NOVEL NEXT Chapter 74
74 – The Ring of Tradition
Ellie exited the stage. The only thing left in the boss room is me and a golem the size of that house.
I wasn’t nervous because of all the acting, but looking at it again, this giant magma golem is really cool. The angular design that evokes a man’s romance and the hideous atmosphere that makes you scream “I, the final boss” With your whole body fit very well with this dungeon reminiscent of a part of hell.
Well, even in the community, he has never missed the top spot in the popularity poll of dungeon bosses. It’s to the point of competing with a female boss who rolled hard on the site. Even watching it on a 2D screen, I could feel its overwhelming force, but seeing it in person is truly different. It felt like I was being rewarded for playing the same game for over 10 years.
Anyway, my personal impressions end here.
The giant golem, recognizing me as an intruder (hit by an intruder), is starting the killing process. It’s easy to dodge his attacks, but the third pillar has already collapsed. The story that I don’t have much time left.
Kukukukukkung!
A sound that could be heard at a construction site during the dismantling of a building filled the air. It is a magnificent BGM that adds power to the movement of the giant magma golem. If you take a POV video and upload it to X-tube, it seems like it would be ridiculous to get 100 million views.
‘Now, how do I cook this guy?’
From a third person’s point of view, it was clearly a situation where I was in a pinch, but I couldn’t have entered the fire with the brush.
All deceased people have thoughts.
Actually, I have two giant magma golem dismantling analyzers in my head.
The commonality of golem-type monsters appearing in the legend route is that they have a ‘nucleus’. The reason I entered this dungeon in the first place was to obtain the ‘nucleus’ of the magma golem. According to the setting, the golem core is the golem’s power source and the backbone of its actions. In terms of human beings, they have both a brain and a heart.
Since human power does not come from the heart, it cannot be said to be a perfect analogy, but it feels roughly like that. To begin with, humans and golems are completely different entities, so it is impossible to compare them on the same line. So, don’t tackle this part.
Anyway, the easiest way to defeat a golem is to attack its core. Then, where is the core of the giant magma golem?
The chest part like a person?
Or, the head where the brain should be?
None of the two. Surprisingly, the nucleus of the giant magma golem is its eyes that sparkle like car headlights.
To compare it to a human, the brain is attached to the place of the eyeball. It is a design that seems to have lightly won a silver prize in a creatively weak design contest. When this absurd setting was revealed, it was subjected to all sorts of criticism from the community.
If you look at the ‘Dark Magician’s Journal’, which can be obtained with a low probability when clearing a dungeon, you will find detailed background information about the golem. According to the designer, ‘The sponsor asked for the Hansako Eye Laser….’
Thanks to a romantic supporter, the giant magma golem was born as a deformed child. This is good news for users.
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However, in this hunt, aiming for the giant magma golem’s core cannot be used. The purpose of my coming to this dungeon is to obtain the golem’s core. But, destroy it?
Boss monsters are slow to regen unlike normal monsters. If you can’t, it means you have to wait a month or more.
In other words, Plan A, which is the easiest way to deal with the Giant Magma Golem, is fundamentally unusable.
Plan B is to wait until the golem destroys all the pillars in the boss room.
The pillars he destroys are not just background decorations. It is not only used for the gimmick of blocking the flames of the golem. This pillar is the structure that supports the boss room.
So if all the pillars collapse, the ceiling of the boss room will collapse. The giant magma golem is supported by a collapsing ceiling like Atlas, and its movement is sealed. However, in this case, the giant magma golem uses an eye laser pattern along with flame emission.
The way to avoid the laser is simple.
I’m going near the golem. That stupid golem can’t attack from its own feet due to a design problem.
Like an obese person with a protruding belly cannot see his feet.
If it could move, it would trample it to death, but it couldn’t because it was holding up the ceiling.
He is a friend with many design problems.
What I’m aiming for, of course, is this plan B.
Kukukukukkung!
The pillar collapsed again. Only 2 pillars left now.
Giant Magma Golem diligently knocks down pillars without even knowing that it is shortening its lifeline. Alright, if it goes like this…
Ugh… !
A slight vibration felt in the inner pocket.
It sounds like a smartphone is ringing in silent mode. Of course, I couldn’t bring an item like a smartphone while possessing it. What I got is an EX-class trait, not a smartphone.
“What is it?”
I took out the shivering ‘it’ from my inside pocket. It was a ring I bought from a gold merchant not too long ago.
The ring is crying. The cry of the ring reaches me in the form of tremors.
“Why is this now….”
I thought while avoiding the golem’s attack. Why is this reacting like this?
This ring is an item that was not on the list of golden prize items in the original game. The items that the Golden Merchant sells are random, but in the 10 years of using the Golden Merchant, I don’t remember seeing an item like this on the list. Even in the community, I didn’t see a post saying that this item was bought from a golden merchant.
So, is this item not in the legend route?
That’s not true. That was the reason I bought this item from the Golden Merchant.
There is an item in the legend route with the exact same icon as this one. The name of the item is ‘Ring of Tradition’.
After clearing the first round, it is a special item that transfers the abilities and skills of the character raised in the first round to the character in the next round. It is an item that can only be obtained when you see the true ending, and it is an item that the deceased people will never use.
The name community users call this item is ‘Newbie Dojo’.
