012. Trial of competition (1)
「Absorbs the doppelgänger’s spirit and permanently increases stats.」
「Muscle strength increased by 7.」
「Agility increased by 5.」 「Stamina increased by 4.」
「Magic power increased.
This has risen by 7.”
I thought that was the case with the ability level increase message that I had seen every time I absorbed a spirit.
but.
「Acquire the skill ‘Physical Resistance (D)’.」
“…”
I was speechless at the message that I had acquired the skill.
‘Physical resistance…?’
A sensation as if the head is temporarily dyed white.
But where this skill came from was clear without even thinking about it.
I read the messages that came to my mind again with a puzzled expression on my face.
「Absorbs one of the Doppelganger’s skills.」
The message text hasn’t changed even after seeing it again.
That would mean that I absorbed one of my doppelganger’s skills.
“Have I been this lucky since the beginning…?”
I’m embarrassed and confused again.
Until now,
the only luck I knew was bad luck.
However, I soon came to my senses and confirmed the effect of physical resistance.
『Skill – Physical Resistance (D)』
『Proficiency – 0%』
『Effect – You have resistance to all types of physical attacks.』
I don’t know exactly what resistance to physical attacks is.
One thing was certain.
Of all the abilities the doppelganger possessed, he had obtained the most usable one.
Perhaps physical resistance is a property of the doppelganger’s body.
‘It must have been a technique that shed physical shock.’
It wasn’t that difficult to infer it.
But, on the contrary, the mind only gets more complicated.
‘How on earth is necromancy a good unique trait?’
Once again, he reduced the overwhelming performance possessed by his own characteristic.
If these are the detailed effects that are only E grade.
How much stronger do the above effects make you?
“…”
Just imagining it sends chills down your spine.
And at the same time, a tingling sensation running down the spine speaks.
It’s a waste to stop at just this place.
Just like when you first choose a difficulty level, an unknown impulse dominates your whole body.
however.
‘I can’t be mistaken.’
This was overconfidence in oneself, which was different from adaptation.
Overconfidence leads to carelessness, and carelessness tends to lead to mistakes.
It’s not even a game, so even if you die, you can’t live.
You need to be more careful.
Recalling that fact, I resumed my stopped steps.
Once you have confirmed all the rewards and absorbed the doppelganger’s command, your work is done.
So…
“Go to the waiting room.”
Now it’s time to get out of this damn cave.
***
“You have entered the waiting room on the 4th floor.”
“All status ailments and injuries are completely recovered.”
“The recovery effect is always applied to the waiting room.”
As always, the same message welcomed me back to the waiting room.
“It’s the 4th floor….”
It’s a bit strange to see them go up to the 4th floor like this before they knew it.
It’s amazing that he’s already gone through three ordeals.
It was the same with myself, who had become stronger in the fierce battle.
「You have entered the community.」
「Difficulty – Difficult」
However, apart from that feeling, the body was doing what it was supposed to do.
Now I’m used to the daily routine in this waiting room.
「4th floor community (880/1508)」
-Kim Seung-hun: Hmm, but this time I survived quite a bit. Good job, bugs.
-Oh Chun-seok: Hard work is a piece of cake. The severed arm is still vivid. Still, I lived thanks to the waiting room.
-Lee Yong-jin: But if you go up one more floor, you will see the answer.
-Lee Seung-jun: Well, don’t you have to go up to the 8th floor to go back? lol?
-Hyun Seok-jin: Oh fuck. How can you survive to the 8th floor on this difficulty level?
As soon as the community was opened, complaints poured out from all over the place.
It was like that too.
The difficulty of the 3rd floor ordeal was crazy even to me, so I ran amok.
‘The 2nd floor was still enough to pass through with a bit of head rolling, but the 3rd floor wasn’t.’
Even in a one-on-one fight, if I hadn’t grown this much, I would have been beaten back.
There is no difference between them and others.
Because they are all challengers of the same difficulty level.
But even so, the atmosphere in the community was not hopeless.
