Emperor! Can You See Stats!?

Chapter 148: Upper Floor

[SS Rank Dungeon: Black Tortoise Cave]

[The map will be revealed according to your achievements.]

[Your achievement rate is high. More detailed information will be revealed.]

As the system said, Eurius could tell what kind of devices were in the dungeon’s passage just by glancing at it.

He walked forward and turned his head to Namgoong Ilcheon.

“I have some knowledge of these mechanisms too, so I’ll take the lead with you.”

“Uh… Thank you for that.”

No one dared to argue with him.

They had just seen Eurius pinpoint the location of the trap.

‘Damn! How did he find the trap that even I couldn’t detect? There’s no point in accompanying him.’

Gu Cheon-geol was so hurt by his pride that he started to advance ahead of Eurius. But the result was not very good.

As he moved forward, he heard Eurius’s calm voice.

“Oh, there will be steel arrows shooting from the side of the passage.”

Shriek!

As soon as he said that, a terrifying sound of breaking the air rang out.

“…!?”

Gu Cheon-geol bent his waist back in surprise. Dozens of silver arrows barely grazed his torso.

Puff puff!

The arrows pierced through the solid stone wall like a tofu.

Seeing that sight, Gu Cheon-geol broke out in a cold sweat.

‘If I had been hit squarely, my body would have been pierced through, regardless of my defensive skills.’

He was not a foolish person, so he cautiously looked at Eurius.

“Then how do we deactivate it?”

“That’s up to you! I don’t know much about the devices.”

“…”

Unfortunately, Eurius only knew the location of the trap, not the expert of the mechanisms.

It was all up to Gu Cheon-geol to figure out how to break them.

He examined the wall where the arrows had been fired.

Sometimes he went in and activated the mechanism again.

His effort was not in vain, so he shouted loudly to the United Alliance side.

“Just follow me and step on exactly where I step!”

Gu Cheon-geol skipped dozens of steps on the floor of the passage.

It was a structure that fired arrows when a certain part of the floor was stepped on.

That way, the masters of the United Alliance were able to cross safely by stepping on only where Gu Cheon-geol had stepped and passed.

Similar situations repeated after that. Of course, the one who suffered the most was Gu Cheon-geol.

“Ah! That place…”

Whoosh!

Before Eurius’s words were finished, a fierce flame spewed out from the ceiling.

“Huek!”

Gu Cheon-geol rolled on the floor to barely avoid the flame, and almost screamed out loud.

“This damn bastard… No, sir! Are you doing this on purpose?”

Eurius made an excuse with a poker face.

“How could I? I just detected it a little late.”

Of course, his inner thoughts were like this.

‘I can’t go in there myself, can I? You’re good at martial arts, so you should do it.’

It wasn’t possible to completely prevent danger by knowing what kind of devices were there. The system’s explanation was not very detailed.

[Hellfire – Flames spew out from the ceiling. A Rank Mechanism.]

It was impossible to predict perfectly by looking at such a vague description without showing how it worked.

‘I don’t know how dangerous it is even if it’s A Rank.’

In that sense, there was no reason not to use the best person to throw as a scapegoat.

Gu Cheon-geol was the most agile and skilled in martial arts except for Eurius, so he wouldn’t be seriously injured even if he was told a little late.

‘Damn it… I’m old and this is too hard!’

Gu Cheon-geol grumbled inwardly, but still investigated and made a way to break through the traps that Eurius pointed out.

“There’s no way around this one. If I have to say something, I just have to cut off the ceiling part where the mechanism is installed…”

Squeak.

Thud!

Before his words were over, Eurius’s sword cut off the ceiling where the flame had spewed out.

The neat skill made the masters of the United Alliance behind him gasp and admire.

“As expected!”

“It wasn’t a coincidence that he easily subdued Namgoong Daehyup.”

In this way, this strange combination cleared the traps and advanced.

The United Alliance was grateful to Eurius for passing through the terrifying traps without any injuries.

“It’s all thanks to Daehyup. How can we thank you…”

“I’m also a companion, and I’m glad that my colleagues are safe. You said we don’t have much time, so let’s go quickly.”

Eurius smiled and still led the United Alliance.

As he looked around diligently, even those who were somewhat displeased with Eurius, the foreigner, had to nod and agree.

“How many of us would have been safe if it weren’t for Daehyup?”

“I thought he was suspicious at first, but maybe I should look at him again.”

But on the other hand, there were some suspicious eyes.

“How can a foreigner know so well about the mechanisms of the far east? Maybe he had already investigated this place beforehand?”

Of course, Eurius had thought of that too. Throwing Gu Cheon-geol into the trap on purpose was one of the acts to disguise that his knowledge was not omnipotent.

‘If they doubt me more, I have another way.’

[Needle Wall – Needles pour out from the wall. D Rank Mechanism.]

Swoosh!

Eurius passed by the mechanism indifferently, but as soon as the party moved, countless sharp needles poured out to the United Alliance side.

“Huh!”

The startled people couldn’t prepare for it. As they closed their eyes tightly!

Thud.

Eurius, who had come close to them somehow, blocked all the needles. He swept away all the needles with the wind pressure of his sword.

“I’m sorry. It was too stealthy and I couldn’t detect the mechanism here.”

Eurius apologized with a sorry expression, and the masters of the United Alliance declined with embarrassment.

“Don’t mention it. If it weren’t for you, we would have been seriously injured.”

This wasn’t the only time this happened.

Crash!

Suddenly a hole opened in the passage and a steel ball that looked over two meters high rolled at a terrifying speed.

