198 – The returner goes crazy (1)
“Hey.”
It means that you are trained to lose and regain your mind. I have to cancel.
When I unexpectedly lost consciousness, I was frozen in a daze, as if I had forgotten all my previous experiences. What was that doll just now?
“Hey. “Get up.”
From my vague sense, I am lying face down on the rough floor somewhere. I can also hear the sound of flowing water somewhere.
My body is heavy. To have a headache. This feeling of being buried in heavy sand. This feeling of having dumbbells hanging all over your body. This feeling of shaking when you get up from your chair after working all night. It’s a feeling I haven’t felt in a long time.
“Ugh… “
Above all, the feeling of discomfort I felt throughout my body was beyond normal. It feels like my body is not my body…
“Oh, really, bastard. Wake up. “Ugh?”
Bah!
“Oops!”
At that moment, I felt a dull pain in the back of my head. At the same time, my eyes flashed in shock and I felt my body rolling a couple of times on the gravel.
[You have suffered damage.]
I regressed.
[Return to the moment you first entered the 18-2 floor.]
***
“Hey.”
This time, as soon as I heard the voice, I jumped up from where I was lying down. Of course, my physical condition was still a mess, so I stumbled, but I recovered from the helpless state I was in anyway. My head was cloudy and dizzy, but I tried to concentrate.
“Wow, what a surprise.”
The first thing I saw was a flowing valley. I think I was lying on the gravel next to a valley. There is a green mountain behind the valley and a clear sky.
“Where are you looking?”
I also saw a furry bandit sticking his face in front of my nose. The reason they were judged to be bandits was because they were carrying a large sword on their backs and their sanitary conditions were literally abysmal. There is a lot of hair all over the body.
“… “Where is this place?”
“Here? Where is Hwang Bingsan? Is this guy acting a bit irritable? “You don’t even know where this is?”
I grab my dizzy head and organize my thoughts. Obviously, they said they would return to the 18-2nd floor. Maybe the 3rd floor had this mechanism? Layers are hidden within layers, preventing regression. Up to this point, I understood it simply.
Next is Hwang Bingsan. This is my first time hearing this name. It is definitely not Korea, and it is not a named mountain like Taesan or Hwasan Hundred Thousand Mountains that appear in martial arts magazines.
“Doll… “
The sight of an angel attaching an amulet to a doll passes by. I even lost consciousness right after. Judging from the series of processes, this floor is probably…
“Ah, this f*cking bastard is real.”
My thoughts could not continue. This was because the furry dog in front of me suddenly grabbed hold of my sword.
“Are you ignoring me? Huh? Ignore me? This looks really bad, right? Uh?”
A furry dog holds a sword in one hand and threatens me. It was a bloody sight that would have made an ordinary person tremble or urinate in fear.
“… Under.”
For some reason, I burst out laughing. That guy’s attitude is so…
“What are you doing?”
Because it was terrible.
I don’t know how to compare. Those idiots I met on the 12th floor? It’s so messed up that it’s rude to compare it to those guys. 3Rd Floor… no. Second floor. I think the prayers of the gangster players I met on the second floor were right around there.
In other words, it means that it is close to that of an ordinary person who just holds a weapon. It was an error to hold that large sword with one hand in the first place. Look, it’s so heavy that my arms are shaking slightly.
“What are you doing? Ha, this is crazy.”
The bandit realized that I was looking at my arm and quickly grabbed the sword with both hands. But his origins have long been revealed.
“Come.”
Normally, I would have just quickly subdued him and moved on. Because I thought it was a waste to waste time on a minnow like that.
But I remember the dull pain I felt in the back of my head earlier. That bastard must have kicked me for not answering. My head still feels dizzy and my body feels heavy, but it’s not to the point where I’m losing to that bastard. I have to show at least a little bit of bitterness.
“Die!!!”
A furry man who wields the sword without deviating even an inch from expectations. Not only was the power not applied properly, but the route was too honest. Isn’t this no different from me swinging a sword in the grass in the tutorial?
Although I don’t have a weapon in my hand, I have reached the level of a superhuman and my body itself is already a weapon.
“Hey. “You can’t do that.”
Stretch out your left hand and grab the guy’s sword. And at the same time with your right hand…
Kkwajijijik!!!
“Huh?”
The flesh bursts. Bones break. A pain so deep that it is not exhilarating but can cause cramps. Blood spraying out in all directions like firecrackers exploding.
“Uh, uh… “
The flustered furry fell on its back. The sword he was holding was half buried in my left hand and was shaking. To be exact, it started from the part of my hand where I was trying to receive the sword and went almost all the way to my wrist.
