Dungeon Reset - Chapter 42: Tricked (2)
Chapter 42: Tricked (2)
[What the hell is going on?]
If Baboon made a mistake, it was that he kicked the rabbit out without asking anything.
He really didn’t know anything.
In the meantime, what happened in Stage 1, and what kind of exile the human being called the missing person was…
If he had asked the Rabbit a little, at least he wouldn’t have been faced with the same situation he is now without any preparation.
[The Final Boss leaves the Boss Room at will! What kind of Dungeon is it?!]
Baboon was panicking about it.
He couldn’t even imagine that someone stole that huge Final Boss in its entirety.
Of course, he thought it was walking on its own feet.
[Where the hell did you go?! Where are you?]
Baboon scoured the Ruins like a madman.
Then, suddenly, he noticed another strange thing.
[Huh? Was it so quiet here?]
Something is missing in the hallway.
According to his memory, the Boss Room must have been infested with strong and bad-tempered one-horned wild boars.
But now?
[Where have all the pigs gone? Are they in the corner?]
While looking for the final boss, Baboon started looking for one-horned wild boars as well.
But… there wasn’t.
They’re really nowhere!
[Huh? Where are the wild boars? They didn’t go out together, did they!?]
Even as he spoke, Baboon wondered what happened using his head.
No, the situation is not too strange!
Could it be that the Final Boss even took all the pigs out while going out?
It was a crazy idea, but if not, how the heck will you explain this!
[Ugh! Are these crazy monsters going on a collective strike?]
Of course, he has never heard of such a system in a Dungeon.
But he didn’t know everything that happened to the dungeon.
[Let’s- let’s find it somehow! I don’t think it’s far away yet!]
In the end, to find out the truth, he came out of the Ruins and started wandering around the area recklessly.
But at that point, Jung Da-woon, the culprit of everything, was already far away.
“Well, that’s enough food! So where can we find these sweet things?”
[The sweet things should be near the Forest of Beginning.]
“Forest of Beginning. The starting point of the Dungeon Game?”
[Yes yes.]
Contrary to Baboon, these two were in a very good mood.
The Golems were also able to sweep away the slowly falling boars, and they also caught a lot of fish.
And he has given the rest of the fish a lot of quality food, so next time they go back, he’s sure they’ll breed a lot!
The mere thought of it makes the corners of his mouth twitch.
“Then we have to go south. There is no tunnel in this area. Should we go outside?”
[We can just go out! What’s the problem? How many final bosses are here in this area!]
The only thing that makes him feel better is that the Rabbit was worse.
He was always flying, but now he has the energy to fly up completely to the cosmos.
Because Baboon did not hide his voice, the Rabbit was able to hear his panic.
As the Rabbit said, Jung Da-woon came up to the ground from the middle of the wolf forest.
The Observatory was not built separately to avoid the Baboon’s eyes.
It will disappear if he reset it anyway, so he decided to set up a gate at the end of the tunnel.
Alpha grumbled again.
{Bioenergy…}
“Okay, okay. How many pigs can I sacrifice?”
(you can just eat here.)
“How long would I eat all of these things? I don’t have the confidence to chew raw pork.”
Jeong Daun went straight to the Dragon Temple on the spot and piled up one-horned wild boars on the altar.
He wasn’t slaughtering them for this in the first place.
“I offer sacrifices.”
Gulp!
Now, there must have been plenty of food, so that Jung Da-woon made sacrifices without sparing it.
And when he returned to his original place, he left all the golems behind and took only one.
It was because of Rabbit’s advice.
[There’s nothing good about wandering around and getting noticed by people.]
Jung Da-woon agreed with that statement.
The Rabbit said the Helper needed two conditions to kill.
To be stigmatized as a sacrifice.
And use the power of execution.
[But the problem is that he’s a much higher level helper than me. I don’t know what it is, but it’s highly likely that he has more authority than me.]
“Because you don’t know, it’s best to avoid meeting him as much as possible.”
{You can open the gate immediately in case of danger. Because an unauthorized being can never cross the Gate.}
[Even if that’s not the case, the Helper can’t come out of the Stage anyway.]
Jung Da-woon smiled as he watched Alpha and the Rabbit, who were worried about his safety.
“The bottom line is that if we get caught, we can just jump right away.”
If so, he was confident again.
* * *
The Forest of Beginning was where participants started dungeon games and stayed for about a week to ten days.
This was the first time that modern people who lived in peace faced a crisis of survival.
First time meeting a monster?
That’s scary, but the real scary thing was the lack of food.
They were summoned empty-handed, so there was no food to eat and they would be killed right away.
Sometimes the lucky ones with food in hand could only survive for a few days.
A person with a shopping cart full of side dishes was also summoned, perhaps while visiting the market, but they were more in a dangerous position.
This is because even people who are usually docile will turn into menaces after just a few days of starvation, and rush to get food.
In fact, Jung Da-woon once witnessed murder just because of a chocolate bar someone had hidden in their pocket.
“Here?”
Jung Da-woon’s face hardened, knowing where the Rabbit had guided him.
