Chapter 78
Chapter 78.
-???
-What? Why did the poison disappear?
-How did you do that? ㄷㄷ
Viewers were startled by the suddenly vanished poison mist.
Many players had entered the 'Garden of Death' before.
But they all died and started from the 1st floor.
This was the first case of eliminating poison gas like this.
'Thorn Flower.'
Lee Ganghan remembered the message that appeared earlier and.
Carefully observed the flower he had touched.
Then.
'Ah. There are thorns here.'
Unlike other flowers, he discovered that the petals and stem had small bumps of thorns.
"When I touch flowers with thorns, the poison disappears."
As Lee Ganghan spoke while holding the Thorn Flower.
-Thorns?
-Did that flower have thorns?
-Now that I look, there are some tiny ones ㅋㅋㅋ
-So touching Thorn Flowers makes the poison disappear?
-But how did you find that?; All the flowers look exactly the same
-Right, how would you know which ones have thorns ㅋㅋㅋ
Viewers barely spotted the thorns and were amazed at how he figured it out.
-But not all the poison disappeared
-ㅇㅇ There's still poison gas over there
-So you have to find more Thorn Flowers there? How would you find them ㅋㅋㅋ
-But Heavenly Demon did it
-True, his eyesight is good too ㄷㄷ
And just like the viewers' chat.
Not all the poison in the garden had disappeared, only some areas were cleared.
To eliminate the poisonous zones here, he needed to find more Thorn Flowers.
'The barrier is almost finished too, I should hurry.'
After closely examining the appearance of the Thorn Flower.
Whoosh!
He leaped into the area where poison mist was emerging.
The smoke was so thick he could barely see in front of him.
'Oh. Adventurer's Eye activated again.'
Flash, Flash.
As the Adventurer's Eye pinpointed the locations of Thorn Flowers.
He could easily touch the Thorn Flowers without difficulty.
Then.
[You have discovered a Thorn Flower.]
[The Thorn Flower closes its bud.]
[The flower absorbs poison again.]
Along with the Thorn Flower discovery message.
The poison gas area was instantly purified.
After finding Thorn Flowers about three times like this.
['The power of poison spread in the Garden of Death' decreases.]
A message appeared saying the poison in the garden itself had weakened.
'The color of the poison mist has definitely gotten lighter.'
But it wasn't only good news.
Crack......!
As the barrier shattered.
[The barrier's duration has ended. It can be used again after charging is complete.]
[Charging time requires 30 hours.]
A message appeared saying the barrier maintenance time had ended.
-Ah the barrier ended ㅠ
-I thought we'd see him clear the tower here, disappointing...
-But Heavenly Demon has really high stamina, he could clear it while breathing poison gas
-But even warrior players were collapsing left and right?
Regardless of level or tier.
The poison gas of the Garden of Death made anyone collapse just by breathing it.
Even if it was Lee Ganghan.
To viewers, this looked difficult to endure.
Still.
"After finding several Thorn Flowers, a message appeared saying the poison had weakened. So I'm going to try entering."
After finding the Thorn Flowers.
Since a message about decreased poison power appeared, he should continue challenging it.
As Lee Ganghan was about to proceed.
-Wouldn't it be better to search for something in the safe zone areas?
-What would you search for? There are only flowers everywhere
-Maybe search through that flower bed...
-But poison went into those flowers, wouldn't you just get poisoned if you touch them ㄷㄷ
-I heard some mage tried burning flowers before but died instantly from the smoke ㅋㅋ
Opinions emerged to explore what could be explored in the safe zone before entering.
'There really isn't much here.'
The surroundings were all just those purple flowers.
Even if he wanted to find something, there wasn't much to explore.
Regular flowers with closed buds seemed like they'd release poison again if touched.
And there was nothing else noteworthy besides those.
As he looked around the surroundings once.
Lee Ganghan's eyes caught the thorns of the Thorn Flower.
'The only thing worth investigating here seems to be those thorns.'
The Thorn Flower that had absorbed the poison mist.
That's worth examining once.
As Lee Ganghan brought his hand to the Thorn Flower to examine it this way and that.
