Episode 193
193. Episode 193
– You have successfully completed the 22nd floor trial, ‘The Scenery at the End of the Volcano’.
– Calculating public figures… … .
– Time remaining: 20 hours 41 minutes
– Find hidden forks in the path to earn extra achievement points.
… … .
– Total accumulated merit points: 220,000 points
– Congratulations! You passed the 22nd floor trial with the #1 ranking.
– You have received 100,000 points as a reward.
It was the same scene I had seen before the regression.
The 22nd floor trial was also the first trial that Seun had passed in the past. It was no wonder, because he was able to find this hidden crossroads thanks to the guidepost on the journey.
Of course, this wasn’t the way it was done at the time.
After narrowly avoiding the volcanic ash pile, we finally found this cave using the guide map.
Usually there is a break, long or short, between trials, but this was different.
As it was a hidden fork in the road, a message immediately came to mind informing of a trial.
– Find the hidden fork in the path that leads directly to the next level of trials.
– Welcome to the 23rd floor trials.
– Topic: Lava Field
– Time limit: 50 hours
– While climbing the volcano, you discover a lava cave created by a landslide.
– Move along the path, survive the blazing lava field and escape the cave.
The 23rd floor of trials, the lava zone.
Just by taking a quick look around, I could easily understand its meaning.
Bubbling-
Phew!
The red lava flowing down the wall, flowing along the floor, pooling in pools, bubbling and boiling without solidifying.
Even on the 22nd floor, it was so hot that it was hard to breathe, but here, just standing still would make your skin burn.
If it weren’t for the ice armor that Go Chang-seok made for me, I might have been burned right away.
‘I survived thanks to my equipment even before the return.’
At that time, Seun was also wearing ice armor similar to the one he is wearing now.
Although it is not as good as the current armor made of perennial ice and snow, the armor obtained through the search request is more than enough to explore the 23rd floor.
“I, I lived… … Kkeuheuk!”
Park Jeong-pil, who had been lying face down on the floor because Se-woon had roughly thrown him, got up in a hurry because red lava was flowing and writhing before his eyes.
The guy was also wearing ice armor, so he wasn’t affected much by the heat.
“Ugh! I almost died! Brother, what have you done again? Oh, it’s even hotter here.”
Of course, there’s nothing I can do about that joke.
“Let’s go. From here on out, you have to be careful.”
“Hey, what can I do? My brother is standing in front of me holding on tight. Hehe.”
– The constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’, sniffs around and blushes, thinking that he can smell something delicious.
Indeed, Beelzebub.
Even though he started to cry and say that there was nothing to eat on the 22nd floor, he started to react as soon as he entered the 23rd floor.
That’s because this hidden 23rd floor is different from the surrounding floors in that it exhibits the characteristics of a natural disaster…
Podong-
“Huh? Brother, what is this? It looks like a giant jelly.”
“Lava slime.”
“Lava Slime? Oh, I’ve seen that in a novel. Slime is the weakest of all monsters and is a good prey for beginners!”
It’s a beginner’s game.
Sure, there were slimes like that.
Clear Slime is the owner of the ‘Clear Slime’s Sweat Glands’, one of Mammon’s treasures previously used by Seun.
Clear Slime is one of the weakest monsters that survives by consuming monster corpses and waste.
However, the slime I saw now was different.
“If you touch it wrong, you’ll get burned… … .”
“Eww! It’s hot!”
Without even giving him a chance to warn him, Park Jeong-pil stroked the slime.
The guy who immediately grabbed my hand and stepped back. However, he barely managed to avoid getting burned thanks to the heat and dropping his hand before it touched the surface of the slime.
“Crunch!”
Did he judge Park Jeong-pil’s touch and scream as an attack?
The lava slime that had been standing still reacted immediately.
Long tentacle-like things stretched out from the body made of lava and aimed at Se-un and Park Jeong-pil.
Se-un narrowed his eyes, took a step back, and took out Achilles’ spear, Aphelion.
– The first skill of the Ice Dragon Spear technique, Ice Dragon Cough, is strengthened through internal energy.
– According to the secret of the Ice White Shingong, cold air is added to the martial arts.
Kwajik!
Aphelion, surrounded by cold yin energy, pierced the center of Lava Slime’s body.
The outstretched tentacles stopped as soon as I felt something breaking. Then they lost their strength and began to melt away.
“It won’t matter if you just nuke it, so from now on, you figure it out.”
“What kind of slime is this strong! Isn’t this so unbalanced?”
“I told you. From here on out, you have to be careful.”
“How could I… … Hey, hyung, let’s go together!”
– Predated the ‘Lava Slime’.
– Absorbs nutrients and increases stamina by 1.
After that, various monsters appeared.
Bats that spit lava, bugs that spew explosive gases along with hot fluid when killed, lizards that breathe fire, etc.
Although they were not very strong monsters, their attacks using lava and other things were threatening enough.
If it weren’t for this ice armor, any player would melt the moment they are hit by one of their attacks.
– The constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’, says that the food here is especially spicy and takes a bite of the lizard meat after cooling it down.
I saved my mana as much as possible. It would take a huge amount of mana to replace the attributes of Dragon Heart. Until then, I plan to just use martial arts.
Looking at the speed at which my mana was rising, it seemed like I would have exactly full mana by the time I reached my destination.
