Fell in the Highest Difficulty Dungeon 22

Chapter 22 – Between Heresy and Forbidden (3)

7. Between Heresy and Forbidden (3)

‘What is he? It’s kind of scary.’

With a high probability, it was caused by the negative trait ‘seizure’. Shay’s rant, which suddenly changed without any sign, came crashing in without any time to prepare.

You might think that it’s no big deal to simply listen to abusive words mixed with harsh curse words.

I can assure you that it is a feeling that you will never understand unless you experience it in person.

Should I say that I feel similar to when a concept I thought was right was in fact broken a long time ago or when I was betrayed by someone I trusted. Anyway, I felt very bad.

I guess that’s why they say their mentality is black.

Worse still, the real culprit, Shay, was unaware.

“Shay.”

“Yeah~?”

“Could you repeat what you said to us earlier?”

“Yes? What did you say earlier? Um, leave the tracking to me, Shay! Was it this?”

Damn, if that was acting like an idiot, he deserved a nomination for best actor in my life.

Even if it wasn’t smoke, it was a problem. It was that I didn’t know when another annoying random event would happen, and I didn’t know how to solve it.

‘Okay. Even Kaya, who was so devoted and trustworthy, wasn’t only stuck in his traits, but in fact he was a hero that wouldn’t be strange if he became a ‘masochist’ with a little more ‘self-loathing’. But if you’re stuck with negative traits, you should’ve prepared for something like this.’

However, in the game, when a mentally broken hero spats his colleagues or spits out words that make the atmosphere cool. I was angry about why I was so serious and my mentality was so close…

In fact, I realized that it was not a joke.

‘This time it was like this because the target wasn’t us, what if the target of that seizure was us?’

No matter how pretty that crusader looked, like Kaya, it didn’t seem like he would be happy to hear mentally-shattering curses.

– It might not be bad… ?

‘What the fuck is this bullshit?’

Come to your senses. This place was inside the indungeon.

I still smiled and looked at Shay’s back, clinging to Kaya as her older sister. No, to be precise, it was the skills she possessed that she had been able to see since entering the dungeon.

[Shae]
[Skill 1. Justice enforcement]
– Can hit up to 2 enemies at the same time
– Damage correction – 40% (Damage correction -20% when hitting 1 object)
– Damage correction against humanoid monsters + 10%

[Skill 2. Crusader’s Tenacity]
– Self buff
– Obtained the condition ‘Never be pushed back’
– Increase speed by 1
– Recovers 1 HP at the end of each turn
– Counterattack once per hit (damage correction -40%), recover 1 HP upon successful counterattack

[Skill 3. Judgment of justice]
– Damage correction +10%
– Accuracy correction + 15
– Give ‘stunned’ status abnormality with a certain probability
– Grants ‘Stigma of Judgment (recovers 2 HP when target is defeated)’ with a certain probability

[4 skills. Light of Justice]
– Recovers 2 HP of a designated ally and 1 HP of self
– Recovers 1 mentality for one designated ally and self
– Increase brightness by 5

When she saw the skills she had, she blinked. After the second look, I rubbed my eyes with her hand, and after the third look, I closed my eyes for a moment and pondered for a moment whether what I was seeing was real.

“… Leader?”

I woke up to Kaya’s voice, but I knew it too. That this is by no means a dream or fantasy.

‘What the hell is this woman?’

The genius trait could have been so. Seriously, it was just luck. Even in modern times, being born with a golden spoon or a head with an IQ of over 150 is an extremely lucky draw, so the innate talent of a hero was also luck.

But these dazzling skills. This wasn’t just an area of ​​luck and talent. To the extent that it was scary to shout cheers, he possessed high-level skills. Even if Nana Kaya broke through to Area 2, I wondered if it would be possible to hit similarly.

If this woman wasn’t level 1, if only I hadn’t fallen into this world myself.

Enough to think that a gamer who is a bit of a platoon is a warrior who has been cherished by making decisions and investing in a game that has supported his luck quite a bit… He was a hero at a level far beyond Nana Kaya’s potential.

Among the skills, the lack of a skill related to defense was the only flaw that could be found, and even though it was conditional and the hard cc skill of fainting, it was covered by semi-final or higher skills with only 3 self-heal skills.

“Um? Ah. It’s okay if you look at me like that, Captain! Because you are handsome!”

“Shay-nim isn’t our warrior squad yet, is it?”

“Still~ My sister is also called captain, but isn’t it hard to call me Hendrick-sama? Besides, even though it’s temporary, we’re working together right now! Like a colleague!”

When I saw the profile, I had already drank a bowl of kimchi-gut. But actually, after experiencing Shay’s seizure earlier, it made me think about whether I should spit out some kimchi soup.

But after looking at the skills, what about now?

‘Either learn how to control it or train my mentality.’

Clearing the dungeon was my top priority, and I was convinced that I couldn’t let go of a hero like this.

“Captain! Right? I’m a colleague now, right? Right?”

[Relationship diagram]
Shay: 0

Okay. ‘Now’ is a colleague.

I decided to pull back the lines I had consciously kept so that I wouldn’t look too impatient. Intuition came. If the first watershed was to prevent Kaya’s mental collapse, this was the second watershed.

Depending on how you behave here, it seemed that Shay’s joining the warriors’ team would have a big impact. Even if he looked like he had no thoughts, he didn’t look like someone whose head was empty or whose senses had disappeared.

