＜ 10. There are no bad dogs (6) ＞
Andrea used shadow imprint and defense and brought out the polar dawn. A sharp knife was better than a hammer to deal with the nimble ghouls without thick armor or shells.
Pain in the back of the hand that is still difficult to get used to. However, I was able to hold on because I thought that a powerful power would soon dwell.
“Kurrureuk!”
The ghouls, who had lost their comrades in the blink of an eye, rushed without further delay. Andrea, too, did not lose and rushed at the ghouls.
“Haap!”
The ghoul dug inward with its claws. Its agility was commendable, but it was an obvious attack that was hard to hit on purpose.
‘Should I avoid it anyway?’
Andrea nevertheless decided to ‘deliberately’ greet her once. Even when I was fighting scale insects, I didn’t take any damage, so I couldn’t check the performance of the new equipment.
Whiik!
The black, hard nails swung vigorously with the force to tear his side.
However, there was no splitting of the abdomen and no blood spattering. Just before their nails touched, Andrea’s body blurred as if it had become a ghost.
The ghoul’s claws pierced Andrea and stirred the air. While the ghoul was perplexed, unable to comprehend what had happened, Andrea raised a corner of her mouth in satisfaction.
‘The lunar eclipse hermit’s outfit is also very effective.’
There was no need to deliberately hit it anymore. The gray blade polished by the shadows cut cleanly at the ghoul’s wrist.
Shik –
A series of consecutive attacks without even being given a chance to come to their senses. This time, the blade pierced the ghoul’s side backwards. Unlike Andrea, ghouls did not have any items that nullified their attacks.
Frost Bite was activated, and the soft flesh froze and fell off whole. Andrea pulled the blade that had dug into her empty stomach straight up to her head.
“Kue-”
I couldn’t even scream properly and the ghoul was cut in half. Taking advantage of that gap, the ghoul occupying the rear launched a surprise attack, but Andrea was already aware of all the ghoul’s movements.
‘A knife is better, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use a hammer. Especially when you know another way to use a weapon.’
Andrea pressed the surface of the card to summon the earth crusher’s hammer, and threw it at the ghoul.
puck!
A heavy shock that was pierced straight into the rotten face. The rushing ghoul was hit by a hammer and fell backwards. It wriggled and showed a movement close to a fit, but it seemed distant to get up again.
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Nettle –
On turn 2, Trisha’s one shot was strengthened by enhanced fire again. This time, the arrow was aimed precisely at the head, but the ghoul hurriedly pulled aside and hit the shoulder.
puck!
“Queueek!”
The moment of impact caused the ghoul to fall backwards. And to show such a gap during a fierce battle meant death.
hooked!
A blade that penetrates the back of the head through the nose bone and reaches the very bottom. Andrea twisted her hand on the handle and parted her hair at her temples. A fetid goo of blood and brains splattered over the grass.
A process more like a massacre than a battle. The two remaining ghouls, seeing their comrades helpless, ran away and watched the situation.
“Kuee…”
“Keeck, koouk.”
“What is it, guys? What if the undead are afraid of dying? Come quickly and let’s play together.”
Except for the head, they were undead that had nothing to do with having their limbs cut off or having their stomachs pierced, but Andrea and Trisha were only blowing their heads like ghosts. The ghouls were rediscovering what fear was thanks to the instincts they had when they were still alive.
Anyway, new patterns don’t come out until turn 5 anyway. Andrea drew a card with utmost ease. Fortitude, blow, blow.
Andrea used her fortitude. Warm heat penetrating every nook and cranny between the muscles. In a short time, all stats jumped by 20. Andrea shouted in a pleasant voice, not caring about the rotten smell.
“If you don’t come, will I go?”
Perhaps they understood, the ghouls shrugged their shoulders a little. Without hesitation, he kicked off his seat and charged towards the ghouls.
