SSS-Class Ranker Return

Chapter 88

Corruption Hunter (2)

The newly opened road was pitch-black darkness. Even when the torch was turned on, the light was consumed by the darkness and had no effect.

Lokan’s night vision, so I was able to confirm the outlines of the beings to some extent, but others would have had to fight the fear of darkness.

The long road went on and on.

“I’m here.”

At the end of that long dark tunnel was a huge silhouette. Everyone must be nervous at the enormous magnificence that will make you swallow your saliva the moment you see it.

[Giant XX XXX][Lv ]

Even the name and level do not appear properly. The question mark appeared to mean that it was an unimaginably powerful existence, so it was natural for normal users to get scared and run away from here.

‘It’s cracking.’

But the opponent is Lokan. Instead of running away, Lokan snorted and approached his territory.

crook

A monster that turns a huge muscular body.

The gleaming eyes tried to eat Rokhan, but Rokhan went further with a pitiful expression.

[Indomitable will is activated.][Resists all negative psychic effects.]

Then everything changed.

cook

It wasn’t a giant monster that was slowly approaching this way. There was only one monster, about 50 centimeters tall, small enough to be called a dwarf.

The identity of the giant monster was the result of this monster appearing gigantic with illusion magic.

“strike!”

Lokan swung the Battle Ax without hesitation. He split the guy’s head apart, giving him no room to resist.

If it wasn’t for the resistance effect of his fortitude, even if he fought, he might have been attacked unilaterally because he couldn’t keep the distance between the body and the illusion, but since all the lies were exposed, he couldn’t be Lokan’s opponent.

“Are you okay?”

At that moment, two mercenaries who passed through the tunnel late appeared.

It looked like it had a pretty intense battle, but it looked like it had wounds in some places, but it didn’t seem fatal because it was the level.

Rokhan bandaged them against them and raised his first aid proficiency, and then went inside.

“Huh, you’ve finally arrived at this damn place.”

What caught the eyes of Lokan and the two mercenaries were dozens of holes that seemed to be sufficient.

They are ‘entrances’ with very special magic.

The three-story entrance.

“Wait.”

Taking a deep breath, Lokan recklessly walked towards the entrance on a straight line.

sook

“Damn it. That’s crazy. There’s no way you can win in the first place.”

It was the entrance on the second floor where Rokhan, who had been drawn in as if being sucked in, appeared again.

Each entrance is connected to another entrance.

And only one of these entrances was the ‘real entrance’ through which you could go to the next area.

“When are you going to get caught this time? … .”

If each entrance is connected, there’s really no reason to take too long.It’s enough to go one by one from a place you haven’t been to.

Even if there are about 100 entrances, you should be able to find the real entrance after entering 50 times.

But Lokan did something strange. He turned back to the entrance he had come out of.

Sook.

The place where he appeared, who was sucked in again, was not the first place, but another entrance.

This is because the matching of the entrance is initialized every time you enter the entrance.

In other words, it meant that it was impossible to proceed further than this until the odds of one in tenth were won.

And that’s why Lokan has been preparing for homelessness such as tents and food.

So, Rokhan stayed there for five days.

* * *

Jiying.

‘Ah, finally!’

A different feeling that I feel after five days.

After finally finding the real entrance, Lokan was almost in tears.

He was prepared for roughly a day or two, but he must have been so lucky!

He thought about giving up on the third day, but it was achieved thanks to persistence and repeating the decision to come from the fourth day.

“call.”

On the other hand, the mercenaries’ entry was very simple. When Rokhan came in and called, he immediately appeared without needing to find the real entrance.

Somehow I felt unfair, but if they had to find the entrance individually, it would take more than ten days instead of five days, so I calmed my anger.

“Okay, now it’s time to pay for the meal.”

They stayed for five days, and their ransom went up a lot.

48 gold per day, a total of more than 200 gold was spent.

If you’d rather hire a user, 10-20 gold might have been enough, but it’s unavoidable. because they were too weak

They were probably all dead before the first engine was even put into operation.

‘There is no reason to share the title.’

Moreover, it was clear that the effect of the original title would be diminished if we ended up partying together. Maybe there’s a problem with the loot distribution as well.

So, even if you spend money, it was much more convenient to hire an NPC mercenary and eat it yourself.

“Miyuki, please take the lead.”

“Yes, leave it to me.”

Giving Miyuki her instructions, she stepped forward about 5 meters. Just to explore the trap.

After her first job, ‘Rogue’, she had a divergent job as a guide, so she could deftly break any traps.

The level of the ruins here was only around 170.

She was a whopping 10 levels higher, and there was no way she could stumble.

“Done.”

As she quickly found her trap, her disbanded sun came to an end as she walked slowly along her as the sun went down and her trap-filled path ended in her two or three hundred meters.

Next is Gouki’s turn.

“Gouki-san, gather them all and run over there.”

“Yes.”

It was none other than slimes that filled the square that appeared in front of them. It is also a poison slime with a poisoning effect.

Although the level was not as high as 160, the movement speed decreases as soon as they stick, and the more slime sticks, the more the movement speed reduction effect overlaps, so even Lokan was dangerous.

“A wide-area provocation! rush!”

But Gouki solved it very simply. He started running in one direction after collecting the aggro of all slimes by casting a wide-area provocation skill.

