243 – The Returner Is Convinced (2)
-Girl’s Cheering [A]
-5 seconds before a threat strikes, you can perceive any ominousness.
-The characteristic is activated and removed from the status window.
A grade A trait obtained through repeated regression on the 21st floor, the girl’s support. To put it simply, the effect would be an ‘alarm signal.’ Or should I say it is the canary position that miners carry around.
“That… “The girl’s cheering trait has been activated?”
“Uh.”
The girl’s cheering characteristics have been calm so far… Right now, just before entering the 25th floor. It started suddenly. With the words ‘the characteristic is activated and removed from the status window.’
“The status window is maintained even if it regresses… “
What is the reason why I have been successful in copying the elixir so far? Isn’t this because the elixir affects the status window, and even if it regresses, the status window information is maintained?
But it was removed from the status window? This means that across all regressions, it will never be triggered again.
No, it’s still an A-level trait, but is it a one-time use? Is this ridiculous? You should write down in advance that it is for one-time use.
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Similar Class A traits include Curiosity, Awe, Meditation, Swordsmanship, and Frost Affinity. These are all useful characteristics, and these are the core characteristics that I am still using to good effect. For your reference, the S-rank characteristics include Flash Bomb and Heart of Lightning, and I was planning to use Heart of Lightning just before fighting the ‘Dancing Ghost’… To be honest, strobe beams are still useless. I don’t know why it’s S.
Anyway, should I say that it’s a bit disappointing or mean-spirited that the A-class characteristics are disposable? It must be said that it is a bit strange that it has been quiet until now and is now acting up. Anyway, I had a lot of thoughts.
“No, wait a minute. Let’s think the opposite way.”
The person who cooled my head here was Choi Ji-won.
“Is this an A-level trait? Rather than thinking… Doesn’t this mean that the 25th floor we are about to enter is dangerous enough to activate Class A characteristics?”
“… That’s true.”
Okay, let’s change the direction of our thoughts. The 25th floor is so dangerous that ‘Girl’s Cheer’, which is only activated once, is not a trash trait, but rather an A-level trait.
In fact, when players attacked me on the 22nd floor, when I faced monsters on the 23rd floor, and when I fought ghosts on the 24th floor, this trait did not activate at all. In the end, I guess it was because it was a situation I could solve. In that case, the 25th floor should be viewed as a direct threat that I cannot solve.
“Hmm.”
Objectively, I’m pretty strong. And it is thorough. Do not let go of tension every time you enter the tower.
If I were to face a crisis as soon as I entered… What is the cause? Why did the A-class characteristics activate?
There are three main things that come to mind right away.
First.
“Poison.”
A hostile environment, including poison. This is a crisis that is impossible to deal with.
The poison… There is no response yet. It just doesn’t work. It was like that from the tutorial.
According to rumors, if you control your magical power well, you can slow down the spread of poison or create some kind of force field to block the poison for a while. (The source of the rumor is the American civil war. It is said that a strange type of battle continues there that mixes the player’s supernatural powers with the tricks of modern warfare.)
However, this is a method I have never tried before, and the information itself is just rubbish, so it is difficult to try it right away.
Also, even if it is not ‘poisonous’, it is difficult for any layer that satisfies the condition of ‘continuous light damage’.
Even if extreme cold is covered by ‘cold affinity’, extreme heat, sand storms that directly hit the skin, thick hail falling from the sky, or even sharp blades of grass that can cut you just by passing by. This is an environment I would like to avoid.
What if this is not the case?
Second.
“… Archangel.”
When the Archangel sets up some kind of trap to catch the returner.
Either the 25th floor has been temporarily made unbreakable, or a trap has been set up to immediately seal anyone who enters, or the Archangel himself is waiting at the entrance to the 25th floor.
This is based on the assumption that the Archangel was aware of the incident that occurred on the 24th floor. Contrary to my expectations, the Archangel noticed the change in the past, and after eliminating the ghosts to prevent the collapse of the 24th floor, he is waiting on the 25th floor to do something about me… Number of cases.
