Chapter 236 – Dungeon Attack (2)

Dojin had been meditating in the garden since early morning. Spring has arrived, but the morning air was still cold, so the children looking down at the garden from inside the mansion looked at Do-jin with worried eyes.

Rather than feeling the cold, Dojin was sweating all over his body. Although he basically became overheated after he got the upper extremity, but….

‘──.’

Erase thoughts clear consciousness erase me
Meditation was such a static and cold thing.
However, Do-jin was taking a different way of meditating at first glance.

Cut one’s thoughts break the ritual cut me
The sword of the mind that is more dynamic than anything else in the world.
The clue that I realized at a glance while fighting the wolf king was hacking into Do-jin’s inner self.

Cutting an insubstantial heart was such a heartbreaking thing for him, so whenever Do-jin cut himself, his whole body felt a burning pain.

By the time I cut off all the five desires and seven emotions, and forgot the distinction between me and the world, even my existence and the existence of the world-.

Do-jin opened his eyes.

“—Whoa.”

A feeble eye-glow popped out for a moment, and then he immediately subsided. Do-jin, who opened his eyes, exhaled weakly.

Steam was rising all over his body.

If meditation usually achieves enlightenment after extreme relaxation, Dojin brought enlightenment after extreme concentration.

What is the cost? As you can see. Forced very harsh brain activity. To the point where sweat dripped from her entire body just by sitting and thinking about it.

‘It’s a heart sword.’

Do-jin remembered a martial arts book he had seen as a child. Rather than being martial arts books, he read those that were closer to martial arts books with absurd statements written on them.

‘The heart is lighter than that feather but can become as heavy as a mountain, slow as a slug but as fast as a beam of light.’

He grabbed the sword he had placed on his lap her. And look around. There were trees planted around this to create a landscape.

There were a lot of trees that Dojin used for training as he wielded his wooden sword.

‘So, if you want to cut, you can cut iron, and if you don’t want to cut, you can’t cut thin paper.’

A distance that a wooden sword will never reach. Do-jin swung his sword at least ten meters away.

─Chahah-!

The sound of a sword swing followed belatedly, tearing the air apart.

Do-jin, who swung the sword, burst into laughter as he looked at the tree in the distance.

“So that’s right, it can’t be.”

I thought that there would be a dramatic development by gaining some realization with the power of the Talent Explosion skill, but it was hoped for.

If it had been enlightenment that could be easily obtained in that way, it would not have been called enlightenment.

It must have been called by the name of picking up fallen rice and eating it.

“Ugh, it’s cold.”

Feeling the cold belatedly, Do-jin entered the mansion trembling with his body. A tree in the garden fell belatedly after he entered the mansion.

* * *

“Take this, take this and- oh, take this too!”

Saying that, Noah started putting in a bunch of nutrient capsules, stamina potions, and stamina potions.

As they left without a healer, the only thing they could save their bodies in an emergency was their own healing power and potions.

Dojin thanked Noah and went outside. The children were all wearing coats and armor and preparing to fight.

“Let’s go.”

On the way, Do-jin headed to the dungeon with her party. The number of participants was six including Dojin.

Dojin, Seoyoon, Eunha, Seol, Emilia, and Rise.
It was just that there was no priest, but it was a party where the balance between the avant-garde and the rearguard was not too bad. The number of people in the party was insufficient, but Dojin had no intention of forcibly dragging dozens of people.

‘The army is rather useless.’

The higher you go, the more you need, not numbers, but a small elite. One skilled master was needed more than 10,000 soldiers serving one serving.

The problem was that they couldn’t supply supplies for 10,000 people, and the second problem was that even if 10,000 people gathered, it was obvious that they would be killed by monsters on the way up.

Upon arriving at the dungeon, Do-jin immediately raised the party to the 30th floor and began to advance at a speed that others could not imagine.

* * *

Do-jin, who slaughtered the monsters in the dungeon like eating, had no words to say, but the monsters in the dungeon were strangely ferocious and powerful.

Considering the fact that the second generation of monsters scavenged from dungeons for domestication is terribly weak compared to their fathers, and considering that they are not born with magic stones in their bodies- the established theory that the strength of monsters is the magic of the dungeon was

And the deeper you go into the dungeon, the stronger the magic becomes. It meant that the level of the monsters increased exponentially as they went deeper.

“Hoo-wook!”

Kaaang!
Even if the giant stone was right in front of her eyes her, Emilia’s winter sword, which could destroy it in an instant, bounced out.

Feeling her tingling grasp her, Emilia gritted her teeth and gripped her sword hilt tightly once more.

Seeing for the first time in his life a human capable of power confrontation with himself, the ogre raised his weapon once again as if in awe.

“Come—lightning.”

And that gap. Raise, who quietly chanted magic from behind, fired magic at a fantastic timing that the enemy could never avoid.

In an instant, the inside of the dungeon was brightly lit- The ogre that was fighting Emilia was temporarily stiffened by the intense current.

