Finding the Hidden Ending
Thump… Thump…!!!
The vibrations intensify as the giant Cyclops approaches.
The boss with the highest mortality rate on the 17th floor. In other words, the nightmare of the 17th floor.
You might underestimate it, thinking it’s only 20 meters tall, but its size becomes palpable as you get closer.
People have to crane their necks to look up at a 3-meter-tall troll, and they can’t even look at it properly because of the overwhelming feeling. What about a 20-meter size? It’s roughly equivalent to a huge 7-story commercial building.
What about its power? If the height doubles, the mass increases eightfold.
So, what about a 20-meter Cyclops?
Let’s say a human’s height is 2 meters, then the height is 10 times, and the mass is 1000 times.
Of course, the larger the body, the less strength per weight, but living with that kind of physique means that it has overcome it to some extent.
Thump… Thump… Thump, Thump Thump!!
The guy starts sprinting towards me.
‘Look at that… is that even possible?’
The nightmare of the 17th floor.
A 20-meter giant is running. A slight cognitive dissonance occurs.
‘How can such a huge thing run with such movements…’
With every blink, the guy’s size gets closer in real-time. A red air barrier forms around it, and the ground shakes so hard that it’s hard to even stand properly.
Thinking that it will be slow because it is big is a prejudice against large monsters. Their bone and muscle tissue are so strong and tough that they can be considered the pinnacle of bioengineering.
[Kroaaaaaaar!!!!]
The Cyclops screams and runs.
My ears are ringing from the tremendous sound pressure.
‘How did we really catch that in the old days…’
The standard strategy is to dig a giant trap pit, trap it there, and pour out a total attack before it comes up.
Of course, I don’t need that kind of thing now.
I gather strength from my legs.
[Deep-Rooted Giant Tree] A skill that provides powerful strength and defense, but you cannot move for a certain period of time.
With this skill, I stand unshakably on the vibrating earth.
[Sky Breaker] One of the SS-rank Karios Deirn’s javelin techniques, a javelin technique that plants your feet on the ground and aims high.
I raise all buffs to level 6.
And when the guy reaches out to me, divine power spreads throughout my body, and I throw the spear with all my might with my right hand.
Shwoong…!!
The spear flies like light with the sound of tearing the air and pierces the Cyclops’ eye accurately.
[Kroooo…?]
A hole is blown through the middle of the eye, and through it, you can see the blue sky and the spear flying into the sky.
Splatter!! A tremendous amount of blood pours out and falls on the earth, and the huge body falls to the ground.
Thud…
[Cleared the 10th wave. Reward 10,000 points]
“Phew… I used a little strength.”
Now I can feel it for sure.
‘I… I’ve already surpassed the past.’
When I recall the memory of crawling between the legs to catch that guy in my previous life and being surprised to see a dick bigger than my body, I am definitely much stronger on the 17th floor now than I was on the 17th floor in the past.
• What is it, how do you do it?
• ???
• (Roughly swearing not to cheat)
• The eyes are a weakness, but…
• Didn’t you just see some kind of energy rising from your body? Am I the only one who saw it?
“Ahem… I’ll invest in hero upgrades right away and go to the next wave.”
I retrieve the spear and now proceed with 3-4 waves at a time.
All the collected points are invested in hero upgrades, and I proceed while taking appropriate rest and replenishing divine power.
“There will be plenty of time.”
It’s more difficult than I thought, but as expected, it’s manageable to endure the early part and proceed with the waves little by little.
Mid-air monsters and monsters moving underground also appeared, but it was not difficult for me, who already knew how to deal with them.
So, when I was tired, I rested, and when I recovered, I repeated the wave progress, and before I knew it, I had finished 39 waves.
A whopping 16-hour journey.
I fought all the time except for eating.
“Haa… Haa…”
A round moon has already risen in the sky.
‘Damn… this is really hard.’
[Hero’s Strength +151%] [Hero’s Agility +151%] [Hero’s Defense +151%] [Hero’s Divine Power +151%]
Before I knew it, my stats had increased significantly.
The feeling that I am gradually getting closer to the body of my previous life helps me to overcome this difficult ordeal.
[Remaining time: 37 hours 22 minutes]
I check the time and feel a little relieved, and fall asleep on the dirt floor as if collapsing.
The next day was the same.
