– Volume 12, Chapter 12
287. Parasites of the past. Giant King’s body (2)
[Special always-on skill: Balancing]
[Proficiency level: 1%]
[It keeps the body from losing balance in any situation.]
The effect was simple. As explained, it made the body not lose its balance. It can’t ignore the laws of physics, but it gives a sense of stability in any situation, so
it doesn’t interfere with combat.
Right now, this is all, but if you raise your proficiency, the effect will be different.
It was also a skill that played a huge role in helping Taesan survive until the end.
‘By the way, Spirituality Rise doesn’t activate.’
It says that the reward will be settled after clearing the ordeal, but the rise in spirituality was the power he possessed. Regardless of the ordeal, it had to be triggered when the enemy was defeated.
It wasn’t strange even if I didn’t climb. The strength of each ant
wasn’t that great.
The moment Taesan stepped forward to move forward, he heard a noise.
Noise was getting closer to Mount Tai.
Taesan clicked his tongue.
Dozens of ants showed up, bumping their jaws. They found Taishan and rushed at it, teasing their red legs.
Taishan initially responded with Frozen World. Intermediate magic consumes quite a bit of mana, but with high intelligence and mana levels, it can be used dozens of times without problems, so it was able to break through without difficulty.
In addition, Minerva and Barcaza were summoned and they went through the veins together.
However, Taesan saw the ants rushing at him and figured it out.
Breaking through with force was unreasonable.
There was no problem if it was a unit of at most a few hundred. But this wasn’t it.
It was literally unfathomable.
Thousands of units far exceeded. Even after knocking it down, it bounced endlessly. Trying to deal with them all was a waste of time.
There was no need to be obsessed with it because the spirit level elevation was not activated.
Taesan, who chose to break through, reverse summoned Minerva and Barkaza and started running.
[You activated a forced duel.]
Taesan challenged the frontmost ant to a forced duel and slammed it down. The ant slammed to the ground and screamed.
“Kikki!”
He didn’t die, but he had no intention of killing him in the first place. Taishan passed the ants as it was. The ants attacked Taishan by wildly moving their jaws and legs, but due to a forced duel, they were not all eaten.
“Kiik!”
“Kkiik!”
The ants come running crying.
It was quite fast. Even though Taesan ran fast, the cry did not fall easily.
“Kiyiik!”
The ants howled wildly.
Cries spread throughout the space.
Taesan, who was running away, licked his tongue.
“This again”
“Gee 】!”
“Keeik!”
An innumerable number of ants crawled up the wall using their legs, bumping into each other and running in front of Mount Tai.
[You triggered a forced duel.]
Kwajik.
After challenging it to a forced duel, quickly crush it and knock it down, then blow it away with waves of ants.
“Keeik!”
The ants are pushed back by a forced duel. It runs continuously without any obstruction.
But the waves of ants do not end.
No matter how far I went, my field of vision was full of ants.
‘How many are there?’
A number of forked paths were visible. Taesan used the skill.
[You activated reconnaissance.]
[Vehicles heading to the anterior interventricular veins.]
[Vehicles heading to the apex.]
The destination specified in the quest conditions was getting closer.
Taesan ran toward Simcheom.
Continue to activate a forced duel and move forward. After running for about 10 minutes, spaces of red mucus can be seen.
Tae-san, finally freed from the waves of ants, runs quickly.
The ants scream and chase after them.
Taesan muttered in a tired voice.
“What is so much?”
Even if I couldn’t do it, I easily crossed over a thousand. It could even reach ten thousand units. Getting out
was an ordeal in itself.
In the middle, stealth was activated, but it was meaningless. As the blood vessel itself was filled up, it was physically bumped and forcibly revealed.
Taesan thought. If he was an ordinary adventurer, would he have been able to pass through this place like Mount Tai?
The answer was impossible.
It was impossible to fight against so many ants without a forced duel. Even though the present Mount Tai would be much stronger than the adventurers of the base level, ordinary adventurers
would have no choice but to run away.
There they will also have no reconnaissance. Taishan activated reconnaissance and was able to find the road to Shenqiao right away, but they couldn’t. I could have collapsed at the end of wandering in this maze-like place.
Only then did Taesan realize.
The way to clear this place was not to break through with force like Mount Tai. I had
to find a way to avoid the ants’ gaze or attack them by going somewhere, whether in the stomach or the brain
. Then, avoiding them, slowly advancing toward the center of the heart and defeating them with parasites deep in the heart was the strategy of attacking the substratum.
‘Is this place deep?’
“Key Rick!”
An ant cry was heard. Hundreds of ants started attacking Taesan again.
Taesan started running again, betting on a forced duel. The ghost muttered as he watched Taesan advance, ignoring all attacks.
[This is a really ridiculous skill.] I’ve
felt it before, but seeing it attack in-depth touched me even more.
The forced duel itself was a skill that changed the paradigm of strategy.
In depth, there are many battles where you win against a single monster, but on the contrary, there are many battles where you win against uncountable numbers. Forced duel was a skill that made it possible to clear all of those floors without any problems.
