Episode 78: Entering the Ruins
I finished writing my message.
Is this really the right choice? Isn’t it just a waste of points?
I had my doubts, but now it’s time to believe in myself.
“Phew.”
I took a deep breath and clicked the send button.
The transmission completion indicator appeared with a cheerful sound.
[Petit Gongdu]: Hello, hello! How have you been? I’ve been busy so I haven’t been able to check your messages. Sob, sob. If only I could go into the water… If only I had better lung capacity!
The start is a whining technique.
Please read it right away.
The plan changes depending on how the guy turns out.
I waited while caressing Deokchun.
[Lee Jun-seok]: Oh. Mr. Gongdu! No. I understand. There have been a lot of strategy posts recently. Since you said underwater, I guess the water field has come out.
[Lee Jun-seok]: As far as I know, you have to be on the 30th floor to get there. As expected, it’s Gongdu!
He’s talking nonsense, saying that he’s already conquered the 30th floor.
It’s a mistake. I haven’t even seen the 30th floor.
Now that you’ve given me some praise, I’d like you to give me some support.
I waited patiently for him to take the bait.
After a little while, Lee Jun-seok sent a message.
[Lee Jun-seok]: If you are a waterman, you are restricted in terms of breathing and movement. It would be good to have scuba diving skills or underwater breathing skills. Both are valuable skills. I don’t have those either.
“ah.”
He sighed softly.
Are B-class skills a burden to Lee Jun-seok as well?
If you want to give but have nothing to give, there’s nothing you can do.
Unfortunately, I have to buy air candy.
The moment I made up my mind.
[Lee Jun-seok]: If you’re looking for cost-effectiveness, equipment is better than skills. As Gongdu knows, you can breathe underwater just by wearing a mask made of mermaid skin.
What is that?
This is the first time I’ve heard of it. I know about the monster called the mermaid, but making a mask out of it?
I’ve never heard of this before.
Common sense tells us who would think of making a mask out of fish skin.
I think it’s going to smell really fishy.
[Lee Jun-seok]: It’s widely used in large guilds, but it’s not sold on the market yet, right? Anyway, the big guild guys don’t reveal anything, you bad guys.
“This is it.”
I got the hang of it.
I quickly wrote a message.
[Petit Gongdu]: That’s what I’m saying! It would be great if we could just release the information that the big guilds monopolize. Like the mermaid mask. Then wouldn’t the big guilds take a hit too? Ahem!
Lee Jun-seok is a person with deep-rooted resentment towards large guilds.
If damage was done to a large guild, there was a high possibility that they would roll up their sleeves and help.
The guess turned out to be correct.
[Lee Jun-seok]: Hmm? Oh! I see. It’s like Gongdu-nim has given a proper tutorial strategy. That’s right. Why didn’t I think of that?
[Lee Jun-seok]: Petit Gongdu, I have a favor to ask. Can you reveal information about the mermaid mask? I think Gongdu has more influence than I do.
Okay, I asked.
If you come out voluntarily like this, I’m grateful.
Hehehe. I waited for him to send me a message, laughing.
I’m getting bored just waiting, so I’ll have to look into the price of mermaid skin.
The shop also sells monster byproducts.
“The mermaid was a 3-star monster, right?”
Despite its plain-looking face and name, it is a fairly powerful monster.
Because it was a monster that was paired with a fisherman.
A monster that is so bizarrely shaped that it ranks among the most undesirable monsters to encounter.
In other words, the demand wasn’t that great, and being unpopular meant the price was cheap.
“Roughly 3,000 points per head for scaled leather.”
Actually, scales are not necessary.
For a 3-star level, its scales are rather soft, so it is not preferred for making equipment.
I heard that most people buy it for the purpose of increasing their skills.
I need to make a decision soon.
Buy air candy. Buy shell.
The mermaid fish is bigger than I thought, so I think I could make dozens of masks with just one mermaid fish.
If you can make it right, this is a good value for money option.
