Episode 109. Childish
“Damn it! How are they doing in a situation like this?”
Kim Chul-joong couldn’t stand it and burst into irritation.
Two archers in the party were drinking mana potions and shooting arrows hard, but the thick fog in the dungeon was barely clearing.
Fortunately, there were no monsters around.
Otherwise, even taking a single step would not have been easy.
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I managed to get out of the intercession room by moving with my hand clenched against the wall.
It took longer than expected.
“Brother!”
“Hush!”
Fortunately, when we were almost at the center, we could hear the sound of the chef’s party.
I don’t know what kind of magic they were doing, but it seemed that they were carrying out the plans they had been told about in advance one after another, even in this fog.
Kim Chul-joong held his breath with his men against the wall of the aisle, waiting for the cooks to move away to another room.
They thought this thick fog would hide their location.
“Lemon! Now!”
“Yes!”
The cook’s cry burst out just a few dozen meters away.
And with a time difference of about 3 seconds.
[The Nightmare of Rest has cast ‘Purpose of Rest’.]
“…!?”
It was instinct.
He would never have been able to cope if it hadn’t been for the experience of going to and from the Abyss.
The moment Chuljoong Kim checked the system message, he put his shield in front and shouted softly without hesitation.
“If you don’t want to die, get up close behind my back! Come on!”
Almost immediately after his voice ended, a huge wave emanating from the center of the dungeon engulfed the party.
Kwaaang!
“Kuh…”
The arm holding the shield went numb.
It was a huge shock wave.
‘Damn it.’
He was sitting in a row along one wall of the aisle, so he was almost late.
It was an attack that would have killed one of his subordinates behind him, even if he didn’t know that he was a tanker, if he had been covered up defenselessly.
“Thank you, brother.”
“Care your mind, bastards! It’s the most difficult monster in the Nightmare Dungeon.”
“Ah, yes…”
“So let’s run away from the beginning…”
“You bastard!”
“Tongue, bro! In front…”
“Hmm?”
Perhaps thanks to the wide-area attack of the hidden boss that you just experienced, the concentration of the fog has decreased considerably in the center of the dungeon.
Thanks to this, although it was blurry, I could vaguely see the silhouette in front of me.
It wasn’t that huge.
If a strong man was riding on a suitable horse, he would probably be that big.
‘That’s the Nightmare of Rest…’
However, the size of the scythe in his hand was beyond imagination.
Once it was swung, the radius could have been several meters.
If you get in the wrong area, you will invariably take advantage of its attacks.
‘Hmm…’
And beyond that, someone was standing.
No matter how you look at it, it was the same chef I was talking to earlier.
‘Wasn’t he a priest?’
Why is the priest standing in front of the boss instead of the tank?
Kim Chul-joong, who had been watching him with a puzzled face for a while, couldn’t help but be astonished at the movement.
“Tongue, brother… Isn’t that… The cook?”
“……”
A huge scythe is swinging.
If it were me, I would have put up a shield to block it.
However, that priest moved calmly as if he knew the trajectory of the scythe in advance.
I was avoiding all attacks by moving just one step, once again by lightly jumping in place, and then by sticking right in front of the body of the boss.
It was truly amazing.
The boss’s attack speed was by no means slow.
It was a series of attacks that continued at incredible speed.
“Huh… Crazy.”
It wasn’t over yet.
What was even more surprising was what followed.
The chef suddenly runs with his back to the boss.
Taking your eyes off the boss in a situation like that?
It was something that would not normally happen.
But the cook ran without even glancing back.
What if the boss swung the scythe at that timing?
Probably, it was just like that.
‘No way… Did you know?’
And so the figure of the cook disappeared through the fog on the other side.
There must have been a passage leading to another room over there.
Subsequently, the boss rushed in that direction at great speed.
It wasn’t just running, no matter how you look at it, it was a definite assault-type skill.
‘I must have memorized all the patterns.’
I’m sure.
So he must have run with his back turned.
Probably it was based on the movement distance of the boss who used the skill.
It was again covered in fog and no longer visible, but Kim Chul-joong was certain that it was like that.
‘I wasn’t an ordinary guy…’
After a while.
In the space where the hidden boss and chef disappeared, five large and small silhouettes appeared.
Appeared to be the cook’s party.
“Hmm?”
After a slight delay, they walked away in the direction the cook disappeared, as it was natural.
‘What was that? As if our eyes met…’
The thick fog rose up right in front of Kim Chul-joong’s nose.
Once again, the situation is out of sight.
“Tongue, brother… We just find an entrance and get out…”
“Shut up, bastard!”
My pride was hurt.
