Chapter 28 – Central Island (1)
Hansoo looked at the Central Island that he could see afar from the boat.
“You’re always out of the expectation. Heehee. Don’t worry. We don’t spread things like this around”
‘No regrets’
But he had no thoughts of hesitating if it was necessary and didn’t interfere with his plans.
The fairy might have gotten awkward as Hansoo stared at it expressionlessly as it shrugged it’s shoulders and started to explain.
“Welcome to the Central Island. You are the last person. We will start now”
“This is…”
A giant castle.
And soon the fairy which had appeared above their heads started to explain the situation.
Everyone made a bitter expression at those words
The underground dungeon of the central island was filled with beasts with good rewards and that they could get strong and armed quickly.
The castle they were standing on was one thing, but what was the demon castle.
The fairy laughed as it continued to speak.
At those words everybody above the castle looked at something on the edge of the island.
“That is the Demon Lord’s Castle which is your final destination. Well you would all die if a real Demon lord were to come out so we specially prepared a weaker version of the demon lord for you instead.
‘A Demon Lord…’
He thought of the thing that would be causing a massacre against the other races on the 7th level of the Abyss.
The people here, including Hansoo, were not of the level to kill it even if it was a weaker version.
The fairy rested for a moment and then continued to explain.
Everyone made a bitter face at these words.
When would they have the time to break through them.
It was obvious that defense was easier than offense.
“And finally, I should explain the underground dungeon. You can see multiple entrances on the insides of the castle right?”
There were multitudes of suspicious looking dungeon entrances located in numerous places.
“These are the same as the underground dungeons that you know of. If you hunt in there then the runes will drop like flies and artifacts will drop as well as you knew”
And then everybody’s expression changed.
They had become stronger physically but they only at a knife at most as a weapon.
The fairy persuades them to go into the dungeons asap in order to become stronger.
Hansoo sighed.
“Now. You will need a tutorial right? Since it’s only the first day there’ll only be about three attacks. There also won’t be any demons. Start!”
And soon a large amount of skeletons started rising up at a scary rate outside the castle with clacking sounds.
A person mumbled atop the castle walls.
No, they were actually armed better than themselves who only had a sword at most.
And soon the undead who had formed a battle line started to charge towards the castle door and the castle walls.
And soon the adventures and the undead started to clash with a fearsome energy.
“…We need to make roles.”
There were a few Lords between adventurers.
There were 12 clans and Lords gathered in the Central Island.
Since the other adventures didn’t even have anything driving them.
‘Damn…It’s really gruesome’
The attack continued for an hour, then they were given a three hour break only to continue fighting for another hour.
This had repeated three times.
1500 fought during the second time above the castle walls.
And thanks to that the castle was almost invaded by a mere tutorial attack.
It wasn’t that they had died or got injured.
The 30 people who had discreetly went below came back completely different after fighting two to three hours.
The fairy did not lie to them.
The problem was after that.
The undead who were charging at them didn’t drop any runes nor artifacts.
That they couldn’t get strong defending the castle walls.
They couldn’t even control them.
Since the entrance to the underground dungeon was everywhere, they just simply escaped during the chaos of the battle.
But it was fine to this point.
The problem was the third wave.
They had fought relatively safely and collected a large amount of runes and artifacts. And the might of these artifacts were indeed very strong.
They were a level above the others in terms of skill.
And the 400 people who had entered whilst ignoring the second wave had also come out stronger.
They couldn’t become strong if they didn’t enter the dungeon.
The first day. Despite it being the tutorial.
‘Damn..Now it’s hard to control them’
The people who had entered first got well along with each other so they got together to create a laughable group called
And people who had escaped the defense line had been gathering under that group.
They would be treated as traitors around the defenders but there was nothing to be embarrassed about when they grouped with others who had done the same thing.
And the root of the problem was that the twelve Lords thought they had to defend the castle and had not entered the dungeon.
They had focused on defending because they didn’t think that the gap would be closed in a day like this but the effect of hunting in the underground dungeon was beyond their imagination.
‘Motherfuckers’
The justification was good.
They couldn’t just defend in order to defend this castle.
If they improve too much than they would invaded due to the weak defense and if they defend too much than they would get overwhelmed by the forces getting stronger and stronger.
The people were now setting camps in front of the dungeons and were going back and forth.
If their strength increased than they could see what would happen very clearly,
While the Lords were racking their brains like this a commotion was going on below.
‘What?’ “Bitch. Who are you to be ordering us? We are going to defend the line above tomorrow?”
A change starting from tomorrow.
Hansoo nodded at those words.
“…You damnable fellow” He was one of the 30 people who had first entered the dungeon.
And then Koonjin, who had been standing in the back, spoke as he walked out.
Hansoo smirked at those words.
‘That’s why it’s difficult’
“Dismissed. Starting tomorrow, everyone will go up to fight”
‘This guy had some guts…’ The reason why Gukjin had stopped the fight was because he felt that Hansoo was still very useful.
They couldn’t have become that strong by themselves.
“You were definitely stronger before but… if you come out like this then things might become difficult”
They all had one or two colorless runes originally.
And a few people succeeded in making colorless runes for strength, stamina, agility and perception.
Their colorless perception runes told them clearly. Hansoo chuckled as he touched his ear.
Stamina: 88.8
Perception: 85.1
Magic: 84.5
Magic Resistance: 85.3 ‘Of course I can’t win like this’
And there were even differences in numbers too.
He didn’t like to interfere but they had to at least work their worth.
“You won’t listen if I just talk right?”
Hansoo smirked as he put a cloud snack in his mouth. They needed to work non stop for the whole month.
The difficulty of the Demon Lord’s Castle was that high and because of this it was necessary to clear it.
This was something that even Kwang Goonju couldn’t clear, he just went up after defending fervently.
‘Eres. Well I won’t be able to clear like you but…’
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And this justification had been excusing away the guilt that the Semi-Basement Union and the others had been feeling.
They had poked their heads outside the windows with confused looks.
Seunghoon grinded his teeth.
That that guy only had strength colorless runes.
‘There’s a lot to do in order to destroy the Demon Lord’s Castle in one month, I need to do things properly in the beginning’