43 – Hidden Reward (3)

Is it classified as a different space from the outside?

It looks like that.

It is certain when you see that the perceived temperature changes dramatically.

As I was going down the stairs with that thought in mind, Mo Yeji applied the brakes.

“You want to go further down?”

I nodded.

“To do so. Why.”

“You don’t even know what it is.”

“There was a treasure in my dream.”

“Crazy.”

Mo Yeji seemed reluctant.

“I think it might be dangerous….”

“It wasn’t dangerous in my dream.”

“There is no guarantee that the content of the dream is correct.”

“You found this ruin because your dream was true.”

“… ….”

Mo Yeji bit her lip as if taken aback by my words.

Actually, she is right.

Ruins are much more dangerous than normal dungeons.

Especially the ancient dwarf ruins here.

But with her ability, it’s not that dangerous.

Come to think of it, Mo Ye-ji pioneered this place herself in the original work, but now I wonder why she acts like such a timid.

Could it have something to do with her outfit?

Originally, Mo Yeji should have come with full arms, not girlish attire.

Is this also the effect of the butterfly effect?

“Um.”

I’m anxious for nothing.

I shrugged my shoulders and silently walked down the stairs. Following me, Mo Yeji followed closely with quick steps.

* * *

If dungeons are like Satan’s spittle, ruins are Satan’s spittle.

In exchange for being a bit more dangerous and anomalous, you can get special rewards that fit the nature of each ruin.

In this world where the power of weapons is determined by origin and origin, ruins are special dungeons with themes of legends, myths, and fantasy.

I continued walking with Moyeji.

As you go down the stairs, the surroundings get darker. At the end of the stairs, a cave appeared.

As I walked along the road inside the cave, the darkness grew thicker as the distance I traveled increased.

With Mo Yeji following closely, I expanded my senses. Using the clairvoyance, the pitch-black area becomes brighter as if wearing state-of-the-art night vision goggles. Suddenly, midnight turned into midday.

The contours of the surroundings were gradually captured, and Mo Yeji said as he walked without hesitation.

“Are you going to keep going?”

“Uh.”

“Aren’t you scared? It’s kind of creepy.”

“Not really.”

“You… You are fearless.”

Looking at the expression on his face, he is oddly pale.

Are you scared?

Come to think of it, there are many elements that give off a gloomy atmosphere around you.

An unpleasantly sticky darkness, the sound of water dripping from the ceiling, and the sound of footsteps echoing throughout the cavity as you walk.

I screamed because I was mischievous.

“Wow.”

Then Mo Ye-ji was startled as if she would go black.

“Ouch.”

I didn’t expect to be really surprised, but it’s funny to see her surprised.

“Mistress. What. Don’t be surprised.”

“You are too nervous.”

“… It’s scary.”

It feels strange to hear the word scary come out of her mouth.

Isn’t this a character who dwells on loneliness?

As I was walking with that thought in mind, a golden door appeared.

The unknown darkness was swallowing the light like fog, so I only found it right in front of her nose.

“Ugh, it’s a golden door.”

Mo Yeji was surprised and admired. But it’s not just one or two doors. A total of three doors appeared.

“This is like choosing one of the three doors to enter, right?”

“Yes.”

It seems that he recalled what he heard in class.

“Then the two are traps… Um, which way should I go?”

If you use Mo Yeji’s foresight ability, you can easily find out, but considering her battle fatigue, I decided to rely on my memory this time.

“Right.”

I opened the door on the far right and went inside. Nothing happened. Moyeji followed closely and was surprised.

“Oh. If you do it carelessly… Uh uh.”

She didn’t let her guard down, and before she knew it, she pulled out her gun and looked around her, she asked.

“How did you know?”

I tapped my temple.

“Dream.”

“… ….”

Looking at his expression, he looks absurd.

I think it would be absurd even if it were me.

I looked around like that and moved my feet again. When I had moved about ten paces, three arrows flew from the darkness on the other side.

Ping ping ping.

I knew in advance that it was easy for me to shoot the arrow because I was nervous.

In an instant, he knocked out two of the three arrows that flew by.

I was moving to knock out the remaining one, but at that moment I heard a gunshot.

Bang.

Turning her head, Mo Yeji was tugging at her long hair and blowing air into her muzzle.

“I also do my part enough.”