Frankly, even today’s Taesan
would not have dreamed of breaking through like this if it hadn’t been for a forced duel.
no. I wouldn’t have gone through this ordeal in the first place.
‘The condition was to fight against multiple monsters with only one?’
The ghost recalled the memory. To meet the condition, Taesan took paralyzing arrows and paralyzed all but one, then continued the battle.
‘Compared to the performance, I got it very simply.’
It was practically obtained for free. And
the ghost also found out why Taishan got the forced duel then.
‘Too difficult to get later.’
Beyond a certain level, most monsters resist numbing arrows. There were many floors where several monsters did not appear, and even if they did appear, it was quite difficult and it was virtually impossible to meet the conditions for a forced duel.
To get it, you had to get it at the beginning, and Taesan did just that.
‘But I understand.’
It was a matter of acquiring the skill.
Against multiple monsters, completely block the interference of all but one monster and win the battle. This kind of experiment was something that even players who went down in depth would not do. Taesan did it from the bottom floor and got the reward.
The labyrinth does not simply see only one force.
I see all the many other factors besides the idea and strategy. An example of this was Skill.
“Kee-ik!”
The ants howl. Taesan
gave more strength to his feet.
A huge power had been felt from earlier. And it was getting closer as Taesan ran.
The aisle gradually widened, revealing a huge space.
Taesan laughed at the scenery that unfolded.
“What is this again?”
The space became roughly the size of a giant baseball field. And there were ants crawling everywhere in it.
not hundreds of levels.
It was a number far in the thousands.
It was a quantity that would make one’s mind go wild, but the ghost was calm.
[It’s less than I thought. Was it still hatching?]
Taesan realized from the ghost’s words. At the center of the ants was an ant with wings.
The ant, which was twice as large as the others, was white. Numerous ants were rubbing against the winged ant.
[The intestine-eating queen ant has appeared.]
Taesan immediately knew. The monster to be caught was that white queen ant.
Taesan looked at the queen ant, and the queen ant also recognized Taesan.
The queen ant let out a wild cry.
“Kiyiik!”
Then the ants went crazy and started running amok. As if to protect their queen from intruders, they rushed toward Mount Tai.
Charge of thousands of ants.
It was like a wave.
Taesan calmly raised his sword and pointed at the queen ant.
[You activated a forced duel.]
The ants rushing toward Mount Tai are thrown out. Taesan gives strength to the feet.
[You activate acceleration.]
Run at high speed and run at the queen ant. The queen ant screams wildly and spreads her wings.
Taesan’s sword passes by the place where the queen ant used to be.
When he looked up at the sky, he saw the queen ant flapping her wings.
The space the size of a baseball field had a very high ceiling. The queen ant, which continues to fly, looks fine to Taesan’s eyes, but to an ordinary person, it would look like a dot.
The queen ant flew out of reach.
“Kee-ik!”
“Keeik!”
Thousands of ants stick their jaws out. However, it does not reach Taesan.
Due to the effect of the forced duel, it was impossible to attack Mount Tai except for the queen ant.
Taesan quietly looked up at the sky.
“Kirreuk. Kiruk.”
The queen ant cried in the sky. It was a sound full of ridicule asking if you could come up here.
Taesan gave strength to his feet.
[You have activated Perfect Fairy Wings.]
[You have activated Leap.]
The body soars into the sky along with the wings.
The queen ant, which seemed very small, grew in an instant. Surprised by the mountain that chased her down her chin, the queen ant hurriedly flapped her wings.
She moves her fairy wings and chases after the queen ant while clenching her fists.
[You activated Mephisto’s black lightning.]
Jet-black lightning penetrated the body of the queen ant. The queen ant flinched for a moment, and in the meantime, Taesan approached the queen ant.
The queen ant, barely relieved of stiffness, twisted her body.
Taesan raised his sword.
Kwajik.
“Kieek!”
The queen ant’s leg was cut off. The queen ant screamed and flew away.
The moment Taesan tried to activate Mephisto’s Black Lightning again, the queen ant burst into tears.
“Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
Then, a strong will
came over the space. Taesan knew. The queen ant was calling something.
The worker ants that were scrambling on the ground stopped moving.
“Kiyi Yiyi!”
The ants begin waking up.
They crawled up the wall and bumped into each other to build a tower. Taesan glanced away. The ants who were outside were also coming in after the rain.
“Keeik!”
“Kiyi!”
Ants filled the space.
It was completely filled with no gaps.
The queen ant was no longer visible.
[You activated a forced duel.]
I challenged a nearby worker ant to a forced duel and bought some time to think.
“You are smart.”
Realizing that Taesan could only target her, the queen ant changed her approach. It was a way to avoid it by filling the space with worker ants.
Simple but effective. Forced duels can only be used when the opponent shows up. In this way, if the road itself was blocked and hidden, there was no choice but to look for it one by one.
But is that really possible?
Taesan expanded his senses. The ants were constantly trying to come in from outside.
tens of thousands of ants.
