Surviving the Game as a Barbarian chapter 374

374 Episode Treasure Hunter (2)

13 hours to enter the labyrinth.

We were in the crystal cave on the first floor.

There is one reason why they still remain on the first floor, where the three of us drove within a few hours last time.

This is because the beginning of this expedition plan is here.

“Hmm, I never knew you could open a rift like this.”

“Hehe, you really don’t know anything!”

A crack on the 1st floor with four types: Blood Citadel and Glacier Cave. This rift can be intentionally opened by the player.

The reason it took so much time was because I had to go up to the second floor to catch a level 8 monster and return. … .’

I took out the Grade 8 Manastone I had stored in the subspace and looked around.

‘By the way, it’s been a while since I’ve been here.’

A cavity with a radius of about 30 m in which one stele is placed.

When the army and large clans opened the portal and fled, it was here that the rest of them were contemplating a way to live.

Well, at that time, the wizards were doing expansion work here and there, so a much larger space was spread out.

“Then are you all ready?”

The two nodded to my question, and as a sign of this, I also placed a magic stone in front of the tombstone as if offering a tribute.

And that moment.

Ded Ded Ded Dude!

The vibration spreads all over the first floor, centering on the monument.

At the same time, a portal of green color opened.

“The character has entered the first floor rift.”

Come on, let’s go.

aah

A cave with the outlines of the portal’s light floating in the air.

A railroad track is laid on the floor, and wooden waste materials are scattered here and there.

A little more gloomy than the game?

[Green Coal Mine]

One of the four types of cracks on the first floor. The process is simple.

You start at the point where the ceiling collapses and you wander through the coal mines along the railroad tracks and catch the Guardian.

“What are you all doing? Let’s go.”

As soon as we entered the unfamiliar space, we hurriedly headed into the tunnel, leading the two people who were checking the surrounding terrain first.

Well, it’s clear that more people will be coming in soon, right?

It’s best not to meet.

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Me and Amelia don’t know, but Erwen has become a very famous person in this city. Even if you are a low-level explorer, there is a possibility of recognizing it. Tadat.

Soon after, I got out of the light of the portal and covered my body with the dark spirit summoned by Erwen, and only then did an additional person enter the crack.

“Woah, whoa!”

In the beginning, it was just a man wearing low-level equipment.

“What, what? Am I the first?”

At first, the man who had been looking around with a blank slate had a smile on his face as he realized that he had entered the rift too late.

And then.

“Wow!”

A second person jumped out of the portal and crashed to the floor.

This time it was a man.

“Fufu, nice to meet you!”

Okay, they’re both men, so something won’t happen.

As I watched the two of them exchanged greetings while helping each other, I quickly gave up my worries and turned around.

and… … .

“Now the sound won’t reach that far. Let’s run.”

“yes!”

We ran through the tunnel in earnest and started attacking the crack. The first monster we encountered was still a goblin.

They have a slightly different physique from the guys I saw on the 1st and 2nd floors.

[Grump-!]

The height is similar to that of a normal individual, but the body is different.

Tight muscles on the back and tightly attached to the back.

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Miners on their heads and pickaxes on their shoulders.

“Goblin miners.”

Grade 8.

He is a guy who can receive experience only from the crack on the 1st floor.

[Kyaah!]

As soon as the guy with the macho body found us, it was a 3:1 situation, and he slammed his pickaxe and ran towards us.

It was definitely a blow that had a strong momentum that could not be compared to a normal goblin.

However… … .

“Upset… … .”

Would that be it? Even just one of us would break the crack on the first floor easily.

Fu-wook!

Without even having to shoot an arrow, Erwen used the wind spirit to pierce his forehead.

「You have killed the Goblin Miner. EXP +2”

One shot one kill.

In fact, at our level, this can be seen as a natural thing… The process of pointing at the opponent with the index finger and blowing out compressed air was quite impressive.

‘This is Tanji-Gong… … ?’

There was a time when I was obsessed with martial arts novels.

Huh, can’t I have one like that?

“Suits, is there something wrong?”

“Yeah, all of a sudden you stare at me like that… … .”

“It doesn’t matter. Come on.”

I hurriedly let go of my thoughts and moved forward.

Well, if I compare my current state to martial arts, would I be a foreigner who achieved the level of invincibility of the Geumgang?

Tadat, Tadat.

Anyway, after that, I took the lead and found a way. Well, in fact, at the beginning, you just have to follow a straight tunnel and it’s over… … .

“Why stop?”

“Since the railroad was cut in the middle, it was probably this.”

As I moved while observing the floor, I stopped as soon as I came to the place where the rail was broken.

and… … .

Aww-!

He smashed the surrounding walls with a hammer.

Amelia wondered if he was going to bury us alive, but it was a useless worry.

Where did the crack field break so well?

Where it breaks, there is usually a hidden element.

just like this

Quajijik-!

A wall that crumbles like a stack of styrofoam boxes.

Soon the space beyond that was revealed.

The side road is cramped enough to fill up when one person enters.

Afterwards, before I lost my physique, I almost couldn’t get in—

tuk.

