episode_0028

28. 1st layer (7)

“Status window.”

Name: Cain (Kim Seong-hu)

Level: 3 (0.36%)

Status

Strength: 2.92 -> 3.03

Agility: 5.22 -> 5.65

Stamina: 5.99 -> 6.72

Horsepower: 1.3 -> 1.8

Special Status

Technique: 13.1

Guardian: NTL(EX), Hitomi, Awakening

Quirk

-kleptomania

I saw that the status went up. Instead, it doesn’t apply right away like a skill, but rather, does it apply when you go to the city? Well, usually when you finish exploring and return to the city, you can see that your body glows and your status has gone up, like a level-up, so is that why it’s displayed like that?

By the way, when I first touched Carmella, my technique went up explosively and then went up slightly, but then went up by 0.5 overnight.

My stamina stat also went up a lot. Could it be because I hit the jackpot in the labyrinth? I didn’t know it would go up this much in just one day.

I was quickly clearing out the remaining goblins and looking at the status screen when Tanya ran towards me.

“Kain!!”

“Oh, sis.”

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

“Uh, what about other people?”

“Robin and Roy are both lying down, so they don’t seem to be hurt.”

When I turned my head, I saw that Robin had finished off the goblin that had been crushed by Roy, and that he was lying down with his sword in his hand. Roy had struggled and turned around, and they were both stretched out on the floor, looking at the ceiling.

“Let’s go, let’s see if it’s okay.”

“Yeah..! Ouch..!”

Looking at Tanya’s hand, the skin on her palm was slightly torn and her body was shaking.

“What, isn’t that too much?”

“Huh? You…you were so scared that you didn’t even know it hurt and just hit me.”

Tanya bowed her head to my words and clung to me in fear as she was startled by the sight of goblin corpses strewn around me.

“Good job. It’s not bad for a first time.”

“Really?”

“Okay. Let’s check on Robin and Roy’s condition and treat their wounds first.”

“Yeah!”

So I supported Tanya and headed towards Roy and Robin.

“Keueuu…..”

“What’s wrong, Roy? What’s wrong with you?!”

I thought he was just lying down because he was tired, but when I got closer, I saw that blood was flowing from Roy’s leg, not the goblin corpse.

“Roy!!!”

“Mr. Roy!”

I clearly saw the goblin that was rushing at Robin late drop its dagger and pushed it back with my shield. After confirming that neither of us would die, I didn’t pay much attention to it. But it looks like Robin cut his ankle while grabbing the goblin.

Roy, who had been worried about Robin, who had been quiet for a while, went to find Tanya, not realizing that Robin had cut his own ankle.

“Honey, Robin? Is Robin okay?”

“Huh? Uh-uh… Robin is lying down because he’s exhausted. He’s not hurt anywhere else.”

“Haa… Thank goodness… Ugh!”

Robin was lying there with his eyes closed, either passed out from exhaustion or asleep.

Roy, who didn’t notice anything strange in Tanya’s flustered and stammered answer, groaned as if the pain was severe.

“Sister, keep an eye on Robin and Roy.”

“Huh? Yeah…”

He stared at Tanya and emphasized that she should ‘watch over him’, then went back to the base camp where they had left their luggage, rummaged through Roy and Robin’s luggage, and returned to the clearing with the supplies needed for first aid.

“Let’s see. Mr. Roy is still lying down. Sister, turn on the lantern and help me from the side.”

“Huh? My hand hurts…”

“If you leave Mr. Roy’s wound alone, it will be serious. Come here, I will treat it right away.”

“Ugh…”

So I made sure Tanya turned on the lantern and took a seat next to me while I examined Roy’s wounds.

“Um…. The bleeding is worse than I thought….”

“Is Cain dangerous?”

“Just a minute….Mr. Roy, you’re in a bit of pain.”

I untied the leggings, cut off the hem of the trousers, and checked the wound.

Gulp!

“Ughh …

When I open the water bottle to examine the wound and spray water on it, Roy’s body starts to tremble violently and squirm.

“Sister, hold on to Mr. Roy’s body.”

“Yeah.. Eww! Roy, don’t move!!”

dump!

She must have felt pain in her palms as she tried to grab Roy with her hands, so she sat on top of Roy’s buttocks and held onto his thighs with her arms.

“I think I got on your nerves.. Wait a minute.”

The wound seemed deeper than I thought, so I quickly poured some recovery potion on it.

Pong-

Gulp!

Cheeek-!

