## Chapter 236 – 236. Tutorial Floor (8)
#236. Tutorial Floor (8)
While I was eating a late breakfast, Serin Lee approached.
“…Hyunwoo, are you okay?”
I nodded, meeting her worried gaze.
It stung a little, but it was nothing now. A hairline fracture was nothing a quick circulation of Sojocheon couldn’t fix.
The Boundless Vajra Resolution was a kind of archive containing all the martial arts created by the Vajra Divine Monk, but it was also a profound mental cultivation technique in its own right.
Minor external and internal injuries healed on their own while circulating Sojocheon.
Of course, if I had a broken bone, it would take longer, but Lucifer wasn’t so reckless as to do that.
“Tch.”
Lucifer, who was sitting on a rock, sent me a frosty glare. It seemed the anger from last night hadn’t completely dissipated.
Was six times in a row a bit much for the first experience?
Knowing that arguing back might result in the other arm being broken, I silently continued my meal. Serin Lee sat beside me, pretending to sip her coffee while glancing at me.
She seemed to have many questions about what had happened last night.
What on earth had I been doing to return just before sunrise, why were we both drenched in sweat, and why did Lucifer smell of night-blooming flowers?
Well, she didn’t say anything, but she seemed to have a rough idea of what had happened.
It would be stranger if she didn’t.
Lucifer also kept glancing at me, pretending not to care. Judging by her expression, she seemed displeased.
Was she sexually frustrated?
Anyway, I finished my meal under the intense gazes of the two. I was used to it, so I didn’t get indigestion.
Normally, I would have done some morning training to warm up, but I didn’t have time for that for a while.
I fell into thought as I looked at my wallet, which now held over 10,000 WP.
‘I could aim for 2,000 WP a day, couldn’t I?’
Needless to say, it was monster hunting again today.
Of course, hunting at night when monsters swarmed was more efficient, but I couldn’t just laze around during the day.
“Shall we hunt separately until noon and then meet up again?”
Serin Lee would naturally accompany me.
Although it was less dangerous than at night, the forest during the day was still quite perilous.
Today, I planned to teach her about magic power control through practical experience. She was already quite good, but a systematic approach was also important.
Well, with her talent, she would master it in no time.
“We’ll go east, so you go west…”
“Wait.”
Thud.
Lucifer grabbed my arm.
She kept moving her lips as if she had something to say.
“What’s wrong?”
“…Me too.”
She mumbled with her head down. It was so quiet that I could barely hear her.
I took a step closer before I heard the rest of her words.
“…I want to go with you too.”
“What?”
For the record, that was a question, not a statement.
Until yesterday, she had insisted on moving separately due to efficiency, but now she wanted to come with me?
But she seemed to have taken my words as a statement.
“Why, do you not want me to come along?”
A subtle murderous aura was felt.
In an instant, her amethyst eyes darkened heavily. Something black seemed to ripple within them.
For a moment, I felt goosebumps as if I were staring into the abyss.
“I told you I’d kill you if you abandoned me.”
“What are you ta…”
It seemed that it wasn’t just her wings that had turned black while she was trapped underground.
But I felt good that she seemed to be obsessed with me. She was just expressing it a bit roughly; in reality, she was jealous of Serin Lee.
If the me from yesterday saw this, I would smack my forehead and shout, “What kind of bullshit dream is this?”
I stifled a laugh and caressed her cheek.
Taking advantage of a moment of carelessness, I covered her lips.
“?!”
“H, Hyunwoo?!”
Lucifer, as well as Serin Lee who was watching from the side, were startled.
Regardless, I parted her lips and teased her tongue. The sweet saliva was a bonus.
Going a step further, I hugged her tightly and grabbed her butt. I enjoyed the elasticity of the flesh that filled my grasp.
After satisfying my personal desires for nearly five minutes, I stepped back. I wiped Lucifer’s saliva-covered lips with my fingertips.
“Do you still think I’ll abandon you like this?”
“…”
Lucifer’s face turned as red as a camellia in bloom, and she quietly shook her head.
I chuckled and put my arm around Lucifer’s shoulder. She leaned into my embrace like someone who had lost all strength.
“Serin, it looks like we’ll have to move together today. Is that okay?”
“…Yeah.”
I headed into the forest with her, who seemed to be answering reluctantly.
Although the sun was heading towards the top of the sky, the forest was shrouded in pitch-black darkness.
The cries of monsters could be heard from all directions.
***
The second day passed without any major incidents.
We hunted monsters all day, ate when it was mealtime, and taught Serin Lee various things during breaks.
These included the basics of combat, knowledge about monsters, and magic theories.
As expected, she was smart. Seeing her absorb knowledge like a sponge made me feel proud.
Is this the heart of a teacher…?
But I didn’t have much to teach her about creating circles.
In the first place, I couldn’t understand why others couldn’t create circles after years of training at the academy.
‘Isn’t it something you can create with just a little concentration?’
Still, I knew the theory, so I taught her.
Leaving Serin Lee to concentrate on meditation, I made plans with Lucifer for the future.
Initially, I had set a goal of 10,000 WP per week, but that was only the minimum. And the benefits that could be obtained on the tutorial floor were not limited to WP.
Dungeons existed in various places throughout the tower.
Dungeons were a kind of hidden piece, ranging from insignificant ruins to other dimensions connected to specific mythologies.
