Chapter 194 – 194. It Smells

After relieving all my stress, I entered the nether tunnel feeling refreshed.

‘It’s red.’

It was a tunnel made entirely of bright red rocks and stones. It’s a place where you feel like your eyes will get very tired if you stay there for a long time.

And in the middle of the tunnel, there were unidentifiable glowing stones that could have been used as electric lights. Thanks to this, it wasn’t so dark that I couldn’t see an inch in front of me.

“Heung! Cough, cluck!!! Ugh, fuck.”

[Miasma is spread everywhere. Quickly put on a gas mask.]

“Uh oh. “Writing.”

As Agaf said, yellowish smoke was spreading throughout the Nether Tunnel. Isn’t this going to explode?

If someone fires the wrong gun, it seems like everything will fall apart.

I am anxious.

“Anyway, it’s hot.”

[The temperature is quite high. And heat radiates out from the wall intermittently.]

It felt like I had been forced to make my way through lava. As the name Nether suggests, it is filled with miasma and heat. It feels like I was forced into the fiery pit of hell.

The miasma is so cloudy and the heat is so hot that even a short walk makes you sweat.

‘I want to leave quickly.’

You can go out as long as you catch the Balrog that is wandering around here. And if you hunt him down and take the evidence, you can recruit a weapon craftsman.

It would be better to deal with it quickly and get out. I want to go out before 4 o’clock, but I also feel sweaty and uncomfortable.

‘Now then, where on earth is Balrog?’

I was worried as I scraped off the shiny stones embedded in the wall with a knife.

[Heat Ore: It emits a bright light when the temperature is over 30 degrees. As the temperature rises, it emits stronger light, and if the temperature is too high, it explodes.]

“This is a bit hot.”

[I guess I should at least wear gloves to pick it up.]

“I know. And. “I think I’m already getting blisters.”

The hot stone was very hot. Still, it is said to be a stone that emits light as long as it is heated, so it may be useful.

It is said that it glows even when the temperature is above 30 degrees, so if you hold it tightly, it will shine. It can emit light even with human body temperature.

‘Well, I don’t really need it.’

Since I now wear a halo above my head, I don’t have to use a flashlight or any other light source.

‘Now that I think about it…’

Because I had an injured arm, at first everyone couldn’t react to the angel ring floating above my head, but later they started asking me what it was.

I just received it as a reward, but when I told them I couldn’t take it away, everyone said so, so I passed on it. But the funny thing is, the tattoos on my body reacted quite strongly.

The horns on my forehead were so small that I only noticed them later.

‘Tattoos are a bit like that.’

Since Halo is so unique, you could pass it off as just that, but the Irezumi carved into the body was strangely realistic and seemed to loom large.

Since I stick with my bald head for the sake of my skills, when everyone says I’ve become stronger by using items, even if my appearance changes a little, I just think it’s okay and move on.

As long as it doesn’t become too repulsive or repulsive, there’s an atmosphere where you just move on and say there’s nothing you can do about it.

“See. Should we just keep walking around?”

[I can feel a lot of presence down here. I have to find a way down.]

“Okay.”

I walked down the long tunnel under Agaf’s guidance. Even after going for a while, I couldn’t see a single ant baby. It seems that there are no survivors on the first floor. Maybe everyone went down.

There were just pickaxes lying around and corpses so dry that it was hard to tell when they died, left here and there.

The corpses looked like miners who had not yet escaped. I couldn’t even guess when he died. Because most of them were skeletons.

“Oh yea!!! It’s a gold coin!”

[Be frugal.]

“Gather the dust and create a mountain.”

I diligently searched for the miners’ corpses. There were many cases where nothing came out, but sometimes gold coins or coins did come out.

Of course, corpse farming is the best. It would be nice to be able to earn some extra income while I’m already moving around.

[There is a road leading down there.]

“Oh finally!”

You may be able to enter a place where you feel popular. I felt even better because I finally found it after wandering around for almost an hour, shaking off the corpse.

I also brought a lot of hot stones. If the temperature is raised significantly through naturalization, it can be used as a bomb. I think I took almost a hundred items.

I filled my pocket with coins, so I got my money’s worth.

“It’s hotter below.”

As we went down, the temperature rose further. It’s hotter than upstairs. Is it a structure that keeps getting hotter as you go down?

And unlike the upstairs, I could clearly feel the crowd of people gathered around. It seems like quite a few survivors are wandering around here. There are a lot of prey roaming around.

“Hmm?”

And it seemed like some of them had found me. The faded eyes signaled the gaze of many. Something is coming.

“Kyaaaho!!!!”

“It’s food!!!”

Beggars who looked like they had just picked up straws rushed in.

The beggar standing in front of them fiercely swung her butcher’s knife.

It’s a pretty sharp attack. Moreover, I was a little late in reacting because he suddenly jumped out from a corner and swung a knife at my face.

Kang!!!

“Huh?”

