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Episode 304. Baek In-tap (2)
I’m tired.
The work hasn’t really started yet, but that’s what it feels like.
Aren’t all workers in the world like that?
All I did when I woke up in the morning was go to work, but I was exhausted from the morning. My physical strength was at rock bottom, like a person who had been working for almost ten days. When I glanced at the calendar, I saw an ambiguous date, such as Tuesday, as my day off.
‘These are the spirits… … .’
No matter how much I think about it, going to work is something I can’t do.
I rolled the eyes of this body to check the direction of the colleague who came with me.
‘Anyway, you have a knack for annoying men!’
But when I looked again, the result was the same.
Who would have thought that an S-class hunter who would normally be reassuring just by being by my side would easily become a large time bomb?
“Jeong Ha-seong. Jeong Ha-seong?”
30 seconds after entering the dungeon.
The White Tower granted the challengers a vision reversal effect as the first floor trials began.
‘It’s confusing. Why do the Earthlings use the same word for Esther’s awakening ability and this special magic name?’
This phenomenon seems to be called the Dungeon Curse among South Korean hunters… … .
‘After all, those guys who have the ability to create fake creatures wouldn’t be able to do this kind of trick to adjust the difficulty.’
I spoke cautiously to the number one ranked hunter.
I’m telling you this in advance just in case, but could you please perform a small spell on the upper right side of your base?
-hook.
And right after this suggestion, the fire-attribute primal sorcerer lit a flame right in front of my nose.
For reference, I was standing to the left of Jeong Ha-seong.
“Oh, okay. I understand. I understand your condition, so first, take away your skills.”
A cold sweat runs down my spine in an instant.
It seemed that the other person had completely lost their sense of space as their vision became unstable.
In these conditions, if the primitive wizard moves recklessly, it is obvious that only innocent aliens will be destroyed.
‘How many life-threatening crises have you experienced since coming to Earth?’
But it is impossible to avoid battle.
With the dungeon curse activated, the White Tower entrance manager has already appeared.
“Okay.”
‘shit…….’
Occasionally, there are such creatures among the gate creatures.
Blind and deaf.
Degenerate predators from another world who blindly pursue magical power as if it were their only source of nourishment.
【Steel Toad】
The monster that appeared on the first floor of this gate was an example of this.
Roll, roll.
Before our eyes, a frog-like creature with eyeballs the size of a human head appeared.
‘One.’
Moreover, as I just mentioned, it is sensitive to mana and only attacks persistent challengers.
Even if you add up all the personnel from the major powers, it’s almost at the top level.
A human being who is like the ocean between streams, considering only the amount of magical power he holds in his body.
Because it’s right here.
Because I happened to enter with the hero of this country.
“evil!”
slam!
In an instant, something passed by at incredible speed.
[Steel Toad], whose name Jeong Ha-seong had barely confirmed with an analyzer while sweating profusely, was not an ordinary amphibian on this planet.
Hard, glossy gray skin, as if forged from iron.
It looks like an opaque liquid that sparkles like a nictitating membrane made of mercury, periodically filling up the eyeball.
Monsters that Earthlings call ‘steel’ usually have exceptional defensive power.
So, with the information we had collected so far, we could roughly guess what the enemy would look like.
But surprisingly, the demon was soft on the inside. Every time it opened its mouth, it pulled out a pink tongue that looked soft and flexible.
slap!
This was the sound that Jeong Ha-seong made when he was being whipped by the enemy’s tongue.
“Ugh!”
A moment later.
I couldn’t stand to see my disciple getting his tongue beaten so badly that I gave him a loud order.
In that case, it would be better to close your eyes and speak in a broad scope.
I said this because the temporary team member who came in with me seemed to be out of his mind.
However, Jeong Ha-seong could not move his body at all.
“No, why do I just get beaten up?”
“Ugh. That, that…!”
The Korean hero’s initial problems recurred due to excessive embarrassment.
