Chapter 110

Translator: Penny

Chapter 110

[Dungeon: Chapter of the Black Lion]

I helped Sarah Lefebvre and returned to my Dungeon.

I could see the chat window of the 28th Floor Stage coming up.

[Ram: Good work]#Clear

[Lee Sehun: Ah, you cleared it faster than I thought, how boring.]#Clear

[Magical Girl Yuriko: Hmm, the time of farewell has come…!]#Clear

[Magical Girl Yuriko: Yuriko will still use this nickname even if she can enter the Climber Gallery on the 30th Floor, so please say hi if you see me!]#Clear

[Lee Sehun: I'll have to change it by then. Her real name seems to be Eva.]#Clear

Now I should move on.

But should I write a word or two?

[Blood Demon Emperor King: Survive well.]#Clear

I pressed the option to move to the 29th Floor Stairway waiting room.

Light covered my vision.

***

I was summoned to the 29th Floor Stairway waiting room.

I let out a faint sigh at the familiar scenery.

The waiting room had gradually increased in size little by little, but it still hadn't completely surpassed the size of a university auditorium.

Notification windows began to obscure my vision.

[You have cleared the 28th Floor Stage.]

['Player - Han Yoo-seong' is tallying the score for the 28th Floor Stage.]

[Dungeon - 'Chapter of the Black Lion' has been completed with a 'Clear Ranking' of 1st place.]

[You have assisted in clearing the Dungeon - 'Ghoul's Resting Cave'. Assistance points will be awarded.]

[You have assisted in clearing the Dungeon - 'Nest of Ill Omens'. Assistance points will be awarded.]

The existing 28th Floor ranking score window appeared.

This 28th Floor Stairway Stage was a 'Exchange Stairway', and the scoring method was different from the general Stairway Stage, so the overall score was lower than the previous Stairway.

My score was also low.

1st place - Union Leader: 821 points

2nd place - Black Star: 788 points

3rd place - Chasing: 767 points

4th place - LifeIsPainByDefault: 743 points

5th place - LifeIsPainByDefault: 721 points

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[Score tallying is complete.]

[Han Yoo-seong: 1,617 points]

Even though it's low, it's about twice as much as the existing 1st place.

Of course, I didn't register the score in the ranking window.

It's soon.

The 30th Floor was right in front of me.

However, there were many changes, such as 'Guilds' and 'Climber Gallery', to simply dismiss it as a process of climbing the Floor.

I hoped to see natural scenery from the 30th Floor Stairway waiting room.

I didn't feel the need to drag out the time unnecessarily.

After preparing perfectly, I opened the door to the 29th Floor Stage.

The light that had been obscuring my vision faded, and what appeared before my eyes was the sky.

A sky without a single cloud.

In other words.

I was floating in the sky with nothing to hold onto.

A strong wind kept brushing past my face.

I landed on the ground with Bodyguard Qi around my body.

I looked around.

It was a forest that looked like a kind of Dungeon.

The wind blew.

Swoosh!

What emerged through the forest was something that resembled a human.

Correction.

The only similar parts were that it walked on two legs and held a weapon in both arms.

Demon?

It seemed likely.

When I occasionally did Gallery Browsing while training in the Time-Delayed Prison, it looked the same as the high-Rank Demons that Senior Secret Room Theorist had told me ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠about.

That 'would it even' actually happened.

Well, it was a common occurrence now.

This level of deviation from the expected trajectory.

The spear held by the Demon aimed for my head and drew a trajectory.

In a split second, I raised my sword and twisted the trajectory.

The movements of the high-Rank Demon were very sharp, as Senior Secret Room Theorist had said.

Koo-oong!

Red Demonic Energy collided with white light, creating fragments of Magic Power.

The Demon's attack certainly didn't have the unique feeling of Martial arts.

But it was still threatening enough.

Even if it was a simple style without technique, the power contained ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠within it was so strong that it was not easy to respond to.

I raised my Inner Force.

I spread a circular Qi Wave widely.

It was a technique to shake off the Demon, but instead of being frightened and moving away, the Demon stretched out red Magic Power similar to the Qi Wave I had unleashed.

Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwangg!

A series of explosions occurred.

I pierced through the explosion and the smoke that arose from it and stretched out my arm.

Pielburt Style 6, [Broken Moon].

I unleashed a circular, wide-ranging Sword Strike.

I drew the moon first with the Sword Path.

Kwaaaaaang!

The Demon's movements came to a standstill due to the pressure of the Sword Qi I had stretched out.

I performed a vertical, powerful attack that broke the drawn moon.

Swish!

The sensation of cutting through bone and flesh with the sword flowed through my hand.

