Chapter 173
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 173: How to Deal with Betrayal (9)
"Why are you here…."
"I told you. I'm going to make a choice I won't regret this time."
I was shocked at Choi Garam's words.
She decided to cooperate with the Tower God Cult for me?
Choi Garam herself?
"...This is a bit surprising."
"Is it? I thought you'd be happy."
She grinned.
"I may not look like it, but I'm high-class manpower."
"That's true."
I couldn't deny it.
A researcher and a Hunter, and moreover, an outstanding person who excels in both fields.
That was Choi Garam.
She would be helpful no matter what.
I didn't know she would go this far for me though….
"Surprised?"
"Yeah. When did you pull this trick, my brother?"
"Hmm, since quite a while ago?"
Anyway.
I let out a small sigh.
Choi Garam strode up to our side.
"More importantly, Kang Nahyun, you... I heard you made a deal with the Black Scales?"
"...You know what the Black Scales are?"
"That fox guy told me everything. You really did something dangerous."
Choi Garam, frowning as she spat out those words, soon laughed self-deprecatingly.
"...Well, I guess I have a small share in the reason it had to come to that."
"……"
I couldn't say anything, so I hesitated and changed the subject.
"Anyway, since I made the deal, the orphanage family will be safe. Since it's clear I'm in a situation where I can't take care of the orphanage, the Black Scales will take care of them instead according to the contract."
"What did you agree to give as the price?"
"I didn't decide. Just whatever is needed at the time..."
<Hmm, I was just about to talk about that, so this works out well.>
<It seems the situation is just right.>
Just then, a cryptic voice echoed in the space where we were.
"Who's there!"
Choi Garam loaded her gun and watched the surroundings warily.
"No, it's okay. This is..."
The Fox stopped Choi Garam.
I silently looked toward one side of the alley where the darkness was strangely thick.
The darkness in the alley gradually thickened.
That which had been scattered in the air like dim fog soon gathered together and clumped, taking the form of a person.
That thing, which became a black figure, slowly approached us.
"…."
Choi Garam did not lower her guard, but the Fox and I did.
Because we could guess what that was.
At last, the darkness wrapping the black figure that approached us was peeled off smoothly like a stage curtain rising.
"Hello?"
The thing inside the black figure was wearing a veil.
I knew that existence who watched everything as if observing from the sidelines, wearing a veil.
"Black Scales."
"Yes. It's been a while."
"What brings you here in person?"
Huhu, she let out a low laugh and said.
"It's nothing much. I came to collect the price."
"Price?"
"Yes."
Suddenly, her gaze turned to the Fox.
I glared at her, extremely tense, fearing she might say to harm the Fox.
But what came out of the Black Scales' mouth was different from what I expected.
"'The Dungeon on the Right Side of the Scales'. Take me to the Scales of Truth that is there."
"The Dungeon on the Right Side of the Scales...?"
"Yes. If it's Mihail there, he should know."
At those words, the Fox frowned.
"...That is a sealed dungeon. Why that place?"
"Do you need to know? You just have to pay the price."
At the Black Scales' words, the Fox shut his mouth.
And not long after, he let out a deep sigh.
"Is that enough for the price?"
"Yes."
"Then it's fine. Noona, let's go together. I'll open the dungeon."
"...You don't have to go that far for me."
"I do. Because Noona is my precious person."
The Fox spoke indifferently and turned his back.
"It's difficult to start the capture right away, so we'll prepare for a few days first. Please wait."
"Understood."
The Black Scales nodded readily, as if she didn't care much about the Fox's prickly words.
"Then you can come when you're ready."
"Yes, so please disappear for today."
"Hm, fine."
Soon, the Black Scales' figure disappeared, scattering like black fog.
The Fox, who watched that with a not-so-good complexion, looked at us and said.
"Let's go back to the hideout for now. I'll tell you the details then."
"Ah, yeah."
I was curious what that Dungeon on the Right Side of the Scales was for the Fox to make such a serious face, but I kept my mouth shut.
