Chapter 543 – Pyramid of Incarnation (8)
I moved according to the information I received in exchange for food.
‘I heard there was a clear spring, right?’
Covered the note. A spring in this forest of only trees? It’s award winning no matter who sees it.
The 4-member temporary party who gave me the information said they didn’t come because they sensed the danger. Well, he probably wouldn’t have had the courage to approach the suspicious Sam in a situation where he was hungry and was about to search.
‘If Sehetefibra considers the balance of trials, common sense would give them a way to get food around the next layer.’
Wouldn’t the meaning of an ordeal fade if he forced us to starve, saying that he was a mummy and soul? Besides, in this world, preparing food would have been a matter of lying down and eating rice cakes.
‘But if Sehetefibra is as stingy as the GM of Dunggame, they might not give you food for free… Ike!’
I stopped thinking and ducked to the side.
Puppy pew-! A
‘Did you shoot from a tree? It’s the same idea as mine.’
I looked up at the top of the tree. Everything people think is there.
《Dodged!》
《Don’t miss it! Chase!”
─Flutter! In a space where there seemed to be nothing, strange looking guys appeared flapping the carpet. Keep enough distance so you don’t get noticed by me.
It is an elaborate operation. He had a lot of experience in such raids.
While thinking so, I opened my eyes.
‘Is it an invisibility cloak or an invisibility carpet?’
Damn, I’m so jealous!
Isn’t an invisible person a man’s romance? If I ask for a loan, will you give it to me? Or I just want you to listen to kill me. Then even if you knock it down and steal it, it’s self-defence.
I hid my inner thoughts and acted embarrassed.
“What are you doing! Aren’t they both explorers in distress?”
“It’s not the same. We outnumber you.”
The brown-skinned man aimed the scimitar. He was a cub wrapped in a rug like a cape, but the wool rug was smaller than before. It must be a magic item or something enchanted.
‘I thought he was a warlock, but he’s just an explorer.’
Even if Odin didn’t open his eyes, he was able to distinguish the curse that his level of understanding increased with his eyes. Those guys are not the followers of Equinox.
I said, being careful of sniping.
“Having a large number of people is not the only advantage. Especially in this situation.”
“If you know, that’s fine. Give me all the food you have.”
“Do I look like I have food?”
When I appealed for the outfit without any accessories, for some reason, they kept their mouths shut. Then he said boldly.
《Crossing the desert is an extreme competition for survival. Even if it’s a monster, I’ll catch and eat it to get health and moisture… When there is not even that, they reduce their mouths to eat food.”
I guessed the meaning and narrowed my eyes. The respectful words disappeared from my mouth.
《… Shall we skip talking about camel meat?”
“I say that to my colleagues who don’t like to eat. Even if the party was obviously reduced by one person, when I told them it was camel meat, they all knew it and steadfastly shared it. And if it’s possible, it’s better to catch someone raw than to hurt a colleague.”
I was so angry that I was dumbfounded.
People say that when there is a famine or when food is scarce like in the arctic expeditions, people kill and eat each other.
“I’m not such a fucking ant bastard. I’m going crazy and jumping. How long have you been here?”
《It’s 2 weeks. It’s time to prepare for an emergency.”
“Ah, yes.”
Two weeks is enough to make you hungry. I wouldn’t have packed a month’s worth of food when I entered the pyramid.
But that’s the conclusion of attacking and eating people. Those are some pretty original sybalums.
《There might be food if you go downstairs, right?》
《Do you know how to get down there?》
“That is also true. Great. Being ugly in extreme situations is human sorrow. Let’s stick together.”
He was talking this far, and secretly chanting strong magic on top of a tree while attracting my attention, but there was no reason to watch.
《Shoot it neatly!》
I immediately threw my spear into the sky. Arrows of the storm reached out and shattered the heads of the three wizards who were sticking their heads out from the trees.
《Wind mana into the spear… ?!”
The youngster who aimed the scimitar was startled. It seems that they didn’t see each other because they were hungry, but the fact that they didn’t take into account the difference in their skills could only be called a failure.
Or did you think I would do it even if I was hungry and had no strength?
‘Anyway, if they’re cannibals, you can call them associate professors.’
If they regret eating each other in an extreme situation, I’ll call it an explorer’s tragedy, but since I’m so used to killing and eating other people, my sympathy didn’t soar.
─Puff, Puck!
There was no need to talk, so I opened Odin’s eyes and blew them off one by one. It’s a clean, hassle-free, and less unpleasant way to taste.
《… I made a mistake. I should have grasped my skills properly.”
The leader said so as if he was confused when the rest of his colleagues were wiped out except for himself. His eyes, which had been blurry from hunger before, had regained his reason.
“Will you watch it if I miss it? There is no food, but I will give you whatever you have.”