It was obvious that if it hit squarely, it wouldn’t leave any bones.

[Steel Ball Rotation – A steel ball made of steel crushes you. C Rank Mechanism.]

“Block it!”

The United Alliance drew their weapons and tried to stop the rolling ball. But this time too, Eurius was the fastest.

He blocked the front of the party with lightning speed and hit the rolling steel ball.

Boom!

With that strike, Cheolgu exploded into pieces.

The fragments that scattered as Cheolgu was torn apart were blocked by the other experts, including Namgoong Ilcheon.

“Is anyone hurt?”

“W-we’re fine.”

At Eurius’s worried voice, the experts who had been approached by Cheolgu stuttered their answers.

And as this situation repeated itself, their expressions softened as they looked at Eurius.

Who would hate someone who risked his life to protect his companions?

“I’m ashamed of what I doubted before. You threw yourself in front of us to protect us, even though we’re no different from strangers.”

“I don’t know who you are, but you’re incomparable to the evil Magyo.”

As they cleared their misunderstanding(?), Eurius smiled contentedly.

‘Leaving some traps behind was effective.’

In fact, the trap just now was also like that. Eurius had deliberately left behind some traps that were not very dangerous.

Of course, they would be fatal if they were careless and hit them, but the Jeongdo Alliance was composed of considerable experts, so they wouldn’t have suffered much damage even if Eurius didn’t intervene.

He had already warned his companions about the big traps that seemed to be fatal.

But even if they were nothing, damage was damage.

So he blocked them instead, and he got an unexpected effect from it.

Eurius was a strong man who had defeated Namgoong Ilcheon, who was as good as the vice-leader of Jeongdomang. When such a person threw himself in a hurry to block the traps, the traps received a tremendous evaluation.

The trap that sent small needles flying was treated as a terrifying trap with deadly poison on the needles, and the simple trap that rolled a metal ball was regarded as a clever trick that made the metal ball explode suddenly and send fragments everywhere.

“Thank you for saving our lives, Daehyup!”

“Hmm! It was nothing big.”

As they looked at his grateful face, Eurius was dying to hold back his laughter.

‘No, even if I had left them alone, most of them would have only gotten a few scratches…’

But he didn’t need to explain that. That’s how Eurius was gradually building trust(?).

By the time he had almost passed through the corridor of the upper floor of Bidong, their eyes were filled with respect and gratitude for Eurius. The attention of the hall was focused on his every move.

Clack!

When Eurius suddenly stopped walking, they all looked at the corridor with tense expressions.

‘There’s something there!’

As they expected, Eurius slowly opened his mouth. His expression was full of tension.

“There’s a room ahead and there seems to be something in it. It’s not human, but a monster or a spirit beast.”

“…!?”

At his words, the people of Jeongdo Alliance tensed up and followed Eurius as he moved forward with a snicker.

‘It must be the floor boss.’

According to the map, this Hyunmubidong was divided into upper and lower floors. And Eurius’s party was on the upper floor.

And on the upper floor, there was a gate that blocked the way down to the lower floor.

[Hyunmubidong-Floor Boss View]

[Thousand-Year Armor (S-Rank Spirit Beast)-A monster that resembles a turtle and has grown by absorbing the power of Bidong for hundreds of years. The shell that has lasted for a thousand years is hard to scratch with any attack.]

‘It’s not an easy opponent to be careless with. S-Rank means it’s on par with Imugi, who I fought with Nuada before.’

Eurius approached the room cautiously. The experts of Jeongdo Alliance followed him closely. But just before he entered the room, he tilted his head.

“Hmm? Why don’t I feel anything?”

He had reached right in front of the room where the boss was supposed to be, but there was no sign of anything inside.

And when he entered the room, he found out why. He opened his eyes wide at the unexpected sight and heard a moan from behind him.

“…!?”

“How could this be…”

The people of Jeongdo Alliance stared at the scene in front of them with horror. In the room, there was a huge spirit beast that resembled a turtle, but its body and shell were already shattered and lying on the floor.

Eurius muttered in a calm tone.

“It looks like someone got here before us and killed the spirit beast.”

“Judging by the corpse of the spirit beast, it must have been the Magyo.”

Namgoong Ilcheon said with a grim expression. Eurius looked at the corpse of the spirit beast more closely.

A small exclamation escaped his lips.

“Wow…”

‘Whoever it was, he was a great fighter. He destroyed this hard shell with a single blow and killed the spirit beast.’

Eurius drew his sword and struck a piece of the shell. It was a strike that he put his heart into.

Clang!

The shell had a faint scratch on it, but it didn’t break and instead bounced off Eurius’s sword. That meant that the one who killed the spirit beast was one step ahead of Eurius in terms of simple destructive power.

“Did you say the Magyo expert who came here was Bingyeomgeomma?”

Namgoong Ilcheon nodded with a heavy expression.

“You seem to have noticed. I know it might sound uncomfortable to you, who are as good as Daehyup, but please be careful when you face him.”

“…”

After confirming the corpse of the spirit beast, the people of Jeongdo Alliance looked somewhat dispirited. It was because the second-ranked absolute expert of Magyo was down there.

Behind the room where the corpse was, there was a downhill corridor leading to the lower floor of Bidong.

As he walked down slowly, Eurius checked the map of the lower floor.

‘There are no traps set by mechanisms on the lower floor, but there are many powerful spirit beasts and monsters.’

According to the map, the upper floor was just a taste. The real horror of Hyunmubidong was on the lower floor.