The Tutorial Is Too Hard

“Aren't you going to ask me anything else? ”

After hearing all the information about the stage on the 50th floor, Kirikiri asked me.

“Anything else? ”

“Yes.”

I thought about it in my mind.

What do I have to ask Kirikiri?

Recently, it has been difficult to think of the right answer, as I have been often forced to ask questions from others.

“Rinse. I'm not forcing you. ”

I asked Kirikiri who said I was disappointed.

“Is it time to swap items? ”

I had no intention of changing the sword or soul sword I was using as a weapon.

The performance itself was sufficient, and above all, the difficulty of the stage is no longer following my strength.

I don't need to find a stronger weapon.

However, items of type of armor are being replaced periodically.

It is different from raising risk for growth and putting safety entirely at risk.

I asked him if it was time to put on some armor, but Kirikiri shakes his head.

“Aning.”

“Then maybe you're out of potions. I'll check it out. ”

I opened my inventory and looked at the remaining consumables.

There were sufficient quantities of potions left.

I haven't been drinking a lot of potions lately, so I should be able to stay.

“Tissue... That's enough. Ketchup. Mayonnaise. Oh, no mayonnaise. ”

After the 40th floor, the stage of encounter with other people and being treated by them continues.

I was fed naturally often.

Sometimes the food is delicious, but sometimes it isn't.

Whenever I did, I used to sneak around with some sauce to sprinkle.

“No. Not that... ”

I asked Kirikiri, shaking his head as if it were stuffy.

“Then what is it, yes? ”

Kirikiri sighs deeply before answering.

“No, Miss, I don't want you to know. I don't think I need to pay for the information and tell you. ”

After Kirikiri said this, I wanted to find out why.

I tried to find the right answer by exchanging the questions like twenty heads together, but I couldn't find it.

* * *

[Welcome to the 50th floor waiting room.]

When I entered the waiting room and saw the welcome phrase, I felt a new emotion.

We're halfway there.

Fifty floors out of 100.

Over the next two years, we were only halfway there at this point in less than three years.

You made it all the way here.

I don't know how long it will take to get out.

At this rate, it may take less than a year, but the difficulty of Hell cannot be easily determined.

A time-consuming trap may emerge when and where.

I always had to work diligently to prepare for that time.

I pulled the couple out of my inventory to study magic.

[Chuckles] Looks like you cleared the previous floor. Are you waiting again?]

“Yes.”

The father and wife were now speaking as if they were completely challenged.

I need to catch me at some point and find out what he's aware of.

I was about to start studying with my father and wife, and a magic circle appeared on the floor.

It appeared right under my feet, to be exact.

[Day 32, Day 0. 0: 0]

[The contest chapter will be held.]

[Enter.]

[Time to Forced Summon: 29: 59]

[After entry, you can leave at any time.]

“What. This. ”

* * *

[Hojae Lee, 50th Floor: What the hell. This.]

[Min Hyuk Kim, 30th Floor: … What the hell, you bastard. It's the arena.]

[Hojae Lee, 50th Floor: But why is this open now? You didn't have any prior notice.]

[Kim Min-hyuk, 30th floor: … there was. The managers notified you, and most of all, I told you 33 times! Today, in the third race! I told you a few times and you didn't even remember to give me a rough answer!]

You talked about it?

Why can't I remember?

[Min Hyuk Kim, 30th Floor: As you asked before, this time there is nothing for you to do as a vigilante. Now they've got their own system and they're on their way. You just have to get in there like everybody else.]

[Hojae Lee, 50th Floor: Okay.]

I lay in a bed in the waiting room, and I took a moment to remember.

On the other hand, I thought I had received information about the competition from Kim Min-hyuk and Park Jung-a before.

Is the information Kirikiri was going to tell us about the contest, too?

I think so.

It's also said to be expensive information.

I straightened my mind, and I woke up in bed.

Kirikiri not only watches me, but also other challengers.

If there is a chance that another challenger connected to me will give me information, I will not mention it.

However, I wanted to let you know that there is information that no one in the vigilante group, including Kim Min-hyuk and Park Jung-a, has been able to find out.

And that information could be relevant to the competition.

[Min Hyuk Kim, 30th Floor: Oh my. Suddenly I'm anxious. I didn't know we were missing any information. You don't know exactly what it is, do you?]

[Lee Ho-jae, 50th floor: Yes.]

[Min Hyuk Kim, 30th Floor: I'm sorry that I've already decided not to let you work. Can you get us in as soon as you can? Just in case. We'll see what we can find out.]

[Hojae Lee, 50th Floor: Okay.]

After speaking with Min-hyuk Kim, I checked the weapons.

After checking to see if you're missing anything, you climb to the top of the portal.

[Time to Forced Summon: 13: 22]

The opening of the portal has run out of time.

Whoo-hoo. Whew. I'm excited. A gathering place for men like you? That's quite an ambush you got there.]

The couple mutters bitterly.

Well, I don't think so.

More like a trendy crowd than someone similar to me.

Instead of correcting the father and wife's misconceptions, I recited the starter language on the portal.

“Go.”

The space around me was rattling around.

It's been a long time since I've been able to capture this sensation, but I'm not able to incorporate it into magic.

How long will it take to enter the spatial family magic?

