Episode 166: The Empress of Massacre -1-
The entrance to the prison was located underground in a gang’s stronghold.
The gang members confessed during interrogation before being taken to the execution ground.
He rushed right in.
“Isn’t it dangerous?”
Seo Woo-jin was worried, but I was confident.
“No one can stop me unless there is a slaughtering empress.”
The leader of the terrorist league, the Empress of Carnage.
The only level 7.
When I was level 5 I was seriously pushed back, but things are different now.
Because there is a chance of one day vs. a thousand.
Actually, I was secretly looking forward to it.
If I could have a one-on-one with the Empress of Slaughter, it would be my chance to get revenge.
“Going in.”
Just in case, I brought other people along.
Seo Woojin, level 6.
Level 5 Kim Cheol-kwon, Kim Magic, Kim Sa-je, and Baek So-rin.
Level 4 Janet, level 3 Carly.
In addition, there are many First Security staff and several Iron Fist gang members.
Everyone looks a little nervous.
It was just right.
It’s not good to be too tense, and it’s not good to be too relaxed.
‘They’ve gotten to this point already.’
I was particularly interested in Janet and Carly.
Both have solidly established magic circuits.
You can level it up by feeding it nectar.
As soon as this is over, I need to make a special elixir and feed it to him.
Go to the Great Labyrinth and learn the Nephilim sword.
Pfft!
Passed through the forbidden entrance.
The swaying space tickled my senses.
Light flooded my vision and then disappeared, and instead of the dark concrete maze I had expected, I was greeted by a bright, open space.
I see blue sky.
There are scattered gray stone pillars around.
A place reminiscent of a Greek temple.
Seo Woo-jin, who followed in, looked around in confusion.
“What is this place?”
Same goes for other people.
Baek So-rin sniffed the air.
“Uh… … The air is nice. Where does a sweet smell come from?”
A kind of subdimensional labyrinth.
It is similar to what the Japanese school of eclipse made on Ulleungdo.
The difference is that it is not based on black magic, but is a combination of sorcery and spatial magic.
I laughed inwardly.
Because I’ve seen it in games.
‘I got the wrong number.’
This is one of the bonus dungeons that opens when you defeat the Empress of Slaughter and clear Episode 1.
A place called a mini-game paradise among users.
It usually consists of three or four minigames, and the difficulty level varies greatly from dungeon to dungeon.
Among them, the Greek temple themed dungeon has the highest difficulty.
“You are here.”
“Teacher? Where are you going?”
[Diamond][Indomitable][Magic Resistance]
[Magic Soul][Thor’s Training Method][Magic Armor]
First, sweep between the pillars.
The invisible wall is palpable.
It’s like a game.
That blue sky and the majestic mountain range beyond the pillars are all just wallpaper.
It’s actually a small and narrow dungeon.
I put strength into my boat and moved forward.
Sure enough, the first minigame works.
The world turned blue.
Bricks are stacked one after another before my eyes.
Each shape is different.
Some of the blocks were in the shape of a square, some in the shape of a right, and some in the shape of a left, like Tetris bricks.
In the game, you had to break through the bricks by drawing one stroke within the time limit.
Otherwise, the sniper will shoot you and you will be ejected from the minigame dungeon.
‘It’s a boundary.’
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It’s the same here.
It’s a one-stroke painting.
It’s probably a special barrier made in a way that only the Terrorist League can share.
The type where if you don’t succeed at first time, the barrier explodes like a bomb, and if you stall for time, snipers are deployed.
“Huh?”
“What is this?”
“Don’t touch it! It’s a magic lock! If you fail, it will burst immediately!”
Among us, the only one who knows a little bit about magic is Kim Magic.
As soon as he grasps the situation, he shouts urgently.
Baek So-rin, who had been hastily raising her hand, flinched and grabbed her sword.
Kim Magic stared into the air and shouted.
“I, I’ll try to do something about it! So just a moment… … .”
Click.
But after a while, Kim Magic ended up making a stupid expression.
I just made a hand gesture to make it look like I was going to die.
Because the barrier reacted and scattered, and the illusion melted away.
“Uh… … Uh uh uh?”
“Let’s go. We don’t have time.”
“Brother? What did you do?”
“I knew it at first glance. It was just a single stroke.”
“still…….”
Kim Magic’s face is complex.
You might be wondering how I knew the right answer.
I made a vague excuse and went inside.
The Arcane Seoul developers were notorious for reusing puzzles they had created once.
One stroke drawing puzzle?
It appears not only here but also continuously.
Not just verses 1 and 2, but verses 3 and 4, to the point of hitting the brain.
If you can’t answer the question right away, you can’t be called an expert.
Thud thud.
Everyone followed along the hallway.
The atmosphere changes little by little.