I was just watching the battles of those who hadn’t even been to the Abyss for a while.
But why?
“What are you doing!? Hurry up and set up the trap! We’ll do it as planned.”
“Ha, are you going to do it?”
“Then?”
“But didn’t you see that movement…”
“So? Let’s stick around like this?”
“No… That’s not it…”
“It’s not like we’re fighting to live or die. Why are there so many scares? Do what you’re told to do! Don’t forget what you said earlier.”
“Yes…”
Pride is pride and purpose is purpose.
Kim Chul-joong started to like that chef even more.
‘Cooking is cooking, but that movement…’
You must get it.
If such a Priest is your ally, the party’s survivability will increase beyond imagination.
A Priest who avoids and even heals on his own, even if he, as a tank, doesn’t have to pay attention to protect himself.
The more I imagined it, the more I shuddered.
‘I must attract him to my party.’
Kim Chul-joong was even thinking of completely reorganizing the party he was currently in.
“Brother! The preparations are complete.”
“Come over here, everyone! The boss might do another AoE attack, so stay still behind me!”
“Yes!”
“But, are you really doing it?”
Kim Chul-joong did not answer.
Now it was too much trouble to even answer that obvious thing.
“We wait in this aisle, and when the trapped cook is in danger, we go out and rescue him at the last minute. Stay still until I give a signal. If you don’t want to get caught.”
“Yes…”
* * *
“Now the third room is over…”
The plan was going very smoothly.
Except for one thing.
“Mister. Those people were peeping in the aisle over there earlier.”
A story Mumu taught me a little while ago.
I left it to watch, but I didn’t know they would really move.
‘What kind of plan is this?’
The fact that he was watching from the central aisle meant that he was going to do something.
“Oops.”
I was worried as I lightly avoided Nightmare’s scythe.
‘Entering the dungeon as it is is another way…’
The boss has already absorbed the Dark Priests and monsters left in the three rooms.
With this alone, it was obvious that the difficulty of dropping nightmares would have increased exponentially.
I want to absorb all the monsters in the four rooms, but the movements of the demon slash crew are suspicious.
Rather than falling into a trap, it was better to be content with this and enter the dungeon.
‘Hmm… What should I do?’
Greed is forbidden.
You can’t endanger the party by being greedy.
Thanks to the cooking buff, it’s a much easier situation than I thought, but I don’t have the strength to deal with the hidden bosses and even catch the tricks of the demon slash guild.
However, it is regrettable to give up the rest of the room as it is.
It was intentionally left to be used as a sacrifice, and even if the others don’t know, the final experience gained from the dungeon doubles depending on whether or not you absorb one more Dark Priest.
‘Let’s just try it.’
“I’ll go to the center! As I said before, please follow me in the first row! AoE attack is hard to sustain alone without a tank!”
Decided to take an adventure.
It’s a bit greedy, but it’s not a big risk.
Because currently, Nightmare of Rest is summoning the first scythe.
The first scythe does not take any damage.
Just get hit by the Nightmare Drop.
No matter what the demon slash does, there will be a hole through which to escape.
If you become dangerous, you just need to get hit with the boss’s scythe and enter the dungeon.
‘Besides, I haven’t done anything yet.’
Nothing has been done, but there is no need to treat the opponent as a hindrance.
It’s not like I’ve ever suffered damage from demon slashers.
Having made up my mind, I went straight through the aisle and headed toward the center.
While keeping the gaze of the boss following me directly behind me.
So I reached the center of the dungeon.
And.
Puck!
“Mistress, surprise!”
[You stepped on a freezing trap. Your feet are frozen to the floor and you cannot move for a while.]
‘I hoped it wasn’t…’
My feet were tied.
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‘By the way, childishly hiding and trap…’
If you get caught in a normal freezing trap, if it’s a normal monster, you’ll be stuck in place for 10 seconds.
However, for balance, the effect time is reduced to 5 seconds, which is half the player.
And another one.
When your health level reaches a certain amount.
[Due to the high physical strength, you quickly overcame the 1st stage status.]
‘Well, it’s like this. I wonder if it’s a specially made reinforced trap…’
The time I was trapped in the trap was only about a second.
Before I knew it, the Nightmare of Rest, closely attached to my back, swung a scythe.
‘There’s no way there’s just one trap… Is there anything you can do about it?’
I couldn’t move much.
Because we don’t know where another trap is set.
So I shouted while narrowly avoiding the boss’s attack.
“Lemon! Prepare for wide-area attacks!”
It can’t be helped.
To clear traps that you don’t even know where they are.
It can only be deliberately induced.
The boss’s wide-area attack.