Chapter 12 Tier 1 Dungeon“Let’s try this.”
Yoon Tae-sung showed the ring of black luck on his hand. I took a seat right next to the dark-colored ring that Yuna gave me.
“Then, let’s get ready.”
Yoon Tae-seong stood in front of the altar. After that, he took the magic stone in his hand.
The altar was holding the magic crystal firmly, but it applied force to separate it from the manpower.
Kururu…!
Not the entire dungeon, but with the feeling of shaking the world, the altar and the walls with runes in front of them disappear as they turn into dust.
Then suddenly the space began to change.
After a brief noise, the dungeon disappeared in an instant.
They appeared where the dungeon was.
At that moment, Tae-seong Yoon took Gong Il-woo’s hand and used Invisible.
The dungeon disappeared, and Yoon Tae-sung and Gong Il-woo were not the only people who suddenly appeared. Two police officers also appeared where the dungeon was.
Only two of them were visible to the police and reporters.
Yoon Tae-seong used his skill at the right time.
“Sergeant!”
“What, what? What happened?”
Even the police, scientists and reporters who were investigating in front of the police teamed up to become as noisy as the market floor.
Two police officers immediately looked around, but the two who entered the stone gate were nowhere to be seen.
The other two’s identities were obtained by acquiring the wallet, but those two are more important.
Suddenly a black cloud appeared like a mist. It spread across the alley, obstructing the view of the gathered people.
It even dulled the senses.
‘Shit!’
The two cops didn’t know what it was, but they were sure it was the two of them who caused it.
I will make this black mist like a smoke bomb and run away from here.
Yoon Tae-seong and Gong Il-woo ran away. This is because when contact disappears, the invisible also disappears.
Using the Invisible and Black Luck appropriately, he fled from there.
Gong Il-woo was old, but he also had a car, so the two took off their masks after getting into his car.
“Woos it?”
“maybe.”
I went in at night, and the sun was in the middle of the sky.
“I’m going to go eat. I have some questions.”
“That’s right.”
There were untrustworthy guys like Kim Seong-tae and Kang Hyeon-soo, but among the hunters there were also people who were trustworthy like Gong Il-woo.
When working as a hunter, these connections were very important.
“I go to a restaurant I often go to. The bulgogi alum there is quite delicious.”
Brilliantly!
After a few vibrations, it started.
As Gong Il-woo said, the bulgogi alum was very good.
“I should come here often.”
Yoon Tae-seong wasn’t the type to cook at home either. So, in a good restaurant like this, it’s a great place to grab a meal.
“Yes? If you live alone, finding a restaurant like this is very important. The taste is great and the price is reasonable.”
It was also close to the rooftop room where Yoon Tae-seong lived.
“You seem to know a lot about a place called dungeons, is there anything I should know?”
“A skill has a set attribute, and only skills with the same attribute can be acquired. Most of the types of skills are graded. But there is no grade for Ilwoo’s skill, right?”
“uh? Do you have anything like that?”
“Things without a rating are used according to the mana rating, and skills with ratings can only be used when the mana rating is available. In addition to that, there are skills with no attributes, and there are advanced types. The level of the skill develops according to the proficiency level. The status window is not an absolute indicator. It’s just an objective indicator of one’s abilities. Perhaps, of course, dungeons also have ranks. The higher the grade, the stronger the boss monster. As you can see, the dungeon will be cleared only when the boss is eliminated and the magic crystals are collected from the altar. Once you enter, you have to clear it to get out. It’s almost impossible with one or two Awoken, maybe five or so.”
Tae-Sung Yoon told us the information we need to know in the current situation.
After a while, most of the information was known.
“Clearing the dungeon increases the mana stat. That affects the other stats little by little.”
Of course, you can’t check the status window in real life, but you can feel it.
“Right. It feels a little bit stronger. As you attack the dungeon like this, you get stronger little by little, and you acquire skill books and items. It’s like a real game.”
“Instead, you really die.”
“Then what is that red … ‘Magic Stone’?”
“I think it might be the key to making a dungeon, but I don’t know what it really is.”
Of course, I knew a little bit about the Magic Stone, but I didn’t need to tell you about it.
It is a crystal of mana, and it can be used to create many things.
The government also thought of magic stone as a new energy that could replace nuclear power.
“It seems like this will continue to happen, and later our Awoken will be deployed.”
Gong Il-woo said.
Anyone could have predicted what was going on.
“It will probably be like that.”
The two broke up after exchanging contact information.
I came home and turned on the news.
The anchor was reporting what had happened during the day.
A scene where the dungeon suddenly disappeared and black smoke spread was also filmed.
The two police officers who entered the dungeon returned safely, but there was no story about Yoon Tae-sung and his party.
The police or the government must have blocked the story from leaking. If not, there is no reason why the media thirsty for the scoop won’t report this.
‘Certainly, the government is investigating the dungeon while preventing the spread of information as much as possible.’
Turning off the news, Yoon Tae-seong took out his skill book and magic stone.
Magical stones look just like red stones. If you look closely, you can see that the crystals that look like jewels are agglomerated.
Use this to create an artifact’s mana core.
Humans have developed modern technology while dealing with dungeons. At the center of it was a magic stone.
While researching items, skill books, and mana cores, humans have finally developed mana cores.
Using that, we developed artifacts similar to items, and finally we were able to attack the dungeon properly.
It took about 5 years.
After that, the skills of mana cores and artifacts gradually develop.
At the center of this development was the Magic Stone, and even 10 years from now, humans do not know the exact identity of the Magic Stone.