At first it looked like a steep mountain peak, but now it looks like a cool valley.
The terrain changes from a straight hallway to a staircase going down.
I raised my hand to stop the movement.
“Stop. It’s a trap.”
“A trap? Where is it?”
“If that’s the case, then it must be so. Manager Lee. You take a look.”
“Yes, Chief.”
A superhuman with detection and clairvoyance abilities stepped forward.
Level 5 warrior series.
He’s a pretty decent superhuman, but his actions are meaningless.
“No need.”
“yes?”
“Everyone stand by.”
I took a big step forward.
I can see it in my eyes.
Fake traps and real traps are laid out in abundance.
Users called it “whack-a-mole.”
You really have to get through it by stepping on traps.
If you step on a fake trap, it resets immediately.
Return to the dungeon entrance.
Here?
The entire forbidden zone we passed through would probably collapse.
Just like it used to be at the shopping mall Geumyeok.
It will recover over time, but it will be unassailable for a while.
Flash!
I stepped on my first real trap.
A scream erupts as lightning flashes.
“100 million!”
“teacher!”
“Your Majesty the Silent Sword!”
Don’t worry.
I waved my hand, receiving the magical lightning with my body.
Then the second trap is activated.
This time the flames burned me.
The third time it was ice, the fourth time it was rock icicles.
Every time, people screamed from behind me, but I was fine.
[Fire Resistance][Cold Resistance][Lightning Resistance][Earth Resistance]
Instead of using Thor’s skill, just alternate between attribute resistances.
There is no need to use your ears or sixth sense.
All you had to do was check the warning signs right before the trap was triggered and change them.
The fake trap is a flash.
The real trap is that each attribute flashes its own unique color.
About 0.3 seconds.
That was enough.
In games, you could judge whether you dodge or get hit, and it was the same here.
It was actually more comfortable.
Because my reflexes are so much faster than they were in the original world.
It would have reacted even if it was 0.01 seconds, not 0.3 seconds.
“her…….”
“Wow… … .”
“oh my god…….”
It just passes by like a real trap, popping up like a pop.
I have already memorized the locations of the fake traps.
Even if you accidentally step on it, just dodge quickly and it’ll be fine.
My quick, flea-like movements elicited a gasp from behind.
I heard Baek So-rin looking back at Seo Woo-jin and asking.
“Woojin. Can you do that too?”
“I can’t do it.”
“Why can’t you do it? You’re level 6 too.”
“Can you do it? When you reach level 6?”
“I… can’t do it either.”
“What I’m saying is.”
Passing through the trap section.
From behind, only the magic armor would have been visible, flashing.
I leisurely found the trap shutoff lever and lowered it.
Well hidden, but who am I?
I am a person who wrote a guide for Arcane Seoul Minigame Paradise and it went to the best.
It was impossible for the artificial restricted area created by the terrorist league to stop them.
“What is this place?”
“Was the terrorist league this bad?”
“I guess money is rotting away.”
“So, I guess they were thinking of causing a terrorist attack in the whole of Seoul.”
“If it weren’t for our Mukho Sword Master, there would have been real chaos.”
The area reached by passing through the trap stairs.
It was a cliff.
The sky had disappeared and only a white ceiling remained in the underground cave.
Blurry cloud-like things were forming and disappearing, flying in a straight line through the air, and moving in circles repeatedly.
The third minigame is a springboard game.
Think of Nintendo’s Super Mario.
‘It’s number 8.’
The most difficult type of all.
Baek So-rin stood at the edge of the cliff and measured the distance.
“Hey, I guess I can jump over that cloud? I can feel the magic.”
“that’s right.”
“Should I try?”
“No. If you make a mistake, it’s over. I’m watching from behind.”
Count the numbers in your head.
The goal is not the closest cloud, but the one behind it.
That is, the third cloud.
‘3, 2, 1, now!’
Jump as the third cloud disappears.
Boohoo!
It soared through the air.
After reaching the top, I rolled my feet again.
Leaping through the air.
It is a double leap by Geumosin.
There was no need to triple jump during the air raid.
Jump over the first and second clouds and fall to where the third cloud was.
“Up, it’s dangerous!”
“Ugh!”
Kim Magic and Kim Sa-je screamed as if they thought they were going to fall.
But I’m okay.
As if by magic, a third cloud appeared and accepted me.
This is where it gets important.
I recalled the walkthrough I had written.
‘Second cloud at 12 o’clock.’
The first cloud is fake.
It was the same with game knowledge and observation with the ears.
‘Three seconds there.’
I jumped and then waited calmly.
‘Above the approaching clouds, walk, don’t run.’
I rode on the clouds that slowly approached.
You have to go up only on foot, slowly and steadily.
Because if you jump on it and step on it, it will explode.
A stepping stone that you literally have to die on if you don’t know.
