Chapter 538 – Pyramid of Incarnation (3)
I came down an unbalanced aerial staircase.
The next tier was the forest.
‘Hmmm shit. The scale sucks.’
A single tree would be as large as a building. I gaped at the size of the trees.
A forest of huge trees that seem to cause nostalgia PTSD, just like the private soldier who returned to Nonsan in the Little Prince!
Usually, a forest is so full of plants that it blocks the view.
But here, it felt much less cramped.
Could it be because the giant trees that rivaled the baobab trees monopolized all the nutrients? Overall, there were few plants with high height. This means that the field of view was wide open. It wasn’t that I couldn’t hide if I wanted to hide.
Still, there was no sense of incongruity with the giant trees that rose in rows, even though they were wooden pillars, like the Parthenon of heavenly blessing.
‘It’s a pity that I’m a science student who gave up on the Korean language.’
One thing is that the vocabulary is lagging behind. As such, it was difficult to express this landscape with the word forest.
Rather, it would make more sense to say that the Earth was in the Cretaceous period. Feeling overwhelmed by the scale of nature, I naturally humbled my mindset.
─Horrrr.
I was impressed by seeing nature for the first time in a while, but the emerald tombstone that appeared loudly broke my colic. I read the article after holding back the desire to click my tongue with a sigh.
《◇ Goal: Gather 10 Anzū feathers.》
《◆ Reward: Everything you can get on the 5th floor. ?.》
What else is written with a question mark? Is it an extra reward?
It seemed like it could be seen as something like a secret quest. As he stroked his chin, a feather the size of a human forearm appeared as if it were a sample of the ordeal. It was a shiny black feather like a crow’s.
I was a bit surprised that it popped out of nowhere without any action of mana.
“Our Jammin Pharaoh is unstoppable.”
I smiled. If you showed me such a blatantly mysterious sight, I would have no choice but to follow it even if I didn’t like it.
In particular, for a bastard like me who has less water in the earth, anyway, wouldn’t it be scary for the people of this world to feel this transcendent magical phenomenon more real as much as it feels real?
Unlike me, who dismissed it as a fantasy and moved on, my body would tremble by itself at the feeling of being denied the existing magic common sense.
‘Perhaps the difference between a wizard and a man-eating alien in terms of the gambit of an earthling.’
I had a lot of unique experience, so I was guessing the core structure of this pyramid to some extent, but other explorers might feel like they were abducted by aliens.
Ah, how are Dumbledore and the Alien Queen alike?
─Juseomjuseom.
I packed a feather of an ignorant size and spun around.
First of all, I thought it would be a surprise attack or something impossible because the view was so open, but it didn’t take long to realize that optimistic thought was human supremacy.
Wedge liquid-!!
It was a surprise attack from above. I fell almost 90 degrees, so if my five senses hadn’t developed to a master’s level, I might not have been able to stop or avoid it and get hurt.
『──Kueeeeec?!』
Conversely, the attacker failed to ambush me.
Even if I’m not good at detecting presence, I’m the average of the masters. As soon as I sensed the enemy’s speed, I pulled out my spear and stabbed it straight up, and the monster’s body was threaded as if I had committed suicide by throwing myself into my spear.
It was a creature with the head and limbs of a lion and the claws and wings of an eagle.
‘It’s a griffon. After a while, it’s a rather common fantasy monster.’
To see only strange monsters all the time and end up with normal monsters like this. Again, I am deeply moved.
Was the ancient different world before the destruction a normal fantasy world where monsters like these roamed around normally? I felt like a newbie player who was introduced to the 10th year event of a dying game.
Chew-!!
He cut off such trivial inspiration with the griffon’s torso.
Even Griffon, who delayed death with his outstanding vitality even after his body was pierced, was not spared from dying when it was split in half. It looked like the blood of a cracked monster cub was pouring, but in an instant it turned to dust of light.
All that was left was a feather.
It’s convenient and nice that you don’t even have to dismantle it.
