Chapter 276 – #76. 5 Stars (2).

#76. 5 stars.

If you want to wake up on the 4th floor, you need to collect 50 ‘rooms’.
It’s not that easy, so most people skip it.
Only some bosses with large areas can be awakened.
Like Orihime or Christina…

Orihime is a 5 star.
It means that you have awakened.
I didn’t bother to ask.
I know what it is, but there was no reason to ask.

“Once we have a room, what do we do next?”
“If you collect 50 rooms, the rooms will be connected.”

It is ambiguous to explain.

“Because the wall disappears and turns into a single space? After that, a core is created, and you need to protect that core to awaken.”

In simple words, it can be seen as a defense.
You have to endure for a week against the constantly pouring monsters.

“Difficult?”
“It shouldn’t be that difficult.”

I’m not sure, but So Da-hee wasn’t too difficult.
It’s more annoying than difficult, and the conditions are just too demanding.

Getting 50 rooms is not an easy task.
I don’t know if you know
Most players skip this awakening without even knowing the conditions for the awakening ordeal.

‘Once is fine, but…’

While climbing the ‘Tower of Struggle’, you can pass the awakening at least once.
Boss monsters can be hunted even if the number of stars matches the floor.
However, it’s a big deal if you start to fall behind.
No matter how strong you are, if you don’t have enough Castle (★), you won’t be able to damage the boss monster.

“Are you going to do it alone?”
“We can do it together. Instead, the difficulty level increases.”

Looking at the awakening process so far, awakening was mostly a fight against myself.
The boss monster raid can be carried away without lifting a hand, but the awakening must be done by oneself.
Of course, as the number of people increases, it becomes more difficult.

“It’s okay even if the difficulty is difficult. Because you can eat it raw.”
“… ?”

Dahee Yu looked at me as if she didn’t understand.
On the 3rd floor, I went through a lot of trouble with awakening, so I didn’t understand the words to eat raw.
The face is full of worry.
It was dyed gray.

“It’s easy if you know how.”

This is all expedient.
An expedient that even So Da-hee did not realize.
It was a way to remember what the awakening ordeal was like.

“Let’s go for now.”

In preparation for trials, it is good if we create an advantageous field.
To do so, it is necessary to obtain ‘rooms’ in an artificial form.

For example, taking 50 ‘rooms’ in a straight line.
In that way, the space of trials for awakening also becomes a one-way passage.
It makes it much easier to protect the core.

You can’t get a transfer from Orihime.
Partly because you can’t pick a room and pass it.
If only necessary things could be transferred, Orihime’s slaves wouldn’t have been that many.

Orihime’s land turns into a space of trials?
Just imagining it is terrifying.

Dahee Yoo asked me as if she understood.

“Is that so?”
“I don’t know if it will or not… Maybe.”
“What is that.”

So Da-hee just built up her strength and gathered her colleagues to pass the awakening ordeal.
It means that you have suffered as much as you have.
I came up with a trick to avoid that suffering as much as possible.

“That’s how I came up with it. It doesn’t even appear in the novel…”
“You mean you haven’t tried it?”
“Right.”

I just made a hypothesis, now it’s the stage of proof.

“Only the place where the core is located is a safe area, so if you expand the ‘room’ in all directions, monsters will appear in many places, making it difficult.”
“If the aisle is straight, you only need to block two places, right?”
“Right. That’s why I thought that if I continued to expand in one direction, I would have a much better advantage than normal.”

It doesn’t have to be a straight line.
You can break it along the way.
Importantly, one way.
As long as you don’t make small branches, it’s okay to go straight or tortuous.

We ran around plundering ‘rooms’.
There was no hesitation in Yu Da-hee’s sword.
With each swing, several people died, and drops of blood spread in all directions.

50 rooms were quickly available.
He’s so overwhelmingly strong that even Orihime can’t stop him.
Currently, no player can beat Yu Da-hee on the 4th floor.

“Exactly… When there were 50 of them, a message popped up.”

The owner of the room was decided to be Yoo Da-hee.
There was no other reason.

“Let’s bring Isilia and Titania.”

Orihime is already a 5-star, so she is not subject to awakening.
Still only the 4-adult skinny girls get together, roll around happily for a week, and then come back.

I took a dragon and a succubus and stood in Yoo Da-hee’s ‘room’.
By now, a message about the awakening ordeal must have appeared in front of Yu Da-hee.

“Are you going in?”

Dahee Yoo asked.
In response, I nodded slowly.

I already bought the things I needed at the store.
I did efficient shopping because I knew what I couldn’t use and what I could use.
With these resources, you can live without scarcity.
The preparations are complete.

