I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 086
25. 40th floor (3)
“hmm’?”
The man who had glanced next to Serin only then frowned at Eugene’s voice.
“What about you?”
“Master.”
“yes?”
“The person who scouted this place first.”
Eugene placed a hand on her hood and tilted his head as if to ask if there was anything else he wanted to ask.
“Haha, that’s not true… She seems to be in the same group as me, but she seems far from being a good fit for the group.”
“who?”
Eugene, who had asked the question with his face tilted, asked once more before receiving an answer.
“I?”
“Your equipment is old. Judging from what you’re wearing now, you seem to be a thief… Even a level 10 wouldn’t wear something like that these days.”
Eugene glanced down at his own clothes at the man’s words, then waved both hands in his pockets and flapped his coat.
“Yeah, I want to wear it too.”
Serin, who had been smiling awkwardly at the sight of her squirming like a penguin, opened her mouth to try to resolve the issue as peacefully as possible.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can join the Everest Guild. I’ll just accept your offer.” As Serin politely declined the scout, the man who had reached out his hand frowned.
“Is it because of the man next to me?”
“yes?”
“Did they threaten to reveal your real name behind the alias? Or did they find a weakness that we didn’t know about?”
“Was it when you were kicked out of Black Rose? If you had caught my weakness, I wouldn’t have guessed otherwise.” Eugene shook his head, feeling rather pitiful at the sight of him beating the drum and janggu alone.
“We can’t communicate?”
I was just admiring the rankers wandering around here a little while ago, but that admiration has now completely cooled.
“I’ve stated my position, so I guess I’ll have to go now. I have a long way to go… I wish the Everest Guild good luck.”
As Serin bowed her head and walked forward, the Everest climbers who had turned to the side and changed path shrugged their shoulders.
“If you need any help, please let me know! Just come to the Everest hideout, north of the 40th floor!”
Seo Rin, who was walking forward while leading Eugene, let out a sigh at the sound of a voice coming from behind her.
“Are you popular?”
“I didn’t want to.”
If Eugene had not been summoned three months ago, these were the people who would have tried to kill him rather than accepting this offer.
Serin shook her head slightly as she recalled the time when she was falsely accused and kicked out of Black Rose.
“I just saw something, so I think it would be a good idea to get some things done. There was something going on on the 30th floor too.”
It was evidence that it was slowly becoming known that the guide and Han Seo-rin were the same person.
It was only a matter of time before this fact became known to not only the Black Rose and Everest Guilds, but also to other guilds and rankers.
“I don’t have any problem.”
Although she tried to smile calmly, her inner feelings seemed different, and her hood was tilted a little further forward.
“No matter what other people think or see of me… I am proud.”
“Being honest and being hurt are two completely different things.”
“If people say anything, just curse.”
Eugene suddenly started laughing sinisterly as he remembered the comment ‘You’re joking!’ left on one of his posts in the early days of Top.
“I swore.”
Seo Rin, who had been sweating profusely at Eugene’s reaction, burst into laughter.
“I don’t want to do it because I feel like you’ll be the one swearing on my behalf if I get pointed at for it.”
Eugene looked at the guide with a dumbfounded expression, shook his head slightly, and asked for the destination.
“Are we going straight to the 41st floor?”
“Yes. I was going to do that… Is there anywhere else you’d like to stop by?”
In response to Serin’s question, Eugene glanced back at the path he had taken and answered as if he couldn’t remember anything in particular.
“No.” There were a few places I was curious about, but I decided they weren’t important enough to warrant turning back.
“I wanted to see some buildings that I hadn’t seen when I visited the 10th floor before… but it’s okay if I don’t stop by.”
“For example?”
“What, other than the basic store, maybe a general store run by climbers or… a guild hideout?”
Serin, who noticed what he was curious about, gave a brief explanation to relieve his curiosity.
“It’s just, nothing special… It’ll probably have a similar atmosphere to the workshops you saw on the 20th floor.”
Eugene nodded as he recalled the view from the 20th floor at her explanation.
“Then there’s no need to come here.”
Serin, who continued walking in response to Eugene’s answer, pointed with her finger at the stairs leading up to the 41st floor.
“Starting from the 41st floor, the atmosphere of the tower changes. Monsters that don’t exist outside the tower appear.”
When Serin, pointing to the stairs, explained the trials of the tower that could be encountered starting from the 41st floor, Eugene replied that there was no need to explain.
“know.”
From the 41st floor to the 90th floor, he had memorized in his head what his teacher had told him.
“I was surprised that the 49th floor was different from what I had heard from above, but it wouldn’t be any different in terms of the monsters from another world appearing.”
When Eugene referred to the trials that appeared from the 41st floor as ‘monsters from another world’, Serin blinked.
“Did you know about monsters like goblins and orcs?”
“That kind of thing is widespread from the seasonal floor. Those who watch from the 41st floor onwards are just getting a taste.”
