The First Floor: Lunatic Slime Slaughter
Usually, when you hear the word "tower", what comes to mind?
A psychopath who grinds mothers' honor in cooperative games for 1v1 duels?
A rapper with purple hair who probably smokes weed?
Or the bald uncles lurking in the LGBT gallery...
...Okay, that's enough of that nonsense.
Back to the main topic.
In the beginning, there was a tower.
...Actually, not from the very beginning.
About 10 years ago, it suddenly appeared.
A massive tower stuck like a stake in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Inside the tower was another world, people, and monsters.
The only way to survive is to hunt monsters and climb the tower.
Fortunately, the tower wasn't completely useless, as it sprinkled the benefit called 'awakening' on those who could see it.
Of course, it wasn't distributed to everyone, only to a select few.
So, it's like a restaurant with a chopstick sanitizer that can only be used randomly.
...Even as I say this, it sounds like complete nonsense, but it's actually true.
People who entered the tower naturally divided into 'Awakened' and 'Non-Awakened'.
The Awakened hunted monsters and climbed the tower, while the Non-Awakened could only watch.
But the remaining people had to somehow continue their lives, and naturally, the 0th floor became the residential area.
Yes, the 0th floor.
That's where I was until just now.
So, where am I now?
Where else but the 1st floor.
[Would you like to enter the 1st floor?]
[Yes]
Wuuuung──
With the rising entrance message, a dazzling light beam wrapped around me.
Then, the light beam subsided, and the vision filled with the blue vegetation landscape.
It was a real forest, not the concrete forest I had been in until now.
"Ugh... I'm dizzy..."
My body twists on its own because of the motion sickness.
It's like... my head is spinning—
It wasn't a particularly pleasant sensation.
"Huu... So this is the 1st floor...?"
Late to my senses, I grabbed the aluminum knife I brought and looked around.
Actually, I didn't expect to end up in a place like this.
I didn't think I'd fall into a forest without people on the 1st floor...
Hey? Why don't you know since you came in?
That's because the spawn locations on the 1st floor are random for everyone.
Anyway, it was a map gacha.
And I got the worst one out of it.
"Rese is annoying..."
But unfortunately, the spawn location couldn't be Rese.
If it could, the tower would not be climbed and only Rese would be looped endlessly.
Moreover, the spawn location is not just randomly determined, but determined by the climber's job and specs.
Most are villages, mages are magic towers.
In special cases, they fall into the north or demon world.
And in my case, it was a forest.
A forest with a BGM that automatically plays as if training is needed.
Of course, it wasn't the bright atmosphere like in games, but a dimly lit forest where something like Slenderman might pop out.
"Uuu..."
Feeling a strange chill, I swept my arms and moved my feet.
How long had I been walking blindly without knowing where I was going?
After the leaves covering the ceiling disappeared, a half-sized open space the size of a sports field appeared.
Then, after discovering the open space and a short time later, with the familiar notification sound, the status window popped up in front of me.
Beep!
[Please select the difficulty.]
[Easy]
[Hard]
[Extreme]
[Insane]
[Lunatic]
"W-what... difficulty...?"
Then, I remembered hearing about it in the Awakened Gallery.
The tower has a difficulty system.
From easy to hard, extreme, insane, and lunatic.
As the difficulty increases, the clear reward for the floor increases.
In exchange, the clear difficulty becomes exponentially harder.
A typical high risk high reward structure.
But choosing the easiest easy difficulty is not allowed by my pride.
"What? Easy difficulty?"
Ah, you're talking about the resting place for super cowards.
Choosing easy difficulty in games is what weaklings do.
That's because easy mode is made for elementary school students.
...Of course, my body is a perfect elementary school girl now, but the inside is a warm bumpy ass in the daytime.
Originally, easy difficulty wasn't even an option.
So, the difficulty I choose is...
[Hard]
"Carrot bittak hard─"
Beep!
"...Eh."
Why?
Why doesn't this work.
Is it a bug?
"Eban de."
Ah, damn, system bitch.
Again, spilled the tteokbokki broth on the server?
No matter how much the Earth Online has periodic bugs, being stuck on the difficulty selection is too much...
Beep!
[The difficulty is too low compared to your current stats! You cannot enter!]
"Ah, I see."
Apparently, my soft Awakened body that mocks the gods is too strong, so I can't choose hard difficulty.
So, I smiled helplessly and lowered my finger to the next difficulty.
"Huu... I have no choice. Since it's come to this, I'll go with extreme..."
[Extreme]
Beep!
[The difficulty is too low compared to your current stats! You cannot enter!]
"......"
But even when I kept pressing the next difficulty, for some reason, the same notification kept popping up.
I started sweating like rain with my smiling face.
"...No way?"
No, Tower bro.
This isn't it.
You're telling me to go to lunatic?
No matter how bad easy is, the higher difficulties weren't all bad.
Even on hard difficulty, there are steady deaths every year.
From extreme and insane, even A-rank Awakened could get into trouble if they messed up, and lunatic is the difficulty where only 3 S-rank in Korea have cleared.
But...
[Lunatic]
This crazy tower guy is forcing me to do lunatic.
"Damn."
It couldn't be more of a mess.
What's even more messed up is that now there's no choice left but lunatic.
Once you enter the 1st floor, you can't leave until you clear the floor.
"...Whatever, I'll try it once."
[Lunatic]
Beep!
[Lunatic difficulty selected!]
[Combat will begin soon...]
Finally, choosing the lunatic difficulty with the feeling of boarding the evil, with a small fanfare, the message popped up in front of me.
Then, after a short time, the message window disappeared, and suddenly a rotten stench started blowing from somewhere.
