”
This is why wizards are in the limelight.
In the current situation, if there is no wizard, you have to use a bracelet with light magic built in, as Yun Jian gave you, or if you don’t have that, you have to make a torch, but both have their drawbacks.
The former is that a small magic stone is consumed each time you use it along with the purchase cost of the bracelet, and the latter has the disadvantage that you have to hold the torch in your hand, so there are restrictions on your actions.
But with a wizard, all of these things are solved.
Like I said, light magic is very efficient, so it won’t cause any harm if you keep it open throughout the dungeon raid.
“Hey, Kim Dojin.”
Shin Yoo-jung has a rather serious expression and points at herself with her thumb.
“I will firmly block the front, so use whatever magic you want. Got it?”
Other than that, she tells her to believe in herself and work hard, but just by looking at her eyes, you can tell she’s not like that.
It seems that I want to see with my own eyes how well I use magic.
It’s full of people trying to evaluate me back and forth.
“Okay, thank you.”
“Thank you, between us.”
They quietly say that this is between us.
What’s between us
Isn’t it the worst relationship that has been involved with bread shuttle and Iljin for 3 years, and has become entangled in society.
“Then I’ll lead the way, so keep your distance and follow me.”
“Yes.”
Shin Yoo-jeong tightly gripped her lightly held shield with her left hand, and in her right hand pulled out her sword that was worn around her waist.
It is a short sword that is not very long.
Looking at her body, I thought she would be pretty, but looking at the sword, I think I should raise my evaluation of her.
As a vanguard and tank, Shin Yoo-jeong is likely to be face-to-face with monsters for most of her battles.
In such a situation, a short sword is much more comfortable than an unnecessarily long long sword.
She stabs quickly, and by beating her, she’ll be able to take out the opponent’s mind.
Of course, if she encounters a large monster, she will have to change her weapon, but when it comes to dealing with a small guy like a goblin, there’s nothing like me.
Kiyi… !
Creepy cries are heard beyond the winding cave.
At first glance, it sounded like a child’s voice, but it sounded like boiling phlegm.
“I’m in front.”
I adjusted the intensity and direction of the light coming from the light source fixed above Shin Yoo-jeong’s head.
The winding path of the cave and the guy appeared at the same time.
Short stature between 90cm and 130cm and dark green skin.
The long ears on the mandulman’s head, the aquiline nose that stretched down and the jagged teeth.
A goblin with a shabby hide wrapped around its waist is startled by a ray of light pouring out of nowhere, blindfolded and struggling.
I immediately drew my magic power and made a sphere.
A blazing red orb.
“Fire Missile.”
I was puzzled at first.
Why did they use the word missile for a sphere the size of a child’s fist?
Director Park Chul-soo said that in the past, the word missile meant a projectile.
That has become the name of a modern weapon now.
So, the word Fire Missile means a projectile with a flame attribute.
Oh, that’s not weak.
“Kim Dojin! Calmly prepare your magic….”
A red orb flew past Shin Yoo-jeong, who commanded me as she ran forward, and hit the goblin’s body.
That moment.
Pew-!
There was a small explosion and the goblin’s body was engulfed in flames.
“Keit….”
The guy who was knocked down by the force of the explosion wriggled his body for a while and then fell limp.
“Looks like he’s dead… ?”
When I said that to Shin Yoo-jung, who was running away, his face was stained with astonishment.
Turning around, Yoon Ji-an has a similar expression.
What, why are you doing this to only basic magic?
* * *
Yoon Ji-an thought.
‘How was my first real fight?’
I remember that it was a cave with a similar feeling to now.
It must have been a dungeon with various types of goblins.
‘Worst.’
The memories that came to mind were so bad that I wanted to push them back into the depths of my brain and close the lock that no one, including myself, could open.
It wasn’t just because she wasn’t good enough.
Because all the motives who experienced the first real battle with him were spectacles.
A monster is such a being.
An unknown existence that imprints the fear of death on humans and is still full of unknowns.
A warrior’s body is naturally stiff, and a magician’s magic is twisted, so they can’t even draw a magic circle properly.
It took her an hour to leave the goblin behind and be able to move her body, and she slashed the goblin to death and spent a full day lying down and getting up.
Even that was praised by the professors for being fast, and I heard that it was amazing to her classmates.
Obviously it was
‘What is that man… ?’
How did the brain of a human named Kim Do-jin become so devastated that he created magic without trembling at all and exploded the goblin’s body?
Surprisingly, it wasn’t just that.
“Fire Missile.”
A red-hot orb that spawns as soon as he utters the starter word.
Every time it flies away, the goblins who rushed at it lose their lives and fall apart.
The avant-garde who asked him to protect him went crazy from the middle and didn’t even prepare to run anymore.
She looked at the checklist handed to her by the association.
‘Casting speed.’
The average casting time for attribute-based magic is 5 to 10 seconds for beginner wizards.
Considering the actual battle, I was told to add about 20%, so it’s about 6 to 12 seconds.
How was Dojin Kim?
“… Two seconds.”
That’s 2 seconds as a rough estimate, in fact, it seems to be at the level of adding a few seconds to the decimal point even after 1 second.
‘Does this make sense… ?’
Director Park Cheol-soo praised him for his amazing casting speed, but I couldn’t believe it would be this much.
While she was startled, another goblin charged.
Two this time.
The number of spheres he could create at once was only one so far, so he thought that Shin Yoo-jung should block his way this time, but even that was groundless.
“Ice missiles, fire missiles.”
He succeeded with two magics in a row very simply.
Even with different properties.
Damn!
Pew!
Thanks to this, one was covered in ice and died, and the other was engulfed in flames and died.
She went through another item on the checklist.
‘How many properties do you use?’
Meaningless
Kim Do-jin now regards the goblin as an insignificant opponent.
Perhaps because of that, they are making up for the fun by playing with colors.
“This time, the Earth Needle.”
Needles made of hard stone pierce the goblin’s vital parts.
“Already three attributes….”
All of his aptitudes were recognized through the crystal ball.
With the goblins in front of me, it is certain that what kind of attribute to use this time is what to think about for a second.
She checked the last item on the checklist.
‘The time it takes to clear the dungeon.’
Kalash’s Trial is a small dungeon.
The average attack time from the entrance to the final boss room is between about an hour and a half to two hours.
Then, what about Kim Do-jin?
My current position is about halfway there.
The time it took to get here from the entrance was only….
“17 minutes and 32 seconds….”
Even that is because the pace is slow.
He’s breaking through everything now.
It means that the people of the association are moving forward by smashing all the standard values written down that even this much is great.
Unlike when she entered the dungeon, she thought as she looked at Kim Do-jin, who had an endlessly bored expression.
‘I must catch him.’
Even if you lose everyone else, you must hold on to Kim Do-jin.
