Episode 171 Jeok Ho-seong
“If you go beyond this camp, you will see the entrance to the dungeon.”
Baek Woo-jin brought Mu Young-guest to the place where the illusionary formation that hides the dungeon was located.
“You must be a prosecutor to discover it so quickly!”
“I’m done flattering you, but if you want to get in here…”
“Um, Hwansangjin. “It’s also a jinn that uses ideology.”
Mu Young-gaek muttered quietly, looked around Jin, and then went inside.
-You recognize the illusion as soon as you see it, right? A thief is a thief.
‘I know.’
-I told you. Even if you go crazy, if you go crazy properly, it will help you?
Baek Woo-jin chuckled and followed Mu Young-gaek into the camp.
“That’s the entrance to the dungeon.”
Baek Woo-jin pointed to the entrance to the dungeon rising out of the ground.
“Can you go in without being seen?”
There were warriors guarding the dungeon, so if you couldn’t get inside without being seen, you had to leave the warriors here.
“You asked the wrong question.”
“what?”
“It’s natural to get in, so you should have asked how quickly you could get in.”
Muyounggaek put his hands on his waist and pushed out his chest. The expression was that going in there was a piece of cake.
“But the dungeon is a bit unusual.”
Muyounggaek narrowed his eyes when he saw the entrance to the dungeon.
“There is no black film created at the entrance to the dungeon, and the shape rising from the ground looks exactly like the face of a dog or cat.”
“It seems like it’s an exception-type dungeon.”
Sometimes, dungeons that are different from regular dungeons appear.
This is a case where the dungeon itself is not detected at all or the entrance is always open like that dungeon.
“Then shall I go….”
“Wait.”
“yes?”
“What are you going to do if a battle breaks out between me and the others in there?”
“I have to run away.”
“Ah…”
Moo Young-gaek’s answer was so quick and confident that Baek Woo-jin wondered if he had asked the wrong question.
“I will run away and come back and steal their stuff.”
“Oh well. okay.”
Baek Woo-jin nodded with a nervous expression.
-Fuhahaha!
Heukam burst into laughter when he saw Baek Woo-jin’s confused expression.
-You thought that guy would say, ‘I’ll help you fight!’ didn’t you?
‘Hmm…’
– If you said that, I would have just told you to run away.
‘that’s right.’
Baek Woo-jin accepted it obediently.
When Moo Young-gaek says he wants to fight, I tried to tell him to just stay out, but he said he would run away on his own.
Although there was less to say, I couldn’t help but feel a little bitter.
-You really are a great thief who broke your expectations.
Heukam laughed as if Baek Woo-jin’s reaction was amusing.
“Anyway, let’s go.”
“yep.”
Baek Woo-jin came to his senses and gave instructions.
Muyounggaek nodded and hid his presence as much as possible.
“Your skills have improved.”
“When I was caught by the prosecutor, I was so shocked that I did some training.”
Muyounggaek’s presence and presence were lower than when he was caught before. It had a presence similar to the leaves growing around it.
“I will go first.”
Muyounggaek climbed the tree in front of the dungeon and dropped a branch.
widely.
He dropped a tree branch on the floor to distract the drones, then moved to the other side and entered the dungeon.
‘I guess this is enough.’
The martial artist carefully entered the back of the dungeon, out of the shadows of the martial artists, and stopped.
‘The prosecutor will see me again today… gasp!’
Muyounggaek looked back, thinking it was a complete intrusion, but fell backwards in shock to the point of fainting.
“How…”
Although he couldn’t feel any sound or presence, Baek Woo-jin was behind him. I had no idea when or how he followed me.
“let’s go.”
Baek Woo-jin tapped the startled Mu Young-gaek on the shoulder and went inside.
“Uh, when did you come?”
“I was behind you from the beginning.”
“Ugh….”
Moo Young-gaek looked at Baek Woo-jin, who passed by him, with mesmerized eyes.
‘This person is real. It’s real!’
Recently, while taking a break from my day job, I practiced stealth and footwork.
Although Baek Woo-jin had achieved satisfactory growth, he was showing greater accomplishments in stealth skills than himself, including swordsmanship and spirit missions. I wondered if Baek Woo-jin was really human.
“Let’s go together.”
Mu Young-gaek forced his open mouth to close and stood next to Baek Woo-jin.
“just in case. “Lower your voice.”
“yep.”
There was no sign of other people inside the dungeon, but the two lowered their voices and presence just in case.
Baek Woo-jin and Mu Young-gaek followed the straight path into the dungeon. After walking for about 10 minutes, a fork appeared in front of me.
“Both sides went in. “Unlike the place we walked to just moments ago, it’s been over a week since we entered.”
After examining the traces of both sides of the road, Mu Young-gaek reported the information he found to Baek Woo-jin.
“It looks like this is the real entrance.”
Baek Woo-jin nodded and put a ring in the shape of a tiger’s head on his finger. It was the key to Jeokho Castle that I had obtained a long time ago.
-huh? Why did you wear that?
‘I came here with a strong feeling that this might be a hostile castle.’
-Pfft? It was funny and embarrassing.
