1st Floor – Lv.2 Hunter (2)
After using such force several times, the girl naturally helps.
The natural use of articulation stands out.
I wonder what kind of setting the Jung family came up with this time.
After a period of close to simple repetitive work, I stopped to take a moment to breathe.
“Unlucky.”
“What do you mean?”
The girl quickly bites her tail in self-talk.
“As I passed, I saw a few places where the weapons might have fallen, but they’ve already been robbed.”
“If it’s a weapon, you have this, right?”
And a dagger that skillfully pulls out. As the initial equipment of the labyrinth, everyone has it.
Even a dagger is a full-fledged combat dagger with a blade length of over 30 centimeters, but it was not what I was looking for.
“It’s inefficient to subdue the bad eaters one by one. I need a weapon that makes me feel fucked as soon as I see it and become compliant.”
It’s all a matter of physical fitness. My breath is slowly reaching the tip of my chin due to my poor stamina.
With my initial stats, there is a limit to the use of force.
Even if it is suppressed by skill rather than physical strength, it does not mean that it does not consume stamina.
Equipment that spawns on the first floor is usually of poor quality, but it’s better than a dagger.
A mace that looks like it will die if anyone sees it, or a spear that looks like it will hurt if stabbed is enough for armed demonstrations.
You have to win without fighting.
I need a situation where the bad guys get scared as soon as they see what I’m carrying.
Have you thrown about 30 survivors into the second floor now?
My internal clock, which I have been paying close attention to for many years, informs me that it has already been 40 minutes since I woke up.
“I’m slowly running out of time. I think I’ll have to be satisfied here.”
In an hour, the maze begins to collapse.
It’s called a sudden death to prevent a play that sits down for millennia.
As this is the first floor, there is nothing complicated and there are few difficulties.
In the game era, it was simply one of the ways to prevent farming by robbing every nook and cranny of every floor.
As a result, it was the norm to farm until the last minute just before sudden death.
Now that it has become a reality, what does sudden death mean?
I think it means to learn a lot and get used to death.
“That’s right.”
I heard the explanation, but the girl drags her tail as if she doesn’t understand something.
It’s hard to believe if you’ve been living in ‘reality’ for a while.
Anyway, the first floor farming was ruined. I couldn’t find a single sword for a weapon.
But NPC luck. The girl next to her is a kind of companion that is hard to find in terms of other than the initial stats.
Looking at her uniform, she looks like she was brought from school, but she has no hesitation at all.
Worry, anxiety, confusion.
Instead of the emotions that should usually be prioritized, the daily liveliness comes first.
It’s not a normal attitude, but that’s why it’s precious.
It’s even better because I’m already interested in my actions and following them.
All I have to say is that the start was really good.
In my countless episodes, it was common for me to commit suicide almost immediately before moving on to the next world.
“I’ll have to look for another ten minutes, though.”
The girl, who should not have known exactly what she was saying, nevertheless followed silently.
* * *
Missing weapons that must have spawned in place means that someone has already been rooted.
The group of three that immediately ran into each other were armed with proper cold weapons, unlike before, and they didn’t seem to be unfamiliar with the situation.
They’re exiles for many years, but they’re not good-natured guys. The weapon is already dripping with blood.
I sighed.
“From the beginning, the guys who hunt humans in groups can go to any round. Aren’t they?”
At those words, the other party was old, but only me, pointed at the living Halberd and chattered.
“There, skinny poker, I don’t know how old it is, but get out of there. I’ll give you my life.”
This is the most common case of mental problems.
outlaw.
In a world where strength is justice, even life is light, so it is their will to completely do what they want.
Even those guys are good at forming groups.
If we deal with them one by one, there is no end to it.
In a way, they are more tired than the boss monsters.
“Oh, leave the girl alone.”
There, all the men’s thoughts are there. More if you think you have power and initiative. Even pretending to look like he’s in estrus.
I glanced at the girl next to me. She is a high school girl with a fresh and refreshing appearance that seems to fit her innate cheerfulness.
The villains are bound to be twisted a lot.
Beauty is not much of an advantage in the labyrinth.
Anyway, I shook my head.
I can’t let this kid go.
The girl herself is already thinking the same thing. I’m holding it loosely now, but it’s probably just to give me strength when I need it.
I don’t feel any tension at all.
So did I.
In fact, such human hunters are usually sewage. Those who have never been to the kingdom have never been to the kingdom.
I asked the girl.
There was also the intention of thinking.
“Can you three alone?”
“Yes? Am I alone? That’s unreasonable.”
“I just asked once. Just hold the two of them.”
“Isn’t that too much for a weak high school girl?”
Seeing her face like that made me laugh out loud.
“A weak high school girl holding a knife and smiling like that?”
“oh.”
He quickly covered his lips, but it was too late to hide his dazzling smile.
No reluctance to kill.
Outside, it is a factor that would be judged as a serious defect in personality, but it is different here.
You can’t help but say you don’t want to.
If you’re going to do it anyway, it’s better to do it well.
What happened after that couldn’t even be called a fight.
I think it took about a minute for the three cheeky men to collapse and become immobile.
The girl ran without hesitation and cut off one of the necks. The other one, perplexed, resisted hard, but in the end a blade pierced his heart.
Sadly, I’m not a character with that kind of initial stats.
After struggling a few times, he finally stopped breathing.
