The figures of the knight commanders became smaller and smaller. The sky became endlessly distant, and their bodies began to fall aimlessly toward the ground.
The monsters on the bridge, who saw me falling, tried to prepare for battle, but before they could do anything, I had already fallen much lower. Neither the bow nor the spear meant anything.
This was the fastest way to clear the Abyss Dungeon I mentioned. Get the angle and position right, and jump straight down to the floor.
At first glance, it seemed like an easy action, but in reality, it wasn't like that at all.
The creators were also people with ideas, so they increased the base health of the monsters on the bridge and adjusted their heights to make it impossible to cheat by using a falling attack.
Chewing damage from a falling attack is only limited to cases where the target can die. If the monster survives, the player will end up falling alone to his death.
Even most of the monsters are placed in blind spots, and the distance is calculated so that they cannot be reached by jumping, thoroughly preventing the player from accidentally falling onto them.
So from the moment he fell off the bridge, his death was inevitable. That's what everyone thought.
'But it was actually a method discovered by sheer coincidence.'
It all started with an unlucky person who used the wrong roll and fell off the bridge, falling for a long time and dying on the lowest level of the dungeon.
While that unlucky situation was turning into a joke, the question 'If you fall to the bottom and land a falling attack, can you skip the middle part?' popped out.
The dead, who had nothing better to do, took up the bait and started to try out all sorts of strange things. I was one of them.
There were only two conditions, but each one was incredibly tough.
Once you jump down, you should be able to go straight to the bottom of the dungeon without any obstacles in between, and there should be a monster at the spot where you land that you can use a fall attack on.
The second condition in particular was ridiculously vicious. The monsters would wander around unless they found the player, and even that timing had to be perfect to succeed.
But who are we? If you tell us to play a game of bonsai, aren't we just humans who beat each other up with bonsai, and if there's an element of competition, aren't we just humans who struggle to somehow rise above our opponents?
After a long trial, we finally succeeded. From the moment you enter this dungeon area, we calculate the distance the monster moves, and even figure out where and how to jump.
And this was the result.
Countless bridges and tree trunks passed right by me. It was such a close call that if I had been even a little off in my positioning, I would have definitely crashed into one of them and died.
There were those who shot arrows occasionally, but they never reached me. The sound of arrows hitting the wall could only be heard from up there.
'Oh, that was really tough.'
As soon as I saw the monster that was three or four times the size of a human, passing by me, I shuddered. That was the mid-boss of this dungeon.
It was already hard enough having to fight on a narrow bridge, but as expected from the merciless Byulramode, the archers from the nearby cliffs were shooting arrows at him, making it even harder.
It was fortunate that I didn't have to fight that guy right now. If it weren't for the terrain and arrows, he would have been at the level of a trash mob, but he was really swearing.
I fell a long way down even after I passed the middle boss. There was still no sign of me reaching the bottom.
It was natural. Instead of adding a new area through DLC, this dungeon was released, so this one dungeon had to secure as much playtime as a new area.
It's a process of going from one end of a place to the other, skipping the middle part. It was impossible to do it in a few minutes.
As time passed, the appearance of the monster on the bridge gradually changed.
While the monsters at the entrance were carrying crude weapons and wooden shields or wooden bows, the lower you went, the more rugged-looking monsters appeared.
The shield turned into a hard shell, the spear turned into sharp claws and teeth, and the bow turned into a black liquid that was spewed out from the mouth. It was also much larger than a normal person.
Of course, since I passed over all of those things, they didn't really mean anything.
'It's almost time to arrive.'
Before I knew it, the dungeon walls and even the bridges running through the center had been dyed black. This meant that I was almost at the center of the Rune Dungeon.
Soon, the bottom of the dungeon began to appear from afar. The entire floor, which looked like a mud pit, was moving as if it were alive.
I looked around to see where I would fall. A monster was walking slowly nearby.
'thank god.'
I let out a sigh of relief. I jumped in confidently, but that doesn't mean I wasn't nervous at all. I had hoped that something might happen.
Thank goodness my ominous feelings turned out to be wrong.