Snap.
Suddenly the Thorn Flower's stem broke.
Pop, pop, pop!
The Thorn Flower's thorns shot out all at once, embedding into Lee Ganghan's hand one by one.
'It didn't do this when I first touched it, but it does this the second time.'
Then.
[Poison is injected from the thorns.]
A message appeared saying poison was entering through the thorns.
'The thorns had poison too.'
But it just stings a bit and that's it?
As Lee Ganghan brushed off the thorns embedded in his hand and arm.
[You have overcome the Thorn Flower's poison.]
[Resistance to the poison mist of the Garden of Death strengthens.]
When did he overcome the thorn's poison.
A message appeared saying his resistance to that poison mist had also strengthened.
'Aside from the stinging, I didn't feel anything at all.'
Lee Ganghan tilted his head and.
Approached the remaining Thorn Flowers he had discovered earlier.
Then similarly thorns shot out from the flowers and embedded into Lee Ganghan.
[You have overcome the Thorn Flower's poison.]
[Resistance to the poison mist of the Garden of Death strengthens.]
Messages about strengthened resistance to poison mist appeared consecutively.
'Ah ha. So you find Thorn Flowers like this and build resistance while enduring the poison mist.'
Besides the method of starting from the 1st floor.
It seems they prepared a method to somehow clear it in the garden.
As Lee Ganghan was nodding.
-Why do you keep trying to get stabbed by thorns?
-Don't the thorns have poison?
-Seeing Heavenly Demon moving around energetically, there doesn't seem to be poison
Viewers were curious about his actions.
"It says if you overcome the poison from those thorns, your resistance to poison mist strengthens. So I was planning to get stabbed by all of them and then enter the poison mist."
-Oh... Is a strategy guide coming out? ㄷㄷ
-I thought starting from the 1st floor was the standard route
-But finding those Thorn Flowers initially is hard, and then you have to get stabbed by thorns and endure it, doesn't seem easy
-First of all, just finding the Thorn Flowers initially is tough ㅋㅋ
-It seems like you should search for Thorn Flowers first during the initial waiting time with teammates instead of playing around
Viewers who heard Lee Ganghan's story began devising strategies.
Lee Ganghan watched this for a bit.
"Then let's go in."
He decided to enter.
Swish.
Lee Ganghan entered the poison mist and took a deep breath.
The smell was somehow not good.
"My body is fine. I guess this is the strategy."
His body was still in full condition.
'Finding Thorn Flowers is the problem, but after that the strategy is simple.'
And Lee Ganghan had the 'Legendary Adventurer's Eye'.
The most difficult first step was as easy as eating cold porridge for him.
Whoosh, whoosh!
As Lee Ganghan quickly advanced while continuously discovering Thorn Flowers.
['The power of poison spread in the Garden of Death' decreases.]
['The power of poison spread in the Garden of Death' decreases.]
Messages about decreased poison power appeared multiple times.
Hiss, hiss, hiss......
At some point.
['The poison mist spread in the Garden of Death' disappears.]
The poison in the garden completely disappeared.
***
-What?
-Wow all the poison disappeared;
-What, you can really clear it without dying? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I said it was trolling for not going to the 1st floor but you immediately pioneered a new route
-This is really crazy;;;
The poison mist kept getting weaker.
Viewers were shocked as the poison completely cleared.
Countless players had played the 'Garden of Death' map until now.
But instead of starting from the 1st floor, he created a completely new clear route.
It was no wonder the viewers were surprised.
Meanwhile,
'Finding Thorn Flowers and getting stabbed by thorns a bit and it's over.'
Lee Ganghan thought this was a rather meaningless map for cooperative play and.
Asked the viewers.
"But what floor is this?"
-This is the 9th floor
-Just one more floor up and it's clear ㅋㅋ
"The 9th floor? So you originally had to go through here again."
But then if you go to the 1st floor and come back to the 9th floor, don't you have to clear the Garden of Death anyway?
Lee Ganghan had this question.
-But when you die and come back up, all the flowers disappear and it becomes just an empty space
-It's used as a space to regroup before the boss fight
-You get a free pass without fighting carnivorous plants on the lower floors
Viewers quickly resolved his question.