Scattered and running ghouls. Trisha moved to a good position to shoot her bow while the ghouls watched Andrea.
The ghoul fled to the left and tried to hide among the thicket. However, the bowstring aimed at the head had already been pulled tight.
Paeng!
puck!
Hit by an unexpected attack, the ghoul collapsed like a scarecrow again. Trisha took an arrow and moved closer to the ghoul to confirm the kill.
“Keeck!”
“Sir, I’m surprised!”
The ghoul stood up as if it had waited and launched an ambush. It didn’t hit the center, but the arrow hit the head, but it was truly undead-like tough vitality.
Paeng – Puck!
Even so, I didn’t have the talent to withstand the second arrow.
However, because it was shot at close range, blood splattered dirtyly.
“Ugh!”
Tricia freaked out and rubbed the blood on her clothes. Andrea, who easily dealt with the last ghoul, approached Trisha.
“what? How did you bleed so much?”
“Damn it, I thought I was dead because I got an arrow stuck in my head, so I approached you, but you’re alive… But you’re not easy either…?”
Andrea, who fought closely from the beginning, was worse than Trisha, but not less. Since it was the fate of a close-range character, Andrea thought nothing of it.
“I have to stab a knife right in front of my nose, but I can’t help it.”
“That’s right. But why doesn’t the exit open?”
The exit on the floor beyond the tombstones was still firmly closed. Andrea already knew the answer to that question.
“The monsters aren’t all dead yet.”
Even with basic farming, the ghouls that could be sliced without difficulty were nothing more than a gimmick. Andrea had to pay a painful price after wandering for a long time on why the exit did not open on this floor.
‘It’ll be different this time, though.’
Andrea walked over to the crushed ghoul and retrieved the Earthshatter’s hammer. Then he raised his hammer high and began to break the tombstones one by one.
bang!
thud!
Fragments of the smashed tombstone flew everywhere. Trisha seemed to know the reason, so she didn’t ask why she insulted the deceased.
“If you leave that tombstone for a long time, it seems that a new monster will be summoned.”
“right. If you let it go until turn 5, real ghosts will come out, not undead like ghouls.”
Wraith, a spirit-body monster that seemed to be covered in a black veil. Since he is basically immune to physical attacks, it was an extremely difficult enemy for Andrea and the others to deal with.
But now it wasn’t even turn 4. Because the tombstones that served as a medium for summoning were all broken, the race disappeared without even sticking out its nose.
“Turn it off…”
Races that disintegrate into blurry shapes whenever the tombstone is smashed. Tricia put on a grumpy face, but Andrea even waved at the disappearing Wraiths.
“It was fun not to see it, let’s not see it again next time!”
The exit opened only when the last tombstone, the size of a door, was neatly smashed. Andrea pretended to wipe away the sweat that hadn’t flowed for no reason and gestured to Tricia.
“Ugh, it was a really strong monster that was hard to deal with. Let’s go now!”
Tricia sneered at her stupidity and followed Andrea to the exit.
*
The reward was not very satisfactory this time either. In Andrea’s box, there were no cards or items at all, just a little gold, and in Trisha’s box, only a potion of bleeding poison and some gold.
‘Hmm… this isn’t good.’
Although they farmed well on the boss level this time, Andrea’s party’s strength was not objectively strong enough.
Trisha’s deck is only slightly outlined, and Andrea’s is not even outlined. As for the equipment, there was still a long way to go as I was just getting decent things.
Clearing the 20th and 30th floor bosses was a fluke. What Andrea wanted right now was not to beat the boss by chance, but to have the specs to clear it stably.
Just in time, a fork in the road of either choice appeared. Andrea opened the map.
The event room is on the right, and the store is on the left.
‘I don’t really need to stop by the store now. but···.’
I had to look at not only the room I came out of immediately, but also which room I was leading to later. The event room immediately led to a room with elite monsters, and the shop room led to a room with normal monsters.
