I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 049
15. Desert of the Tower (2)
As Droude walked away and hid behind Gabga, Gabga spoke with a puzzled expression.
“I’m sorry. He’s a bit shy.”
Eugene, who suddenly felt like a carnivore, looked at the deer walking towards him.
“Oh, I forgot.”
“Oh my… What is this deer?”
Eugene hurriedly took out a water jug from his inventory and answered while pouring water over the leaves that had become noticeably dry.
“Just, the… pet I’m raising?”
“Wow.”
At the appearance of the deer, Drod, who had been hiding behind Gabga, peeked out only his eyes.
‘By the way, you must be quite thirsty. There are three people, and I can’t believe you approached me first…
The deer, which had been hastily quenching its thirst with the water Eugene had given it, collapsed with a thud as if it had lost all its strength.
‘That was a mistake. I’m going to hear a scolding from Rasil about this.’
Eugene, who had been expecting to hear things like “You left us behind”, glanced at Mirami as she took out something.
“that?”
“It’s winter.”
“ah.”
It was something Eugene knew.
“If you don’t mind, I’d like to take a look around. Is that okay?”
Mirami, holding a thin white cloth spread out in both hands, looked at Eugene to ask for permission.
“Yes, I’ll ask you to do it instead. No, please sell it to me. I don’t have any winter clothes.”
Winter stream.
It is a cloth known to contain the energy of winter and was one of the sewing materials mainly used by the people of the tower.
‘Originally, this was something you could only see on the 80th floor…
A wide winter coat was wrapped around the neck of the deer that had fallen on the sandy ground like a cloak.
The deer’s eyes quickly regained their vitality as it stopped panting, perhaps seeing the effects right away.
“Thank you. The cost is… …
“Please give me just 1,000 gold.”
Eugene nodded and handed over 1,000 gold coins as he looked at the three people’s clothing.
They too were wearing clothes woven from winter fabric, perhaps to endure the desert heat.
“Don’t you need Eugene?”
“I’m fine.”
Eugene, who had answered that he didn’t need his share of winter clothes, asked again about the ‘ring’ he had heard about a little while ago.
“You just mentioned the ‘ring’ that the warlock was wearing. Is that by any chance… …
Eugene, who was about to ask something, stopped talking in the middle.
“No, no.”
It was obvious even without looking.
In 3 months… … .
Yeah! That could be it.
“Mr. Lee, he got abandoned again.” Eugene swallowed back tears and looked up at the leaves spinning around above the deer’s head.
‘Close the door of your lonely heart… …
Eugene, mumbling the lyrics of a song to himself, thought of his partner who had not yet abandoned him.
‘No, Eternal… That bastard is different. That bastard won’t leave me.’
under.
You have to trust who you can trust.
“Hey, are you crying?”
“…no.”
Eugene, who had been secretly wiping away tears, looked back at the three tower people and spoke.
“Anyway, it turned out well. It was nice to see the three of you hunting together.”
Mirami, who thought that his slightly reddened eyes were shedding tears for them, answered in a sobbing voice.
“thank you.”
“Were you out hunting? You were catching scorpions in groups of eight.”
Not only could they not use the Tower’s blessing, but the tower people could also become stronger through hunting like climbers.
The level displayed under their names was proof of that.
“It looked dangerous, but I think it would be better to catch them one by one rather than trying to catch them all at once.”
The reason for hunting trials wasn’t necessarily to become stronger.
In the case of the three people, they had quit their restaurant jobs, so it was likely that they were struggling to make ends meet.
That’s why I asked. If it was for survival rather than to become stronger, there was no need to take risks and hunt the scorpion.
“Well… we also prefer to catch them slowly rather than all at once because it’s safer… …
Mirami, whose words trailed off for a moment, explained why they were in danger.
“The number of scorpions has increased dramatically due to the recent incident on the 19th floor.”
“That’s right. Those bastards are messing with the Guardian of the Desert, and the creatures living here are going wild.”
As Eugene tilted his head at the vague explanation, Mirami added, “The Black Rose Guild… They’re people with pictures of black roses drawn on their clothes who are conquering the hidden floors of the tower.”
Eugene’s brow furrowed at the guild name he had heard somewhere.
“Black Rose?”
“Did you know?”
“I’ve heard of it… …
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It was the name of the guild that attacked her when she was briefly separated from the guide on the 10th floor.
Moreover, he knew very well that it was a bad guild that had falsely accused his guide of being a traitor.
“What is the hidden layer?”