It was really awkward to smile like this in a businesslike way, but can’t you do this to clear the dungeon?

Whether he laughs profusely, occasionally slaps and lashes out at terrifying rants, then loses the atmosphere because he can’t remember himself like a patient with dissociative personality disorder, or the tension is so high that it’s burdensome, or he shows a madness to Ethan to the point of giving goosebumps.

If you’re that kind of genius, you can.

Our shay. Do whatever you want… It’s not that far, but anyway, Shay, from now on you should be your own genius Shay, not the ghastly genius Shay that the Church of Justitia put out.

“Sure, Shay.”

Although she stings as she sees Kaya opening her mouth blankly as if seeing something incredible.

“No, Shay. Please take care of me too.”

“Yes! Captain!”

Also.

Shay’s eyes widened and she gave a playful salute, but she didn’t miss me, who kept a close eye on her. Before her eyes widened, even for a moment, her expression changed to an expressionless expression close to a true color.

[Eugene mentality -2]

Fuck. It’s creepy. How the hell did she come to be? Is it a snake Is it afterglow?

You eat away at people’s mentality just by being next to them. In another sense, it is a ghost.

I replied to Shay’s salute, pretending that it was nothing.

Kaya, your sighs sound very heavy…

**

There were no battles and traps for a while. At least all the way to where the altar we destroyed was.

‘At least this isn’t a place where you randomly respawn.’

It was the moment when it became clear that this was not the dungeon he had seen. In this dungeon, everything that looked like a human was a monster itself. Of course, it wasn’t that the humans (heretics) that appeared here weren’t monsters. What should I say… Yes, it was a systemic difference.

It didn’t make any difference to me that I was a monster who had to be beaten anyway.

“Hmm~”

Shay said that ever since she arrived here, she has been hovering around the place where the altar used to be and has been acting inexplicably. Even though she was pounding the soil with her toes, she suddenly squatted down and picked up a handful of soil and sniffed her scent… She was taken aback when she suddenly stuck out the tip of her tongue and lightly touched the dirt.

“Shay! What are you doing!”

“Ah, it’s a good thing. Captain?”

“If nothing else, why are you eating dirt?!”

“Oh, I didn’t mean to eat… Heh.”

Phu-et-hut- muttered as she tilted her head several times after that, spitting the dirt out of her mouth.

“It didn’t taste good, but it was worth eating. I got a rough idea of ​​where the trail leads. Where are these heretical bastards hiding like worms, who are worse than this food waste?”

“… Uh?”

“Hmm, maybe we should go this way… Oops! Should I ask the captain?”

… A cold sweat broke out. Calmly, like a child playing around and eating some dirt, he said that the soil was tasteless, and then he suddenly looked up and said that he had found traces of heresy, and was about to run out. Wait for my command

It wasn’t long ago that she vowed to take control, but she couldn’t catch it. She glanced at Kaya and she shut her mouth and pretended to look the other way. Kaya, you too…

Fortunately, it was because I had experienced it once, or it was because the intensity was weaker than before, so the message that my mentality was black did not appear. Her heart was pounding apart from him, though.

Still, if her intuition was right, we could save quite a bit of time.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes! Um, I’m not ashamed to say these words with my own mouth! My tracking has never been wrong!”

“Okay. You’re trustworthy.”

“Hehe.”

“Then can you take the lead? Around here, we are also in an unknown place, so from now on, I want you, who can be traced, to stand in the lead.”

“Yes! Leave it to me!”

Tuong-

Shay tapped on my heavy armor and accepted my request without a second of hesitation.

There was something reliable, but it was 500 million light years away from the reliability I felt from Kaya…

“Hmmmm”

‘I think I’m going crazy. I think I’m going crazy I think I’m going crazy… !’

Light footsteps and hum as if on a picnic. And an attitude that can hardly be thought of as being pursued, in which not a single word of caution can be found.

It was natural for me and Kaya to be nervous and keep looking around, and her stress was not the only one. But why can’t I stop that crazy bitch?

‘I know exactly which route is faster than the one drawn on the map, and I’m going there. For what reason are you stopping me?’

Even if her path diverges, suddenly bringing out a map of this place, which can be said to be proof of her heresy, is a strange thing.

The road seems to be right, so I follow it, but because of that crazy bitch’s hum, there’s a sense of spookiness and fear that wasn’t there before.

“That’s why, so everyone was kicked out of the corps of warriors…”

“…”

Even the reticent Kaya was about to say something like this.

But just as there is something to be gained and something to be lost, it is said that if you suffer something, you will be rewarded.

If I had gone through the classic route on the map, I would have reached the second altar without even fighting a single battle, which I felt would have taken at least three or four battles.

“Kaya. Shay. Get ready. It doesn’t matter if something pops out.”

“Yes, chief.”

Shay, who had not responded, was already holding her two-handed sword, which appeared to be a claymore, and was staring straight ahead of her expressionlessly. The gap with her figure just 10 seconds ago was huge.

Psssss-

As we got closer, black smoke rose like the one from the first altar. However, this time the shape was one.

“Wait.”

[Encountered with elite monster, 〈 Altar Guardian Knight 〉!]

“You presumptuous hypocrites.”

A tall black knight with a height of at least 2m, who could have reminded us of a Death Knight just by looking at it, came to see us.