He probably meant to plunge a knife into his face, but he was too weak.

My durability is already so ridiculously high that even a bullet won’t hit me. But there’s no way such a dull blade could get stuck. It’s a weaker attack than Saeyeon’s punch.

Haha!!!!

I grabbed the arm of the man wielding the knife, broke it, and then kicked him in the groin.

Wow!!!!

With the feeling of something being crushed, the beggar sat down with blood foaming at the mouth, and I immediately plunged the knife into his mouth and pulled it out again.

Just one for now.

“One, two, three…”

There seemed to be ten people gathered there. They looked a little scared. The knife doesn’t stick, so it makes sense. It must have been the best weapon they had right now.

Fuuuuuk!!!!!

First, I grabbed a crude blade and lunged at the guy who was standing there hesitantly, swinging my sword at him.

The Demon’s long sword pierced the man’s abdomen and exited through his back, and he fell helplessly with his stomach open.

“Ugh!!!”

“Fuck!! Let’s jump!!”

“Hey!! I’m already two behind! “If you go back now, you’ll end up losing the pages!!”

“Okay! If we catch that bastard, there are three! Let’s kill and fill our stomachs!! All you have to do is fill your stomach!”

“Hey fuck!! It’s predation!!!”

They tried to kill me, an outsider, to get their meat.

‘Sobbing. Their situation is truly pitiful and pitiful.’

So it would be better to kill them all and liberate them.

Yes, let’s save it. Their twisted souls.

“Come!!!”

Before I encounter the Balrog, I will become the Balrog of the Nether.

“Ugh!!!”

“Fuck you!! Even if you run away, you’ll starve anyway!!”

“Just hit it!!! Let’s fight and die!!”

Beggars, crazy with hunger, rushed towards me. Those who don’t have a single skill.

Those who had nothing but dirty-looking matting and worn-out cutlery put up desperate resistance.

‘It’s pretty sharp, but…’

That’s all.

Their desperate struggles did no harm to me.

Even if I didn’t dodge or block the swinging blade, it didn’t even scratch me, and if I grabbed it lightly and applied force, my bones were crushed, and my flesh was crushed.

“Quaaa!!!!”

I grabbed one guy’s head and blew it open.

Afterward, he picked up the blade the man was holding and threw it with all his might into the face of the man holding the pickaxe, hitting him. Only then did he throw the dead beggar’s body at the man who was trying to run away, knocking him down.

“OMG!!! “Save me!?”

Begging for your life is not accepted. I stepped on the head of the man who was screaming for help from the dead body. These bastards had no intention of saving my life, but they are always whining to save me.

When his head was crushed, his brain fluid splattered and gave off an unpleasant sticky sensation.

After killing all twelve beggars, they searched for their bodies. As expected, nothing special came out. These beggar bastards without even a coin.

“I just got blood on my body for no reason. “I still feel uncomfortable because of the sweat.”

[That’s right.]

-Quaaa!!!!!

“Uh? It’s a scream.”

I headed in the direction of the sound again.

There might be a Balrog wandering around there. Since the goal is to catch, kill, and leave as quickly as possible, it is better to run to a place where you think there is something.

In places where even standing still is difficult, it is better to get out quickly.

“Huh? What is that again? Does the Balrog look like that?”

[That is not a Balrog.]

When they arrived at the source of the sound, a masked man was standing over the corpses of the beggars. No matter how you look at it, it’s not a Balrog. Are you a visitor like me?

The weapon used appears to be a hammer. Looking at the faces of the beggars after they died, it looks like they all had their heads smashed.

That guy seems like he has some serious skills. I think it would be perfect for warming up. Let’s figure out the skill and kill it.

“…”

“Hey. You there.”

First, I looked at the skills and talked to the guy who was busy rummaging through the corpse.

‘What…’

The skill is not visible. It’s not that it doesn’t exist at all. It didn’t look like a hazy mosaic. Furthermore, it was a reverse attempt to detect skills.

‘What is it?’

I don’t know why, but that guy looked a little dangerous. He even stared at me without answering, and then his eyes suddenly changed.

“You are not human.”

Since I inherited the power of a yoma, I am not human.

“Are you a subordinate of the evil spirit?”

“Huh? What is that… Ah.”

It wasn’t just because he was a youma, it seemed like he felt evil in me.

“Do you know about evil spirits?”

“…”

He didn’t answer my question.

I just lifted my sword without saying a word.

“Chew.”

The scent of evil spirits on my body.

That guy took charge of it. Seeing as he walks around hiding his skills, there’s definitely something there. Since it’s in a hostile state, I guess I’ll have no choice but to hold it until it’s about to die and then dig up information.

Cuuuuut

At that time, the sound of something being smashed was heard from upstairs.

[It’s a Balrog… It came down from above.]

It was so hot that I was dying, but I went downstairs.

Balrog, that bastard… It came down from above. I had an ominous feeling that if I did this wrong, the embossing would be ruined.