24 episodes Marauders (1)
A level 9 manastone is one stone bread.
That is, each has a value of about 20 stones.
So, what about the Grade 8 Manastone?
Unfortunately, one Deathpind was worth only five goblins.
“What? You mean only a hundred stones?!”
“… Even what the summoned ghouls drop is 300 stones.”
Of course, even considering that, there is no denying that the amount is low.
Because we just had to risk our lives.
“Bjorn… How much was the bread you ate at the inn?”
“… I remember it was about 300 stones.”
“then… Still, it means you can taste the sweetness once every time you catch a Deathpind!”
Apparently, the cream pie I ate earlier has established itself as a new unit for Ainar.
Of course, if you divide it by 8:2, it will be 0.2 times sweet per head, but… … .
I’d rather not say this.
“Bjorn! This is not the time to be hunt! Let’s go hunting!”
For a while, I was disappointed with the amount less than I expected.
I smiled as I looked at Ainar who was showing his enthusiasm again.
In this respect, it was not bad to go with a barbarian.
I liked Erwen, my former colleague, but there was a downside to being passive in everything.
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Motivation is much easier.
“Okay, let’s go!”
After that, we continued to hunt around the area to hunt Deathpind.
If it took more than 20 minutes to hunt at a time, it could have been a loss even if you earned 300 stones, but… … .
Originally, the first try should be an exception.
“Coo!”
“Behel—raah!”
The people who met Deathpind, we rushed together, crying out to our ancestors.
Then they grabbed each other’s legs one by one, lifted them up and tossed them to the floor.
Namely, a double barbarian tackle.
Koo!
A fallen Deathpin was an easy prey.
If they were chatting with each other on the bedside where their arms could not reach, the guy quickly became a light and disappeared.
It takes about 3 minutes to get there.
The moment he fell to the floor, he felt a sense of crisis and summoned a ghoul, so it was difficult to shorten it further.
“ooh!”
As the hunt continued, the speed at which the Manastone Pouch was filled also increased, but we were not satisfied and spurred even more.
This is because, on the third day, hunting for Death Fiend becomes impossible.
If I hadn’t reached the second floor faster than anyone else using the bug in the first place, I wouldn’t have even dared to fight this guy.
Because these guys aren’t the only ones who travel alone.
Even if it’s possible with two, it’s difficult with just the two of us when there are three or four in a group.
[14:27]
I checked the time and took a break for a while.
There is a saying about rowing when the water comes in, but accidents always happen when you are impatient.
“Bjorn, thirsty.”
“Drink it sparingly. The corpse flower will bloom only tomorrow.”
“A corpse flower?”
It is the only means of replenishing moisture in the land of the dead. When the time comes, flowers bloom on the vines covered with the stone building rubble, and when opened, water is contained within.
When he told me this, Ainar became passionate.
“Bjorn, isn’t that a bit unsanitary?”
Surely it is.
I’ve heard it’s okay to drink, but I feel bad for it.
However, this is not something the people who sleep in a 5-person room would say without washing.
“Then is there any other way?”
“none! I will drink!”
After resting for about 20 minutes to replenish our stamina, we continued hunting again.
And until he was on the verge of collapse from exhaustion, he hunted a total of 70 Deathpinds.
That’s more than 20,000 stones in a day.
‘Isn’t this better than catching only level 9 monsters?’
However, the expected essence did not come out.
***
The drop rate of Essence is not enough to say that it is atrocious.
Therefore, at the beginning of the game, it is not only the basics of this game to develop a training method according to the drop of the essence… … .
The skill of the player depends on how well he can do it.
In that sense, I was looking forward to it.
The Essence of Deathpind is among the top things you can get in the early stages.
‘The problem is that there is no sign of it coming out.’
The active skill ‘Call of the Dead’ that summons the ghouls is frankly vague, but the passive ‘preserving the body’ is good enough to make up for it.
Of course, eating the essence doesn’t make it possible to regenerate like a bastard… … .
I have a good synergy with the immortal imprint, which increases the regeneration factor.
[02:57]
I checked the time while listening to Ainar’s snoring.
One day passed and the second day started.
From now on, you will have to fight two Deathpinds at once, but there are parts that make you feel a little more relaxed.
At least it won’t look weird when you run into other explorers.
Again, I fear explorers the most.
“Ainar, get up.”
“… Eat, didn’t eat!”
“It’s shift time.”
three hours per person.
After resting for a total of six hours, we hunted Despind on the second day without fail.
“Coo!”
as many as two.
Only 20 ghouls were summoned with active skills, but it was worth trying anyway.
It was thanks to the fact that he learned the tricks by dealing with them countless times on the first day.
Koo-!
He opened his eyes and ran as if cutting his nose, and smashed one of them to the floor first.
The other one is also knocked down together.
If you make even one twist in the process, it can be quite embarrassing, but… … .
When that happens, he runs away without looking back.
“Einar, let’s jump!”
“Oh!”
Deathfend’s movement speed was slow, and he had a habit of not following him if he moved away from the realm, so there was no danger yet.
aah
Each battle takes about 10 minutes.
Even three out of ten attempts failed, but nevertheless, as I caught two each, the profit was similar to the first day.
It took quite a while to find the group on the first day.
However, as the afternoon passed, some of them appeared in groups of three from time to time, and as time passed, the frequency of encounters increased.
“I’m going to have to leave this place soon.”
“If you are a wise warrior, you should know how to remove it.”
When the 2nd day car ends.
I left the realm of Deathpind with regrets behind me. Then he returned to the muddy mud and found a suitable campsite.
That was the time.
“… … !”
It was the first time I encountered a group of other explorers.
They were three humans, prowling in the dark, relying on a torch like us. … .
