I’M A Max-Level Regressor [EN]: Chapter 131

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Without hesitation, I summoned the subspace and reached my hand toward the entrance. I had already finished assessing what was needed.

Thwack!

It was unfamiliar since I had barely used it, but I certainly knew how to use it.

It was the magic bullet gun, MZ-20, obtained from Choi Il-geon.

“No way?”

Without even hearing my companion’s surprised voice, I immediately aimed at the empty space.

Following my hands gripping the magic bullet gun, a large amount of magic power was sucked in like a vacuum cleaner.

Bang!

I immediately pulled the trigger.

“Kuwek!”

Then, from the location that seemed like an empty space, blood and flesh exploded like fireworks, and a dying scream was heard.

“Invisible Rat. Abbreviated as Inrat.”

The first to identify its identity was Yoon Byeol, who had extensive knowledge of monsters.

Invisible Rat.

It is a monster that maintains a state of invisibility at all times and roams the dungeon on two legs.

Inrat did not easily attack the Awakened who entered the dungeon because it did not have separately specialized attack methods.

The problem was the poison gas that it emitted using its unique nasal breath, approaching the Awakened without them knowing.

Colorless and odorless.

However, it was a poison gas that caused symptoms like a cold to mild paralysis in the Awakened who inhaled it.

“Shin-hwa, how did you see it?”

“Can you see even the invisible opponent?”

The Priest and Jin Bo-mi asked.

“It’s not that I can see the invisible opponent. Instead, I can smell the scent that it emits.”

“Extremely developed sense of smell! Are you talking about an example like this?”

“That’s right. Correct answer.”

I nodded.

To directly identify an invisible opponent, additional eye modification is required.

What I created by consuming Magoth’s Eye before was a primary modification that could respond to illusions, distortions, and darkness.

However, seeing a transparent object requires a more difficult modification, and what can compensate for this was the sense of smell and hearing.

Of course, infrared detection is still possible, but it was difficult to maintain constantly because it put too much strain on the eyes.

“Wow! By the way, you use the magic bullet gun quite skillfully. I heard it’s hard to control.”

“It was close, so I could hit it even if I shot it roughly.”

I joked.

In fact, it was thanks to practicing a lot with guns in my old age in my previous life because I had a lot of interest in them.

Although it is an old model compared to then, the mechanism is the same, so there was no difficulty in using it.

“First of all, everyone, don’t get close to this guy. The poison gas is almost not emitted when it dies, but it’s still a dangerous guy that transmits diseases.”

Perhaps because there was no word from me in the first place, none of my companions approached Inrat.

In addition, when I gave a clear warning, they quickly distanced themselves and moved away.

“The curse that caused Bo-mi’s magic power emission disorder in the past is similar to the disease that this guy transmits.”

“Really?”

“If you are attacked by an Inrat with severe poison gas, you may develop a magic power emission disorder.”

“Ah……”

Jin Bo-mi shuddered.

It must have been because the terrible memories of the time when she suffered from the disorder came to mind.

Just because time has passed does not mean that the pain and suffering that the body remembers are easily forgotten.

‘Acheron was a guy who could never come out of the dungeon, but he moved around the dungeon at will.’

Acheron, who is presumed to have cursed Jin Bo-mi, is also known as one of Rechelo’s henchmen.

However, unlike Elijah, he was a guy who was secretly working only inside the dungeon.

Later, I couldn’t track his location anymore, so I didn’t even know where he was.

If my memory is correct, Acheron was a guy with a unique ability to jump between dungeons.

If I can find him someday through chance or a tip.

I will definitely be able to collect information about Rechelo and the bigger mastermind hidden behind him.

“We’re going straight down the main road. The number of Inrats may not be small, but it’s more efficient to go this shortcut.”

I pointed to the flat road that stretched along the forest.

Due to the geographical characteristics, it is a good structure for Inrats to hide and approach to transmit diseases.

But since there is a way to detect it, there was no need to go back.

Of course, if another Awakened team came, they would definitely go back.

Or they would cross without thinking and end up bedridden as a group.

Sniff sniff.

Right then.

Sensing another uninvited guest who had secretly sneaked in, I immediately threw Wilson toward that point.

Wilson, who flew away with a rough tearing sound, found a scapegoat in the space that seemed to be empty.

“……!”

Thud!

Inrat’s durability was terrible, so even if Wilson just grazed it, its head would burst like a watermelon.

In that way, we quickly eliminated the Inrats, who were famous for being annoying, and moved forward.

It was a rapid dungeon raid that was twice as fast as the initially expected movement speed.

* * *

After a while.

We arrived at the midpoint of the dungeon after removing a large number of Inrats without any problems.

