161 – 3rd Rune – 2
Nyx’s dark eyes, which stood still, turned towards me. It was completely gloomy, and it was a completely different gaze from the usual pupils that only looked around.
It was cloudy. All sorts of complicated emotions were swirling around, and the black pupil, which had turned completely cloudy, was looking at me. Before I could even open my mouth in doubt, he hit the ball from the other side.
“You know.”
“what?”
Nick closed his mouth after that. Judging from the sound I heard when I closed my mouth, it seemed that I didn’t close it voluntarily this time either. In other words, that word also means that the taboo is applied.
I replayed in my mind what I had just heard. After tearing the corpse of a centipede long dead, I know why?
Nothing comes to mind
‘uh.’
wait a minute.
One possibility crossed my mind. It was a very weak possibility, but if true, it was an absurd possibility that would have to deny this world from the root.
I looked down at Nix with a chill. The black eyes facing me were still turbid.
A possibility I came up with. That was the background setting for Brightest Darkness 3.
Unlike the main character of Brunet 4, who achieved all the feats in the story without dying or failing even once, the main character of Brunet 3 was an immortal who could be revived infinitely even after dying.
It was because of the creature called ‘Immortal Centipede’ that dwells in the main character’s body.
A human who became a host after being eaten by an immortal centipede becomes an immortal who continues to be resurrected no matter how much he dies, but on the other hand, the opposite s*x is also eaten by the centipede and turns into an existence no different from a beast.
The main character of Brunet 3 was one of the few immortals who could retain his reason and intelligence as human even after being eaten by a centipede.
Perhaps because of such a setting, most of the bosses in Brunet 3 were in the state of being immortal centipedes, so you had to completely clear the boss battle only by reducing your physical strength and then using special armaments to deal with the centipede.
It was a process that was translated as ‘Requiem’ in Korean, and it was the most differentiated feature of Brunet 3 compared to other series.
Due to this background setting, there were only two ways to kill the immortal centipede’s dwelling creature. Burn the centipede by stabbing yourself with the special armament mentioned above, or… … .
‘Forcibly pulling out the centipede, or tearing it to shreds without leaving even a shape.’
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Just like Nick did.
‘… … Is it really for that reason?’
As for me, I always didn’t have enough time to do Brunet 4, so no matter how well I tried, I could only play a little over 200 hours.
So I wasn’t too sure, but that was the only centipede I knew.
‘That’s all, but… … .’
If there’s a problem, it’s the setting of Brightest Darkness 3.
Brunet 4 is not a worldview that continues with the previous series, but a worldview that is completely independent and starts anew, and the NPC that became the original Nyx is a character of Brunet 4.
From Brightest Darkness 1 to 3, the time interval was slightly larger, but they were set in the same world, but Brightest Darkness 4 was not even that.
So, that means it’s impossible for Nix to mention that setting.
It should have been impossible.
“… … No way, no?”
I squeezed in a lot of stuff and asked Nix a question. Nyx stared at me with eyes that seemed even more hazy than before, then suddenly returned to her usual stupid eyes.
“Uh, huh?”
A bewildered voice came out of his mouth. Nyx blinked, looked at herself and at me, then started wiggling her fingers in front of her chest, checking my eyes.
“hehehehe… … By any chance, did I do something wrong? You don’t look good… … .”
It was the kind of respectful speech.
Instead of answering my question, they just switched personalities. I thought it would be very convenient. I sighed and tried to cover it up and move on, but I suddenly remembered that personalities share memories.
“Didn’t you hear what the person who was talking rudely just said?”
“Yeah, I didn’t hear. lol. Sharing stopped after I heard the question… … .”
But even that seemed to have been prepared in advance.
After hearing the question, the memory sharing stopped. In other words, it means that Nix, who uses short language, gave such an answer even while deliberately cutting off memory sharing.
I couldn’t hide my embarrassment and kept thinking about why Nix said that, and the honorific Nix stood next to me with a sullen smile on his face while his expression was restless.
After pondering over and over again, he clicked his tongue slightly. Nyx flinched at the sound of my tongue clicking. His shoulders shrunk little by little.
“Oh sorry. It’s not because of you. It’s because of Nyx, who speaks half-heartedly. I had something to think about for a while, so my head was complicated.”
“… … Yes.”
“In case you didn’t know, you know why Nix did that to the centipede—”
Before I could finish the question, Nyx’s mouth fell tight. Judging by the fact that his eyes were opened in bewilderment, he did not close them of his own will.
I gave up on questioning outright. If there’s that kind of taboo stuff hanging around here, there’s nothing I can figure out.
‘Should I ask the Pope later?’
This is a world where the concept of God exists. The divine power was the proof. So, the Pope might be able to communicate directly with God.
I don’t know if I’m qualified to communicate with God, but ask the popes and they’ll do anything.
If Floretta and Luna are not qualified, they will try to do a favor by making one. I’m sorry that you seem to be taking advantage of my feelings for me, but I was very curious.
I quietly added a visit to the Holy Land to my plans in my head.
“Once I got it. Let’s keep going.”
Nyx, who glanced at me, crept up next to me again. I didn’t even bother pushing it. Nix, who made my head complicated, is not an honorific word, but rather an informal one.
From her first appearance until now, she was a woman full of secrets.
