Battle Raid – 2
maze.
Literally translated, it meant a maze, but in the hunter world, it meant ‘maze’. It was similar but different.
A maze is a complex path where you have to choose one of the forked paths to reach your destination.
Because the labyrinth was talking about following a fork in the road and reaching the destination.
Well, to be honest, there is an English word for labyrinth called labyrinth, but strangely, in the original, Maze was called a labyrinth dungeon.
Apparently, the labyrinth dungeon appearing in Hidden Peace Academy was curved like a maze, and it seemed that the special space called the Hidden Room and various traps had to be avoided, and it was necessary to control the device to go downstairs.
And due to the nature of the labyrinth made up of narrow paths, the hunting difficulty is easy as you only need to pay attention to the front, but it was a difficult dungeon to attack because the difficulty to navigate the path was high.
We took our first steps there.
– Whoo.
As soon as you cross the portal, darkness spreads across your field of vision.
It oozes with the smell of damp and stinky dust.
The labyrinth was also one of the quietest dungeons.
Because there is no noise from rain, wind, or animals like forests or gated dungeons on low ceilings and narrow roads.
only our voices.
And it was a place where only the sound of monsters that would be spread throughout the labyrinth existed.
Occasionally, I could hear the clean sound of dripping water.
Well, even that pure sound sounded eerie due to the atmosphere of the labyrinth.
“It’s Sua.”
“Yes, brother. Holy light.”
The first step in attacking the labyrinth dungeon.
In my call, Sua used the [Holy Light], the first step, and the jewel embedded on the top of the old wooden wand emits a white light, illuminating the surroundings like a torch.
After that, Hanna, who was at the forefront, raised a shield the size of her body, and Mijin also grabbed the hilt of the great sword that Mijin had bought this time with both hands, and raised the sword diagonally so that she could strike at any time.
And following Hannah’s steps, I also followed the rear with an arrow attached to the string.
After a while, Hannah raised her one-handed sword.
A signal that an alert object has appeared in front.
He raised his magic and prepared to cast a skill.
“It’s a red worm.”
red worm.
It is a bug-type monster that appears mainly at the entrance of the labyrinth. It is the size of an adult, but with headbutts and dozens of short legs, Ahdeungba Lighthouse is a simple physical attack type, so it was the lowest level among E-class monsters.
It was easy to see that the slugs became huge.
It is a monster that can be slaughtered because it has weak defense, attack power, and useless by-products against procrastination.
– Kick!
The guy who found us rushes in with a weird noise.
Kung, Hannah lightly blocked the charge with a shield and at the same time gave a counter-recoil to push him back.
and.
“Rush rise!”
Mijin, who rushed in with the sword down the slash line, casts a throw, and it is easily split in two and subjugated.
There was only one room.
Because the lowest among E-class, he couldn’t be our enemy.
In that way, I was slaughtering more than 30 red worms, and when I caught about 40.
[Title: You have acquired Red Worm’s Butcher.]
Acquired a new title.
[When wearing the title, you can temporarily use Red Worm’s ability to judge objects by relying on senses instead of degenerate eyes in the dark.]
[Retention time: 1 minute]
[Cool Time: 3 hours]
It is a basic title among the basics.
Healer’s Holy Light is a passive skill with low mana retention, so it illuminates the labyrinth until the end of the raid.
It’s just one of the things that people who make achievements mainly by collecting titles are aiming for.
Even an E-class hunter has never been able to raid a maze-type dungeon and was promoted to a D-class.
“Wow, the slayer of the red worm? Did everyone get a title?”
“yes. It’s a basic title.”
Everyone nodded at Mijin’s question.
They were grim expressions.
A forked road appeared in front of us as we were moving forward again.
One fork in Maze Dungeon is the main road leading to the boss room, and one leads to the event room ending briefly.
The event room is a room that appears only in the Maze Dungeon, and it means a place where you can find gold, silver, and silver treasures and named monsters if you avoid the traps installed.
Since compensation is paid only for the first attack, the advance team is one of the places where ‘unconditional’ is heard.
It’s a good place for risk versus return.
How heartbreaking would it be if you just passed it because it was dangerous, and then you saw that you had obtained a formidable reward from the later team that started later.
so that.
“Will everyone come to the event room?”
“Of course.”
“of course!”
“It is disrespectful to not be heard there, as we pass by the cathedral.”
Everyone agreed to advance into the event room.
“OK. let’s go.”
So we started moving forward, stepping to the sub-road marked with the event room.
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There are four types of traps.
There are sudden type, summon type, trick type and breakthrough type.
Of these, the break-through was the easiest.
The most difficult is the trick type.
Unlike other types that can be removed with the body, it is a tricky way to solve an enigmatic trick, so you have to wrap your head around it.
“stop.”
We stopped just 10M from the event room and looked around the labyrinth road.
The traps laid out in front of the event room appeared only between 10m unconditionally.
If a trick type appeared, there would be hieroglyphs, a groove to insert something, or a manifestation device, but the rod was clean.
“Hmm, I don’t think it’s the trick type and the breakthrough type… .”
