Chapter 16 – The Giraffe’s Nest (2)
We headed to the mountain where the thunderbird was sighted. Nearby, soldiers and hunters stood guard with weapons. It’s probably because they’re putting up a guard or something to prevent civilians from entering.
“Stop! Stop! Stop!”
The soldier told us I took out the cadet card I had prepared in advance and showed it for the soldier to see.
“Ah, it’s an academy cadet. Are you here for a mission?”
“Yes. I came for a mission. Can I come in?”
“Could you wait a moment?”
The soldier checked the cadet card for a while and then said something to the walkie-talkie. After waiting for a while, a soldier came towards us.
“Permission has been given from the top. You can go in.”
“Yes, please suffer~”
About 10 minutes into the mountain, I once again told Lee Ji-ah and Kim Ha-rin, who were following me behind me, what to be careful of.
“The Thunderbird wears lightning all over its body. This is because the Thunderbird can’t control it, so if you hear thunder, it means that the Thunderbird is nearby, so when you hear thunder, you’re always nervous.”
“Yes.”
“And by chance, by chance, if, by chance, we are scattered and we fight the Thunderbird alone.”
“You mean to throw this? But will this work?”
At my words, Lee Ji-ah said while holding up the box she had handed out in advance. I nodded.
“Uh. There’s something in there that makes the Thunderbird crazy. So if you throw it, the Thunderbird will run away.”
“Yes?”
Harin Kim looked at me suspiciously. However, she soon noticed that she realized that she was the safest person here.
We went into the forest. The thunderbird was making a fuss, so the monster was barely visible. Did you walk around like that for 30 minutes?
A monster appeared in front of our eyes. A black horse with blue lightning forming the shape of its mane.
“Wow, isn’t that a thunder horse?”
Lee Ji-ah said in surprise. The thunder horse is usually listed on the D-level difficulty subjugation, but you can think of it as a guy that the academy students usually catch. It is a popular monster because the magic crystals embedded in its head are quite valuable.
If the thunder horse is around here, it’s a story that there is a giraffe’s dungeon somewhere nearby. The terrain in the game and the terrain in reality are different, so I think I have to get lost.
“Really like Siwoo said, look what’s going on here.”
“That’s right. Thunder horses are famous for living in places with a lot of brain energy…”
Lee Ji-ah speaks with sparkling eyes and Kim Ha-rin doubts. I took out a 30 cm straight stick from the prepared bag. Let’s infuse magic into the rod, Chang! I heard a sound and turned into a short spear about 1m long.
“Siwoo..?”
“Wait a minute.
Shh.
I put my index finger to my mouth and put on the spearman’s mask. Due to the effect of the mask, all stats except magical power increase by 1. Locke has one characteristic. Every time the stat is a multiple of 10, the efficacy jumps up.
For example, if you assume that you can lift a 300kg barbell without difficulty when your strength level is 9, you will be able to lift 500kg without any problem if you have a 10 ability level.
It was only 1 that turned into a number, but the change that was felt was not just 1. My physical strength was roughly twice as strong as before I put on the mask.
“Suck!”
He took a short breath and threw down the javelin. The thrown spear pierced the brain with a magic stone. There are few monsters that are strong enough to survive after being pierced through the brain. And the Thunder Horse is never such a monster.
It’s a waste of magic stones, but I can’t help it because it’s annoying if I can’t kill it by aiming elsewhere by mistake. The Thunder Horse roams alone, but cries bitterly when threatened. If that happens, the other thunder monsters who heard that cry will run here in an instant.
“Wait a minute.”
I left my party behind and approached the Thunder Horse. If you go all the way to the right from the place where the thunder horse appeared, you will come across a rock, and there is a giraffe’s nest nearby.
I approached the thunder horse and took out the magic crystal that was shattered into two pieces. When I sent a small amount of magic power, the magic power with the property of lightning suddenly jumped out.
The unusual thing is that the direction of the lightning is to the right. The lightning itself was evidence that it was being attracted to something.
I threw away the magic stone. The smashed magic crystal could never be used again.
“There’s something over there that the lightning is attracted to, do you want to go?”
“…It must be a dungeon, right?”
Lee Ji-ah said in a worried voice. I nodded. The boss there isn’t too difficult.
Of course, this premise is that Harin Kim exists. Even though we are on the verge of falling behind, the place we are going to is the giraffe’s dungeon. It is the place where Kirin, a member of the Four Spirits, one of the top bosses, stayed, so it will be more difficult than most dungeons.
If things go according to the ‘relationship’, it is possible only in the second half of the first year for the main character to withstand the blow alone, but there is no problem because there is a cheat key called Harin Kim.
“Let’s just look at the entrance for a while. If it’s a lightning attribute monster, we have Harin.”
“If not…?”
“Or just run away.”
Lee Ji-ah put on a complicated expression at my words.
We approached the direction where the magical power of lightning bounced.
As I went there, I started to see something strange in the cave.
“It’s also a dungeon.”
Lee Ji-ah muttered as if moaning. We quietly went inside. After exploring the cave for about 5 minutes, a huge corpse came out.
“Thunderbird…?”
It was the body of a thunderbird. A corpse in tatters, as if torn apart by something like a sword. It didn’t end there. Thunder Circle in the shape of a monkey, Thunder Lake in the shape of a fox, and so on. The corpses of many thunder monsters were scattered all over the place.
It was the reason I wanted to come here to Kirin’s Dungeon. No matter how fraudulent Kim Ha-rin’s Gwang-Ik is, the limit is clear because Kim Ha-rin itself is not outstanding.
Even if we were to assist, Ha-rin Kim alone would not be able to clear this dungeon. However, if most of the monsters are already dead and you are dealing with a barely breathing boss, the story will be very different. A dungeon like this is rare.