If there were so many, it was difficult to see great effects from magic or black magic. If they were organized at once, new worker ants would fill the place.
It might be possible if the apostleization is done in parallel, but it takes a very long time. And before encountering the parasite, he could not consume the sadohwa.
‘how will we do it.’
method of attack. Tae-san, thinking of him, recalled a memory.
How does the queen ant control the worker ants?
The answer came right away. It was to spread willful tears. The determination contained in the queen’s cry a moment ago was so strong that even Taesan could understand it
.
And Taesan had a skill to read the will.
Worker ants have no will.
They follow the queen ant’s commands.
Among these countless lives, only the queen ant and Taesan had willpower.
Taesan closed her eyes.
I focused my mind and expanded my senses.
Read the will contained in the immeasurable life.
And it wasn’t long before Taesan was able to find the will moving at the end of space.
The moment Taesan, who had figured out the location of the queen ant, was about to rush at it, he hesitated.
‘It’s a will.’
A queen ant that controls the worker ants with her will.
The way of expression and the structure of the wave of will were understood by looking at it once.
And Taishan was also able to manipulate the will and influence the surroundings.
then.
“Kee kee?”
The worker ants, who had thrust their chins at Taesan, hesitated for a moment. Taesan focused his mind. It spreads in all directions with the power of will.
“Kiyi!”
The worker ants suffer. Two wills rack their brains. The queen ant, which had been stealthily avoiding, once again expresses her will and
tries to dominate the ants.
Taesan responded. According to the expressed will of the queen ant, she also expressed her will by imitating the implementation method.
The two wills collided and were broken.
“Kiyi!”
The worker ants that were about to attack Taesan are confused and in a hurry.
[You have activated Amon’s Jet Black Spike.]
The blackened wedge is lifted from Taesan’s hand.
As soon as the duration of the forced duel ended, Taesan struck the ant in front of him with a wedge.
Whoops!
An explosion went off. With a roar, the nearby ants flew away all at once.
Originally, the worker ants would have filled up the vacancy at high speed, but the worker ants who did not receive the order were flustered and panicked. Taesan immediately kicked his feet.
It moves its wings and pursues a being with a will. Surprised by Taesan, who was tracking her precisely,
the queen ant hurriedly moved among the worker ants, but it was no use.
[You invoked a forced duel.]
He drew his sword.
“Kiyi!”
The sword pierces the queen ant’s belly. Taesan murmurs as she rides on top of the screaming queen ant.
“away.”
[You activate landing.]
The body falls with the queen ant underneath. The queen ant flaps her wings wildly and moves her legs,
but she subdues them all.
“Keeik!”
Whoops!
The queen ant that was flying all over the sky gets stuck on the ground.
Taesan moves his sword.
Only then did the ants come to their senses and moved desperately to protect their queen. He stuck his chin in and swung his legs.
However, the moment it touched Taesan, everything bounced off.
It was the effect of a forced duel.
“Kyik! Kiik!”
The fighting power of the queen ant itself was not that great. At most, it was as strong as an ant, so I was able to take it down without any problems.
[You defeated the internal organs-eating queen ant.]
[Reward is settled after clearing the ordeal.]
[Your spirit level has been raised. Permanently increased physical strength by 1030, strength by 204, and
agility by 255.] [Your spirit level has been increased. ???’s mastery increased by 1%.]
The increase was smaller than expected. The queen ant’s individual strength wasn’t that great, so it was natural if it was natural.
And with the rise of ???’s proficiency, something changed.
I couldn’t say exactly what had changed. The strength of the body did not change, and the character also remained the same.
But he has been able to do more than before.
Taesan drew the sword from the queen ant. The worker ants
were perplexed by the death of the queen ant .
They seemed to be confused because the person who would give them orders disappeared.
Taesan, who was watching the worker ants, expressed his will.
The confused worker ants gradually began to calm down.
“Kiii…
The worker ants turned their attention to Taesan and started to leave. the ghost asked in surprise.
[Did you pilot it?]
“What is piloting? mimicry.”
He remembered the way the queen expressed her will and imitated it.
Taesan pressed his forehead. My head was throbbing.
Enduring the pain, Taesan opened the skill window.
[Concept Skill:
Will
??? descend By synchronizing, you can see and feel the will of all things and tune your own will. You can project your will onto the world
. ??? was obtained.]
“As expected.”
Concept skill proficiency has become 60%.
and a new sentence. It was a sentence about being able to project one’s will into the world.
[Huh… is that the case? It wasn’t just the level of a sword.]
The ghost admired. After reading the skill window for a moment, Taesan moved on.
Beyond the huge space was another narrow
passage.
Taishan passed through it.
At the end of the short passage, the heart was visible.
A tiny heart within a heart.
Of course, considering the size of the giant, it meant small. The heart, which was much bigger than any building, had bite marks all over it. The heart that had been eaten halfway through had stopped beating.
Blood was seeping out between the hearts.
And in the meantime, I saw a procrastinating bug.
[A centipede that eats the heart has appeared.]
Level up with skill.
