Chapter 69 – 69. Breaking the Skulls’ Heads

“Haa..”

My body suddenly trembled due to the cool sensation unique to the labyrinth. An unpleasant musty smell and a damp smell characteristic of an old basement were prevalent.

The surroundings are so dark that I need something to emit light. Even though I waited until dark adaptation occurred, it was so dark that I couldn’t see anything.

‘I guess I should at least take out the flashlight… ‘

I turned on the flashlight I had brought with me.

-Click.

“Huh…”

Now I can finally see something. The place where I lay was a narrow secret room full of coffins. I saw a half-crowned wooden door and an unlit stone furnace. Is it like a morgue? I don’t know.

‘Guan…’

I quickly got out of the coffin I was lying in. My back and buttocks were covered in something I couldn’t tell if it was dust or ash. I thought it would be too dusty to shake it out in a secret room, so I just left it alone.

‘Can I start farming from here?’

The goal of clearing the labyrinth was to kill the boss monster and destroy the altar. This means that it doesn’t matter what you do until then. I want to get rid of everything that has already arrived.

‘Hmm… ‘

First, I took out the grave robber’s pickaxe from my inventory. I thought this would be great for destroying the terrain, so I brought it in advance.

Instead, I gave the golden shovel and the killer’s ax to the companions, so it should be okay.

‘It’s like a ghost coming out…’

I also took out an amulet to prevent evil spirits from my bag and put it on. This will prevent you from being possessed or charmed by a spirit body, so it will be effective if you wear it in advance. It would be troublesome to wander around naked in a place that looks like it might be haunted and get caught by something strange.

And the air seemed really bad, so I wore an anti-pollution mask in advance. If you feed it a magic stone, it will work for 20 minutes. It will filter out all fine dust. Just breathing in such an old, worn-out, dust-filled place can deteriorate your health.

Here is not the end. I hung the exorcist’s lantern I brought along on my belt just in case. If you have this, you can prevent the dead from approaching in dangerous situations. It has a light effect and is a perfect product.

Of course, I plan to earn a lot of magic stones here, so I won’t use them yet. Only in real emergencies can you turn it on to create a safe zone.

This simple labyrinth is actually similar to exploring the graveyard area of ​​​​​​the infinite labyrinth in advance. Perhaps the graveyard area of ​​the infinite labyrinth I created will have a similar atmosphere to this one.

Now that I think about it, what happens if you open the entrance to the infinite labyrinth and enter it?

‘Hmm.. I’ll stop thinking about random things.. Let’s see..’

First, I’ll have to use presence detection to see what’s around me.

“Keueuuuuu…” ” !”

When I used Presence Detection while unable to speak due to the penalty for unlocking, the penalty overlapped and I felt like my tongue was twisted.

‘Fuck… !’

I was so sick that I almost died. If the penalty isn’t applied properly, is it just pain? I don’t know the details, but I felt like if I felt this pain a few more times, I would no longer be able to use presence detection because I was scared.

‘Anyway, there are two guys wandering around the hallway outside this room..’

There was no other sign.

‘Good..’

I started breaking the closed coffins with a pickaxe. They didn’t care whether the people outside heard the sound and came or not, they smashed the coffin.

-Boom!!!

“Whoa..”

As expected, the coffin was filled with corpses that had turned into white bones and grave goods placed on the bodies of the corpses. It was full of worn-out weapons, armor and various accessories.

If even one of these is an item, it is very beneficial.

“Oh..”

I took out the large ring on the skeleton’s finger. This was the only item this guy had. The rest were just really worn-out grave goods.

[Ring of elemental amplification: When using elemental skills, the skill is strengthened.]

“Hmm…”

It would be perfect to give this to Hyuna. It was a completely wizard-only accessory. If you wear a freezing gauntlet and a ring of elemental amplification and fire a freezing bullet, wouldn’t you be able to hit everything with a penetrating shot? It is a combination that seems to increase killing power exponentially.

‘I can use it right now..’

In the case of bioelectricity, it will be included in elemental skills, so it will be possible to make a stronger current flow. I think it could not just be electrocution, but even electrocution.

-Bang!! Boom!!!!

“Huh…”

It seems that the dead who were walking in the hallway gathered in front of this room because of the noise made by finally breaking the coffin.

-Thud! Coogung!!

However, the sound can be heard even from inside the room.

‘What… No way… ‘

It seems that even those in the coffin have woken up. I guess I didn’t get detected because I was in the spiritual realm.

-Tukwaang!!!

“Ugh!!!”

Soon the entrance to the room burst open and two skeleton soldiers holding rusty swords rushed in. Moreover, those who had been put to rest woke up one by one, and the coffin lid was lifted.

‘Experience points are crap..’

There is nothing to be afraid of. No matter how extravagant they appear, they are nothing but corpses that have already died and rotted away. It has been said since ancient times that the dead cannot defeat the living.

“Sigh..!!”

The skeletons that entered the room swung rusty knives at me. Using the three-jae method, the machete naturally blocked their swords and cut off their heads.

