Vol 14 Chapter 8 (1/2)
ACT 8 Underground Crypt
“Ark-niht!”
The eyeballs floating in the sky screa towards him
“Heok, Jump!”
Ark used Wolf’s Feet to quickly et and slammed several metres into the wall If it hit his defense then he would’ve been split in half But he could barely breathe a sigh of relief before he heard a terrible sound
Cheolkodong, cheolkodong Syusyusyusyusyu!
It was the ! Hundreds of holes opened in the nearby wall and a shower of arrows shot out
“Dark Dance!”
Ark continuously rotated his body and danced to avoid the arrows No matter how e of hundreds of flying arrows Tutututung Around 10 arrows stuck in his shoulders, chest and legs and he lost a lot of health But his health being decreased wasn’t the problem
-You’ve been hit by a blunt arrow 40 dae!
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The arrow Ark was hit with had a ‘blunt’ attribute Thanks to his resilience stat, he only received 40 daainst ‘push’ so he was pushed back in rapid succession Razak screamed as Ark was pushed back
Clack clack clack, clack clack clack clack!
The place Ark was heading to was a pitfall filled with sharp blades If Ark fell in then he would end up like a porcupine The arrow trap and the other traps were all carefully calculated
“Racard, Dark Dash!+”
“I’ Ohhhhhhh!”
Racard’s body flew across the space and forcefully slammed into Ark When hit by Dark Dash, Ark was instantly thrown several metres Ark used Mind’s Eye but saw that he wasn’t out of the range of pitfalls yet Then Razak plunged into the arrow trap He blocked the arroith his shi+eld and jumped towards Ark Ark was startled to see Razak and soon noticed his intentions
“Well done, Razak Sword transformation!”
Razak changed into the Saw Blade after Ark shouted and was caught Ark changed him into the whip and wrapped it around a nearby pillar Then Ark pulled hied to avoid the trap but there weren’t any safe places As soon as his feet touched the ground, Ark heard aforwards
‘There’s no place to avoid the trap on the left or the right If that’s the case…!’
After quickly judging the situation, Ark acted like a ninja and jumped between both walls to propel hiet away but he was still being threatened by traps
‘damn, where is it? Where on earth is it? I don’t have much health left now……’
Ark moved his body and carefully looked around Then he saw so the blades and concentrating his eyes, he saw a glass bead that was lodged inside a hole in the wall Ark frowned as he confirmed it
‘It is too far away How aet it when it is hidden in such a difficult place? The distance is too far And it is so deeply lodged in the wall that my hand won’t reach it What should I do? If I hesitate then the traps will just get worse……’
Ark conte
“Buksil, come here!”
“Huh? W-why?”
“Just come, this time it is an eyeball missile!”
When the eyeball approached him, Ark turned and did an overhead kick
“Eeeeeek!”
The eyeball screaoal was the hole in the wall When Buksil ilass bead shook and fell At the sa towards Ark stopped Thefor then appeared
-You have operated the switch and turned off all the traps!
Ark sighed and sat down
“Phew, I thought I would really die this time”
His whole body was drenched with sweat after running around without stopping for 10 minutes Ark wiped off the sweat and murmured in an irate voice
“daeon is this?”
Yesterday Ark had entered the underground crypt It wasn’t necessary to explain again but Ark had prepared thoroughly before entering the dungeon He checked his equipredients and entered expected fierce battles However, the underground crypt was different froeon located in the City of the Dead Ark was expecting sleeping corpses to jump up and attack hied no matter where he e numbers of traps just like an Indiana Jonespitfalls and traps……! Ark wandered the border between life and death many times
‘In the beginning it was arrows and poison needles……’
The further he went into the crypt, the more difficult the traps beca axe then he would’ve lost 50 of his health But that was its charm If he had been stuck between a hen it appeared then it would’ve been instantaneous death! In other words, defense or attack was no help in this dungeon It was thanks to his improvisation combined with his movements that he was still alive
‘I never could’ve come this far if I hadn’t discovered the method to turn the traps off’
Fortunately there was a way to disable the traps Whenever a trap was triggered, there was always a glass bead in the area which functioned as the switch Relass bead would stop the operation of the traps However, avoiding the relentless traps and finding the hidden bead wasn’t that easy It was thanks to Buksil’s eyeballs that he lass beads Because Vampire’s Eye wasn’t affected by darkness, it could h small holes to find the bead Well, this time he had another use for it……
“Ark-nim!”