The Fox, who silently led us to his room, cast various security spells on the entire room.
"So, what is it?"
Choi Garam asked, swinging her arms.
I wondered why she was so quiet on the way here, she must have been itching to ask.
"To explain that, I have to explain The Dungeon on the Left Side of the Scales first."
The Fox, answering expressionlessly, asked me again.
"Noona. You've been to the dungeon that shows memories and uses them as a trial, right? Tornito said he went with Noona before."
At those words, I recalled a certain dungeon.
The memory dungeon.
That place is 'The Dungeon on the Left Side of the Scales'?
Is it a paired dungeon?
I had many questions, but I listened to the Fox silently.
"There must have been a gold coin that appeared when you cleared that dungeon."
I recalled Na Yuhan taking the gold coins from there.
"There were. According to the number of people..."
"That's the Gold Coin of Truth. Using that, we made the letter that makes you dream of the previous turn."
"Gold Coin of Truth...!"
What kind of ability does that have?
Perhaps noticing my puzzled look, the Fox continued.
"The Gold Coin of Truth is an item that can determine the truth by paying it as a price to the Scales in The Dungeon on the Right Side of the Scales. I analyzed and revealed that principle and used it."
"Determine the truth?"
"Simply put, you can think of it as an absolute lie detector. No fact can be hidden under the Scales in the Right Side Dungeon."
A lie detector, huh.
Choi Garam made a groaning sound at the Fox's words as if thinking of something, then made an 'Ah' sound as if she remembered something.
"Right, the Dungeon of Truth! Right?!"
"It's called that too. Anyway, the Balder Family owned the Gate leading to that dungeon."
"Dungeon of Truth?"
I definitely have memories of reading about it while studying theory at the Academy.
"That dungeon that caused internal strife in the Savior-capturing team?"
"Right. Yggdrasil would know the details."
The Fox answered nonchalantly and continued.
"That's not what's important."
"What is?"
"The Balder Family tried all sorts of challenges to use that dungeon but failed. Do you know the reason?"
"No..."
How would I know.
When I shook my head, the Fox smiled bitterly.
"It's because of the 'Floor Boss' occupying that dungeon."
"Floor Boss?!"
I recalled the magnificent spider-shaped Floor Boss from the field training.
That Dungeon on the Right Side of the Scales is probably a Fixed-type Gate, but I heard there were no cases of a Floor Boss appearing in either Fixed-type or Projection-type.
"...There's a Floor Boss?"
Choi Garam made a 'Ha' sound and shook her head.
"Yes. And not only that. That Floor Boss is... the Mithril Turtle, famous for barely being defeated with the dedicated weapon, the Magic Gun Mystletainn."
"If it's the Mithril Turtle..."
I've heard of it.
Because it had hardness and durability beyond common sense, it was the Floor Boss the Savior-capturing team struggled with the most during the Tower capture.
A boss so sturdy they had to develop a dedicated weapon to deal with it.
"...Can't we avoid it?"
"No. It's sitting right in front of the Scales."
At the Fox's firm words, Choi Garam's expression darkened.
It was the same for me.
Catching a Mithril Turtle is no joke.
How hard is it? It's so hard that a weapon producing enough firepower to catch it would surely break after one use due to its own recoil.
"We need firepower to pierce at least that hard shell. If it's not firepower on the level of the Magic Gun Mystletainn... Damn it, if only we could pierce that shell just once, we could defeat it...!"
But, well...
[Magic Gun Mystletainn - 100,000 Points]
It didn't seem like there was absolutely no way.
I calmly called the Fox.
"Mihail."
"Hm?"
"It'll be fine if we have that firepower, right?"
"Yeah. But the problem is we don't."
At those words, I grinned.
"I can make that firepower."
"What?"
"So,"
We will find the answer.
As always!
"Bring all the precious items, weapons, everything."
Luxury with other people's money part 2, starting now.
I looked at one of the systems I possess, 'Point Changer', and smiled wickedly.