The basic movement speed itself was faster than the slime, so they were able to lure them without being caught at once, while Rokan and Miyuki passed through the square.

After moving to the next area, when he called Gouki, he became poisoned and reappeared with his body turned blue.

“this!”

NPC mercenaries go back to their mercenary guild when they die, but it doesn’t make sense to use them only to get rid of slimes after paying a high price.

He immediately recovered using detoxification herbs and cold bandages, and instructed the two of them to perform the final operation.

“all right.”

“I’ll try.”

The expressions of the two mercenaries as they answered were not good, but there was nothing they could do. This is because the sacrifice of two people is required to clear this place.

Both of them frowned at knowing this, but there was no refusal because their death was marked as ‘passed out’ and returned only.

If that kind of reality was given, there would be no reason to use mercenaries.

The three of them reached an agreement and moved forward slowly.

Kugugu Palace.

As Lokan activated the engine, the stone wall opened with a roar.

And a huge space appeared.

On a throne located beyond that space, like the Colosseum, sat a maniac whose whole body was dyed green.

“Cook Cook Coke!”

[Mad Magician drunk with corrupted power][Lv 175]

Fall Addiction.

It was a symptom of those who were overexposed to the corrupted power.

“Soon, I will find you on my own, but you did the hard work to come all the way here.”

Was he originally a human or a half elf?

The guy, who had changed so bizarrely that even the original race couldn’t understand it, looked at Rokhan and smiled faintly.

He took a few steps forward with his staff full of green energy hitting the ground.

“Well, it would be nice to sacrifice you and tell what happens to those who resist!”

cut profit.

At that moment, with the sound of rusty metal, the trapped monsters were released.

The monster Shapin, who had been growling wildly with its saw-tooth teeth exposed, freed the madness from the bars that had been imprisoning him.

“Kill them!”

kuung.

When he struck the floor with his staff once more, the power of corruption erupted from the staff. Absorbed into the body of the rushing monsters, the inner madness was further strengthened.

‘Where do these dare’

“Heh heh heh heh heh!”

Lokan wasn’t the only one who could see that kind of clumsy madness.

As they let out a roar filled with the power of the Force, the eyes of the shapins who rushed in were extinguished, and their bodies stood in place.

“To location!”

When Rokhan shouted, Gouki and Miyuki ran to one side of the Colosseum.In the meantime, the shapins came to their senses, but they couldn’t find the same enthusiasm they had before.

“Come on!”

I didn’t even have to stick with three to deal with these guys. Lokan began to run rampant on behalf of the two mercenaries who were stuck in the corner.

Even if they were buffed by the corrupted power, their original level was only around 150. As if there was no way to exercise after a meal, Lokan easily separated the bones and flesh of them without the use of skills.

“next!”

And he looked arrogantly at the fallen wizard.

I thought I wanted to jump up to the reef attack and break the skull, but the corrupted power around the Colosseum was in a state of barrier.

He can’t do any direct harm to the gnome until he pulls out his powers.

‘Are there four left now?’

By then he had to block a total of four more waves.

“jackanapes. Stop this too!”

bang! bang!

As he slammed his staff nervously, the corrupted power was released again.

The second wave started as a greater amount of energy flowed into the cage than before.

“You bastard, good!”

[Hungry Dire Wolf controlled by corruption] [Lv 162]

This time it’s a wolf. When the beast was inflicted with corrupted powers, he caused a terrifying amplification, but at any rate, it was not a match for Lokan at a level that increased by 10 or so.

Each time Rokhan wielded his Battle Axe, his hard skin was peeled off in a barrel, and when hit with a spear, his bones were broken, preventing him from getting up.

Still, when it came close to one hundred, Lokan had to conserve his stamina by swipingly mixing skills.

“profit! Let’s see where we can stop this!”

Kreung!

This time it was a lion. To be precise, it was a monster called Tigal that looked like a lion, but Lokan’s reaction was stern this time too.

“A dog or a cat.”

To others, it was a beast, and to Rokhan, it was no different from a mutt or a stray cat.

It’s just a burden to have 100, but when we get rid of it one by one, our vitality can be destroyed without falling more than 3% thanks to the absorption of vitality.

“This is it, you uglier than this orc!”

The moment he smashed the third wave, Lokan provoked him.

The guy who had been turned green by the corrupted power was so angry that a red aura appeared on his face. Even if he became a maniac, his face changed because of his corrupted power was a complex.

“I’ll put an end to it! This is the last time!”

woo woo woo. Paah!

How much power he had gathered, the power of corruption so great that the color of his body faded was shot into the cage.

With him, all the monsters remaining inside the cage poured out all at once and started to run wild.

Originally, they were supposed to come out in the 4th and 5th waves, but Lokan’s provocation brought them in at once.

[Half Elf Controlled by Corruption][Lv 182][Orc Controlled by Corruption] [Lv 183]

They did not directly accept the fallen power. It’s kind of like mental domination.

The corrupted power stimulated the half-elves and orcs, who had suffered tormented minds by being captured by the gnome, and turned them into madmen.

All they want is slaughter and revenge!

“Gouki!”

Lokan, who had been quietly accepting such malice alone, called out to Gouki in a loud voice. operation began.