‘It is certain that mana is a crystal of great energy. Mana is just magic.’
The state of nature was mana, and if it is subordinated to me, that power is called magic.
Other Awakeners had no way to absorb mana other than to attack the dungeon, but Yoon Tae-seong had a different method.
There were many inner-gong-heart methods, but the best way to absorb magic power is the Celestial Demon God Gong. This is because it was created primarily to accumulate magical power.
The martial arts after that were closer to strength than magic. Energy is transformed according to the characteristics of the practitioner.
In this world, there is no energy to cultivate this kind of power, but what if there was a magic crystal next to you?
Of course, it’s not possible right now. With the skill of the mana core, it must be able to extract the energy of the magic crystal.
‘Still, even a first-class magic stone alone is worth 1 billion won.’
If you have it, it will be helpful for your training someday, if you don’t, you could sell it at a higher price later.
After organizing my backpack, I took the skill book and magic stone inside.
The important thing is that it is always safest to have it with you.
“Chief, Team 2 is bustling?”
“Kang Hyun-soo, did that bastard run away? No work, no contact.”
Yoon Tae-sung just pretended not to know.
In the afternoon, the police came to the office. They informed me of a great fact, but Kang Hyeon-soo is dead.
Of course, he didn’t tell us the exact process or cause of how he died, and we ask something, but will this really help?
Trying to interrogate while hiding information, is there any way to do it?
Two policemen who entered the dungeon asked people questions, and it was Yoon Tae-sung’s turn.
“Uh, Yoon Tae-sung? Are you from the special forces?”
“I was discharged last year.”
“Did you join the company with Hyunsoo Kang? Do you know of any unusual facts?”
“I do not know? We got along pretty well, but there was nothing special about it. Of course, I was a bit rude.”
“Are you good?”
“Hyunsoo joined our company after being a celebrity. He can be said to be a successful fanatic.”
“Hmmmm, I see.”
The two detectives finished their interrogation, but Tae-Sung Yoon noticed that the two had a strange look.
As the magic power increased, the feeling improved a bit.
I can feel the tension between the two.
“They are similar in height, and there is no one other than Tae-seong Yoon from special forces around Kang Hyun-soo or Kim Seong-tae.”
The two heard in the dungeon that one of them was from the Special Forces.
Based on that, we explored the surroundings of Kang Hyeon-soo and Kim Seong-tae.
Since it was a case of censoring information by the government, the two were inevitably investigating.
“I don’t know why you’re asking me to investigate when you’re not going to be arrested.”
“It’s about dungeons. It seems that the Defense Research Institute is investigating, and the Intelligence Service is also investigating the Awakened. It’s not that I’m restraining myself, but something’s wrong with the world…”
Is only Korea investigating while blocking information?
Many countries are investigating and exchanging information with each other.
The police are managing it for the sake of security, but the dungeon incident has already transcended the level of the police.
After a while, the dungeon incident decisively turned into an emergency.
-This is reporter Kim Mi-hee of SBC News. What you see now is the site of an explosion of a strange sphere called a dungeon on the Internet. A 20-meter radius completely collapsed in shock, and after the explosion, monsters came out and killed nearby police personnel.
Have you ever been able to report an incident from the news to a helicopter?
It happens often in movies, but in real life, this is rarely the case.
However, SBC even mobilized helicopters to cover the scene.
A 20-meter radius has been completely destroyed, and a huge corpse is visible.
This is because monsters poured out of the dungeon along with the explosion.
Police and troops were mobilized, but it was already too late.
A horde of monsters spread out and slaughtered civilians.
The soldiers gathered and rushed to the place where the incident took place, and they opened fire with a rifle and barely killed one monster.
Some dungeons disappeared, but why did some dungeons explode like that and bring in a huge monster?
“OMG? Oh, mom! The dungeon exploded!”
Yuina cried out loudly while watching the news.
The good news is that the dungeon near the house just disappeared a while ago and didn’t explode.
She felt uncomfortable about something.
The words of the man who said the dungeon was going to explode continued to ring in my ears.
“Oh? Oh? What do you do? Isn’t the dungeon next to our house also exploding?”
“It was gone a few days ago.”
“Uh-huh… that’s good.”
‘Shall we go into the dungeon?’
Yuna pondered for a moment.
‘No, what was that old man before that? I’ll have to ask when I go to work tomorrow! How did you know it exploded?’
Meanwhile, as the dungeon exploded, there was a riot in the government.
The meeting was held by high-ranking officials, including the President, the Minister of National Defense, the Director of the Intelligence Service, and the Commissioner of the National Police Agency.
“There are so many dungeons right now, aren’t they all exploding? Even the monsters inside come out. Huh… what… will the world be destroyed soon?”
The president was not funny.
Since there was no exact word to describe it, he also referred to it as a dungeon used by young people on the Internet.
A dungeon explodes, and monsters come out of it, killing people.
“You don’t die with guns. At least one magazine is empty to be able to kill.”
said the Minister of Defense.
“Awakened investigation?”
“There is nothing special about it, but the dungeon containing the Awakened and the current dungeon seem a little different.”
The information source investigated the people who filmed and uploaded their skills saying they had awakened on the Internet.
Of course, they were not criminals, nor could they torture them in this day and age.
No need to torture Because when I asked a question, everyone answered it as if I was bragging.
But there was no specific information to be heard from them.
After going in and fighting the monsters, the skill book came out, so I can use this ability! That was all. There was no detailed information about the dungeon.
“You mean you have to go inside and do something to get rid of the dungeon?”
“Probably… yes.”
“The situation is urgent, how about bringing the person?”