Regress and Eat

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The deeper you go, the forest is like a maze.

Gradually, the landscape is closer to the forest than the forest. In the space between the dead trees that were tangled with each other, a new tree stubbornly pushed in, grew up, and smoked red leaves.

densely, similar sights are repeated.

A labyrinth created by unnatural nature.

But I didn't have anything to worry about getting lost. Just by putting it in your eyes, the map is naturally drawn in your head.

Walking like that, you can now see Orcs running around in droves.

Three, four, · · · five.

Perfect timing.

“Sew!”

Again, they found me first.

My ears burst into tears, surrounding me.

Take a light breath.

[Accelerate!]

Jump in between them, cutting through the wind.

“Khhh!”

The man in the lead presents his teeth and throws a stone axe.

But before he could lift his shoulders, his movements were clear.

Monsters in the dungeon are wild senses that aggregate Mana to body parts each time they attack. The flow seemed hostile, but I didn't have to prepare and wait for it.

[Air Strike!]

Jumps to altitude above enhanced physical strength. The axe thrown by the Orcs tore the void where I was standing. The man who lost me in sight raised his head late.

But my reaction was faster.

[Drop Attack!]

As gravity suddenly multiplies by several times, I drop faster than I jump. Manas were aggregated on the toes before the ankles went out.

Qajik!

It sounds like watermelon bursting with my kick. His head explodes. I turn my back on the sprawling blood like a fountain, and I fly again in fear of stepping on the ground. Okay, next!

Blame!

Kick the floor.

With one step, the streets become meaningless and narrow.

The horrific expression of the man standing behind grows out of sight.

I feel like I've widened the world to my liking. The joy of being able to spread everything you draw in your head.

My hand blade wrapped around Mana strikes the precisely intended point and severs his cervical spine at precisely calculated angles.

Boom!

“Sew!”

My spine is tingling with the sensation of complete control of my body.

Takes the stone axe from the crossed corpse's hands and throws it to the man behind.

Boom!

Baaak!

An Orc that falls with a stone blade on its forehead and sprinkles blood.

It didn't take long for the remaining two to be dealt with. Measure your position and fly. After just two more pulsations, the orcs collapse and roll.

“Phew.”

As I pulled out the Mana core and absorbed it, I thought:

I knew I should have had a weapon.

You can't crack bones and score monsters with your bare fists forever.

Still, I don't like picking up their weapons right now.

I felt it again when I threw the stone axe, but this kind of artifact is for throwing things like that. I can't just pull my hand out and throw it.

However, it is not yet used for swinging with a hand. You feel that Mana's cohesion and absorption are much lower than when attacking with bare bodies.

‘Everything crazy in the Guild Storage is supplied, but the weapons are completely controlled. ’

There is nothing wrong with withdrawing your Garbage Skill Card or replenishing Mana Potions for training purposes.

But using weaponized artifacts was a completely different story.

Not only is the process itself intended to be approved by the guild leader, but the weapons that were originally useful were lacking in supply than in demand. It means that there can be no such thing as a 'worthwhile but can't find its owner' weapon.

Also, at the level that the guild is aware of, this weapon is a practical level for me.

It might be similar to this stone axe level now.

The conclusion is that I have to get the weapons in my castle somehow.

‘I need to equip something as soon as possible. ’

After that, I headed in a certain direction and encountered more Orcs several times.

My movements have gotten better and better in the course of battle. The more you move your body, the more you get used to it and the more efficient you can see. Useless movement is omitted and converges towards optimal form.

I enjoyed observing this process on my own.

Meanwhile,

As I hunted the Orcs and gathered Mana Cores, I didn't traverse the dungeon as quickly as I could.

I keep an eye on the Mana flow in the dungeon as I go along.

In the information I saw before I entered, it was clear that the condition for clearing was unknown.

I have not read any documentation on what the terms of this dungeon's clearance are. This dungeon was initially known after missing its chance of normal clearing and collapsing.

But there is a clue here that can be deduced.

I pay attention to the flow of Mana all over the dungeon, one place at a time.

A dungeon that shows this kind of flow has a 'nucleus’ which is the center of it. Breaking a nucleus is one of the most typical dungeon target conditions. I was going to try it first.

The vast majority of hunters who do not see the flow of Mana, other than me, can also find it through the experience, know-how, and knowledge of estimating the location of the nucleus.

But for low-level, inexperienced hunters, it's very difficult to find a nucleus.

Therefore, if the dungeon attack condition is' destruction of the nucleus’ their clearance probability is very low.

- Another user has entered the dungeon!

A system message resounded in my head without any aura.

Detects gate fluctuations and communicates that a hunter other than myself has entered this dungeon. Any Hunter experiencing a dungeon.

The message is repeated exactly four times and then stopped.

Four more people came in besides me.

There are five limits to this dungeon, so this position is filled with pools.

‘The timing is fabulous. ’

I can guess who they are.

At some point in the future, until this dungeon collapsed, the government had no choice but to ignore its existence.

The result was a disaster in the event of more than 10,000 casualties.

At that time, the single dungeon brake had the largest casualties and society was in a state of panic. The voice of criticism against the government was also high.

By the way.

Some facts uncovered as a result of the government's investigation have angered the people even more.

In fact, the dungeon was previously discovered by a series of hunters before it collapsed, according to a later statement by the stakeholders.