When you think about it in common sense, is it really possible for a being the size of an archangel to move like that? The first thought that comes to mind… ‘Archangels will be like this!’ Isn’t this all just speculation on my part? Human standards should not be used to predict the movements of unknown beings.
What if you’re not an archangel?
Third.
“Just… “If there is a monster.”
In the simplest way. It just happens that a very strong monster is waiting at the entrance. Then, it makes sense that the ‘girl’s support’ trait was activated.
“Uhm… “
All three are valid and persuasive possibilities in their own way. The problem is that the moment I put my body in to check this, I might get caught in an attack.
My regression point was when I first entered each floor. Once you enter the 25th floor, you cannot come out until you wake up. The irony is that information is needed to turn speculation into certainty, but if I actually enter it, I will be destroyed.
How… How should…
“Junho?”
“Huh? Did you come up with a good idea?”
“Just… How about I go first? All you have to do is go in, wake it up, and tell me what was dangerous to you.”
“… No, even if you tell me, I won’t recognize it anyway. “I can’t pass on information from layers that haven’t woken up.”
“Uhm… That’s right. Then how about this? First, I will beat the 25th floor once.”
“… And?”
“And, they return together. And then beat the 25th floor again. Because I remember beating the 25th floor.”
“… “
“Then, when I have accumulated a certain amount of information and am confident that I can break it unconditionally… Then I go in with you and clear the 25th floor. How do you feel?”
“… What if it is a floor where you can proceed alone?”
“Then, well, there’s nothing we can do. Still, isn’t this the best in the current situation?”
“… “
I wanted to refute it. That’s how I felt. I just wanted to say something and prove that Choi Ji-won was wrong.
But no words come to mind. Reason acknowledged. Choi Ji-won’s opinion is valid.
“I guess that’s for the best… ” “
This is the layer that warns you to ‘be careful’ before the A-level characteristics are introduced. If you just put your body first on this floor, you don’t know what kind of disaster could happen.
What if there was no regression? Then just go in. However, as long as there is regression, as long as there is a risk that I could be trapped in an eternally repeating time… It is clear that it is best for Choi Ji-won to go in first.
“I’ll go. Michael Jeter and other players have all broken through, right? You think I can’t do it? “Isn’t that right?”
“… No.”
“Do you trust me?”
“I believe it.”
“Then leave it to me. “Don’t worry too much.”
“… “
Choi Ji-won repacks the equipment he had put down for a while. Her will her Her is firm
“… Okay.”
I nodded with the feeling of a husband who was seeing his wife off for work, while I was fired from my job, unemployed, and wasting every day at home. Her pride, she is hurt, and she sighs… It can’t be helped.
If you look at it purely from the perspective of attacking the tower… This is correct.
“I’ll be right back.”
“… Yes.”
Choi Ji-won disappeared beyond her portal. And she had no one. It felt full when the two of us were there, but in an instant, the room feels empty.
“… “
She did nothing but stared blankly into space. She took out her phone and played around with it a little, feeling like she needed to do something, but then she gave up and just looked up at the clock.
Watching the person I love sacrifice for me… It was painful. I know it can’t be helped, I know this is right, but there was an irresistible feeling of discomfort.
Petulance. Thank you. Helplessness.
I ponder over the swirling emotions and quietly look at the clock.
It was two hours later that Choi Ji-won returned.
**
About two hours later. Choi Ji-won, with a pale complexion, returned with a potion in her mouth. The veins in her neck are blue and her breathing is noticeably rough.
“Cock, cough, wow… ” “
No, she now drops the potion she was holding in her mouth and goes to the bathroom to vomit again and again.
The sight of Choi Ji-won becoming this weak… At least, I think this is the first time in my life that I have seen someone physically cornered.
What on earth is on the 25th floor? What was it that pushed Choi Ji-won to this point?
“Uwaeek… “
Choi Ji-won didn’t say anything. No, he couldn’t. Because even if I do it anyway, I won’t be able to hear it.
So, the sight of her vomiting repeatedly, a trickle of fresh blood flowing from her mouth, her blue-black lips, and her sunken eyes hinted at the environment on the 25th floor.
“… “It’s poison.”
It was the worst match for me.