[Quest: Trials of The Spectral Phantom's Castle]
[Rank:???]
[Description:???]
[Objective: clear all 5 trials]
[Progress:3/5]
[Rewards:150 gold, 25 stat points & 12,500 exp]
[You have received 10 stat points for clearing the third trial]
Jae-hoon and the others walk into the room and start to look around. Meanwhile the others are looking around, Jae-hoon explores the room to try to find the tablet that contains the information about this trial. After a bit of searching he found the tablet and read it.
[Translating writings…]
[Translation complete]
"Trial of The Blaze. Where temperature rises, there will always be something dangerous lurking. Through the heat, monsters emerged. Made out of fire. Thou have no physical bodies. Thou should find the core to defeat them," he reads the translated version that the system gave.
Yoon-jung then walks up to Jae-hoon to ask him what everything he said means, "Jae-hoon. So…. What do those words mean? I really don't understand this one."
Jae-hoon thinks for a while before speaking, "I think I understood it. So I'm guessing something about the heat in this room rising. When the heat rises, monsters will start to appear. They have no physical bodies and the only way to defeat them is to find their cores. Basically, each monster has a different core. I still don't know what the monsters would look like or how strong they would be."
Soo-won then walks to Jae-hoon to make a plan, "So basically we don't know how they look or how strong they are, right? Let's just think of a strategy early so we could be ready for whatever is coming. Do you have any plans, Lee?"
Jae-hoon holds his chin, thinking for a while before speaking up, "I don't really know if this would work but…. Strip all of your armors. I know it sounds ridiculous but it might be useful. Remember when I read the tablet it said when the heat rises? That's basically a clue where the heat would suddenly rise. So it's best to take off your armors since it would generate extra heat. It might be dangerous to do so but all of you need to get used to it."
"Right now? Are you sure, Lee?" Soo-won asks
Jae-hoon nodded to answer his question.
Everyone looks at each other before taking off their armors as Jae-hoon said earlier.
"I really don't know how hot it will be so it's just a precaution. It's better to stay cautious than stay unknowingly what will happen," he says, telling everyone that it's better to stay cautious.
Everyone then waits for something to happen and right there and then, the temperature starts getting hotter suddenly. Jae-hoon knows that the battle that awaits everyone is starting soon.
Before Jae-hoon wants to summon his dagger from his inventory, he thinks ,"Is it fine if I pull out my weapon from my inventory? I think it's fine in times like this because last time I pulled it out when I fought the last statue, they didn't realize it. I guess I could summon it now. Equip Anansi's Poison Dagger."
He then summons his dagger from his inventory and as expected, no one realizes because the situation that's ahead of them is more important.
"Everyone! Get ready!" He shouts, telling everyone to get ready.
Everyone raises their weapons and gets ready for the incoming battle.
After a while, monsters made out of flames start appearing all around the room. Jae-hoon is kind of shocked because of the sheer amount that spawned.
"This brings back memories from then…. Damn…." he thinks back to the trial before he received the system.
[Identifying creature…]
[Creature identified]
[Flamia]
[Lvl 23]
Jae-hoon doesn't hesitate and just charges at one of the newly spawned Flamias. "If I don't do anything, I will just be burned to death!"
He strikes one of the Flamias with the dagger but the strike goes through like he's hitting air. "I knew it. We need to find where the core is and hit it. Like this!" he shouts so everyone could hear him. He then strikes at the Flamia again and this time hits the core and destroys it. "Just like that!"
Jae-hoon looks around. He sees that everyone is struggling because of the heat meanwhile he doesn't get really much affected because of his stats. In his mind he says, "The temperature is too hot and I'm the only one who can hold up?! Despite everything, it's still hot as fuck! Fuck it! Let's use some stat points that I got from my ascension to use! Allocate 15 points to resilience and 20 to senses!"
[Resilience: 40 to 55]
[Your resistance to negative effects have been increased from 17% to 26%]
[Senses: 30 to 50]
[All of your senses has been heightened by 40%]
With heightened senses, Jae-hoon is now aware of the location of all the Flamias' cores and he goes for them. One by one, he defeats them all without not much problem.
"I understand why it's easy to defeat them…. Their levels are low as heck. I'm glad that's the case…" he thinks in his mind.
After defeating all of the remaining Flamias, Jae-hoon lets out a breath because of the tiredness. Soo-won then comes up to him to talk with him, "Lee. We're sorry that we can't be of a help to you. The temperature was too high and we can't keep our bodies cooled. We're truly sorry to be a burden in this trial,"
Yoon-jung also came up to Jae-hoon to apologize, "I'm sorry, Jae-hoon! I can't provide everyone with a buff that could cool them down. I'm sorry for being a burden too!"
Jae-hoon then replies with, "No, it's fine. I just happened to know their weakness after reading the tablet. Without the tablets that explains about the trials, we couldn't have gotten this far already. Also, it's because of you guys I can still survive. If I came here alone, I would've died already." In his mind he also thinks, "It's also fine because I got exp…. And this is probably the easiest trial after the first trial"
[You have leveled up]
[You have received 5 stat points]
[You have received 20 coins (bonus)]
"Now that's everything settled, let's move on. We don't have time to just stay here. We need to get out of here as soon as possible. Let's go to the next room," he says, telling everyone to move on to the next trial since this trial is already over.
"Yeah!" Everyone replied and follows him to the next door that leads to the next trial.
[Quest: Trials of The Spectral Phantom's Castle]
[Rank:???]
[Description:???]
[Objective: clear all 5 trials]
[Progress:4/5]
[Rewards:150 gold, 25 stat points & 12,500 exp]
[You have received 10 stat points for clearing the fourth trial]