Chapter 28 (1/2)
“When the card popped up in front of your eyes, you didn’t pick it up, right?”
“… No.”
“Where are you living? I’ll take you. Three days later, the cards will come up again. Then, choose the one with the most stars.”
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Sungwoo didn’t want to take this poor man and his daughter with him. He just wanted to provide them with as much information as possible for survival.
“Oh, my house is right over there…I came out because the food was running out…”
He understood the situation. Sungwoo opened the bag and provided him with only 3 days of food that could sustain them.
“Then, goodbye…”
Right at that moment, the goblins cried.
Two goblins coming out of the mouth of the alley witnessed the corpses of their fellow goblins everywhere. They were so startled that they quickly went down to the basement of an old shop.
“Oh my goodness. How stupid they are! They are running to a dead end. Can I go and beat them up?”
“Wait a minute.”
Sungwoo looked at the man again. Even if he didn’t take the man and his daughter with him, he could not neglect them on the street.
“Oh, well, my house is right in this alley. I can get there safely, I think…”
“Then, good luck!”
“Oh, by the way, I do not recommend you going down the basement. It’s a karaoke room run by someone that I know… I heard there are more terrible animals than those green beasts living out there,” the man warned.
Sungwoo nodded and let them go. Then he stood in front of the underground stairs.
There was a red cave-shaped icon in contrast to the green coin-shaped icon. It was the so-called ‘dungeon’.
“Let’s go down.”
Despite the man’s warning, Sungwoo would not listen to it because the standard of fear was very different among people.
“He warned something terrible is living there.”
“Well, it means that there are lots of nutrients out there.”
“…Sungwoo, you have become weird these days.”
“Otherwise I’d be dead already.”
The orc skeletons under Sungwoo’s authority lined up and started to descend the stairs.
Since it was an old merchant shop in a residential area, the old stairs squeaked loudly.
He was on edge because of that noise. He passed ‘Off-limits to Youth after 10:00 PM’ sign and opened the door to the dark karaoke hall.
At that moment Hanho screamed, “Ahhhh!”
“What’s wrong?” Sungwoo said, pulling a sword.
“Bones, bones…”
“What?”
There were lots of bones piled up at the place where Hanho pointed to. There was a pile of decomposed and decayed things such as humans, goblins, orcs, etc.
“…Are you scared about the bones?”
Crackle—
Right, the one-armed goblin standing next to Sungwoo, also looked up at Hanho.
Letting out a sigh, Sungwoo rummaged through his bag, then took out an LED light he had obtained from a bicycle shop. There were a total of eight LED lights, so Sungwoo, Hanho, and Jisu held one each while he installed the other five on the ribs of the orc skeletons.
Then, like a special force entering a dark room, several lights began to beam around here and there.
“Let’s go in.”
-You have entered the unique dungeon ‘The Holy Land of Elder Slime.’
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“Slime?”
“Uh? Aren’t they completely weak guys? By the way, what the heck is this smell? Uh…”
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In a fantasy world, slimes were set as weak monsters, but their origin was more of a munchkin.
Since slimes were free of form and made of acidic substances that melt anything, they were very difficult to deal with. Indeed, the huge stinky smell from them filled the basement karaoke hall. The stink was strong enough to cause a headache.
What caught their eyes first was a goblin’s legs, which stuck out of the door of Room 1. It seemed to be one of the goblins that had run away here a little while ago.
When they approached slowly and confirmed it, Hanho and Jisu stepped back, blocking their noises.
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“Ugh!”
“…”
They were struck by an unbearable stench.
“What the heck is this smell?”