I was analyzing the magic he was casting like a passive with Odin’s eyes, so I just flicked the tip of the spear. It meant dumping.
He wrapped the rug like a poncho and shook the scimitar. He responded to my gesture with a wry smile. And he bravely dashed towards me. When the carpet was thrown, it became so large that even an elephant could swallow it.
The carpet came crashing down on me as if it were tying an animal with a bundle. I hesitated for a moment thinking that it was a waste, but then I thought about the results of the analysis of Odin’s Eye and cut things off. When the view was wide, he was nowhere to be found.
‘Did he run away?’
No way. Invisibility technology, which only conceals the body, would not be able to escape my five senses.
He must know that too. I deliberately exposed gaps while judging in one second. It looks like a gap made by cutting a carpet. Sure enough, there are two signs poking around like ghosts.
‘2?’
After squinting his eyes for a moment, he stepped on Jin-gak strongly and performed his technique.
Guertur’s attack aircraft, the 6th Poomsae. It was a new technology that was difficult to use before breaking the aura.
Phew… !!!
The air shuddered and exploded in 360 degrees in all directions. Mana spewed out of the window, and the attack exploded in all spaces except for the top and bottom. The sound of the flesh exploding echoed in two places.
“Kuhuk, keuhuk… !!》
… Iron puck. The man without an arm collapsed backwards. At the same time, the blue ghost that had attacked also disappeared.
Could it be a spirit? To summon him in such a short period of time is quite a feat.
Cover your vision, turn invisible, and surprise from both sides.
It’s a deadly strategy for someone who thought invisibility magic was the carpet’s ability. Although it doesn’t make any sense to ignore it wherever it is and blow it away with an area attack.
‘It’s a technique I used, but it’s bloody powerful.’
Retrieved the window. Guertur’s 6th Poomsae was both an offensive and a counterattack. Because it was an all-range attack with an unified attack and defense, it was most effective when surrounded like now.
I approached without knowing that and got hit, so it’s amazing that only my arm was gone and survived.
“I do quite a bit. Even as an adventurer, I will be first-class.”
《Cool… It doesn’t matter if you die anyway.”
He said, coughing up blood.
A feud between co-workers. It was a surprisingly common occurrence during archaeological exploration.
-Chu-wook. As I picked up the rug that had been split in half, the bastard grinned.
《The invisibility magic… Cool, that’s my skill. It’s just a rug with temperature control. Now that it’s fragmented, even that effect has disappeared…》
“Know.”
─Flutter. I wrapped the carpet around my body and recreated the invisibility magic I had analyzed with Odin’s Eye.
‘It’s difficult.’
I thought what would happen if I stayed still, but if I decided to move around, it was hard to adjust to the surrounding scenery.
《Is it wind-type magic? I have no talent.”
I threw a rug over his devastated body.
It may be difficult to use, but the dog’s gain was the dog’s gain.
‘Because invisibility magic isn’t sold even in the wizard guild.’
Because it is easy to exploit for crime. You won’t be punished for knowing how to use it, but it’s a very precious magic.
“Well, I’ll use it to spy on my wives when they’re taking a bath.”
《… Kuh. He’s a funny guy.”
He said so and died. As his arms flew off, the impact shook his intestines. His scimitar was smashed to pieces, and a canteen full of water soaked the soil.
‘It’s a water bottle.’
The canteens of the other guys were also full of lehu that did not fit the situation.
In the desert, water is more precious than ever, but it was ridiculous to pack so much water and carry it around. Wouldn’t this have just been pumped up from the water vein?
I raised my eyes to see the direction they were coming from.
‘It’s on the spring water side?’
Direction of spring water. Even though he is quite capable, this guy’s eyes were looking at me as if his reason was blurred.
It seems to be getting a little bit of a sense.
I turned my ankle to release it and dashed with the master’s escape step.
‘I don’t think it’s going to be a staircase going downstairs, but…’
There was other information I received from the group of four, but besides me and the cannibals I killed, there must have been many people who went down to the 6th floor.
Not all of them would have fallen into a trap like them.
So maybe you can say that the spring water is a joke. Even so, I ran to the spring because I wasn’t 100% sure. Maybe I’m wrong and there’s a hidden staircase on the side of the spring.
Chow-!
I stopped when I saw the spring water.
I put on a mask of camouflage and activated the invisibility magic. It is difficult to maintain transparency according to the scenery of the forest, so I checked the spring water while moving as slowly as possible.
The water surface of the spring was calm. There was something like an artificial but natural stone statue, from which spring water trickled. The moss and weeds growing around the spring were fresh as if they had been given vitality.
It was a fantastic view, but I threw the meat away regardless.
‘It’s old, accept the criticism.’