The only difference was that I didn’t proceed any further on the 48th wave.
I only need to proceed twice, 49 and 50, but I stop here.
“It’s not enough yet. I’ll go to the underground dungeon too.”
• ???
• Can’t you just clear it? You’re almost there
• What’s wrong with him, what is he doing now?
“Um… Did I forget to tell you?”
In fact, I was timing when to say it because I thought the viewers would say something again if I said it first.
“Umm… Do you know about the hidden ending on the 17th floor?”
• What are you talking about? There is only a true ending on the 17th floor
• Huh? I’ve heard of that somewhere?
• ?
• Was there such a thing?
• ???: Do you know the truth?
• What? But I’ve heard of it
• What is it, is it like a ghost story?
That’s right. Only the true ending is known to the public about the 17th floor.
The true ending is to completely conquer the underground dungeon and clear it with all resource bases activated.
But as it came out in the chat window, the hidden ending would have spread by word of mouth like a ghost story.
“No. There is a hidden ending on the 17th floor that you don’t know about.”
And I will put an end to that ghost story today.
Past. About 7 years ago. A time when there were no signs of division between us yet.
The guild leaders of the 7 major guilds, including me, were gathered in the conference room of the Korean Federation.
“This is the last video taken by a party member in our guild.”
The blond guild leader of the Oseong Guild shows a video.
“What, is this the 17th floor?” “Could it be… Has the hidden ending of the 17th floor finally come out?”
Everyone focuses on the video with tension.
In the video, as soon as someone summons a 1st-floor monster goblin on the 17th floor, they forcibly push them and enter the portal from which the monsters are pouring out.
And…
[You have entered Hell]
A very unfriendly message appeared and disappeared in front of him, and the portal also disappeared.
“What, what! No, where does the portal close?”
The man in the video panics and fights the goblins. He succeeded in catching the goblins after a difficult struggle…
In front of him, there was a legion of all monsters from the 1st to the 50th floor waiting.
And behind the monsters, there was a red moon and a huge black tower soaring gauntly in the dark sky.
“N… No way!!”
Eventually, when all the monsters attacked, the video ends with him dying before long.
And everyone who saw the video could have guessed.
That there is a hidden ending here. aW9UM1JTSXVtdU44US82S1RZbnVEWVRYYzVhWEF1VGs0K292Mzc3WGFsNWp3L3VrVkxDcTR1YXFJM2MrdHB5Yg
Everyone wanted to hide this information, but it was reported to the World Awakener Federation by me.
Unfortunately, however, the World Awakener Federation did not adopt this as a hidden ending due to insufficient information. Unfortunately, this is the original procedure.
The video and the organized data were recorded in the hidden ending reasoning section of the 17th floor document, but due to the extreme difficulty, the act of entering the portal in reverse was judged as a kind of bug or a place that should not be entered systemically, and it was removed from the reasoning section.
After that, rumors spread and some people challenged it, but no one could clear it.
“Well, some people actually know the contents. But no one has ever survived after entering the portal.”
The chat window becomes slightly noisy.
But I have decided to do this from the beginning.
• Why are you doing that? Is it because of the mission? You don’t have to do that, Dohee…
• I’ll cancel it, you bitch, don’t go
• I’m uneasy
• Don’t you trust Lee Dohee?
• Ahem… Still, that looks really dangerous
• Tell me why you’re going, it’s not really because of the mission, is it?
“No. If it’s because of the mission, it’s more profitable to quickly clear the 50th wave and move on to the next floor. But…”
The reason why I tried to see the hidden ending.
My fault.
The guilt for the promising players who died countless times because of my paltry sense of justice.
‘If I hadn’t reported it, so many people wouldn’t have died trying to challenge it… It’s not my fault, but I’m not without responsibility.’
“I want to let you know. There are probably guilds or promising players who are secretly trying to clear the hidden ending on the 17th floor. It’s understandable. Because you get not only rewards for going up, but also fame.”
“Looking at the fact that there are still none, I guess they’re all dying. Of course, people with good characteristics and strong compared to the number of floors would have challenged it, but isn’t it too bad?”
• That’s true
• It’s true that being well-grown is a poison
• Dohee, you too…
“That’s right. I could do that too. But I don’t think I will. I’m going to show you. I’ll show you how hard the 17th floor hidden ending is, and what you need to do, what level of skill you need to clear it.”
