31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 169)
Push…
hunting.
[Coco's special ability: Gift of the Wild activates..]
[Coco will gift you some of the stats of Sharp Hoss, the Huntsman..]
[Receive a gift from the wild.]
[Intelligence increases by 2.]
Kieeeeek-!
hunting.
[Coco's special ability: Gift of the Wild activates..]
[Coco will gift you a portion of Aisa's abilities as a cold prey..]
[Receive a gift from the wild.]
[Agility increases by 2.]
“ha….”
panting…
Over the past few days, Snowfall has been using Coco to expand her search area on the fourth underground level of Alkatron..
‘3It's been a while but there's still no news.’
At the time of the expedition's departure, the total number of people reached about 100..
Among so many people, at least one person could have arrived at the 4th basement floor, but there was still no news..
Snowfall guessed the reason..
‘Something happened upstairs or… Or maybe they're straightening up their battle lines..’
Alkatron was wide.
It was so vast that it would be right to say it was vast..
It was highly unlikely that the scattered expedition team would regroup and reorganize in such a place..
‘At least… The easiest way is to meet on the way downstairs..’
Gather the expedition team from above and head downwards..
The leaders of the expedition who experienced the strength of the prisoners probably judged it that way..
‘I would have done the same if it were me.’
He actually wanted to head upstairs and join the expedition team..
However, at the moment it is very difficult to join the upstairs from the downstairs, so he was doing the best he could..
panting…
“Well done, Coco.”
panting…
Snowfall swept the back of Coco's neck..
Coco, who looks like such a gentle dog, was also a predator on the fourth underground level of Alcatron..
“…Has it gotten a little bigger??”
Perhaps because the snowfall had made Coco fat, Coco's body was a little bigger than before..
Of course, since Coco can increase or decrease her body size at will, her body size was not that important, but it is probably true that she did grow..
‘Because I've definitely grown up.’
Snowfall's abilities were now increasing at an incredible rate. It was all thanks to hunting down the prisoners who were literally trapped on the 4th floor underground..
Coco's special ability called 'Gift of the Wild' served as the driving force for Snowfall to grow significantly in a short period of time..
‘And if it were just that, we wouldn't have grown this much..’
I also steadily increased my skill in cooking monsters..
Since there was a lot of rare game, cooking with the by-products gave a permanent increase in stats just by eating them..
- Abilities are copied!
- 'Chuck' is a hard hunter, 'Chuck' is an adventurer, and 'Chuck' is a difficult picker.
- Snowman is invincible.
- Coco is god.
- It was a good collaboration, everyone please take this and disperse..
‘In the end, Coco is good and I am also good. It's not a win-win.’
The gap in Kangseol's abilities would probably be extreme even if he were to compete with a fairly high-ranking Jeonja..
‘At least 3 times... No, wouldn't it be 4 times as much??’
A situation where Kangseol's abilities have increased to the extent that he expected..
panting…
However, Kang Seol was looking at Coco with an expression of displeasure..
‘To awaken my sense of battle, the best way would be to fight the battle myself..’
Coco's fighting ability increases, but since Snow Seol does not fight directly, she cannot have experience fighting strong people..
Snowfall was especially disappointing..
‘But that doesn’t mean I’m playing either..’
It wasn't just his cooking skills that improved while he survived on the fourth floor underground for three days..
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…
food deukdeuk…
Like a magician pulling a dove out of a hat, a dark red energy fluttered from his hand and turned into a crow, flying in all directions..
There were at least 10 of them..
Kangseol has been studying methods and techniques for dealing with creatures..
Having put that power to good use in this expedition to Alkatron, I studied it to see if there was any possibility of further growth, and unexpectedly, the results came back positive..
[enlightenment! Creatures awaken new abilities.]
[Creature awakens to stealth.]
Slurp…
Crows disappearing as if swimming in the air.
In an already dark space, the crows, armed with hiding abilities and vision, were no different from stealth reconnaissance planes..
‘I'll have to think about ways to use it in battle later..’
As I was handling the creature, I felt like my concentration had increased compared to before, so it was still unclear what effect this would have on the battle..
Anyway, there was one thing that Kangseol found out through these crows, and that was that this space was really huge..
That was something Tori, an involuntary resident here, agreed to..
“here? huh! It's incredibly wide. It's probably much wider than the first basement floor.?”