“Oh, clothes!? Master, the floor is strange!”

With Yoo Da-hee as the center, the ‘room’ began to turn black.
The walls that had been covered with soil are plastered with black light, and torches are burning on the empty-looking black walls.
The door disappeared like powder.

It is covered in black on all sides, but passages and areas can be distinguished by torches attached to the walls.
It was a terrifying landscape.

“Quite… It’s bloody.”

When I read it in writing and when I actually experienced it, the feeling was definitely different.
Even though I knew everything, it was to the point of flinching.

—
[An hour later, the first wave of monsters arrives.]
[60:00]
—

Notification popped up.
The first monster wave is an hour later, but the second may be sometime.
This hour was the last break, and preparation time.

“Let’s move quickly.”

Dahee Yoo drew attention by clapping her hands.
He took the distracted Titania and Isilia and started building a fortress that wasn’t a fortress.

‘Core…’

The space we are standing in is a safe zone.
Monsters are constantly created in the rest of the space except for the safe area.
If there are few people, they appear sparsely, and if there are many people, they appear endlessly.

‘Not bad.’

It was placed like this on purpose.
It has walls on three sides and only one side is open.
As a result, the safe area with the core was lit up with torches.

A core that emits brilliant light.
The core had a foreign aura, not magical power.
It doesn’t seem to have any special effect, but the monsters keep running towards this core.
Whether you die or not

My role is to make a temporary lodging.
Since the resources available for the Awakening Ordeal are limited, there is no choice but to use a rough tent for a week.

I’m thinking of putting up tents on both sides with the core in the middle.

‘But this is good enough.’

Compared to the military tent A, this is close to a 12-person commander’s tent or tent.

Is it really something you can install yourself?
Such questions are worries that Private First Class Kim Jin-woo would have in the past.

Now player Kim Jin-woo.
My strength and agility were incomparable to that of my strong friend, the army.

“Shadow, hold it over there.”
─ Like this?
“Oh, you stupid bastard. Get it right pull.”
─ Like this?
“Oh, fuck. Just turn it off.”
[‘Pluto’s Touch’ is activated.]

Leaving behind the fucking Shadow Spirit, I started using the Black Hand.
It feels like I have multiple arms, but I’ve already adapted to them for a long time, so I can use them freely like my own.

“Braided… !”
“Oh oh… How great?”

Dahee Yoo, who had finished her work before she knew it, clapped behind her.
Titania and Isilia also clapped their hands along with Yu Da-hee.

“Let me help you…”
“We did that.”

Dahee Yoo shamelessly pointed at the wall.
It is a wall about 5 meters high, made with raw materials.
‘Fortification Kit A’ and ‘Fortress Wall B’, I couldn’t use the finished products sold on the 4th floor, so I had to make them myself.
Mix a lot of cement, mix ice with Isilia, and weave mana together to make it hard.

It looked sloppy, but it wasn’t bad.
That’s enough to keep me strong.
It was a much more perfect situation than the ordeal in the novel.

“By the way, why did you set up two tents?”
“… Of course you should install two.”
“Why?”

Dahee Yoo asked why.
I was asking as if I really didn’t know, so it was absurd.

“Men and women.”
“No, why did you share it?
“Then?”

Dahee Yoo let out a laugh as if it were absurd.
Although it’s funny how we split the room between us.
It’s awkward to write them all together.
Even if it’s not very wide, it’s better to share each other’s space.

“You write over there, I’ll write over there.”
“Yeah, what… I can’t help it because I’ve already done it. Because I can’t tear it down again.”

Dahee Yu took Titania and Isilia into the tent.
It seats 12, so it will be enough for three people.

I went into the tent too.
It was nice to have a comfortable space, spacious.

I filled the room with everything I needed in moderation.
The black floor was very annoying, so I laid a large floor and put a bright light on it.
Stress management is more important than you think because you can’t even see sunlight for a week.

[13:22]

About 10 minutes left.
After 10 minutes, monsters will jump out of the aisle.

“The monsters swarming in the darkness flashed red eyes. It showed sharp teeth and claws. They were salivating sticky saliva, and they seemed to think of us as prey.”
「Unable to prepare for anything, we started dealing with monsters with nothing to lean on. We turned our backs on each other and endured, but it didn’t last very long.”

Except for So Da-hee, a regressor who is accustomed to death, everyone panicked.
Because of the monsters that flocked to them no matter how hard they defeated them, even those strong players died in despair.
Everyone is equal before death.
Because no one wants death.

─ Kim Jinwoo, can I come in?

