I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 027
8. Top Man (4)
“Is this it?”
After sending the top men away, the three remaining men in the prison walked towards the wall inside the prison, where the underground auction house was hidden.
“It looks like there is no device at all… Did the climbers make this themselves? Or was it there from the beginning… …
Serin, who was staring at the wall, trailed off. As the answerer had said, it was God who built this tower, but it was unknown whether the creator called God had designed something like this.
“well’?”
Eugene, who had been fiddling with the wall, spoke up.
“Because there are so many hidden elements in this tower.”
What Eugene was thinking about were the secret places in the tower.
This was because there were clearly devices that climbers could benefit from in places that people could not easily find.
For example, 15.5 floors.
Of the drinks that Nena offered to the climber there, two were duds, but the other three had eye-popping properties that could be obtained just by drinking them.
“This place might have originally been one of those places. Like a hidden floor, where if you found it, you could get equipment or skills that weren’t easy to get.” Eugene narrowed his eyes as he found a gap through which wind was escaping while fiddling with the wall.
“Here it is.”
The secret room, which could not be opened by simply pushing it, seemed to have been designed to be opened only by pressing a special tile.
That’s it… … .
As the heavy stone wall turned like a revolving door, a hidden secret room appeared. The secret room, which was on the 7th floor with a castle as its backdrop, had a strong feeling of a hiding place that the nobles or royalty who lived here could use to escape.
“Hey, Mom!”
Freep, who was the first to step into the secret room, groped around looking for her mother.
≪ o OO ≫
?T, ??T……?
As soon as she entered the secret room, Freep found her mother and held back her tears as she ran towards her.
“Ugh OO” Priff’s mother, who was locked in a secret room, was gagged and bound with iron chains.
“phew……
Serin sighed in relief at the fact that it was not too late and began to examine the traces of the secret room.
The secret room that some climbers were said to have used as an underground auction house was, as testified, about the size of three or four prison cells combined, and was considerably plainer compared to the auction house seen from the 10th floor.
“This is an auction house?”
Eugene, who was looking around the secret room following Serin, tilted his head.
“It’s too small to be called an auction house. It can’t even accommodate 50 people, let alone 100.”
“Isn’t it that only VIPs are allowed in? Like the rich guy we saw above.”
“Is that so? Well, if only a small number of people are accepted, this much would be good.”
“By the way, I don’t see any other climbers. I’m sure you said you took Priff’s mother away not long ago.” I had assumed there were more remnants hiding, but fortunately, there was no sign of life here except Priff’s mother who was tied up.
“Could it be that he ran away in a hurry to the scroll? After noticing the commotion outside?”
Eugene, who had begun to look around the secret room in earnest, discovered five or six tables and walked toward them.
“Is that really so?”
On the five or six tables that Eugene had discovered, there were a few objects that were shining silvery and different from the other miscellaneous items.
[Sobbing Hoksujeong]
[Rank: Unique]
[weapon]
[This black crystal vibrates as if sobbing whenever magic is cast, granting its wearer wondrous magical powers.]
［Hymn for the Light
[Rank: Ray
[weapon]
[A hymn book gifted by God for nuns who love to sing, it can be used to randomly change the ‘Healing’ series of skills to ‘Chant’ series skills.]
[Rudelin’s masterpiece]
[Rank: Unique]
[accessories]
[This is a jewel ring created by the jewel-cutting monster, Rudelin.]
[You can use the exclusive skill ‘Rudelin’s Shockwave’.]
[White Bird Wrist Guard]
[Rank: Ray
[Armor]
[Long ago, a white bird with mysterious powers transformed into armor to hide its owner’s scars.]
[White Cloud Puppy Robe]
[Rank: Unique]
[Armor]
[A robe woven from the fur of dogs whose fur has turned into clouds by special magic.]
[Exclusive trait ‘Cloud Shock Absorption’ is active
It is sanctified.]
The items on the table were rare and unique grade equipment items.
“They left these things behind and ran away?”
As Eugene muttered, Serin, who had been checking the items following him, made a surprised expression.
“uh……
“Take care of this for now.”
“yes?”
“Why? There won’t be anyone to see it anyway… The first one to pick it up is the owner. You have to take what you need.”
“Am I really taking care of it?”
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“I can’t wear it anyway.”
There were high-grade items right in front of me, but most of them had wear restrictions, so I couldn’t wear them even if I was only level 10.
‘If I could have worn these, I would have just worn something else… …
Eugene smiled bitterly as he recalled the dozens of tower relics rotting away in his inventory.
“But, it’s a little strange. It looks like something that would be hard to find even on the 40th floor… Are you that scared?”
Serin guessed carefully.
In fact, it was because Eugene’s fighting appearance was that shocking.
“Well? I don’t know what method they used, but they are the ones who not only steal the people who work on the 50th floor and up to the 7th floor, but also turn them into slaves and distribute them.”
Eugene, who was watching Serin collect the items, muttered without dispelling his suspicions.
“Even if they were scared, those guys didn’t take these items and just rushed out? If they had the luxury of that, they would have tied up Freef’s mother like that… …
Eugene, who was looking back at the boy’s mother and the girl, stopped talking.