Darkness snorted while looking at Baek Woo-jin.
-If this is Jeokhoseong Fortress because the entrance is shaped like a cat, then is it Baekryongseong Since there is a picture of a dragon at the entrance to your house?
‘You never know.’
-I don’t know. Do you think the world is yours just because the system helps you? You really are nothing.
Darkness continued, muttering that Baek Woo-jin was pathetic.
-I admit that the system favors you, but this place is connected underground. Could this be a castle? Drink cold water and come to your senses….
When the darkness took the opportunity to attack Baek Woo-jin, the tiger’s eyes engraved on the key to Jeokho Castle flashed.
Chiiing!
Light rose from the tiger’s eyes and opened a holographic window in front of Baek Woo-jin.
Unlike the hologram window displayed by the system, the corners were rounded and the color was light red.
-What is this?
‘The letters change.’
The newly appeared hologram window had unknown characters written on it, but they began to change to Korean.
[Welcome to Jeokho Castle.]
[A long but low-risk road.]
[A short but high-risk road.]
[Once you choose the path, you cannot change it.]
In the hologram window, the left is longer and the less dangerous is on the right. It was written that it was a shorter and more dangerous place.
-Ouch! W This is the real Jeokho Castle?
The darkness screeched and screamed.
I thought it was a bit of an unusual dungeon, but this was a truly hostile castle. If it had a body, its heart would have popped out of its mouth.
-And they show you something like this? What on earth!
‘Don’t you remember this?’
Baek Woo-jin pointed to the key to Jeokho-seong on his finger.
[Key to Jeokhoseong]
This is the only key to receive guidance from Jeokhoseong.
Grade: Unique.
Wearable conditions: None.
‘Because it is the only key to receiving guidance from Jeokhosung. ‘I have to do this at least.’
-But this isn’t it!
Despair was slowly seeping into the voice of darkness. For some reason, I began to picture what would happen next in my head.
-Why do you give this kind of luck to a ghost who sucks up all the luck in the world?
This time, Baek Woo-jin took action alone. It’s almost nauseating to think that this kind of luck could happen even if the system wasn’t involved.
“Do you see this?”
“yes? “What do you want me to look at?…”
Baek Woo-jin pointed to the information about the dungeon that appeared in front of him, but Mu Young-gaek only showed a blank expression.
‘It seems that only the person wearing the ring can see it.’
-You guy who lives life with luck. Where are you going?
‘Of course I have to go to the right.’
It had been more than a week since Baek Seong-hyeon’s men entered the dungeon. If you go to the right, you will be able to catch up.
“Let’s go to the right.”
“It smells dangerous in there.”
-Do you notice that? What kind of pendulum is that guy?
“If it’s dangerous, the distance will be shorter. let’s go.”
“That’s right. Dangerous places have short distances. “There’s really nothing you don’t know, prosecutor!”
Muyoung-gaek smiled brightly and nodded.
“In my opinion, the prosecutor is also talented. how is it? Join me as a duo of thieves….”
“It’s noisy.”
“yep!”
-You really are a fool to suggest that you be a thief…
Darkness was so dumbfounded that he shook his sword blade.
Sigh.
When Baek Woo-jin took the right path and walked ten steps, he felt as if he had passed through something soft, like falling into water.
“Was it this?”
When I looked back, there was a transparent curtain blocking the road. I think it’s because of that barrier that once you decide on a path, you can’t go back.
“It’s as expected. “If the road is divided like this, there is no way to return.”
Muyounggaek patted the transparent membrane and savored his appetite.
“There is no need to go back. All you have to do is cut through the front. let’s go.”
Baek Woo-jin went down with a confident smile.
“Wow, that’s so cool.”
Muyoung-gaek grinned and followed him down.
* * *
‘How long do I have to go?’
-I don’t think it’s wrong to say it’s a last name. It’s definitely deep.
Baek Woo-jin went down for almost 30 minutes but found nothing.
Seeing that the ring wasn’t responding, it seemed like there was nothing special.
“Prosecutor. “Look over there.”
“Black door?”
After 40 minutes of going down, when I was getting a little bored, a black door appeared.
It was similar to the black film that forms at the entrance to a dungeon.
“I guess this is where it really begins.”
“I’ll go in first, so come in later.”
“yep!”
If it had been Moon Ju-young, he would have said he would go first, but Mu Young-gaek stepped back as if it was natural.
“anyway.”
Baek Woo-jin smiled and entered the black curtain.
The feeling of passing through the curtain was also similar to entering a dungeon.
Slosh!
As soon as I entered the black membrane, I saw something like a round, transparent bead that was trapping me.
“Krrr….”
“Krrr!”
Outside the transparent bead, what appeared to be over a hundred tigers were encamped.
The tiger was bigger than a mid-sized car, and red energy was flowing from its body.
“Krrrrr!”
The tigers were glaring at Baek Woo-jin with blue eyes.
“Wow, that’s bloody.”
Muyounggaek, who came inside, trembled when he saw the tigers.
“It looks like we have to pass through here.”
As Baek Woo-jin looked around, the key in his hand flashed.
