NOVEL NEXT chapter 1
1. Fanfare
…Chilly, copper coins fly to my chest plugged in
“Uhh… I heard there are beggars these days too?”
“Young guy, eh… He doesn’t know how to work! Even if I could go into the labyrinth at this time and defeat only the goblins, I would live with glue in my mouth!”
No matter what people say, I put my hands out in front of me and stooped.
Then, the few copper coins that fell on the palm of my hand, and the small money that the adventurers of the labyrinth threw at me after seeing me snarky were the only way for me to survive.
I didn’t want to live like this either.
I don’t even think about living in a f*cking different world where people hang their heads in a shabby fountain in a back alley where people don’t come often, drink water, and somehow melt and eat bread that crumbles into bricks when you hit it with a brick because it doesn’t harden. I didn’t even want to.
“This… This f*ck is this a game! You f*cking developer bastard! How did you sell the beginner support package!”
When he threw a loaf of hard bread purchased for three copper coins in anger, stone powder splattered on the wall and the loaf of bread was embedded in it. This bread is harder than a castle wall!
“Can you survive by eating this…?”
I didn’t even send a 5,700 word note to the game developer.
I didn’t even leave a bad review for this roguelite game ‘Labyrinth Maze’ that came out until the 3rd episode.
I didn’t have monstrous achievements like clearing a no-hit speedrun, though I didn’t have the skills to do that.
I read the strategy guide carefully, but applying it was another matter.
Rather, after repeating the road-save dozens of times, he barely managed to get off his beginner’s ticket and enter the middle water, chewing, tearing, and tasting the game.
“Why am I possessed by this f*cking game…”
…Should I do it? As I was thinking about it, one thing came to my mind.
After finishing all the stories leading up to the third episode, to the goddess who finally appeared…
“Oh?”
You pressed the attack button X.
Twice in a row
During a conversation
Directly towards her head.
f*ck. Maybe that’s it, is that it? The b*tch called the goddess is small, can’t it?
As soon as she thought that, a fanfare exploded in front of her eyes.
*******
[Achievement]
[LV1 Enlightenment!]
*******
You f*cker!
Let’s say it’s okay to throw it into the game for attacking the goddess by conceding a hundred times, a thousand times, no, 100,000 times, 100,000 times, or even a million times.
The year engraved on scraps of newspaper scattered in the alley.
In the year 881 of the Imperial calendar, the time period I am in was exactly the point at which the first story ended.
A 25-layer labyrinth, a story in which the main character in the game spends about 11 years as an adventurer, breaks through the last layer, and obtains the Philosopher’s Stone from the last layer.
It would be nice if it ended like that, but in fact, the Philosopher’s Stone in the last layer was a protection device installed by the archmage in the past to prevent the invasion of the demon world, and a stupid adventurer who came out of the labyrinth without knowing it opened a direct pass with the demon world. Fall
The main plot of the 2nd episode was to stop the invasion of the demon realm by removing the big sh*t, and then advance to the demon realm.
The problem was not that trivial.
This sh*t manga game put a term in the worldview time zone between the first and second episodes.
“……The point at which the invasion of the demon army begins in earnest is the year 981 of the imperial calendar.”
In other words, it was said that the full-fledged story of the second episode would only begin after 100 years from now.
“This is just to die of old age here…”
Since the background is basically the Middle Ages, it is an era in which ordinary people are praised for living a long life even if they live only 70 years, let alone live 100 years. Of course, various bizarre settings have been mixed, but it is a world that is running the worst without hygiene and health.
Even in this work, it is common for people to get poisoned or bleed if something is wrongly touched or eaten. The only thing that is verified is to cook the animal meat that I personally hunted and eat it over fire or buy verified food in the city. It was just that.
“Squeak, squeak!”
I couldn’t bear to throw it away. When the crumbs fell from the loaf of bread that I had pulled back from the wall, a little mouse crawled up to her feet to pick it up and eat it.
Seeing that, I took the bread and quietly stepped back.
Because there was a mass of calamity there.
Within the Labyrinth Maze game, there were several things called Newbie Cutters.
An invisible instant-death scaffolding trap covered in infamous plants from the first game.
Strangely cheap chunks of meat sold by the secret merchant at the entrance of the labyrinth, with a 99.9% Chance of being human flesh.
And…It was a rat.
Speaking of Labyrinth Maze Gal
… ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ … ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ … ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ
-God of Plague-
[If you hit it, you will fall behind]
Would a cone called
Be created and go around?
If you approach or melee attack a rat that has approached you without thinking, you will receive a [Disease] Penalty. A penalty that is inflicted simply because you got close.
Malicious state abnormality that is not even registered in the status window at first. It’s just that the character walks and occasionally coughs once or twice, and other than that, no other symptoms appear.
However, if you wake up after sleeping at an inn for about three days in game time or stay homeless in the labyrinth, things start to happen from then on. Not only does the adventurer’s ability drop by up to 40%, but an additional infection penalty is added, and in an instant consumes one’s stamina
Even if he could survive by taking recovery pills, he could only last two days with the amount of physical strength potions he had in the beginning. If you enter the depths of the labyrinth, you will die naturally before you can escape.
It was truly a newbie cutting machine with a penalty that could not be lifted unless there were at least 30 LV or higher priest colleagues.
The sh*tty thing about the rat that was classified as the weakest was that it didn’t end by avoiding it, but just like now, it constantly ran toward the adventurer in search of food.
