Episode 106. Nightmare 5 minutes ago
“Hyung, there’s something cheap here?”
“What nonsense are you talking about? Are you coming to the Nightmare Dungeon for a day or two?”
The air was strangely cold.
Not being able to see the monsters was rather terrifying.
That was when Kim Chul-joong’s party passed through the entrance passage and reached the center of the dungeon.
“Somehow the air seems to be more humid than usual…”
“Hmm…”
Twisted Catacombs is not a dungeon that people prefer, but all the members of the Demon Slash Guild here have experienced going in and out of it a few times.
It’s not an impressive place and I don’t remember every detail, but the atmosphere was definitely different from when I came before.
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The face of Cheoljoong Kim, who was shouting loudly, also slowly began to look wary.
“What is this? Isn’t this a dungeon like this?”
“That’s what I’m talking about!”
“Tongue, brother! Bar, on the floor…”
“There’s nothing to be afraid of, son. I don’t think it’s even poisonous fog.
A white mist began to rise from the floor.
Not just the surroundings, but the whole dungeon seemed to be like that.
“Are there any hidden bosses?”
“Yes? But we came without a healer, right?”
“Hmph. Don’t make a fuss about it! It’s the lowest level dungeon after all.”
“By the way, doesn’t that mean the cook party triggered something hidden?”
“Yes. I’ve never heard of Catacombs Hidden…”
By the time we reached the center of the dungeon after passing through the passageway, a visible fog began to fill the floor before we knew it.
Kim Chul-joong and his party’s expressions began to get darker and darker.
The larger the guild, the more frantic it is to secure hidden information.
Of course, it makes money, and many of the rare items that can only be obtained this way have a great impact on the guild’s combat power.
But now, the chef party, who took it lightly, activated Hidden, which they, who belonged to a huge guild, had not even heard of rumors about?
I’ll have to check the truth from now on, but it bothered me from the start.
Kim Chul-joong’s voice grew louder.
“Heh. Catacombs, catacombs… Isn’t it obvious? As it’s a tomb, there seems to be a hidden treasure room somewhere. How amazing can you get out of a low-level dungeon like this? But, if you have to, can’t you throw away the players?”
“Brother, that’s a bit… Aren’t we here to seduce the chef?”
“Know the baby! I just did it.”
Normally, I would have stealed the loot by stealing the boss, but my top priority right now was to seduce the chef.
How great can come out of here.
Kim Chul-joong licked his lips and said to his men.
“Scatter and find which room you are in. Seeing that the door to the boss room isn’t open, you’re still dealing with the mid-boss.”
“By the way, bro. Isn’t that a bit strange?”
“What?”
“It’s only been an hour.”
“Oh, so what!?”
“That… The time the cook party entered here. But look, the aisles are all empty. Does it make sense to say that we cleared this place and defeated three intercessors in that short amount of time?”
That was not wrong.
However, recently things have changed.
“You stupid bastard. Why did we come to seduce the chef?”
“Ah! That’s right… That cook was that cook.”
“Calm down, please.”
Everyone here went to the dungeon after eating the food the guild master gave us the other day.
It was a truly shocking experience.
I personally experienced that the difficulty of clearing a dungeon has changed significantly just by eating just one dish.
If the whole party of the chef ate the huge buff food and was attacking the dungeon, it would make sense that he reached the final room after defeating four passages and three mid-bosses within an hour.
“I’m going this way.”
“Then I go this way.”
Eventually, the four party members headed to their respective intercession rooms.
Kim Chul-joong smiled arrogantly as he looked at those subordinates.
“I have to go back to Earth soon.”
With that dish, returning is not an impossible story.
Living as an executive of the strongest guild in this world isn’t too bad, but there are too many things I left behind on Earth.
No company, no money, no honor.
Kaak- Tweok!
“No matter how hard you can live, you can’t live forever in a place without a car or phone like this. Isn’t that right, Daesan?”
It was when he was muttering to himself toward Mt. Kang, who wasn’t even there.
Koo Goo Goo!
Suddenly, the entire dungeon shook lightly.
[Warning! The sealed coffin of Emmanuel has been opened.]
“What happened all of a sudden?”
[You must kill all the Dark Priests inside the Catacombs within 5 minutes. If it fails, ‘Nightmare of Rest’ will be summoned in that space.]
Suddenly heard a warning sound.
And the 5-minute count started without notice.
“Tongue, brother!”
“Did you just hear that?”
Guild members who had been running through each aisle all returned to the center.
“Hidden was correct. Hidden boss! But, isn’t the Nightmare boss one of the highest levels of nightmare difficulty!?”
“Brother. No matter how strong you are, isn’t it too much to deal with a name boss without a healer? Let’s just leave the dungeon like this…”
“Noisy bastards!”
Kim Chul-joong narrowed his forehead.
It was not pleasant to see them making a fuss over the appearance of only one boss.
“You can’t be killed in a place like this!”
“That’s right bro.”
“Ah, be quiet!”
Even though he shouted, the attitude of the guild members did not change.
There was no choice but to do that, because this was the principle of the Demon Slash Guild.
Regardless of whether it’s an officer or a street horse, if even one person in the party wants to leave the dungeon, he or she must do so regardless of the majority.
Because it is a matter of life and death, guild master Kang Dae-san has strictly forbidden from the first day he arrived in this world to press down with authority from above.