While I was making my own comparisons, I received a call from Lee Jun-seok.
[Lee Jun-seok]: It’s been so long that I don’t remember exactly, but I took off the skin, put it in a slightly acidic solution, spread it out, and dried it…
The recipe isn’t perfect, but it covers all the essentials.
Fortunately, it didn’t require that much of a process.
It’s a slightly acidic solution. You can use Deokchun’s saliva. To dry it, just use fire.
Okay, I decided.
“Let’s make it.”
[Would you like to purchase the mermaid skin?]
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“yes.”
I pressed buy without hesitation.
A large piece of leather fell before my eyes. It smelled quite fishy, perhaps because it lived in the water, but I guess I had to endure it.
“Deokchun, please.”
“On the track.”
Widely spread out skin. The first thing to do is to remove the scales attached to the outside.
The work was easy as I had plenty of strength.
at that time.
The power was demonstrated.
[Scales of the Human Face]
-When ground finely, it becomes an ingredient for high-grade potions.
“ok?”
Fish scales are used as a potion ingredient?
What is this? I looked into the information in detail.
[Scales of the Human Face]
-There is a special ingredient in the scales of the human-faced fish.
-You can create a higher-grade potion by mixing it with ingredients such as Slumpy’s Essence and Markus’ Root.
“A, a high-level potion?”
I was able to learn something great.
Advanced potion.
The potions I’ve been using so far are low-grade.
It’s hard to buy potions since they’re expensive from the intermediate level up, and I don’t need good potions because I have Deokchun.
If it’s a higher level.
“If you buy it outside, it’s about 50 million won. I think it’s about 4,000 points at the top.”
As the tower has been built over 10 years ago, the skills of production hunters have also advanced.
As of now, only intermediate potions can be developed.
Since it wasn’t mass-produced, it was handcrafted, and because the quantity was insufficient, the price was quite high.
High-grade potions are only found through drops, so they are twice as expensive as intermediate potions. However, their effectiveness is guaranteed.
If you are at an advanced level, even if your internal organs pop out, you can recover if you put them back in properly. Even a severed wound up to the forearm can be repaired somehow.
I found out something unexpectedly huge.
Let’s pack it up. I don’t have any crafting skills yet, but I might try it later.
I carefully gathered the scales I had randomly picked out to one side.
“Hehehehe.”
I feel good because I received an unexpected gift.
He was busy making masks with a smile on his face.
Water was sprinkled on it, Deokchun spat out acidic saliva of the right concentration, and it was dried using fire.
The result of repeating miscellaneous tasks that do not require particularly great skills.
“Is it finished?”
[Crude Disposable Mermaid Mask (F)]
-If worn properly, you can breathe underwater.
-It’s crude and looks like it’ll break easily!
-Sensitive skin may experience problems.
Whatever the explanation, the important thing is that I, who has no crafting skills whatsoever, created the item.
Since it was an F-class, the performance itself might be low, but because the leather was so large, many of them were made.
The number is as many as 50.
I didn’t make all of these either. They took too long to make, and I only made enough to use right away.
If you make them all, wouldn’t you be able to make about 80?
“The fit is pretty good.”
Because it is treated with an acidic solution, it has no fishy smell and is relatively soft.
It may be a bit difficult to breathe, but considering the Awakened’s lung capacity, it is bearable.
The extra masks were put in the treasure pouch.
Okay, we’re ready to go.
“Shall we go into the ruins?”
Deokchun and I threw ourselves into the lake.
Cold water. The face that was heated by the heat cools down quickly.
Even though we were wearing gear, the Awakened’s strong body overcame the restrictions on our movements, and Deokchun and I dived down.
-Paaaaat
A lake that gets darker the deeper you dive.
In preparation for something like this, I gave Deokchun a glowstone.
The sight of it swimming with its mouth full of water is like a fish in water, no, a frog in water.
They swim excitedly, claiming the water as their territory, and their speed is extremely fast.
