Episode 182: Towards the Safe Zone
I’ve seen a lot of strange things and things that go against common sense since I’ve been on the top.
I thought it was okay to just let it go since there were stories I had heard and things I had personally experienced.
“I didn’t expect this.”
It’s like spirits and fairies are struggling in a lake.
Before the world changed, they were beings you would only see in fantasy.
An NPC who is recognized as an unapproachable superhuman after the tower is created.
There were some who had pure minds like Lilka, but overall, they were all excellent in their own fields.
“Deokchun, what should I do?”
“Oh yeah.”
A guy looking at me with both hands spread out.
Yeah, you don’t know either, right?
The eyes of humans and toads have a similar shape.
You seem like a smart guy.
First, I looked at the message calmly.
[Save the spirit of the earth, Mobilidik.]
[The fairy saves Chihirin.]
[Jo Hyun-soo can only save one target.]
I squinted my eyes.
This is not an option.
Because the options given as clear conditions are accompanied by a message asking you to select them.
Does the real choice come later?
I rolled my tongue around in my mouth, lost in thought.
Either/or.
There is a saying that is said jokingly.
If me and him fall into the water, who will you save?
I never thought I’d see this in real life.
[Mobilidic asks for help!]
“Me, me, beer bottle… save me!”
Guys who desperately want to be rescued.
Mobilidick didn’t speak directly but sent messages, but that was the same with the Demi Demon we met on the 42nd floor.
Let’s see.
“Should I save him?”
“What?”
Mobilidick looks at me with big eyes.
Chihirin sinks into the water with a blank expression as if she heard something wrong.
“There is also the option of not asking.”
There are choices given, but based on past experience, there is no need to follow them.
I’ve never really made a good choice until now.
Since people are so consistent, I don’t even want to follow the choices.
I’m also curious about what will come out.
[Mobilidick shouts that the joke is too much.]
[You are a friend of the spirits! He says he has no doubt that you will save him.]
Oh, now that I think about it, that’s true.
I got that title while completing the quest of the Snow Spirit Queen, Hainu.
The guy looks at me with eyes of firm trust.
Maybe it’s because I drank water, but my eyes feel moist.
As if unable to resist, the fairy waves her arms and rises up out of the water.
“Oh, no! The one who killed the Mestoca larva! He’ll save me!”
larva?
That’s right. You said that killing the larvae would increase the affinity of the fairy tribe NPCs.
The Fairies and the Mestoca.
It’s clear that there’s something between them that I don’t know about.
Whatever.
I sat down leisurely.
The two of them kept talking to each other, seemingly anxious.
“It’s strange.”
I clicked my chin.
“No matter what, it doesn’t make sense for an NPC to drown and die.”
Mobilidic?
It’s an intermediate spirit.
Spirits are a race that has a lot to say because they should be classified as monsters.
Like fairies, they were mysterious beings, but there was some information about them.
Although it was rare, gates where spirits appeared did exist.
These guys can become infinitely stronger depending on their environment, or they can do something strange and naturally disappear.
It is difficult to define because there are so many different cases.
“If it’s a mid-level spirit, it’s at least 4-star or higher. If it’s an NPC, it’s definitely going to be much stronger.”
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Earth spirits cannot swim.
What is that?
Just let it sink and then go into the ground.
“They say that fairies can’t fly if their wings get wet… They literally can’t fly. It doesn’t say that all of their other abilities are sealed.”
Even if it’s just a beer bottle, you probably have at least one mobile device.
You can escape by transforming either your attack or defense skills.
Putting everything else aside.
“You’ve been doing that for 10 minutes already.”
“Yeah.”
If it was really an emergency, would that be possible?
Did you say Chihirin?
I’ve seen it go in and out of the water dozens of times.
I saw a man fall into the sea before the cataclysm happened.
Fortunately, there were safety personnel nearby and I was able to save him, but because he was young, he was so shocked that it is still vivid in his memory.
At that time, the man sank without getting out of the water three times.