The break-through type should have already activated the trap. Whether a giant ax is moving like a pendulum between rods of 10M, flames are spewing out at regular intervals, or a giant awl is rising irregularly.
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Just like in the old Prince of Persia game, it is a breakthrough type in which you have to dodge the devices in action in time.
In other words, this trap is a sudden type or summon type except for the two types.
You don’t know what kind of trap it is unless you experience it.
And usually in this case.
“Go-wi, ba-wi, bo!”
Trap triggers are selected in the most primitive, quick, and reliable way.
It is decided in the wise way of our ancestors with a long tradition.
No one complains about this method and no one protests the result.
The hunter world is a job that puts your life as collateral.
Therefore, sudden activists, misfits, and crisis triggers are put on the blacklist of the association through investigation, making it difficult to become a regular hunter.
And the group formed by such people is the ‘mercenary corps’.
Of course, not all blacklisters become mercenaries, and free-spirited hunters also joined the mercenary corps, so the mercenary corps was not an organization where only the ranks were gathered.
Anyway, rock-paper-scissors means that if you refuse or disobey the sacred method of selecting trap pioneers, your activities as an official hunter may be limited.
In the first crusade that started like that, Sua won the single victory with scissors.
Whether he was trying to cover his mouth, he put his crossed hands to his mouth and bowed his head.
“I will pray for the endless prosperity of the brothers and sisters.”
… didn’t you laugh?
“Rock Paper Scissors!”
In the second match, Hannah won.
… Where did the lucky privilege that was activated from the field of possession go?
Now that the other stats are much higher than luck, has it changed from Unsam Gichil to Unsam Gichil?
I do not know.
First, there was a shallow sigh.
“… this.”
“Hey, I’m usually good at rock-paper-scissors.”
Mijin also stomped her foot once and vomited regret.
To be honest, it was a little embarrassing for me, who had just entered this world.
Even with latte, there was a banal stereotype or useless pride of ‘naughty work = men’, and it was because it seemed that a man was desperately trying to compete in this kind of thing.
But what if it’s a little exaggerated and your life is at stake?
Of course, just because the trap is triggered, it doesn’t come to the point of death.
It’s enough to avoid it, and even if you do not do damage, you will get ‘medium or minor’ damage, but if you are treated by a healer, it’s not to the extent that your life will be jeopardized.
But if you add a little (?) of a lie, your life can go back and forth.
blast furnace.
“scissors! rock! paper!”
The final match was fought with the wishes of the universe, and soon a woman’s sorrowful sigh had to leak out of the underground labyrinth.
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“Mijin-ah, fighting… !”
As Mijin headed towards the trap, she cheered with a loud voice behind her.
The world of winning is by nature a cold law.
It is a good man to surrender to the outcome, and a man who supports the winner without giving in to the loser is a true man.
And just because he’s the main heroine, it’s not the royal road to treat him like a weakling and wrap around him.
It’s not even my girlfriend.
Su-a also prays and cheers with a cross necklace wrapped around her hands.
“Be careful, Sister Mijin.”
And all but me are cadets who are currently rated close to D.
It’s just that I don’t have any practical experience, because the academy also receives labyrinth trap simulation training every week.
To be honest, I wasn’t too worried.
Moreover, this was an E-class dungeon.
– Cheekduck!
At that time, the sound of the trap being activated is clearly heard.
Unlike the breakthrough type, which is triggered in advance, the sudden type is a trap that appears suddenly and inflicts a blow, and the summon type is a trap that summons a monster.
Either way, the trap just triggered.
We put magic into our respective weapons, and maintained a tense stance.
Since the sudden type is one-time use, it is enough if Mijin avoids it, while the summon type rushes straight to the trap to form a battle line.
– Gugu Palace… !
A labyrinth that trembles finely, like an aftershock.
Booth, stone dust is falling from the ceiling.
I had been trained countless times for the sudden type.
I also practiced trap avoidance for three days and three nights at the VR training ground in Park Na-yeon’s mansion to fill in the lack of experience.
Occasionally, among the summoning traps, a named monster or a mid-boss-level monster is also summoned, but that is only an extreme probability.
Statistically named 1% and mid-boss about 0.3%.
And most of these oscillations were a precursor to the sudden trap.
So Mijin was also preparing to dodge rather than attack, but soon.
“ah… crazy.”
We each had to rush into the trap, spewing out our own sighs.
A small purple summoning circle drawn from the back of Mijin.
Summoning circles are divided by color.
White summons normal monsters, red summons named monsters, and purple summons intermediate boss monsters.
However, the summoning circle drawn now is vivid purple.
The mid-boss was summoned with a probability of 0.3%.
– Wrath!
A purple glow flew like snowflakes over the magic circle and became angry, and after a while.
[Ceroberos], one of the middle bosses of the E-class labyrinth dungeon, was summoned and roared with three heads.
It was the first time I had ever felt a ferocious roar.
-Koo-!!
To break 0.3% on the first try… It’s not new.
Evil law is also law.
Is bad luck luck?
“Maintenance maintenance!”
Without murmuring, we had to immediately form a battle line.