“… ?”
Without even having time to scream in pain.
[You have suffered damage.]
I regressed.
[Return to the moment you first entered the 18-2 floor.]
***
“Hey.”
I finally realized the identity of the sense of discomfort I was feeling.
It’s not that my body was heavy. It’s not that magical power didn’t work as intended. Just… My body had changed so badly.
＜18Th floor＞
-On the 18th floor, the physical abilities of all climbers are fixed to be the same.
-Submit compensation that exceeds the supervisor’s threshold.
A task message from the 18th floor passes by in an instant.
Yes, I said that physical abilities are fixed. That had a negative connotation. For some reason, I thought the enemy level was too low.
If you ask, ‘I’m not an idiot, why is it so late to realize it?’… I was so dizzy that I realized it late. And since my height and physical appearance are exactly the same, I never thought that my physical specifications would have changed. When I approached the gently flowing stream and looked at my face, my face was the same.
If you think about what kind of doll a talisman was attached to… It’s not reincarnation or possession, but I think you can think of it as having entered an alter ego that is completely identical to my own, but weakened.
“Write… “
No, it’s not just this. The dwarven armor was gone, the transparent gloves on his hands were gone, and the sword sheath that securely protected his waist was gone. So, it means completely naked. Except for one oriental cloth dress, I have nothing.
“Hey. Ignore… “
“Shut up.”
Of course, I’ll say it again, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to lose to this idiot.
Take a step forward and at the same time extend your fist toward the furry solar plexus. Even if it were an ordinary person, he would have instinctively turned his body or stretched out his hand to block it, but the furry dog is currently pushing its face toward me in an attempt to catch Gao. There’s no way you can see my fist in this position.
Wow!
“Oops!”
If you are hit hard in the solar plexus, your muscles will be shocked and you will not be able to breathe well. While the furry creature was bending down and croaking, I pulled out the sword from behind its back and threw it far away. Now this guy is my food.
“Hey.”
“Wow… “
“Hey. “Aren’t you going to answer?”
Before returning, he hit me on the back of the head simply for not answering, which shows that this guy is a person who has not been treated properly. Maybe he’s just a scoundrel who believes in his scary face and just lives there. The condition of the sword that was just thrown away was also quite bad. I am not a person who has properly learned martial arts.
But this furry dog is the only place I can get information right now. What kind of world is this? And in order to find out where the ‘supervisors’ mentioned in the message are, their cooperation is essential.
Why did you return to that topic? That’s because I tried to catch the falling blade with my hand. Basically, there is a reason why people tell people not to do something.
“Hey. I’m going to ask you a few questions now… “
“What the f*ck… The cub… “
However, as if I had not yet come to my senses, the furry dog tried to grab my ankle. I sighed and quickly took my foot away.
-Saaagh.
His long, unkempt, dirty nails scratched the delicate skin of my ankles.
Soon, a drop of blood began to form.
“… Ah.”
[You have suffered damage.]
[Return to the moment you first entered the 18-2 floor.]
***
I understand for sure. This world is so unfavorable to me.
It is not possible to press the button based on the stat. The total amount of magical power is also far short of that of a real body. Not only ‘Cold’, but even ‘Flash Bomb’, which I have never used since I first got it, cannot be activated. Maybe it’s because there’s nothing overwhelming about it, so the Awe trait doesn’t activate.
Above all, in a fight like this for ordinary people, it is very difficult to overpower the opponent with a single sword. I didn’t specialize in martial arts, so I’m not at the level where I can hit an opponent’s jaw with a single punch, and if I hit a wrong punch or kick and hurt my bones, I could regress.
“Are you sorry?”
“Sorry!”
Of course, that doesn’t mean you lose to this furry dog. Still, I am a person who has gone through many battles, and this guy was a beginner who didn’t even know how to hold a weapon properly. If you fight carefully, you can subdue it without getting hurt. The question is, is this possible even when the number of enemies increases? They say even professional boxers run away if they feel like they are going to be surrounded in a street fight.
But this is not what is important. The results of the time I spent interrogating the furry dog were so shocking that I forgot about my disadvantage.
“I have a naegong and a martial arts expert… There are no clans? “Aren’t there things like volcano sects, shamans, Shaolin temples, and heavenly demons?”
“… Yes.”
“Even these so-called martial artists can’t use something like this? “Are you just an ordinary person who is healthy and strong?”
“… Yes.”
So, if we were to express this world in modern vocabulary…
‘Low-power martial arts’ was the most appropriate expression.