Chapter 65: 17th Floor: Lee Do-hee Enters a Defense Game
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 65: 17th Floor: Lee Do-hee Enters a Defense Game
[Time Remaining: 65 hours 28 minutes]
"This is more manageable than I thought. No one's ever gone from the 10th to the 20th floor in just a week, right?"
- As if.
- Ah, our punishment...
- It's fine, she'll spend all her time on the 17th floor anyway. That trial takes over a month.
- Yeah~ the 17th floor is unbeatable~~
- fr, you think the 17th floor is a joke?
- She'll get stuck on the 17th floor anyway lol
- FYI) These bastards said the same thing on the 16th floor.
"Hmm... is that so?"
The corners of my mouth crept up on their own as I imagined how flustered these viewers would be.
- Why's this bitch making that face;;
*
[Ding~]
[Welcome, challenger, to the Defense Game! Please be careful, as you will lose if the crystal at the center is destroyed!]
A very short and simple explanation.
The theme of this trial was a defense game.
As the system explained, the 17th-floor trial would end once I defended against a total of 50 monster waves.
Unusually, this trial was meant to be done alone, so there was no solo play bonus.
So, do I have to defend by myself? No.
While personal combat ability is necessary at the start, the standard strategy is to kill the swarming monsters to collect points, then use those points to upgrade various troops and walls.
As the waves progress, a powerful monster army that is impossible to stop alone will appear. The key is to build resource bases to increase food production and advance up the tech tree to take down monsters with powerful firepower.
You have to repair destroyed walls, replenish dead troops, and manage resource bases—in other words, play it like a typical defense game.
But...
Is there really a need to play it like a defense game?
"Everyone, this may be a defense game, but in the end, all I have to do is kill all the monsters."
- ???
- Well, you're not wrong.
- Surely you're not thinking of killing them all by yourself?
- Don't overdo it and die. Just stick to the standard strategy. The 17th-floor trial has a surprisingly high death rate.
- What on earth is she planning...?
First, I activated the game system.
[Remaining Points: 1000]
I was given 1000 points at the start.
Looking at what I could produce now...
[Wooden Wall]
1 point per 1m
[Worker]
10 points
[Swordsman]
30 points
[Archer]
40 points
The idea was to use these points appropriately to fortify the base and build my own castle.
Also, as the population grows, you need to create and manage food and residential areas, which means you have to recruit the right number of workers to manage the food supply.
'In my past life, I had a lot of fun playing this like a real-time strategy simulation.'
After the 10th wave, an underground dungeon opens up, and as the population increases, you have to build resource bases in other areas.
Naturally, securing those locations requires combat, and the resource bases also need constant management.
But who has time to be growing food here? Although the game's rules make crops grow in just a week, my mission ends in three days.
That's why I came prepared with a strategy suited for it.
And that strategy is...
[Wave 1 will now begin.]
[Wave 2 will now begin.]
[Wave 3 will now begin.]
[Wave 4 will now begin.]
[Wave 5 will now begin.]
[Wave 6 will now begin.]
[Wave 7 will now begin.]
[Wave 8 will now begin.]
[Wave 9 will now begin.]
"Alright~! Let's goooo!!!"
The "just fight like a fucking maniac by myself" strategy.
- ????
- Do-hee, are you crazy?
- Huh? Was that a mistake?
- That crazy bitch is at it again.
- Ah, if you spam the start button, they keep coming.
- Uh oh... isn't she fucked?
- A surprising number of people make that mistake, but isn't she doing it on purpose?
"Yes, I pressed it all at once on purpose. I'm just going to break through this trial on my own. I have a plan."
- ???
- What?
- Excuse me?
- That's not going to work.
I closed the chat window.
Calmly, I gazed at the horizon.
Beyond the barren wasteland dotted with sparse patches of grass, I could see several portals opening in the distance.
[Time until Wave 1 arrival: 4 minutes 5 seconds]
[Time until Wave 2 arrival: 4 minutes 5 seconds]
[Time until Wave 3 arrival...]
...
..
.
After a short wait, I saw a monster army approaching, kicking up a cloud of dust.
[Wave 1: 500 Goblins remaining]
[Wave 2: 200 Orcs remaining]
...
..
.
'That's an insane number.'