“It’s not working well. I’m sorry. The skill… the skill isn’t working properly…!”
Ha Sung-ah. If you’re going to use my body like that, just give it to me.
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Anyway, how can there really be a wizard who can close his eyes and not use his skills?
‘Ah~’
If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have come in with you to do you a favor.
‘Lemming. You’ve lost your mind after putting a billion dollars into your equipment.’
But is there anything to be gained by regretting past mistakes?
When you open your eyes, you will see a giant metal toad beating Jeong Ha-seong like crazy. Even if you are an S-class hunter, your body will hurt if you are exposed to an attack that is one level lower.
It’s a headache when damage accumulates from the first floor.
So I made up my mind to stick to the calculation I had made before entering the gate.
‘I have to somehow neutralize that amphibian. I have to somehow buy time for Jeong Ha-seong to adjust to its sight… …!’
Let’s catch the [Steel Toad].
However, I’m a bit concerned that Jeong Ha-seong is right next to me, so I can’t just activate the surprise box without thinking. What would happen if that real S-class guy faints by the slim chance?
‘Of course, this will be a sad ending for both the main character and the main body. The only one who can challenge this gate is Jeong Ha-seong.’
Sigh.
I rolled my head and suddenly threw something forcefully with a short breath.
Equipment that has been taken out in advance when entering the gate.
I pulled out an epic [Hydra] and threw it at the demon.
-Teeing!
A trivial attack that contains only F-rank mana.
So, of course, this didn’t yield much results.
‘What a pity. I hit the eye pretty accurately, but it bounced right back.’
Swish swish swish.
After the longsword collided with the monster’s shining body and circled the air a few times.
‘… But what if [telekinesis] is added here?’
As if I had been waiting, I held the center of gravity of the longsword with a colorless, transparent force.
Magic that simply moves objects can be activated without much expense.
Originally, he used this telekinesis to move the sword wildly in order to divert the monster’s nerves elsewhere.
However, the magical power of the higher-level equipment seemed to be much more stimulating than I had expected, and soon the toad began to react violently.
-Shrek!
The guy extended his long tongue and snatched the knife away.
‘Hydra!’
Eww!
I was desperately trying to use my telekinesis for fear of losing the epic artifact, which could be called my number one treasure.
But when I think about it carefully, I wonder if this is really a situation where I need to rescue a weapon.
‘uh.’
Now that I think about it, wasn’t that the area I was aiming for anyway?
“Okay.”
-Tub.
[Steel Toad] eventually swallows the object it caught.
The monster kept its mouth tightly shut, as if it was stubbornly refusing to return the weapon it had eaten.
The amphibian changed quickly.
Roll, roll, roll.
Its eyes, which had been quiet until just a moment ago, suddenly began to move without rest. Moreover, if you listen closely, you can hear an unfamiliar vibration coming from somewhere.
-Gulp… … .
It has a huge metal body like a Bosin bell, so I feel like it resonates well.
But it certainly seemed to contain the flesh and internal organs of a living creature. Immediately afterwards, the otherworldly creature opened its eyes wide in surprise and reacted like this.
“—————!”
Bubble bubble.
Even immortal beings might choose death, so they suffered with their stomachs turned upside down by the spread of the deadly poison.
[Hydra] is an epic weapon.
Therefore, the conductivity, a unique feature of magic tools, is very good, but it’s amazing that an A-class person can suddenly wrap his tongue around an object that spreads mana so well.
‘Are you stupid?’
If you do that, your tongue will naturally get hurt and the poison will spread.
Of course, this is under the condition that the person who did such a thing was a thoughtless beast.
‘hmm.’
But even after experiencing a battle that was like blowing your nose without even touching it, you couldn’t easily feel happy.
‘Anyway, we succeeded in putting out the urgent fire!’
The opponent is boss-level, so he is still alive even after being hit by such poison.
Moreover, it is not easy to judge others’ behavior as being unintelligent because of the mistakes they have made.