Everyone exchanged stories and actively updated the chat.
-Lee Yong-jin: When I was young, even if it was difficult, I persevered through it all!
-Hyun Seok-jin: Nedatl. Ugh, the smell of dentures wafts from here.
-Kim Seung-Hoon: Crazy guys who talk all kinds of bullshit.
Certainly, it seemed that only the talented remained.
This was the case when I read the intermittent trials or information that came and went.
Now, there are even people who tip regularly here.
-Kim Seung-hoon: Basically, it is recommended not to buy magic-related items until you acquire skills related to magic-management.
-Oh Chun-seok: ? Isn’t magic the most important thing for a hunter? Isn’t it consumed when using skills?
-Kim Seung-Hun: That’s the idea of idiots, and it’s not efficient if you look at it. Even basic weapons skills don’t use mana, and most of the other skills don’t use mana very well.
-Oh Chun-seok: Huh, I bought a magic-related item at that store… is it ruined?
-Kim Seung-hoon: At least one item is fine, so from now on, buy other stat-related items.
-Kang Seon-woo: ㅇㅇ I know because I am an incumbent hunter, but he is right. Skills are also sold later, so it would be appropriate to post related items when you acquire magic-related skills.
-Lee Ha-yeon: And if you want to quickly regain your old skills, Hunters, turn off the recovery effect in the waiting room and practice. Then you can get the skills you previously acquired again.
After that, various tips came out, so everyone focused.
Of course, I didn’t have to pay so much attention to these things because I knew them to some extent.
I don’t know the actual battle, but the theory is comparable to the current hunter.
Still, I was able to glean some useful information.
‘Did you say that skill proficiency goes up better if there is no recovery effect in the waiting room?’
As for learning, it was said that it is better obtained when there is no recovery effect.
Ah, the tips related to acquisition won’t be very helpful to me who don’t have skill aptitude.
Quite a lot of interesting information.
He was actively releasing everything he knew about the Tower of Trials.
If you don’t use most of them, it’s a loss level.
-Hyeon Seok-jin: Oh, that’s right. There are ways to acquire skills other than trial rewards or training.
-Kim Seunghun: Are you talking about the skill that the tower gives?
-Hyun Seok-jin: I guess you knew this too. that’s right
-Kim Seung-Hun: Looking at it, if there is a series of unusual moves called achievements or something stands out, they often give me some skills.
-Lee Ha-yeon: Thanks to that, I also gained two small skills. The achievements are really good.
-Hyun Seok-jin: I only let the body grow… I ended up with one resistance skill. Write.
-Kim Seung-Hun: Still, the resistance skill gets more and more fraudulent in the second half, so keep sharpening it. Because you may have to go higher.
When I got burn resistance, I was told it was an achievement, so
I thought… ‘It must have been a system in the tower.’
If you accomplish something, it must be a structure in which skills are created accordingly.
Of course, I don’t know about the detailed conditions, but just figuring out the harvest was pretty big.
‘Skills are created according to the actions you take.’
It was surprising even though he had become somewhat accustomed to the mystery of the Tower of Trials.
It was a car that was savoring the information flowing in from the chat like that.
-Kim Seung-jun: There is something I want to say about the 4th floor ordeal.
“…?”
In the midst of various information coming and going, a chat that came up caught my attention.
-Kim Seung-jun: The 4th floor trials are called integrated trials, not individual trials.
-Oh Chun-seok: An integration ordeal? What is it? Is it like a special trial?
-Kim Seung-jun: Everyone here will go through the same ordeal.
-Oh Chun-seok: …Isn’t this the only one I can’t understand?
-Kim Seung-hun: I don’t understand too well, so please explain in detail.
The moment a challenger mentioned the 4th floor ordeal.
The community’s rice cakes began to revolve around the ordeal on the 4th floor.
-Seungjun Kim: Until now, I have quietly figured out the ordeal I will go through with the questionnaire.
His words were like this.
He said that the trials in this tower were difficult for him, so he had spent the right to question to find out the contents of his trials.
