episode_0010

My sister calmly pulled up her pants.

“The article works well too.”

“Yes..”

“From now on, how about leaving a message before writing an article?”

“Ah, yes.”

As soon as I answered, I quickly left the bathroom.

My face got hot and my heart was pounding.

‘White..’

Sometimes even in the bathroom.

‘How much did you hear? How far have you seen it? If you deliberately used your skills to follow me, was it actually an opportunity?!’

*

Me, Hye-rin Park, and Su-ah Lee.

It was a party that decided to clear the first floor inside the Comet Guild.

It’s a party, but I didn’t really need a party.

I am strong enough now that I am confident that I can clear the first floor in 30 minutes alone.

It’s a party that will make you crazy.

I was in the position of having to give newbies a ride on the bus.

‘Synchronization 1%.’

Some might say it’s only 1%, but if you look at the amount of mana I’m dealing with right now, no one can say it’s only 1%.

Rewards for clearing the first floor are given to a total of 5 people.

In order to create a future saint, Lee Su-ah had to be included in the party so that she could receive rewards, and Park Hye-rin, who has sword master skills, will increase in sword master level as she receives rewards, eventually showing the ability to cut down a mountain with a single sword.

Also, I was scheduled to meet Lee Seol-hee, a future major item merchant, on the first floor of the tower.

She was a psychic in a different sense, carrying multiple A-grade items from the first floor every time she regressed.

“Is everyone ready?”

We confidently walked out to the front gate of the guild, where reporters were gathered.

Click click click

Camera sound does not stop.

He goes up to the small podium where dozens of reporters are focused and grabs the microphone.

“After a while, the Comet Guild will enter to attack the first floor of the tower.”

“I will not necessarily discourage those who are drawn to the tower by its attractive rewards.”

“Hetsung Guild employees trained to protect such people will protect citizens, but unfortunately, they cannot protect everyone.”

“So, please prepare to at least protect your own life.”

“For your safety, those who wish to enter the tower must enter at least 15 minutes after our Comet Guild enters.”

“See you at the tower.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Hyerin and Sua disappeared.

I also pressed the [Enter 1st floor] button to follow them.

**

I looked around and thought.

It’s such a crappy place no matter what.

A dark underground parking lot with no light.

This was the ‘abandoned underground parking lot’ on the first floor of the tower.

The current location is a very simple yet crappy place that can be cleared by reaching the 20th floor underground and the 1st floor above ground.

The most important thing when attacking this place is luck.

When people start, they just have to decide whether they want to go up or down.

It’s not particularly difficult if you go up.

Not only is the way to clear it on the first floor, but the ‘shadow’ that attacks people disappears as you go up.

But going down is different.

The further underground you go, the less light reaches you.

As it gets darker, the ‘shadows’ become stronger and begin to become more intelligent. Going beyond the 30th floor underground, it was difficult to survive with poor equipment.

Even the biggest problem is that anyone who goes down to the 21st basement floor cannot come back up until the first floor is conquered.

You cannot go outside the tower until just before someone clears the first floor.

If you go down underground without knowing anything, you will definitely die.

One by one, people arrived.

Guild members who were specially trained by the Comet Guild and two broadcasting station employees who signed an exclusive contract to film the first floor strategy video.

A cameraman carrying a huge camera and a bodyguard following him to protect him.

Although both of them were not as good as the Comet Guild, they had good items and decent abilities, so even if we couldn’t protect them for a while, there was little chance of them dying unexpectedly.

‘The time has come,’

There was a type of person who would not listen no matter how much you told them to come back in 15 minutes on live broadcast.

That is Lee Seol-hee.

It was worth it since I came from the 1st floor with A-grade items that were useful even on the 7th and 8th floors.

Seolhee Lee follows us up to the ground together.

Here, you can recruit them to the guild based on the goodwill you slowly build up.

With just her, it is possible to prioritize everyone in the guild with good equipment.

‘Normally, we should have arrived around this time, but is it strange?’

Since there was no rule that said the future that had been changed once could not be changed twice, Lee Seol-hee could have listened carefully and come 15 minutes later.

‘I guess today is not the day.’

Since we couldn’t just wait for Lee Seol-hee like this, we had no choice but to proceed with the attack.

“Comet, listen!”

A voice with a sweet but clear purpose echoing through the underground parking lot.

“I don’t know how many people will come here in the future. Those who wish to be safe must stay here to protect themselves from unexpected attacks.”

“Yes!”

The voices of guild members ringing loudly.

It’s showmanship.

Even this is being filmed, so each and every detail like this will greatly help the guild’s image after leaving the tower.

“If there are people who want to try a strategy like us, don’t bother to stop them. We have no right to stop them.”

“Yes!”

“Let’s go in.”

I walked up the ramp one step at a time to go up the 19th floor.

at that time.

Murmur

I heard a small commotion from the employees behind me, so I looked back to see if Lee Seol-hee had arrived.

