– Volume 13, Chapter 1,
301 (Side story). 100th floor Lee Tae-
yeon [Lee Tae-yeon [Alone]: Hey.]
[Lee Tae-yeon [Alone]: Is anyone there
?
Lee Taeyeon, who had been spitting out echoless cries, let out a deep sigh.
[Lee Tae-yeon [Alone]: Excuse me. Do you know if anyone is alive? Can’t you give me an answer?]
But the answer still doesn’t come back. She turned off the community.
A chuckle is heard from behind her.
[Do you want the understanding and comfort of others? It’s a weakness that doesn’t make me
think of an adventurer who has come down here.
]
Lee Tae-yeon groans and sits on the floor.
“Do you have anything to do? Stay attached to a guy like me. It seems like it’s already been well over ten years, doesn’t it?”
She didn’t even know who the owner of the voice was. It was just that he had been attached to her for a long time and talked to her about this and that.
Presumably, it seemed to be a divine being, but the voice did not properly explain its identity.
It was embarrassing at first, but now
I’ve come to accept it. He didn’t interfere beyond talking, so there was nothing to worry about.
[For a being like me, what remains is time. Just like you.]
“You’ll be fine.”
She grumbled and looked up at the ceiling of the labyrinth.
gray labyrinth. small space.
She was aware of every little flaw in the corner of this place. Spent quite a bit of time here.
[What are you thinking? I’m sorry.]
“Well…
Lee Tae-yeon muttered in a daze.
“What shall we do?”
how much did you spit out Now I spit out the words that I cut in my mouth again.
She looked up at the ceiling quietly. An hour, two hours and a day.
and a week.
After being absent-minded for a week, she woke up. [What
are you
planning to do?]
she walks in stride Beyond the passage, an endless labyrinth appears.
She stepped into the maze.
It is a maze of despair that a skilled explorer cannot find out all of it even if he draws a map for hundreds of years.
Lee Tae-yeon walked through the maze very skillfully.
As if it had been repeated thousands of times, there was no hesitation in the steps toward the aisle.
Rather, it seemed annoying.
“Can’t we just reduce this now? It’s too troublesome to go.”
A quiet laugh can be heard over her grumbling.
how long did it take She reached the end of the maze. There was a single dark door.
And the gatekeeper was guarding it.
Taeyeon smiled and raised her hand.
“hi?”
[…Again.]
There was a tone of disgust in the gatekeeper’s voice.
“Don’t be so. Aren’t you kind at this point?”
Lee Taeyeon smiled.
“Balbabamba. You’re an adventurer, aren’t you? How about a welcome?”
[I don’t know if it’s the first time I’ve seen this face, but I’m not interested in you.]
Barbababamba moved her body made of bricks as if it were annoying.
[You came here for clearing, right?]
Lee Taeyeon nodded. After a moment of silence, Balba Bamba asked.
[Do you remember how many challenges this is?]
“Well?”
Lee Tae-yeon stared blankly into space.
“How many times? do you remember?”
[I do not know. I have no intention of remembering such useless, meaninglessly large numbers.]
“Then why did you ask?”
Lee Taeyeon tilts her head. Val Babamba opens his mouth.
[It’s a matter of your mind.]
“Aha. I was wondering what to ask.”
Lee Taeyeon shook her head.
“are you okay. A very bright future awaits me, so open up the floor.”
[I don’t think so… but if you wish.]
Coo-gu-goo!
The door opens.
Lee Tae-yeon takes a short breath and
goes inside.
How many times will this be? Like what I said to Balbamba, I don’t remember anything. She had been here for too long.
But each experience was terrifying.
I was out of breath and broke out in a cold sweat.
Fear strikes at the possibility that everything up until now can vanish.
death.
But she bites it off.
Enduring the fear, he puts himself inside the door.
The existence who watched her at that appearance was satisfied.
[Cheer up.]
The door closes with a small voice.
[Starting the 100th floor quest]
The light turns on. The inside of the floor is visible.