I’ll show you.
I’ll show you how difficult it is.
And the unprecedented difficulty of the hidden ending that I announced. I will clear it and wash away my past mistakes myself.
Hidden endings or true endings are not something you challenge even if you know about them.
But if you’re challenging it, you’re probably stronger than most people on that floor, and it’s a shame when those people die.
“In that sense, I’m going to the underground dungeon to farm some points!”
The underground dungeon consists of a total of 10 stages, with no gimmicks, just pure combat.
I cleared all of this in a total of 6 hours.
Except for the last boss, a high-ranking demon, I swept through almost everything at once.
When I came outside, it was night again.
“Haa… I’ll rest a little this time before going in.”
[Time Remaining: 19 hours: 32 minutes]
In the meantime, I take another shower with bottled water and eat.
I replenish my lacking divine power by drinking breast milk and take a short nap for about 3 hours.
*
Dawn breaks.
Watching the rising sun, I run through the wasteland.
The end of the map.
I arrived at the place where the portal is created.
As if to prevent me from going outside at all, everything was covered in black liquid.
“So, shall we start…?- Dㄷ (shivering)
• This is a bit nerve-wracking, isn’t it?
• Please
• What if it’s really a map made to stop us from leaving…?
• Good luck
It’s a slightly tense moment for me too.
With a slender hand, I open the system window and summon the 49th wave.
Whoooosh~!
An oval portal about 5m high opens in front of my eyes, and monsters begin to pour out of it.
The 49th wave is the Undead Army.
An army of liches, skeleton knights, dullahan, abominations, and the like emerges from the portal and tries to advance.
But,
Whoosh!!
As I swing my spear, the Undead Army collapses as if they were ordinary skeletons. Ignoring the ones that are resurrected, I break through with my spear leading the way.
[Welcome to Hell]
Well, considering it tells me something, isn’t it kind of friendly?
As the system message disappears, the portal behind me disappears, and the undead who haven’t escaped yet launch a total offensive.
“Hehehe… You think you can do anything?”
I stack all buffs to 10 stacks.
And if I add the hero buff here…
[Hero’s Strength +355%] [Hero’s Agility +355%] [Hero’s Defense +355%] [Hero’s Divine Power +355%]
Strength: 1365 Agility: 1760 Defense: 873 Divine Power: 11106
• ????
• Are those human stats?
• Wait, WTFㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
• What is it?
• Wow;;
• Wait, wait a minute!!!
• This isn’t right, you son of a bitch
I can feel my strength returning almost to the level of my past life, though not quite.
“Hehehehehe… Die, all of you!!!!”
[Bandi’s Blade]
Divine power takes the form of a crescent blade and flies away.
The bodies of all the undead in the straight line are separated into upper and lower halves.
The damage of such skills is usually modified by the skill level, the divine power consumed, and the maximum divine power and agility of my stats.
Agility, as the word suggests, acts as reflexes, but it is now generally accepted that it is a control force like fine muscles that help control everything, whether it’s strength or magic.
All monsters are swept away by the overwhelming power. Those hit by divine power cannot even be resurrected and return to a handful of dirt.
The final boss of the 50th floor, the Black Dragon, hears the commotion and emits Dragon Fear.
GRAAAAAAA-KRAAAAAAAA!!!!
It feels like a wave, not a sound, hitting my whole body.
Its body is 50m long and it uses various magics, making it one of the two most deadly bosses, along with the boss of the 10th floor, but…
[Meteor Spear Fall]
I jump high into the air and throw my spear.
Unable to withstand the output of such a large skill, the capillaries in my body burst and blood flows from my body.
“Haaaaaaap!!!!”
Unlike the spear throw on the 4th floor, which only imitated the posture, this spear throw leaves a red tail like a meteor as it flies.
As if a giant meteor were falling from the sky, it boasts a red light and falls directly on the dragon.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
It causes a tremendous explosion and creates a huge crater in the ground.
The name given because it looks like an asteroid is falling, Meteor Spear Fall.
The final boss, the 50th floor boss, dies instantly without being able to do anything.
But the message that I cleared it didn’t appear.
“I guess there’s something over there after all.”
A black tower standing tall under the red moon.
It was adorned with sharp thorns, befitting the name Demon King’s Castle.
