27 Fire Rift (1)
People grow.
Each method is different.
Reading a book, looking back on your past, having an honest conversation with a friend for the first time, or having a dream you truly desire.
or.
Trying to be jealous of someone else’s good fortune, or witnessing someone’s misfortune, or realizing the power of desire anew.
Any inspiration that comes from experience contributes to growth.
Today, I was no different.
Well, mental growth is probably only a small part.
“One shortbow, one sheet metal gaiter, three low-level potions, a dozen regular torches… What is this, portrait? Are you family? Anyway, throw this away… … .”
If you add them all up, it will be over 800,000 stones.
As I organized the backpacks of the yellow-haired party, I smiled.
After all, I’ve always been like this.
Growing up doesn’t always follow the damn thing.
However… … .
“With this, I can fit three more pieces of armor.”
When I was growing up, shit always followed.
Damn, I know what to do soon.
***
walking through the cave
with Ainar.
“Bjorn, where are you going now?”
“We will move south where the gnomes come out.”
For a total of 8 hours, after taking a break of 4 hours per person, Ainard was also a little refreshed.
Compared to usual, the tension is like crawling on the floor.
“Bjorn, you can move quickly. You don’t have to worry about me.”
“Why are you in a hurry?”
“I… I want to become stronger even one day soon.”
“Right.”
It seems Ainar doesn’t have to worry anymore.
As long as you have a clearer goal, dark emotions will be nourishment, not poison.
Umm, is that mutual?
“I am of the same mind.”
While standing still, I looked back on the steps I had taken so far.
Coming-of-age ceremony, entry into the labyrinth, night friends with Hans, Erwen, Goblin Forest, 4:2 battle with a crossbow party, etc.
Thinking about it now, there was nothing really wrong with it.
I have found the best option to choose in a given situation.
However… … .
In other words, it would mean that they were focused only on escaping from moment to moment.
“Why does it suddenly stop?”
“No, I will keep moving.”
There is room for excusation.
There was no tutorial or system text.
As soon as I opened my eyes, the person’s neck was cut off, and from then on, things that were far from reality continued to unfold.
Therefore, we had no choice but to act as passively as possible, putting safety first.
But how was it?
“Bjorn… … ? He doesn’t look good.”
“never mind.”
Have you always chosen the best option?
dog sound.
In the end, it’s just a response.
After what happened, how good would it be to say that it is the best option for a guy who sets out to fix things?
If you really want to survive, you need to be more active in the future.
So, the choices you can make will be different.
Didn’t my uncle, who was addicted to gambling every day, also said that?
Instead of playing on a board made by others, throw the dice on a board you made yourself.
OK, it’s a plan change.
“Ainar, do you really want to be strong?”
When he suddenly stopped and asked, Ainar expressed his deep doubts.
“… What does that mean?”
“It’s asking for commitment. There is definitely a way to become stronger. But it comes with risks. What will you do?”
High risk, high return.
How will he respond to this proposal?
After watching for a moment, Ainar swallowed his saliva and his eyes lit up.
“Of course I will. If we don’t become strong anyway, we’re all going to die!”
Yes, it is.
Because it was such a worldview game.
Ainar, who had expressed his consent, then shouted.
“I am a warrior!”
Wasn’t it before?
eating.
Watching the attitude of a barbarian that was so inefficient, but sometimes more efficient than anyone else, I realized something new.
“So, how do you get stronger?”
The easy way is the slow way.
And it’s a natural disaster.
No matter which path you take, it comes before your eyes without warning.
It was much more frequent in my twisted arm.
so that… … .
“You will enter the rift.”
Sun Bread Pil Seung.
This time, I’m going to find the fucking thing here first.
As someone famous said.
The pain that doesn’t kill me will make me stronger.
***
“Oh oh! Right!”
Ainar heard my plan and exclaimed in exclamation.
and asked carefully.
“… But what are the cracks?”
How come you are a native and have less knowledge than me?
I wish I could read some books.
uh… I still can’t read the letters properly.
“The crack is… In short, it is a labyrinth within a labyrinth.”
Detailed explanations were skipped.
‘Cause you won’t understand
“A labyrinth in a labyrinth?”
“okay.”
Do I have to say that [Dungeon & Stone] is like a few games these days?
If the subject I had to explain was the same modern person, I would have said ‘instant dungeon’.
“Sometimes a portal opens at a random location on each floor. When you enter there, a new space appears, not on the second or third floor.”
“ah! Are you talking about the Frostlord’s Palace?”
I’ve heard it though.
The Frostlord’s Palace is a space accessible from the crack on the 8th floor.
How much effort did you put in trying to eat one of the Frostlord’s essence… … .
“But is it possible with just the two of us? I heard that even the chieftain went there when he was young and almost died.”
“Okay. We are on the first floor.”
There are a total of four types of cracks that can be opened on the first floor.
Whatever it is, the difficulty is unparalleled and easy compared to the cracks of other floors.
If we were to take it as our standard, it would give it one or seven stars.
Of course, assuming it’s out of 5.
“But how can we get into a place that appears randomly?”
“do not worry. Because there is a way.”
Since then, I have been a deceased person for 9 years.
Found hundreds of hidden pieces in this unkind game.
“Bjorn, I will only trust you!”
Heading south, I turned east.
Originally, they wanted to hunt gnomes, kobolds, and stone golems on the second floor of the southern route, ‘Blackrock Mountain’.
Stone Golem’s ‘suppression’ is painful, but if you prepare in advance, there is no strategy.
However, there is no promise as to how many years it will take to reach the 8th floor by playing with safety precautions like that.
“Two barbarians. Are you looking for a night buddy? If the three of us sleep, we can sleep more—”
“go away.”