[Pass the Fire Tiger’s Path]
Find the hidden door and advance to the next level while eliminating the Fire Tiger. Dead fire fighters respawn after 20 minutes.
Hidden Condition: Obtain special abilities when killing 301 Fire Tigers.
-what. Why do I see something like that?
‘I never thought I’d see something like this.’
Baek Woo-jin’s eyes widened.
The way out of this place was as expected, but there were special conditions.
‘So if you kill 301 Fire Tigers, you will gain special abilities?’
-I don’t know who created this dungeon, but I don’t need to give it away!
‘Well, I don’t know where the others are, so I can’t waste time here catching Hwaho.’
If you only eat the French fries in front of you, you may not be able to eat the chicken that comes later. You have to think carefully.
-Then are you going?
‘It would be good if I could know where the people who entered are.’
When Baek Woo-jin wondered about the location of Baek Seong-hyeon’s men, light flowed from the tiger’s nose engraved on the key to Jeokho Castle.
Wow!
The blue light from the nose spread and a 3D picture appeared.
The picture looks like a spiral castle turned upside down and stuck in the ground. Blue and red dots were sparkling in the picture of the castle.
-No way!
‘I think that’s true. It looks like a map of Jeokho Castle.’
The key to Red Tiger Castle showed the internal map of Red Tiger Castle in front of Baek Woo-jin. And it wasn’t enough to just show a map.
‘The red dots seem to be people with different abilities, and the blue dots here look like us.’
There were two red dots and one blue dot on the map.
As I went down, I saw a red dot that I could meet and a red dot on the other side that I couldn’t reach.
It seemed like the ones I could meet were those who went down the right path, and the ones I couldn’t meet were those who went down the left path.
‘Both are far from the goal.’
The path on the left was far from the lowest level, and the path on the right was dangerous, so I couldn’t go down that far.
‘You can move after completing the hidden conditions.’
-shit! What an ability like dog poop!
‘It gives everything to the map hack and the information hack.’
Baek Woo-jin touched Jeok Ho-seong’s ring and smiled with satisfaction.
“You stay there.”
“yep! “I won’t miss a single step!”
Muyounggaek sat down as if he wouldn’t move even if he asked for help.
“Ugh…”
Baek Woo-jin sighed and took off the round ball.
“Khehehe!”
“Krrr!”
The fire fighters let out a wild roar as if they had been waiting and rushed at Baek Woo-jin.
Sigh!
Baek Woo-jin swung his sword at Hwa-ho, who jumped towards him.
“uh?”
However, Hwa-ho twisted his waist in the air and avoided Baek Woo-jin’s sword. It was like watching an excellent warrior dodge.
“It’s surprising, but it’s useless.”
Baek Woo-jin chuckled and put more aurors into the Dark Sword.
Pow!
The stem of aura extending from the dark sword split the flower floating in the air in half.
“Crrrrrrr!”
“Kaaaa!”
Even though their colleague was killed, the fire fighters’ assault did not stop.
Baek Woo-jin was surrounded by eight animals who rushed at him at the same time, and the tigers that fell behind poured out blood-red flames from their mouths.
Sigh!
Baek Woo-jin drew a circle like a full moon with his sword and cut down the attacking fire fighters at the same time.
Hahaha!
Even though he was hit directly by the huge flames spewed out by the fire fighters, it did not even burn Baek Woo-jin’s skin.
Crack.
Baek Woo-jin walked out from the pillar of flames and shook off the fire on his clothes.
“Is this why it was Hwaho?
I laughed. Neither the fire that attacked directly nor the fire that spewed fire from its mouth could cause any harm to him.
-Damn it! What a dangerous path this is.
“I know.”
Intense brain energy emanated from Baek Woo-jin’s sword.
“It’s too easy.”
* * *
Even though Baek Woo-jin ordered Mu-young to find the hidden door, he did not go out and hunted as many as 300 Hwa-ho.
“Prosecutor. “Let’s go now. Isn’t it all over?”
“Just one more set.”
Baek Woo-jin shook his head.
Like a gym trainer, he kept shouting for one more set.
“300 is enough to catch…”
As Muyeong-gaek muttered, the floor flashed and a fire tiger appeared, but unlike before, several fire tigers were not summoned.
Just one.
A Hwa-ho the size of a house appeared, making the previous Hwa-ho look like children.
“Kaaaa!”
The huge flower roared with a roar that shook the entire room and then rushed at Baek Woo-jin.
Grumble!
Hwa-ho’s body was lit with flames, and it felt as if a very large freight car was rushing by.
“It’s big, though.”
Baek Woo-jin placed his hand on the handle of the Armin Sword.
Kwaaaaang!
Black brilliance poured out from the sheath of the Dark Sword and the Black King Bullet exploded.
Coo coo coo coo.
Within 10 seconds of its appearance, the huge fire was completely destroyed by a single black king bullet.
“Wow….”
Before I knew it, the soul was draining from the eyes of Moo Young-gaek, who had run away behind Baek Woo-jin.
‘come.’
Baek Woo-jin clenched his fists when he saw the message that appeared in front of him.
[You have completed the hidden condition.]