《◆ Feather of Griffon (Anzū)》
When I picked up the feather, a tombstone explaining the item came to mind, but it wasn’t very useful information, so I skimmed through it.
‘It looks difficult to catch each one.’
It doesn’t seem to form a group. Well, if 10 of them appeared at a time, the ordeal would end too easily or the balance would be so damn bad that the explorers would be wiped out.
After thinking about it, I came up with a lure operation.
I took out the firewood and made a fire. After putting the meat on a skewer over a campfire and letting out the scent, he climbed a nearby tree.
Awakening the prehistoric witty Saiyan DNA, he climbed to a high place and covered the Gilly suit. Just wind up the mana coating of Beast Return and disguise yourself as
As a finishing touch, I even used a ᚲ (Kenaz) rune mask that reduces presence, so now it’s perfect.
I held my breath and waited. The griffons flying in the sky might be able to see through my camouflage, but wouldn’t it be a losing business if I was lured in anyway?
〈Go, that’s meat!〉
But, unfortunately or fortunately, there was a creature that fell for my lure earlier than Griffon.
A person Explorers too.
No matter how much they suffered, very scruffy people came with their noses wide open.
His eyebrows furrowed for a moment, but it couldn’t be said to be much of a loss. It was the first explorer I met inside the pyramid.
‘Look at that. It’s meat made by people. Didn’t the guys around here run away with food?〉
Explorers talked. I looked at them with my 20.0 eyesight and was briefly surprised.
‘A member of Ergé’s party?’
The party member of Elizabeth, the next queen of Britannia, was at that party.
I looked at all of them just in case, but other than that, I couldn’t see all of them.
‘… I don’t think he betrayed me or was a spy.’
Anyone can see that he was the face of a loser who went through hardships.
A contemplative man like a scholar, he said while wiping the dirt on his glasses.
〈We only have four mouths to blindly classify the toxicity of an unknown fruit. Wouldn’t it be possible to find a fruit that can be eaten with only 4 opportunities?〉
‘And it’s not good to eat food from the underworld. If the gods of the underworld find out about it, they will become the people of the underworld.”
Is Narmer a priest of the Nile? Said the woman, who could not tell whether she was clothed or naked.
I have to acknowledge the will to stick to that kind of fashion even during exploration. A warrior like the leader grumbled when two of them rebelled.
“Eat and die or starve, what’s the difference?”
〈… Having said that, I have nothing more to say.”
When the priestess spoke, they fell silent.
Reason doesn’t mean much in the face of hunger. There is even a hypothesis that the reason why we humans ate poisonous creatures like blowfish was because primitive people who failed to hunt had nothing else to eat.
─Wow, wow!
They, too, were defeated by appetite. The explorers who took the risk and grabbed the skewer turned their eyes to the fragrant smell and coveted the meat.
“Damn it, it’s just smoked ham, but it’s so damn good!”
The meat that had been piled up according to the griffon’s size disappeared like a crab hiding its eyes. Even the crying goddess seemed to have eaten at least 1kg.
It was not worth it. Because while connected to this world, food is also supplied indefinitely.
Rather, it was my true intention that I was worried about contacting them. Maybe you can get something in exchange for food?
Odin’s eyes shone in my mask. Like a military scientist disassembling/researching a crash-landed UFO, I thoroughly analyzed the magical elements they possessed or were hiding.
‘… Another sign is approaching.’
Another variable increased in concern.
About 10 or more signs approaching. Five in the north. At least seven in the west.
Especially the west is a griffon. It was difficult to count because of the sound of their wings, but they come in very large groups. My prediction that only one of them would go around seemed wrong.
‘Well, there was almost no evidence to call it a guess.’
In any case, the explorers made a mistake, probably due to severe hunger.
They overlooked the idea that if they could smell it, others could too.
I should have just brought the meat and fried it. If it’s rice, can I eat it somewhere else?
‘No, it’s meaningless anyway as long as it smells like meat.’
It would be useless to look at it now. I turned my eyes to a new sign.
