Chapter 23

Episode 23. Swordsman’s Castle (2)

Katana that ate blood.

It is a rare card with agility, strength and vamp synergy.

Vampiric Synergy.

The first reason Taeyang had to get a katana that ate blood was because of vampirism.

Vampirism was a synergy that restored physical strength in proportion to the damage dealt.

The power of skill card regeneration that came out while catching Aksharon also had a vampiric synergy attached, so if you got a katana you could enjoy the vampiric synergy.

Vampirism was literally like gold to Taeyang, who played solo without having any teammates.

Even with a healer, the experience was so good that its value did not fade.

Some players could not give up the vampire synergy even after getting a better grade card, so there were cases where they used a lower grade card.

And the second reason.

The built-in skill of the blood-eating katana, Blood Energy.

Blood Charge was a skill that forced the secretion of adrenaline.

A technique that takes pain sensation and in return amplifies overall physical abilities.

It was used as a useful buff among users who did not feel pain in the first place.

It’s about an efficient self-buff that can be turned every cooldown without spending any casting time or cost.

But the sun had another use.

to not feel pain.

This second feature was essential for Taeyang, who had a 100% synchro rate.

“It’s good to be patient, but what’s better than that is to come up with a way to deal with it.”

You can get the blood-sucking katana by defeating the boss of this stage, the Mad Swordsman.

It’s not just catching it, it’s because it satisfies certain conditions.

In order to catch the lunatic swordsman, of course, he had to interrupt the clearing.

If you clear the stage before the swordsman comes down, you won’t be able to catch the swordsman.

It was for this reason that Taeyang did not sneak into the dungeon and made a fuss.

In the dark dungeon, the sun swung around his shoulders.

“Will you be back soon?”

-of course. The psychology of ants is obvious, right?

Anyone who sees someone who is ahead of them is instinctively anxious.

It’s the same for players.

No, on the contrary, they have no choice but to feel more impatient than modern people.

Modern people only experience the frustration that I am behind, but the players actually threatened their lives by the players who went ahead.

For players, item card achievements are an element that is directly related to survival.

“Anyway, I’m sorry. that player. Is your name Toby?”

-huh. Even if this stage wasn’t just ‘The Prosecutor’s Castle’, it would be an open face.

Power is also powerless, but the leadership that seizes other players in such a short time.

Being friendly with those types of players was convenient in many ways.

In particular, considering Toby’s powerlessness, there was a possibility of meeting him again on a higher floor.

“Now that the situation is like this, should I kill you?”

-If you let them live for no reason and meet them upstairs, you might get caught.

-Wow, people like us think that riding the bus is honey.

– So. They forcefully turn the car around when they should just sit still and ride.

– He even thought of killing the bus driver.

– Cruel. Cruel.

-Is this my country!

-But what if Toby is more competent than I thought and the other players don’t come down?

Taeyang looked at the chat window and smiled.

Hacking work had to be delayed.

Even if Toby showed leadership beyond his temper, it was clear that if the sun sneaked up and gave him a blow, everyone would turn a blind eye and rush into the dungeon.

Of course, it would have to be the level of performance that Toby showed.

‘It’s not difficult.’

In the first place, Taeyang deliberately narrowly pulled himself out for the painting.

“Now that we’re in, let’s look for an item.”

In fact, the dungeon was not a place where Taeyang had a great advantage.

A dungeon is definitely an object that contains equipment and cards much more generously than other places.

However, most of the equipment cards dropped in the dungeon were not helpful to Taeyang.

It was because I had been farming too hard on the previous stage, ‘Street of Murder’.

Even if you look at the ‘great machinery’ apart, the general equipment was also set to the highest quality.

Right now, Taeyang had better settings than most players on the 15th floor or below.

-At this point, in order to upgrade your specs, you need to obtain rare high-grade cards or artifacts, but it’s not easy.

“right.”

There may not be such items in the dungeon, but getting them is completely luck.

“Still, I need to look around the important ‘spots’.”

-Do you remember well?

“Roughly. Go ahead and tell me if I’m wrong.”

The sun moved quickly.

Users, of course, also analyzed the dungeon in the ‘Prosecutor’s Castle’ stage.

Even in dungeons, there were often cases where high-class artifacts or high-grade cards, such as the ‘Great Mechanism’ of the Clock Tower, were obtained.