There, as always, Lee Seol-hee, dressed in A-grade gear,

I had an older brother.

“Huh..?”

It’s never been like this before.

In all the episodes, my brother never once entered the first floor.

Soon, my brother, who was talking about something with Seolhee Lee next to him, started going down, and Seolhee Lee passed us and started going up.

You must not go.

If you go underground, there is only death.

I tried to go down to the basement to stop my brother, but the translucent membrane between the 20th and 19th floors blocked me from getting to him.

There was no use screaming.

The translucent barrier allowed sounds from the lower floor to pass through but absorbed sounds from the upper floor, so my voice could not reach him.

I can’t even make a phone call.

Because the inside of the tower was outside the currency zone.

My head turned cold.

Search for the most optimal way to save the man.

To put it bluntly, this is the only way to increase my brother’s chances of survival right now.

‘Continue the attack.’

I had to get out of this shitty underground parking lot as quickly as possible.

“Let’s go up.”

So we quickly ran towards the ground.

*

“How about me? Do you look so damn strong?”

“Sister, your words are so vulgar.”

“It’s better than being vulgar. Are you okay with grades B and B+?”

“Unlike my older sister, I received a level 0 reward, so this is enough.”

Now my body is overflowing with unprecedented strength.

Hased’s shield of B rank on his back,

Glorious Shooting Star, a B-grade weapon that is difficult to hold with one hand;

An ordinary longsword that holds D-grade magical power as a sidearm,

Even the D-class boreman’s leather armor was hidden under his clothes.

“Then shall we leave in 10 minutes?”

“What do you say? Let’s go right now.”

“Yes?”

My sister pressed the button to enter the first floor without hesitation.

“Suyeon told me to come back in 15 minutes…”

However, I couldn’t send my sister to an unknown space alone, so I followed her and immediately pressed the button to enter the first floor.

**

My sister said, ignoring the people wearing the Comet Guild mark who were buzzing around us.

“What? Isn’t this just an ordinary underground parking lot?”

“It says it’s the 20th floor underground?”

“Wow, it’s awesome. Isn’t that the Comet Guild guild leader? So let’s go up.”

“Ah.. I’ll go down.”

“Why? Aren’t you going together?”

“Um.. that.. ah! There may be hidden rewards. If you follow the Comet Guild, you won’t be able to monopolize the hidden rewards.”

” Now that I think about it, I think you’re right. We have plenty of equipment, so going alone doesn’t really mean we’ll be pushed out on the first floor, right?”

“That’s what I’m saying. Then I’ll go down. Would you mind going with me too?”

“Hmm… I’ll go up before the Comet Guild and see if there are any hidden rewards.”

So my sister went up to the 19th basement floor, and I turned my head and went down to the basement, pretending not to notice Suyeon in front of me as much as possible.

*

“It’s really fast..”

The Comet Guild’s attack team rushes past them.

‘Are you in a hurry to go to the bathroom?’

“You should have gone there in advance like me.”

He joked, but

Jeong Soo-yeon, who was running at the front of the comet attack team, was already cutting down as many as five pitch-black shadows that were attacking them.

The sword line drawn along a gorgeous curve glowed golden light and melted away the shadows.

‘Maybe I need to go to the bathroom…?’

My mouth watered because it was a place with a much scarier atmosphere than I expected.

‘Now that I think about it, I’m really in a hurry to go to the bathroom!’

In the end, Seolhee, who was scared, pretended not to be, but ran after the Comet Guild’s raiding team.

*

After about 20 minutes, we reached the 13th floor underground.

“Wow.. Wow.. Let’s take a break for a bit..”

I ran up the 7th floor without stopping.

I was a little tired, so I sat down and took a chocolate bar out of my pocket and ate it.

This place had a slightly different structure and area on each floor, and the location of the passageway to each floor was also different.

Nevertheless, our guild leader did not hesitate and pioneered the shortest route to the next floor every time.

“I will rest for 3 minutes and then go up again.”

According to the meeting within the guild, there was about a week left until the attack, so we decided not to be impatient, but strangely enough, Sooyeon seemed very impatient right now.

But none of us could object to her serious expression.

This is because everyone realized that the guild leader’s unique sense was that something was very urgent.

“I will treat that person too and come back.”

Sua, who played the role of a supporter who was giving energy to the cameraman who was catching his breath, also walked to give a heel to the woman who was following her.

Sometimes when I look back while running, I see a woman who is slaying shadow monsters with a sloppy posture. Even though her skills are poor, her equipment is excellent, so she cuts down the shadows like cutting a sheet of paper.

“Let’s go again.”

As soon as Su-ah’s healing was over, we stood up again.

It was hard for everyone, but the one thing that was comforting was that the closer we got to the ground, the smaller the parking lot was, and the shadow monsters, which at first had vague human shapes, gradually became weaker and lost their human forms.