Numerous weapons there.
spear sword shield halberd bow.
Thousands of weapons
were embedded in the ground.
“ruler. Shall we try again?”
[You activated Breath of the Hidden Mouse.]
[You activated a hidden story no one knew about.]
[You activated an invisible shadow.]
Her presence disappears.
Small movements of breathing, the sound of clothes brushing against each other.
can’t hear anything
In this place, the existence of Lee Tae-yeon literally
disappeared.
[You have activated 10,000 possibilities.]
Lee Tae-yeon started to move slowly.
[Quest failed]
Koo-Goo-Goo Palace…
The door opens. Lee Tae-yeon appears in tatters.
Balba Bamba asked as if he was used to it now.
[As expected, it’s a failure.]
“Don’t ask when you know…
[Still, today took the longest. I gave up two days. Congratulations.]
“Noisy.”
Lee Tae-yeon grumbled and left Barbaba Bamba behind.
She passed through the maze again
and returned to the gray room. She lay down in her bed with a tired face.
She opened up a community.
[Lee Tae-yeon [Alone]: Excuse me.]
[Lee Tae-yeon [Alone]: Someone answer me.]
[Lee Tae-yeon [Alone]: Please.]
[Lee Chang-chun [Hard]: …What is it? Are there any Alone Mode players still alive?]
The answer mixed with surprise came back. she was delighted
[Lee Chang-chun [Hard]: Lee Tae-yeon. Haven’t you cleared it yet
? Didn’t you keep going down unlike me?]
[Lee Tae-yeon [Alone]: Someone was alive! What about the others?]
[Lee Chang-chun [Hard]: There are a few other people besides me. Everyone was half crazy.]
[Lee Tae-yeon [Alone]: Really?]
[Lee Chang-chun [Hard]: Anyway, the community was still alive. no. Are you sure you were using that one? but. Now there is no reason to use the community, right? The rest of the people will just talk to each other.]
[Lee Tae-yeon [alone]: That’s why I’m bored? Can we talk to you?]
[Lee Chang-chun [Hard]: That’s crazy. shit. If done wrong, it may take longer than the Alone mode.]
Lee Chang-chun posted a rough post.
[Lee Chang-chun [Hard]: I’m going down quickly. I will return to Earth. I don’t use the community anymore.]
[Lee Tae-yeon [alone]: Don’t do that, talk to me…]
But the answer didn’t come back.
She sighed and turned off Community.
“…how long have I been here?”
[At least, it’s a time far beyond the lifespan of you humans.]
An unfathomably long time.
The reason why no answer came back from the community was simple.
Because most players went back to Earth once upon a time.
The remaining ones
luckily succeeded in surviving each time they returned to Earth, but their talents were limited. Or, there were only dropouts who gave up the attack and sat down due to fear of death.
Some of them gave up on breaking through the labyrinth and sat down and became dead in the long passage of time.
And the rest confirmed Earth’s victory and broke through the labyrinth without paying attention to anything else.
They were crazy about returning and had no reason to use community. I will focus only on breaking through the labyrinth as safely as possible.
She sighed and closed her eyes.
next day. She woke up and woke up with a grunt. Someone asked her as she headed toward the maze.
[Where are you going?]
“Let’s do some hard work. There are still
a few pieces of equipment to change.”
She grunts as she progresses through the maze.
In the maze, you can move forward without encountering a single monster if you find the correct path, but if the path goes wrong even a little, monsters will pop out. Lee Tae-yeon deliberately took a different path and summoned the monster.
“Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Teayeon
Lee Taeyeon swung indifferently at the monster that rushed at her with tears.
It was a monster he had already defeated tens of thousands of times. Now I could deal
with it even with my eyes closed .
Kwajik.
Deal with monsters and collect rewards. Deal with the monster again and collect the reward.
For a week, Taeyeon only dealt with monsters.
without a break for even an hour.
“Is it still not enough?”
However, it was not enough to purchase equipment. To be exact, it’s been a while. She continued swinging her sword at the monster.