It was only after we approached 10m that we could see each other.
“What are you looking at? If you don’t have anything to do, get out of here.”
“Hmm, I’m sorry.”
Ainar spoke coldly, passing us first by the opposing group and disappearing back into the darkness.
It was a little strange.
thump, thump.
It was only twenty steps away, and the sound of their footsteps could still be heard faintly.
But the light of the torch they were holding is no longer visible.
I heard that most of the stairs of the labyrinth have the property of eating light, so that’s what he meant.
It seems that the brightness of a torch is almost impossible to see with the naked eye even if it is only 10m away… …
There was a time when I was thinking about this phenomenon for a long time.
“Bjorn, we must move.”
Ainar opened his mouth with a stubborn voice.
“They know where we are. The wall is convenient, but it would still be safe to find a new campsite.”
For sure, it is.
I tried to do that too.
However, it does not adapt.
What the heck, as soon as you see another explorer, you growl to turn it off… … .
Suddenly the character changed.
“Bjorn, you humans are incredible.”
“… To agree.”
Now Bonnie had one more thing in common besides being a barbarian.
It is none other than human distrust.
Looks like something happened to him when he first entered.
I’ll have to ask or ask later.
“Then let’s go.”
Soon after, we packed our bags and moved on.
However, it was difficult to find a campsite with a good location as before. Should I just compromise with one wall to protect my back?
That was the time I was thinking.
“Turn it off… … .”
A groan is heard from not far away.
“Wow! Whoops!”
It’s not Banshee’s.
First of all, it’s not just a woman’s voice… … .
“… Sleep, wait!”
speaks clearly.
“Live, live—”
Shit.
Just sit anywhere and sleep.
“… … .”
At the end of the stopped screaming, silence comes.
Ainar whispered in a whisper.
“I didn’t get hit by a monster.”
I know I have ears too.
Because there is hardly any chance that a person would beg for their life from a monster.
The situation is clear. man killed man
Shiba, what kind of dog situation is this again?
I’m not a little detective.
Not wanting to get involved, he grabbed Ainar’s wrist and backed away slowly.
But did you feel something?
“Who is there?”
A cold, subdued voice was heard.
It’s rough, but it’s a woman’s.
We held our breath and did not move without anyone saying anything.
But at that moment.
Pyuu! puff puff!
Something like a flare was shot into the sky, and it softly illuminates a radius of about 50m.
Thanks to this, I was also able to meet the eyes of the owner of the voice.
The distance was less than 15 m.
… If Erwen had been there, I would have been able to notice the presence from afar and avoid it.
“Hmm, are you a beginner?”
An unidentified woman looked at us and made a short decision.
It was commonplace.
A dagger dripping with blood.
Four scattered corpses.
“… A looter.”
the woman asked calmly.
“Have you seen it for the first time?”
“It’s ambiguous.”
It’s the first time that you look professional like you.
“Right.”
It might be surprising that the murder scene was witnessed, but the expression of the woman who nodded her head in a meaningful way was very calm.
Somehow, I thought I knew the reason.
***
harrier.
Those who professionally hunt the same explorers, not monsters, are called that.
They generate high income by looting explorer’s equipment, not manastones.
Of course, if caught, I will be sentenced to death the moment I return to the city… … .
There is no such thing as
In self-defense, like I killed six explorers and didn’t get any investigation.
There is no way to know from the outside what happened in the labyrinth.
Unless someone tells you otherwise.
“… He wasn’t wearing a mask.”
This is the most absurd thing in the current situation.
This psychopathic b*tch was slacking off her face when she was a predator.
He is a little over 170 cm tall and has a lean physique.
A sting that went down to the shoulder, a tattoo engraved under his eye, and even the back of his right ear that was cut in half.
It is not difficult to estimate a specific person.
If it were a modern day, it would have been possible to snatch the evidence from the other side as well… … .
This is a world where magic exists.
The means to discriminate the truth from falsehood without physical evidence exist.
“… Were you a colleague?”
“Well.”
The woman looked at the body and shrugged.
“Maybe this is what he thought.”
That’s why he was bare-faced.
While asking questions that were expected to answer, I quickly organized information that could be seen with the naked eye.
Four bodies in total.
Due to the level of the equipment he was wearing and the fact that he had a wizard, he could tell that he was an explorer who was active on at least the 5th floor.
Also, there are no injuries to the three corpses.
However, since all traces of vomiting blood and gastric juice remain on the corners of their mouths… … .
‘Have you been poisoned? The man who dealt with him in the end had a bit of patience, didn’t he?’
I hope this guess is correct.
The situation would be even more bleak if you were a talented person who could kill four mid-level explorers by yourself without a single wound.
little by little, little by little.
Soon, the woman squatted down and skillfully removed the equipment from the corpses.
And put them one by one into the bag.
Whether it’s a magic tool, even bulky items can fit in without any problem.
Fear preceded envy.
Just having something like that made me feel the difference between him and us.
“Barbarian.”
A woman called us.
I didn’t answer.
Ainar asked me quietly.
“Are you going to fight?”
He’s great too.
If it was Erwen, I would have been terrified of it earlier.
No matter how big the gap is, the thought of fighting is a warrior’s pride or something like that.
I answered briefly.
“I am thinking.”
To be honest, I want to avoid the option of fighting.
The difference is obvious just by looking at the equipment.
However, if you are a person with the same skills as the equipment, well… … . Even taking into account a 2:1 situation, our odds would be much lower.
Whoops-!
As the duration has expired, the lights in the sky are turned off, and darkness comes again.
I immediately made a decision.
“Run. at full speed.”
Self-esteem doesn’t save lives.
Nigerundayo!