2nd Floor – Lv.27 Fairies and Orcs (1)
The act of going down the stairs feels just like a physical movement, but in reality it is a little different.
The different layers of the labyrinth mean nothing much different from other worlds.
Even if the previous layer was the North Pole, the next layer could be jungle. There is no connection between them.
As you pass through the tunnel-like road, you are welcomed by the fresh smell of the forest. The bright sunlight is dazzling.
And the presence of countless animals along with the chirping of birds.
The theme is always randomly determined, but unless you’re very lucky, you’ll see unusual things like forests and plains at first.
Extreme environments such as volcanoes and snowfields come out from the beginning, but if they do, most of them die.
That is why the probability of such an extreme theme was low.
Themes keep changing.
With the exception of the first floor, different themes appear in units of five floors until reaching the kingdom.
Next, the theme changes again on the 6th floor.
The hunter, who confirmed that the second floor was a forest, sighed in relief.
He knows he still doesn’t get enough of my trust.
There would still be a fear of being disposed of if it became useless.
As much as you know how to view humans as experience points, you will know that you are also experience points.
But it is not death that he fears.
It is the very fact that it is abandoned by a seasoned party leader.
The road to the kingdom was difficult for even a decade or so to be sure.
Even if you die in the middle and fall behind, if you don’t die right now, no matter what you learn, only that will remain.
A senior exile with over 30 years of experience.
As such, it is a rare existence in the section before the kingdom.
The hunter must have thought that I was at least more than that, who had already subdued him in an instant.
In the labyrinth, the knowledge and skills you have accumulated are your strength.
“I’ll fill the bottle.”
His obedient attitude that was on the verge of infinite submissiveness proved him.
The hunter started filling the empty bottle with spring water as I nodded.
The girl whispered. It seems he didn’t want the hunter to find out that he didn’t know anything.
“What is this spring?”
I also whispered to each other.
“Do you know what a healing potion is?”
“Oh, if you drink that, do you have blood?”
“Even if it is poured into a wound, tea.”
“awesome.”
The girl runs quickly and dips her hand in the spring water. It was the right hand that had blocked the bolts in large numbers.
Traces of blood are visible at first glance. It looks like his hand was torn.
Considering the tension of the crossbow, it is reasonable.
Mr. Jeong of this world doesn’t seem to have the ability to regenerate. Even blocking it was superhuman enough.
The girl glanced into the hunter’s eyes and ran to her, showing her palm.
“It heals at a visible rate? What are the ingredients?”
“A little divinity and magic in oxygen and hydrogen.”
“········Yes? Is there such a thing?”
His eyes widened like a child with many facial expressions.
It’s the first time I see a genuinely surprised expression.
I laughed at the sight and whispered.
“Can I tell you something really surprising? There’s even a wizard here.”
“Wow!”
This admiration was a little loud. The hunter glances around. The girl kept her mouth shut and pretended not to know.
I chuckled.
To be honest, the last round wasn’t very fun.
On the other hand, I had a foreboding that this time would be fun regardless of whether it was successful or not.
* * *
It was still morning on the second floor when we arrived.
Thanks to that, I took quite a bit of time to lay the foundation, but there was still a long way to go before the sun went down.
The pleasantness of the forest is due to the fact that the environment is not hostile.
And it’s not just for exiles.
The same goes for monsters.
Volcanoes and snowfields are difficult to survive just day by day. However, it is difficult for monsters to live that much.
So there were very few things to do.
On the other hand, the forest is full of monsters and beasts.
The hunter was absent to secure food.
pretend to be a servant
He said he was confident that he would do something out of anxiety if he didn’t let him do it.
Giving them a chance to prove their need is also an important element of party management.
So, in the meantime, I decided to teach the girl the common sense of the labyrinth by making ropes from tree bark.
The way the hunter is slowly paying attention to the girl’s eyes is misunderstood.
At least, he thinks he’s older than him.
Hitting the bolt with basic armament on the first floor of the article below.
It would be nice to see such an unrealistic performance in front of your eyes.
It wasn’t bad.
We need to keep that illusion a little longer.
Considering that the two 30-year-old exiles are together, the 12-year-old Dali wouldn’t even think of betraying him.
So, the explanation of the very basic common sense was laid out.
The girl who listened intently while twisting the rope expressed her feelings in one sentence.
“Isn’t this a pretty crazy place?”
“I think you’re pretty crazy for knowing that and reacting like that.”
“Hey, tell me you’re good at adapting.”