How does that guy hold out like that?
Simple physical?
If you have that level of ability, you should have come out a long time ago.
I looked at the options quietly.
The tower doesn’t tell everything.
As if I didn’t tell you that you don’t have to choose the option given to you right now.
“Eww! There’s a system limitation, you idiot!”
[Mobilidik reports that this lake has no bottom.]
[They say the body is falling apart!]
The two guys spout out additional information, perhaps realizing that I have no intention of moving.
It’s a system limitation.
Well, that makes a little bit of sense.
“Idiot?”
“I was talking to myself! I’m an idiot!”
If you glare at it, it immediately shrinks.
Why? Why do I see Lilka in that strange fairy?
[Mobilidick claims he didn’t say anything.]
Wink. The guy who blinks his eyes.
Okay, you get one point.
The fairy’s expression becomes urgent as she realizes her mistake.
“He’s heavy! He’s so heavy! I’m light, grunt!”
Chihirin’s words, which came from going into the water for a moment, are also correct.
Mobilidic.
It looks like a whale, but it’s also quite large.
It’s not like you can’t get it since its stats have increased, but it definitely looks like it’s going to be quite difficult.
Well, what should we do?
I got up from my seat and dipped my feet in the lake.
Moderately cool feeling.
The water was calm and there were no aquatic monsters in sight.
I walked exactly to the middle of the two.
Until your knees lock.
This is as far as you can walk.
As Mobilidik said, there is no bottom in sight from here.
The distance between the two guys is roughly 50 meters.
I looked at Mobilidick and Chihirin, whose faces had brightened.
What to do has already been decided.
but…….
‘I just feel it’s a bit of a shame to save you.’
I asked with my arms crossed.
“Tell me what you would do if I saved you.”
[Mobilidic is shocked by the unexpected development.]
“Hey, hey! Bad, snarl. Little brat!”
You can say it’s trash.
Even from my perspective, this statement seems to be a problem with one’s character.
‘This is a tower, and once you go beyond the safe zone, you can’t go down to the lower floors.’
You must take everything you can from each floor.
You can curse me for being so annoying and heartless, but I’m also in a corner.
If you want to go outside, you have to go all the way to the 100th floor.
At least for me, this part is non-negotiable.
There was a brief commotion, but they both seemed to realize that I wasn’t going to change my mind.
The competition is fierce.
[Mobilidic is said to be able to grant the protection of the spirits of the earth.]
“I’ll dry your wings well and give you some fairy wing powder!”
[Mobilidick snorts.]
[He says he can also give you precious minerals buried underground.]
[He says he knows where the mithril ore is.]
“Eww, you little squid! A fairy kiss! This is a great buff… grug grug.”
[Mobilidic gives you the underground city pass… … .]
“Honey wine stolen from the fairy world… …!”
Ow.
There’s a lot.
I tried to stall for time, but it seemed like there was nothing more to be gained.
Because before I knew it, the content was getting weird.
[Mobilidic can show you a three-turn show in the air!]
“I’m good at giving massages!”
Let’s leave it at this.
I feel sorry for the two NPCs.
What good would it be to watch a dolphin perform tricks, and how much better would it be to have a fairy the size of your forearm rub your shoulder?
-Ouch
I clapped my hands and finished the overheated but not overheated competition.
Those guys who are waiting for my choice with bated breath.
“Okay, you have to keep your promise?”
[Mobilidik swears on the name of the spirit.]
“I promise you on the mystery of the fairy!”
Light shoots out and connects with the two NPCs’ remarks.
I think it feels similar to a contract.
Then let’s give it a try.
“Deokchun, go.”
“Oh, oh, oh.”
Deokchun, who read my thoughts, stuck out his tongue and started swimming towards the fairy.
I too, trotted to where Mobilidic was.
Originally, I was planning to get both.
[Jo Hyun-soo can only save one target.]
This was the condition.
There were no restrictions placed on Deokchun anywhere.
Was my prediction correct?