“Is it a structure that gets wider towards the bottom??”
“huh. maybe?”
The first structure that came to mind similar to Alkatron was the pyramid..
‘It's better to think of it as a cone. Still, the expansion should be limited... This is severe.’
I wondered if there was such a place for snowfall..
Without Tori, I was in danger of losing my life several times..
‘I can't relax since I got here.’
Something seemed to have gone wrong with the deal with Frannan..
Something that allows him to get his balance back and go back. Unfortunately, I don't have any positive thoughts at the moment..
‘Libra is most likely already dead.’
If he went missing in such a dangerous place, there was a high probability that he would have died, no matter how great he was..
However, once you step in, you will have to check the lowest level of this place to go back. Tori said that too.
Today, the scheduled patrol time has passed quite a bit..
‘Is it soon time to go to bed? … Nope.’
Whenever I get an uncomfortable sleep here, I always have strange dreams..
In my dream, someone spoke to me from inside the tent..
- …….
Because it was a strange and unusual language, I woke up and asked Karen and Karuna exactly what I had heard, but it was a language they did not know either..
“Still, today's patrol made a little progress..”
Today, I found out where the door to the 3rd floor was. But I couldn't get close to it.
Because there were too many prisoners wandering around there..
This was the biggest reason why Snowfall could not join the people upstairs..
‘First of all, starting tomorrow, we will gradually lure in prisoners to reduce the number..’
No matter how much time it took, Snowfall was going to do it..
* * *
A man leaning against a wall clutching his bleeding abdomen looked at the troll and the woman and asked:.
“You… What?”
“It's a passing expedition..”
Mael answered the man's question..
“Hey, why are you just passing by? leave the injured person alone….”
“Since I hadn't been asked yet, I thought he might get angry if I helped him first..”
“Who gets angry first? Ugh… Ughhh….”
The man grunted and gritted his teeth in exasperation..
The man's identity was Cheolsaja Daeju..
Mael said to Chameli next to him..
“See, weren't we right??”
“Iknow, right… The master of iron lions I knew was not like this.….”
The Iron Lion frowned at Chameli’s words and said,.
“Bishop, please come to your senses. Trolls are the enemies of man! These are the ones who will lose their reason and devour us humans at any time. I guarantee it!”
“The Lord the Iron Lion is a prejudiced man. That's excessive anxiety and delusion..”
“under… prejudice?”
Crash!
The wire lion growled..
“If believing what you have experienced is prejudice, then I will live my whole life obsessed with prejudice.!”
“What now... What I experienced…?”
“My family... Everyone was eaten by trolls.”
“…….”
“My father was a peddler and was resourceful enough to trade with troll tribes on the border. And, that resourcefulness ultimately caught up with our family..”
“no way….”
“Yes, the tribe I was trading with captured me and my family and took not only our goods but also our lives. I was the only one who desperately escaped and survived until now. Do you understand now? The troll... Trolls are like that..”
At that time, Mael slowly approached the iron lion, making a sound like an animal would make..
“Crrrrr….”
“Ma, Mael?”
“Crrrrrrr….”
“Look at that! The guy finally shows his true colors….”
Sigh.
Mael said, sticking his finger into his mouth..
“Something got stuck in this for a while. Oh, Wang Geon. Okay, that's it. It's gone now. This is why tusks are so uncomfortable.?”
“Mael… You were surprised..”
“Haha, I'll tell you in advance so you won't be surprised in the future..”
“Bishop, don’t be fooled! That guy….”
Mael put his face in front of the glowing face of the iron lion..
“Make no mistake, human. I don't care if you hate our people, but please don't force it on others..”
“what?”
“Just as priests and bandits are not on the same scale, neither are we trolls..”
Chak-!
Mael attached something loudly to the iron lion's abdomen..
“Ouch! Well, what are you doing?….”
“I used herbs that work well. However, since it is a type of poisonous plant, you can sleep for a while and then wake up. Please ease your anger..”
“you….”
Sreuk…
The iron lion's eyes were closed..
Mael lifted him up and said,.
“Let's go.”
That… Jeopuk…
Before long, they were able to find the entrance leading down..
“W, you’re late..”
“Frannan? And Jofimba….”
“We also have.”
A space that gets crowded in an instant.
There were nearly forty people gathered here..
“Looks like you guys are the last. 'Cause I can't wait any longer.”