When sleeping at home, making a bonfire or using a simple barrier by a wizard or priest has become essential. If it wasn’t for that, I would have no choice but to wash my hands and watch as I woke up in the depths of the labyrinth and suddenly got an infection penalty and my stats and stamina dropped in real time.
“Ah, go away, go away.”
As I threw the few slices of bread I had managed to break off into the corner, two more rats caught on to me and began to nibble at me.
*******
[Accomplishments]
[Avoid Plague]
*******
Fanfare erupts again.
Thank you very much. W f*ck god
As I was staring at the rat that suddenly jumped out, a window of information about the rat popped up in front of me, as if to let me know that this world was based on a game.
[LV1 Wild Rat]
– Infections: Leptospiras, Hantavirus, Rickettsia.
-Incubation period: 3 days
-Penalty upon infection: Decreases status by up to 40%, consumes 0.001%~0.01% Of HP per second depending on the progress of infection (cannot be regenerated during infection)
“Ami Cibal, I almost got lost.”
It wasn’t a notorious newbie cutter for nothing.
In a world without antibiotics and no proper treatment, the diseases these pups spread were no different from the Black Death.
Adventurers, if you party with a priest or go to a temple and get baptized, you’ll get better, but a slob like me is the same as being hit with an instant death skill.
In a normal game, it would be possible to set the beginner’s set in order with 10 silver coins thrown as support for early adventurers and enter the labyrinth to earn money, but for me, who suddenly fell into the base city built on top of this labyrinth, I was penniless.
Beginners No common clubs, no shields, all that is left is a shabby old cloth and underwear.
“Inventory! Status window!”
I held out my hand as hard as I could and shouted, but there was no way that something convenient would come out.
Even the little mouse that gnawed at the bread looked at me strangely and then sneaked away from her seat.
f*ck.
“Ha… This is exactly what it feels like, hardcore mode.”
It was no different from the hardcore mode that limited the number of possessed attributes, equipment, and skill types.
The fact that you have one life is the same, but the fortunate thing is that information about the target you point or look at is displayed like a game.
All I could do was sigh
My physical condition was also not normal.
It didn’t look like he was sick… But it seemed like it was too much to creak.
After bending my back all day for the tension and begging of the unfamiliar environment, I felt that physical and mental fatigue was slowly eating away at my body. If she doesn’t take immediate action, she might end up leaving the house unluckily.
At times like this, a bowl of warm soup and a soft bed are the best…But money was needed for that. Not a few copper coins like this, but a unit of silver.
“I remember there were several treasure chests that could be obtained in the city…”
Still, it’s not an unusual game, so I paid attention to the fact that early-stage boosting boxes were prepared all over the city to support beginners’ Easy Mode. It was something you could only get once in the beginning, but that’s where it is.
During the morning, I was begging and paying attention to getting a rough idea of the situation in the city. A strange situation where the game becomes reality and reality becomes a game.
It was best to move cautiously until I was sure it matched what I knew.
I got up from my seat, stuffing the gravel-like loaf of bread into my mouth.
“This f*cking game will definitely escape.”
…..
And my determination collapsed in two hours.
“Why not…?”
An empty box.
In some places, the box itself was not even there.
It wasn’t that I misremembered the strategy.
It was a route I tried to break through the 1st floor as quickly and efficiently as possible by repeating the road save several times. A fast farming route that adds additional equipment with the silver coins farmed here, recruits colleagues, quickly penetrates the first floor, obtains a small but steady source of income, and purchases the next tier equipment from the shop as quickly as possible.
Has it changed since becoming a reality? Did any of the city’s residents find the box and use it? The same thoughts swirled in my head, but I couldn’t come up with a clear answer.
Leaving behind the empty boxes, I stepped out into the square.
And then it caught my eye. A huge stone statue erected in the middle of the plaza.
A one-handed sword and shield equipment set, and a 10m tall stone statue holding a Philosopher’s Stone with both hands. Inside the game, it was set up to congratulate a veteran adventurer when he found the Philosopher’s Stone in the labyrinth… Actually, it was a privilege engraved with the nickname of the speedrun record holder from Labyrinth Maze 1.
“I see that stone statue is here too… There is…”
As I approached the stone statue, I slowly lowered my gaze from top to bottom and realized the reason for this division.
Why were the boxes I found empty?
I wonder if there was nothing
Underneath the stone statue, there was an explanation in the imperial language and Hangeul written on it.
As if trying to let people know that they were here.
-In memory of the veteran adventurer who discovered the Philosopher’s Stone, ‘Nagisingkungkotto’
[I cleared and escaped after 11 years of cockmangeme hahahahaha 2nd round hit the dick~]
[PS. But how did you catch the 2nd demon king? I already used up the holy sword thriftly at the last minute;;]
“You f*cker!”
If I was an uninvited guest who broke into Labyrinth Maze Part 2, wouldn’t there have been others who had reached the point of Part 1? Why didn’t I think of that assumption?
The reason why all chests in the city were empty was simple.
Because this bastard has stolen everything.
f*cked.
It didn’t matter how many silver coins he didn’t get right away.
If the person who fell in the 1st round took all the treasures he remembered and all the hidden rewards and recaptured the Philosopher’s Stone, that would be a catastrophe like a dog f*ck.
What if all the rewards for each floor given to the protagonist were stolen by the previous possessor…?
And what if the compensation is a permanent loss item that cannot be reset?
“Ah, this is not a bit, Goddess. Really… is it real?”
*******
[Achievement]
[LV2 Enlightenment!]
*******
Fanfare rang out.