It is an item that is forcibly repatriated to the shelter of super cowards as soon as it is discovered that it has been used. In fact, all speedruns on the legend route are based on ‘No Dojang?’.
I didn’t know that I, the rotten of the rotten waters, would buy this item, but this is a reality, not a game, so please be generous.
I was the one who bought the ring from the gold merchant, but I don’t know how to use it. In the game, it is used by simply opening the inventory and clicking the mouse, but in reality it was not.
This was a bit odd. Items such as skill books were used as long as they wanted to use them. This “Ring of Tradition” Seems to be treated specially among the items.
By the way, such a ring reacted like this.
Rotten water game radar works. Obviously, this is a signal that the item has fulfilled its usage conditions.
[Increases fighting spirit against powerful enemies. The ‘Ring of Tradition’ recognizes the user. The power of the ring is limitedly unlocked.]
A notification window appears in front of me that my guess is correct. I put the ring on without hesitation.
[Three [Characteristics] Have been detected. The effect of the “Ring of Tradition” Becomes stronger the more “Attributes” You possess. Collect more “Characteristics” To complete the ring!]
[A total of 3 ‘reincarnations’ can be descended.]
Kukukukukkung!
I checked the list in front of me while avoiding the golem’s attack. This screen is all too familiar. The character slot of the legend route appeared in front of me. And the character information in that slot was the character I had fostered.
‘Can one of these descend?’
Look at the three characters one by one.
Merrick Carr.
Tom Williamson.
Rollo Hewitt.
Coincidentally, they are all male. It is said that there are few male characters in the legend route, but that is only a small number compared to female characters. There are dozens of species of females, but only dozens of species of males.
And among the male characters, there are only a handful, including Born Zaborg, who have useful “Characteristics”.
All three of them in front of me right now are so-called assholes.
If you look at the initial stats or 「Characteristics」, It is a coffin character overflowing with upward compatible characters. However, because of such characteristics, they are the ones who gain sensational popularity among the deceased.
[hahahahaha look at my Merrick run record, is this a dead person?]
[Defeat the 25th floor of the Stone Tower with Hewitt. Who said no?]
[Ending with Williamson’s unknown soloing, succeeded in 55 tickets.]
I guess these are the kids.
Anyway, to choose one of these.
‘After all, success is based on the ending specs…. Should I use prosecutor Hewitt?’
I chose Lolo Hewitt. Unlike Yohan, who takes the thief route, he is a character who has cleared the boss through the swordsman route.
[Choose Rollo Hewitt. Lolo Hewitt’s power is passed on!]
Just like that, a bright light enveloped me.
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“Hey there!”
Sierra and the others arrived in front of the boss room. A huge iron gate blocked them. However, when I put my hand in front of the door, the door opened automatically with a creaking sound.
“John! Wait!”
Of course, Sierra was the first to run. Veteran Cain dries such Sierra.
“Miss Sierra! Stay in your formation!”
Currently, the party’s tanker is Li. Since her parrying swordsmanship is truly a swordsmanship optimized for tanking, it was an ideal decision for Lire to lead her group.
“Ah, that’s right… ! Lire, let’s hurry!”
“Even if you don’t say that, I’m in a hurry!”
What the party saw in front of them was the back of a golem the size of a small hill. Lire, who was in the lead at the colossal size that was overwhelming just by looking at her, forgot her movements for a moment and put on a stunned expression.
“That’s the boss of this dungeon….”
Goo-goo-goo-gu!
For a moment, admiring the sight of the golem that fills the field of vision, a loud sound that stimulates anxiety touches their eardrums. Ellie, who had experienced the golem’s pattern once before, realized that it was similar to the sound made when a pillar collapsed, but a little different.
“Look at that! Golem… ?”
What Sierra’s shrieking scream indicated was a single sword strike that perfectly split the golem’s body vertically. Is there any other situation in which the idiom, one-way-two-dan (一刀兩斷) suits so well?
It was as if the space had been cut off for an instant.
Goo-goo-goo-gu!
Only then did the party know the identity of the sound that reached their ears. It was the sound of the golem’s body collapsing. The dissonance of a building being completely dismantled and the cacophony of collapse struck the party.
And the performer who played such a cacophony was a swordsman.
Lir rubbed his eyes. The swordsmanship he just saw was so perfect that even Master thought it would be difficult to reproduce. The fact that I won’t be able to see it again is so lamentable. Among the sights I saw after walking the path of swordsmanship, it could be said to be the most shocking.
However, to my surprise, a more shocking scene is unfolding before my eyes. How should I express this?
“Rice, pervert… !!!”
Yes, pervert.
Ellie wittily brought up a word of her own. To put the man who drew the sword in front of him in one word, he was a pervert.
Her face is wearing a swimming cap, goggles, and sloppy angel wing decorations that could be used as props for a children’s play. He wasn’t even wearing a top, and underneath were all purple panties and black boots.
If you’re a hardcore gamer, it’s not difficult to figure out that the costume that rejects staleness with all its body is the look of a deceased person who came to the age of boredom after taking a full lap, but unfortunately, none of them could overcome such a fourth dimension wall.
If you ask ten people on the street, a man wearing a costume that nine would call a pervert and the other a madman is holding a form.
What kind of situation is this?
And where is John?