“How long have you been waiting here??”
“ten days.”
“…….”
“It's a shame that the 3rd basement floor didn't pull any weird pranks, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to gather here. however… Didn’t you guys come too??”
“who… ah!”
Frannan asked, his expression hardening..
“My student.”
“…Mr. Frannan. I have something to tell you.”
Mael relayed to him what he experienced on the second basement level..
“what? That earthquake at that time threw my student into that black abyss? Hahaha!”
“Yes, it's sad but true.”
“It's okay, I'll be alive..”
“yes?”
“You know him too, right? More vitality than that cockroach.”
Mael chuckled..
“you're right. me too….”
“Hey my friend! Did you come??”
“Yofimba!”
Jofimba, a dwarf with dull skin, toddled over and held Mael's hand..
“Oh my, I am so tired of discussing with people who are completely ignorant of archeology. Mael, thank you for being alive..”
“That's me.”
“I will generously provide you with the facts and possible inferences I have discovered here.!”
“Great! how great is this!”
“We are now in a very great place.!”
Frannan noticed..
“Hey, you guys. Be careful. Because a lot of people died.”
“oh….”
“Yeah, that's right.”
Forty people. The number was less than half of the number of people at the time of departure..
But it's still too early to give up.
There was blood in everyone's eyes..
A pupil where despair and madness coexist at the same time. they headed down.
“It's a little late, but let's go down.”
“depart! As everyone knows, the further down you go, the more dangerous it becomes! Trust your colleagues and stick close to them! If you fail... Die.”
That… Jeopuk…
The energy gets darker as you go down..
“This… Magida.”
“It's a space I can't understand at all..”
“If you even take the records of this place outside, your world will turn upside down..”
“Haha, well… I can only go outside….”
Frannan's expression hardened..
“come.”
“Get ready!”
city profit…
Sssssssssssssssss…
As soon as they all stepped onto the fourth floor underground, a pair of huge eyes turned towards them..
It was a very large snake.
A monster whose outline alone is enough to terrify the party. The energy I felt was also unusual..
Such a huge monster was rushing towards them at very high speed..
“Damn… Another monster I've never heard of. As soon as I arrived, I was given a warm welcome..”
“Not just one guy… . It's not just that guy, there's more, two..”
“It's running this way. Did they recognize us??”
“Everyone gave battle….”
“this! Everyone run away! They're running away!”
“escape? Running away? what to say….”
“Hurry back up! Something… something is coming!”
Paaaaat-!
Something flashed and a scream was heard..
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Oh my gosh….
“Two guys have already been hit! If the monster is defeated, we are next.!”
Sssssssssssssssss…
The giant snake that scared the expedition was eventually caught up by an unidentified black creature coming from behind..
Kwazijic!
Shii…
Kwazizizik!
Pieces of meat instantly torn into pieces and fluttering in all directions..
Frannan decided..
The moment you show your back like this, the expedition team will be annihilated..
“…It's already late. Everyone go up.”
“Mr. Frannan!”
“I will buy time. first of all….”
Then, a voice was heard from the darkness..
“This voice... Are you Frannan??”
“oh my god… This voice... you! It's alive! Hurry and avoid this way!”
Sreuk…
What appeared was snow.
Even though I stayed on the 4th floor underground, the smell of meat permeated my body, as if I had eaten well and lived well. The hair is so shiny.
Kang Seol nodded and asked as if he was puzzled..
“yes?”
“Got to go back up again! When he finishes eating….”
Crrrrr…
At some point, a black and thick creature approached Frannan's nose..
“…We'll be next.”
“Next time? There is no next time.”
Snowfall stepped forward and held out her hand..
“Coco, come here.”
“What are you doing….”
panting…
Slurp…
The large wolf gradually shrunk to the point where it was only slightly larger than a human..
“…Is this your doing??”
“Yes, we have just finished clearing out the prisoners at the entrance. What about other people? Are you sure you came alone??”
A mixture of shouting and mournful crying could be heard from behind..
“It is impossible for the Holy Highness to be left to die in a place like this.!”
“Alone to sacrifice for us….”
“If we're going to die, we're all going to die together! I told you not to fall!”
The expedition team that had been running away with their eyebrows fluttering was all coming back as if they thought this was not the case..
Frannan said to Kangseol.
“Did you hear? Let me handle it.”
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