31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 193)
Grave Robber Golan.
It was one of Snowfall's words, and he was also the one who first imprinted the name Snowman on the gods who enjoyed the game together..
Goal Run was initially one of the average snowfall horses. At least not before he made his mark in a strange place..
[You gain Temperament: Habitual Kleptomaniac.]
[In the future, you will steal something from someone without your knowledge..]
[You realize you're a grave lover.]
[You have to dig up all the graves to unlock the character..]
Only after awakening these two abilities, which are fatal to adventurers and not to normal horses, was Kangseol able to decide on the course of the goal run..
From that day on, Golan became a grave robber..
While Lian, one of Kang Seol's horses, awakened tremendous innate abilities, Golan awakened unusual acquired abilities and gave Kang Seol a headache.
The ability called habitual kleptomania made Golan unable to enter the village..
It became impossible to rest or maintain properly..
He went into the village without thinking, and before he knew it, he was hanging other people's belongings around, and he was often chased by guards day and night..
Also, it has become impossible to aim for normal missions..
During the course of the mission, when traces of a grave were discovered, they dug up the grave, ignoring the constraints of the mission, making it seem like they had literally become a single-celled organism..
But how can there be only a shadow in everything?.
[You Can Smell Money.]
[You can quickly find hidden treasures.]
[You gain Temperament: Collector.]
[You cannot sell the items you collect, but your stats increase just by collecting them in a designated location..]
New abilities acquired while digging up graves.
This was the ability that allowed the horse Gollan to make a huge leap from a caterpillar to a butterfly..
The ability called Money Smell did not always activate, but once the Money Smell was activated, the tomb was like a jackpot. When you dig it up, it's full of treasure, like barnacles hidden under a rock..
This allowed Golan to quickly supply a much larger amount of treasure than before..
And the long-awaited collector.
Treasures that could not be entered into the village anyway, so they were sold to grocery stores or on the black market. Because of that, he didn't get the full price, but Golan had to sell it while holding back tears..
There was no use in having something that I couldn't use..
However, after gaining the ability to be a collector, the reason for that disappeared. No, it was a situation where we had to buy a lot of treasure..
Dig up the grave and place the treasures found there in a designated place..
And this leads to an increase in abilities. Additionally, larger graves are dug based on increased abilities..
Goal Run, with its growth in sight, was on a truly radical path to success..
His warehouse grew, and as a result, Golan became strong enough to crush other horses of the same level..
But it didn't last.
The not-so-secret secret that he stores his treasure in a limited location spread among players, and a large number of people appeared seeking his treasure..
Not only grave robbers and ruin hunters, but also general adventurers..
And among them were cruel murderers who deliberately interfered with adventures or robbed other horses of their loot..
It would have been nice if it had ended with just them, but even the most infamous among the inhabitants of Pandea were after his treasure..
Adventure 25. 'The Tomb of the Grave Robbers'’
By chance, you found an entrance leading to someone's grave. You have stepped into this place where there is no one guarding it and there is little evidence that it is someone's grave..
It's very dark and has a damp smell that makes your feet heavy. What will you find here.
As of now, the future is not clearly pictured..
Goal: meaningful discovery
Current remaining time: approximately 3 days」
The snowfall sucked the air deep into my lungs..
A different smell from the Gatif family basement filled his nose and lungs..
Damp but not stuffy, dark but not unsettling..
‘Is it because they are friendly??’
There was no need or reason to be anxious because the structure he created was full of traps he created..
“long time no see.”
- Have you ever been here??
“It just feels that way..”
Since I didn't have very good memories of this place, I paid no attention to it. There were cases of other players invading this place aiming for Golan's treasure, even after his death, but it didn't really mean much..
‘Because there are no special items here..’
I wasn't sure since we hadn't been together, but I guessed that Kangseol's goal run in his prime would not be as strong as Kangseol's now..
And since this was a place where a lot of useful items were stored, it was fortunate if Kangseol found at least one useful item here..
Of course, even such items could be said to be valuable to other adventurers..
But that didn't mean those adventurers would set foot here..
‘Because it doesn't make sense.’
What Golan, or rather, Snowfall, brought here was not just treasure..
There were guards who moved items from other tombs to prevent theft, and treasures that were dangerous if handled without knowing how to use them were also placed there..
If the value of what you would gain by defeating all those dangerous things was not that great, then the reason for coming here would naturally disappear..
‘I came because it was me... . I need to retrieve Golan's maintenance here..’
crispy…
White bones were broken into pieces by snowy boots..
Snowfall slowly walked forward..
[Intermediate insight activates.]
[There is a trap nearby.]
Know.
The first thing that greets you is probably the historic arrow trap. It wasn't a great work, but it was an effective trap to filter out random strangers..
‘There's no way it would work….’
It's been a long time since I trained goal runs, but there was no way the traps I had set up back then were still working..
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
ping-!
“…….”
When Snowfall took a step in the trap section, an arrow was fired..
He nodded for a moment and then took another step..
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
ping!
peeing!
All the ships were fine, so it was not an accidental launch..
Whirling-!
Snowfall used her shadow hand to retrieve an arrow stuck in the wall..
Embarrassment spread across his face as he checked the arrow..
‘This… It's not the arrow I prepared.’
someone touched the arrow trap.
That fact puzzled Jiang Seol..
In the case of dismantling the trap, I could at least understand it. I remember Golan working hard every time to rebuild the trap..
But, the trap was maintained and all the arrows were filled.?
Is this as if they are trying to pretend to be the owner just because the owner has disappeared??
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
ping-!
Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee…
ping-!
Snowfall continued her thoughts while coping with the arrow trap with ease..
‘I'm sure Golan isn't alive.?’
probably not.