Goblins and orcs, of course, but also Lizardmen, Skeletons, Trolls, Ogres, Satyrs, Lycanthropes, Centaurs, and all sorts of other monsters were charging madly toward me.
"Hoo..."
I let out a small breath and charged forward as well.
I ran out alone to face an army of thousands of monsters.
All my buffs were at five stacks.
I felt the world slow down.
"Uwoooaaaaah!!!"
[War Cry]
It was an area-of-effect taunt skill often used by tankers.
It would be a problem if they bypassed me and destroyed the crystal, so I drew their aggro with a loud shout.
The viewers probably wouldn't be able to tell if I used a skill or just yelled to get attention unless they experienced it themselves.
Dudududududu!!!
The first to charge were the centaur troops.
With the lower body of a horse and the upper body of a human, they were armed with massive spears and shields, rushing at me as if to tear me to shreds.
My defense was high, so I wouldn't be pierced in one go, but the physical force of a 500kg centaur colliding at 80 km/h was nothing to scoff at.
[Shockwave]
I stomped the ground hard, creating an effect like a localized earthquake.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!!
The centaurs slowed down or got tangled up and fell as they struggled to keep their balance.
Their greatest specialty, the charge, had been neutralized.
Now, it was my turn to charge.
"Kua...?"
I plunged my spear into the heart of a centaur that was looking at me with a bewildered expression.
I immediately dodged the spears thrusting at me from all directions with a low jump and landed on the back of another nearby centaur.
"Hello...?"
"Kua?"
Spurt!
As I cut off the arm of the one I was riding, it began to buck wildly and gallop.
I'd found myself a good mount.
It tried to throw me off, but I instead balanced myself on its back and killed the other flailing centaurs.
As I rampaged, other monsters began to swarm me.
'Damn it, I'm not even done with the centaurs yet...'
A massive ogre, about 5 meters tall, tried to crush me.
I abandoned the centaur I was riding and switched to the ogre.
Puuuk!!
But another ogre immediately attacked without any regard for its ally, forcing me to hastily jump off my ogre mount.
'Dammit...'
As I fell through the air, various monsters on the ground raised their weapons and aimed at me.
"Haaaaap!!"
I parried their weapons with my spear and barely managed to land, only to have all the monsters press in on me again, their bodies surging toward me like I was a black hole.
[Divine Power Release]
Kwaaaaaaaang!!!!
A skill that purges the surroundings by purely releasing the divine power from my body.
I created a small opening and slipped out in the direction where there were relatively fewer monsters.
"Kuwoooooo!!!"
"Uoooooooh!"
"Ouoaaaaah!!"
Thousands of monsters of all shapes and sizes were chasing me.
The smaller monsters charged at me recklessly, even as they were trampled by the larger ones.
"Haha..."
'This is tougher than I thought.'
I felt a slight tinge of regret, but what's done is done.
I couldn't afford to lose my nerve from the start.
"Come on. Let's see what you've got!!"
I kicked off the ground and charged.
*
"Heuk... hek, hek..."
About two hours later.
Lee Do-hee was sprawled on the ground, her entire body a mess of red and green blood. She had pushed herself to her limit and didn't even have the strength to move a muscle.
'Did I underestimate this...?'
It was definitely different from fighting humans.
When humans face an opponent much stronger than themselves and see their comrades die, they lose morale and fall into fear.
They often die without being able to use their full strength.
But these monsters were different.
They charged at me without any fear of their own death.
And it wasn't just their own lives. They rushed me like zombies, regardless of whether their allies next to them were being stepped on or crushed.
'Disgusting creatures...'
During the short break, I opened the chat window.
- She actually won lololol
- What was that? Was that earthquake thing in the middle a skill?
- She did something similar to a mana release too.
- fr, isn't that a skill? Did she learn it without us knowing?
- Lee Do-hee, explain yourself~
As expected, the sharp-eyed Awakeners had noticed me using skills at opportune moments.
It was common knowledge that skills couldn't be used unless learned through the system.
But I had an excuse.
"Umm... I just did it, and it worked? Ever since Juji and the Heavenly Demon did something to me, I've been able to move the energy in my body freely. So I just tried releasing it however I could."
- ???
- That's possible?
- That makes no sense.