So if you go to the 1st floor and come back, the flowers and poison mist disappear.
As Lee Ganghan was having this conversation with viewers.
[A portal to ascend to the next floor opens.]
[Team members are summoned to the current floor.]
Whirrrrr......
A huge portal opened in the center of the garden.
Flash! Flash!
Party members who had gone down to the 1st floor began being summoned one by one.
"What, what's this?"
The first to appear was.
A dwarf covered in green liquid.
And following behind.
"As expected, Lord Heavenly Demon! You cleared it?!"
"I believed you would clear it from when you didn't come to the 1st floor!"
Two human players and.
"Ooh......"
A fox beastman who looked around with an interested face was summoned.
"Sniff, sniff. The poison really disappeared. How fascinating."
"Human! How exactly did you do it?!"
The dwarf ran over here with an extremely excited face.
"Do I need to tell you?"
Lee Ganghan tilted his head at that question.
"What, what?!"
"There's no need to share strategies with other races."
Especially not with a dwarf who only criticized in the chat window.
What's so cute about telling him.
-True, maybe for elves but there's no need to tell a dwarf who's been cursing from the start ㅋㅋ
-No need to tell elves either...
-ㄹㅇ Elves criticize humans the same way ㅋㅋ
-Let's keep strategies among humans only
-But even if they knew, could they find Thorn Flowers?
-Seems impossible ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
"......"
As the dwarf became silent like he was struck dumb by Lee Ganghan's answer.
"Sniff, sniff. That's a valid point. Today we temporarily became a team through cooperative play, but originally we're competing races~"
The fox beastman next to him nodded.
But competing races?
'This wasn't matched with other races for no reason. Was there a competition mechanism?'
As Lee Ganghan was making such speculations from the fox's words.
Ting.
[Players who resisted the Thorn Flower's poison can challenge the 11th floor at the entry portal.]
The '11th floor' was mentioned in the newly appearing message window.
'Oh. I can go to the 11th floor?'
Lee Ganghan who had gone up to the 11th floor in the Forest Path map during Iron grade.
When he destroyed the 'core' there, the Forest Path map was deleted and the tower actually broke.
So if he goes up to the 11th floor this time too, can he destroy the tower?
Then.
"11th floor?!"
This message didn't appear only for Lee Ganghan.
Not only the dwarf but even the fox beastman were busily examining the message with surprised faces.
"Ha. Thorn Flower, Thorn Flower......! This was the hint!"
Then.
The dwarf who found the 'Thorn Flower' keyword in the message.
"Inventory!"
Opened his inventory.
And took out a telescope sized for him.
"I just need to find flowers with thorns, right?"
Swish.
The dwarf examining the flower bed with the telescope.
"Great!"
Thud, Thud.
He walked toward the flower bed with an extremely excited face as if he had discovered a Thorn Flower.
'It's the Thorn Flower I left alone after the poison mist disappeared.'
Since he already gained resistance to poison anyway.
He didn't think there was a need to get stabbed by more thorns so he left it alone.
"Haha! Human! You said you wouldn't tell me the strategy but how pathetic! When the message gives hints like this, did you think I wouldn't figure it out?"
Seeing the dwarf approaching the Thorn Flower while sneering at him.
He thought maybe he should have just eliminated all the Thorn Flowers.
-Look at that expression ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-What message appeared in the message window that let him know the Thorn Flower hint?
-Ah the stupid system should have protected the strategy information ㅡㅡ
-Right, it just boosted that cursing dwarf's mood
As viewers were getting more angry seeing the dwarf's smile.
"Then...... I just need to get stabbed by thorns?"
Swish.
The dwarf who reached his hand toward the Thorn Flower.
"Cough, cough......!"
His face immediately turned blue.
He foamed at the mouth and collapsed.
And then.
['Team Member 1' has died.]
Ting.
A death message immediately appeared.
And following that.
['Team Member 1' revives on the 9th floor.]
Flash!
Light flashed near the portal.
"What, what......? What poison is this strong?!"
The dwarf who had died came back to life.