I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 087
25. 40th floor (4)
“Oh, you were just standing there blankly, so I wondered who it was… It was the guide.”
When the instructor on the 41st floor let out a sigh of relief as if he knew the guide, Serin smiled slightly and greeted him.
“Nice to meet you, Instructor. Has anyone died recently?”
“What kind of people came up here… I don’t know if it’s the orcs, but I can’t let the goblins kill me.”
The 41st floor instructor, who was wearing plate armor that clanked and banged, was the first to look at Eugene and greet him.
“Nice to meet you. I’m using a mask for some reason, but I’m an instructor on the 41st floor.”
Eugene, who had bowed his head slightly when greeted by the elder first, introduced himself by extending his right hand.
“This is Seon Yu-jin.”
“It’s nice to see you again.” The instructor, who had been smiling and not hiding his joy, looked at Serin again and spoke.
“Well, I heard about the 44th floor. That’s too bad. When the Black Rose guys passed by, I thought they wouldn’t… But they weren’t something I could stop with my own strength, so I couldn’t do anything.”
“I understand.”
“Anyway, those kids are the kind of people who can’t stand to see themselves being harmed. It would be nice if they cooperated a little in times like this, but they’re just getting in the way.”
The 41st floor instructor, who was clicking his tongue with his arms crossed, asked while observing Seon Yu-jin standing next to him.
“Are you planning on going up there to challenge again? Then I’ll ask the other instructors. We may not be able to stop them completely, but we might be able to buy them some time.”
Serin, who showed a pleased expression at the instructor’s good intentions, answered that there was no need for that.
“It’s okay. Those people… They’ll probably have a hard time moving around for a while.”
“Huh? Is there a reason?”
“Well… a story my friend told me
“Yes. That’s what I’m guessing.” As Serin answered while observing Eugene’s expression, Eugene nodded and joined in.
“Yes, I heard that too.”
The people on Everest, the instructors on the 41st floor… it seemed like they hadn’t yet heard about what had happened at the casino on the 30th floor.
“That’s good. If you said that, then that must mean you’re going to the 44th floor, right?”
Serin nodded.
“That’s great. I would like to help you out like the Gift Guild, but since I’m an instructor… Hey! Avoid the stingers!”
The 41st floor instructor, who was cheering her on, noticed a climber riding the elevator and squealed as if he had boiled a train car.
“Hey! Aw, that little shit… Hey! You want to lose? I told you not to do that!”
“Ah, ahaha… …
“You’re hot. You have to do something like that to avoid people dying.”
Eugene nodded his head at the 41st floor instructor’s hot temper, then continued talking while kicking a goblin that was slowly approaching from behind with his heel.
“Goblin cubs are basically greedy. Shiny gems come first, and gold comes second.”
“huh?”
“If you sprinkle a few gold coins on the floor, they’ll be gasping for air as they try to pick them up. Then, if you stop them, people will be able to catch them more easily.”
Eugene opened his inventory, locking eyes with the questioning instructor. He took out ten gold coins to show them to the instructor, then threw the bundle of gold coins he was holding over his shoulder.
“Huh?”
“Keeeeeek!”
“Ugh!”
At the sound of gold coins falling, the goblins hiding in the bushes on the 41st floor began to poke their heads out.
As he said… … .
The goblins, distracted by the sparkling circle, began to frantically pick up the gold coins that had fallen to the ground.
“Keep on! Keep on!”
“Kueeeeeee!”
“Ouch! Ouch!”
Some goblins were fighting, claiming that the gold they had picked up was theirs.
“They’re fighting amongst themselves.”
The instructor on the 41st floor stuck out his tongue after seeing the sight Eugene had shown him.
“Well, if you gather them like that, it’ll be like this… … As Eugene trailed off, Serin stretched out her right hand in that direction and prepared to use magic.
▲Uh…
–1 ?
… Kwaaaaang!
A single blast of black magic she fired drowned out the screams of the gathered goblins.
[You have leveled up!] As the goblins were swept away, Serin’s body began to glow golden.
“Huh? Congratulations.”
The instructor, who was bewildered by the goblin hunt, was startled by Serin’s level up.
“thank you.”
Serin, who had been making an indifferent expression, tilted her chin slightly toward the instructor.
“What, you just leveled up with that?”
“It was full of experience.”
Eugene nodded as if he had expected that answer from Serin, then looked at the instructor and asked a question.
“Wasn’t that very helpful?”
“Oh, no… that’s not it.”