“it’s okay. It’s here.”
We stopped in front of a certain wall. The walls are absurdly thin, with cracks all over the place, revealing what’s inside. A soft green light leaked through the cracks.
Nyx turned her head after checking the runestone visible through the cracks.
“Is that the rune?”
“right.”
His personality on the half horse side was still unknown. Honorific Nix says that if you lock yourself inside like that, there’s really no other way than to forcefully bring out the other personality.
I told her to leave it alone. He did that because he didn’t want to tell me, or he did that because he couldn’t tell me, unless there was a way to break through that absurdity, there was no reason to focus on the investigation.
“What about this? Can I break it? lol. I’m really confident of doing that. You’ve done well so far.”
“No, that’s not okay.”
It’s a precarious wall that looks like it can be broken, and at the beginning of this dungeon, a wall that actually looks similar to this one appears, so you’ll think that it’s all the more necessary to destroy that one.
In fact, it was. No matter what weapon you hit, it’s guaranteed to be destroyed within 3 hits, and even if you hit it with your bare hands, it’s a wall that will break in 5-6 hits.
Like the rune stone inside.
The moment this wall is broken, the rune tombstone is also broken. If that happened, I had to move on to the next round to get this rune.
True to its reputation as a trap dungeon, it could be seen that traps were laid until the very end.
“Then the tombstone will also break. You can’t break it.”
“uh… … sorry. I did not know.”
Nyx, who was sullen, obediently handed over the apple. I stroked his hair gently.
“I apologize. Originally, it gives a warning when solving puzzles in the middle, but since I skipped all of them, I don’t know.”
Of course, such vicious traps were not placed without any warning. Difficult but not unreasonable, is the motto of the Brightest Darkness series.
After the player breaks down the wall and enters the rune dungeon, they are warned several times not to do that again. If you do something like that, something irreparable will happen.
Of course, that didn’t help much.
In common sense, how many users would think, ‘Oh, I shouldn’t do it because I was warned’ when they saw a warning not to do that again after breaking through the wall. Just break it down and go in.
Even in the 10th anniversary statistics, more than 80% of users said they broke the rune in the first play.
“Then how do I get that?”
Nyx tilted her head and looked at me. If you break the wall, the rune will also break, so it seemed like he was wondering how to get that.
“like this.”
I went around the side of the wall and found a clumsy pile of boxes. A pile of boxes like this in the middle of such a deep rune dungeon was an open hint.
When I first arrived in front of the wall, it was cleverly hidden so I couldn’t see it, but I left it in a place where I had to go around a little to see it.
The wingless nightmare swung at the boxes. Since the durability wasn’t that high from the beginning, the blade made a loud noise as soon as it touched and collapsed.
A road appeared beyond the piled up of tree fragments.
“Let’s go in here.”
“Yes, hehehe.”
Nyx, who smiled innocently, followed me behind me. After turning the corner twice, the back of the rune stone appeared. The passageway was a structure that looked like the Korean symbol ‘ㄴ’.
When peering through the cracks in the wall, it looked like an enclosed space from an angle, so it was impossible to notice unless someone with a good eye for it.
I reached out for the rune stone in front of me. Then, I concentrated the strange sensation that I felt a while ago on the back of my left hand that had begun to flow into my body. It was easier than the last time because of the accumulated experience.
Within seconds, a stroke of a new tattoo was drawn opposite the tattoo representing the mana-boosting rune. The rune is the fourth rune in the order in which it was obtained, but it is actually the third rune.
It was the ‘vampire impulse’ that was in charge of one axis of the final build of the melee mode.
I fiddled with the back of my hand. The size of the engraved tattoo was getting bigger and bigger. I thought that if I got the fourth rune later, the entire back of my hand would be covered with tattoos.
yes. After obtaining the fourth rune.
The Rune of Rest in the Abyss, obtained by catching Lucia, had long since been erased.
‘There won’t be such a thing as round play.’
Rest in the Abyss does not belong to the player. In other words, the player had to obtain a new rune each time he passed the round.
That way, I could have him ride down that damn terrain and catch Lucia every round.
According to the setting, it was a melted rune that could not withstand the mighty power of a creature abandoned by the gods, but in the eyes of users, it was just an excuse made by the manufacturer.
The creature disappears even if it goes beyond the round without having to fight the boss, but what is it that it couldn’t hold on to?
“Nix. Do you remember the black magic we talked about last time?”
I opened and closed my left hand and asked Nix. Since he even got the vampiric urge, he should be able to roughly mimic the final build, even if it’s not perfect.
“Yes? Ah yes. Are you saying you wanted to know? lol.”
“I think you should tell me now.”
“I know.”
Nyx nodded and came towards me.
In the game, I just wanted to learn how to teach magic because I just had to select the magic I wanted to learn from the dedicated UI window, but as soon as Nyx gently held my hand, knowledge flowed into my head.
Learning was instantaneous. Nyx let go within seconds, and I immediately understood the magic I was looking for.
“Can we go back to the city now?”
“It should be. Instead, before that—”
Before I could finish my words, a thunderous rumble—! Along with the sound, the entire dungeon vibrated loudly. I went on with what I was trying to say.
“Test what you just got.”
Ah yes, the immortal centipede, just like in sekiro huh