Chapter 186 – 186. Stones
186. Stones
“That’s interesting.”
The first open dungeon I saw looked quite strange. A dungeon bordered by a translucent barrier that separates the dungeon from the earth. Instead of a gate, we opened a door made by humans and entered the dungeon.
[Dungeon: Enter ‘Monkey Fortress’.]
Even after entering the dungeon, I didn’t feel any different. Still, seeing that the system message was steadily popping up, it seemed that he was right in the dungeon.
The entrance to the dungeon was a forest densely covered with large trees. It is said that only the entrance was a forest, and if you go further inside, a stone mountain made of oddly shaped rocks appears, befitting the name Monkey Fortress.
“So what training are you going to do?”
“Hee hee, of course it’s actual combat training.”
Marie said with a smirk.
“In Monkey Fortress, monsters of various grades appear, from C to S, and then.”
“And?”
“Huh, you’ll know when you see it. I mean, why is this place called the sacred ground for actual combat training?”
I followed Marie into the dungeon. Soon after, I was able to encounter a monster.
“Ukki!”
A lump of clay in the shape of a monkey, making monkey noises. It’s a C-class monster.
Three earthworms were laughing and playing while climbing a tree. Marie pointed her finger at the dirt and asked for a fight.
“Is C-class too easy?”
“Of course. How many years has my jjambab been?”
It’s been less than a year.
I glanced at Eunbyeol. Eunbyeol drew her sword and lightly cut it to the side.
Squeak.
Cloud Slash was activated, and thin solid lines appeared on the bodies of the earthworms. Dirt split in half along an oblique line. The guys didn’t even notice what they were doing and turned into magic stones.
“Oh, what is it? Is it very tidy?”
“Yes? Ah, thank you…”
“And that attack was an artifact? It didn’t feel like something was triggered by magic.”
“Yes? No, that’s right It is an ability in this sword.”
“Even if the weapon is good, it is human beings who handle it. Isn’t that bad?”
“Thank you… !”
Marie admired Eunbyeol’s cloud cutting. The restrained swordsman seemed to like her.
There was a slight twinkle in her eyes. Up until now, if I had just been treated as Guild Member 1, whom I had brought along at my request, now it felt like I was looking at a promising prospect overflowing with talent.
Eunbyeol received that gaze and blushed her face shyly. An embarrassing yet subtle pride was reflected on her face. It feels good to be praised.
If it were now, if I touched her butt, wouldn’t it pass without a word… ?
Perhaps she sensed a threat, Eunbyeol slipped away from me. She’s been bullied so much that her notice has grown a lot.
I gave up touching her butt and told Marie. Eunbyeol is about her butt anyway. She could touch her to the fullest at night.
“In the first place, Eunbyul is also a B-class. What are you surprised by now?”
“There’s a difference between just a B-class and a B-class that deserves to be an A.”
Well, if it was just B-level, there were a lot of rose gold, but with A-rank, the story was different. Even in Rose Gold, which pursues a small number of elites, Class A ranks at the executive level. In the first place, even if you look at the whole country, less than 2,000 people are grade A.
“Let’s go in a bit more. Looking at it, I can’t even warm up to the level of mud.”
“Yes~.”
We quickly made our way through the forest. After getting out of the forest, I was finally able to see the original appearance of the Monkey Fortress.
“Wow.”
Dozens of stone mountains rising high into the sky, and the large and small strange rocks located in between, seem to explain why this place is called a fortress. There was no such thing as a heavenly fortress created by nature.
“Let’s go in.”
We flung ourselves through the rubble. As I passed through the piles of stones rising here and there, I felt as if I had fallen into some kind of dilemma.
“What is the fog…”
I didn’t even know it felt that way because of the white fog. Eunbyeol and I were distracted by the exotic scenery and looked around.
“Come.”
But this place is not a soft tourist spot. It is a dangerous open type dungeon where even S-class monsters appear.
Marie sensed the monster’s presence and warned us. Eunbyeol and I took out our weapons and prepared ourselves for battle.
Soon after, several large monkeys roamed and crawled out from among the rubble. Monkeys made of hard granite. They are stones that are classified as B-class monsters.
“Be careful, it’s going to be on a different level than the clay figures earlier.”
“Laughing!!!”
The stone monkeys that found us raised their arms to the sky and screamed. Perhaps because of their height of over 2m, they look more like gorillas than monkeys. They approached us with an eerie scream.
I looked at Eunbyeol again. It means that this body should only step forward to such idiots. She sighed, raised her sword, and faced Dolsungi.
“Rooky!”
The number of stones is five. But not all of them came forward. When Eunbyeol stepped forward by herself, they giggled, and they also sent only one person out.
“What are you guys doing?”
