Light of Arad: The First to Walk - Chapter 164



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164

The monsters that appear at the beginning are similar to those in other dungeons in the dungeon area: Power Station.

It wasn’t particularly difficult because it involved dealing with beings whose patterns and HP could be inferred, such as giant beetle-shaped granites, flying granites, and assault granites, as well as the flame archers of Fitz, which were Fitz’s creations seen at the Core Power Plant, and giant flame slimes.

Nevertheless, Jinseong somehow had a satisfied expression on his face.

“! !”

It was because of Vivi’s movements that allowed her to use her skills without hesitation.

It’s not just about putting your newly acquired skills to good use.

The skill combo that Jinseong himself had taught in the past, and the combat style unique to the female mechanic profession that requires transforming and operating a single skill in various forms, have been further refined.

‘The timing of the normal attack between the two is also good. Since I received special training from Sandstorm’s Berikt at the time, the accuracy is also quite high.’

If you were a user, you would think that you could see the monster’s health bar decreasing rapidly beyond the monitor.

“Ms. Vivi! Was that weapon ripped from the Gate of Time?”

“H, Huh!? Are you even looking into this, thinking that someone might say that this is rotten water?”

“Yes. If you look closely, it’s from the Billmark Laboratory, ripped off from Hyper Mecatau.”

The attack power that has increased so clearly comes from the changed weapon.

Jinseong recognized that the weapon she was holding was an automatic pistol called .

“It’s actually hard to find the latest items, but it’s easy to find discontinued items.”

As of the current patch version, Dungeon & Fighter cannot be obtained through normal methods.

There is still information that it drops when clearing regular dungeons, just like the set that Jinseong himself is wearing, but if you consider the actual probability of obtaining it, it is practically the same as discontinued equipment.

Vivi shook her head.

“……I really can’t handle it. I tried to surprise you. Ah! But the performance is-.”

“It must be stronger now that Vivi’s hand has touched it, right? Right?”

“-Not fun…….”

She was speaking as if she was dissatisfied, but the corners of her lips were secretly going up, which probably told us how she felt.

With Vivi at level 85 being this active, there was no need to worry about the other one.

“Whether it’s Android or something, let’s just sort it all out. Deputy Manager Eche and Manager Lu, take care of it. Manager San and Manager Bun, please do your best until today.”

“In the name of the Spirit King.”

“Hahaha, that’s basic.”

“I will make you feel comfortable.”

“Woahhhhhhhhhh-!”

Jinseong wondered for a moment why Cassillas wasn’t summoned, but soon realized that his worries were for nothing.

Even without Casillas, there was nothing that could stop the Spirit King Echeverria, Sister Louise, Black Knight Sandor, and the Angry Black Knight Sandor, as well as Chili Shrimp, who was operating four summoned creatures.

‘By the way, the more I look at that whip, the more fascinating it seems. I should have asked what kind of item it was.’

I forgot about that one while talking about the Celestial Civil War, ‘Anton Jell’, and the repetitive quests.

Jinseong smacked his lips in regret, but he had no time to do so.

Bbbbbbbbbb-!

[True.]

“I know.”

Jinseong didn’t rush towards the approaching Flying Granite right away.

Of course, there was a reason why he tapped his feet as if counting time.

“, , , -.”

Jinseong used his skill in the air with perfect timing.

And at the moment when he was about to use his fifth skill, the main skill of that combo, light flashed from Jinseong’s fingers.

It was the effect of .

When equipped, the weapon is amplified for 3 seconds every 12 seconds.

Jinseong used it at that exact moment.

“-!”

When in amplified state, what is the effect of the most powerful skill you currently possess, used while your strength and intelligence increase by +100, your stamina and mental power by +50, and your physical attack power and magical attack power by +20%?

What is the result of the skill that rushes forward and slashes, returns to its original position and slashes again, then explodes energy in that spot to sweep away the surrounding area?

Puhwaaaa …

Vivi and Chili Shrimp turned their heads with a start at the sound of something exploding like a fountain.

“……Are you sure you’re in the level 70s?”

“Mr. Jinseong…?”

