Get Runes – 6
ㅡ Iron gruck.
I started hearing the familiar sound of armor on the other side of the road. I raised my head. Knights in silver armor were walking along with the unique yellow and orange light of torches.
Familiar-looking armor and familiar-looking weapons.
It was Iris, Rize, and Erica. It seemed that the one in the front was Rize, and the ones standing on either side of it were Iris and Erika. That was the weapon in his hand.
Rize, who was standing in the front, seemed to have noticed me and said something behind her back. Then, at a quick pace, he came closer. I also got up from my seat.
Rize put her weapon on her waist and took off her helmet. Her blue hair, which was tied together, fluttered and stretched out. One eye, uncovered by hair, was looking intently at me.
waved his hand and said hello.
“Did you come earlier than expected?”
“Is that the first time we met?”
I smiled shyly. But Rize didn’t laugh. The twinkling gaze was directed at me.
Judging from the look in his eyes and expression, he didn’t seem to be really angry with me, but it didn’t seem like he was in a situation where he would let go. I felt a strong will to hear the answer clearly.
“I have nothing else to say other than this… … Kheuk.”
The gauntlets grabbed my cheeks and pulled me closer. Rize’s face was right in front of mine. I tried to keep the distance, but I couldn’t move as if I was firmly caught in the palm of my hand.
“I have a lot. Right, newbie?”
“It was a joke. sorry. So can’t you just let this go?”
Even so, Rize stared at me for a while with her face and mine almost touching, then let go of her hand. I just sat down on the floor. Blue eyes looked down at me.
“Why didn’t you tell me earlier? that you’re alone You could have told us first.”
This is a question I’ve been thinking about answering the whole time I’ve been sitting here. Rize was looking at me with eyes that seemed to tell me not to dream of giving halfway answers.
The most fundamental reason was that if several people attacked at once, the aggro of the rock centipede would not be concentrated on one person and would bounce here and there, but it was impossible to tell this directly.
At any rate, the knight commanders might take it as meaning that they were interfering with my actions. It might be an exaggerated idea, but I didn’t want to give it even room to think that way.
I never do, and I never intend to. On the contrary, I hoped it would be helpful, but could it be a hindrance? If it’s not a boss that I absolutely have to catch, I’m thinking of leaving it to the knight commanders to subdue it.
Of course, in the beginning, the experience gained by catching the boss is quite large, but from the middle, when the experience of all rubbish mobs rises, it is a gap that can be overcome by working hard.
In addition, in the case of the build that is used in the Nyaola mode, if you put enough divine power and magic power, it didn’t matter much whether or not the level went up until a certain section after that.
It means that if you have control to overcome the gap between level and spec, you don’t have to waste the experience of defeating the boss in the early stages.
“Isn’t it okay to move on by saying that there is a reason for that?”
“Do you think it will?”
Before I knew it, even Iris and Erika came closer and were looking at me with eyes similar to Rize’s. Even with just one, there were two more pairs of burdensome gazes, so the feeling of intimidation was enormous.
But like Rize, neither Iris nor Erika really seemed angry with me.
If Rize was complaining about why she didn’t tell them in advance, Iris and Erika were closer to revealing a bit of reprimand in between their complaints.
“So, what is the answer?”
I gave the second reason, and the most obvious answer.
“I didn’t want to hurt you guys.”
“… … ?”
In an instant, Rize’s eyes widened. It was an expression of what I just heard. Iris and Erika, who were behind him, also made faces that were not much different.
“Wait a minute. what did you just say?”
“I didn’t want to hurt you guys.”
“… … hurt? U.S?”
“Then who else is here? Of course you guys.”
Blue eyes spun round and round. It was like I didn’t know what the hell I was talking about.
“Rookie, are you really worried about us now?”
“No matter how you were, if you fell from that height, you would have died instantly. I think it’s strange that you’re not worried.”
“If it is high, how high is it?”
Rize’s face became sullen.
I should have pretended to be angry at something, but the corners of my mouth kept twitching to myself as if I was quite happy that I cared for them. Thanks to that, the overall look was very subtle.
“According to my experience, it must have fallen by almost 20 seconds. Do you have any idea how much it was?”
Except for a few special NPCs, all NPCs were not immune to falls. Of course, due to the nature of the game, it was impossible to kill the boss with a fall, but it was the result of some users’ tests.
When falling, the damage proportional to the maximum physical strength is continuously added for each certain height, so if it was the height of this cave, death was just confirmed.
That’s why you have to chew the fall with the fall attack.
“You mean you could have been fine?”
“Of course. You’re alive and moving here.”