I felt like a little more explanation was needed.
“It’s the 18.5th floor.”
“18.5 floors?”
“Yes. It’s said to be the floor below the sand swamp on the 19th floor, but I haven’t been able to go in.”
“It looked incredibly dangerous. More than anything, the eyes of the Black Rose people occupying that place were so menacing… I couldn’t even look at them.”
Eugene, who recalled the 15.5th floor from the previous episode after hearing Mirami’s explanation, thought of ‘Customer 588’ that he had met at the auction house.
‘Didn’t you die then?’
At that time, I heard that he was addicted to Eternal’s venom… If he is still alive, he must be quite patient.
‘The poison is one that cannot be cured unless you drink the sap of the World Tree… so let’s say that guy hasn’t cured the poison yet.’
The evil he had experienced was a poison that could only be detoxified by penetrating the 90th floor.
‘Then the guy who was poisoned? There’s a high chance that he’s already dead and someone else is running the guild in his place.’
Eugene muttered to himself as he calculated in his head.
“…Shall we go?”
“Huh? Are you going?”
“Wouldn’t it be better if you didn’t go? Those people really seem to have something wrong with their heads.” Eugene shrugged his shoulders as he met their worried expressions.
“I’m just curious to see what’s there. If it looks dangerous, I’ll just take a quick peek, you know.”
Since Mirami and her group didn’t get involved in any trouble, they didn’t really care.
“??? I know what it is.”
Drod, who had been hiding behind Gabga’s back since the mention of the ring came up, spoke faintly.
“is it so?”
Then I thought there was no need to go all the way there and spy on their behavior.
“I heard this when I was working at the restaurant… The 18.5th floor reward was called a ‘trait eraser.’”
“Special eraser?”
“They say it’s an item that erases one of a person’s characteristics… I’m scared that those people will use it for bad things.”
Eugene’s mouth fell open in a daze at Droude’s explanation.
Trait Eraser! Those five letters felt somehow familiar, and my body trembled as if I had been struck by lightning.
“Mr. Eugene? Are you okay?”
When Mirami asked with concern, Eugene barely came to his senses and grabbed her shoulder.
“oh.”
My shoulder, suddenly grabbed, flinched and trembled.
“Where is it?”
“yes?”
“Please give me directions!”
Eugene asked desperately in an urgent voice.
‘You can erase it!’
If the ‘trait eraser’ that Drode spoke of was real, if only he could get his hands on it… he could erase it.
[Characteristic: High-ranking official]
[Transcendent trait]
［Ignores all status effects ‘related’ to charm and seduction, and receives additional effects from skills that require mental concentration.
all.]
This fucking trait!!
“Team 1 back!”
At the shout from behind, the party of five retreated like flowing water.
“Team 2! Forward!”
As soon as the five people called Team 1 fell back, the five people called Team 2 came running at a fast pace.
Shhhhh!
A stone monster with a snake’s head brandished a green halberd in its hand.
“Stop it!”
Two of the five members of Team 2 carried large shields.
thud!
thud!
The two feet dragged on the ground as they were attacked with a heavy sound, but the damage was not great.
“Deal!”
As soon as the signal to deal damage was given, the remaining three who did not have shields unleashed their skills.
Shhhhh
As the snake-headed monster staggered once, the dog-headed stone monster standing next to him swung its weapon.
“Team 2 tanks, back up! I’ll take this one!”
A warrior with blackened eyes leapt into the battlefield and raised his shield.
Although the dog-headed monster’s brute strength was quite terrifying, the warrior did not seem to take much damage.
[Jang Min]
[Level: 71]
Even though his health didn’t decrease much thanks to the shield blocking the attacks, the warrior’s body was shaking like an aspen tree.
“Ugh, ugh! Healerrrrr!”
The warrior, shaking like someone suffering from withdrawal symptoms, shouted at the healing staff lined up behind him.
“Okay, just wait a minute!”
“Geueuu… … Behind the evil warrior, a dog-headed monster approached with thump! thump! footsteps.
“Geuaaaah!”
The warrior, spitting black spittle from his mouth, waved his free shield hand around in a fit of rage.
Crunch.
The blade imbued with black energy cleanly cut off the dog-headed monster’s neck.
“Huh, huh… Heeeeeel!” Although I had reduced his stamina to some extent, I was able to defeat the mid-boss of this floor with one swing of my sword.
He was scratching himself and shouting even as his subordinates looked on in awe.
“Give me my heel!”
He was addicted.