Oh, my shoulders are still hanging from this.

Countless times, I turned my body to the side and went into the side road as if ravenous.

and… … .

“Once I earned 3 million stones.”

I picked up a green jewel from a box hidden in a narrow space inside the side road and repeated the series of steps to get out again.

“I never knew there was something like this in a coal mine.”

“But uncle… I don’t have a wizard, can I take it with me?”

“Okay. Usually these things don’t need distortion magic.”

It’s easy to understand if you remember the first floor of the Bloody Citadel.

The only things that require ‘distortion’ magic are bricks from cracks and clutter like building decorations.

Valuable things like ‘Necronomicon’ are judged as items, so you can just pick them up and go out of the portal… … .

Oh, he wasn’t there then.

“Then let’s go. I’ve got everything I need here.”

Anyway, this was all the hidden piece in the first chapter, so after that, I didn’t care about the floor and just focused on moving, and a cliff appeared soon after.

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More than two-thirds of the bridge collapsed along with the railroad tracks.

The original strategy is to take the passage next to it and bypass it… … .

‘If there was a leap, I could have just skipped it.’

It’s a pity that the mobility is gone.

Originally, this section can be skipped even if you have intermediate or higher mobility.

‘Anyway, there are only goblin miners to go over there, so I’ll just waste my time.’

It wasn’t even a route with a hidden piece, but we had no choice but to enter the side passage. Then, he killed the goblin miners by blasting them out and exiting through the other side of the exit.

Did it take you about 30 minutes to get here?

“It’s easy because it’s a crack on the first floor.”

“It’s definitely not what I expected… … .”

Erwen seemed dissatisfied with the rift exploration, but it was inevitable.

As a member who can hunt on the 7th floor, I came to the crack on the 1st floor, so it’s not natural.

In normal RPG games, they usually don’t even give you experience points.

Oh, but is it a more vicious system to come to a low level hunting ground to get experience? … ?

“Everyone, don’t be disappointed. After all, I will finish it soon and go out again.”

Everyone seemed to be getting bored, so he speeded up the attack on the rift even more.

He passed the passage over the bridge he had crossed over and hunted all the monsters from the second chapter.

「The Hobgoblin Miner has been killed +EXP 3」

「You have defeated a mineral slime +EXP 2」

「Copper Golem Killed +EXP 3」

The new monsters encountered in the second chapter were like this.

Oh, now I need to add the mid-boss as well.

「Goblin Bomber Killed +EXP 4」

Also, the water didn’t come out.

Well, I don’t have any test tubes or wizards to put them in anyway.

‘The second chapter is the main battle, so it’s over soon.’

After clearing the middle boss in 10 minutes, I searched around for a while to find the hidden piece.

It comes out when you smash the minerals around the middle boss room.

[Gobble Quartz]

Oh, there are only three.

“I can share one by one.”

Amelia and Erwen frowned as they were about to hand out the mined gobble quartz.

“It… eat?”

“It smells strange. For some reason, the feel is sticky… … .”

“It’s still an elixir. It will increase your poison resistance level.”

“If so.”

Amelia, who was born in Noark, had no choice but to grow up well, swallowed the gobble quartz first, and Erwen closed her eyes tightly and put it in her mouth.

“Does it taste that bad?”

“… Surprisingly, it has no taste.”

“The texture is very unique.”

“Oh, is it?”

Even if it’s just the texture, it’s unique. You don’t have to be prepared to eat it.

Oh Dodok-!

As soon as I chewed the goblet quartz with my molars, I felt a really strange texture.

Is it soft on the outside but like chewing a stone on the inside?

Barbarians usually chew bones, so there was nothing special about them.

“The character has taken gobble quartz.”

“Permanently increases poison resistance by +3.”

“This effect does not overlap.”

Anyway, after that, the crack attack was largely the same.

Destroy all visible monsters and move forward. Stop for a moment only in the place where the Hidden Peace is and search the surroundings.

Thus ended the third chapter, going down the circular staircase designed on the edge of the cliff.

and… … .

“This is the last time.”

Arriving at the deepest part of the coal mine, we stood in front of the collapsed tunnel as if something had been sealed.

Originally, they had to open the way using explosives hidden throughout the coal mine, but… … .

Goreb has his own tricks.

Bang, bang-!

As we smashed and split the lower cornerstone with a demon shredder, it collapsed and opened a gap for people to pass through, and soon we entered it.

“The sleeping green king wakes up.”

A wide cavity with a radius of about 50 m.

Green slime wriggled and howled from its center.

[👨🏻‍🍳-!]

It was King Slime, the guardian of the ‘Green Coal Mine’.

At that time, the beginning of the crack.

In the deep darkness, the two men were trembling, leaning on a flickering torch.

“… … Me, do we really have to go together?”

“There is no other way, is there? The portal is also closed.”

“I heard that the rift is a place where five people are exploring, but… … . What the hell is this… … .”

At the words of the ax warrior, the archer sighed.

If only I had said that, there was no way I could have known that it was.

There were only two people who entered the rift, so why was the portal closed?

Of course, at first I thought it was a temporary error.

