episode_0655
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“This… ”
“What should I do with this…?”
A groan escaped from Kim Jae-yoon’s teeth in defeat.
In Scarlett’s case, her complexion went beyond darkening and she became very gloomy.
It’s not a crowd.
Since Scarlett had become a witch, the possibility of our group all winning together was virtually blocked.
It’s not like there weren’t any cases like this.
Even if you form a party to climb the tower, there are times when party members must cooperate or compete depending on the test.
In these cases, the story usually progresses by deciding on a sacrificial side and giving strength to the other side.
This could be seen as a kind of match-fixing.
Unless you were going to leave the party or clan as soon as the test was over, competing too much with each other would only hurt feelings and be a surefire way to lose for both sides.
The reason for climbing the tower in a group in the first place was to cooperate in passing the test, so it is much cheaper to reach a amicable agreement and give appropriate compensation to the one who fails.
Of course, this only applies if your life isn’t in danger when you drop out.
In cases where people have to fight each other to the death, division occurs without exception, regardless of whether they are from the same party or clan.
But I had no worries.
Rather, I was glad to have a witch on our side.
Among the ten transfer characters, only three have special abilities: the witch, the priest, and the astrologer.
Here, there was one suspicious traveler who had no special abilities and only had to hide his identity, while the other six were all ordinary villagers.
Scarlett was chosen to play the role of the only witch who could possibly harm us directly, and I couldn’t help but be happy about that.
Because you don’t have to try hard to hide your identity, there’s no risk of being cursed and eliminated.
Thanks to this, the scope of activities has expanded incomparably.
“It’s okay. There’s a way.”
“But… I’m a witch… And you two are on the villagers’ side… ”
“Okay, take this first.”
I copied the villager token I had received with [Mirage Mirror] and handed it to the sobbing Scarlett.
I was happy because I finally had a chance to use the new items I had purchased.
‘[Mirage Mirror] creates a perfectly identical copy. Then the copied villager tokens will function properly. At least for three days.’
Scarlett looked back and forth between my two signs in surprise.
It was a face that seemed to not understand what on earth was going on.
“There’s a fun hidden rule on the 3rd floor. If you steal the token of a role that’s hostile to you, you can change your role to the role that stole it.”
Of course, in that case, you have to throw away the original certificate you had.
And since it only applied in cases of hostility, it was impossible for villagers to take away the signs of priests or astrologers.
“… That’s true. It says so in the manual.”
Kim Jae-yoon muttered softly. He hadn’t told Scarlett about the guidebook yet, so only I could hear his voice.
“Now, with this, you won’t be accused of being a witch by other transferees. If anyone suspects, show them this. Then they’ll think you’re a harmless villager. Give me the witch mark.”
“Oh, I see… ”
Scarlett handed me the witch’s mark as if she were handing me a bomb, and held the villager’s mark tightly in both hands.
If anyone spoke to him, he looked like he would be startled and immediately show his sign.
“… Brother, you really have many amazing abilities.”
Kim Jae-yoon also expressed his admiration, saying he had not expected this.
“Still, I’m glad that you seem to have come up with a solution.”
He had already experienced that I had successfully passed the final exam by using some method on the second floor.
So if I say there is a way, you have no choice but to believe that there really is a way.
Because I have watched up close how an ordinary transferee has achieved the impossible many times.
Perhaps it was because she was no longer a witch but a villager. Scarlett nodded, looking noticeably more stable than before.
“Then… what should we do from now on?”
Kim Jae-yoon looked around and asked.
In that regard, in the original, Kim Jae-yoon was given the role of an astrologer on this third floor and succeeded in identifying the witch.
‘Does each person have a fixed role?’
If that’s the case, then Scarlett may have been given the role of a witch in the original work. There’s no way to confirm this, so it’s just an assumption.
Anyway, in the original, Kim Jae-yoon succeeded in finding out the witch’s identity, but it was too late, so almost all the transferees were eliminated, forming a three-way battle with only the suspicious wanderer, the witch, and himself, the astrologer, remaining.
Kim Jae-yoon, who had not learned martial arts from me and had not gained many achievements, could not subdue the witch on his own, so he joined hands with a suspicious wanderer and stole the witch’s mark.
The suspicious wanderer cooperated in eliminating the witch without knowing that the astrologer Kim Jae-yoon had already figured out his true identity, but ended up being cursed by him when he changed his role to that of the witch, and was ultimately eliminated.
It was an episode with considerable tension within the work thanks to the test being passed quite narrowly.
The feat I am aiming for is also related to that work.
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The word ‘feat’ refers to a great achievement worthy of being recorded in the history of the tower.
Of course, only actions that are worthy of their accomplishments are honored with being recorded in the logbook as feats.
What this means is that you can’t achieve great things by doing things that everyone else has probably done at least once.
Of course, it is possible to achieve a feat multiple times, but only if you meet a higher standard than the previous feat achiever.
That’s why I predicted that it would be difficult for anyone to achieve feats on the first and second floors, which were difficult for others to follow.
Now that I’ve set the bar so high for new records, it’s clear that it’s unlikely that any new feats will emerge unless someone surpasses me or some eccentric person takes on the challenge of doing something no one has ever done before.
The third floor was the same.
As it was clearly a low-level place, many transferees had passed through here, and most of the great feats had already been achieved by senior transferees.
This is because the standards have been slightly raised since the beginning.
But if I just move a little more proactively, there’s no way I can’t surpass that standard. If I can add to that the achievements that I wouldn’t be able to achieve otherwise, it’s the icing on the cake.
‘The juniors behind me are none of my business.’
It all started with rescuing some hapless transferees who were in trouble.
The next day, when our group went out to scout, we witnessed a commotion in the village.
“Let go of me! I’m a villager!”
“Damn it…! Why is the security guard in such a small town so strong?”
“If I were a witch, you’d all be dead!”
When they first arrived in the village, three of the transferees who had gathered around the well and were talking about their roles were dragged away by the village guards, screaming at the top of their lungs.
“… What on earth happened in just one day?”
“They must have been going around stirring up NPCs who could be called real villagers, claiming to be hunting down witches.”
Kim Jae-yoon sighed and answered the question with a dumbfounded expression.
Although the tower’s inhabitants are called NPCs, they rarely behave as programmed, like real game NPCs.
One of the mistakes that beginners make is ignoring the NPCs they meet during the test, treating them as mannequins that only look human.
Perhaps they too had the same thoughts and were causing trouble here and there in search of the witch, only to be arrested by the town guards.
‘Even after being caught there, he continued to threaten the villagers without understanding the situation.’
Even if I were a real townsperson, I would catch those guys and lock them up right away.
It’s obvious that they’re at the level of the 3rd floor transferees, but they’re turning the entire village into enemies.
‘But here, we have to save those guys.’
If we leave it like this, there is a danger that she will die not at the hands of the witch, but at the hands of the villagers who are on her side.
I can’t let you dispose of my prey however you want.
“Wait a minute!”
I blocked the path of the guys being dragged away and shouted.
Naturally, the guards drew their weapons at the sight of the robed stranger who suddenly appeared.
“Who are you!”
“I am this kind of person.”
I pretended to take something out of my bosom.
And when the surrounding attention was focused, he threw the flash grenade that was in his inventory and about to explode into the air.
Boom!
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