Chapter 34
Chapter 34
[Level Up!]
[Lv.24 → LV.26]
This time too, defeating the boss monster resulted in a two-level increase.
I looked at the spear that covered my vision.
[You have cleared the 4th floor stage.]
['Player - Han Yoo-seong' is tallying the score for the 4th floor stage.]
There were no other additional notifications this time.
Once again, the 4th floor scoreboard appeared.
1st Place - Union Leader: 804 points
2nd Place - Black Star: 719 points
3rd Place - Black Hand: 579 points
4th Place - Chasing: 443 points
5th Place - Sinclair: 411 points
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Among the usual list, there was one name I hadn't seen before.
Black Star.
Even if I asked the seniors in the Transcendent Gallery about the climbers' narratives, I didn't think it would evoke much emotion.
I had no particular interest in the current situation.
I felt it was necessary to know what the high-floor players in the Climber Gallery thought about me.
[Score tallying is complete.]
[Han Yoo-seong: 1,782 points]
Four digits again.
I was in first place again.
[You will be automatically moved to the '5th Floor Stairway Waiting Room' in 3 minutes.]
As soon as I picked up the trident, the notification that greeted me was for the exclusive weapon of the 'Son of Lightning' I had just killed.
As expected, it was useless.
The only useful thing was a single blue orb.
It was a potion that fell to the ground as I shattered the Son of Lightning's Magic Core.
[Mana Orb]
Category - Potion
Effect: Upon consumption, Magic Power stat increases slightly. The increase is permanent.
Usable Level: Level 20 or higher
Grade: B
I placed the Mana Orb into my Inventory.
I felt a sensation of my body floating.
The scenery before my eyes changed.
[Welcome to the 5th floor.]
[You have been awarded 1000 coins as a reward for clearing the 4th floor.]
[Your 4th floor ranking score is registered.]
《 4th Floor - Score Ranking 》
1st Place - Unspecified: 1,782 points NEW!
2nd Place - Union Leader: 804 points
3rd Place - Black Star: 719 points
4th Place - Black Hand: 579 points
5th Place - Chasing: 443 points
6th Place - Sinclair: 411 points
7th Place - Argul: 384 points
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[The 4th floor stage reward has been given. Please check your 'Inventory'.]
[The reward for achieving 1st place in the 4th floor stage score is given. Please check your 'Inventory'.]
I checked the 4th floor stage reward first.
It was a mask. A mask made of crimson and black.
Clink-
[Mask of the Crimson Night]
Category - Mask
Effect: 1 - Opponents who face the user wearing this mask cannot see the user's 'eyes'. Therefore, they are immune to many skills that activate by making eye contact.
2 - You can secure vision in darkness.
Grade: B+
The effects were quite useful.
Furthermore, the advantage provided by the mask itself seemed significant.
Using it during an Exchange Meeting would help hide my face or deal with variables, and even without going to an Exchange Meeting, it seemed like it would be useful for mission-type events in stages.
Next, I checked the item received as the 1st place reward for the 4th floor stage score.
[Master Blacksmith Summoning Ticket]
Category - Summoning Ticket
Effect: 1 - You can randomly encounter one Master Blacksmith.
2 - You can commission and obtain a single item from the blacksmith.
3 - The cost must be negotiated directly with the summoned blacksmith.
How to use: Tear the summoning ticket to initiate the summoning.
Master Blacksmith Summoning Ticket.
I don't know what "encounter" means.
Title: Guys, I got a Master Blacksmith Summoning Ticket as the 1st place reward.
Author: ㅇㅇ*
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What does "randomly encounter" mean? And it says the cost must be negotiated directly with the summoned person.
Ah, I got 1st place on the 4th floor too.
- Saw the 1st place. Dopamine rush!
- LOLㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
- So, how many Golems did you kill in total?
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Yes, I killed over thirty.
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ So that's why your score is so high, killing thirty Golems, which others rarely encounter on the 4th floor.
- Now I'm starting to admit that you getting 1st place three times in a row wasn't a coincidence.
- Sword of Light) Well done.
- Also, your score is almost double that of the previous 1st place, Union Leader, so people are wondering what's coming up.
- Water King) Kyaaa- Keep climbing!! The Giraffe of the Transcendent Gallery!!!
What's the point of that?
The 5th floor stage itself is daunting enough.
The comments below were all about the Master Blacksmith Summoning Ticket.
- Jjuhdak) Exactly as it says. A Master Blacksmith will be randomly summoned to your location.
- Absolute Monarch) Rather than entering your space entirely, it feels more like seeing them from beyond.
- Sword of Light) Try using it. You might get a surprisingly useful weapon.
- Archmage) As long as you don't get a blacksmith with a terrible temper, they'll handle it without issue.
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Is there a lot of people with terrible tempers?
- Shrine Maiden) Hawaawa, there are quite a few, you know. Especially Elves, you know.
- Ice Queen) Brrr! Elves, or rather, Elves!
- Elf) ? Why are you picking a fight?
- Water King) Catfolk blacksmiths are generally quite pleasant with a high probability!!!
- That's true.
I guess I'll just have to hope I don't summon an Elf.
- Jjuhdak) That's right. Check your mailbox.
Mailbox?
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Oh, was there something like that?
- Spear King) It only exists from the 5th floor onwards.
- Sword of Light) Someone might have left something behind.
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What if there isn't?