The eyeball had becorily towards hinorance and said
“Ah Buksil Good work I’m alive thanks to you”
“Now you’re saying this? What were you thinking? This is my eyes, my eyes!”
“Then you should’ve found the glass bead more quickly You found it too late so the traps became worse Therefore it was inevitable And isn’t it wonderful? Eyeballto weaponize every part of your body? Buksil, the living weapon! Hoonderful”
“Eh? That is a little cool…ah, no, as it?”
The eyeball paused and ainst each other and dust fell down It was a really pitiful scene
“Anyway, the traps have been turned off so shall we check the loot?”
Ark ot up The crypt didn’t have any monsters However, there was a chance to collect items that could be called loot after the traps were switched off
‘Let’s see, is there anything slightly useful this time?’
Ark approached the ith an expectant look Just like a medieval movie, a wall in the crypt was made like the honeycomb in a bee hive And a corpse that looked like a mummy was enshrined in the wall Ark collected the items present on the body
Old Sword
Weapon type: One-handed sword
Attack: 7~10
Durability: 17/200
Weight: 45
User restriction: Level 250
The sword buried with ancient warriors in the underground crypt In the past it possessed tremendous power but that feature has already been lost The iron has oxidized and it cannot be melted down in a furnace
‘damn, another bad item?’
Ark sighed after he saw the informationThe crypt had a lot of weapons and defensive items buried However, the performance of those items were so bad that it was no different froet the price of the scrap h it was an iteet a few coppers for it No, Ark couldn’t ignore a dropped iteet no money for it Racard looked at its appearance with an uncomfortable expression
“Master, no matter how you look at it……”
“Don’t tell me, I know”
He knehat Racard was trying to say He entered the underground crypt and suffered through the traps just for a few scrape ite? His face turned red at the thought of Buksil filive up any iteist Indiana Jones was also farave robber Well…he had a wide viewpoint
‘Yes, what is so bad about recycling items that the dead won’t use anyway? It is a ti will contribute to humans’
That was how Ark mentally armed himself
‘But the incoh to cause tears I can’t gain any levels because there are no monsters and all I can obtain is just a pile of junk? If it wasn’t for e quest then I would never bother with this dungeon……’
However, he wouldn’t let his heart eon! If he made just one mistake then the traps scattered everywhere would kill hieon was the type where the traps would reset if he died and had to enter the dungeon again If he had to break through the traps again froo mad
‘Anyway, I believe this is the last area based on what I recall from the map
Ark collected all the iteraphic round crypt was already alraphy skills, the map completion rate was 95 There was only 5 left to be co 5 was hidden In fact, Ark initially had no intention of exploring the crypt to 100 He had planned to use the shortest route to his destination After going the wrong way a few times, Ark’s completion rate was 60 when he reached the destination It was a huge door with a sentence written on it! It was obviously the final destination of the dungeon just by looking at itBut there was a problem he hadn’t expected……the door was locked
“How on earth a to open this?”
Ark was filled with anxiety Suddenly the eyeball floating all over the place discovered so on the top of the opposite wall
“Ark-ni recorded here”
If you would like to e and wisdom
‘Tokens of courage and wisdom?’
Ark looked carefully at the iron door Although thick dust was piled up, he carefully examined the for a circle Ark deter of the sentence
‘That’s right The token of courage and wisdoo around the dungeon?’
The tokens of courage and wisdoht, it was to pass through all the traps in the dungeon Only passing through the traps could he get the glass bead The key to opening the iron door was the beads Furthermore, there were thirty holes carvedIn other words, he needed at least 30 beads Ark only gathered the required nu 95 of the crypt Well, thanks to that he becah of an expert to rival Indiana Jones……
“Now the final destination is close Let’s go!”
Ark finished his maintenance and headed towards the iron door Then he laid the glass beads in one by one
Ku ku ku ku ku…!