That’s correct. The girl accepted the world out of curiosity and interest rather than fear or fear.
It’s something the vast majority can’t show. I was like that at first too.
This is a talent that must be fully innate.
“Now, shall we talk about each other? I have a question for you. If I ask, will you tell me?”
“If it’s not three sizes, I can answer.”
“How tall are you?”
“159 centimeters.”
“Aren’t you rounding up?”
“I want to be 160 centimeters, but I’m honest.”
The fun just pierces the sky.
I chuckled a little and asked.
“Would you like to hear what you learned? I know daggers, but it doesn’t sound like knife fighting.”
Knife fighting here is CQC, a military martial art. A U.S. military melee martial art based on jiu-jitsu.
But there was no such feeling in the girl’s movements.
Rather, it is more of an oriental mystery. Yeah, like a ninja in the media or something like that.
It was a sensitive part, so I approached it cautiously, and the answer came back as cool as an idiot.
“Our family business is an exorcist.”
My answer was also immediate.
“What kind of bullshit?”
The girl inflated her cheeks dissatisfied with the answer without a single delay.
“I’m not going anywhere without talking.”
That’s enough. Even in the labyrinth, if you say exorcism, everyone will tilt their heads.
“No, please explain. Exorcism, what are you fighting?”
The setting of the Jeong family is generally not the district I used to live in. Rather, it is set in the parallel world of Earth and Korea.
In countless episodes and past game experiences, the background of the existence of the Jeong family was in the near future, in the Joseon Dynasty, and in ordinary modern PMCs.
But from what I heard, it was an urban fantasy. Surprisingly, it’s a case I’ve never seen before in gaming days.
Maybe the game is being updated outside?
Does that apply to this world as well?
That’s very difficult.
Still, I’m glad it’s not a ’97 update.
The girl cheerfully narrated about her family affairs, which she did not ask any further questions.
I didn’t want to hear much, but listening is fundamental to building trust and gaining empathy.
Listening carefully, I only summarized the answers to my questions.
“So, it means you can handle all cold weapons well.”
“Yeah. We specialize in guys who don’t shoot well.”
Can a knife get stuck without a gun? I don’t know the world view.
Anyway, modern is right.
But if that’s all, he’s a martial arts master, and he’s not a superhuman like a crystal of genetic engineering.
The physical specs are too high to be explained simply by technical proficiency.
It is difficult to explain only the background setting when it is created as a random NPC.
Suddenly, I am curious about this girl’s initial stats.
It must have been much higher than mine.
“Okay, okay, now let’s open the mind map.”
The mind map is, so to speak, the stat window of this game and the skill tree window.
This systemic correction is not applied on the first floor.
It is only when you arrive on the second floor that the game system begins to work.
That’s why I think of the first floor as just a gateway to get used to death and suffering.
It’s not even a starting line.
The girl closed her eyes as if meditating as if she had already been explained.
And I was amazed.
“Wow, it looks like space.”
“Is your face stuck in the middle?”
“That’s right. It’s pretty.”
“Damn it. Read the numbers under it.”
The girl sang colors and numbers.
Red is strength, green is agility, and blue is intelligence.
This game employs a very classic Himminji 3-stat system.
To some extent, as expected, some bizarre numbers came out.
22 strength. Agility is 27. Intelligence is usually 12.
It’s hard to tell by just saying this, but the total of the initial stats of a pure human character does not exceed 30.
What’s more, the total is 61. This is an initial stat that can only be seen from some named fixed NPCs with low appearance rates.
If it’s a random NPC that’s not fixed, it’s a different kind of a different kind.
And now I don’t know why, but he’s my colleague.
It was a little strange, but after thinking about it for a while, I decided not to care.
It’s a random setup anyway.
My ancestors must have raked up only the strong genes from generation to generation.
The original game itself often has a lot of strange kinds of settings that are seriously considered.
It is also a place where joke-like weapons such as [Catling Gun] and [Beam Bow] exist.
“Which weapon do you like the most?”
The basic specifications themselves are high. The attitude is also very militant. There is no need to develop a class by myself.
In this case, it is better to follow your own preferences.
The girl pulled out a bunch without hesitation.
“I like that the handle fits snugly in the palm of your hand.”
I’m not that big, so I have small hands. It was an understandable reason.
So are you a pure agile dagger assassin?
No, it’s a bit of a waste of basic stats for that.
I don’t think it’s too late to decide after seeing how the skills are shot.
First, let’s maximize the advantages.