Azur Murph, a player famous as a Dantalian raider, concluded that the location of all items from the dungeon in the ‘Prosecutor’s Castle’ stage changes every playthrough.

But it wasn’t without income at all.

‘spot’.

It is not definitive, but it is a statistical classification of areas where good items often appear.

“Was it left here?”

-no. Go one more block. Ah the trap before him! The floor is off! hey! hey!

Hyeon-hye’s voice, which was briefing at Tae-yang’s unstoppable pace, suddenly became urgent.

Koo Goo Goo.

The floor went out and the sun calmly jumped over the pit.

“I know. It hurts my ears, so tell me softly.”

Unlocking work went smoothly.

in the beginning.

1st floor 2nd floor.

A large number of players moved in unison, so clearing didn’t seem difficult.

It was the first hurdle.

what? If I fall out of this one, I can break it easily, right?

With the thought, the players started to slip away.

one or two.

They slipped away like rats.

Toby condoned them.

I couldn’t help it.

Toby was alone. There were not enough hands to catch the players who were escaping.

3rd floor 4th floor.

Unlocking has slowed down.

The higher you go, the more difficult the difficulty becomes.

If at most the skeleton soldiers were waiting in the room on the first floor, there was a golem in the room on the fourth floor.

There was no compensation for the work done.

It’s like clearing a stage is a reward.

Toby comforted the players, saying that if they cleared the stage, they would be rewarded with achievements, but since there was nothing in their hands right away, the players’ complaints only piled up.

The 5th floor reached like that.

The patience of the players seemed to be stretched to the limit.

The story was different from the 12th floor.

It seemed that a large number of players were leaving to the extent that it interfered with the unlocking work.

Looking at them, Toby grabbed his greatsword.

Time taken to unlock 1st and 2nd and 3rd and 4th floors.

And the breadth of difficulty going up.

The ‘Clear Room’ was most likely on the 6th floor.

‘From now on, I will block it with force.’

At the same time as the calculation, Toby’s greatsword hit the floor.

Wow!

At the same time, several players blocked the stairs leading to the fourth floor.

They were the players who shared their thoughts with Toby while climbing the tower.

In an instant, a scuffle broke out among the players.

“Get out of the way, I have to go down.”

“If you go down now, all you have done will be in vain. Would you suffer a little more?”

“Are you a security guard? What qualifications do you have to stop us? Move.”

Toby approached them.

“Don’t you know that much about the dimensional labyrinth? If you meet the boss, you will die with a high probability.”

The player who protested the most furiously crumpled his face.

“shit. So I’m not doing this to try to survive! Unlocking the 5th floor right now is too much work, but if you meet that crazy swordsman, it’s sure to be over! Gather some equipment and come up!”

Toby grabbed the player by the shoulder.

“Wouldn’t it be wiser to clear the stage as quickly as possible instead of going down? If you fall out now, all the other players will also fall out.”

“What about the players who are already missing? Those guys suck honey from below and we’re the only ones working.”

“I don’t like that, but I have to do what I have to do.”

“Then let’s take a break and then start again. It’s not some kind of labor on the construction site. I’ll go down for a while and then I’ll come up again. Is that okay?”

I’m speechless.

Toby let out a small sigh and tightened his grip.

Kwade deude deuk.

“What are you doing right now, keaaaaaa!”

The player who was grabbed by the shoulder screamed.

Soon Toby wiped his hands.

dump.

The captured player fell out like a paper doll.

“What is that.”

“Does that make sense?”

“What is the power of human hands... ... .”

The players were astonished.

The captured player’s shoulder was twisted in a deformed way.

Toby wiped his hands and said to the players.

“Let’s work hard a little longer. Once we find the ‘clear room’, we won’t care if it’s a dungeon or a nabal.”

Silence passed.

Toby asked, looking around.

“Or does anyone else want to be like this?”

It was then.

clap clap clap clap.

Unexpected applause.

Toby looked around.

No one clapped their hands.

Toby soon realized.

The applause was coming from below, not from the side.

Toby looked back.

A player clapping their hands at the foot of the stairs.

it was the sun

The sun smiled.

“Are you struggling hard instead of me?”

Toby’s face contorted.

“You guys... ... .”

“Thank you for working for me, but I’m in trouble if I work so hard.”