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Chapter 374
Chapter 374
Episode 374 Treasure Hunter (2)
13 hours after entering the labyrinth.
We were in a crystal cave on the first floor.
There is one reason why the three of us are still on the first floor, where the three of us ran for hours.
This is because the beginning of this exploration plan is here.
“Hmm, this is the first time I’ve known that a rift can be opened.”
“Hehe, you really don’t know anything!”
A 1st floor crack with four types, including Bloody Citadel and Glacier Cave. It is possible for players to intentionally open this rift.
The reason why it took so long was because I had to go up to the 2nd floor to catch a level 8 monster and come back.
‘By this time, all the kids who are going up must have gone up……’
I took out the 8th grade magic stone I had put in the subspace and looked around.
‘Anyway, it’s been a while here.’
A cavity with a radius of about 30 m where one tombstone is placed.
When armies and large clans fled through the portals, it was here that the rest of them contemplated survival.
Well, at that time, the wizards had been doing expansion work here and there, so the space was much wider.
“Then is everyone ready?”
At my question, the two nodded, and as a signal, I also placed the magic stone in front of the tombstone as if offering an offering.
and that moment.
Deed deed deed!
Vibrations spread throughout the first floor centered on the tombstone.
At the same time, a green colored portal opened.
?The character has entered the 1st floor crack.?
Now, let’s go.
***
Shaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
A cave outlined by the light of a portal floating in the air.
Railroad tracks are laid on the floor, and wooden waste materials are scattered here and there around.
Is it more bleak than the game?
[Green Coal Mine]
One of the four types of cracks on the 1st floor.
The way to proceed is simple.
Starting from the point where the ceiling collapsed and blocked, wander along the railroad tracks and wander through the mines until you catch the guardian and you’re done.
“What are you all doing? Let’s go.”
As soon as I entered the unfamiliar space, I led the two people who were checking the surrounding terrain first and hurriedly headed inside the tunnel.
Surely there will be more people coming in soon, right?
It’s best not to run into each other.
Amelia and I may not know, but Erwen has become very famous in this city. Something that even a low-level explorer could recognize.
Tadat.
Soon, after escaping from the portal’s light and covering himself with the spirit of darkness summoned by Erwen, an additional number of people entered the crack.
“Ooooh!”
The start was just a man wearing low-level equipment.
“What is it? Am I the first?”
At first, the man, who had been looking around aimlessly, had a smile on his face as if he belatedly realized that he had entered the rift.
And then.
“Wow!”
A second person bursts out of the portal and is knocked to the ground.
It was a man this time.
“Huh, nice to meet you!”
Okay, since they’re both men, something won’t happen.
Watching the two condescendingly exchange greetings, I quickly gave up my worries and turned around.
And…
“The sound won’t reach that far now. Let’s run.”
“yes!”
We began to attack the rift by running through the mines in earnest. The first monster they encountered was, of course, a goblin.
1 With a slightly different physique from the guys you see on the 2nd floor.
[Greureuk-!]
The height is similar to that of a normal individual, but the size is different.
A wide-open back and tight, compact muscles.
Even the miner on his head and the pickaxe on his shoulder.
“Goblin Miner.”
The grade is 8.
He is a guy who can only receive experience points from the 1st floor crack.
[Kyaah!]
As soon as he found us, he rushed into a 3: 1 situation and rushed down.
It was certainly a blow with a force that was incomparable to that of a normal goblin.
But…
“I feel bad…”
I wonder if that’s okay.
Even with just one of us, the crack on the first floor could easily be broken.
Pooh-!
Without having to shoot an arrow, Erwen used the wind spirit to pierce the guy’s forehead.
?You have defeated the goblin miner. EXP +2”
One shot one kill.
In fact, at our level, this could be taken for granted… but the process of blowing out compressed air after pointing at the opponent with the index finger was quite impressive.
‘This is tanjigong…?’
There was a time when I was obsessed with martial arts novels.
Huh, can’t I have one like that too?
“Is there something wrong with Suits?”
“Yes, suddenly staring at me like that…”
“It’s nothing. Go ahead.”
I hurriedly threw away my thoughts and moved forward.
Um, if I compare my current state to martial arts, would I be a master of foreign affairs who has reached the state of indestructibility?
Tadat Tadat.
Anyway, after that, I took the lead and found my way. Well, in fact, in the beginning, all you have to do is follow the long, straight shaft and you’re done, but…
“Why stop?”
“Seeing that the railroad was cut off in the middle, it must have been this way.”
As I moved while observing the floor, I stopped my steps as soon as I came to the place where the rail was damaged.
And…
Kwaaang-!
He smashed the surrounding walls with a hammer.
At this, I was perplexed, asking if Amelia was going to bury us alive, but it was a useless worry.
Where did the rift fields break so well?
Where it breaks, there are usually hidden elements.