Although they were fraught with dangers such as traps and monsters, they were high risk, high return. They were places where valuable rewards could be obtained.
Of course, the rewards in the dungeons on the tutorial floor weren’t that great. In addition to WP, you could obtain traits, skills, and items, but we didn’t need them.
It was more efficient to hunt monsters in the forest during that time.
But according to Lucifer, there was one proper dungeon within the tutorial floor.
It was a temple of a certain god, a hidden piece among hidden pieces that had never been discovered by countless player candidates.
‘Well… it’s been a while since the information was updated. Someone might have found it in the meantime.’
Still, just in case, I searched for it while hunting monsters.
The only clue was that it was located in a place with sand, which made it difficult, but we were lucky enough to find it during an afternoon exploration.
After eating an early dinner, we passed through the bushes and arrived at a nearby river.
There, a suspicious sandy area had formed.
As expected, that was the entrance to the dungeon.
Looking at it, it was strange that it hadn’t been discovered until now, but there was one prerequisite for opening the entrance.
“H, Hyunwoo…”
Just in time, the smell of blood brushed past my nose.
I reached out and covered Serin Lee’s eyes.
Swish-
The corpses and entrails of monsters floated along the crimson river. There seemed to be dozens of them.
It was a difficult sight even for her, who had killed monsters with her own hands.
Before dinner, we had gone upstream, dealt with the monsters gathered there, and released their corpses into the river.
The reason was simple.
Thump-
As the river turned completely red, the sandy area began to tremble slightly.
The sand scattered in a strange wind and was sucked into the center. After a while, the sandy area caved in, creating a pit.
Swish-
The sand flowed helplessly inward. Soon, the center was filled with a dark shadow of unknown depth.
「You have discovered a special area, ‘The Forgotten Falcon Temple.’」
The door to the dungeon was opened.
「’The Dancing Destroyer’ shows interest in the temple of a different system of divinity.」
「’The One Who Lives in the Swamp’ is ecstatic about the river filled with corpses, blood, and entrails.」
「’The Saintess of Uruk’ applauds your discovery.」
We slid down the pit towards the darkness where we couldn’t see an inch ahead.
“Ah, sand.”
We headed underground as if skiing on sand. It would have been fun if I didn’t keep getting sand in my mouth.
Even in the midst of that, Lucifer was glaring at Serin Lee, who was in my arms.
I felt like her jealousy was getting worse.
‘Is it because of the memory of being betrayed and trapped underground?’
But Iris, who had a similar experience, was tolerant when it came to relationships.
It must just be her personality.
Anyway, after about 10 minutes, a small ray of light began to appear beyond the darkness.
Whoosh-
As soon as we escaped from the sand pit, we began to fall downwards as if we had been waiting for it.
“Kyaa!”
The entrance was on the ceiling; it was a malicious design.
Ding-
「You have entered the special area, ‘The Forgotten Falcon Temple.’」
「3,000WP has been awarded.」
The floor was easily dozens of meters down.
An ordinary person would die instantly.
That wasn’t the case for us. I soothed Serin Lee and surveyed the surroundings.
The enormous ruins, the murals engraved everywhere, and the sculptures seemed to be related to Egypt at first glance.
‘It was definitely called the Temple of Horus, right?’
Horus.
The god born between Osiris, the god of the dead and resurrection, and Isis, the goddess of motherhood, is the guardian deity of Egypt and the pharaohs.
「The constellation, ‘The Eye Guarding the Throne,’ is watching you.」
Just in time, the owner of the house appeared.
Of course, this wasn’t Horus’s main temple. Every constellation in that system was said to have a structure like a pyramid as its base.
Well, this place might also take the shape of a pyramid when viewed from the outside.
For the record, the procedure for opening the entrance to this temple was a recreation of the story of how Horus’s father, Osiris, was tricked by his brother Set and thrown into the Nile River in a coffin.
Thud-
I landed on the floor and put Serin Lee down.
Her legs were trembling pitifully, probably because she was surprised by the skydiving without a parachute. She immediately sat down when I pulled out a chair.
“Th, thank you…”
“Don’t push yourself and rest, Serin. I’ll take a look around for a bit.”
“Then I’ll go wi-“
“You stay with Serin. We don’t know what might come out.”
Leaving Lucifer, who was making a sulky face, I headed inside alone.
I had felt it since entering the temple, but a chilly air was blowing from the inside. It was the energy of death that I was now quite used to.
Well, it couldn’t be helped in Egyptian mythology.
And before long, what I had expected happened.
“Kheu, reureu…”
“Euaaa…”
“Ka, kakaaa…”
Mummies wrapped in bandages appeared from the opposite corridor. There were about 20 of them.
Even though it was a hidden dungeon, it wasn’t a number that should be appearing on the tutorial floor.
And we had only just entered.
Of course, that didn’t apply to me. I would have preferred if 50 of them had appeared.
“It’s a bonanza compared to the surface.”
With the thought that I could hunt here during the day, I rushed towards the mummy horde.
At some point, the golden sword energy rippled.
“Geureureu…!!”
“Kaka, aaaa…”
“Gaaaaal…!!”
「You have defeated a mummy.」
「+3WP」
「You have defeated a mummy.」
「+3WP」
「You have defeated a mummy.」
「+3WP」
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I had felt it before, but undead were quite satisfying to cut down.