“hmm?”
I turned my head wondering why Eugene was reacting like that, and a dazzling light was bursting out from that direction.
“What is that?” Serin, who had felt her body being hugged, soon grimaced at the ear-piercing roar.
[The status abnormality ‘Deafness’ is applied.]
[You will be unable to hear any sound for 3 minutes.]
In the light, the burning sensation on her face was the last thing she felt, and Serin lost consciousness.
Beep-
Serin, who had been grimacing at the tinnitus filling her ears, barely managed to raise her body from where she was screaming.
‘Where is this… Where is this?’
The nagging tinnitus began to gradually decrease, but the surrounding scenery still seemed to be spinning round and round.
[Current floor: 7th floor]
Serin instinctively moved her finger to call up the window that indicated the current floor, and after confirming that she was on the 7th floor, she turned her gaze.
“What happened… …
Serin, who was looking around with her head held high, soon discovered the entrance to the building that had collapsed into a mess.
‘uh?’
The collapsed entrance was the entrance to the 7th floor prison that he had just entered while feeling anxious.
“Are you coming to your senses?”
Even though it was a voice that was now quite familiar, my shoulders trembled.
“What the… is going on?”
“There was an explosion.”
As Eugene said, the entrance to the 7th floor prison was reminiscent of the entrance to a sunken mine.
“Those bastards, they didn’t just leave the equipment behind and run away, they set a trap and run away.”
“traps?”
“That’s what Freep’s mother said.”
Serin’s eyes widened at Eugene’s words.
“S, no way… …
Serin muttered with a pale expression, but Eugene said nothing more about it.
“I said I would sweep it away, but not like this.”
Eugene’s face was wrinkled.
“I thought they were no ordinary group of climbers, since they used the top people as slaves… but who would have thought they would bury the climbers they hired as well?”
It seemed like their plan was to use Freep’s mother as a trap to bury the intruder who had come to the prison, and to bury all the guards who might have left traces.
“No… right?”
Serin, who thought she was mistaken, denied the reality.
The average level of the guards in the prison was around 50, and there were at least thirty climbers who couldn’t do it.
I couldn’t believe that thirty climbers, who could be considered rankers, had died so senselessly in that explosion just now.
“???What about Freef?!”
Serin, who remembered the moment of the explosion, asked urgently.
“I managed to bring him out with me, but I thought it would take a long time for him to wake up… so I left him with the tower guards who had gone out earlier.”
“Well, that’s a relief.”
Although it was clearly a fortunate thing, Yu Jin’s expression did not brighten at all.
“Now, wait a minute… What about that kid’s mother?”
“That’s ridiculous… You’re saying you used people to turn people into bombs?”
Serin’s pupils began to tremble as if an earthquake had occurred.
Serin, who had not moved an inch when she saw Eugene kill the rich man, stuttered as if she had been mentally shocked.
“Mom, you didn’t know?”
Serin, who was trembling, raised her body and asked Eugene.
“The trap… didn’t you know that there was a bomb planted on Freef’s mother’s body?”
Eugene was the first to notice the smell of gunpowder hanging from the chains of the other tower people.
That was why they couldn’t just rashly grab the chains hanging from their necks, wrists, and ankles.
however…….
She didn’t smell like gunpowder like the other tower people did.
“Guide, I’m not an omnipotent being.”
“but……
“I’m only level 10.”
Serin, who had been licking her lips like a fish several times in response to Eugene’s answer, lowered her head at her own shame.
There was no need to blame him.
He was a climber with no real skills.
In a desperate situation, he had no choice but to make a choice.
Should he save the boy and girl’s mother, or should he save himself? And the boy chose this.
“???sorry.”
Rather, I should have started by saying, “Thank you for saving my life,” but I was just whining pitifully.
“That’s something I didn’t know.”
Eugene spoke frankly to Serin, who had her head bowed.
“It looks like a trap I’ve never seen before was used. Was that part of the curse?”
A curse that would cause a large-scale explosion after a certain amount of time if a mark was carved… It certainly seemed likely.
“Well… I don’t know.”
Serin answered, her fist clenched and trembling.
I was angry.
What just happened wasn’t Eugene’s mistake, it was his own mistake for not noticing the curse at all.
If he had been even a little bit interested in curses, he might have noticed this problem, as he was once a famous warlock of the tower… I couldn’t stand it because I was so angry. If only he had been a little less lazy, as Eternal had said, he might have been able to save those two people… … .
” sorry.”
When Serin, who was in a panic, apologized in a disoriented voice, Eugene let out a short sigh and spoke.
“I’ve decided.”
Eugene muttered with an extremely cold expression.
“Black Magician… …
“yes?”
When Serin asked blankly, not understanding what Eugene was trying to say, Eugene answered.
“I should go to the warlock.”
‘ no way?’
It didn’t take long for Serin to understand the meaning of the word ‘black magician’ that Eugene had spoken of.
As per the original schedule… … .
Because he already knew what he was going to do after he finished this matter.