Just like this.
Kwajijik-!
A wall that crumbles helplessly, as if it had been piled up with Styrofoam boxes.
Soon, the space beyond it was revealed.
A side road that is cramped enough to fill up with one person entering.
I almost couldn’t get in before Hu’s physique shrunk—
Tuk.
Oh, my shoulder still hangs like this.
Reluctantly, I turned my body to the side and entered the side road like a crab.
And…
“Once you’ve earned 3 million stones.”
I picked up a green jewel from a box hidden in a narrow space in the side road and came out again after repeating the series of steps.
“It was the first time I knew there was such a thing in a coal mine.”
“But Mister… Can I take it without a wizard?”
“That’s fine. Usually these things don’t require distortion magic.”
It’s easy to understand if you think of the bloody fort on the first floor.
The only thing that requires ‘distortion’ magic is the brick building decorations that came out of the rift.
Valuable things like the ‘Necronomicon’ are judged as items, so you can just carry them and go out of the portal…….
Oh, he wasn’t there at the time.
“Then let’s go quickly. I’ve packed everything I need here.”
Anyway, this was all of the hidden peace in the first chapter, so after that, I didn’t care about the floor and only focused on moving, and a cliff appeared before long.
A bridge with more than two-thirds of it collapsed along with the railroad tracks.
The original strategy was to take a detour through the passage next to it…
‘If there had been a jump, I could have just skipped it.’
It’s a pity that the mobility is gone.
Originally, this section is a place where you can skip even if you have an intermediate level or higher mobile.
‘I have to go there anyway, there are only goblin miners, so I’ll just waste time.’
It wasn’t even a route with a hidden piece, but we had no choice but to enter the side passage. Then, he killed the goblin miners in sight and escaped through the exit on the other side.
Did it take 30 minutes to get here?
“It’s easy because it’s a crack on the first floor.”
“It’s definitely different from what I expected…….”
Erwen seemed dissatisfied with the lack of rift exploration, but he couldn’t help it. As a member who can hunt on the 7th floor, it is only natural that he came to the 1st floor rift.
In normal RPG games, it usually doesn’t even give you experience points.
Oh, but is it a more vicious system to visit low-level hunting grounds to get experience points…?
“Everyone, don’t be disappointed. We’ll finish it soon anyway and go out again.”
Everyone seemed to be feeling bored, so they accelerated the attack on the rift.
I passed through the passage beyond the bridge I detoured and I hunted all the monsters from the second chapter.
“Kill Hobgoblin Miner + EXP 3”
“Kill Mineral Slime + EXP 2”
“Kill Copper Golem + EXP 3”
These are the new monsters we encountered in the second chapter.
Oh, now I have to add the mid-boss too.
?You defeated the Goblin Bomber +EXP 4?
Again, the essence didn’t come out.
Well, there are no test tubes or wizards to put it in anyway.
‘The second chapter is the main battle, so it’s over soon.’
After clearing the middle boss in about 10 minutes, I searched around for a while and found the hidden piece.
It’s the one that comes out when you smash the minerals around the middle boss room.
[Gobble Quartz]
Oh, there are only three of them.
“I guess we can share one.”
I was about to share the goble quartz that I dug up, but Amelia and Erwen frowned.
“You… eat it?”
“It smells strange. For some reason, it feels sticky to the touch…” ”
Still, it’s a miracle drug. It raises your poison resistance.”
“If so.”
Amelia, who was born in Noark, had no choice but to grow up with a good stomach, swallowed the goble quartz first, and Erwen closed her eyes tightly and put it in her mouth.
“Does it taste that bad?”
“…Surprisingly, it doesn’t taste like anything.”
“The texture is very unique.”
“Oh is it?”
I guess the taste is unique.
You don’t have to be particularly determined to eat.
Oh Do Dog-!
As soon as I chewed the goble quartz with my molars, I felt a really strange texture.
The outside is soft, but the inside is like chewing a stone?
Barbarians usually chewed on bones, so there was nothing unusual about them.
“The character took Goble Quartz.”
“Poison resistance is permanently increased by +3.”
“This effect does not overlap.”
Anyway, the rift attack was largely the same after that.
Smash all the monsters in sight and move forward. Stop for a moment only where there is Hidden Peace and search the surrounding area.
That’s how the third chapter, where you go down the circular staircase designed at the edge of the cliff, is over.
And…
“This is the end.”
Arriving at the deepest part of the mine, we stood in front of the collapsed tunnel as if something had been sealed.
Originally, you have to open the way using explosives hidden in various places in the coal mine, but…
Goreb has his own trick.
bang bang-!
As we smashed and split the cornerstone at the bottom with a devil crusher, it collapsed and left a gap for people to pass through, and soon we entered it.
?The sleeping green king wakes up.?
A wide cavity with a radius of about 50m.
At its core, green slime wriggled and roared.