“I’m not going to tell you how to do it.”
“It’s not that I don’t teach, it’s that I can’t teach. Because I do it out of instinct, not knowledge.”
I still wasn’t sure if Iris, Rize, or Erica would be able to perform a falling attack.
I can’t deflect enemy attacks, I tried to roll, but there is no invincibility while rolling, and I can’t activate the special abilities of weapons other than my own.
It really felt like I knew only what the NPCs knew. It’s even weirder to think that you can’t deflect or roll, but you can fall attack.
Before coming here, I asked if they knew how to land without getting hurt by using the enemy as a stepping stone when falling from a high place, but all four of them had only question marks above their heads.
Did I just do it? I was not in a position to teach anything because I was at the level. How do I know why the invincibility time applies only to my roll?
“Anyway, that’s too much to worry about, Mr. Shin. There is no need for Shin-ssi to worry about us—”
“Why is there no need to worry about you?”
“… … yes?”
Erica, speechless at my answer, blinked.
“It’s not like you don’t get sick and don’t die. If you get hit, it hurts, and if you get hurt, you could die. But why don’t you worry?”
Even when dealing with the rock centipede, I thought I would explain everything about the pattern. Because people don’t know what to do. From now on, whenever you entrust subjugation in my place, I will continue to explain.
Right now, these guys are a bitch, so if they start getting hit by a super-large boss, they get infinite rigidity and roar and die. Nella mode is more dangerous because the interval between attacks is much shorter than in vanilla.
And the most important thing is the fact that if the knight commanders didn’t avoid it first and stayed with me from up there, they would have fallen and died.
They can’t chew fall damage. Of course you should be concerned.
“We are knights, newcomers. If I must die, I am always ready to die, and I must.”
“Before you are a knight, you are a human being. I may die one day, but that won’t be today. It will be the same in the future. I have it and I won’t let it happen.”
There are so many monsters that I have to subdue in my place, but I absolutely cannot tolerate falling down here in vain or being killed by a rock centipede.
Their life is my life, but I’m afraid I’ll let it be like that.
“I’m sorry for not telling you earlier. But in that situation, it was for the best. I didn’t want to make you guys get caught up in something I could solve.”
“newcomer… … .”
When I finished speaking, Rize’s eyes were shining brightly for some reason, and Iris and Erika were also looking at me with something visibly changed.
‘Did it happen?’
I don’t know where in the world it succeeded, but it seemed like it went over safely. I internally let out a sigh of relief. I’m glad it ended better than expected.
“So about the next thing… … Hey, are you listening?”
I tried to explain what patterns the rock centipedes had, but somehow everyone seemed to be lost in their own thoughts without listening to me.
Rize-ya is always like that. Even so, why are Iris and Erica like that?
‘An unusual guy.’
It was a thought that popped into both Iris and Erica’s heads at the same time. Literally, I can only describe him as an unusual guy.
As a freshman who had just joined the knights, even the captain of the knights was not enough to subdue the monsters he had failed to subdue alone, and over the course of several days, he even wiped out close to a hundred additional monsters.
As a newcomer who has just joined the Knights, it is not enough to have no hesitation at all in his actions, and he always produces the best results.
Now, as a newcomer who has just joined the knights, he even worries about them, not being on par with those who have been trained rigorously as knights since childhood.
Originally, it was impossible. Who cares about whom? Even the person himself is in a situation where he is unable to fully demonstrate his original ability because of the curse. I was in no position to worry about others.
‘It’s a strange feeling.’
But curiously, since he was being worried by the rookie, for some reason a part of his heart tickled.
I have always lived a life far from that. Fighting in front of anyone as a knight was something that was supposed to be done, and death was always by my side.
So did the emperor. Since he himself was said to be the strongest in the empire, there was no way he cared about mere articles.
There were also many members who were sacrificed by monsters. However, no one was worried about dying, even though they mourned and feared death.
It is natural to fear death, but it is also natural to die. There was no reason to worry, no reason to accept it. If you die, your life is only there. That was the only thought I had so far.
‘Before being a knight, being a human… … .’
But, this man was different. I was saying that the obvious was not obvious. This was all for the first time.
It wasn’t even a pretentious speech and act that was spit out while hiding the real intention. There was sincerity in those eyes. He was really worried about the knight commanders who would be stronger than he was.
You can be dumbfounded about who cares about whom. It’s okay to criticize them for saying that after they’ve grown a little more. You can think of it as a light joke and laugh it off.
But no one did. I didn’t want to.
For some reason, it didn’t feel too bad.
Hidden stat:
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Rizz: 100