He raised his bloody sword. Attack power buffs were meaningless. The key to the damage from a falling attack was not the damage of the weapon itself, but the additional damage that increased in proportion to the distance it fell.
If you fall from such a high place, even a boss will be defeated in one hit.
The distance between me and the monster quickly decreased. I pulled my right shoulder back slightly, then landed on top of the monster's head.
-Kwajijik!
"Kuaaaah!"
The monster screamed in pain as it received the full impact of the fall that should have been my own. I grabbed the thing by the neck and spun its body around.
The monster's upper body snapped to the side and fell to the ground. A creepy thud was heard, as if its back had burst.
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We rolled around on the floor, entangled with each other, until the rolling stopped when he was on top and I was on top. I then plunged my bloody sword into his head.
The monster trembled as if it had been struck by lightning, then became quiet. After confirming that it was not moving, I slowly drew my sword and stood up.
Unlike the monster lying on the floor in a miserable state, I was fine, without a single scratch.
It was a success.
I glanced up. It must have been a straight line all the way to the entrance, but it was completely dark, with no sky visible. Tree trunks and bridges were densely packed in between.
The number of bridges that came into my sight was easily over a hundred. I realized once again how deep this dungeon was.
He lowered his head. There were still things he had to deal with. Those that looked exactly like the monsters he had just used as a springboard for his parachute attack. He had to deal with those too.
Without hesitation, he stabbed the bloody sword into the stomach. This was a dungeon that was clearly part of the latter half of the main story. Without an attack power buff, it would take a whole year to defeat them.
I pulled out my sword from my stomach and walked to the nearest monster's perception distance. Its head creaked and turned, and its red eyes glowed as it looked at me.
Thud, the bastard steps forward.
The last monster fell to the ground. There was a loud crash and black mud splashed everywhere.
"Ugh, it's dirty."
I wiped the black liquid off my face with the back of my hand. I never thought it would splash all over my face. It was probably harmless to the human body, but it made me feel bad.
The bloody sword had already returned to its original color. It took a little longer to catch the last one because the buff went off, but it was still within the planned time.
I worked hard to move my feet through the sticky black mud. Everywhere I touched, my calves were buried deep.
This is why I hated it. They force the player to walk and even restrict rolling.
Places classified as swamps have a similar effect, but this one is even worse. In a swamp, you can roll the heaviest, but on black mud, rolling itself is sealed, so you can only walk.
As I came out, grumbling that this was the perfect section to make people's blood pressure rise, I saw a narrow alley stretching between the walls and a statue of something strange installed next to it.
It's a statue that allows the player to quick save and fast travel, but it's not really useful to me right now.
It was not yet possible to use it because the conditions for opening the statue had not been met, and even if it were opened, it did not seem like it would be of much help.
'What would I do if I left the Knight Commanders alone and used them all?'
How many situations will I have to move around on my own in the future where I would use that? Besides, even if I did turn it on, I'd never come back here again.
If it were a game, I would activate the statue, refill my potions, or take a short break before challenging the boss, but not here. I ignored the statue and continued walking along the path.
And soon we arrived in front of a huge door.
Behind this door was the boss of the Abyss Dungeon. I put away my bloody sword for a moment, placed my hand on the door, and slowly pushed it forward with force.
The door slowly began to open on both sides with a creaking sound. The scenery inside was revealed little by little. The boss room was no different from what I remembered.
"Sob... Heh heh heh... Sob...."
It also seemed as if a woman's crying could be heard from inside.
It was a very sad and creepy sob that made the listener cringe. I opened the door completely and entered the boss room. The door automatically closed with a creaking sound.
In the center of the room was a woman kneeling, her hands clasped before her mouth, weeping and praying. She was wearing the garb of the fighting nuns of the Holy Land of Raphael.
Almost every inch of it was torn, rotted, and rotted away, so that it was practically naked. I would guess that less than 10% of the original area of cloth remained.
With less than 10% of the nun's habit remaining, it was as good as not wearing any clothes.
"Sob... sob...."
Even as I walked inside, the nun continued to cry. Black liquid flowed from between her closed eyelids.
-Cheolbuk.
Stop.
And as soon as I stepped into the mud, the crying stopped.