“What if the position had been reversed?”
[Are you referring to the kid you always talked about?]
“Yes. Taesan. He could have done well even here. The gods must have loved it too.”
Taesan Kang.
He taught Taeyeon many skills. I didn’t get most of it, but plus. And I got a stroke. Without those two skills, she might have given up on clearing as well.
Even though everything is over, he can return to Earth with everyone, but he lives in the labyrinth and creates numerous skills.
What the gods of the labyrinth want is someone like Taesan.
[…I guess so.]
It giggled.
[If what you said is true, the gods of this place will love him very much. He would love him and try to make him his own apostle. Maybe you can try to give more than that.]
“Unlike me. I mean.”
Taeyeon grumbled. The gods despised her. Every time she passed by, he annoyed and let out a sigh.
could understand What they wanted was not someone like Lee Tae-yeon.
But she couldn’t help but be annoyed.
“Do you know who came here because they wanted to?”
She gnashed her teeth and lowered her sword.
Kwadeuk.
The monster was crushed and shattered.
She still thinks sometimes.
What would it be like if you were in easy mode?
And what if Taesan was in the Alone mode?
If so, it would have been absolutely perfect. In Easy Mode, she could have passed the blame on to Taesan and tried to survive normally.
A thought I had hundreds of thousands of times since entering the labyrinth.
But it was meaningless. Both of them have already made their choice.
‘Come back alive.’
years or even decades ago.
These were the words Taesan left for her as she left the labyrinth.
she gritted her teeth.
She caught monsters for a year.
With the gold he collected, he managed to fit new equipment. She lay down on the bed to relieve the accumulated fatigue.
I was so tired.
How good would it be if it were the Earth when I closed my eyes and opened them like this?
she mumbled.
“…Earth will be happy by now, right?”
They closed the rift in the sky on their final return.
All that was left was to restore civilization.
Many died, but those who survived gained superhuman powers. There were quite a few technicians among them.
If people all over the world work together, civilization can be restored at a rapid pace. Perhaps it could have already returned to the previous Earth.
“Aren’t they all dead?”
They don’t even know how long they live. It was because the moment he entered the labyrinth, he escaped the human lifespan.
But it didn’t seem like it was already dead. Everyone will be living on Earth.
After clearing the 100th floor, everyone would welcome her. He could have scolded me
for taking so long or told me to come quickly.
But in the end, everyone will smile and greet her.
Under the developed civilization, they were able to live a peaceful life again.
‘It has to be.’
It has to be.
It was the only hope holding on to the crumbling spirit.
Lee Taeyeon curled up like a child.
And the nameless being was quietly watching her.
next day. She tried to clear the 100th floor again.
The result was, as always, a failure.
[Congratulations. You’ve held out for three days today. If we keep going like this, we’ll be able to clear it within decades.]
“It’s noisy.”
Lee Tae-yeon grumbled and returned to her bed.
Her expression wasn’t bad. Perhaps because I changed one piece of equipment, it definitely lasted longer than before.
If we keep going like this, we will definitely be able to clear it someday.
Laughter is heard
[Gods and wizards hate you very much. What they wanted is not clear like you.]
What the gods wanted from wizards was
the challenge of the great. It is a life-and-death fight and a step towards becoming stronger.
But it wasn’t Lee Taeyeon.
She only looked for safe ways.
[They want to use the labyrinthine system to gain more power than they calculated. But… you’re different.]
The sound of laughter grew thicker.
[With countless challenges, we find loopholes in the quest conditions and discover errors in the floor itself. hey You are parasitizing the labyrinthine system
.]
A person parasitizing the system.
If you were to refer to Lee Tae-yeon in one word, it would be exactly right. Lee Tae-yeon also had a calm expression.
“I don’t deny it. But am I also embarrassed? They will make it impossible for them to become parasites.”
[That’s not wrong either.]
It said in a voice mixed with laughter.
[The gods judge you as a parasite and hate you very much… but I am different. i like
you Rather, I judge them to be foolish.]