- What? Why can't I do it?
"Hmm... if you guys also try getting the Muscle and Marrow Cleansing Scripture while getting fucked from the front and back by the Heavenly Demon and Juji..."
- What?
- You crazy bitch lolololol
- Like hell I would!!!!
- I'd have to become gay...
- Ugh, I'm gonna puke just imagining it.
- Heresy!!!
- Ah, if you don't like it, you can go get fucked too, lol.
"For your information, you have to get fucked like a flesh toilet all day, getting cummed in every time."
- Huk.
- FFS, stop.
- Don't stimulate my imagination.
- ? ? I'm down for it, though?
- Dude, that's gay...
- Ugh...
- Kraaaaaak!
The viewers freaked out in shock.
The truth was, these weren't skills you could use just by receiving the Muscle and Marrow Cleansing Scripture from Juji and the Heavenly Demon. Only someone who had used them extensively in the past and knew how would be able to, but who could prove that?
'Is there really another bitch in the world who's been fucked by Juji and the Heavenly Demon at the same time?'
Of course not.
That's why, even if there were some strange points, no one could refute it because no one else had experienced it.
- Is this girl just a genius...?
- It's been a while since I got this hyped from a fight.
- Hmm.
- Ah, where's the part where Lee Do-hee gets gang-raped by various monsters?
"Don't say weird things... I'm going to get back to work now."
[Remaining Points: 41420]
I skipped all the miscellaneous tech trees.
Usually, in this trial, players branch into one of two paths in the late game: developing magic or developing science.
But there was another path besides those two.
And that was...
The Hero Tech!
[Hero Summoning Station: 5000 points]
[Hero Upgrade Base: 10000 points]
- What?
- Wait, wasn't that proven to be total garbage?
- Do-hee?
- Uh oh, don't build that.
What I needed wasn't to summon heroes.
It was the Hero Upgrade Base.
This facility had a system that could increase the stats of heroes, and surprisingly, these increases also applied to the challenger.
[All Heroes' Strength +1%: 1000 points]
[All Heroes' Agility +1%: 1000 points]
[All Heroes' Defense +1%: 1000 points]
[All Heroes' Divine Power +1%: 1000 points]
It cost 1000 points to increase a stat by a mere 1%.
It seemed like a completely garbage exchange rate, but these stats also applied to equipment and buffs. And since the points gained in the later stages increase exponentially, it was actually a late-game scaling tech.
Many people recommended the Hero Tech, provided you could survive the early game.
Plus, there was no need to recruit workers to produce food or capture resource bases.
Since food production takes a significant amount of time, this was ultimately the only way to clear the trial quickly.
And it wasn't just about clearing it quickly.
It was for the hidden ending.
To get that, I had to become stronger.
"I'll just raise them all evenly for now."
[Hero's Strength +7%]
[Hero's Agility +7%]
[Hero's Defense +6%]
[Hero's Divine Power +6%]
[Remaining Points: 420]
I wanted to start the 10th wave right away, but my stamina was too low.
"Haa... let's eat first."
I deactivated my armor and first doused my body with water from my canteen as if taking a shower, then treated my wounds by breaking potions over them.
- Ooh.
- She just takes it off so naturally now.
- Even her pussy is soaking wet.
'Ah... too naturally...'
A habit from my past life had come out without me realizing it.
I quickly covered myself up again and equipped my armor.
Then, I tore open the long-awaited packs of tuna bibimbap, kkakdugi, and fried egg.
- But is the difficulty supposed to be this high?
"That's because I summoned them all at once..."
Summoning them one by one would just drag out the fight time.
Look at the battle I just had. More than half of the enemy monsters died from being trampled by their own allies.
I had chosen the path that offered maximum efficiency while ensuring I wouldn't die.
'Maximum efficiency and maximum results. That's all I'll think about.'
It was like this tuna bibimbap. Buying three single servings would cost 60,000 won, but buying a three-serving portion costs only 50,000 won.
"Om nom nom..."
*
After eating and recovering some stamina, I started the 10th wave.
[Wave 10: 1 Cyclops remaining]
"I can see it even from this distance..."
Thud... thud...
The ground trembled with its heavy movements.
I could see a massive body, nearly 20 meters tall, with a single large eye staring at me from afar.