[Kwyiyiyi-!]
It was the King Slime, the guardian of the ‘Green Coal Mine’.
***
The beginning of the visual rift.
In the deep darkness, the two men trembled, relying on a flickering torch.
“…Do I really have to go alone?”
“There is no other way. The portal is also closed.”
“I heard that the rift is a place where five people explore… What the hell is this…”
The archer sighed at the ax warrior’s words.
Even if Amman said that, there was no way he would know.
Only two people entered the rift, so why did the portal close?
Of course, at first I thought it was a temporary error.
However, even after the portal was closed, I waited around for 3 hours for an entrant who was not sure when to come .
I could n’t just deny reality forever .
If the two of us are going to break the rift, we have to move slowly from now on.”
“…Ah, I see.”
An ax warrior with a weak personality despite his size stood in front, and an archer followed behind him, assisting
. Fucking fun.’
Archer usually thought he was on the lucky side.
Well, he came here while playing the game by chance, but…
Except for that, his life tended to work out easily, which is why he woke up in a strange world. It hasn’t changed since then.
Just looking at the first expedition,
he was lucky to eat essence from the start, and in the second expedition, he earned money by stripping off the equipment of the explorers and plunderers who thought of both sides. Based on this, he was able to grow steadily
.
But …….
‘I wanted to come to the 1st floor crack on the third exploration, but I never thought something like this would happen.’
The man kept his spirits up while complaining inwardly.
Only then will he be able to get out alive. ”
…Please
stop for a moment
.” It’s about time the goblin miners came out…”
“About the rift… do you know?”
“I just kind of know. Because I usually like studying.” He
said it like that, but it wasn’t true.
He had experience with the original version.
Although he folded it without being able to get past the first part and later found out that there was a cheat version and broke it
. Because of the insane difficulty level ,
it was essential to peruse the ‘Newbie’s Guide’ left by ‘Elfnuna’ several times in order to play properly.
“…Let’s go for now. I don’t know why the goblins haven’t come out yet.”
However, waiting didn’t change anything, so he thought it was just the gap between the game and reality, and cautiously resumed his movement.
Then …
Damn!”
The point where the railroad line was broken.
Seeing the hole in the wall at that point, he realized the truth.
“…Whoever came in first.”
“…What did you say?”
“I’m talking to myself. “
Someone entered the rift first.
The number must
be three.
The moment I recognized this, a sense of relief surged in and my legs relaxed.
And after the relief subsided, I began to think of it as an opportunity
. That must be it.’
They probably weren’t interested in the Essence of the rift on the 1st floor.
And the Essence drop lasts for about 30 minutes.
If you follow along quickly, you might be able to get the Essence that was thrown away in the second half.
Maybe you’ll be able to pick up the Hidden Piece you left behind. Yes.
“Let’s go. Don’t mind the monsters.”
“…What do you mean?”
“Probably there won’t be any monsters in front of you. If you don’t believe me, I can go first.”
Saying that, the archer started to run through the dark shaft without hesitation.
But…
‘I took the goble quartz.’
There was nothing left of the second or third chapters. The guys who entered the rift first couldn’t find anything they didn’t take with them
. .’
Anyway, after running for a long time, he reached the last boss room.
It took about 40 minutes. If the Guardian Essence had been dropped and they
hadn’t
eaten it…
Soon
he entered the boss room with the ax warrior.
And
…….. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
!
Essence…!”
“I see.”
“Ser, I don’t think that’s the Guardian’s essence—”
The ax warrior in the lead looked more surprised than greedy, but the man behind him was the opposite.
Pushyuk -!
The man held the arrow in his hand and drove it into the ax warrior’s shoulder.
“Ahh!”
The ax warrior rolled on the floor screaming at the sudden surprise attack
. .
_
_
_ Paralyzing poison was applied to the arrowhead.”
“…Why are you doing this! I’ll give you that essence. So please!”
The warrior, sensing defeat, begged and shouted.
But the archer’s eyes were cold.
“Why are you saving your life for an NPC?
” What do you mean? No, it’s worse than that! Please look at me just once. I have a daughter at home—”
“Dragoons are protoss.”
The man grinned and pulled out an arrowhead that was stuck in it.
And…
“Hans Ellivon.”
“…?”
“That’s my That’s the name. Ah, come to think of it, this isn’t even his real name.” ”
Now, you can’t believe it…!”
I’m sorry. I need to tell you this in advance so that I won’t become weak.”
“Oh no—!” The warrior tried
to shout something, but the cry
could n’t continue .
There’s nothing different.”
Soon after, the man hurriedly stood up and headed for the essence floating in the air.
A fishy smile lingered on his lips.
“You’re lucky.”
He truly thought he was lucky.
“[The essence of slime] permeates the character’s soul.”
Until I checked the newly acquired skill with my own two eyes.