Kang Seol, who was involved at the time, knew best about Golan's death..
So who is it? Who manages this place?.
After passing through the arrow trap, the insight was triggered once again..
[Intermediate insight activates.]
[There is a trap nearby.]
‘There was a trap here where the floor collapsed..’
I remembered that it was a trap that was quite cumbersome to maintain..
“…….”
The tiles were all rearranged..
‘Someone must have tampered with this place like the arrow trap earlier..’
Snowfall, who felt like she was visiting again to retrieve Yuji, became interested in an unidentified person..
I lightly stepped on the tile..
[It's a trap!]
[The scaffolding collapses.!]
Rumble…
Although a fairly large area of footing collapsed, the snowfall was unharmed..
He was not slow enough to fall into this trap..
Kang Seol looked from the intact scaffolding towards the collapsed scaffolding. It was quite deep and dark, so an ordinary person would not have been able to clearly see inside, but Kangseol was able to see inside through Seonji..
“…hmm? dead body?”
The floor was full of spikes made of steel, and around them was the corpse of an intruder who had previously fallen here and died..
What Kangseol noticed was the new corpse next to them..
‘…He died recently..’
Although the body was decomposing, it was not completely crushed..
He probably died here not long ago..
“…It's fun.”
- Declaration of fun!
- Crazy lol, what's funny??
- eww… I got goosebumps;;
Whether those bodies are those of former prisoners or natives, the important thing is that this place was welcoming uninvited guests until recently..
pot-!
pababat-!
Rumble…
[It's a trap!]
[The scaffolding collapses.!]
pot-!
As Snowfall ran like a leopard across the steps, it seemed as if she was ignoring the trap..
Snowfall, which passed the scaffolding trap in an instant, defeated the following traps with great vigor..
Traps where rocks roll or the ceiling falls.
Even the trap of being confined in a room full of poisonous smoke..
‘Everything is well maintained.’
We've already passed through quite a few pitfalls..
Snowfall looked at the next trap..
Open land. It was a maze, the royal road to traps..
- Oh, I'm so glad to see you, Miro.
- If you go through the maze with your left hand on the left side of the wall, you don't have to worry about getting lost..
- But I won't do that..
- Why??
- That's not fun?
- Is this a guy who knows how to have fun??
Strangely enough, as soon as Kangseol saw the maze, he remembered when he designed this place..
Ever since they raised Golan, the gods have occasionally shown interest in Kangseol, who has been adventuring alone..
- What are you doing alone??
- Set up a trap..
- trap? Why is the trap... What's this?
- It's a maze..
- maze? and… It's very spacious?
- How about this?
- …There are quite a few traps other than the maze.?
- yes? ah… yes.
- How do you manage everything??
- ah… That's something I just thought of.….
Kangseol shook off the memories of the past and returned to reality, moving forward without hesitation..
[You are standing in a maze. Which way should we head??]
1. right.
2. left.
3. face.
4. turn back.
……
“right….”
pot!
[It's a trap!]
Pew pew pew.!
Kwasik!
Snowfall, having shot down all the arrows that came in, moved on..
“This time on the left.”
I turned left, it was a dead end..
[This is a dead end.]
“…….”
- Confidently, I got it all wrong.!
- Life is about confidence!
- Something… Something… It sucks but it’s cool!
Kangseol went through the maze as if he realized something..
pot-!
[It's a trap!]
pot-!
[This is a dead end.]
- This is a little strange;;
- Wasn’t there a hole here earlier??
- lol;; No scary stories.
- this….
he concluded.
‘The maze... is moving.’
The current maze has a completely different structure from the maze he designed himself. Kang Seol laughed out of frustration..
“what else can i say….”
He looked around and said.
“Come out, you rats.”
The surroundings were quiet.
“I know everything, come out.”
- rat?
- no way! Another adventurer!
- Have the goats already taken action?!
At that time, the sound of a rat was heard..
Take a picture… Squeak…
dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd…
At the same time, the walls of the maze began to vibrate and change their structure..
- what!
- Miro is angry!
Hehehehe…
At this moment when the maze changed, Snowfall remembered something from the past..
- So, I'm going to raise grave rats here.?
- Yes, you're so smart that you take care of it like it's your own, right? In fact, it appears frequently in ruins..
- that is… They really thought it was their house. It seems like a very unpleasant monster... . And you grow by eating treasure, right? I won't have any headaches later.?
- So I prepared other devices as well.!
The transformed maze surrounded Snowfall like a boxing ring and blocked it in all directions. And, the foothold that the snowfall had stood on collapsed..
[It's a trap!]
Rumble…
As Snowfall fell, she hit the wall and slowed down..
Hehehehe…
widely.
snowfall on the ground.
The basement wasn't that deep.
Take a picture… Squeak…
Rats waddling along.
Giant rats the size of people were staring at the snowfall..
And behind it, a rat that had gained a lot of weight and was breathing unpleasantly gave off a foul smell..
Take a picture… Squeak…
Snowfall said calmly, surrounded by a flock of rats..
“What if I close my business and still receive customers?.”
Squeak…
Normally, grave rats don't grow this far..
‘Maybe they ate the treasure on the other side..’
A huge tomb rat drooled at the sight of snowfall..
Whirling…
Snowfall summoned Karen.
[The hidden adventure ‘The Mouse to the Owner’ begins.]
Squeaky!
When the group of rats rushed toward Snowfall, Snowfall gave her an order:.
“Burn it all.”
Karen grabbed the hilt of the knife..
Grumbling-!
[Karen's Continuation: Friend activates.]
[Continuous: Surprise Appearance activates.]
[Happy Coco affects Karen's abilities.]
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