It seems that he activated his foresight ability in that short moment and grasped the arrow’s trajectory.

“Do something.”

“Huh.”

So we continued walking.

After a while, we reached the second trap.

This time it was a cliff.

There was a road on the exact opposite side, but there was a gap between them.

Unless you can fly, it seems impossible to cross over to the other side.

“What is this… What do you mean?”

“Stay there.”

Ruins are often made up of traps like this.

If the ordeal simply asks for qualifications by fighting power, the ruins feel like confirming the identity of the visitor.

There is a password that has been promised at every corner, and if you don’t know the password, you can just hit it with your body or die.

“This way.”

I took Mo Yeji and stood in front of the cliff. At that moment, a foothold appeared in the air between the two cliffs. The scaffolding was making a road by repeatedly appearing and disappearing.

“Ah, it’s like this.”

The problem is that the frequency and place of occurrence are close to random, so it was not easy to figure out the route.

“Can you use your foreknowledge?”

Mo Yeji replaced her answer with a nod of her head. You can pass these traps by memorizing them the hard way, but it’s more convenient to use your foreknowledge ability.

We easily stepped on the steps and passed the cliff trap with ease. I get elated when I easily handle a difficult task. That’s why I didn’t quickly recognize the green smoke that came out of nowhere.

* * *

Shortly after leaving the cliff, a cloud of green smoke suddenly poured from the ceiling.

Chiik.

If it came out in front of me, I would have reacted quickly, but it came out from behind and the reaction was slow. It was more so because it was not in the original story.

Green smoke usually exhibits poisonous properties. So I vaguely guessed that it was a poison cloud, but I was outside the poison cloud’s influence and Mo Yeji was inside it.

Mo Yeji reacted belatedly and reached out to avoid her smoke cloud. But she was late. As for her special ability, her body reaction speed is noticeably reduced in such a surprise situation.

“Oh, write.”

I unconsciously stretched out my arm and let out a transparent void tentacle.

Thinking that he had to protect Mo Ye-ji, he stretched out his tentacles, but it seemed that Mo Ye-ji would inhale her poisonous mist.

At that moment, my will manifested itself in the other direction.

Wheek.

Suddenly, the tentacles opened their mouths wide and swallowed her poisonous smoke.

[The fire extinguishing ability has been used.]

It seems that the fire extinguishing ability was triggered without my knowledge.

“Ugh, just… what was….”

As Mo Yeji looked around her in bewilderment, I focused on the void tentacles.

[The poison has been absorbed.]

[Resists poison.]

[Anti-magic constitution effect: Poison resistance succeeded.]

[Void tentacle mastery increased by 30%.]

[Poison resistance increases by 10.]

[All normal stats increase by 1.]

Seeing that it resists with its anti-magic body, it seems fortunate that it is a poison made of magic.

Anyway, you can ingest poison and digest it.

I knew it first.

I assumed it was a crisis situation and was worried, but it turned out well. It seems that the ingredients of the poison are very strong, and the poison resistance has risen by 10, and all general abilities have risen by 1.

“Are you okay? Green smoke has just entered your body.”

Mo Yeji came to me in a hurry in surprise.

I nodded.

“Yes.”

“What did you just do?”

“Be open. Blood.”

“What is that…. What do you mean?”

“There is such a thing.”

I looked around and moved again. As your abilities increase, you feel refreshed and energized.

After that we continued breaking through traps, passing gravity traps, freezing traps, and falling stone traps.

Every time I break through a trap, I wonder how Mo Yeji could have done it alone.

Did the level of difficulty increase as the number of participants increased, as it did during Hayeonsi?

It can be.

As I was thinking that, I heard the roar of a beast.

Looking back, it seems that the reward from the ruins is approaching.

There was a magic engineering troll that seemed to be the guardian of the ruins.

* * *

Even a troll created through magical engineering, half of its body was machine and half creature, was carefully processed. It wasn’t difficult, but it wasn’t easy either.

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It’s exhausting when you use Martial Arts in succession.

While gasping for rewards, two rewards come to mind.

As expected.

It seems that the difficulty increased and the rewards also increased this time according to the number of people entering.

I picked up a gun first.

The strongest gun made with the ancient Dwarven magic engineering technology.

A gun from another world that overcame the limits of a gun that had a short origin in this world and was exhausting in its power.

And while checking the next reward, something strange caught my eye.