An unconscious biological reaction that even the most powerful monsters can’t help. Emilia swung her sword at the stiff ogre.

Poo-!

Rather than slashing her cleanly, it was more like ignorantly ripping it off. Emilia, who tore off the ogre’s head with one breath, swung her sword at the next monster without even stopping to catch her breath.

Perhaps they had fought for such a long time, the party went to rest after feeling the exhaustion of their stamina enough to make them gasp just by standing still.

“Is it over already?”

In front of the resting party, Do-jin, covered in blood, appeared. Unlike the rest of the group, he was calm and undisturbed.

“… Somehow, it seems that there are more monsters than before.”
“They seem to think of me as a threat.”

Dojin said that and smiled lightly. The other day, when I reached the threshold of the 50th floor. The ruler must have noticed his presence.

Unlike the ruler of the 30th floor, the dungeon itself did not change, whether there were any restrictions….

‘Am I conserving my strength?’

I couldn’t help but feel that way. Moving the dungeon also consumes its own energy, and it is only natural to conserve energy ahead of a fight against a challenger, unless the energy is overflowing unnecessarily.

“Everyone, you’ve worked hard so far.”

Dojin said that and praised his party for their hard work.
The 49th floor of the dungeon. It was a record broken by other countries as a group and by Dojin as an individual… It was a place known to have never been reached by a single party.

In front of my eyes, there were stairs and a door leading to the 50th floor.
Climb up those stairs and open the door, and the long-awaited battle will begin.

Cut-.

Do-jin, who unconsciously touched the sword out of anxiety, smiled and breathed lightly. Shake off your anxiety in an instant and only grasp the current situation.

“Let’s rest and go up.”

When Dojin said so, the children took out their potions and capsules and ate them. It was quite a strange feeling to feel full with just these small capsules and potions, but everyone was trembling with fear with the 50th floor in front of them, so they didn’t pay attention to that.

Especially Seoyoon-she was trembling enough to be seen in her eyes. She was so strong that if she didn’t have the ability to handle her ice, she’d be suspected of hypothermia.

“It’s okay.”
“… Scared.”
“You came all the way here. You can do it.”
“It’s not that scary.”

Seoyoon lifted her head slightly and looked at her Dojin. She then took hold of his hand.

It was warm. It was a warmth that reassured me even to my heart. However, I was very afraid that this warmth would be the last.

“I fear you will die. Also, I hope it will be like before.”
“… Even if you don’t die.”
“You don’t know. To die or not to die.”

She said so before. We will be able to You can do it. Don’t worry. I almost got killed by the Wolf King for telling such a story.

What if Raize wasn’t there? What if Do-jin hadn’t attained enlightenment?

Not only herself, but even Do-jin—everyone who was there must have been slaughtered.

“When I go home, I’ll give you a hug so you can completely forget about that.”
“… All day?”
“I can do it all day.”

Dojin promised that and rose from his seat. The other children also overheard Do-jin’s story and seemed interested in the promise he made to Seo-yoon.

Do-jin, who burst into laughter, made a promise to everyone in the party that they would do what they each wanted, and then finished the maintenance.

“Let’s go up.”

50 layers.
No one knows if this will happen or not.
As long as you don’t know where the end of the dungeon is, this is the yard where you don’t know if it’s the end or the beginning.

Kki-Ik-.

Open the door It didn’t take much force to open the huge door. I just pushed it very lightly, and it opened wide as if it were an automatic door.

Through the open door, I saw a knight lying on the floor scratching his butt.

[Yes?]

The knight lying in armor looked at them in bewilderment as he saw the door suddenly open.

[What, you guys.]

“… Laize, Seoyoon.”

[I asked when he would come… Haaam. Isn’t it too late?]

“Shoot.”

At the same time as Dojin’s command, intense lightning and a huge iceberg flew at the same time.

The knight stood still and watched the lightning bolts and icebergs flying towards him.

The moment the magic hit the knight, Do-jin felt something strange. Is it that simple?

[Ah, it’s good because it’s been a while.]

Indeed, the knight who was hit by lightning and an iceberg stood up as if nothing happened and pointed at Seoyoon and Raise.

[So-you and you, pass.]

“What?”

At that moment, the new models of Seoyoon and Raise disappeared. Seeing the two disappear in front of their eyes in an instant, the party immediately ran and attacked the knight.

The knight, who met all attacks without a single counterattack, flirted with them with an excited voice.

[Miss. Can’t you just run one more time?]

“What are you talking about- you pervert!”

[Will you not? Then you pass too. Go up.]

Shuuk-.

Even Emilia, Eunha, and Seol who attacked the knight all disappear. Do-jin, who was preparing to swing his sword from behind, looked at the knight as if it were absurd.

“… No, what is this?”

[But you can’t. I fucking hate popular guys.]

So let’s go. The knight said so and ran.
The knight’s sword pierced Dojin’s neck.

-Master!