As you can see, this body entered a gate that it didn’t need to enter, and is suffering in this useless way…
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– Ding ding ding ding ding ding… … .
A few minutes ago.
To be exact, about 30 seconds after they entered the dungeon.
‘drum.’
Jeong Ha-seong thought about the unidentified music coming from the air.
Suddenly there’s a drum sound in the dungeon.
‘I’m sure I’ve heard something like this before when I was trying to clear a certain gate… … .’
He sensed it exactly.
It was a sound that served as a harbinger of disaster, like the angel’s trumpet that appears in the Book of Revelation.
[In this space, the up, down, left, and right of the field of view are reversed.]
And then, as expected, a few seconds later, the dungeon starts behaving strangely… … .
‘Yes. It’s the same as what happened before. This is the sound before the dungeon curse is activated!’
Could the Gate really have been a self-purifying mechanism for the planet, as some doomsayers claim?
So, is it that humanity always suffers helplessly like animals in the face of natural disasters?
The black-haired young man let that thought cross his mind.
What followed was a strange experience where the scenery unfolding before my eyes suddenly turned upside down and changed completely.
‘Damn it!’
Jeong Ha-seong is a person who has an overwhelming advantage in the number of times he has attacked the gate compared to others.
So this isn’t the first time I’ve experienced something like this.
But the dungeon curse is something I really can’t get used to no matter how many times I’ve been hit with it.
‘I feel like I’m going to throw up already… … .’
I also get motion sickness because my vision changes up, down, left, and right.
First of all, isn’t it too unpleasant that your senses have been transformed by an inexplicable disaster?
“Ugh.”
Jeong Ha-seong staggered around, unable to come to his senses due to the strange phenomenon he had experienced for the first time in a long time.
I tried to get myself out of the gate as quickly as possible since I wasn’t the only one there, but it wasn’t easy.
“Jeong Ha-seong, Jeong Ha-seong!”
“eww…….”
Using a skill is basically like moving some muscles.
A little sense of purpose.
And this meant that if there was no will to move the energy within the body, the awakening ability would likely not be triggered.
But the current Jeong Ha-seong is struggling in the waves of chaos to the point where he can’t even move one of his legs properly, which he has been handling for 26 years.
‘Eyes.’
The hero forcefully closes his eyelids.
He realized firsthand why this phenomenon was called the Dungeon Curse.
“No, why do I just get beaten up?”
Kim Ki-ryeo, who was right next to him, was frustrated by his appearance and shouted this.
When I open my eyes, I see images arranged in a mess like an abstract painting.
But if you wrap it in thin leather, the opponent is a class A boss, and this space feels narrow like a square stadium. How can you fight blindly under these conditions?
‘I don’t think I’ll be able to control the range… … If I keep doing this, I might end up burning down the whole house just to catch one monster!’
But it was at this time.
While Jeong Ha-seong was struggling to adapt to the change in senses.
Someone next to you takes action.
A blonde hunter threw his weapon, which had once been seen in the grass nest, in the direction of the monster.
-Ting!
Jeong Ha-seong remembered it along with this sound.
The name of the object that was just thrown is [Hydra].
If it didn’t leave much of a scar even though it was thrown by an S-class hunter like himself. Perhaps the blond hunter threw this Hydra very gently.
But the result of that light action was an effective success.
The monster that was hit by the blade seemed to be drawn to it, and then swallowed the human object that had piqued my interest.
[Hydra] is a highly toxic equipment.
So, the ruler of the first floor who touched it with his tongue will soon have the Jordan River in front of him.
upside down.
Moreover, the scenery that came into view with the left and right reversed was quite shocking to Jeong Ha-seong.
‘uh……?’
For reference, his master is a soul itself, so he naturally ignores the abnormal status.
‘What the heck. How did you manage to throw an object and hit it already… …?!’
Jeong Ha-seong doesn’t know this.