Lee Tae-yeon was lying on the bed, calmly listening to the story.
[You’re amazing.]
There was an inconceivable exclamation in his voice.
[This is a place created by beings transcended by gods and wizards. None of the numerous adventurers who visited this place found loopholes and parasitized the system to reach the 100th floor.] There was no
one
who cleared the labyrinth .
However, it was only Lee Tae-yeon who arrived on the 100th floor in the same way as Lee Tae-yeon.
[You are the one who has the potential to clear the labyrinth with a unique and abnormal method. From my point of view, you are much more valuable than a clumsy adventurer.]
“Then what are you doing? Nobody acknowledges it.”
she grumbled. The voice laughed.
she repeated.
I challenged to clear the 100th floor and changed the equipment that I thought was lacking.
Hundreds of challenges turned into thousands of challenges. Her equipment has become perfect, with nowhere else to change.
When that happened, she started to purchase a myriad of consumable items.
Even the shop owner had bought countless potions and items that he couldn’t figure out properly. At the end of
repeating and repeating like that
.
Kurrureung!
[Cli 100
[Reward is given.]
She arrived at the end.
[…That’s absurd.]
Barbababamba let out a hollow laugh.
[To think that the 10Q layer could really be penetrated by someone like you who is not another adventurer. This is enough to be respectful.]
“It’s noisy.”
Lee Tae-yeon sighed and sat on the floor.
His whole body was in a mess and he was so exhausted that he couldn’t even speak properly.
But she won.
You won and cleared the labyrinth.
she grinned.
“I met the conditions. So
you know?”
[under. It’s sad that you can’t deny that. congratulations Mortal adventurer.]
Barbababamba declared.
[You cleared the labyrinth and obtained the qualification to meet the wizard. wait. Call him.]
With those words, Barbabamba left the place.
Lying on the bed to recover her strength, she grinned.
“I did it.”
I did it.
Cleared this hellish labyrinth.
Now we can return to Earth.
Now I can live a happy life with everyone, Taesan, Junggeun, and many others.
Taeyeon Lee smiled and opened a community.
[Lee Tae-yeon [Alone]: I go first.]
Too long time has passed. I don’t know if there are still some left
. By the time the 100th floor was cleared, she hadn’t used the community either.
However, if there was any, the fact that he had cleared it could have boosted their motivation.
[Congratulations. Aya.]
“Thank you.”
Lee Taeyeon was so happy. As a result, I even came up with a feeling of gratitude for my voice.
“Thank you so far.”
The voice spoke to her. Without her, she
really would have gone mad.
[What. I also had a pleasant experience. I’m going back to Earth now.]
“Yes.”
she said briskly.
A happy life awaited.
She was full of hope, and the voice asked her.
[But I’m curious. hey Do you wish for death?]
“No way.”
Lee Taeyeon shook her head.
she didn’t want to die That is why I arrived here after enduring the desire to give up hundreds of times over an uncountable number of years.
[Then, child. Do you want to break through the labyrinth again from the beginning?]
“Why is the question like that?”
Lee Taeyeon said with a tired face.
“Of course I hate it.”
He still risked his life. They tried to parasitize the system, aiming for gaps, but even so, there was a risk of dying not once or twice.
At the end of overlapping luck and coincidence, it was finally cleared. Even if I had to do it again, I didn’t have the confidence to do it.
Break through this place again?
I never intended to. she is.
The voice chuckled.
[Then what would you choose?]
“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
[This is a later story. Whatever it is, I respect your choice.]
She tilted her head. It was because I couldn’t understand what
the voice was saying .
The voice often spoke incomprehensible words.
What I said now would be no different. This Taeyeon thought so.
she laughed happily
A sorceress will appear soon. And I will ask for your wish.
What shall I say? She continued her pleasant imagination.
return to earth
And live with everyone.
She was full of hope.
It wasn’t long before she realized the meaning of the voice’s words.
Level up with skill
