Chapter 14 – First Dungeons (5)
5. First dungeon (5)
[Everything according to God’s will]
[Volente Deo – God’s will dwells in the mace.]
[The guardian of the altar will die instantly regardless of remaining HP.]
[The guardian of the altar has died.]
[Reward: 2 gold coins, Unidentified Journal, Unidentified Paper]
[The will of the god who descended for a moment takes care of the hero’s empty heart.]
[Eugene mentality +3]
[Kaya mentality +10]
Kaya’s mace lacked strength. No, I couldn’t The movement itself was a miracle. However, there was a strong will and faith in her movements. My order was her pure will, unmixed by even 1%.
This one shot will be the last.
Her mace had such a meaning, and her will and faith were rewarded with results beyond imagination.
Excluding boss monsters, there is only a 5% chance of instant death.
That exploded Even the elite monsters were no exception, and right after a word of unknown meaning appeared as a message, the monster was wrapped in a pillar of light and the body disappeared without a trace.
“…”
“…”
It was literally for a while that the pillar of light was maintained. Between 1 and 2 seconds?
But in that short time, I felt a variety of emotions.
A sense of relief that there is no law telling us to die yet.
The admiration that God really exists because he prayed so hard.
Also, I was worried that Kaya might be overdoing it or that there might be hidden side effects of the skill.
I approached Kaya, who was still standing crouching toward where the pillar of light used to be. Looking closer, she was silently looking at the necklace of the mini goddess statue she had shown to the owner of her request before entering the dungeon.
– To tarnish me, my faith, my memories, in that way. Never, can’t forgive
– I don’t know what you guys believe in… At least, the goddess doesn’t inject unwanted pain into those who don’t believe in you.
He remembered Kaya’s words before swinging his final mace. I got a rough idea of what kind of pain she must have suffered because of that damn bastard in this battle.
So instead of breaking her thoughts, I quietly took out her bandage and wiped the blood from her whole body and wrapped it around the particularly severely injured area. Normally, I would have no choice but to brush past the somewhat embarrassing part, but neither I nor Kaya felt that way at all when I was wrapping the bandage.
Originally, a bandage with a weak hemostatic effect was a consumable item to counteract the status abnormality ‘bleeding’, but I didn’t want to think about that now.
In any case, continuing the battle was impossible in the current state.
‘Kaya’s healing skills…’
Currently, there was no Pure Healing skill, and besides, the combat nuns had to have lower healing skills than the healing nuns.
‘I’ll either find a tanker when I go back, or I’ll look into skill changes.’
With her heart she worried about her Kaya, but with her head she envisioned the future of the Hero Squad as the leader of the Hero Squad.
My whole body was weak, but I grabbed the one-handed ax again and approached the altar, which was less than before, but still felt uncomfortable. A gold coin, a book, and a piece of paper were placed in front of it.
I sneaked up and quickly grabbed the rewards and withdrew from the altar again. There was nothing wrong with paying too much attention, but there was nothing wrong with being careful.
At a distance, I opened a book with nothing written on the cover.
[—- — Advent Plan]
“It’s very frank.”
‘I am the proof of heresy.’ It was a flaw that I couldn’t read what Advent was trying to do, but I wasn’t curious about it in the first place, and it wasn’t my responsibility.
Advent plan?
It’s not in a state of advent, so there is a plan, and if something these guys believe in had descended, wouldn’t we be alive like this now?
Buying the trust of the client by handing over the evidence and receiving compensation. So based on that, prepare for the dungeon again. Other than that, there was nothing to worry about.
I closed the book again and turned my gaze to the scrap of paper. Just looking at it, it looked like a medicine. Probably, it looked like the map of this dungeon. However, the entire dungeon was not revealed, and it seemed like a map with only about a quarter to a third drawn. After thousands of hours, it was basic to make an estimate like this.
‘Write. It’s bigger than I heard from the client.’
I folded the map and put it in the book, and put it in the luggage bag together. Then, as I was looking at the altar, holding the ax again, I heard the sound of footsteps.
It was Kaya.
“Leader.”
“Oh, Kaya. This altar. I was thinking about what to do, what do you think?”
“I think it should be shattered.”
“Okay?”
“But, I will follow the captain’s will.”
Kaya didn’t look any different than usual except for a fairly pale appearance, possibly because of the loss of his blood. But something, obviously something has changed. It just felt that way.
I looked back and forth between her gray eyes and her altar. Eventually, I stepped back. Her question came up on Kaya’s face, and I gave her a chin at her.
“I will respect your wishes. Break it directly.”
“… Leader.”
Instead of answering, I took a step back, and Kaya bowed her head at me. Then, without hesitation, she swung her mace down at her altar.
The altar soon turned to dust and scattered.
‘It’s like the things I can take as evidence are reduced again…’
Although it will be replaced with money that can be earned again at any time.
Whether her mentality, which seemed to have been attacked quite severely, would remain as a deep scar, or it would be completely healed.