When I was up there, I had even chewed their meat, so it would have been stranger if I had said I didn’t know.
“Is the 41st floor goblin?”
When I asked Serin, who had stepped onto the stairs first, she answered with another surprised expression.
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“Oh, that’s right.”
“Well then… Even if there are at least one or two floors that are different, it’s probably not that different from what most people know.” Once upon a time, the tower’s rankers left a review saying, “The difficulty of conquering the 41st floor and above is drastically increased.”
Monsters from another world.
Goblins, orcs, lizardmen, trolls, ogres, etc… It was because of the guys that appeared in novels and movies.
These guys have human-like intelligence, and because of that, tribal society is possible… This was the ordeal that the climbers facing on their way to the 50th floor had to face.
“If you’re wondering, how much weaker these guys are compared to the guys we saw up above?”
Eugene, who was following Serin upstairs, touched my chin and added.
“How much do the rankers know about the hidden floors located on the 40th floor?”
Seorin, who was climbing the stairs, asked curiously when she heard Eugene’s voice coming from behind her.
“That too, was that what the master on the 97th floor told you?”
“that’s right.”
Although Eugene had found out some information himself, half of it was tips given to him by his teacher.
“I’m kind of curious about the 97th floor.”
“Go up and see.”
Eugene chuckled.
“Of course, that is, if you can get up there.”
“Was it by any chance a trial?”
“It was a level where if you fought against the Master and gained recognition, you were allowed to go down… no, up.” “Recognition?”
Serin continued to ask questions, mumbling two words.
“Not winning?”
“I can’t say I won on that level… Even if I go up now, it would be impossible for me to beat the Master?”
“Even now?”
There was a world of difference between who he was when he first went down to the 97th floor and who he was now, but Eugene was still convinced that he would not be able to defeat his master.
“Because he is my teacher.”
Eugene’s answer reminded Serin of the movie Star Wars and she asked about the dwarf named Yoda from the movie.
“Couldn’t you have come down together like Rasil or Eternal?”
“Well… I tried to tell you a few times, but you didn’t seem very interested, so I just gave up. It seemed a bit cruel to do so.”
The voice I was hearing sounded a little gloomy, so I wanted to turn around, but she didn’t turn her head.
“First of all, Eternal and Rasil are two rather special cases. They came down to me as parasites… Even if they had accepted my offer, it would have been difficult for them to come down with me.”
While they were chatting about his teacher, the end of the stairs came into view.
[Current floor: 40th floor]
[Current floor: 41st floor]
The current floor displayed in front of the two people changed to the 41st floor.
“Block or dodge the stinger! Hey, you… Don’t think of me as a child, think of me as a monster!”
“Ugh, ugh!” “What the hell, don’t hesitate to kill me! I told you you’re going to die? This little shit, for real! Don’t you come to your senses!”
As soon as he came up, Eugene’s gaze turned towards the loud voice he heard.
[41st floor instructor]
[Level: 70]
Eugene narrowed his eyes as he saw a person with a sign above his head that said “41st Floor Instructor.”
“Instructor, instructor?”
I spoke so confidently below, but it was because it seemed like a flow that I was unaware of was already unfolding.
“I wore a name badge.”
” ah.”
Eugene let out a sigh of relief when he realized that the “41st floor instructor” was wearing a name tag.
“I thought… there was some kind of helper.”
“I guess he’s an assistant. Originally, there was no one to take on the role of instructor.”
Serin explained with a proud expression as she saw the 41st floor instructor yelling at the relatively low level rankers.
“The instructors have appeared, and the number of rankers dying has decreased drastically. Before… there were a lot of people dying especially from the 41st floor.” “Really?”
“It’s a good thing. I’m grateful.”
“Thank you’?”
“They are volunteering for free. They could be enjoying the nightlife on the 30th floor or focusing on leveling up… They are giving their time to people who come up late.”
Eugene muttered with a somewhat puzzled expression.
“Yeah… if there are idiots, there must also be geniuses.”
When I was stuck on the 77th floor, or when I was called down by Serin, I thought there were only idiots there… but the tower was fair.
“Keuk. Keuk… …
“Key ek.”
Behind the two people who were watching the instructor shouting, something that looked like children was approaching.
If you look closely… their appearance is quite different from that of a human.
A small green monster wearing only a pair of primitive leather panties… a goblin.
“???Huh? Hey! Hey there!”
The instructor on the 41st floor, who was scolding a new resident who had just arrived on the 41st floor, shouted when he discovered Serin and Yujin.
“Look behind you! Look behind you!!”
Even though the instructor pointed in their direction and shouted, Eugene and Seorin did not look back.
“I……!”
Just… before the instructor came running towards me, there was a pop! The sound of a balloon popping.
It wasn’t a sound that came out of the mouth.
As if to prove it, the ‘Hanser’s Dropped Night Sky’ that the black magician was using as a weapon was covered in goblin blood and was vibrating…
