57 – Themed Dungeon (3)

He was there.

The conditions for clearing the theme dungeon differ depending on the nature of the number of people entering. This is because it does not simply depend on the number of people, but is a form of asking the qualifications of those who enter and granting ordeals appropriately to overcome them.

In particular, these theme dungeons often satisfy the lacking part of the person who entered them, overcome trauma, or recover. Occasionally, there are times when a lesson is given without hesitation.

So, if I were to ask the clear conditions, it would have to do with not only me, but also Lee In-ah’s temperament, who entered the same place as me.

“Hey.”

I called her after thinking of her.

“Dude.”

There was no answer, so she called once more.

“Why? What?”

“Can you see that?”

I pointed to the distant snow-covered horizon. There, the old hut from earlier was still lonely.

“What?”

“Can’t you see?”

“What?”

“No, that one. Hut.”

“What… Bullsh*t. Where is the cabin?”

As expected.

That cabin seems to have been an illusion.

I would have wasted my time if I kept following that.

It would have consumed not only time but also physical strength.

Then that cabin is not the correct answer….

I thought as I stroked my chin.

Then what are my clear conditions?

While I was thinking that, Lee In-ah suddenly screamed.

“Mistress! Seriously, what kind of dog school is this?!”

After a long walk, I stopped and thought again, and he must have been angry.

“I’m supposed to be sleeping at this time. Know?”

I pointed out the error in her words.

“It’s not the time to sleep, it’s the time to work in the inquiry circle.”

She protested.

“I only work in a circle every other week.”

“Huh? Okay? Why?”

“If you extract energy from your prey every week, you will get caught. They also need time to recharge.”

Is that the reason?

Ina Lee ended her protest at my point and got angry again.

“Anyway! It’s time to rest! What the hell is this because of you! It’s a normal dungeon! It’s a normal dungeon!”

That’s a lot of whining.

I hate hearing people whine the most.

“I don’t like the way you talk.”

“What if I don’t like it?”

“Hey, I see you keep forgetting your situation.”

“What? My situation? Whatever! Whatever!”

I can’t stand it when I see him squealing. I punished her with the blade of her hand.

Puck.

When I hit the top of my head, a scream came out.

“Gyaaagh!”

She got angry as she cried.

“You keep hitting women!”

“Mine is not a woman.”

“Write this….”

I ignored Lee In-ah, her crying face, and stood there thinking.

Themed dungeons related to personality. Clear conditions are obviously related to my personality flaws.

No, not only me, but Lee In-ah must have something to do with the clearing conditions.

I thought, racked my brain, and pondered deeply.

Then I looked at Lee In-ah, and suddenly I saw her condition, which was different from mine.

“What are you looking at….”

“… ….”

A face frozen white. White teeth trembled up and down restlessly between blue lips. Unexpected for such a snowy environment, her outfit was suitable for spring and summer, and of course her whole body was bluish.

Come to think of it, I was the only one using an umbrella made of tentacles.

She would have lost her consciousness if she hadn’t been for her mage.

“Uh.”

At that moment, I had an epiphany and found the clothes in the subspace bracelet. I always had extra clothes with me, so there were a lot of clothes in the subspace. I still have the combat suit I bought earlier as I didn’t feed it to the tentacles.

“What, what are you doing?”

I ignored her questioning In-Ah Lee and took out her clothes and threw them at her.

“Why?”

“Put it on.”

Lee In-ah trembled at her and then put on the clothes with a mumble.

“If I had clothes like this, I would have taken them out right away….”

I took out the blade of her hand and she closed her mouth and started putting on her clothes.

And as she began to put on her clothes, she felt her raging eyes soften a little.

I took out not only her clothes, but also her feet and gloves, and put them on and put them on. Then her snow stopped and even the snow that had accumulated began to melt.

I wonder if it was this.

I guessed the clearing conditions for this dungeon.

It could be doing a good deed to others, or it could be a signal to pay attention. Perhaps it is simply to endure the snowy environment with willpower.