I chose the latter without hesitation.
It wasn’t because of the relationship. No, I can’t say that even 1% has no effect. However, while living in this shitty place, the fact that numbers and messages are not everything has come to me more and more.
It seemed that the absolute system was followed in battle, but it was not implemented in the game… The ‘obvious’ things that were so human-like caused me to be separated and tormented me.
It hurts when hit, bleeds when stabbed, and has seizures when traumatized. Actually, this was normal.
However, in the game, stamina -4, mentality -10, abnormal status ‘bleeding’. It was all that these messages and illustrations that the characters were in pain passed by for a while.
The combat is very strict with the rules of the turn-based game, and everything else is not a game, but close to real life… It terribly tormented me, a real person.
‘Fuck the fuck.’
But my pain, Kaya’s pain. A different kind of pain than I experienced in 1-2. And at first glance, the extremely ‘human’ agony.
I was looking at this world and making it move as Hendrick, not Han Yujin.
Kaya’s expression after destroying the altar was still the same, but there was no message that her mentality was restored… It seemed to me that Kaya’s darkness had faded a little. Thinking that way, I have no regrets about my decision.
“Ugh, Kaya. I’m going to step out of here today, what do you think?”
“… According to the captain’s wishes.”
Way to retreat.
I knew as I entered that there were no traps, but I was nervous about the way back. That’s how close our condition was.
‘Please. Did you say Laella? If you don’t want to see your daughter die, please allow us to safely retreat. Please.’
[The bitter retreat makes the warriors impatient.]
[Eugene mentality -4]
[Kaya mentality -3]
As I got closer to the entrance, my mentality continued to wear off, but it was something I had to endure. Fortunately, there were no changes other than the fact that the mentality was considerably damaged.
“Let’s go back quickly, get treated, wash up, and rest.”
“Yes, chief. If possible, I would also like to eat warm soup.”
“Are you going to eat soup? You must also eat bread and meat.”
“… Bread.”
“Uh?”
“No, no.”
Shaking her gray hair, Kaya exited her dungeon.
[You can retreat in Instant Dungeon 〈 Between Heresy and Forbidden 〉.]
[Experience gained when retreating is reduced by 1/4.]
[When retreating, the attack reward is reduced by 1/4 according to the attack level.]
“Crazy.”
After coming here, it felt like the frequency of crazy, fucking harsh words increased dramatically.
“Still, it’s better than running back because you can’t retreat.”
Would you like to back the message? I didn’t even ask the same formal question. I raised my middle finger, feeling a bit of repulsion and a pinch. At the same time, I stepped onto the exit.
**
Perhaps it was because of the insane penalty, of course Kaya and I failed to level up. He wasn’t enough with three trash mobs and one elite monster. It might have been enough if there hadn’t been a penalty, but that’s past.
“I’ll give you money, so get a room, wash first, and rest.”
“Leader?”
“I have to report the request to the client.”
“I will go with you.”
“I’m reporting, but I’m alone. You don’t even have to go together.”
“I will go with you.”
Kaya, who obediently followed my words, was stubborn. Why is he like this I checked to see if there was something wrong with the relationship, but it wasn’t like that.
“Kaya. That’s what the chief does. That’s why I’m listening to you boss.”
“I will go with you.”
“No, you need to rest. Wouldn’t it be strange if I collapsed right away?”
Dori Dori-
Instead of speaking, Kaya shook her head.
‘Oh, this isn’t even a dungeon…’
I said with a stern look on her face to get her off.
“Kaya. Your condition is very serious. Greatly… To the point of being nasty.”
When she finished her words and slightly wrinkled her nose, Kaya, who had still stood in my way like a statue until then, changed her expression completely.
“That, that, that.”
“Well, you know what I mean?”
“Ah, ah, I see. Dad, come quickly.”
Kaya limped slightly and headed for the inn.
‘Ugh. There’s nothing wrong with the relationship.’
She openly said that she couldn’t go with you because she smelled like you, so I wondered if there would be any change, but it didn’t seem like the relationship would change that easily.
Well, actually, it wasn’t wrong that her whole body smelled like blood…
I headed that way to the place where the client’s uncle would be. It was a small bar on the corner near the agency.
Sure enough, the client man was slaughtering beer at the table from before.
“Hmm!? Are you back already?”
“Yes.”
“Would you like a beer too, you look too tired to say.”
Instead of answering, I nodded and immediately reported the progress to him. Meeting and fighting with several heretic worshipers and witnessing the ‘altar’. And fighting and defeating a more powerful cult guarding the altar.
We haven’t talked about books and maps yet. First of all, it was a reward obtained by our warriors for winning the battle.
“The proof is, I happen to only have two worshiper heads left. I’m drinking, but I don’t want to take it out of here…”
“Hmm, that’s right. However…”
The man who had been listening intently to my words suddenly lowered his voice and whispered. The smell of cheap beer hit me.
“Couldn’t you find any other evidence? For example, something like a record.”