This is the end of the Forest of Beginnings.
They have arrived in the realm of the devil who cleverly seduces those who have come this far and takes their lives.
The Rabbit said triumphantly.
[It’s a cannibal flower garden.]
“I didn’t ask because I didn’t know.”
A sweet scent that stimulates one’s sense of smell.
Even when he barely came close, his mouth was already salivating.
At first glance, this bizarre flower garden with orange petals as large as a person spreads out on the floor seems peaceful.
But it was all a trick.
It’s very eye-catching when hungry people smell this sweet scent.
They are very careful at first, but eventually they will jump into the flower garden.
But that’s it.
At that moment, those petals close their mouths like a gourd and eat people.
“Is this the sweet thing you said?”
[Why wouldn’t it be? It smells really sweet too.]
“Isn’t that just a trick? Has anyone said that it’s delicious?”
[Yes, of course. Their honey fills up their insides only when the petals are in the shape of a bottle.]
In the end, it meant that honey was made only when a person was eaten.
“Whoa.”
Jung Da-woon’s eyes sparkled.
It is honey.
This sweet smell leads to the real taste.
How sweet would it be?
Jung Da-woon was worried with a serious expression on his face.
“Hmm. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to be locked up there and be eaten myself. I’d rather kill the flower first.”
[You have to uproot it. If you cut off the middle of the stem, it dries right away and no honey will come out.]
“The root? Somehow, no one has ever eaten it. How did you know about that?”
[I’ve seen someone take out the honey and eat it like that in the past.]
“Isn’t that amazing?”
As expected, there was a person who succeeded. Indeed, it is human nature to find a way to make ends meet anywhere!
“How did they uproot that big flower?”
[Well. It was a participant with quite a few useful skills. Eventually, he was trampled on by the Final Boss and died.]
“…”
In the end, he was useful against flowers, but not enough against Golem.
After a moment of mourning for him, Jung Da-woon immediately called the Gorilla Golem.
“Let’s try it once and then we’ll talk. Gorilla, can you get me some of these?”
“Uhh uhh.”
The Gorilla Golem rolled up its arms and strode toward the Cannibal Flower.
And at that moment,
Chomp!
The orange petals quickly closed like a rattle and attacked the gorilla.
“… Huh?”
The gorilla turned his head.
What is he supposed to do?
He was biting hard at the feet of the golem made of rat-covered soil.
Chomp! Chomp!
Plants had no intelligence.
Whether the opponent was dirt or the Final Boss, it just devoured the target that moved by its instinct.
As it got closer, the other flower next to it also bit its other foot.
Chomp! Chomp!
Eventually, he succeeded in uprooting the flower like it’s a seedling.
After that, he forcibly plucked the Cannibal Flower that was still biting his feet and brought it in front of Jung Da-woon.
“Looking at it like this, it looks like a real gourd. Would you like to pour me a drink here?”
An orange bottle the size of a person leaned sideways over the empty bucket that Jung Da-woon held out.
“Oh? Whoah! It’s coming!”
Jung Da-woon went berserk at the sight of the golden liquid rising into the bucket.
Probably because it hadn’t eaten people yet, its amount was smaller than he expected.
After receiving the whole cup, just in case, he started using his Purification Skill and carefully licked it with his tongue.
Lick?
“…!”
The eyes of Jung Da-woon, who tasted it, grew wide.
Oh my God! This is real!
“Sweet!”
[What did I tell you? Ehem. I told you it’s honey.]
“But it’s not honey.”
[What? It’s not honey? Then what is it?]
“Hmm… this is…”
Lick lick.
Jung Da-woon concluded after checking the taste of the golden liquid with a serious look on his face.
“It’s starch syrup.”
[Starch syrup?]
“Yeah. The scent is very strong, but the taste is like thick sugar water. Rabbit, you gave me some shit after all.”
[Huh? Did I do something wrong?]
Slowly.
He doesn’t know what it was, but seeing the atmosphere, the Rabbit decided to lie on the floor first.
Even if he didn’t ask him to, he was going to do a handstand, but Jung Da-woon suddenly changed his expression, chuckled and slapped the Rabbit on his back.
“Good job, your bastard! I highly commend you!”
[Huh? Is that good?]
The rabbit’s expression brightened.
“Of course! Starch syrup is more useful than honey! Honey can also be found in beehives after all.”
[Oh. I know where the beehive is, can I tell you?]
“No, I’m afraid of bees.”
No matter how much the Golem took the lead, he had no confidence to touch a beehive.
But he would take as many cannibal flowers as he could!
“Let’s just tear this whole place apart.”
[What?]
“When will we be finished pulling out each one of these? It’s annoying to come back here every time, so let’s plant it in the temple.”
Jung Da-woon smiled and put his hands on the floor.
“Dirt Lump! Dirt Lump!”
And after a while, Baboon, who was wandering in search of the Final Boss, finally witnessed this tragedy.
He knew that he really never found out anything.
[Stage, what’s wrong with you!]
He just wanted to cry.
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Eman
Thanks for the chapter!
Baboon getting pranked is great.