The iron door started vibrating as soon as he finished putting the beads in and the door slid to the side to reveal a hidden passage It was a straight passage that headed doards
“Finally, I’ve reached the final stage of the profession quest”
Ark juo? He went all the way down until he suddenly heard a voice
“daer……will it hold out?”
‘Eh? That voice?’
Ark flinched and stoppedbefore he used Eyes of the Cat There was a wide space at the end of the passage and a dark shadoandering there It looked like one of the dead but it was covered head and toe hat seemed to be black paintIt was to the extent that he couldn’t see through the black with Eyes of the Cat
“There’s only the shell left…… I’ll kill it this time…! When that is done…I’ll become a complete existence……”
The black person muttered as he walked around before he suddenly flinched and turned his head He became surprised as he saw Ark and confronted him
“Yes, who are you?”
The person looked at Ark with uneasy eyes until he suddenly shouted like he re
“I see…… You covet that as well…… Foolish bastards…… Your vain greed……I won’t allow it!”
Sharp fangs suddenly sprang fro e flashed as the person attacked
-The boss monster ‘Karma’ who has a corrupted soul has appeared
‘Boss monster? This crypt also has a boss monster?’
There were no monsters present so he hadn’t expected a boss Ark was unprepared and hurriedly pulled out his sword to attack Karma It was a crude attack so he hadn’t expected it to work But Karma fell down from the hit and also lost 3 of his health
‘What the? This guy?’
Ark looked at Karround with astonish?
‘That’s right, there were no monsters here so I had no idea of the level of difficulty in this dungeon The difficulty of the traps is quite high but that has nothing to do with the level of dungeon This isn’t this dungeon more reasonable than I expected?’
He confir Karh level He had reached level 339 after killing the zombies in the swamp If he added the 50 dark attribute bonus then he was level 508 On the other hand, Karh he was a boss monster, Ark had already overwhelht really seriously against itOf course, bosses in New World possessed special skills so victory or defeat wasn’t just determined by level
‘But what’s this? This unco?’
Instead of feeling coht, he felt uneasy instead If the boss was that weak then wouldn’t the loot be bad as well? But Ark cla Anyway, he hadn’t entered hoping for loot Ark’s purpose was his profession change quest!
‘I’ll finish this quickly and complete my quest!’
“Dark blade!”
Ark ran up to Karma and stabbed him with his sword Then Karma screamed and waved his hand
“Hik, Time Acceleration!”
-The durability of Gwisal’s sword had fallen has quickly fallen
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-The durability of Gwisal’s sword had fallen has quickly fallen
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-The durability of Gwisal’s sword had fallen has quickly fallen
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A suspicious gas had eeappeared saying that Gwisal’s durability had fallen?
‘Hik, hat it this?’
Ark panicked and withdrew Before co here, he had carefully looked at Gwisal’s informationand the durability had dropped froic Restoration continuously to repair Gwisal’s sword
“What on earth is happening? I didn’t even touch the black person? What is this thing?’
Ark used Skill Penetration It was urgent to examine what Karma had done
-Karma’s special skill: Time Tuner
Thanks to his spirit body which is close to nature, Karma uses techniques which deal with time This technique allows several decades to pass in seconds or revert to the past
However, this technique does not work on existences that have life
【Tie of time within a certain space When time is accelerated at maximum speed, all objects within the area (sword, armour etc) will have their durability fall
【Tie of time within a certain area is reverted to the past When affected, all objects will return to its previous state However, this skill only works up to the time when the object is created (when applied to equipment, the item will return to its ore state)
‘What the? Time Tuner?’
Techniques which controlled the flow of tih it didn’t apply to Ark since he was alive, Tihtly Ark turned pale with fear after reading the inforh it wasn’t necessary to explain, real physical laws applied to equipment in New World If he didn’t use his sword over a certain amount of time then the durability would decline Of course, it only decreased by 1 every inal state But if he left the equipment alone after a few years then the durability would fall and the item would break Karma’s skill acted like that When his sword entered the space, it was like time accelerated by a hundred tilected his sword for a few years The durability was decreased at a tremendous rate If his response was a little bit late then his sould’ve been destroyed It wasn’t only his sword Wouldn’t the effect also apply to his armour if it hit his body?
‘I have to fight against someone like this?’