“Somehow, it seems that someone has already arrived.”
Harin Kim blurted out his words. In fact, I don’t even know who visited this place first. Based on the traces engraved here and there in the dungeon, users guessed that it was either the ‘sword master’ known to be nearby or one of the ‘sword spirits’ on the villain side.
“Still, let’s take at least some magic stones.”
***
We continued exploring the dungeon. I didn’t have to deal with monsters, but it took some time because of the work of checking the bodies of the monsters and taking out the magic stones.
“It’s really amazing… How strong do you have to be to create a scene like this?”
Harin Kim said in an admiring voice. Jiah Lee and I also nodded at her words. The corpses of monsters that even the heroes couldn’t easily deal with alone were scattered here and there.
The most impressive thing was a white bear up to 10m in size. It was the corpse of the Thunder Lord, a boss-level monster that even high-ranking heroes could not deal with alone.
“There are no magic stones.”
Lee Ji-ah muttered as if she was sorry. It was a bit of a greed.
The magic stones of monsters that are the size of the thunder lords are traded at astronomical prices, and considering that the price of the most recently traded magic stones of the thunder lords was close to 7 billion, you can say that you have no conscience.
We walked inside. I saw an empty altar there. Boxes in open condition. It was already proving that the person who discovered this place first swept it away.
“I also took everything.”
Lee Ji-ah looked through all the boxes and said regretfully.
“Well, that’s right. Since I caught a monster of the level of the Thunder Lord, there must have been an A-rank artifact or reward.”
“That’s right. If it’s a relic of that level, even if it’s not good enough, it’ll go over 10 billion won.”
I looked around. Should be here somewhere I took out the smallest of the magic stones I obtained from sifting through the corpses earlier, out of my pocket. When the mana was released, the lightning broke and bounced to the right. The right side was part of the wall.
“Huh? What’s wrong Siwoo?”
“…”
I put on a mask that imitated the magician’s karma. When he puts on the mask, the mana in his body starts to flow backwards. Brewed a drink The formula used is lightning bolt.
Paperweight!
The magic of the lightning attribute belonging to the lower class magic spread in my hand. I shot the magic at the wall blocking it. Then, surprisingly, the lightning bolt passed through the wall.
“What…?”
Harin Kim and Jiah Lee, who were watching me, were amazed.
‘It’s just like the game.’
I nodded and thought.
Discovering this was accidental. I seemed to have found a huge dungeon, but there was nothing, so I used a lightning attribute attack to vent my anger, and I went through it and tried it out of curiosity. However, in order to enter, you must have lightning on your body. Or use the lightning attribute power.
“It’s like a hidden stage.”
“Hidden stage?”
Lee Ji-ah asked back at my words. The hidden stage is literally a hidden reward room. However, the bosses and rewards generated here are all random.
This is because there are better rewards than dungeons and ‘guardians’ who guard them.
The sentinel is different depending on the quality of the reward, but sometimes the hidden stage of a dungeon that is judged to be low has a boss with a similar status to the thunder lord who became a corpse a while ago.
“So, are there any rewards yet?”
At my words, Lee Ji-ah put on a look of bewilderment.
However, Harin Kim made a wary expression. Having a reward is synonymous with saying that there is a watchman who protects the reward, in other words.
A monster stronger than the Thunder Lord. Even if the three of us bring out our hidden strength and perfectly combine it, we are confident that we will be annihilated in less than 10 seconds. No, even 10 seconds is too many.
However, this stage is a bit different.
This is the original giraffe’s nest. This room was created by Kirin, a member of the Commander, to escape secretly when he was young. If he hadn’t left as the giraffe grew up, he would have been a watchman here and welcomed us, but he’s not there now.
In other words, it is a dungeon that can be eaten raw.
‘It’s not often that you get a chance to eat it raw like this…’
However, there is a monster resting there, wounded by someone who entered this dungeon. The monster was so weak that Lee Ji-ah would fight and win in close combat if she could block one blow.
And here, only Kim Ha-rin has the ability to block that blow.
“But the guards in the hidden stages are usually stronger than the dungeon bosses.”
Harin Kim said urgently. Lee Ji-ah made a shocked expression at Harin Kim’s words.
“It’s not like that.”
I denied Kim Ha-rin’s words once and was lost in thought. How should she brush her mouth so that she can lead the way.
“Hidden stages are usually stronger than bosses guarding dungeons, but that depends on the amount of mana contained in the dungeon. And the amount of mana contained in this dungeon is almost comparable to the thunder lord or the thunder monsters that have been around so far.”
“What are you talking about…?”
Harin Kim asked me.
‘I do not know.’
I didn’t understand what I was talking about, so how would you understand?
However, for the past month, I have been chatting freely while reading knowledge. Originally, when you tell a lie, you have to mix the appropriate truth.
“The mana that exists in a dungeon is always constant.”
“I know that.”
“And monsters each have their own mana value. You don’t know before you enter, but the story changes after you enter. It’s a level that can be won somehow.”
“Did you calculate it all?”
Harin Kim looked at me with an expression of disbelief.
The mana value is usually different for each monster. Assuming that the average mana of the Thunderbird is 500, when the dungeon has 10,000 mana, the result is that there are 20 Thunderbirds in the dungeon, assuming that only the Thunderbird appears.
However, the mana contained in each monster is different, and the time period is different. Just as humans have different personalities, talents, and appearances of all mankind. It is only a small part of the calculation by looking at this.
The mana value is also not a number that can be easily lumped together like that.
How can I calculate all of them?
But you can’t be scared here.
This hidden stage cannot be broken by just the two of Jia Lee and I. Harin Kim, who has a wide wing, was needed.
I said patting my head.
“Being first in theory is not something else.”
I’m sorry, but I got it for nothing with my specialties.