Of course, there were cases where other guild members were harmed if they left the dungeon without even trying, so depending on the situation, they would be punished afterwards.
However, until now, this rule has been maintained unshakably and without a single objection.
Because of this, Kim Chul-joong was irritated.
Because it hurt my pride to come all the way here and just go back.
Not in the Abyss Dungeon, but in a low-level dungeon like this, I had to run away for no other reason than simply because of my frightened subordinates.
“Why are you in such a hurry? If anything, I’ll deal with you alone until you run away, so be quiet, bastards!”
“But bro. Nightmare is…”
“Knight. I drag it with a nightmare.”
One of the features of this game’s Nightmare Dungeon.
It was that Nightmare appeared out of nowhere with a low probability in each dungeon.
Nightmare that appeared like that will cause many problems if not dealt with quickly.
One of the representative examples is dropping nightmares.
Players affected by the skill are forcibly summoned to a separate instant space.
And you have to defeat all the monsters that appear in it to return to the original place.
Or die.
At the time when it was a game, many people gave up like that, but now it can’t be.
Because when you die, that’s the end.
Fortunately, one of the guild members, who was rather calm, opened his mouth.
“Isn’t this the first time you’ve heard of a Nightmare of Rest? I don’t think the community has heard of it either.”
“Hmm…”
Nightmare is basically treated as a mid-boss, but it is not a very powerful monster except for dropping nightmares.
If you pre-determine only the party members who are confident in solo play who will suffer from dropping the nightmare, the rest of the members can easily defeat it.
However, things are a little different for guys with modifiers in front of them, like the Nightmare of Rest that I just heard about.
They are true boss monsters.
Nightmare Difficulty It boasts a tremendous level of difficulty comparable to the 4 strongest bosses in the dungeon.
“But why did he suddenly appear? This is the weakest dungeon in nightmares. It’s not like you’d come out of a place like this…”
“You stupid bastard. Are you asking because you don’t know that? Of course you called him.”
“Are you calling them out? On purpose? No matter how much you ate cooking buffs, didn’t you say that the chef’s party had many beginners? Even those were children and residents here…”
Unlike normal Nightmares that appear randomly, it was the national rule of all nightmare dungeons that a Nightmare boss with a modifier appeared only when certain conditions were met.
No matter how you look at it, someone must have called it on purpose.
Unless there is another party in this dungeon, it seems certain that someone is from the cook’s party.
“Brother! We don’t have time. If the real guy shows up…”
“Oh, be quiet! I’m thinking about it!”
Unlike Kim Chul-joong, who was thinking with his arms crossed, the other guild members became restless as the number of counts decreased.
It was inevitable that Kim Chul-joong was a member who went in and out of the Abyss, so no matter how strong he was, he didn’t feel afraid of the Nightmare Dungeon’s boss, but the rest were members who hadn’t even set foot in the Abyss yet.
“Brother! If the Nightmare appears in the exit passageway, you can’t even run outside!”
“Oh, that’s right, you bastards.”
“We don’t even have a healer in our party right now…”
“You bastards, think about it. No matter how hard Name is counted, it’s a nightmare dungeon boss, and it’s a monster for a 6-person party.”
Guild members vaguely noticed what Kim Chul-joong was trying to say.
“You can’t believe it…”
“I guess those chefs summoned them because they had something in mind. Even if Nightmare gets regenerated on our side, it’s enough to attach it to them, and then if they look like they’re in danger, we can sneakily help them from behind and then win their favor. ?”
“What if they summoned them by mistake?”
“A mistake? Hey, the one I’m taking here and there right now is that chef. Could he be as stupid as you? Summons a boss by mistake? It’s not even funny. Think about it. Think about it.”
There was nothing wrong with Kim Chul-joong’s remarks.
However, perhaps because it was a life-and-death matter, the rest of the members understood it with their heads, but could hardly understand it.
In the meantime, a minute passed in an instant, and in the end Kim Chul-joong, who could not stand it, shouted out loud.
“Don’t talk nonsense, quickly check which room they’re in! I’ll take responsibility for your lives! Or leave this dungeon or our guild! We’re not a guild that cares about scumbags!”
In the end, they had no choice but to follow Kim Chul-jung’s orders.
As one of the top executives in the guild and one of the eldest, it was not easy to reject his words.
Unless you want to leave the real guild.
Meanwhile, at the same time, in the intercession room just tens of meters next door.
“I-I didn’t say anything like this! Why did a new boss appear all of a sudden?”
Rachel was crying and holding on to Taemin’s shoulders and shaking them around.
“Don’t worry, Rachel. You’re all on your mind…”
“What are you thinking! You said today is your first time in the Nightmare Dungeon!? Do you know how strong the Nightmare boss is?”
Taemin tried to calmly explain.
“There’s nothing to worry about. Now, I’ll explain…”
“What is the explanation! How are you not worried? You said you went into a secret room, why did this suddenly happen! If you really knew it would be like this, you wouldn’t come… I just believed Laura-sama’s words…”
Seeing her frustrated with her stretching, Taemin was taken aback, and Lemon and Melissa Moumu sympathized with Rachel as they quietly reminisced about the past by her side.
“Still, unnie ate. We even went hungry.”
“Right away! Melissa fell off a cliff!”
“Am I talking about a cliff?”
Michael, who had a similar feeling to Rachel, was also looking at the relatively calm faces of the children and Taemin’s faces.
“But don’t worry. We’re alive and well! Just trust my uncle.”