Deokchun wrapped his tongue around Chihirin without any particular interference.
“Oh, it’s a bit heavy?”
[Mobilidick himself is very slim and well-proportioned for a mid-level earth spirit… … .]
“Yeah, yeah. Okay.”
I too was able to contact Mobilidik.
It’s heavy.
Fortunately, it’s underwater so if you pull on it, it comes back.
I used skills because I thought it would take too long just to swim.
Frozen Break.
-Tsk tsk tsk!
An ice bridge extending out of the lake.
My magic power was constantly being drained, but I held on.
Grab the ice and pull the Mobilidik repeatedly.
After struggling for about 10 minutes, I was finally able to reach the ground.
[Mobilidic rescue success]
[Chihirin rescue success]
As Deokchun came up to the ground just in time with me, a message appeared indicating that the rescue was successful.
Chihirin is lying on the floor, catching her breath.
It also spits out water from time to time.
Mobilidik, the earth whale, shook off the water from its body and then buried itself in the ground.
Seeing it swimming freely on land, I thought it was a whale.
Let’s leave it for a moment.
You have to give him time to rest.
“Should we eat something too?”
“Geeeeee!”
Deokchun opens his hand to say it’s good.
I bought a packed lunch at a store and ate it.
The top has an ambiguous concept of time.
There are places where day and night do not change, and there are many cases where daytime continues when you go through a portal to another floor.
In other words, you have to adjust your own condition according to your biological rhythm.
-Gulp
The sound you hear when you’re halfway through eating your lunch box.
Chihirin, who had finished recovering, was sitting on the floor and was looking at me with drool running down her face.
To be exact, a lunch box.
Mobilidic is similar.
Blinking and keeping your gaze fixed.
As I lift the lunch box, my eyes follow it.
I’m going to get sick from eating this.
It’s also fatal to be picky about what you eat.
“Do you want to eat too?”
“Yeah! You’re a good person, aren’t you?”
“I’m a little kind.”
Deokchun glared at me with a displeased expression, but I had already become accustomed to such a contemptuous gaze.
[Mobilidick says that spirits cannot be eaten unless they are spirit stones or have magical powers.]
It’s time to buy another lunch box and give it to Chihirin.
Mobilidik wiggles sadly.
It’s tricky, perhaps because it’s a spirit.
Is there anything suitable?
Spirit stones are a bit expensive.
“Can you eat something like this?”
I took out the wyvern meat and the flesh of the mestoca larva from the subspace ring.
Whatever it is, it’s a byproduct of a 5-star monster.
It’s not much, but it has magic power.
That’s because Dokdo is there too.
Nod nod!
Judging from the way it moves its head vigorously, it looks like it’s edible.
Let’s take it out appropriately and throw it into the sky.
-Thump!
It quickly leaps up above the ground and lands on the ground.
Although it is natural for dust to fly, it seeps into the ground without any resistance, perhaps because it is the spirit of the earth.
To him, this place is like water.
It was secretly fun, so I repeated it several times.
[Affinity with Mobilidic has increased.]
A message came to mind saying that the affinity level had increased.
He’s an easy guy to get along with.
Than that.
‘Why do they look so lacking?’
How does it compare to other NPCs?
Sloppy? Sloppy… That’s a bit harsh.
He’s a bit blind, but he gives off a strong feeling of being a good friend.
Deokchun also seems to have a similar feeling, so he sneakily approaches Chihirin and plays a prank on her.
“I ate well.”
The moment the meal was finished.
I called the two guys together.
I guess I should start getting rewards and talking a bit.
The first question is.
“Tell me first why you were in the water.”
This is it.
I understand that some of the power is sealed due to system limitations and such.
But that’s not the reason why it fell into the water.
Don’t they know themselves best?
That once you get into the water you can’t do anything.
I waited for an answer.
[Mobilidic reports that there are hardships to get to the safe zone.]
“I want to live in a safe zone too?”
The two gave unexpected answers.
this.
It smells like a quest.