- Archmage) If there isn't, there isn't. Even if someone left something in the past, if that player died or completed the Tower and graduated, the system makes it disappear.
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There's no way anyone has graduated from the Pandemonium Tower lololol
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Seriously, there isn't even anyone who's cleared 30 floors.
Are these guys messing with me?
Anyway, a mailbox.
Should I look for it?
Swish-
I didn't even need to make up my mind.
In the center of the place that still resembled a high school auditorium, there was a red mailbox.
Its appearance made it quite welcome.
Thump
I walked over and reached my right hand into the mailbox.
Whoosh-
I waved my right hand, but my fingertips touched nothing.
It was a bust.
"……."
My thoughts raced.
Humans are lonely creatures.
And even if a player transcends the category of human and becomes an inhuman being, it would likely be the same.
Since I had reached the 5th floor, if there was a way to leave a letter, someone would have left one.
And even if they passed the 5th floor without stopping due to a mistake or other reasons, they could still send a letter to the 5th floor from a higher floor.
The probability that I am the only one currently in Pandemonium has increased.
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Hmm*) As expected, there's nothing.
- Hmm.
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Seriously, seems like no one's here?
- Jjuhdak) This was already anticipated.
- Sage) Pilgrim of Pandemonium, steel your heart. Reaching the 5th floor of Pandemonium is already proof of your talent. I believe it's not impossible to leave alive.
Sage.
He suddenly appeared and spoke a long, good speech.
- Sword of Light) You've returned after finishing your mission.
- Sage) Indeed. I have just eliminated all the Mad Dragons.
- Dragon King) Beltui- The Sage might eliminate me too. I'm scared.
- Sage) I know better than anyone that the Dragon Sovereign has no reason to suffer from madness.
- Dragon King) Hehe, it's been a while since I heard that.
- Sword of Light) Eliminating them doesn't seem like a bad judgment call.
- Dragon King) Beltui – Sword of Light, don't say that! ((๑>◡<๑))
- Sword of Light) Die.
- Dragon King) Beltui - Hiiiiiik.
- Now, the Hard difficulty closers who were lying low are almost all back.
- Archmage) Sage, I will teach you Climber Magic someday, so give up on being a magic tutor.
- Sage) Seeing that the supreme Caelum has taken an interest, you seem to be a pilgrim with a true heart.
- Sage) I am not intelligent enough to teach magic to someone who has not awakened their Magic Circuit.
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What is Caelum?
- Caelum. Celestial. A mage who has entered the realm of the heavens. It means the most outstanding mage on the entire continent.
- It's an honor given to only one person by the Continental Magic Alliance, Creatio.
- That's why no one objects when the Archmage sometimes says strange things. Even someone like that wasn't summoned to Pandemonium, how unlucky is the summoned climber? D D
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What level of talent do the people summoned to Pandemonium possess? D D D D
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These guys are really poking fun at the Archmage. D-D-D-D
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Archmage) Tsk, wait. Climber. I am currently researching magic that can be used even by Aura Circuit users.
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ㅇㅇ*) Thx thx
There was no reason to refuse if he offered to let me use magic.
Though I didn't know if it was possible.
I closed the gallery.
I had no intention of going up to the 5th floor immediately.
I planned to spend about three days practicing the Flowing Scale Air Breaking Art that Heavenly Demon Senior gave me.
First, I decided to use the Master Blacksmith Summoning Ticket.
Riiip!
The moment I tore the summoning ticket, a strange rift appeared in space.
< Climber Gallery >
Title: Unspecified, this bastard is 1st place again ㅇㅇ
Author: Alderamin
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Crushed Union Leader of the Strategy Alliance by more than double again to take 1st place! Kyaaa, when is this bastard coming up to floor 30? So excited.
- Union Leader <<<<< If this bastard is washed up now, press like~~~
- Dual Swords are Romantic) You crazy bastards are making a fuss over getting 1st place on floor 4. Are you mocking a Hard difficulty legend? If I meet Easy or Normal players at the Exchange Meeting, I'll slice them all.
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Look how transparently you're getting triggered.
- Think about it the other way around. If they're hitting 1,782 points on just floor 4, how much more monstrous will they be on higher floors??
- Hey, your Hard difficulty friends are already being completely ignored. Didn't you see the post that just came up?
- Dual Swords are Romantic) ??
- I Am Still Alive) The top player on Normal difficulty, meaning the one on floor 89, has challenged <Vertex>, led by their leader, against <Strategy Alliance> in a 'Guild War'. Just now.
- Dual Swords are Romantic) ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ…ㅋㅋ Wow, these trash. They don't know their place. Do they think they can win just because the floor is higher?
- Sharp Spear) It's because Unspecified has been crushing floors 2, 3, and 4 consecutively, so the Union Leader suddenly seemed easy. They got too bold seeing the results of someone who hasn't even cleared 10 floors yet.
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ We'll see.
- Honestly, even as a Normal player, I think the Vertex side has lost their minds.
- Sharp Spear) But it's true. There was a guild war. Unspecified, as soon as they reach floor 30, they'll immediately join a guild and start a guild war to confirm. They're definitely someone who exploits the loopholes in the Easy difficulty system to just get points for free.
- ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Bro, I'm Easy. There's no such thing lololol. Unspecified is the real deal. Someone who truly has something.
- Alderamin) Oh, Sharp Spear, you're smart. That's the way. Kidnap them into a guild war as soon as they reach floor 30 ㄱㄱ