156 – Just one check
We crossed the winding narrow gorge starting from the entrance for about 20 minutes and arrived in front of a precipitous cliff. I looked up.
“The width of the stairs going up seems to be sufficient, but is this gradually getting narrower?”
The width of the first step is about 2m. It was wide enough for three or four adults to move freely.
“Yes. If you go all the way to the top, you have to keep your back against the cliff so that you can barely pass.”
“How are you going to fight in that state?”
Jua growled at Arin for nothing, saying, ‘It’s worse than I heard.’
“I just fill it with my body. Neos harpies have weak attack power, right? And once they reach that point, it won’t be long before the boss battle unfolds, so you can just run.”
Juah showed a tired expression at Arin’s helpless answer.
“It’s different from what I said yesterday, you Dalting! Trust me!”
“This is the correct answer. If you search the Internet, everything comes up…”
“Oops… I’m a fool for trusting you.”
Arin expressed his resentment by saying that there was nothing special, but I heard that he had nothing more to say.
‘There’s nothing particularly dangerous if you avoid being poisoned by the poison on her claws.’
Even that addiction doesn’t take much unless it’s deeply hurt.
That’s why there were very few hunters killed by harpies here.
Nevertheless, there are quite a few hunters struggling in this dungeon, and it was most likely an internal factor rather than an external factor.
The proportion of people with a fear of heights is known to be in and out of about 7% of the total population. And that part is not fixed or fixed just because it is awakened.
So this dungeon starts with 7 out of 100 hunters filtered out before the start.
That’s why it’s classified as a dungeon that people don’t like even though it’s a normal difficulty.
“For now, shall we go? I’ll hit the wall with summoned beasts outside.”
“If you do that, I think you’ll feel more secure!”
Who wouldn’t be intimidated by the stairs going up the cliff, but Lee Yeon-hee didn’t feel scared for some reason because Ilwol was by her side.
Especially, since I had skinship with Ilwol who transformed into [Imitation] Yesterday, the distance in my heart has become much closer.
Of course, it bothered me that I put pressure on Ilwol after that, so I did notice a little while holding my hand inadvertently.
Ilwol held her hand as if nothing had happened.
There was one thing left to check when I went home today, but as long as the results aren’t the worst, I won’t change my mind about Ilwol.
‘… If you teach me how to speak for a few days, maybe we can go to the stage where we can chat together. Then when you sleep, lie next to me…’
She was already in a state where a flower garden was unfolding in her head, spreading her imagination.
Kook-
It wasn’t just January. Lizard troops and all summoned creatures including Orcs.
I had reliable friends who would give their lives to protect me, but I couldn’t let go of them because I was scared.
Jerbug-
As Yeon-hee takes the lead, Joo-a, A-rin, and Ham Eun-young hurriedly follow her. Strictly speaking, they didn’t want to be farther away from Il-Wol than Yeon-Hee.
– If the amount of magical power falls below 100, the magical recovery speed increases by 50%.
‘Puheup- Really, this is a crazy buff…! Never fall off hee hee-‘
Bae Joo-ah made that promise while looking at the message that came to mind. Because of her lack of magical power, she felt like this buff came down from the sky, perhaps because of her memories of the hardships she suffered yesterday.
‘… Ah… It’s still creepy…’
Joo-ah recalled her memories of drinking the unidentified water yesterday and recovering.
Parrle-
‘Haa… Just thinking about it makes my body feel hot.’
Mysterious water. I really liked it.
‘… Kettle. It seems that only Ilwol can use that artifact… But can’t you sell the water separately? Why don’t you think about selling it?’
It was incomprehensible to Bae Joo-ah. If I could just open a potion shop and sell that, I could make money stably, so why am I having trouble buying it?
‘… It’s a shame. Ha- I want one too…’
If only I had that artifact… No, if I had a being like Sun-Wol-I next to me, I wouldn’t have to suffer like yesterday anymore.
Joo Ah licked her lips and moved closer to Il Wol’s back. It was because I had an intuition that good things would continue to happen if I stayed with him. Of course, to Joo-ah, the good thing was that he smelled like money.
– Kyaaa!!
– Chaah!!
“That’s really annoying!”
As Bae Joo-ah climbed her stairs one by one, her nerves grew sharper and sharper. She wasn’t afraid of heights, but she was the most vulnerable member of the party at heights. Besides, her rock magic was ineffective against her aerial monsters.
Yesterday’s main striker is today just a wall shuttle to keep them out.
‘It’s not even a day or two! It’s okay, this much.’
She tried hard to think positively. And she was just a little annoying, but no other difficulties. Thinking about those damn races yesterday, I felt that this level of aegyo was at the level.
[Fireball]
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Roaring— Pew!
‘Oh! I finally landed a shot!’
It wasn’t difficult for her to attack only Baejuah. Whether it was fireballs or Yeonhee’s arrow attacks, it was not difficult to hit them flying in the air without any special rules.
– You have killed the Neos Harpy!