And this time as well, he said he asked about the 4th floor ordeal.
-Kim Seung-jun: But when I looked into the content and subject of the 4th floor ordeal, it turned out that it was an integrated ordeal.
In other words, the challengers belonging to the 4th floor will go through the same ordeal.
-Kim Seung-jun: Upon closer inspection, it is said that 30 people are put through the same ordeal through the matching system.
For challengers, this is unthinkable.
Until now, it was impossible to cooperate and overcome the ordeal.
However, the trials on the 4th floor were different from before.
When the quota of 30 people is filled, the ordeal puts those 30 people in the space of the ordeal and makes them go through the ordeal.
That was the special ordeal that would take place on this fourth floor.
Upon learning of this fact, the challenger decided to disclose this information after much thought.
As others have done, let’s share information that might be helpful to this community.
-Kim Seung-jun: That’s why I’m rushing to chat like this. I want to inform you guys.
The challengers who had heard that far acted as if they understood.
-Oh Chun-seok: Ha, my good deeds come back like this again.
-Kim Seung-hun: Please don’t talk bullshit and stay quiet.
-Lee Ha-yeon: Still, it’s a little interesting that 30 people are doing the 4th floor ordeal together.
-Han Jin-yong: As much as 30 people are together, the difficulty of the ordeal will rise again, damn it.
There were some who said that the difficulty would increase as there were a lot of people, so it would be annoying.
Some even said that it would be as comfortable as having 30 people together.
But those speculations were quickly dismissed.
-Kim Seung-jun: It’s probably not an ordeal that all 30 people cooperate to overcome.
It was because of the words of the challenger who knew about the ordeal.
-Kim Seung-Jun: The subject of trials is ‘competition’, so you can fight each other.
Without thinking too much, what competition means is clear.
To compete with each other for the same goal.
‘And if that’s 30 people…?’
Maybe it’s going to be a slaughter battle.
Whether or not the content of the ordeal calls for direct murder.
If you fail the ordeal, you usually get the penalty of death.
So even if they didn’t want to fight, the challengers would have a bloody battle with each other.
even to survive.
-Kim Seung-jun: The manager didn’t tell me everything about the trials, but it’s roughly like this.
According to the challenger, the ordeal proceeds through team play.
He said that he would form a team in a three-person system and carry out the ordeal goal.
The composition of the team even informed us that the system was randomly assigned.
-Kim Seung-jun: However, I couldn’t find out more details because I didn’t have enough questions.
As a bonus, he also said that he did not know more details.
-Seungjun Kim: If you find out additional information about the ordeal on the 4th floor, please share it.
however.
After that, no more chats were uploaded to the community.
Someone might find out what happened after that with the question mark, but…
‘Even if they do, there’s no way they’ll share the information like before.’
Everyone knows what’s going on now.
What the hell was that challenger thinking about the 4th floor ordeal?
Did you think the community couldn’t be like this even after you announced this from the beginning?
‘It can’t be.’
However, it was pointless to guess the intention, so I soon gave up my thoughts.
Judging from what he said, it doesn’t seem like a lie, but it’s hard to guess what his intentions were.
Even if you understand the intention, there is nothing you can do about it.
There is a bitter taste in the mouth.
‘If that statement is true, then it must mean we have no choice but to fight. Like it or not.’
It’s different from dealing with monsters in the space of trials like now.
The weight of the possibility of committing murder weighs down the community.
The loser dies and the winner lives on to the next floor.
That simple logic came to me like a choke on my heart.
“….”
I thought while looking at the community where chatting was no longer uploaded.
Can I harm others in order to survive?
It’s a different problem than killing a monster.
‘I don’t know, but…’
That said, I did not intend to die easily to others.
In the end, even if I worry like this, in the end, I have no choice but to move for myself.
So…
I have to do what I have to do now, even to survive.
Check your rewards and get ready for a fight by moving your body a little.
Nothing to do has changed.
To prepare for and overcome trials.
That was all.