─Splash! The smoked meat sank into the water, violently disturbing the surface.
There wasn’t much to wait.
『Kerg!』
Pooh-!
A mermaid-like creature snatched the fish while violently breaking the surface of the water.
First of all, they called her a mermaid because her upper body was a human and her lower body was a fish, but she was not a beautiful mermaid. The eyes protrude like deep-sea fish, and the long hair looks like black seaweed.
The scales were also sticking to the body. I just want to call you a fishman. Yes.
《Aia? Oa Dn…》
The mermaid, who tilted her head while holding the ham, immediately gnawed it without thinking.
Even the appearance of eating was an unpleasant valley itself. I clicked my tongue at the mana I felt from the spring.
‘Is there mana in the fountain? It’s water that disturbs reason.’
Did the guys who attacked me try to eat people because they drank that water and the psychological hurdles were lowered?
‘In this case, it’s not because the spring water is to blame, but it’s because those bastards don’t hate eating human flesh…’
Did you say it was an ordeal that heroes went through? It was terrifying.
It was a story that would come out of a real myth or legendary saga. I tried to turn off my attention and go back. Surely there won’t be stairs under that fountain.
Horrror—.
But this time, the emerald tombstone came to mind.
The target task, which was initially floating as a question mark, was converted into text.
《◇ Goal: Subdue the monsters on the 5th floor.》
《◆ Reward: Oben’s Cauldron. The Compass Butterfly of leader.
I thought Sehetefibra was watching, but it wasn’t. Did you make it automatically come to mind when you get near it like an event in the game?
‘Is Oben’s cauldron about that strange fountain?’
With Odin’s eyes, I observed a stone like a stone statue of a lion spouting water in a place like a bathhouse. Its appearance was so metaphysical that it looked and ate as if a fairy had made it with its feet. Just looking at it, it looks like garbage.
I knew the effect just by looking at it.
‘It’s like collecting the mana of nature and making it dwell in the liquid.’
In other words, the strange effect of the spring water is due to the cauldron.
A man who drank spring water is fucking? It must be because the quality of the mana in this forest is so high that it is consumed.
‘It’s quite a noble thing, but…’
I was so damn worried. It is an item that will definitely help in the production of Elixir if you choose the right place.
But what attracted me more than that was the reward of being an leadern compass butterfly.
To guide, in other words to guide. And a compass must be that compass when it comes to compassing.
Just by looking at the name, don’t you think it will give you an advantage in navigation?
It is me who has to search the world inside the pyramid and even find the black magicians. The road guidance item was quite desperate. To the extent that it doesn’t matter if it’s something that only works inside the pyramid.
‘Let’s stop the time to hesitate.’
Even if you give up here and regret later wandering the road, it will be too late. Even on that desert level, other explorers have been fucking around, so it would be nice to have a navigation system, no matter what.
I canceled the invisibility and raised my mana.
『… Dn? Thg Dn!!』
The fishman who was eating the meat laughed hideously and shouted. I don’t know what you mean.
I threw a javelin, squinting my eyes.
“
Damn… !!
The rune of ᚨ (Ansuz) engraved on the spear blade amplified the ice mana converted into
The spear stuck in the spring water froze the lower half of the mermaid who was about to come ashore.
『Baui!! Yo, Dn!!』
When Sam, who had been beautiful incongruously with the actual situation, froze like in winter, the mermaid distorted her face like a thug. Without wasting a second, I rotated the mana of fire and ice in both hands.
A storm revolved around me. The mermaid, frightened by the terrifying gust of wind, broke the frozen spring water and cast a spell.
『Iiyyyya! Gha!!』
The water flew like bullets, but not enough to pierce my defenses. I concentrated so hard that I released the full magic.
“God’s judgment!!”
Kurlurrrr
Fired lightning in a vertical straight line. The mermaid whose feet were caught could not avoid the lightning I fired and was fried. The silhouette of a mermaid wrapped in light melted and evaporated like sugar thrown into water.
The place where the mermaid evaporated seemed to squirm and mana surged, but suddenly it went out again.
It’s probably because it’s a fake made by Sehetefibra. I twirled my shoulders.
The boss fight is one-com with a full combo. This is the Korean spirit.
“Hurry up, clear your mind.”
I smirked as I saw the emerald tombstone appear.
When I put the fountain on the stone slab, within a few minutes a mysterious butterfly landed on my hand. It was a butterfly with small hour and minute hands on its wings.
It is not a biological appearance. It might be some kind of magic item.
“Welcome. From now on, your name is Butterfly!”
─Round and round.
Butterflies hovered in front of me and flew forward. After diligently chasing its graceful figure, in the blink of an eye, an ignorant-looking pile of stones appeared.
It was an exit to the next level.