“Keueueueup!!!”

Perhaps because he had cut himself with the sword he had used to stab the goblin, the monster’s venom still remained in his wound.

As the potion touched the wound, a small white smoke rose and Roy writhed in pain.

If it was just a simple sword attack, I wouldn’t have had to use up all the potion, but I saw the smoke and used up an entire potion.

After a while, I saw that the wound was slightly filling and the bleeding was decreasing, so I sprinkled some herbal powder with a hemostatic effect on the wound and wrapped a bandage around it.

“Hoo….”

“Is it…is it done?”

“Yeah, you can come down, sis.”

“Whew.. I’m sick too..!”

“Come here.”

“Yeah…”

Tanya was surprised that Roy’s wounds were more serious than she thought, and she started to throw tantrums at me only after the first aid was finished.

“It hurts!”

“Hold on a little longer. Don’t be so joking.”

“Heeelp!”

After lightly treating Tanya’s right palm, he looked at Robin.

“Robin fainted. What the. Robin?”

“When I checked on Cain earlier when he went to get the bandages and potion, he was asleep and snoring.”

Tanya also snorted in disbelief and told me.

“I guess I’ll just rest for a bit and then spend the day recovering.”

“How about Roy?”

“If you go to a relief center and receive rehabilitation, you’ll probably be okay… but you might end up with a limp.”

“Why? Doesn’t everything work if you have a recovery protection? That’s weird. ”

“Did you see the smoke when I poured the potion earlier?”

“Ah…yeah white smoke.”

“The poison in the monster’s blood was purified. I don’t know about the muscles or bones, but the poison invaded the blood vessels and deep places, so I don’t know if it will be completely healed even if I receive a healing blessing.”

“Gasp..!”

“We don’t know how long it will take for the three guys who went on a scout mission to come back, so let’s rest and watch together until Robin wakes up.”

“Yeah!”

Tanya and I brought Robin and Roy to the center of the clearing and laid them down next to each other, and we sat down to wait for the remaining goblins.

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“Heeeek I really hate taking out magic stones…”

“Still, it’s important to try.”

“What if my status doesn’t go up even though I did this?”

“That won’t happen. My status went up on my first labyrinth run. So did the other party members.”

Crunch! Crunch!!

I took a break for about an hour and then took Tanya with me to show her how to mine the magic stones embedded in the goblins’ foreheads.

The dagger Tanya had was quite high-quality for a beginner to use, so it was easier than expected to extract the magic stone, but it took some time because I had to work while appeasing myself of my aversion to seeing corpses.

“Whew… Seriously… If it weren’t for the status, I wouldn’t have done it…”

“Quickly, finish it.”

“Yeah…”

Kwajik!

As an example, I took ten magic stones and Tanya helped me do ten more.

Even if I eat extra experience points with NTL protection, it only increases by 0.01% per point, so I don’t necessarily need to do all of them, and I gave half of them to Tanya in the hopes that her status would go up.

After finishing mining the magic stone, Tanya returned to the center and started kicking Robin’s feet, then let out an angry voice.

“Whew… Robin, how long is he going to sleep?”

“Leave them alone, they both look like they’re lacking stamina, but if they’re like that, they might just be too nervous.”

“Well… When I woke up, my back hurt from sleeping in a sleeping bag. Oh my… Even the youngest one is like that.”

Roy was groaning and falling asleep as if he had passed out after receiving first aid, and Robin had been sleeping the whole time since the battle ended.

“Um… Should we go and catch them before the goblins come back?”

“Uh…where are you going?”

“We have to catch the three guys who went to scout the passage.”

“No, don’t go…!”

“First of all, I can’t sleep here. I have to go back there yesterday to sleep safely. But I don’t know when they’ll come before Roy and Robin wake up. Can you hold out while being on guard against them?”

“으…”

After fighting, resting for healing, and even mining magic stones, time had passed quickly and now the 12-hour hourglass was almost up, and Tanya was starting to feel sleepy.

“First of all, there is nothing dangerous here and there are no other routes, so if you feel like there is nothing there, you can come back right away.”

“Okay…”

“If something happens, scream.”

“Yeah…”

So, leaving Tanya behind, holding Roy’s shield and club, they moved towards the passage where the goblins had gone on a scouting expedition.

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Phew!!

“Keueugh..!”

dump!!

“It seems like he was slowly coming back, thank goodness.”

Not long after entering the passage, three goblins approached.