It’s tiring to deal with weapons with a huge difference in reach in bulk.
There, the strength was also superior there. No matter how technically you spill it, your bones will ache.
If I had been alone, I would have run away without looking back.
He was confident in the technique he had on his body, but at the very beginning, the 3 to 1 was too risky, so it was suicide.
In any case, I was completely exhausted after my stamina was short-lived.
I want to avoid hand-to-hand combat anymore, but yes.
“Are there a lot of these guys?”
The girl did not ask a word as to why they were killing them.
My words of hunting humans may have been a sufficient answer.
As you approach, the smell of blood hits you.
“Your clothes are wet. If you find a fountain of recovery, you should wash some.”
refers to the girl’s uniform. Although he avoided the opponent’s weapon, he could not avoid the blood gushing out of the carotid artery. His shoulders are slightly wet with blood and are spreading red.
“Oh, if you don’t drain the blood quickly, you won’t lose.”
“You don’t have to go to school now.”
“Um, that’s… that’s right.”
The answer was somewhat gloomy. Then, scratching his nose seems to be regretful thinking about something.
That’s a good sign.
Sometimes there are guys who have no regrets at the house they left. They don’t usually want to go back, and they don’t know what to do in the party.
Rather, the purpose itself becomes the glory of wealth in the labyrinth.
Sadly, there is only one motive that this world can give, ‘homecoming’.
Having regrets at home is good for my circumstances.
“No, but give me an answer. Are there a lot of guys like that?”
There is a little bit of hope in those words.
No, but it’s a bit odd to feel the joy of murder.
The girl got angry because I could see my expression.
“Oh! It’s not like that. I’m asking because I think I’m tired of dealing with you.”
“······· Well, yes. A lot.”
“Hmm.”
what is blur
In any case, he starts to rummage through the bodies of the grateful guys who brought the weapons he couldn’t find instead.
However, something very unexpected happened.
“What, why is the shotgun here?”
I wondered if there was an old-fashioned bar under the body of the girl the girl killed first.
Was this guy a captain in his own way?
Somehow the other guys kept glancing at this guy.
But if there is such a thing, why didn’t I write it in the first place?
If we did, we would be dead.
As I thought about it, I realized the answer.
On the surface, we are a skinny boy and a high school girl. It’s hard to be intimidating.
Also sewage.
The labyrinth is not a place where you can judge your opponent’s strength in that way.
“Wow, you know what that is. It’s a dual barrel shotgun, right?”
“It would be a double barrel.”
It was lucky.
The shotgun is a weapon with too low a chance to spawn on the first floor.
In the beginning, there are hardly any full-fledged firearms themselves. A slingshot or a bow should be considered a fighting weapon.
At best, it’s only at the level of a crossbow.
The shotgun on the first floor is pretty much a cheat for the next few floors.
However, there were not many shells obtained by robbing a dead man.
So I guess he kept it as a secret weapon in his own way.
Sudden death began as I searched other men’s bodies, just in case.
In the distance, the sound of a rumble and the structure sinking can be heard.
The labyrinth that slowly collapses from the edge will drive all humans who could not make it to the lower floors to death.
In the beginning, everyone died that way over and over again, and after that, they gain the will to move forward.
It is a system that forcibly engraves that you will only die if you stand still.
In the game era, the first floor was a low-difficulty stage that was nothing more than a tutorial on how to use it.
Likewise, it may also be like a tutorial now.
Because the experience of death makes you struggle to survive.
The spirit required to live as an exile is constant progress and adventure.
It’s like a world that was really a game.
In the end, everyone gets used to death like this.
I don’t know if that familiarity is necessarily a good thing, but it is true that it is a necessary virtue.
Life in this world is infinitely light in the sense that you will be revived anyway.
Instead, it will be a little later for newbies to learn what they lose.
* * *
However, there are those who do not take their lives to be lost and try to use them as their cornerstone.
I can’t say it’s good intentions.
I almost died on my way to the nearby stairs.
As soon as I turned the corner, I heard a sharp bang.
Not a trap.
The instincts that had been honed during the long rounds rolled over before he was even conscious of it.
As I crawled back and ran over the corner again, another foot brushed the side of the bridge.
It’s a bolt that’s a bit short for an arrow.
The girl quickly played with her hand and took a bolt.
“There is no poison.”
Why are you checking it out? And that’s too right to question.
Not only does my calf ache, but there is blood flowing so much that I can see it with the naked eye.
My jeans are already ripped. It is a precious body that cannot be seen again unless it is immediately after starting a new episode.
I’m in tears.
“Were you human?”
“Yeah, there were two.”
One was aiming first, and the other was waiting in case it missed.
Maybe he was just preparing, but he didn’t really think he was going to shoot a second time.
It survived due to the delay in additional fire.
“It’s far away?”
“About 30 meters?”
It barely spans the effective range of the shotgun. You could just stick it out and grind it, but the opponent’s shooting precision wasn’t bad.
“Shall we turn around? Mister, you know the other way, right?”
“I know, but I’m guessing it’s collapsing?”
The fact that it collapses slowly means that it is about the speed at which a person walks. The maze doesn’t have many straight passages.
Even if you go back and find another staircase from now on, will you be able to make it on time?
“Uh, so are you going to break through the front?”
“No, we’ll settle this through conversation.”
“yes?”
“I have the best means of communication.”
Then I hit the shotgun. I would have given up without this.