After a while, the snow all melted, and a road that had not been seen until now appeared. I took Lee In-ah and walked along her path and came across a stone statue and a black wave that signaled the end of this dungeon.

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You have satisfied the dungeon conditions.

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I focused on the text of the light that the stone statue represents. Then, a bright beam of light emanated from the stone statue, and an iridescent orb appeared.

And as I expected, there were two marbles, including Lee In-ah’s.

“Oh, reward!”

Before Inah Lee hijacked her reward, she even grabbed her share of marbles. And she immediately swallowed her orb.

When I first swallowed the orb that came out as my share, I got an attribute called [Act of Interest]. After using it through Lee In-ah, I immediately know what its characteristics are.

[The opponent is currently depressed, tired, and exhausted.]

[The opponent currently hates you.]

It’s the ability to know the other person’s condition and whether they like or dislike me. Method of interest. It literally seems to be the ability to read the other person’s mind.

I next swallowed Lee In-ah’s reward. Then, the [Eye of Comparison] Was created. This time, when I used it through Lee In-ah, I immediately knew what the characteristics were.

[The opponent is weaker than you.]

It seems to be the ability to grasp the power of opponents who are stronger or weaker than me.

These are skills that can be useful at times.

Aside from that, my abilities have increased through the acquisition of characteristics, and I feel good when my abilities go up.

“No, stealing rewards is too much.”

So instead of hitting the grumbling Lee In-ah, I lightly pushed her into the black wave. And I also went into the black wave to go to the next level.

* * *

Choi Ji-seong read the words of light that appeared on the stone statue.

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“… One person has to sacrifice to get out of this repeating loop. Those who sacrifice go the left path, and those who escape take the right path….”

Originally, Choi Ji-sung and Ko Soo-young both choose to sacrifice themselves. It was because Choi Ji-sung originally had heroic and sacrificial aspects, and Ko Soo-young copied Choi Ji-sung’s talent and now unnecessarily resembles that mentality a little.

So the two repeat a few more loops and suffer more.

But this time, as Ymir explained the dungeon, she subtly gave hints, so I quickly figured out her answer.

“… I think this is probably the answer.”

Choi Ji-seong hit the stone statue with his sword.

Bang.

The statue was broken, but nothing happened. Instead, the two of them walked toward the back of the stone statue in the middle, neither on the left nor on the right, and after a while they were able to clear the dungeon.

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You have satisfied the dungeon conditions.

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In this way, both of them obtained characteristics, but the characteristics obtained were different.

Choi Ji-seong has the characteristic of [Judge], Which can judge the other person’s morals and good and evil, and Ko Soo-young has the characteristic of [Lie Detection], Which can determine the other person’s truth.

After using their abilities a few times, the two entered the Black Wave.

* * *

Cheolwoo Han knocked down the ogre again and again. However, after defeating a certain number of ogres, time rewinds to the past and returns to the starting situation.

“aaa!”

Some screams are heard, a red crack opens, and an ogre jumps out of the Red Gate.

Han Cheol-woo crumpled his face in annoyance.

“How many times do I have to repeat it?”

A twin-headed ogre came out of the Red Gate.

Han Cheol-woo grabbed the sword.

Kwoaaa!

An ogre just came out of the gate and ran like a bull. It is a place where civilians who could not escape and were frozen are standing.

Cheolwoo Han ran towards it for the first time among several loops. Right before the civilian was torn apart by the ogre’s bat, he swung his sword and saved the civilian.

“Thank you.”

The civilian whose life was saved bowed his head. Han Cheol-woo was not interested. However, the situation changed for the first time because of that small incident.

As he feels, after killing ten ogres, time rewinds, but it does not rewind. Through that, Han Cheol-woo found out the conditions for his clearing.

You’re protecting civilians.

Han Cheol-woo did his best to protect the civilians and was able to clear the dungeon before long.

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You have satisfied the dungeon conditions.

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After clearing the dungeon like that, he got a reward, but he got the [Guardian’s Dawn] Attribute that can only become stronger in situations where he protects others.

Han Cheol-woo frowned because he didn’t like the character, but when a black wave appeared, he rode over there.