Chapter 10 - Day 3, 3rd Floor Surprise (1/2)
Chapter 10 - Day 3, 3rd Floor Surprise
I didn’t shout or ask what she was doing. I just measured the distance I would have to run to subdue Yoo Su-jeong.
”Don't worry. I have no intention of fighting with Hee-Chul ssi.” The dagger she stabbed into An Su-hyun’s neck disappeared from Yoo Su-jeong’s hand. Yoo Su-jeong held out her empty palms in the front of her like she wanted to show she meant no harm.
“I knew he wouldn’t win, but I didn’t think he would look so stupid.” She touched An Su-hyun’s head with her toes. Even though she cut his throat, the amount of blood that spurted from An Su-hyun’s neck was abnormal. An Su-hyun’s body rolled down the stairs. Once it stopped, the HP Bar above An Su-hyun was completely empty.
[Out]
Only his cold body was left behind. “Well, bye.”
Like it was a signal, she started running. She ran three or four steps towards the staircase in the narrow pa.s.sage. I was lacking by a few steps. By the time I reached the staircase, Yoo Su-jeong had already stepped onto the safe stairs to the fourth floor and disappeared.
”...”
I turned around.
I approached An Su-hyun to confirm his condition but it was already too late. Even when it was touching the stairs, the body didn’t disappear.
”Dammit.”
It was the first death I faced, and it was completely gruesome. The light had disappeared from his eyes. He didn’t deserve to die just for his sin of being human.
Anyway, I couldn’t think about the body any more. I couldn’t do anything. Instead, I needed to focus on the things I could do. I lay An Su-hyun back down and went back to the hallway. There was still nothing in the pouches of the goblins except for coins. Then I checked the first goblin warden.
[Crude Wind Gun. Equipment item. Rank F.]
[A primitive wind gun made by drying the hollow stem of a plant. There is no finesse or sincerity. If you don’t handle it carefully then it can’t be used for more than small shocks.]
[Warden’s Needle. Consumption item. Rank D.]
[A tool primarily carried by the wardens of the lime goblins. The strength of the needle itself isn’t much, but in the case of a poisoned needle, it has the ability to cause pure pain to the opponent.]
[Applies a pain score of 7 after being poisoned. If the poison overlaps, a pain score of 0.5~1 is added. This decreases by 0.2 per minute.]
There were a total of 10 needles. I headed to the second goblin warden.
[This wind gun can no longer be used.]
I scavenged another seven needles. It subtracted the three that were used on me.
As a result, I had a total of 17 poisoned needles that caused pain. Even if I didn’t use the wind gun, I could just p.r.i.c.k the opponent with it. I felt a lot of pain, so anybody else without Pain Tolerance would be almost paralyzed.
Or… With this, I could raise the level of Pain Tolerance. This time, I moved towards the boxes.
Pak!
The first box contained a trap. The second box contained three coins.
[Tellan Empire Coin (Silver).]
[An imperial coin that still holds value. It is made of a silver material. It is commonly used among communities or species within the dungeon. It has the same value as 20 bronze coins.]
When would a store where I could use this appear? I smashed the next few boxes. From the fourth box, five porcelain bottles emerged. A foul smell came from the corks covering the opening of the bottles.
[Crude Porcelain Bottle]
[There is no way of knowing the contents. The efficacy won’t be known until after it had been drunk or applied.]
...I would drink it right before doing down the stairs. In the fifth box, there were four pieces of paper. When I saw what was on the paper, it reminded me of woohw.a.n.gcheongsimwon.
[Greenish Brown Pills]
[There is no way of knowing the contents. The efficacy won’t be known until after it had been drunk or applied.]
Was I a guinea pig now? Either way… I would try it once. A ring emerged from the sixth box. It was a thin silver ring that females commonly wore. There seemed to be elaborate carvings on it, but there were so many sc.r.a.pes that it was hard to check the patterns.
[Old-fas.h.i.+oned Ring. Equipment item. Rank D.]
[A tool that promotes s.e.xual attractiveness and was popular among the n.o.bles of the empire centuries ago. At the time, the Imperial Princess used it to gain a lot of money and the Emperor strictly prohibited its use. It is worth quite a bit among collectors. The effect of the artifact seems to have weakened due to the magic patterns being damaged.]
[Charm correction +1. The amount of pheromones emitted to the opposite s.e.x have slightly increased.]
What? It was useless. ...Um. Still, maybe I should go somewhere tomorrow. No... But it couldn’t hurt. Um. Well.
The seventh box was a trap. And the long-awaited eighth box. A book came out. It was old but was made out of luxurious leather with designs on it. I opened it to see strange letters inside. At first glance, it was a narrow font similar to Arabic.
[Old Leather Hardcover Book]
[Information to decrypt language: Knowledge related to the language is required.]
Thus, I got everything I could from the boxes. I lifted one porcelain bottle.
Pong.
As soon as I opened it, a smell similar to rotten eggs stung my nose. I lay halfway on the edge of the stairs. If I became sick or there was something strange, I could just roll down. I closed my eyes and swallowed the contents of the bottle. It felt like drinking the snot from a runny nose.
[Current Balance: 28/129]
[Current Balance: 30/129]
Huh?