I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 021
7. The dark side of the black market ⑴
[Title: I have a question about the abnormal status resistance characteristic!]
[Author: Seon Yu-jin]
［Is there anyone who knows about abnormal status?
For example, something like poison. If you know any tips for training poison resistance, please let me know.
I’m raising it right now by blindly feeding it poison… I don’t think this is something a human should do. I’d rather die.]
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[Stop talking nonsense. Stop.]
[*No, what the… I’m not talking nonsense, seriously. I just got poison resistance level 3, and I really don’t want to do it this way.] [Woof! Woof woof! Growl, woof!]
[I think it would be better to say it like this to have a conversation.]
[*Ah, these little bastards, for real!]
A secret room on the 10th floor.
somewhere.
“Hey. Hey hey.”
Eugene woke up the rich man by hitting his chubby cheek and checked the name displayed above his head.
[William]
[Level: 33]
The rich man’s name was William, and he was relatively low level considering he had three level 50 climbers as his escorts.
‘This guy, it seems like he’s not moving from the front line. Is it because he’s afraid of his life?’
While Serin was watching the rich man wake up from behind Eugene, she was guessing inside herself, and the rich man opened his eyes.
“Uh, uhm? Here… hic?r
The rich man, who had woken up with fluttering eyelids, was startled when he saw Eugene pushing his face right in front of him.
“What, what?! What happened?!”
His last memory was of rolling with all his might on the roof of a hotel to avoid the green lava flying towards him.
“Where is the shrine? Where is the shrine?!”
“Shingung?”
Eugene, who had never heard that name before, turned his head and looked at Serin.
There was.
“He’s a famous archer. He’s so famous that he can be counted on five fingers… no, three fingers from the top.”
“Oh? Really?”
Eugene, impressed by Serin’s explanation, smiled and continued speaking.
“If anyone notices this, the bulletin board will be turned upside down.”
“He didn’t show up at the scene directly. Most people wouldn’t know. That the arrow that shot us was Shin-gung.” “Is that so?” “Yes. Since he’s famous, he probably didn’t want to do anything public. That’s why he must have attacked us secretly from the rooftop.”
“That’s too bad.”
“Actually, I think the bulletin board would have been turned upside down regardless of that. Because of the chaos that was caused… …
While Serin was muttering, the rich man, who had been rolling his eyes, muttered in disbelief.
“Seo, really? The shrine was destroyed?”
Eugene nodded and answered with a sly smile at the rich man’s voice.
“That’s right. This guy here took down the famous Shin-gung. And he did it one-on-one.”
Serin, who was watching from behind, whispered softly, “Please stop,” but Eugene did not even listen.
“It was a matchup that was disadvantageous to me because I was a warlock… but what was the result? You know what I mean, even if I don’t tell you, right?”
The expression on the rich man’s face when he heard Eugene’s answer could be summed up in one word: bewilderment.
“That, that’s impossible. There’s someone with that kind of skill on the 10th floor… … Eugene, who had been staring at the blank face, asked with a cold expression.
“Let me get to the point first.”
The tone was clearly threatening.
“Information on the slave market. If you know anything, don’t leave anything out. The sooner you do, the better.”
When asked about the slave market, the wealthy man looked at Eugene with a blank expression and shook his chin as he answered.
“I, I don’t know!”
“What do you not know? Even though you already know.”
As Eugene glanced down and continued talking while looking at the badge, the rich man began to tremble as if he had a bad feeling about something.
“There’s no way… Me from above?”
‘From above?’
Eugene looked back at Serin again at the frightened rich man’s words, but she remained silent as if she didn’t know much about him.
‘Are you talking about what I said at the auction? No. It doesn’t seem like that kind of atmosphere.’
I don’t know exactly what he meant by ‘above’, but I needed to get him to spit out the information now.
“Answer quickly. You can’t waste a single second on the tower.”
As Eugene urged him to reveal the information, the trembling rich man regained his composure and asked an unexpected question.
“You guys… weren’t you sent from above?”
w……2”
≪……2”
To that question, both Eugene and Serin answered with silence.
“ha ha ha!!”
Then suddenly the rich man started laughing.
“Yes! It’s amazing that you caught the shrine! But, if they aren’t assassins sent from above to kill me… there’s no need to be afraid!”
The way his pupils were shaking violently made him look uneasy.
“Yes! That’s right! If you were sent from above to kill me, you wouldn’t have bothered asking for information about the slave market!”
As the other person’s face showed no will to talk, Eugene’s expression became even colder.
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“Well, I’m not sure what you mean by ‘above.’”
Serin, who had been watching the conversation between the two people from behind, suddenly felt someone slip away behind her and shuddered.
“We came from above.”
“I can’t give you any information!”
Could it be because he knew that the being he was worried about wasn’t there to kill him?
“Are you really going to keep your mouth shut?” “Haha, you little brat! You don’t know what I’m talking about, but you’re a dead man now! The higher-ups didn’t believe what I said yesterday… but if Shin-gung was attacked, it would be different! The higher-ups will step in!”
Eugene asked again, but the rich man shouted in a confident tone, unlike the frightened look he had shown just a moment ago.
“okay.”
Eugene continued speaking, smiling evilly as if he didn’t care what the rich man said.
“I thought you wouldn’t say anything.”