Perhaps, the goblins were sleeping in the treasure trove, so they returned, waited near the passage, and later took turns. They immediately caught three of them, collected magic stones, and got up from their seats.

“Gyaaa …

Just as I was about to return to the empty lot, I heard Tanya’s piercing scream.

“What the fuck?”

He quickly put the magic stone he was holding into his magic stone pouch and ran at full speed.

“Don’t come!! Don’t come!!! Roy…!! Roy, wake upu …

“Eeee!!!”

“Fuck, this is fucked up.”

I ran into the empty lot and what I saw before my eyes was Tanya and Roy being attacked by three black slimes.

Robin was already squirming with one of the slimes growing much larger, as if he had been hit, and Tanya was sitting there, unable to run away, as if she had panicked and her legs had lost their strength, swinging her shield to try to get the slime stuck to it off.

And Roy…

“Kkaaah!!!”

The slime that had been stuck to the leg that had just been treated was screaming as if it was melting the leg.

“What the hell, why is there a slime in the goblin’s lair…! Tanya!! Run away!! Drop the shield!!!”

“Gyaaaahhh!!!! Cain!! Kaiiin!!!”

“Ewww!!!!”

Tanya, who heard my screams, did not come to her senses but only cried louder, calling my name, and Roy’s screams became louder.

“Fuck!!”

Phew!!!

Cheeek!!!

“Hah!!!”

First, I ran towards Roy and put my hand into the body of the slime that was eating Roy’s leg and grabbed the core.

Slime does not always contain a solution that dissolves humans, but rather first wraps itself around the face of its prey to suffocate them, and only when it is time to eat does it produce an acidic solution from its body that dissolves the prey.

However, it judged Roy as a wounded entity and attacked by melting and eating away at the wounded area, killing his mobility, so I felt a tingling pain in my hand as I stirred the slime’s body.

Thud!!!

Choaaaah!!!

As I held the nuke in my hand and exerted force, I felt the slime that had been eating Roy quickly climb up my arm.

“Eww!! Fuck, get behind me!!! Come on!!!”

Tsk tsk!!!

Choaaaak!!

Finally, I use all my strength to detonate the nuke, and along with the feeling of the magic stone in my palm, the slime turns into liquid and spreads on the floor.

“Whew… Tanya!!!”

“Wooow!!”

I turned my head to look at Tanya and saw that she was being attacked by slime that had already moved towards Tanya’s head.

No matter how much I tried to remove the slime with my hands, I couldn’t get it off. I could see that my hands were losing strength and my legs were shaking as if I was having trouble breathing.

I quickly ran to Tanya and put my hand into the body of the slime attached to her head.

Phew!!

Kwaaak!!!

Because Tanya was still breathing, this guy wasn’t spraying the acid out of his body.

Chararat!!

As expected, this guy was also caught by the nuke and was quickly climbing up Tanya’s arm from her head towards me.

Kkuddeuk!!!!

Oh my god!!!

I got a feel for how much force I needed to use to detonate the nuke first, so I detonated it right away.

Choaaaak!!!

Hood thud!!

“Ugh!! Ugh!! Heheheeung!!!”

Soon Tanya, covered in mucus, came to me sobbing and I went to Roy to comfort her.

“Eeeeek….!!”

Roy’s legs were blunt at the ankles as he screamed in agony.

“I guess it’s a good thing there’s no bleeding… Shit..”

It’s absurd to see it looking like it’s been cut with a sickle and the cut surface has been burned.

Honey-

And when I looked at where Robin had been, I saw the remaining one, huge and writhing, as if it was in the process of being digested.

I poured some of the extra lantern oil I had packed in my utility belt onto Roy’s club, lit it with a flint, and threw it at the slime.

Whoosh whoosh!!!!

Kkeeek-!!!!

As the flames spread, the slime shrank with an eerie sound, then quickly dried and the core was seen crumbling.

“Sister.”

“Heuheu….heuheu….”

“Tanya.”

“Eeee….”

Taaak!!

“Aww!!”

“Go back quickly and bring me the small bag inside my backpack.”

“Uh…uh…”

“Hurry up, I’m going to die from pain.”

“Ah…Okay, I got it!!”

After getting slapped in the face, Tanya, who had calmed down a bit from the panic, staggered towards our luggage.

dump!

“Ah.”

Shit, I didn’t look at the wound until I sat down and looked at my arm. My entire right arm and hand were bright red, as if the skin had peeled off, and there were bubbles and blisters here and there.

It hurts more the more I look at it, damn it.