‘Next is Sky Kongkong from the circular rotating cloud.’
The rotating platform is even worse.
It repeats creation and destruction at exactly 0.5 second intervals.
But on the outside there is no difference.
If you don’t make the character jump in time with the rhythm, you’ll have to start over from the beginning.
That’s why it was notorious.
Because if you make a mistake even once, you have to start over from the beginning.
If the rewards weren’t that great, no one would have tried.
‘The last. The full sprint section.’
Ta-da-da-dak!
Even with the air raid, it runs equipped with speed and sprint.
The cloud I stepped on blinked red and then disappeared.
The speed is getting faster and faster.
I was running faster too.
Thanks to that, the cloud cover was not catching up with me, but rather moving away from me little by little.
‘It was around this point.’
In the middle of a straight passage.
Suddenly a light flashed.
Your vision turns white, but you ignore it.
Already equipped with the [Divine Resistance] trait.
Arcane Seoul has no light resistance and is integrated with divine resistance.
Also, the Golden Eye magic curtain protected me, so my eyes didn’t get hurt even when the flash went off.
Kwaang!
A giant hammer appears above my head and strikes me.
I got out by accelerating.
Kuung!
This time, the entire nearby floor collapses.
He jumped over it with a big leap.
Boom! Boom boom!
The death cannon that can kill even a level 7 superhuman spits out a bloody flash.
Italo threw his body backwards.
I jumped over the bloody flash that came crashing down after kicking the cloud platform that was created diagonally behind me.
Finally, step on the protruding platform behind the Death Cannon to finish.
Crunch.
The platform was pressed and all traps stopped working.
A solid rock platform rises with the sound of thud, thud, thud, thud.
They joined together in the air to create a strong bridge.
As Baek So-rin bravely crossed the bridge first, others also cautiously followed suit.
“Teacher. Are you a prophet or something? How are you so good at it?”
“I am not a prophet, but I have a ring that a prophet left behind.”
“I don’t think you can do this just by wearing a ring… … .”
“I was a bit good at it, too.”
“Wow, awesome.”
Baek So-rin shook her head, saying she was tired.
I leisurely waited for everyone to join in.
Only the final minigame remains.
It was a very easy event.
If you know it superficially, you will definitely get it wrong, but if you know it properly, you will definitely get it right.
There was a huge iron gate in front of us.
The remnants of the terrorist league must be hiding inside that iron gate.
If we had delayed, they would have rushed out and intercepted us, but it seems they couldn’t do that.
I went through the traps and minigames too quickly.
I stood leisurely in front of the iron gate.
The sphinx sculpture in front of the iron gate gleamed with its eyes.
[Answer the riddle.]
A voice that sounds strangely like it’s inside a cave, something I’ve heard in games.
[What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening?]
It’s a famous riddle.
Carly’s eyes sparkled.
“Teacher. That… … .”
“Rights.”
I gave an answer that was completely contrary to common sense.
“In the morning, gods and kings and nobles and slaves. At noon, supermen and slaves. In the evening, humans with spears. That’s the right.”
The logic argued by the Rights League.
In the past, we were oppressed by gods, kings, and nobles, and now that gods and kings are dead, we are oppressed by supermen, so we must rise up with spears and liberate our rights.
The funny thing is, they are all superhumans.
It has never presented a specific blueprint or suggested specific policies.
It’s just a nice-sounding excuse.
What would you expect from a group made up of international criminals, terrorists, discriminators, murderers, and rapists?
[That’s correct.]
Yeah, yeah!
The iron door opened.
It opens slowly, slowly, scraping the floor.
Carly asked Janet urgently.
“You weren’t human?”
“I guess it was a password.”
“Ah, somehow… … Well, people are so obvious.”
“How did the teacher know?”
“You must have researched it beforehand. Even if it seems like you’re doing it roughly, you prepare thoroughly.”
I stared into the open door and grabbed my sword.
The cold air spreads like a tiger’s breath.
The hairs on my head stand on end.
The back of my neck becomes stiff and then hard.
There is something.
Inside me, behind the iron gate.
A dark space with no lights.
I entered slowly.
Seo Woo-jin, Baek So-rin, Kim Cheol-kwon, and everyone else follows.
Immediately after dozens of people entered.
Thud!
The iron gate was closed.
And the lights come on.
“You’ve come looking for a place to die, you little rat.”
I saw a familiar face.
A woman whose eyes, nose, mouth, and ears are all made of alloy.
All he was wearing was jeans and a white tank top.
Other than that, I only wore a few accessories.
However, the sword he held in his right hand and the urethra that flowed with a yo-yo energy were not ordinary.
Yodo Masamune.
That is, the Empress of Massacre.
The final boss of Episode 1 was waiting for me, for us.