“Taking agility.”
It became quiet, as if she was doing what the girl was quietly telling her to do.
I don’t know what the skill will be.
There is a lot of luck in this game.
Although the mind map was like a skill tree, it was impossible to pick and shoot the desired skill.
Of course it’s random.
I also uploaded a mind map. If you do it often, you will be able to see without closing your eyes.
In the middle of a three-dimensional space like outer space, you can see my face in a round frame.
The numbers below it are 8 Strength, 11 Agility, and 15 Intelligence.
The most important strength in the beginning is below average.
So it’s a pain every time I restart.
And there was a branch extending out in three branches from the center.
Three colored dots representing each ability form a branch.
With a thought, I tapped three green dots.
Agility increased from 11 to 14.
At the same time, the light spreads out and contains green energy. A round border like a fruit bloomed at the end of the branch.
Shining icons and letters in it.
[Flashing Dagger]
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Just being active is a pretty good skill to use at the beginning.For me, the first stat is usually Agility. There is a high probability that you will acquire a good skill to use right away.
However, the skill the girl obtained was passive.
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“What’s this?”
I’m not asking because I’m really curious about the effect.
The effects of all skills are imprinted in the brain like a manual by systemic correction.
But that means it only teaches you how to use it, not that it makes you proficient.
The effect of [Speed] is simple.
All movements are multiplied and accelerated.
It has nothing to do with strength or agility.
If you raise it too much, the speed of digesting what you eat or speaking becomes too fast, so you suffer.
But it’s just not enough for one thing.
Hearing how it works in detail, the girl chuckled.
I guess I’m old enough to laugh a lot.
“Wow. Then I’ll grow old quickly.”
“Ah, yes. How come that friend’s face is so dry.”
“What’s your skill?”
“[Flashing Dagger].”
“Wait, let me guess. You can teleport while holding a dagger? There’s a cooldown.”
Similar but wrong.
There aren’t many skills that are so convenient in this game.
Instead of responding verbally, I threw a dagger.
It must be something the girl has never seen.
Because it’s a dagger, an indestructible object that was just created with a skill.
The length is also less than 20 centimeters, making it unsuitable for knife fighting. It is for throwing
A dagger pierced Sam’s edge into the tree stump with a click.
The girl’s eyes turned towards him.
The next moment I was pulling out a dagger from there.
“You can only move to the position of the dagger like this. Of course, there is a cooldown.”
“It’s worse than I thought.”
“That’s the skill you can get at the beginning. Can’t you see that you’ve branched out behind [Speed] again?”
The girl closed her eyes as if meditating again.
Then he nods his head.
“Yes. I can see it. It has two green dots and one blue dot.”
“It’s 1 stat per point. Did you get 3 agility by taking it earlier? It’s said that if you take that branch and take a skill, you increase agility by 2 and intelligence by 1.”
The girl groaned in pain.
“Oh, this is complicated.”
“It’s easy once you know it. First of all, remember that the farther you go from the center, the more likely you are to get a better skill. That’s why it’s a mind map.”
“I have to stretch out.”
“right.”
The girl quietly began to ponder. Then he asks
“But how do I raise the points for taking this? I understand that skills and stats are integrated.”
“Level up.”
“Wow, it’s like a game.”
’cause it’s a game You are an NPC.
Every time I see a reaction like that, I get a strange feeling. After all, I am the only real human being in this world.
As I was teaching with such a sound, I suddenly made a fairly large amount of rope.
Now, I’ll have to trim some of the brushes I picked up and make them into torches. It should be done before the sun goes down.
Complete darkness is not good in many ways.
And I need to make some clothes in advance.
I don’t have any armor, but I’m sure I’ll be parting with my jeans soon.
The hunter returned before the sun went down.
The harvest looked good. One rabbit and two unknown birds.
But he had a serious expression, not like a person who had a decent harvest.
“Leader, there seems to be a problem.”
what is this again The probability of problems starting from the second floor of the forest theme is extremely low.
There’s no way the power war has already appeared.
No wait, maybe that’s it?
The forest is mainly the realm of the stump fairy.
“Did there ever be a big tree?”
“Yes.”
I can see why the hunter’s expression was a porridge.
But I would have had a subtle expression that was neither happy nor sad.
—– Author’s remarks —–
I didn’t have enough ability to draw the background in a cosmic style like the description of the work.
If you’ve played the game ‘Path of Exile’, it’s roughly right when you think of the game’s skill tree.
Skills appear randomly.