Immediately after killing one Demon.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

What appeared through the bushes were two Demons rushing in simultaneously from the left and right.

I had anticipated these two's rushes.

It was thanks to spreading my Energy Sense widely throughout the forest in advance before killing the Demon just now.

Kwaaang!

I succeeded in responding to the Sword Paths that came in at the same time with a horizontal slash.

But the two Demons didn't seem to be frightened by having their waists half cut off.

They continued to approach while shedding red blood, which didn't seem to be any different from human blood.

The smell of blood vibrated at the tip of my nose.

I raised my senses to the extreme.

I don't know how many more I have to kill.

Anyway, it's never easy to get through.

Red circular formations were drawn on the ground where the two rushing Demons were.

Kugugugugugu!

Immediately after that, the two Demons' Magic Power increased dramatically.

Senior Secret Room Theorist's comment immediately flashed through my mind.

These were also conversations I had when I was training in the Time-Delayed Prison.

Fortunately, the Demons I was facing now didn't seem to have their own philosophy in their Domain.

The action I had to take was decided.

Magic Power quickly drained away.

Domain activation.

Sword Realm.

I made the spot where I was standing my Domain.

All worries evaporated just by that.

Kwa-gwagwang!

I quickly parried the spear and axe that had rushed in, creating fierce gusts of wind on both sides.

Senior Sword of Light had given me such advice when I was intensely reviewing the battle with Pyo Wiheon, Head of the Sword Pavilion.

I thought that the comments were useless advice when I saw them at the time, but even if I applied them to the current situation, they were not useless advice.

Momentum is definitely important.

On this land called Sword Realm, I continued to move with the conviction that I would never be defeated.

Swish! Chwaak!

The heads of the two Demons rolled around in the forest. But the enemies approached further.

I had no idea when the battle would end.

It was even more difficult to predict because it was a vast forest, not a limited Dungeon.

I pulled out the sword that I had stabbed into the heart of the fifth Demon.

Red blood splattered messily on my upper body.

There are no tricks.

I have no choice but to kill them all every time they appear.

***

Had half a day passed since entering the 29th Floor?

The night had deepened.

Han Yoo-seong poured all his nerves into guarding all directions.

Thump, thump…

It had been a long time since the lightness had disappeared from his footsteps.

It was fortunate that he had learned how to survive in the darkness in the Time-Delayed Prison.

He had killed only three Demons in the darkness.

Han Yoo-seong had to risk his life every time he killed them.

He kept wearing the [Dragonbone of Recovery].

He had already used a third of the 100 uses.

The difficulty of Pandemonium would continue to be like this, so it wouldn't be strange if the number of uses ran out when he climbed a few more Floors.

Chuck.

Han Yoo-seong stopped walking.

It was because a sense of pressure had struck him.

Something tore through the atmosphere and fell on Han Yoo-seong.

“…….”

It's different.

From the Demons he had fought before.

[BOSS MONSTER]

He could see the name window floating above its head.

It was the end of the 29th Floor Stage.

[Demon Realm 3rd Legion Commander, Rank 6 Morpheus]

Morpheus's pressure was intense, but not as much as Geom Gak-ju Pyo Wiheon's.

So he didn't feel any despair.

Koo-oong

Morpheus slammed the ground hard with his right foot.

Morpheus's Domain.

Canon of Disillusionment.

What obscured Han Yoo-seong's vision was a red mist.

And countless hands.

Han Yoo-seong calculated the distance.

The moment he saw the title of Legion Commander, he expected that there would be a unique feature in the Domain.

Hands holding countless weapons rushed in from all angles.

He slammed the ground and deployed the Domain, Sword Realm.

Sword Qi spread out like wings to the left and right.

He cut off the red arms and rapidly narrowed the distance.

The seniors' words were mostly correct.

Han Yoo-seong cut off the arms that seemed to be hallucinations but were not, and.

He shot out in a straight line, throwing his body back.

Flash Piercing Field.

He completely narrowed the distance with a straight thrust, one of the Mo Yongse-ga family's signature techniques.

He couldn't avoid all the red hands.

He suppressed the pain rising from the numerous wounds that had penetrated the gray armor with his mental strength.

He slashed the sword diagonally.

Morpheus raised the greatsword he held in both hands from below.

Red Sword Qi was wrapped around the greatsword.

Crimson flames and white light collided.

Soon, the white light crushed the flames.

A diagonal line was drawn from Morpheus's right shoulder to his waist.

Morpheus's eye light went out.

[You have cleared the 29th Floor Stage.]

It meant the end of the 29th Floor.

It was a signal flare announcing the entrance to the 30th Floor.