The black gas that had escaped from Serin’s back slowly crawled to the floor and then penetrated the rich man’s body.
“???hop?!”
The rich man’s body shook violently once as the unpleasant energy seeped into his body.
“What, what is it? What are you doing?”
“Even if you don’t say anything, soon… …
“Huh? Ugh!”
First, the body becomes stiff, second, the skin color turns pale, and third.
“Whew!”
A spurt of black, rotten blood came out. “Ugh, ugh!”
To be exact, it might be more accurate to say that it was not rotten blood, but rather spit blood that changed color as soon as it came into contact with the air.
The blood, mixed with dark red, was making a hissing sound and steaming up, indicating that it was acidic.
“Ugh, ugh, euaaaah!”
The stiff-necked man began to scratch and twist his body as if he was having a seizure.
[Status abnormality ‘Malicious’ is applied.]
A window appeared before the rich man’s eyes saying that he was suffering from an abnormal status, but all he could do was writhe in pain.
“It’s the poison that corrupted the 98th floor world tree. I don’t know if you can hear me, but I think… …
The rich man, who had been struggling in agony, grabbed Eugene’s trouser leg with black tears streaming from his eyes.
“Ugh, ugh!” Serin, who was watching the rich man struggle, noticed that he was silently appealing with the shape of his mouth to the word ‘please.’
‘Is that what you’re saying, ‘Please save me?’
But after hearing Eugene’s words, Serin realized that her thoughts were wrong.
“Okay. If you tell me, I’ll kill you comfortably.”
It was a pain that was better than death.
“Tell me.” Eugene lifted the rich man’s chin with his right hand and smiled wickedly as he demanded information once more.
“??? I’ll tell you! Ugh, tell me! Maaal!!”
The rich man, whose face was covered in seven slits of rotten blood, spat out black spittle.
“Please, please… Uhhhhhh… Please let me talkuuuu… …
After finding out some information, Eugene left the house and looked back at Seo Rin who was following him.
“Was that a bit cruel?”
“well……
Even though it must have been a brutal scene for a seventeen-year-old girl, she remained remarkably indifferent.
Because you’re not dead?
Or maybe it’s because he didn’t kill her?
Or was it because the dead guy was a bad guy who bullied slaves?
For whatever reason, it didn’t seem like a very good sign, so Eugene asked cautiously.
“Because you don’t look like anything is wrong.”
The image of Serin, who didn’t even close her eyes when she twisted the pursuer’s neck on the 17th floor, came to mind.
“I guess I’m the type that’s strong about this kind of thing.”
Serin also answered cautiously.
“Before, after I saw my mother die in front of my eyes… I didn’t feel so bad about seeing things like that.”
Since that day… I’ve never been so shocked by anything cruel, except for a slight frown.
“Hmm, so the psychological shock is greater?”
“Yes. So actually… I was a little scared earlier.”
“scared?”
Serin nodded and then asked carefully.
“You killed him and still don’t care?”
She too was thinking about Eugene’s smile that she had seen a little while ago and was worried that this might be a bad omen.
“He and I are only two years apart in age. How can he commit murder and still act as if nothing happened…
Eugene laughed bitterly.
“I wasn’t like this from the beginning. I’ve been through trauma many times.”
The guilt that follows murder is heavy, but after realizing that his guilt could cost other lives… Eugene decided not to hesitate.
“Of course, I don’t think this is a good thing.”
Eugene added, shrugging his shoulders.
“That doesn’t mean I’ll become a serial killer who kills people without thinking. The old man I killed a little while ago… I killed him in a fit of anger because I smelled blood.”
“The smell of blood?”
“That old man… wasn’t just a rich man with a lot of gold. He didn’t just buy slaves and make a fuss about them, he must have done a lot of other stinking things too.”
Eugene, who was muttering while staring into space, asked Seorin.
“Do you remember what I said earlier?”
“Drug Guild?”
“Is that the ‘above’ I was talking about earlier?”
“Well? As far as I know, the Drug Guild’s status isn’t that high… In fact, unlike Black Rose, they were far behind in conquering the tower.”
There were two main pieces of information the two had just obtained.
The slave market… To be exact, the ‘shadow market’ is not a hidden floor that has not been revealed yet, but is hidden in a corner of the 7th floor that is open to the public.
To enter the black market, you need a special badge, and it turns out that this badge is distributed by a ‘drug guild’ run by a very small number of climbers.
“I fell behind, ra… …
“Aside from the Drug Guild, isn’t there another force behind it?”
“You mean the mastermind behind the mastermind? Ugh.”
Eugene, who had been frowning as if he didn’t like complicated things, soon shrugged his shoulders.
“Well anyway, if you’re not the person involved, you wouldn’t know. Look at me. I posted a question on the bulletin board saying, ‘I’m starting from the 100th floor. What should I do?’ Do you know what the comments were?” Serin didn’t bother answering.
“I think I found out the location. I guess I can just go and check it out myself. You said it was on the 7th floor, right?”
As Eugene muttered, Serin, who had been silent, nodded and took the lead.
“Yes. I will guide you.”
“Wait a minute, before that… …
Serin turned to Eugene, who was about to guide him to the 7th floor where the slave market was.
“Let’s start with that.” Eugene pointed with his finger to the dark-colored necklace that Seo Rin was wearing around her neck.
