133. A better idea
“Can’t you just avoid monsters for now?”
“Well… that’s right.”
“Everyone come this way.”
Nickel went into a nearby bush and
pat-pak!
I picked up a rolling stone and started digging.
“Are you going to dig a tunnel to hide?”
“Hey, that takes too long.”
People around me said with bewildered faces.
The soil in the Red Forest is moist and soft, making it easy to dig, but digging a burrow is difficult without the right tools.
“In addition, our Red Lords are not one or two, but dozens. To dig a hole that can accommodate all these people…”
“It will take several days.”
So no one expected Nickel to dig a tunnel. It was because there was a high chance of encountering monsters before digging the tunnel.
“Wouldn’t it be better to go towards Lake Pitzta right now? It will be better than the red forest.”
“The lake will be as dangerous as the lake.”
“That’s right, the mood at the lake isn’t good right now.”
“I’d rather fight the coming monsters…”
The members of the Red Road put their heads together to find another way, leaving the digging nickel alone.
Pak Pak!
widely.
It was then.
Something touched the end of the stone that was digging into the ground.
There was a sloppy wooden door buried there.
As soon as I opened the door, a ladder leading down to the basement appeared.
“I thought he was digging the ground for no reason.”
“…Digging the ground is more useful than I thought.”
Kim Ho-jung yawned and quietly put the shovel he had taken out.
It seems that he was thinking of helping Nickel to sell the land.
“There was a basement in a place like this.”
“How did this happen?”
“I don’t have time, so I’ll go in and explain.”
The Red Road members looked at Nickel with surprised faces. It’s because nickel, which I didn’t expect, found something amazing.
“Thanks Nickel! I trusted you from the start!”
“Stop talking bullshit and move the patient.”
I don’t know for sure, but it is true that I found a shelter to escape immediately. Kang Seung-hyun and the Red Road gang hurriedly descended into the basement.
-“The inside is wider than I thought.”
“Ah, that’s wrong. The ceiling is low, but quite spacious.”
Climbing down the ladder, Seunghyun Kang and his party looked around the basement.
“There are guests who came earlier.”
It was pitch black with no light inside, but Kang Seung-hyeon was able to look through it thanks to his night vision.
“Zeuyik!”
“Junejik!”
A group of rats bared their front teeth, alerting intruders.
“Wow, what a monster!”
“It’s a red forest rat.”
It looked exactly like the rat I saw in Dentroll Forest, but the only difference was that it was influenced by the red forest, and its fur and nose were bright red.
“I don’t even have a weapon right now!”
“No scrolling!”
“Aren’t you supposed to run outside?”
The members of the Red Road shouted with greatly embarrassed faces.
This is because the rat monster is a rubbish mob for adventurers, but it is not an easy opponent for powerless commoners.
“Zwyiik!”
At that time, one of the biggest rats fearlessly ran towards Kang Seung-hyeon. That guy seems to be the leader of the rat group.
“Oh, Healer can’t even use skills right now!”
“Come on, dodge!”
The moment the people around you feel sad,
“These guys don’t even need to use skills.”
Fuck!
“Zeuik!”
Kang Seung-hyeon lightly kicked the rat away and threw it away.
“Zeujijijik!”
“Zeeing!”
When the group of rats gathered saw that the captain had gone out, they ran away.
“I blew that big rat away with one blow!”
“Yeah, Healer-sama…!”
“Oh clothes! Awesome! Even if you don’t have any skills, you are strong!”
“We… We worried for nothing.”
While admiring the rat flying like a kicked soccer ball by Red Road trash mobs,
‘Is there another space behind it?’
Kang Seung-hyun was paying attention to the wall where the rats had disappeared. There’s no way to use stealth on the subject of the rat, so there seems to be something beyond the wall.
“Um, sir? Is this a transfer dungeon too?”
“That’s not it. If it was a transition dungeon, it should have disappeared when Gordius died.”
Seunghyun Kang reached out to the wall of the basement.
The cellar itself was a very simple burrow, in which the earth was dug into a hollow and the walls and floor were fixed by magically applying magic without any special tools.
“Mr. Le Peny, be careful not to touch the walls or ceiling. Because it might collapse.”
So, if you come into contact with the magic repellent, there is a risk that the fixed walls and ceiling will collapse.
“I get it.”
LePenny nodded and moved to the center of the room.
Kim Ho-jung, who saw that, said with a sad face.
“Not all magic repellents are good.”
“It’s a magic repulsion, to put it in a good way, but it’s like a magic allergy.”
Due to the nature of Azul Continent, where magic is used everywhere, the ability to explode when in contact with magic is more of a disadvantage or curse than an advantage.
“It’s the best ability if the person in question can control it, but that’s not the case.”
“That guy must be really hard to live with.”
“That’s it.”
Kang Seung-hyun, who briefly looked at Le Peny, shifted his gaze.
Looking towards the entrance to the basement,
“Is everyone in?”
widely!
widely!
Nickel came down the ladder, shaking her hands.
thump thump!
Bassack Bassak!
Not long after that, the presence of monsters and the sound of footsteps were heard from the entrance.