It was too long ago.

[Welcome to the chapter of the competition.]

[Competition Day 1, Day 0. 0: 17]

The moving space was in a secluded forest.

Surprisingly.

Previous contests took place in areas similar to those on the 30th and 60th floors.

Again, I thought it would take place in the same 90-floor residential area, but it suddenly moved to the forest terrain.

Above all, there was no one around.

I thought people were gathering around me, but all I see around me is a woman and a man.

It was just the two of them.

[Hojae Lee, 50th Floor: What is this?]

[Min Hyuk Kim, 30th Floor:... Hey. Tell me the truth. You, uh, usually just pretend you've read all my messages, right?]

It was true.

I decided not to send any more messages on Kim Min-hyuk's reaction.

“How do you do?"

A woman who was standing around approached and greeted me.

“Yes, hello. ”

I greeted the man who approached me a little later and asked them to explain the situation.

The woman said with a somewhat embarrassing expression.

“Have you seen the notice? This is what the vigilantes have been telling us since the last month. ”

I didn't see it.

I don't even join the community, but I couldn't have read anything.

“Let's just go, shall we? Listen to the rest on the way. I'll take care of all the monsters on the road anyway. ”

The man who fell one step behind said.

Early twenties, apparently.

After entering the tutorial, challengers did not experience natural aging.

Given that, a man may be two or two years older than he looks.

But it was unlikely.

First of all, you don't know my face.

The fact alone suggested that men and women were recent challengers.

“Yes. Let's go first. I'll explain on the way. ”

* * *

As you walk through the forest, you hear a detailed explanation from the woman who was with you.

She introduced herself as binary.

When I heard the name of an outsider, I naturally thought it was an alias, but it is my real name.

I did not want to introduce my name.

A woman named Lee Jin explained that the field of the competition had more content than the previous competition.

He explained that the reward increased and that the race itself was very long in one month.

“In order to get to the venue first, you need to reach two randomly selected team members and there. ”

“Why was this meaningless process added? ”

”I don't know, but there's a lot of talk in the community about content for players who haven't experienced party play yet. ”

I heard the man in front of me laughing bloody.

That son of a bitch always gets on my nerves.

You, one strike.

Separately from him, there was something he did not understand.

“Players?”

“Yes.”

I questioned the unfamiliar word, but binary just said yes.

Player?

I was embarrassed to ask again because I was using the word so naturally.

Instead, I used Kim Min-hyuk's chance.

[Hojae Lee, 50th Floor: Hey, what's a player?]

[Min Hyuk Kim, 30th Floor: … Please. Why are you acting like an old man? That's what the community calls its challengers these days.]

Min-hyuk explained that challengers attacking a stage called players, residential areas or challengers who are staying at a particular stage NPC, etc.

[Min Hyuk Kim, 30th floor: Hey, I'm really, really busy. Ask the people who are going with you if you can. Or wait until tonight. Speaking of which, I'll see you tonight. Let me teach you some common sense.]

Common sense education.

Sounds like an outdated old man to me.

[Min Hyuk Kim, 30th Floor: You don't think so?]

I turned off the message in Kim Min-hyuk's facts that came in sharply stabbing.

He continued to talk about whether he liked explaining and teaching to someone.

It is said that there are many different types of content added to the competition, as well as a simple match.

Compete for a limited time for example to clear out the labyrinth the most, or go for a time attack stage with party play.

Lots of content

“I don't think it's going to be a challenge in time. The community says it's appropriate to challenge two or three. ”

The competition seemed to have changed a lot from before.

If the previous ones were like the Colosseum's gladiators, this competition felt like a comprehensive theme park.

I haven't seen it with my own eyes yet, but I felt it when I heard binary's explanation.

“What would you like to challenge? ”

”I don't know.”

This time, I will return to the stage after a few days without any challenge.

Unless, of course, there's a problem.

I don't want to waste my time here for a month or two, and now I have to eat an item or elixir as a winning prize.

I just met some people I know and told him I was going to take a break.

“Why not? Try one. This is the first time this has happened. I don't know when there will be more. Make it an experience. I've heard that some things are not dangerous. ”

The man who was ahead of Jin's words ridiculed him.

“Hey, I don't think you've been in here long. Let it go. The equipment is a mess, so it looks like it's packed among rankers. I'll take care of it.”

Hmm... Let's think about this for a second.

I think I'll take a strike on this one.

Then it's two strikes.

There is still one count until the Three Strikes.

But I felt bad.

Yeah. Let's say this ball was empty.

[Queek!]

That's when an ugly monster pops out of the middle of the forest.

It was a strange creature halfway between a dog and a frog.

“Hey, back off! I'll take care of it! ”

As I said that, I stared closely at the man's face, pulling out the longsword that was on his waist.

The man looked at me and asked.

“What? You got a problem with that? ”

”Get down.”

[Queek!]

An ugly monster falls straight to the ground.

I noticed that I was lying flat on my face, and my intelligence seemed quite high.

Although I could understand my words because of my knowledge before Babel, it was very desirable to know the difference in power at that instant.

In a sudden situation, the man comes out of embarrassment and looks at the monster alternately, confused.

This guy is less intelligent than a monster.

Well done, but I told you again.

“What are you doing? You too, get down.”