The two people were left speechless after realizing that the dozens of Granites and Flying Granites that were approaching Jinseong were cut down at once, spraying a fountain of blood, and the sound of that fountain of blood splattering in all directions in the aftermath of the explosion.

“Ugh, it’s creepy. Isn’t this the most annoying thing after being possessed? The bodily fluids spurting out of the monster’s corpse are so gross. I guess I have a secret obsessive-compulsive disorder.”

The two could not help but shake their heads as they watched Jinseong talking nonsense, looking like an evil spirit covered in the blood and bodily fluids of insect-like monsters.

* * *

Pushuuuuuuuu… … .

The steel door opened and steam rose.

The three of them had to be nervous for a moment because they couldn’t hear Granite’s wings flapping.

“Master Jinsang, what other monsters are coming out?”

“I don’t know either.”

“Huh? Is there anything that Jinsang doesn’t know?”

“Well, this dungeon has never even appeared in the domestic DnF. How could I know that?”

Jinseong, feeling somewhat embarrassed, raised his voice for no reason, but Vivi seemed to be happier instead.

She said with the corners of her lips turned up.

“Heh… I see. There are things that even you, Jinsang, don’t know.”

Should we call it the joy of empathy or the joy of discovering humanity?

Even Vivi herself couldn’t clearly define what this was, and for a moment Jinseong coughed a few times before opening his mouth.

“Ahem, well, it’s not like I don’t know everything. Anyway, the boss is an android modeled after a human female… and I think the patterns are different depending on the appearance, such as the swordsman type, gunner type, and martial artist type, that much I know.”

It was information that made Vivi stick out her tongue again and made Chili Shrimp click his tongue.

“……Don’t you usually say ‘I know everything’ in those cases? The world must have changed a lot while I was possessed.”

If you only know about the boss, then what does ‘trash mob’ matter anyway?

In the end, you know the most important information, but you pretend not to know anything.

Jinseong felt embarrassed as he heard the chili shrimp’s non-stop slap, but in the meantime, it was Vivi who stepped forward.

“It makes sense from Jinsang’s perspective. If you want to run a college of education or a first-class pot, you literally have to know everything. That’s right, that’s just Jinsang’s personality.”

Bibi realized that this was a habit ingrained in Jinseong’s body.

I’m not saying this out of humility, but because I actually feel like I lack sincerity.

It wasn’t the kind of chili shrimp that would just pass by after seeing it.

“I didn’t say anything in particular. Hmm, now that I think about it, Vivi, you’re secretly taking Jinseong’s side a bit? You originally said that the two of you were acquaintances, but now that I think about it, you’re not just ‘ordinary acquaintances’, are you? Huh? Huh?”

“Wh, what are you talking about!? What are you and I doing-”

“We’re definitely not just ordinary acquaintances.”

Vivi was embarrassed, but Jinseong nodded instead.

Vivi’s head, which was looking at the chili shrimp, turned towards Jinseong as if it was about to break.

“Yes, sir, sir? What is it? Sir, sir, and I-”

“Should we say they’re like teacher and student? Although Vivi was originally good at making coefficient tables, I’m the one who actually created the actual deal cycle pattern and had him practice. If only Chili Shrimp had the latest version of the summoner skills, I could have taught him once, but that’s a bit too bad. Well, he’s already doing well without it.”

And when Jinseong finished speaking, silence fell over the Helix Labs.

“…….”

“…….”

I wonder why Chili Shrimp said that.

Why was Vivi so flustered and speechless?

“Huh? What, what is this silence? Suddenly-.”

The moment when Jinseong, who didn’t notice even a speck of dust, was embarrassed by the atmosphere.

Kung, thump… … Weeeeeeeeeing──────!

The sound of machinery starting up began to be heard.

The atmosphere of the three people who had been laughing together until just a moment ago changed in an instant.

“What is that?”

“What big… ball?”

The outer shell covering the unidentified sphere opened.

The height of the sphere itself was so great that it reached Jinseong’s chest, and its diameter was also longer than Jinseong’s outstretched arms.