But the monsters didn’t find the basement door and went somewhere.
“Monsters can’t find it here.”
“I have an amulet gem installed on the door.”
Upon peering into the cellar door, there was a rainbow-colored gem set in a mysterious color.
‘This is a white opal.’
The thing stuck in the door is the [White Opal in Camouflage].
It is an amulet jam that can receive a protective color effect when activated.
‘I installed it on the basement door and changed the color.’
Unlike milky quartz, which disappears completely, white opal can change color similar to surrounding objects.
With the power of [Camouflage White Opal], Nickel camouflaged the basement door in the color of red leaves.
“You have two amulet gems.”
“The captain gave it to me as a gift.”
Nickel said with a proud face.
Milky Quartz found it while investigating the Teleportation Dungeon, and White Opal stole something from her house, the Demershire Mansion.
‘Seeing that they are all items used for concealment, they must have been told to hide well since they do not have combat abilities.’
Kang Seung-hyeon couldn’t see Nickel being chased by monsters and wizards, so he remembered Le Peny robbing his house’s treasure chest.
“I don’t have to worry about outside intrusion with this.”
“The group of rats that came in before us would have to be driven out separately.”
“Actually, I’ve been neglecting this place for quite some time…”
Nickel said with an awkward smile.
In fact, this was a secret base made by remodeling a cave that Nickel and Le Peny, the early members of Red Road, discovered when they were very young.
“I used to play here often when I was young, but after I grew up, I rarely came here because I was playing somewhere else.”
“…I almost forgot.”
Le Peny looked at the wall as if he had just remembered it. This was the direction the rat had disappeared earlier.
“Coming back here reminds me of the old days. I baked and ate sweet potatoes.”
“….”
“The captain too, right? It’s in good condition, so let’s use it as a hideout again!”
Nickel was smiling, but Le Peny’s expression was not so good. He thought for a moment and then spoke to Seunghyun Kang.
“Hey, how long did you say it would take me to recover?”
“If you can’t do it, it will take a month. In addition, you were overdoing it earlier, so please allow plenty of time for two months.”
“As expected.”
LePenny clicked her tongue and sat down on the floor.
And covered his face with his hands.
“It’ll only be a matter of time before the wizards find out.”
“Wizards?”
“Did you eat it? We are a criminal group.”
The Red Road gang is a criminal group that Camar and the Adventurers Guild are tracking.
Until now, I was able to avoid tracking thanks to the stealth barrier opened by the transfer dungeon, but not anymore.
“Since the transfer dungeon is gone, it’s only a matter of time before we get caught.”
“Is that so? This secret base has no such stealth!”
The smile also disappeared from Nickel’s face.
The current Red Lord had neither the strength to fight Camar nor the power to avoid being pursued.
“We mean… what if we get caught?”
“Usually, executives are sentenced to death, and lower-ranking members will rot in prison or become slaves.”
“Oh, no!”
There’s no way it could end well since I touched Kamar, not anywhere else.
“Let’s pack up and run away!”
“If I’m feeling well, I’ll try to run away.”
As a result of this incident, not only Le Peni, but also many other members fell into a state of incapacity for combat. It was because Red Road’s second-in-command vice-captain, Bill Seihan, was in bad shape right away.
“All the useful items when fighting the wizards were lost when the transfer dungeon disappeared, and all the members who had the skills to fight were severely injured.”
As the leader of a group, Le Peny had a fairly objective grasp of Red Road’s current state.
“It’s impossible to evade Camar’s pursuit in this situation.”
Le Peny said with a calm face.
Hearing those words, Seunghyun Kang thought this.
‘Well, it’s possible to escape alone, but.’
No matter how disfigured his body may be, Le Peny is quite capable.
If he puts his mind to it, he should be able to evade Camar’s pursuit and run away to another area.
‘There’s no way he would do that because of his personality.’ However
, Le Peny is a person who cares about his comrades more than anyone else, so he
would rather die than run away to live on his own
.
He stood up. “I will kill time
, so you guys
run away to another area and don’t come back
.
” ”
The executives say that if caught, the death penalty!”
“The captain will be 100% hanged!”
Red Road cried out, but
“I’m a rotten son of a nobleman. It’s hard for them to put me to death either.” ”
But… ..”
“Don’t worry about the nobles, but be
careful of the commoners.” Le Peny said calmly with a look that it
was okay
.
Even if he is beaten, his family can save his life, but Le Peny is a person who is ostracized not only from the family but also from the entire Camar because of his constitution. ‘Because
the people of the Demershire family would rather kill for the honor of the family.’
There’s no way he wouldn’t know, but he was deliberately lying
, afraid that his subordinates wouldn’t run away because of him
. “
Then
, shall we help them?”
“How?” Ask the lord of Kamar?”
Kang Seung-hyeon has a relationship with the lord of Kamar for one reason or another.
If he sends just one letter, the lord of Kamar will immediately set Red Road free.
“That would be fun too…”
“It would be fun, right?”
“I have a better idea than that.”
“found!”
“What is this?”
“It’s a door!”