– Attribute [Kleptomaniac] Is activated.
– Randomly steals the skills of Neos Harpies.
– Acquired the skill [High Speed Flight]!
High-speed flight Lv.1
– When flying or gliding, move like a storm towards the designated target point.
– Movement limit distance : 10m
‘That’s right! After all, it was a skill with a fixed distance. But isn’t 10m too short?’
If you think about it, the guy in the red hat who turned into a mutant only moved quickly for a moment, and I remember that the distance was only a short distance.
‘There’s no use for this right now, but it’s unique. Flight-related skills are rare.’
I nodded my head in satisfaction at my new skill and moved again.
It took an hour to climb the stairs like that.
We reached the midpoint from the top before we knew it.
Harpies were attacking in earnest to protect their spawning grounds.
“It’s best to just go up quickly! Right now, I only scare you and keep you in check, but when you approach the spawning grounds right below the top, they will come closer on their own!”
Nod-
Everyone nodded at Arin Baek’s words. The number of summoned beasts who would barricade themselves was overflowing, and he was getting used to the pattern of attracting and killing them with provocation.
[Skull Bomb]
[Dagger Throw]
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-!
‘Hmm, as expected, there is a big difference in accuracy between those calibrated with dagger throwing and those without.’
As Arin said, the higher we went upstairs, the more aggressively they tried to stop us. Of course, the accuracy of bombs and fireballs increased, and the [Dagger Throwing] Skill, which he had been using for a long time, went up to level 6 and became more accurate.
—–
Dagger Throw Lv. 6
– Attack +30% when dagger thrown, Accuracy +25%
– Accuracy +20% when throwing any object
—–
‘Let’s make a throwing knife out of bones.’
Heavy things like bombs and fireballs can’t reach the target quickly, so I needed a medium-range, short-range attack that could take the attack concisely. It was also a waste to just rot the dagger throwing attack power increase.
I decided to check the effectiveness of turning bones into daggers at home and calculated the remaining distance to the top.
‘It’s not long. Harpy attacks aren’t working on us at all.’
Did the thing I hoped for last night to go smoothly did it work?
“Beware of the worms coming out of the wall!”
At that time, Arin warned me about the existence that would attack from within the cliff.
The ‘cliff earthworm’ lives only in the cliffs near the spawning grounds of harpies.
They eat harpy eggs as their staple food, but they also drop hunters down cliffs and eat corpses.
Because it suddenly jumps out of the wall, it would be impossible to challenge the boss fight in this dungeon without a guide with developed five senses.
‘Coming. Three, four…’
“Tick tock tock!!”
According to my signal, the party members spread their distance from the place I pointed at.
Since they have a tendency to set a target at a distance and dig in a straight line, it’s very easy to deal with them if you know where they’re digging in advance.
Quaaah!
Roaring!
The four cliff worms jumped out of the cliff at the same time as if they were squeezed together.
A typical shape of an annular animal with a body diameter of 1m and a body length of more than 3m.
“Kyaaagh!”
Bae Joo-ah blocked the two places where they came out with a rock barrier and moved busily toward the top.
Arin and I cut off the other two as soon as they came out of the cliff.
[Flame Slash]
Puff!
Following the arc of the dagger that tore through the soft shell, the foul-smelling bodily fluids they contained spewed out in all directions.
Chae ah ah-
Green bodily fluid that jumps high into the sky.
However, because the Orcs and Lizard troops greeted the dirty things with their bodies, we were able to move upwards again in a pleasant state.
– You have killed the Cliff Worm!
– This is an object that does not have any skills. [Kleptomaniac]’S attribute extortion rate is added by 5%.
– Attribute [Kleptomaniac] Has not been activated.
They were monsters with no skills, only attributes. As a result, the success rate of Kleptomaniac was increased by 5%.
Even so, the probability of success was as low as 18%, so the first attempt unfortunately ended in failure.
– You have killed the Cliff Worm!
As we headed towards the top for 40 minutes, we encountered the cliff earthworm three more times, and eventually we were able to get its characteristics as well.
– You have killed the Cliff Worm!
– Attribute [Kleptomaniac] Is activated.
– Randomly steals the characteristics of cliff earthworms.
– Acquired the trait [Cliff Breaker]!
– There is an attribute that can be fused with the newly acquired attribute [Cliff Destroyer]. Would you like to fuse?
It was a message asking if you would like to fuse the attribute obtained by killing him and the attribute obtained from the previous ‘Earth Puppy’ [Digging a Tunnel].
Cliff Breaker seems like a higher level attribute, but what about the result?
‘Convergence.’
– [Tunnel Digging] And [Cliff Destroyer] Are fused.
Tunnel Destroyer Lv.1
– Any terrain similar to land can be sold much easier.
– Increases movement speed while digging burrows by 25%.
– The sense of detecting enemies outside the burrow increases.
– When designating an enemy outside the den and rushing at it, Defense +45
‘Huh… It’s changed to a pretty nice trait, right?’