The number was a whopping ten. All three of them recognized that the pieces that made up the spheres of considerable volume had opened up, and that light was flashing and steam was beginning to rise from them, but the question was what the result would be.

“If that thing were to jump up… you all know that, right?”

“I’m here, so even if I get ambushed once, it’s okay.”

The chili shrimp nodded at Jinseong’s warning.

Vivi spoke next to the two people who were very nervous.

“But I don’t think so. It definitely looks spherical, but the contact area is pretty solid. It’s practically flat. There’s something moving… an engine? A motor? And what I can hear is the sound of something fitting together inside there – something being assembled?”

“……Huh? Does Vivi know?”

Perhaps it is because it has something to do with her specialty.

To Jinseong’s question, Bibi shook her head as if she had no confidence.

“Oh, no, I don’t know. I hear a sound. Something is being made in there….”

But there was no way to finish speaking, nor was there any need to.

Clank, clank, clank-! Eeeeek… … .

The sound of one layer of the giant sphere’s inner skin opening again, accompanied by a creaking sound.

As the sound ended, what the three people saw was something oval-shaped.

The height of the oval, which supports the torso with three pointed feet, is approximately the height of the true waist.

There was no need to think any further when I realized that the thing sticking out from the side of its body was a Blade.

“Monster! Machine type!”

Kiiiiiiiiing─────────!

The days began to turn with the shouts of the true spirit.

“It looks like it was created from that sphere, so I’ll hit the main body first!”

“Manager Lu! Freeze the spheres first, then Manager San and Manager Bun, start with the body first!”

As Vivi and Chili Shrimp began to strike the sphere, the three legs of the oval-shaped machine, which at first glance seemed to be inconvenient to move, momentarily bent.

I thought the height was lowered because I bent my legs.

Kagagak, all ten oval-shaped machine monsters leapt forward, releasing enough force to dig up the ground.

Their leaps and lunges were as swift as the rotation of the saw blades attached to the sides of their bodies.

“T, t-! I didn’t know they’d attack like this-.”

“Tch, < come on-."

Vivi, who was attacking, hesitated for a moment, and then stood next to the chili shrimp, who was already preparing to go into a defensive stance.

"Black ball!"

─────────────!

The real body that shouted the black ball was not visible to anyone for a while.

If anyone had seen it, they would have thought that black smoke was billowing out from some room in the Helix Labs, but by that moment, Jinseong had already cut down five of the ten machines that were approaching Vivi and Chili Shrimp.

"I'll block anything that approaches! Use your long-range skills to destroy that production facility first!"

"Yes! I will only trust you, Jinseong!"

"Even if you didn't do that, you could have just called out to Kashias anyway – I appreciate it, so please do your best!"

"You should have just said thank you, but you had to say-……. Hmm?"

Jinseong, who was about to say something to the shy chili shrimp, couldn't continue speaking.

His eyes were on the floor. To be exact, it was the scattered parts from the five entities that Jinseong himself had destroyed just a moment ago.

Letters and numbers written inside the destroyed machine device.

Given that several of the machines share common letters and numbers, they are probably the names of the three-legged oval machines that Jinseong destroyed earlier.

There was one reason why Jinseong's eyebrows furrowed when he saw that name.

A dungeon I'm experiencing for the first time.

A monster I've never seen before.

"…ZX-99 Sub No. 1?"

However, the pattern of that name existed in Jinseong's own memory.

A monster's name consisting of ZX and a hyphen number.

"Your Majesty! One sphere has been destroyed!"

"This one too~ ZX-69? I guess that's the name?"

Jinseong's head turned sharply at Chili Shrimp's words.

"ZX-69? Are you sure?"

"Hi, isn't that so? I guess the name is a bit awkward-."

Even in the midst of all this, Chili Shrimp was making strange noises, but her words were not reaching Jinseong.

ZX-99. ZX-69.

What monsters have similar patterns to the names of the two machines that exist here?

"ZX-5 Sparky Gamma…… ZX-5 Sparky Beta……."

Who is the character in the game Dungeon & Fighter who calls such a machine a monster and gives it a name?

"No way…Giselle?"

Jinseong's eyes couldn't help but widen.