Trisha looked at the map together and commented.
“Wouldn’t it be better to avoid elite monsters? Meeting twice in a row is too dangerous.”
As Trisha said, if you head towards the elite monster room, you will encounter another elite monster on the second floor. It means taking a lot of risks.
At another time, Andrea might have been of a similar opinion. But now it was different. Andrea shakes her head.
“Since we’ve just reinforced our strength, we won’t be at a level where we can be pushed that far by elite monsters. And here, look at the room right after the elite monsters.”
A bed-shaped mark was drawn where Andrea’s finger pointed. It meant a resting place.
“The next floor is the rest area, so even if you get injured, the burden is less. After that, there is a resting area right on the floor next to the elite monsters you meet. We’ll keep climbing the dungeon, so we need to look further ahead. The road where these elite monsters are gathered is a farming place not to be missed.”
Back in the days when I didn’t have anything, the elite monster room was like a death sentence and I had to avoid it like a land mine. However, if you were really determined to go up to a high floor, it was not good to just avoid elite monsters.
High risk, high return. We must not forget the core structure that penetrates the system of this dungeon. A dungeon does not reveal its secret secrets to a coward who fears danger and only avoids it.
Trisha is a little embarrassed, but she can’t help but nod her head in agreement. So far, Andrea’s judgment in this area has never been wrong. Even though they only accompanied her on the 10th floor, she already had a lot of trust in Andrea.
It was decided that the route would be to head to the event room. Upon entering the 34th floor through a passage so low that one could touch the ceiling, an unusually shaped space appeared.
Half of the room was occupied by a greenish acid solution. Inside the acid-filled pit, a stick with a bowl-like object hanging from the end stood tall like a goal post. Each bowl had a different color pattern, green, blue, and red respectively.
Looking towards the floor, there was a large jar. Colorful balls inside. It was a puzzle room with an obvious solution.
‘It’s a puzzle room where you throw a ball into a bowl by matching the color of the bowl and the ball.’
It’s easy to say, but the distance to the bowl was a problem. A good thirty meters back across the acid solution. If you were in a game, you could throw it right away because you’ve been tired of throwing it, but in real life, it was a very difficult distance.
When I told him how to solve the puzzle, Trisha listened blankly and pointed to a corner of the room.
“But you have to put the ball in to open it?”
A silver-rimmed treasure chest was placed inside a large prison cell blocked by iron bars.
Andrea pondered. Come to think of it, since he played ‘Dungeon of Infinity’ for so long, he was surrounded by a prejudice that he must solve puzzles to get rewards.
Andrea frowned, bit her lip, and finally pulled out the Earth Smasher’s hammer from her deck.
‘…there’s nothing to lose by trying it.’
In the game, invincibility is applied, so you can never open a prison until you solve the puzzle. But is that really the case in reality?
Andrea lowered her stance, twisting and releasing her torso completely, swinging the earth crusher’s hammer.
Boo-huh!
kang!!
Loud metallic sounds exploded as the huge boulders collided with the bars. Andrea raised her head and checked the condition of the bars.
Again, it didn’t budge. Just like in the game, it means that something magical is going on, not just a bar.
‘Then, how about this method?’
Andrea made the earth crusher’s hammer into a card and inserted it horizontally into the grate gap.
‘If I press the surface of the card in this state, the earth crusher’s hammer will be summoned and open the gap between the bars?’
In the game, when you summon an equipment card, you just hold it in your hand, so I couldn’t use it. The reason why he was able to become a deceased person was because of his personality that he couldn’t bear to be curious and had to experiment.
Andrea swallowed and gently pressed the surface of the card.
But if she had known in advance what the results would be, Andrea would never have done the experiment.
bang! kiik –
Seeing the unexpected result, Andrea was dumbfounded.
＜ 10. There are no bad dogs (6) ＞ End
Hmm, hammer became possesed by legion of demons before launching to stratosphere?