29 – Episode 29. Unpredictable_(2)
I took the most perfect bath last night, but everything was reset with just one breath.
It feels like soup will come out of your eyes even after washing your face.
The store owner has been rubbing a towel on my face since earlier, but I can’t pick up the broth once I spit it out.
“Egogo, be embarrassed… It wasn’t hot though, was it? Because I was blowing hard… Maybe it wasn’t hot. Right?”
“That is so comforting.”
“No, I feel unfair too! That’s right! Pretend you don’t have any money! How can I not be surprised when they suddenly give out 1,000 gold?”
“So you are confident.”
“Sorry.”
“I will forgive you, so keep your promise.”
“Yes.”
With a shy smile, the woman went to the back of the counter and returned with what had been lying on her shelf for a thousand years.
Brilliant and brilliant. It was a miniature tent-shaped artifact.
Hotel Armadillo!
I’ve been staying there for at least a few years, but today I feel particularly radiant.
Maybe it’s because it’s mine now?
The legendary relic that I couldn’t even touch even when I was playing games…
Finally passed through the hands of the shop owner…
It came into my hands.
Enhanced the sense of touch…
For some reason, it seems to have a nice scent.
“It’s mine now, right? It’s definitely mine.”
“Because it’s right.”
But the moment the exchange was over, I felt the gold disappear from the woman’s hand.
After a transaction, the voice used to announce the result, but this time I can’t hear it either.
‘I can’t believe… this woman blew away her gold by trading with guild goods at will…’
Ah, no.
Seeing the woman’s calm expression, it must be my imagination.
It’s me, as long as I get artifacts,
The woman said with an awkward smile.
“That, as far as I know, is yours to take after almost 200 years. Congratulation.”
“Don’t just pretend to be kind all of a sudden, give me something else.”
“Tsk. It doesn’t work.”
Following the artifact, a card came out of the woman’s pocket.
There is no text on the white background, but if you hold it up high, you can see a rainbow-colored hologram.
All it says is one word.
[Golden Ratio]
“Welcome to becoming the first floor 1 customer of Golden Rhythm. With just that, you can get a 20% discount on all products in the Golden Rule Guild, use the automatic price measurement function, and even use the auction function.”
I knew about discounts and price measurement, but was there even an auction function?
When I heard the word auction, for some reason, good thoughts came to my mind.
I imagine my future self swimming in a pile of gold.
For example… Let’s say there are a lot of people in a very difficult section of the tower.
Someone suddenly appears in front of people who can’t go forward because of lack of stamina and who can’t even go back because of returning soldiers.
Holding an item with a recovery ability in one hand!
Then what price will be attached to the item?
In this village, goods were sold at bargain prices to deal with people without money, but the story changes when demand explodes.
Maybe…
Maybe it’s better to open your back in the middle and live a full life than to go to the top?
hehehe… That’s the goal. Anyway, the prelude to the happy climb opens.
Then, the ability of Hotel Armadillo was confirmed.
“I’ll check the artifact ability.”
“Be comfortable. It’s a world that doesn’t age.”
Is this really a relic from the history of the history of the history of war?
Or is it a poor quality easter egg from the creator?
[Hotel Armadillo/Golden Ratio]
– Artifacts made by artisans of the golden rule.
– Creates a safe zone inside the tower.
– The safe zone hides after 60 seconds of creation.
– Current upgrade level 0/5
In the information I checked, there was something I couldn’t have imagined.
‘Creating a safe zone?’
If the explanation is correct, it means that you can create a safe zone at any time while climbing.
It was an incomprehensible function with game common sense.
Because, unlike other roguelike games, TOE cannot recover health in the safe zone.
Isn’t it a meaningless relic?
But…
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Considering the price of the artifact, it was an understandable ability.
1,000 Gold is an enormous amount of money that cannot be collected without stalling.
In addition, you can only collect that huge amount of money by hitting an open fire in the village.
Is the safe zone just a resting place for such scammers?
No. Isn’t it obvious that it will create more value than a shelter?
This was clearly an item for stalling users.
In my case, a relic from the Gaesagi that I can safely cook at any time while climbing.
Furthermore, considering the reflection of reality, it was a relic of the Gaesagi period.
I found out last night when I returned home with Tilda on my back. In this world, even if it’s not stamina or a curse, you can pass out if you run out of sanity.
Right now, we’re going backwards along the village, but if we attack the tower in earnest from now on, we’ll have to go forward.
If I could create a safe zone when I was passing through a forest full of monsters for several days, or in the middle of a desert.
There’s nothing more reliable than that.
The shop owner smiled and asked.
“How are you? Do you think it’s worth gold?”
“Maybe. I will definitely pick it up. But what about upgrades?”
“That’s… A pass for VIPs. I have more questions than that. Be honest. How much did you save before getting my gold?”
“999 Gold.”
“Wow, damn it… I really fell short… If only I hadn’t fallen for the smell of the broth…”
“I will. I wouldn’t buy it if I was going to return it as soon as I ate it.”
“It looks cool and look after it… But it’s really amazing. I never imagined that I could really collect 1,000 gold on the first floor.”