"Uueh... W-what is this?"
With the disgusting smell, I reflexively covered my nose and guarded.
How long had I been rolling my eyes while holding the aluminum knife?
Soon, something made of purple liquid crawled out from between the trees.
Gyue!
"...Slime?"
Slime.
The weakest monster that often appears in RPG games.
But the slime in front of me was not a cute creature like the one in Mushroom Game.
Gyue──rururuk buwe ek!!
"Uuk... Damn..."
A horrific appearance as if all the casters in the world were mixed.
Perhaps if I mixed my homemade intestinal soup and 'Mongmong' and poured dark brown paint and made it move like amoeba, it wouldn't look like this?
In short, it was a look that would be shredded by Nguyen in 1 second if posted in the gallery.
Beep!
[Main Quest]
Defeat the monster. (0/1)
- Reward: 2nd floor entrance ticket, Random skill box x1
At the right time, the quest window popped up with the slime.
I looked back and forth between the window and the casher lump in front of me and muttered.
"So... you want me to catch that...?"
Is that really what you're saying?
Fight? Me?
...That?
"......"
Really, really, I didn't want to, but I had no choice but to lift the aluminum knife.
Actually, the slime was too close, so I didn't even want to run away.
"Uueh..."
But physiologically, it was too disgusting to ignore, so I reached out with the aluminum knife I was holding and touched the slime's mucus.
And.
Pt!
"Kyaa──?!"
As soon as I touched it with the knife, the slime immediately spewed mucus at me.
With it, a large amount of mucus poured out like from a bucket towards me.
Chiiik...!
"......!!!"
And this mucus wasn't just ugly looking, but as soon as it touched the body, it started melting the clothes with a corrosive sound.
The aluminum knife also melted miserably because it couldn't withstand the acidity of the mucus.
A bizarre sight like it would appear in a gore movie.
But...
"...Eh?"
For some reason, my body was fine.
Only the soft white skin was revealed between the melted clothes.
It was not corroded by the mucus, unlike aluminum or clothes.
And it didn't take long for me to realize why.
"Drug resistance... Is it you?"
S-rank trait, Drug Resistance.
A trait that gives immunity to all kinds of drugs.
I immediately opened the trait window and checked the content again.
[Drug Resistance]
- Grade: S
- Ability: Immunity to all kinds of drugs.
"Damn, drug resistance!!"
I believed it, you know!!
I don't know how far the range of 'all kinds of drugs' goes, but apparently the slime's mucus was included in it.
Anyway, I knew that short and simple explanations were the cheat skills from the start.
Like 'Throwing a window deals physical damage' or something.
It makes sense. It's not boring and not too pretentious.
Kkururuk?!
Did you think I couldn't hold out? The slime showed a greatly surprised look when the mucus didn't work.
Now it's even easier.
Since the other side can't deal any damage to me, I can just approach and stomp.
"Huuet, iluwait...!"
Thinking that, I immediately reached out and started rummaging inside the slime's mucus, and after a short time, I found a round thing like a ball.
Perhaps this is the core, the weakness of the slime.
I held the remaining aluminum piece in my hand and activated the skill with familiar sensation.
"Transmutation."
Fuk! Kwajik!
The aluminum piece shot up like a thorn and pierced the core.
At the same time, the slime could no longer maintain its form and poured to the floor.
[Main Quest]
Defeat the monster. (1/1)
- Reward: 2nd floor entrance ticket, Random skill box x1
[Main Quest Cleared.]
[Cleared Floor 1 on Lunatic difficulty.]
[Clear rewards are paid.]
[Obtained 2nd floor entrance ticket.]
[Obtained Random skill box x1.]
Then, with the quest clear message popping up, an exit like a portal appeared in the void.
But what was important to me now was not that.
['Awakened Community' feature has been unlocked.]
['Awakened Community' feature has been unlocked.]
"Wow! Finally!"
The long-awaited Awakened Community.
That is, the Tower Gallery.
With the message that the function was unlocked, my mind was blown, so I immediately connected to the Tower Gallery, leaving the other rewards behind.
[Would you like to create a nickname?]
"Hmm..."
There was a momentary hesitation in creating a nickname, but the thought didn't last long.
In the Awakened Gallery, only Awakened could create nicknames in principle.
Thanks to that, until now I had to move forcibly in fluid, but now there was no need.
My goal was to become a super star of the Tower Gallery, a likable nickname, after all.
Large power comes with great responsibility.
For attention whoring, a nickname is enough to make as many as you want.
[Nickname: 39.7]
[Are you sure you want to use this nickname?]
"Yes."
I set the nickname to the IP number that contains memories from the Awakened Gallery.
There is no IP in the Tower Gallery, so this will serve as a nickname to some extent.
After setting the nickname and finishing all preparations, I immediately took an authentication shot without showing my face and wrote the post.
A shit slime 1, and the clear rewards are not even special...
Hmm... This is it...
It was a typical bittik post that you would see in a teahouse, not the gallery.
A bittik that stepped on forward and backward with full throttle, where the each-bungies would be horrified and the padukies would block the post.
After safely completing the first post, I started walking towards the portal while rubbing the melted clothes.
"Huu... Now I have to go home."
I had done everything, so I wanted to go home and shower.
No matter how much there was no damage to the body, wearing a mucus lump that smelled like sewer was not a pleasant thing.
[Would you like to enter the 0th floor?]
[Yes]
So, I threw my mucus-covered body into the portal, entrusted my body to the floating feeling, and quietly closed my eyes.
Beep!
[Is Lunatic just a shit? (1)]
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[☆ Is Lunatic just a shit? (278)]