However, even after the portal was closed, even after waiting in the vicinity for an entrant who did not know when to come, he could not remain in denial of reality for three hours.

“Okay, let’s go. In order for the two of us to break the rift, we have to move forward slowly from now on.”

“… Oh, I see.”

An ax warrior with a weak personality despite his size stood in front, and an archer followed behind him, assisting.

‘Damn the bug.’

The archer usually thought he was on the lucky side.

Well, I found the game by chance and came here while playing… … .

Aside from that, his life was on the easy side, and that didn’t change even after waking up in an unfamiliar world.

Just look at the first expedition.

He was lucky to eat the essence from the start, and in the second expedition, he made the initial money by stripping the gear of the explorers and looters who conceived of the sheep.

Based on this, he was able to grow steadily.

However… … .

‘I wanted to come to the crack on the first floor on the third expedition, but something like this is going to happen.’

The man kept his composure while voicing all his complaints inwardly.

Only then will you be able to go out alive.

“… Wait, please stop.”

“… Why?”

“Something strange. At this point, the time has come for the goblin miner to come out… … .”

“About cracks… Do you want to know?”

“I just know to a certain extent. I usually like to study.”

It was like that for a while, but it wasn’t true.

Because he was experienced with the original version.

Although I couldn’t get past the first part and folded it, later I found out that there was a cheat version and broke it.

Nevertheless, the first half was crisp because I tried the original.

Because of the crazy difficulty, it was essential to read the ‘Newbie’s Guide’ left by ‘Elfnuna’ over and over again in order to play properly.

“… … Let’s go. I don’t know why the goblins haven’t come out yet.”

However, since nothing changes by waiting, he cautiously resumed his movement, considering that it was only the gap between the game and reality.

and… … .

“Oh, there must be a side road through the ruins over there!”

The point where the railroad broke down. Seeing that there was a hole in the wall at that point, he realized the truth.

“… … Who came in first?”

“… What did you say?”

“It’s self-talk.”

Someone entered the rift first.

Obviously the number is three.

‘then… They must have captured all the monsters from there.’

The moment I realized this, a sense of relief rushed in and my legs relaxed.

And after the relief subsided, I started to think of it as an opportunity.

‘If you see no traces of battle around, it must mean that you are strong enough to just cut them all off.’

They wouldn’t have been interested in the essence of the first floor rift.

And the drop retention time of the essence is about 30 minutes.

If you follow it quickly even now, you may be able to get the discarded essence in the second half.

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Maybe you can take the hidden piece that you left behind.

“Let’s go. Don’t worry about monsters.”

“… What does that mean?”

“Perhaps there will be no monsters in front of you. If you don’t believe me, I can go first.”

Saying so, the archer started running through the dark tunnel without hesitation.

However… … .

‘I brought the gobble quartz.’

Neither the second nor the third chapter remained. The people who entered first were so quick in this crack that they couldn’t find anything they didn’t bring.’

That’s something I didn’t know… It was broken, so it must have been something hidden inside.’

Anyway, after running for such a long time, he arrived at the last boss room.

It took about 40 minutes to get there.

If the Guardian Essence was dropped and they didn’t eat it… … .

‘Maybe it stays.’

Soon he entered the boss room with the ax warrior.

and… … .

aa-!

Finding the essence floating in the air, the two men’s eyes were full of deep greed.

Of course there were differences.

“I, Jeongsu-ro… … !”

“That’s it.”

“Well, I guess that’s the essence of a Guardian—”

The eyes of the ax warrior at the forefront showed a greater emotion of surprise than greed, but the man behind him did the opposite.

Push-!

The man grabbed the arrow in his hand and thrust it into the ax warrior’s shoulder.

“aah!”

Ax warrior screaming at the sudden surprise and rolling the floor.

Of course, he also came to his senses and raised the ax, but unfortunately, it didn’t work out.

iron crack.

The ax fell from his hand as it slid.

“It’s no use. Because I put paralysis poison on the arrowhead.”

“… Why, why are you doing this! I’ll give it to you if it’s Jeongsu. That, so please!”

Feeling defeated, the warrior begged and shouted.

But the archer’s eyes were cold.

“How much do you save your life for the NPC theme?”

“Eh, N.P, Mr… … ? What do you mean? No, more dragoon than that! Please look at me just once. I have a daughter at home—”

“The Dragoon is a protoss.”

The man grinned and pulled out the arrowhead that had been embedded in it.

and… … .

“Hans Elyburn.”

“… … ?”

“That’s my name. Ah, come to think of it, this is not my real name.”

“Come on, come on… … !”

“Now you see. sorry. If you tell me this in advance, I don’t think my heart will become weak.”

“Oh, no—!”

The warrior was about to shout something, but the shout could not be continued.

It was because the arrowhead had pierced the warrior’s neck before that.

“It has nothing to do with catching goblins.”

Soon after, the man hurriedly stood up and headed towards the essence floating in the air.

There was a bitter smile on his lips.

“You are lucky.”

He truly thought he was lucky.

“The [Essence of Slime] permeates the character’s soul.”

Until you check the newly acquired skill with your own eyes