“Hey, hyung! Please help me!”
The road continued downward.
As Se-un was moving forward without looking back, the monster that was hiding in the gap in the wall and attacking from behind was dealt with by Park Jeong-pil.
Perhaps because of their unique provocation, they targeted only Se-Woon as if he was invisible.
Park Jeong-pil would have just run away in the past… … .
Kwajik!
Phew.
– The constellation ‘Donkey-headed Snatcher’ keeps giggling as he watches the contractor roll around on the floor.
– The constellation, ‘Donkey-headed Snatcher’ is amazed at the sight of the contractor fighting better than expected.
It’s different now.
As Seun had told me at the Frost Fortress, I used various tools to fight the monsters.
They shoot out ice needles that look like icicles made from perennial ice or explode bombs filled with perennial snow.
If it were normal ice, it would melt in the heat of the cave as soon as it was taken out, but the perennial snow and ice actually lowered the temperature, weakening the monsters.
Even though it was training, since he had only ever faced Seun before, he showed a very clumsy side when facing a new enemy called a monster, and his efficiency was not good.
‘You’re holding up well.’
Even without Seun’s help, he was steadily dealing with the monsters behind him.
For now, I was satisfied enough with just not getting in the way of the future.
And finally the downhill ends.
Bubbling!
“Keeeeeek-!”
A ‘lava zone’ that fits the theme of the trial has appeared.
Red lava was scattered all over the place like ponds and lakes, and monsters were writhing within it.
An unidentifiable loud noise could be heard from all directions, and even though I was wearing ice armor, I could clearly feel the heat.
“Let’s speed things up a little bit.”
“Here? No, if you sprain your ankle, it will melt away without leaving a bone, so why are you speeding up here!”
“You seem to have been talking back a lot lately?”
“… … Hehe, how could that be! I, Park Jeong-pil! Always as your right-hand man!”
“Shut up and follow me.”
“yes.”
As Park Jeong-pil said, the surrounding terrain was rugged in itself. It was a vast space filled with lava, incomparable to the descent into the cave.
On the ceiling, hot steam was being absorbed into a small gap.
It was the stagnation of steam seen in the 22nd floor trial.
“There is no way… … .”
The lava zone had no paths that were considerate to the player.
The lava, which bubbled irregularly, scattered lava droplets in all directions, so it seemed like the slightest letdown would cause me to be swept over by the lava.
There were also places where the path was blocked by a huge lava lake as if telling us not to go forward. In such places, we had to jump over rocks that were irregularly placed like stepping stones.
Meanwhile.
Quaaaat!
“Ugh!”
Right next to the stepping stones, lava erupted and something long and red rose up.
Lava Serpent.
As its name suggests, it was a snake-like monster that swam through lava.
– The first form of the Ice Dragon Spear, Ice Dragon Ascension, is strengthened through internal energy.
– According to the secret of the Ice White Shingong, cold air is added to the martial arts.
Before the guy could even show his teeth to Se-un, his body was torn into two and he fell down.
Even though it looked like he was just running forward without looking back, he was concentrating all his five senses as much as possible.
Unlike water, lava has a high viscosity, so the shaking that occurs when a monster moves is also large. No matter how much a monster hides itself, it is easy to sense its presence.
‘Ice Dragon Spear Technique, it’s quite useful.’
In lava zones, water-based attacks work best.
Even if it falls short of the standard, it will be consumed by the heat, so a strong force is needed, but Seun’s sound was more than enough to overcome the heat here.
That’s why I focused on this Ice Dragon Spear technique while training at the Frost Fortress.
Because I already anticipated that I would have to conserve mana here.
– Predated the ‘Lava Serpent’.
– Absorbs nutrients, increasing Agility by 2.
– Predated the ‘Fire Lizard’.
– Wisdom increases by 1 when nutrients are absorbed.
… … .
– The constellation, the ‘hungry prince’, does not stop eating even though he sweats profusely.
Even when monsters blocked his path and lava poured down from above him like a waterfall, Seun did not stop moving.
Before returning, it was a place where he had to move forward carefully, step by step, with all his concentration in order to survive, but for Se-Woon now, it wasn’t much different from moving on flat ground.
Rather than dealing with the bothersome situation of a natural disaster, I felt much more mentally comfortable dealing with monsters.
And finally.
‘Arrived.’
Unlike before, where lava had accumulated irregularly on all sides, there was a lava lake in the middle of the flat terrain.
There was a huge hole in the common area, through which dark clouds were escaping.
This is the center of the volcano, below the crater.
As it was the place that held the hottest heat in the volcano, the heat that was difficult to handle even with ice armor covered my body.
Every time I breathe, my throat feels like it’s clogging up.
As if welcoming such a Seun.
“Burning… … hot, boiling, sizzling… … .”
Something resembling a human figure emerged from the center of the lava lake.
No, lava was oozing out of its red body, which looked more like a giant than a human.
“Unmelted Being… … Burn with me!”
The boss monster on the 23rd floor. No, the most powerful monster among the trials up to the 24th floor, which are themed around volcanoes and disasters.
Living Lava, Ruler of the Volcano.
A monster that can be said to be the lava itself that exists here.
‘If we use that guy, it’ll definitely be possible.’
A great medium to change Seolryong’s Dragon Heart to Fire attribute.
fantasy,