To be precise, the cervical vertebrae were split and the head and body were forcibly separated.

-Bagaak!!!

A piece of skull that fell off. However, even though they lost their heads, they did not panic and continued to attack me. This is an enemy that will never die unless you crush its head.

‘Blunt weapons would have been more appropriate…’

If Ayun had come in with me, wouldn’t I have been able to crush their heads with a crushing blow right away? Yes, it is best to hit the undead with blunt objects.

“Turn it off..!!”

First, I needed to get the headless bodies away from me so I could step on their heads and crush them. I used Gale Release against the two guys pushing in.

When I slightly extended my left hand forward and activated the skill, the skeleton’s body, which had been hit directly by the strong wind, went into disarray and was thrown out of the hallway.

Perhaps because it was a skeleton, it was light, so it shattered in one hit. The problem is that the head is not destroyed, so the body will soon regenerate.

‘Anyway, one guy has been neutralized right now… ‘

I let go of the remaining one’s attack and used Gale Release once again.

-Too boom!!!

-Pajajak!!!

As expected, when he was hit directly, his body exploded. Rather than the bones being shattered, they fell into pieces and fell across the floor, as if the joints were broken. We will soon reconnect and stand up. Before that, you have to worry.

‘Now!’

The opportunity is when they lose their senses. I quickly pulled out the long knife from my belt and smashed the heads of the skeletons rolling around on the floor.

Byak-!

“Aaaaah…”

“Kuhaa…”

After all, if your head gets smashed, you die right away. Next time, I’ll have to break the head first. After accidentally cutting off his head, it became more difficult to deal with him.

-Cow wow..

“Haa…”

As I was trying to catch my breath, the lid of the coffin broke and the skeletons crawled out, as if they were not giving me any time to rest. This time, three.

‘It’s a bonanza!’

When they were crawling out of the coffin, I didn’t wait for them and hit their heads without any hesitation. Waiting for all the enemies to crawl out is something only a fool would do.

It can be said that the attitude of a true survival expert and labyrinth veteran is to hit the head first before even taking the stance.

-Passsss…

Soon the dead skeletons turned to dust and disappeared. When you kill monsters in the labyrinth, they turn to dust and disappear, leaving magic stones or items in their place.

‘Oh… ‘

Unfortunately, there were no special items and only magic stones were dropped one by one. They were all low-level magic stones. However, if you look closely, these are not the ‘lowest’ level. It was just low class. Since it was quite difficult, it gives you a higher level magic stone.

‘This is it..’

I picked up the lesser magic stones and put them in my bag, and I smashed all the remaining coffins to check the bodies. Unfortunately, no special items were released.

I think it was all about the first ring that came out.

‘For now, there’s nothing more to see here..’

I stuck my head out into the hallway and checked outside. There was nothing special about it; It looked like a stone basement. But, like the rooms I woke up in, there are rooms full of coffins.

‘If there was one item per room… It would be a real advantage…!’

I can’t help but hum. The goal of the labyrinth is not simply to reward rewards for conquering it, but it is also fun to farm like this. It is very fun to pick up not only magic stones but also items that occasionally drop one by one.

‘Let’s go..!!’

As long as there was one item per room and at least three skeletons sleeping in coffins whose presence could not be detected consistently appeared, that was enough.

******

“Whoa..”

Kang Min-seok passed by the dead skeletons and turned off the hammer’s light. The hammer that was emitting holy light gradually returned to its original, ordinary hammer.

‘Fuck.. The further down this goes, the more difficult it gets..’

He turned back from the entrance to the third basement floor. It wasn’t something he would do if he went down alone.

He guesses that the mysterious owner of the catacombs exists at the end of the third floor. However, the road to get there was quite arduous.

‘We need to gather people on the first floor and attack again…’

As you go down, the combat power of the skeletons that appears increases ridiculously.

If the dead on the first floor were just reanimated skeletons, from the second floor it seemed like the fight had become quite difficult, and from the third floor, even those using skills crawled out one by one.

‘They say it’s upper-intermediate difficulty.. But where on earth does it say it’s upper-intermediate?’

It was a difficulty setting that Kang Min-seok could not understand at all. It seemed like I would have to drag at least 20 awakened people down to get out of this labyrinth of ridiculous difficulty.

-Kwaang!!!!

At that time, as he was returning to the second floor, the sound of something exploding was heard in his ears.

The sound was quite unusual. It was the sound of someone fighting and breaking something. Thinking that there must be a survivor who came down here, Kang Min-seok ran towards the epicenter of the sound.

All he could think about was not to let his potential companion his, who might be able to conquer the labyrinth with him, die at the hands of skeletons.

“What… “

However, contrary to Kang Min-seok’s thoughts, the scenery he saw when he reached the source of the noise was very heterogeneous. There, a strange man with his head shaved was laughing and smashing skulls.

Even though the skeletons on the second floor were considered to have quite high fighting power, the machete and sword wielded by the assailant thoroughly smashed their heads as if they did not care about that fact.

A monster with the combat power of 20 ordinary awakened people was wandering through the labyrinth.