“It’s their habit. I tend to enjoy one-on-one combat. Of course, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t cases where they attack in droves.”
It’s like going 1v1 against easy opponents. In the eyes of those guys, Eunbyeol seemed to be easy.
Realizing that fact, Eunbyeol put on a displeased expression. She was the one who made her feel bad because she was being ignored by some kind of monkey made of out of stone.
“Whoa.”
Eunbyeol tightly gripped her blue sky sword. These guys look stupid, but they are clearly classified as B-class monsters. Her Eunbyeol was also a B-class, and she had just become a B-class, so she was not an opponent she would take lightly.
Eunbyeol swung her sword in a slightly nervous state. She is the cloud slasher that cut down the earthworms earlier.
Kaga River!
“What?”
The slender sword energy rushed in at high speed and crashed into Dolsungi’s body. However, unlike before, when she cut the soil like tofu, she only made thin scratches on the stone’s body.
“Ukki?”
Dolsungi, who was hit by the invisible sword, made a puzzled expression. But soon, when she realized Eunbyul had attacked her, she screamed and ran at Eunbyul.
“Rooky!!”
Quaang!
“Ow.”
Dolsungi brought her fists together and took Eunbyul down. Eunbyeol twisted her body to avoid the attack, and his fist slammed the ground, making her roar.
Sharp stone fragments are scattered in all directions. Eunbyeol grabbed her stance in the air and tried to counterattack her. However, she couldn’t.
Jjoong!
“Cuck!”
This is because Dolsongi kicked Eunbyeol away, turning her body around using her fists stuck in her ground as her axis. Eunbyeol’s body, hit by her attack from an unexpected direction, flew behind her. I was a little embarrassed and called Eunbyeol.
“Eunbyeol! Can I help you?”
“That’s Okay!”
As if she had not suffered a fatal injury, Eunbyeol stood up again. Dolsunggi chuckled and laughed as if mocking Eunbyeol.
“Okikiki, kinkikikiki.”
Fang, Fang.
Dolsong sticking out his butt and knocking. Enraged at the mockery anyone could see, Eunbyeol swung her sword and slashed her.
“Ukki?”
The slash draws in the form of a spiral and flies, then converges into a single point. The slash, which turned into a flash of light, pierced Dolsungi’s body.
Kwajik.
“Ukki!!!”
Dolsungi hurriedly raised her arm to block her slash. Unlike the cloud slash, which only left scratches, the slashes gathered at one point pierced the stone’s hard skin and shattered its arm.
Dolsong, who had lost one of her arms, screamed in rage. Unfazed, Eunbyeol fired her slashes one after another.
“Woo!!!”
A slash that crosses in an X shape and flies. Dolsongi jumped high into the sky to dodge the attack, then twisted her body in the air and was shot at Eunbyeol like a meteorite.
Judging from the fact that he can change direction and accelerate that much in empty space, he is a guy who handles magic quite well.
Kwaaaaang!!
He was fast, but he had too much advance action. Eunbyeol easily dodged Dolsungi’s attack. Its body slammed into the ground, creating a thick cloud of dust.
Eunbyeol raised her magic again. Even if he crashed into the rock at supersonic speeds, he probably wouldn’t have been hurt.
Hitting the ground at high speed was just a simple physical force, so it wouldn’t have been possible to hit a monster made of magic at all.
“Ha!”
Eunbyul’s sword shone with a blue light. Her magical power was contained and the original color of the blue sky sword was revealed. Eunbyeol wrapped her sword around her sword like a sword, and then cut off the guy’s head with a spirit.
Caang!
“What?!”
But was blocked In the thick dust, I can see the silhouette of a stone man. The shadow of a 2m giant ape. He was blocking Eunbyeol’s sword with a long stick made of stone, from which he did not know where it came from.
“What is that? Where did you get it from?”
“It’s a tail.”
“Yes?”
“Their tails can be turned into various weapons. Starting with a simple stick, swords, spears, axes, and even bows. Although there is only one weapon that can be changed for each individual. Hee hee, and,”
“And?”
Jjoong!
The magical powers of Dolsungi and Eunbyeol collide and dust is removed. Dolsungi turned the stick with one hand and aimed it at Eunbyeol.
It was as if they were jockeying as if they were using martial arts.
“They can handle the weapons they are born with like masters. Maybe it will take a while to deal with it properly?”
“Ukki!!!!”
Marie giggled and laughed. She seemed to feel better as she imagined the pain Eunbyul and I would experience from now on.
In contrast, Eunbyeol’s expression was filled with bewilderment and deep tension. Eunbyeol raised her magical power to the highest level and slashed her at Dolsungi.
After Dolsungi twisted the direction of the slash with his baton to avoid it, he stabbed Eunbyeol with her staff.