Dahee Yu called me from outside the tent.
He didn’t just come in, he asked me for permission.

“I’ll go.”
— …

There is no answer.
I left the inside and went out of the tent.

Outside the tent, Dahee Yoo and other children were standing.

“Why?”
“I wonder if I should prepare soon.”

Although I don’t have a sense of early.
With Titania and Aicilia, it’s not a bad choice.
It doesn’t seem like you need to rest inside to rest.

“It’ll be fine if you stay inside.”

Even a crude castle wall can serve as a wall to some extent.
You don’t have to go out and fight.

“But we… Because Dahee Yu is very strong…”

However, it is also true that there is no reason to hold out only inside.
Dahee Yoo is stronger than anyone else.
The final weapon is highly likely to proceed smoothly.

‘Unless there are special variables…’

I thought about ‘God’ again.
Now that I found out that he was interfering deeply enough to manipulate Yu Da-hee’s personal memories, I couldn’t just think of an easy way.

“Let’s stay inside. There are a lot of long-range attack methods.”

Isilia basically doesn’t get along with the avant-garde.
A style that sweeps away enemies using large-scale magic.

Titania is useless in battle except for her mouth and cheeks.
It’s avant-garde and nabal, and it’s close to surplus power.

Yu Da-hee has nothing to say.

‘There’s a black hand.’

I have a lot of ranged attacks.
Unexpectedly, I wondered if the rearguard would be more suitable than the avant-garde.
The recently created holy sword Excalibur’s second plant-eating solar meteor is the same.

I feel like I’ve found my identity.
Should I give up my sword and become a wizard?

“… Okay. Let’s hold on inside for now.”

Dahee Yoo also believed in my opinion.
Since you know the contents of the novel, you don’t doubt it.

Titania had no idea in the first place, and Isilia didn’t bother to refute either.

[07:30]

7 minutes left.
I was starting to get nervous for some reason.
After all, it’s all about catching monsters, but it feels strange.

[03:10]

I couldn’t stand the tension and went up the wall.
Although the walls are about 5 meters high, there are no steps or ladders.
Using his transcendent physical ability, he easily ran about 5 meters.

—
[00:30]
[The first monster wave is coming soon!]
—

Kyaaaaa-!

A monster’s cry came from far away.
The sound coming through the aisle was quite menacing.

Hwareuk-!

The torch flickers loudly.
It seemed to represent the tension in my heart.

[00:00]
[The first monster wave is coming!]

The time allotted has run out
Doo doo doo-!
I could feel the monsters running this way.

[‘Pluto’s Touch’ is activated.]

It would be nice if I could draw the life force out of them.
I didn’t expect it to be unconditionally possible.

Key eh eh eh!

Goblin.
It started with the greenskin goblins.

What’s slightly different from normal goblins is that their classes are properly mixed.
Despite the fact that shamans were rare due to simple ignorance, there were many shamans or warriors wearing armor in the monster group.

“Let’s go!”
Damn it-!

Looking at the goblins from the top of the castle wall, it seems that a wave of green light is rushing.
An unstoppable, unstoppable flow.

Kyaaaaagh!

Ice picks rushed towards the goblins.
They came towards the core even as they were pierced by ice picks.

I beat them up with my Black Hand.
He slapped the goblins as if he was slapping a fly.

Kwajik-! Kwajik-!

Burst out
It became a lump of meat with an unpleasant sound.
However, it was incessant.

“Wow…”

No matter how many people say there are four, no matter how many people say there is Yu Da-hee, it poured out enough to make me wonder if it was a little too much.

“Wouldn’t it be better for me to step out?”

Yu Da-hee also noticed it.
It means that it is very inefficient to do only Mercury on top of the castle wall.

“…”

I quietly nodded.
I thought it would be much better to move my body.

It was then.

Kiek, kieek!

As soon as Dahee Yu went down, the goblins started fighting with each other.
He swung his club and stabbed his sword.

“What is this…”

Even while killing the goblins, Dahee Yu looked at the situation strangely.
He glanced at me from time to time, but I couldn’t give Yoo Da-hee an answer either.

‘What?’

I don’t know, how can you tell me?

“Master, all the monsters are male.”
“Uh?”
“Because they are goblins, there are overwhelmingly males.”

Titania glanced over at the minister fighting among the goblins.
Concentrating her magical energy on her eyesight, she finally began to be seen.
A pink air current enveloped the battlefield.

Titania murmured, clutching her forehead as if dizzy.

“Is it because I overused my ability… ? Her head hurts… ? I guess I’m hungry too…”