The instructor, who didn’t know that goblins liked shiny things, was purely amazed.
“It’s a method I never knew about.”
They were hard to catch.
There were two reasons.
The first reason was that it was difficult to see when hiding because the body was small.
The second reason was that they had similar intelligence to humans, so they did not approach climbers easily unless they revealed their weakness first.
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“If you lure the goblins with a little gold and sweep them away, leveling up will be a lot easier.”
however…….
If you can lure the goblins with a few gold coins like Eugene told you, hunting them isn’t that difficult.
“However, this method doesn’t work on highly intelligent goblins. You should teach them that too.” Eugene added, causing the instructor to tilt his head.
“Highly intelligent?”
Eugene sighed inwardly at the response of not knowing, and explained about the ‘highly intelligent’ goblins.
“Shaman, Hop, Lord… whatever it is, they’re the ones with a special name attached to their name. They don’t appear here, but if you go up, you’ll encounter them at least once.”
“I’ve often heard stories about goblin shamans appearing from above, but this is the first time I’ve heard of hops and rods.” Eugene shrugged as he realized once again that there were many things climbers didn’t know about the instructor’s words.
“Anyway, I definitely need to advise you not to blindly trust the method of catching them by scattering gold.”
This was because if we used too many shortcuts against the goblins, we might end up in even greater trouble upstairs.
“I know what you mean.”
The instructor nodded with a satisfied expression, glanced at the guide’s expression, and then opened his mouth.
“Are you alone by any chance?”
“yes?”
“No, that’s… If you’re not in a guild or something, I have a suggestion.”
The instructor made a suggestion to Eugene, who thought that it seemed like a familiar flow.
“I wanted to scout you. I can see that you have some tips here and there, so I’m sure you’ll be a great help to those who come up late.”
Serin, who noticed that the situation seemed to have changed, smiled slightly next to Eugene.
“no.”
Eugene, who had been glaring at Serin at her laughter, politely declined the instructor’s offer.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t belong anywhere.”
“I’m not asking you to join the guild. None of our instructors on the 40th floor are in a guild. I just want to give some advice to those coming up from below whenever I have time… …
“I’m not the type of person who knows a lot about advice. That thing about the goblins I just told you… I didn’t figure it out, I just heard it.”
It wasn’t a complete lie.
“Hmm, is that so?”
It’s not that I found out myself, but rather that I saw another tower person hunting goblins while I was up there.
“That’s too bad. If you feel like it, tell the other instructors. I’ll have already written a letter of recommendation for you.”
As Eugene bowed his head in gratitude, the 41st floor instructor exchanged a quick glance with Serin before returning to his seat to train other climbers.
“Hey, it’s in the bushes over there!”
Eugene took his eyes off the instructor’s back and secretly sighed.
“Ouch, this is burdensome.”
“is it so?”
“yes.”
“You seem to be enjoying it?”
“No. I was just going along with the rhythm. I can’t stand it when someone tries to recruit me or anything like that.”
On the other hand, if it was me who was scouting, I had no aversion to it at all.
“Is there an instructor on the 42nd floor?”
Eugene, who was about to go up in a hurry, remembered the ordeal on the 42nd floor and looked back at Serin.
“Yes. There are three instructors there. Do you know what’s on the 42nd floor?”
“Orc.”
“yes that’s right.”
“Hmm??????
Eugene, who was chewing on the names of the monsters that appeared most frequently in the tower, suggested them to Serin.
“Let’s pass the 42nd floor.”
“yes’?”
“Let’s take the shortcut.”
As far as Serin knew, that was the only shortcut from the tower.
“The hidden floor, you mean?”
“There’s a path I mentioned above. If you go that way, it’ll take you straight to the 45th floor, so let’s go that way.”
“It’s the 45th floor… If the distance isn’t that long, then it’s like shortening the route.”
“That’s right.” Eugene nodded and thought about the trials he would face if he went up normally.
Oak on the 42nd floor.
Lizardman on the 43rd floor.
Troll on the 44th floor.
Since these were all monsters that I already knew about, there was no need to go up and look at them.
“Let’s skip it. It’s obvious anyway.”
Meeting orcs, meeting lizardmen, meeting trolls… and talking to the instructors on each floor… I wanted to avoid the predictable developments.
“I’m fine.”
Serin, who readily accepted Eugene’s offer, asked about the hidden 41st floor he had mentioned.
“But, if there’s a hidden floor on the 41st floor… what is there?”
Eugene answered.
“Treasure Goblin.”