“No, I was just asking—”
“I’m going to explode in the head in three seconds.”
As I was crossing the first floor, there were some other people sticking to me besides the monsters, but they were all sorted out on the Ainar Line.
… But can’t you just say you don’t like it?
“I hate humans more than idiots.”
It seems that Ainar has evolved beyond human distrust and into a state of hatred.
Whoops! Whoops! Kwajik!
We finally reached our destination after traveling for about 20 hours, smashing the monsters blocking the way.
The time is around 4 am.
You can feel how spacious the first floor is again.
It takes more than a day just to get from the west end to the center, no matter how difficult the structure of the anthill is.
“Bjorn, isn’t this the entrance to the first floor?”
Strictly speaking, the word “introduction” is ambiguous.
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Most starting points tend to be biased toward one side, either north or south.
First of all, there’s no light here, right?
Whoops!
Holding the yellow-haired party and burning the regular torches we got, we entered the dark zone.
And how long has it been?
“I hunted gnomes. EXP +1”
“I hunted a bladed wolf. EXP +1”
Ainar, who finished the eighth battle, vomits exclamations as if it were a miracle.
“I didn’t know there was such a place in the center of the first floor, as all four types of monsters appeared.”
It’s a common sense that most explorers do, but it’s not a place you usually come to.
By analogy, should it be said that it is the point where the Korean wave and the warm current meet?
Where I am now, the wolf of the east, the ghoul of the west, the gnome of the south, and the goblin of the north all appear.
but… … .
“It was strangely absent.”
This area is not popular with explorers.
For a simple reason.
Even if all four types of monsters appear, it will only become more difficult from the standpoint of the opponent.
The number of monsters themselves is also small.
‘Besides, there is a fatal disadvantage that cost performance is lowered because it has to consume torches.’
In fact, no one would come except for those who crossed to save travel time.
But the dead people like this space.
That’s award winning, right?
It’s good to hide something from the producer’s point of view.
“But, why are you here?”
“Wait a minute. It will be out soon.”
An hour to wander around in the dark, changing direction.
Eventually I got to where I wanted to be.
“Come on, everyone is here.”
A cavity with a radius of about 30 m.
On the first floor, which is an anthill structure, a monument stood out in the middle of an uncommon open space.
“… What is that?”
“It is a monument. To honor the first discoverer of this labyrinth.”
I cautiously approached the tombstone and read the inscription at the bottom.
[The Last Great Sage, Diplan Groundel Gabrilius, in commemoration of that great first step]
First of all, the text is the same as the game.
In other words, it would be more accurate to think that the ‘hidden piece’ that I found is highly likely to be the same.
“Einar, what happens next is a secret. Do you understand?”
“I will.”
“It takes an oath, not just words. If this becomes known, we may both be in danger.”
“… I will swear on the honor of the warrior.”
“Thank you.”
I slowly loosened the pockets on my waist.
Goblins, gnomes, ghouls, and bladed wolves.
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Manastones of 4 types of monsters appearing on the 1st floor and Manastones of Defiend, a level 8 monster.
And in front of the great sage monument.
“I will start soon.”
All the preparations for forcibly opening the rift were in place.
***
Indun from [Dungeon and Stone].
In other words, the rift has a cooldown.
Taking the first floor as an example, it took at least three cycles, three months in city time, for the ‘crack’ to reopen.
Of course, it is rare that the cracks open immediately after three months, and most cracks open randomly between 5-6 cycles.
Was the maximum 8 cycles? Maybe it was.
“… … .”
By the way, this was all figured out on my own.
Since I was playing Frostlord Essence Nogada, I needed to know more about ‘Rift’.
It wasn’t efficient to go around the stairs every time and wait for the crack to come out.
“Is there something wrong?”
“not.”
Recalling old memories for a moment, I placed the Deathpind Manastone in my hand in front of the monument.
If the most recent ‘crack’ opened within 3 cycles, that is, the cooldown is running, there will be no response… … .
Ded Ded Ded Dude!
Before long, the manastones that were put down disappeared with a glow, and vibrations spread around the monument.
It’s also real
Whoops!
The vibration became stronger and a portal of black color opened.
“Come on in.”
“Uh, uh. i get it!”
I hurriedly threw myself into it with Ainar.
Hey, the garden fills up in 10 seconds.
“The character has entered the first floor rift.”
Leaving behind Ainar, who had always hit his butt wheel, he checked from the surroundings.
The red sky that seemed to destroy the world at any moment.
A flock of crows flying above it and a black fortress in the distance.
Needless to say, it is one of the four types of cracks on the first floor, the ‘Blood Citadel’.
Since the 8th-grade manastone that was offered as a sacrifice belonged to Deathpind, it must have been natural.
Whoops!
After waiting for a while, a gap opened in the air and a person spit out.
It was the decisive reason for delaying my coming to this place, as I knew the details of how to definitively open the ‘crack’ as well as the strategy.
I’m more afraid of explorers than monsters.
“Hah ha ha! You finally managed to get in!”
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a team of 5 that guarantees confidentiality?
If you enter in this way, you must clear the rift with the random explorers who entered on a first-come, first-served basis.
In a game, automatic matching is required.
I was nervous and checked the first team member.
“Five! It’s reassuring to have two barbarians! Good luck! My name is Hikurod Murad! As you can see, it’s a dwarf hahahaha!!”
First of all, a dwarf who seems to talk a lot.
No matter how good your skills are, it’s not bad enough.
I wish the rest of the kids would end up like this… … .
eating.
After all, would that be too much wind for my subject?
Shiba, if you want to come, please come.
Because I don’t expect it anyway.
“A new colleague has joined the journey.”
Two more team members were added soon after.