Chapter 170: A Story Only I Don't Know 5
TL/Editor: Raei
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I've heard all sorts of phrases like 'feeling so good I could fly' or 'as if my body had been reborn'.
Frankly, I believed such talk to be nothing more than exaggeration.
That's why I made the mistake of dismissing the notion of my body being imbued with the 'Blessing of an Unknown God' and went about my usual business.
"...The sky?"
I swung my warhammer with the concentration of mana that I usually do, as if the weapon, which had endured ten years alongside me, was indestructible.
Suddenly, the world turned topsy-turvy, and my senses jumbled.
A buzzing in my ears, a fog in my head, and the mana encasing my body trembled unsteadily.
Where there should have been a sticky mud swamp and pale tentacles, now a gloomy ashen sky stretched open.
So at this moment
"Am I flying? No, falling?"
It appeared I had been buoyed into the air by the recoil from striking with my warhammer.Witness the debut of this chapter, unveiled through Ñôv€l--B1n.
I tensed my back and twisted in mid-air to adjust my posture.
Looking down from the sky, the mass of pale tentacles that had been below me was gone.
The mud swamp, the poison pit, the cluster of ashy treeseverything around me had disappeared.
The silver lining, though, was the white protective shield on the chaotic ground below, still staunchly holding amidst the rain of paralyzing mud, poison, and vine fragments.
It hadnt shatteredperhaps because it was struck by soft mud and poison rather than hard fragments.
...But it was cracked all over, like a window on the verge of breaking.
"Ro, Roland?! You're okay, right?!"
-No, f*ck lol, you were supposed to wipe out the tentacles, not the entire area
-Is this stronger than the lightning magic that cleared the 20th floor?
-Paladin's holy magic (physical)
-Rotate the camera, there's nothing left here.
-Cracks on a 5 shield just from splash damage? Looks like itll break on touch
Soaring into the air, then slowing and beginning to fall, I corrected my posture and snuck a glance at Han Se-ah's streaming window in the corner of my view.
A small blue dot floated in the void beyond the chaos and cracked shield.
It seemed I had severely miscalculated my strength.
The blessing in my body must have also boosted the efficiency of physical enhancement via mana.
...During the battle with the Full Moon Wolf, I had flipped the ground, creating a wave of dirt, but my weapon-enhanced body wasn't supposed to be launched away.
It felt as though a grenade in my hand had turned into dynamite.
"Roland! Arent you overdoing it a little?!"
"Is this the might of a senior, no, a top-rier adventurer...?"
As I landed heavily on the mucky, poisoned earth, sinking knee-deep, my companions rushed over.
To them, unaware of the unknown gods blessing, it seemed my actions were intentional rather than a mistake.
As they dashed forward, the ground suddenly gave way to a sunken quagmire, causing my companions to sway unsteadily.
-Oh look at her using mana so freely...
"What redevelopment combo? If we took a detour, youd foam at the mouth saying, 'Why, why not just go straight ahead?' Yet now-"
[Top-tier stoneworker Han Se-ah donated 10,000 won!]
If you ever get stuck at a floor, you should team with Roland and play territory tycoon.
"How do you expect me to clear the game playing like that?"
It seemed Katie and Han Se-ah were also quietly thrilled by the destruction that had unfolded before them.
Unlike Irene, who was excited out of concern and hope for her siblings, these two were fidgeting for different reasons, and only Grace managed to keep her cool amidst the party's unrest.
There, using mana freely, we found a temple knight battered to near death.
"Brother!"
"Ugh..."
More precisely, a temple knight battered to shreds surrounded by injured adventurers.
The temple knight lay on the ground, half-conscious, while the adventurers stood around him, weary and staggering.
Oddly, they were in a very wide clearing.
Could this have once been the safe zone?
"Sister, you mustn't use divine energy here!"
"Step back!"
As I mused, startled adventurers hurried over, trying to restrain Irene's wrist before retreating under Katie's menacing glare.
They didn't seem to be attacking Irene out of malice; real fear was evident.
Irene, discerning something from their reaction, gracefully lowered her hand.
Instead, Han Se-ah offered an adventurer a health potion from her inventory.
"...Um, I haven't used a potion before, is it for drinking? Or do you pour it on?"
-How have you played the game till now?
-How is this different from that politician* who asked if the bus fare was 50 won?
-Forbes' #1 streamer known for creating content with just a sentence
-Aren't you a mage and an alchemist? LOL
-Alchemist (doesn't know how to use potions)
Her muttered remarks left me amused.
I thought she had grown enough to not need any hand-holding, but it seems there's still a way to go.
When Han Se-ah offered the potion while talking to the viewers, an adventurer snatched it up, removed the temple knight's helmet, and poured the potion into his mouth.
It was a low-level potion purchased in advance, not very potent, but it should be enough to restore some vigor to someone half-conscious.
As the white helmet came off, it revealed brown, tousled hair and a simple countenance.
Ignoring the viewers who were disappointed that the knight wasn't a beauty, Han Se-ah approached the knight, whose face seemed to belong in a rural vegetable shop, and asked,
"Brother, what has happened here?"
"The creatures, they kept coming, endlessly... eating away at the sanctuary..."
"Rest now, knight. We will handle the explanations."
As if the word 'brother' was a trigger, the half-awake temple knight attempted to speak but was gently pushed back down by the adventurers.
Still, just from his few words, I could roughly guess what had happened.
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