The guild, called Optimus, obtained information about the dungeon through a dungeon digger and made it their private hunting ground without government intervention.

It's called an illegal dungeon.

The dungeons have been privatized to fill their joints. The objective is mainly Dungeon by-products · · · Mana Core, among others. It is to mine exclusively without sharing it with other guilds and sell it to buyers who buy it at a higher price than the Korean government.

The penalty for violating a law requiring the country to report and sell full supplies of Mana Core was the risk of losing everything it had to be so severe.

The Optimus Guild carries that kind of risk.

So far it's illegal and selfish, but it often happens in modern societies.

The worst mistake they ever made was missing the timing.

When the dungeon, which could not be cleared when it was Class F and which was simply farming without boundary extension, evolved to Class B, they did not inform the outside, despite seeing the scene.

If it hadn't been reported directly to the government, appropriate action would have been taken even if it had been in the media.

Instead, they managed to secretly clear the dungeon and try to claim the grand prize for a Class B dungeon.

Then it would have been better to succeed in clearing and be independent.

Those with incompetent greed eventually failed to attack, and the dungeon collapsed.

It was because of those selfish people that they could have saved more than 10,000 people.

‘They must have found out I came in first and been chasing them like crazy. ’

The four guild members must have just entered the dungeon.

An intruder entered the slaughterhouse, and the back of his foot must have caught fire.

Scumbags that were arrogant and greedy and incompetent.

It frowns.

I wasn't waiting, but I didn't want to avoid it.

But you'd better do what you have to do first.

‘I have to hurry. ’

I was busy walking.

“Sew!”

“Kuaaaah!”

Since then, you haven't avoided hunting when you encounter Orcs, but you've increased your speed as much as you can and made your way to the nuclear position first.

My skills have helped me speed up my work according to my intentions over and over again.

And then a little time passed.

I have finally arrived at my destination.

“Over here!”

I found a giant tree still alive, buried among the dead vines.

It was clear that Mana's flow through the entire dungeon was concentrated here.

I clenched my fist, relentlessly breaking it in two.

Kuc!

After crushing the tree, a faint light leaked from it.

The core of the dungeon.

Without hesitation, I punched through the nucleus again.

Immediately after that, a message rang in my head.

- You've met the dungeon's clearance requirements!

- Clear condition: nuclear destruction of the dungeon.

- The boundaries of the dungeon are weakened.

Fortunately, my guess was right.

With the existence of the dungeon's nucleus, the clearing conditions were either separate or a rare case, the order of things could have been a little twisted.

Sure · · ·.

It's your turn to receive the clear reward.

The message followed.

- The user's corresponding Dungeon Attack Contribution Rank is # 1 (100% Contribution).

- Award the item 'Dungeon Key’ to the user recognized as the first donor.

At that moment, a light flashed in front of me and an item appeared.

It's similar to the steering wheel, the height, used to control a ship.

Twelve large and small angled crystals stretch outward, likely to serve as handles along a round, sparkling edge with a dazzling light.

Unlike the steering wheel, the inside of the circular frame was empty. Like a cage.

In my previous life, I used to touch the expedition, so it was awkward for me to see it with my own eyes.

I held it in my hand that was rich in the air in front of me.

A system message sounds.

[key to dungeon]

Item Description: This item is given when you complete the Dungeon Assault. Once used for any purpose, the key disappears and cannot be reused.

1. If you use this key for a gate, you can close that gate.

2. If you use this key on the boundary of a dungeon, you can expand the boundary of that dungeon.

Description you already know.

The key, of course, was meant to be used to close the gate.

It is also in a 'very unstable' state, and it is not possible to extend the boundary and leave a billy to contact other dimensions. It's too early.

The system spoke to me in succession.

- Additional rewards are available to suit your contribution. Accept?

I nodded, of course, and the moment I revealed the doctor, everything around me disappeared and the darkness surrounded me.

I had heard many of my colleagues, but I had never witnessed it firsthand.

“This is the place to pick up · · · additional rewards. ”

I've never been involved in a dungeon expedition in my past life, and I've never achieved an additional reward contribution, so I'm seeing it for the first time.

Regrets are new. I look around slowly.

For some reason, I thought it was a darkness of a similar texture to the Altar of Crucifixion.

But what if there is a difference?

I looked at the white crystals that filled a dark space, like a star. Everywhere you look up, down, or on either side, it's full. How many hundreds do you think they add up to?

- Select a reward.

I understood the agony of my colleagues in my past life.

“Hmmm · · ·. ”

Every one of those white minerals is a reward. You have to choose only one of them.

But on the surface, they are all just flashing white light. It is no different than randomly selecting hundreds of gift boxes of the same wrapping paper.

“No, it doesn't mean anything! ”

The reward for this Class F dungeon is almost a Class F skill card or an equivalent value.

However, the more distressing the Hunters who completed the raid, the more likely they are to pick useless junk cards anywhere, rather than just Class F cards.

Where do all the cards that are stored in the Guild Storage and used as food for Iphonia come from?

It is the inventory that fails to be drawn from this place.

The system message responded in a dry tone.

- Leave any of these rewards to the free will of the user choosing.

“They all look the same. ”

- There are no duplicate rewards. They're all different.

“If you're going to do this, don't make me choose. Everything is the same no matter what you see. ”

I never made it out of the harbor.

Silence for a moment.

Blink.

Then I looked around again.

“· · · · · · · ah? ”