As far as I know, I’ve heard that even frogs can’t breathe under water.
[Chaos Frog (Deokchun) can breathe underwater.]
-It is also possible at sea.
The great spirit chewed up such common sense.
That’s not a scam.
Even if it’s fresh water, can you breathe in the sea?
I wanted to argue, but I stopped myself. There’s nothing more stupid than looking for common sense on a tower.
“Yeah, yeah.”
How long have you been diving?
It’s too deep to be called a lake.
The floor began to become visible in the glow of the luminous stone.
“oh.”
I was a little amazed. The bottom of the lake. It was full of debris that seemed to be traces of ruins.
Fragments of fallen columns and statues. Stonework with mossy boulders and geometric patterns.
[Gravity Bracelet (C)]
It was difficult to go down because of the buoyancy, but diving was not difficult thanks to the gravity bracelet.
The floor we arrived at like that.
A hazy dust rises, as if no one has been visiting for a while.
I waited a moment for my vision to return.
-Wooooow!
I took out the relic key, which was vibrating violently.
Finding the keyhole was easy.
Among the scattered wreckage, there was one place that was still in perfect condition.
[Entrance to the Hyaltin Ruins]
The authority kindly told me that this was the entrance.
A door with fire on one side and a glacier on the other.
The decorations that seem to be modeled after the image of a god and the keyhole in the center are in harmony.
I calmly put the key inside.
-Gugugugugugu!
A massive amount of divine power and waves spread out along with the sound of something moving.
The entire bottom of the lake shakes.
The waters were agitated and the remains of the ruins trembled uneasily.
-Gigig, gigigigigig
When the entrance to the ruins opened, we were greeted by pitch-black darkness.
I took the relic key and went inside.
[Enter the Hialtin Ruins.]
[First on the server, relics discovered.]
[5,000 points will be awarded.]
First discovery notification.
A feeling different from the portal swept over my whole body.
When I opened my eyes, a new space unfolded before me.
[Hyaltyn Ruins – Altar of Ice and Fire]
-The ruins of the sacred kingdom of Hyaltin.
-This is the holy place of the Order of Ice and Fire.
– The sacred relics are kept. Prove your worth and faith yourself.
-You can obtain holy relics. (The ruins will be locked when all holy relics are taken out.)
Information about the relics that come to mind one after another.
The Order of Ice and Fire. As expected.
One thing that stands out is that you can obtain holy relics.
“I was already thinking it would be nice to have some divine power equipment, so this is great.”
The optector we fought on the 9th floor.
The representative of purification that confronted us on the 15th floor.
They were all difficult to deal with unless you had divine powers.
If I could get anything out of this opportunity, I could put it to good use.
Even I am the first discoverer.
What does that mean?
“It means that you can possess the best relics.”
“Ouch.”
I don’t know how many relics there are, but I’m sure one or two of them might be weapons.
Armor is good, but I prefer weapons.
Well, that’s only after clearing the ruins.
-Pfft! Pfft!
Did it recognize my presence? The ruins lit up.
An empty space. Relief paintings painted along the walls.
On the left are things related to the Goddess of Ice, and on the right are things related to the Goddess of Fire.
There are three doors visible in total.
There’s one in the front.
There is one relatively small door on each side.
-Chakang
I put the glowstone in and pulled out the frost flame sword.
A sword that vibrates in response to relics.
That feeling was pretty good. It was strangely exciting, I guess.
[The Road to the Altar, Part 1]
[Prove your power.]
A voice echoing through the hall.
The doors on the left and right sides open with it.
I stared at the door with a moderate amount of tension.
-Gugugugugugu
“Oh, it’s you guys.”
I’m a little bit deflated.
Familiar faces popped out.
The guardian we met on the 15th floor.
The only difference is that the ones on the right look the same as before, while the ones on the left look white.
This must be the Guardian of the Ice Cult.
He waved his sword lightly.
“Not a bad start.”
40 2-star sacred weapons.
It’s a good level for loosening up.