“Thanks to you. If it hadn’t been for the bet, I would have gone up to the next floor long ago.”
“Oh, does that mean you can go up right now if you want to?”
“Sure.”
“It doesn’t matter if there are climbers and hunters?”
“I already killed one.”
“What?”
Boom!!
At that moment, someone entered the store with the force of breaking down the door.
He was a man with a grim face.
You can see how much he ran, sweat dripping down his face like rain, and his expression is indescribable…
Chaos itself.
He said to the store owner.
“Sister… Hey, you should go.”
“Dear, can’t you see I’m with a customer?”
“It’s really urgent!”
“Do you go back and forth with your life or do you search?”
“Ah, then you’re lucky? Ah… Isn’t it? Anyway, a corpse and a patient came in at the entrance of the tower, so their lives were at stake, right?”
“Miss Lee! If it’s that interesting, you shouldn’t be quick to say it!”
“No, my sister is with a customer…”
“Ah, don’t get in the way and come out!”
She threw the man at the door away like a piece of paper and ran into the village.
What kind of existence is the shop owner in this town?
A man hurriedly follows a woman.
I also followed them to the tower.
There are corpses and patients at the entrance of the tower…
If you look at the atmosphere of this town, it may be a common thing, but somehow I had an ominous feeling.
I have a foreboding feeling that it might have something to do with me…
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There was a huge crowd in the square in front of the tower.
Most of them were passers-by spending time at the entrance of the village, but when we broke through the crowds, the climbers were looking serious.
In the midst of them, corpses are seen.
Three of them have already been recovered and have white cloths covering their faces, while one is lying on the floor gasping for breath.
A face full of wrinkles, a white beard, and even a gray robe.
It was someone I knew.
At that moment, the shop owner glanced at my expression and asked.
“Everyone says you’re new to it, but you seem to know it, don’t you?”
“He came at the same time as me. I’m glad you’re alive.”
It was the grandfather I saw when I first came to this world.
The killer man, Tilda, and the wizard grandfather who was with me.
I was wondering what was going to happen when I found out that the guy I went with was a climber and a hunter.
Should I say I’m glad I’m alive?
Looking at the outside, it was far beyond my imagination.
I recognized him, but he couldn’t even see me.
“Turn off… Turn off…”
I think my arm is broken, and I can’t breathe properly.
But now that we’ve reached the village, we’ll get better soon.
By the way, the expression on the shop owner’s face as he looked at the old man’s dog tag wasn’t like that.
He scratched his chin with his finger, then shook his head.
“It’s bitter, it’s not good…”
“Why? Aren’t you better now?”
“As is usually the case, this man has a twisted deck. You’re out of luck.”
My deck is twisted.
He didn’t know what that meant, but his grandfather’s condition certainly showed no signs of improving.
“Heh… Heh…”
With every breath I heard the sound of my airway being torn to shreds.
Cool…!
A huge amount of blood poured out of his mouth.
“Kyaaa!”
Screams erupt from the crowd.
“Look at yourself. It’s the worst kind of thing you can face in the Tower, so there’s nothing wrong with looking ahead.”
I got a dog tag from the store owner and checked his grandfather’s condition.
Of course, the ability level and job are the same.
As expected, there were dozens of status ailments in the deck.
‘[Exhaustion], [Fracture] Is not one or two, [Pneumoconiosis]? This is a very rare status ailment on the 1st floor, but it worked well.’
But there was a really serious problem.
Abnormal status cards are slowly disappearing due to the village’s recovery effect, and HP is recovering smoothly…
It doesn’t work.
[HP 1/100]
[HP 2/100]
[HP 1/100]
[HP 2/100]
Your health fluctuates between 1 and 2 like crazy.
It was because of this card included in the deck.
[Curse of Nosferatu/Curse Card: Gain 1 Bleed while this card is in hand. Takes 5 damage when used and gains 3 Strength for this battle. ★]
[Bleeding: Takes 1 damage every 3 seconds.]
There were ten curse cards in the old man’s deck, excluding status ailments.
Curse cards are cards you get when you take a huge risk in a trap or event. How did you collect them?
Besides, this is different from a status ailment, so it won’t disappear until you remove it yourself.
After checking all the curse cards, I could see what it meant when the deck was twisted.
“This person, if I turn my hand now, I will die.”
“Yes.”
In the old man’s deck, besides bleeding, there was a [Pain] Card that took damage as soon as it came into the hand.
Three chapters, too.
I don’t know what hand the old man is holding right now, but if he doesn’t turn his hand, he won’t be able to recover forever due to blood loss, and as soon as he rotates his hand, he can draw [Pain] And die.
No matter how well you time it, you only have 2 HP and 2 pain damage.
There is no such thing as bad luck.
‘A deck can be twisted like this.’
But after a while, I realized that this situation was no coincidence.
“Hey, are you talking about this?”
“What is it?”
What the store owner handed over was a piece of paper that was attached to the old man’s body.
There was this phrase written on the note.
[Don’t wait at the end, black hair.]