Chapter 12 Black Route (1) (1/2)
[You have entered the Black Route.]
[Safely go across the pond and reach the opposite side.]
Yeon-woo wiped some of the blood from his dagger and placed it back next to his waist.
Maybe because he hadn’t experienced any bloodshed for a while, he now felt like his whole body was burning with excitement.
‘It was useful to some degree.’
Although it was just a clash against some small fry, it had been worth the try.
Clearly, Yeon-woo was still lacking in some departments, be it in terms of skills or abilities.
‘Experience.’
The experience of going through life or death situations on the battlefield, the instincts taught by those very ordeals, and the determination required.
Those were never easy to come by.
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Yeon-woo had an accurate grasp of his strengths and weaknesses.
“Skill and ability are areas I can catch up on. I don’t need to be in a hurry. I just have to continue advancing as I’ve been doing up till now. I am not wrong.’
Yeon-woo took a look around while organizing his thoughts.
‘So this is the Black Route, the hardest difficulty.’
The Black Route had a very simple layout.
Along the wide cavity, there was a huge pond.
‘Are you telling me to get through here?’
The pond stretched over the long curvy cavity.
It seemed the goal was to swim across this pond.
[Pond of Heavyweight Water (千重水)]
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The pond is made of water that giant Mimir accidentally spilled while transporting. No ordinary life form can live in this pond.
Yeon-woo leaned down and dipped his hand in the water.
It did not feel like normal water at all. It was rather dense.
Just to make sure, he threw in a small stone he found lying around his feet. The stone quickly crumbled apart and sank beneath the pond.
‘Just as I thought.’
Yeon-woo drew his brows together.
‘It’s not ordinary water. It wasn’t a lie to call it ‘Heavyweight Water’. Was it named after its heaviness?’
It was so high in density and pressure that it could not be compared to normal water.
If an average person were to dive in, they would be crushed flat. Even if the body could withstand the pressure, their stamina wouldn’t last long.
They wouldn’t even be able to rely on buoyancy to float on this water.
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‘If I try to swim across without knowing the pond’s depth and width, I’ll be dead soon. I don’t even know what’s inside.’
Yeon-woo concentrated on the line ‘No ordinary life form can live in this pond’ in the information window.
In other words, extraordinary life forms could be living inside.
Even if not, at the very least, there should be some sort of trap set up underneath the surface.
Yeon-woo didn’t jump the gun.
Instead,
‘It must be here somewhere.’
He carefully scanned the walls of the path leading to the pond.
‘Draconic Eyes.’
Dozens of flaws were drawn along the walls.
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Yeon-woo found a spot where the flaws were all tangled up and pressed it with his hands.
*Clank*
In that moment, he noticed the wall sliding inwards.
*Rumble*
The wall stirred up a cloud of dust as it began to turn sideways. Then it stopped with a thunk, and a new staircase heading downwards emerged.
‘There we go.’
A little smile flickered on Yeon-woo’s face.
It was the hidden piece buried in the Black Route, the fourth difficulty. It was the place where ‘Bathory’s Vampiric Sword’ was hidden.
[You have entered the dungeon.]
[You have found the hidden piece, ‘Room of Frost and Flame’.]
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[You have acquired 300 Karma.]
Yeon-woo ignored the pleasant sounds in his head and descended into the dungeon.
The spiral staircase led to somewhere deep inside.
Perhaps because it was a deep cave, from some point onwards the light was cut off and the staircase was no longer visible.
However, Yeon-woo did not worry too much.
[Sense Strengthening: 17.8%]
Thanks to his high skill proficiency, which had once again increased by nearly 3% after clearing the boss room in Section A, it was now possible for him to recognize the surroundings through different senses without having to concentrate on his eyesight.
No, it was possible to take in more information by doing this, rather than by relying on just his eyes.
The surrounding sounds, the terrain’s layout, his own movements…
Everything was felt as it was. There was no blind spot.
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What’s more,
Had it been just a few days ago, he would’ve had to consciously concentrate on maintaining his skill active, but now he was so used to it that he could have it constantly active without having to pay much attention.
It could be said that his active skill had turned into a passive skill. Thanks to this, Yeon-woo was able to move through the dungeon without any difficulties.
Who knows how far down he had gone.
Soon after, a piercing wind blew from inside,
*Whistle*
The stairs came to an end and a new cave appeared.
‘Found it.’
The cave was full of a white colored moss along the walls.