Chapter 110 - Cave Exploration - 2 (1/2)

“Alright.”

Romian nodded to Soo Hyuk’s reply.

“Let’s depart now! I’ll go get my bags first,” said Romian with a smile on his face.

“Should I wait outside?”

“Yes!”

Romain nodded once again, and Soo Hyuk went outside.

As Soo Hyuk went out, the smile on Romian’s face slowly faded. He made a sharp gaze at Soo Hyuk, who couldn’t see him, and once Soo Hyuk left the house, he went into the room.

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Soo Hyuk was staring at the cliff far away and thought,

‘Is it around that cliff?’

Romian was walking towards the cliff, so Soo Hyuk thought the cave was somewhere around there.

A few minutes later, Romian stopped as he arrived at the bottom of the cliff.

“This is the place.”

“…?”

Soo Hyuk tilted his head, because there wasn’t a passage anywhere. There was only a wall in front of them.

“Can you give me the key?”

Soo Hyuk took out the key from the inventory and handed it to Romian.

Receiving the key, Romian approached the cliff and started to search for something on the wall. He then entered the key into a small gap, and suddenly, a strange noise was coming from within the cliff.

From the gap, the rocks began to move inwards, and a pair of stairs heading down appeared.

“Let’s go!”

Romian took the lead and walked down the stairs, and Soo Hyuk followed.

‘I wonder how long the stairs are.’

The staircase was not heading straight down, but circular. There were walls on both sides, so it was hard to tell how much further they had to go.

‘At least it’s not pitch dark.’

Maybe it was because of the key, or perhaps it was always like this. There were small magic stones in the walls on both sides emitting light.

Although there was light, it didn’t make the staircase any shorter. It took five more minutes to arrive at the bottom of the stairs.

‘Now it’s a tunnel…’

There was a tunnel at the end of the stairs that was impossible to grasp how long the walk would take.

Soo Hyuk and Romian continued to walk forwards. The tunnel was also very long and took 10 minutes to reach their destination.

“The left is the trap path, and the right is the monster path,”

said Romian to Soo Hyuk, who stopped walking and looked at the two paths.

Soo Hyuk was standing on the left, and Romian was on the right. They swapped their positions while saying,

“Then I’ll be heading that way.”

“And I’ll go that way.”

“Be careful,” said Romain.

Before Soo Hyuk replied, Romian nodded his head as a greeting and headed towards the path. Romian soon disappeared from Soo Hyuk’s sight, and then Soo Hyuk walked towards the monster path.

‘I remember the first monster is a goblin.’

There wasn’t a lot of information on the monster path, but there were a few.

The monster that appeared, in the beginning, was one of them, and the first monster was said to be a goblin.

‘What would the goblin’s level be?’

All he knew was the race of the monster. He didn’t know how many, how strong the monsters were.

‘It is the Great Thief Kelta’s cave. It has to be somewhat difficult.’

This wasn’t an ordinary cave, but Kelta’s cave. She wasn’t called the Great Thief for anything. The level of the monsters protecting this cave shouldn’t be that low.

While thinking about the goblins, Soo Hyuk stopped because he saw the goblins ahead.

‘One, two…, five in total.’

At that moment, the goblin’s saw Soo Hyuk.

– Hmm, what is that?

– It looks like an orc.

– Doesn’t it look more like an elf than an orc?

The goblins continued their talk, wondering what Soo Hyuk was.

‘Have they never seen a human before?’

It may have been because the goblins never saw a human, they mistook Soo Hyuk for an orc or an elf.

– No! That’s a human!

– What? A human?

– Is that how a human looks like?

– I’ve heard humans taste delicious!! But he doesn’t look very appetizing…

“Fire Storm.”

Soo Hyuk was listening to their conversations, but he didn’t feel the need to do so anymore. The flow of the conversation was getting negative anyways.

As Soo Hyuk cast the spell, the firestorm swept the goblins, and the drop notification appeared.

– Goblin’s Poisonous Stinger x5

– Goblin’s Canine Tooth x5

– Goblin’s Foot x3

‘What?’

Soo Hyuk was surprised at what he saw.

‘There levels are so low.’