Anyway, what I was trying to capture in the K-10004 dungeon was not the main boss monster.

From the beginning, the place I was aiming for was the double dungeon hidden inside this dungeon.

A special space that no one has ever discovered.

It was a place full of elements that would be helpful not only for the ‘liquefaction flower’ that I needed, but also for my companions.

“Let’s take a break after passing that intersection. It took exactly four hours. The dungeon’s short night is coming, so let’s take a break using the intermission.”

The dungeon’s sun was setting.

However, the night here is short, about 4 hours, so it was enough to close your eyes for a while and wake up.

“The most unwanted, troublesome gatekeeper has appeared.”

Yoon Byeol said, stroking the side of the dagger that she had been polishing with Libanis’s gallstone all the way here.

Her attack is powerful against living things, but it is particularly weak against inanimate objects such as Rascarts.

Perhaps that’s why she looked embarrassed when she saw the guy blocking the path this time as well.

“There’s no answer to those stamina pigs with ordinary methods.”

The monster guarding the 이동 [movement] path was also a Rascart.

The problem is that unlike the combat-type Rascarts we had faced along the way, these guys were ‘extreme defense types.’

In other words, it was a monster designed not for combat but for blocking and enduring the road.

Therefore, no matter how much I beat them with maximized destructive power, there was a high possibility that they would not even get a scratch.

Of course, they lost their attack ability as much as they gained defense ability, but anyway, it was a concept that perfectly matched the nickname ‘gatekeeper.’

“Should we not overdo it and go back? When we were briefing at the beginning, we said let’s talk about it when we get there, right?”

“That’s right. I couldn’t guess what the structure would be like.”

As the Priest said.

This is because the internal terrain of the dungeon changes slightly each time it is reset, unlike what I remember.

It is not reset in exactly the same form as before, so there was always a 10% variable.

“I really don’t know how to attack those meat shields. Tsk.”

Han So-joon clicked his tongue.

To give you a numerical comparison, those guys had 10 times higher stamina and defense than the Rascarts they had faced so far.

I can generate high firepower in a short period of time, but even considering that, it was not easy to knock down one of them.

However, the height of the old trees that were overgrown in the surrounding area to avoid this by jumping was as high as 100m.

In other words, unless we went straight through, we had no choice but to go around for a long time.

‘Is it time to use strong adhesive after a long time?’

I am thinking of using an option that I have never used since returning.

That is to use needles that have changed their properties through modification.

I have used healing needles, tracking needles, and toxic needles before.

However, I have not yet used the last fourth option, ‘adhesive needle.’ There was no need to use it.

But this time, it seemed like I could use it very usefully.

Adhesive needles do not have permanent durability like strong adhesives. The duration is about 10 minutes?

But that seemed more than enough to achieve what I wanted.

“Everyone, get ready to run. I’ll clear the way, so run in a straight line, unconditionally in a straight line around here.”

Why? How? Would it be possible?

No one asks me questions like this.

Now, even if I make an absurd suggestion, everyone accepts it without a word.

‘You are always right.’

The reason for this was consistent with what the Priest had said to me while moving here.

Everyone believed in me.

They felt that silently believing and following me, rather than discussing the possibility, had better results.

“Start when I shout to start. Don’t look back!”

As soon as I finished speaking, I threw myself toward the Rascart group.

Already, my salivary glands were full of needles that would act as super-strong adhesives at any time.

Of course, the needles never react to my body. It’s a kind of self-immunity.

“Kwaaa! Kuwa!”

“Kagaga!”

The Rascart group, who found me rushing in with great momentum, began to move all at once.

The movement was slow, but the appearance of the thick body moving was quite powerful.

“Ptooey!”

I spat a little saliva that I had moderately divided(?) in my mouth at one of them.

Thwack!

Perhaps thanks to spitting a lot in the old days, the adhesive needle stuck exactly where I aimed. It was Rascart’s forehead.

“Stonehead, come here?”

I raised my middle finger toward the guy across from me.

Then, the guy exploded with red eyes and ran at me.

It seems that it is universal to feel bad when only one finger is sticking out.

Kwaak! Kwaaak!

As I was on top of his head with the saliva on his forehead, Rascart stretched out his arms and tried to grab me.

However, I could avoid the attack as much as I wanted by lightly lifting my body.

In the meantime.

Kuuung!

The guy who was trying to reach out his arm to aim at me from the opposite side ended up colliding with his own kind.

It seemed that he thought it would be beneficial to drop me anyway.

But.

“Ururuk?”

“Keuk?”

Like watching a man and a woman decorating the finale with a couple concept at a fashion show.

The faces of the two guys whose foreheads were stuck together did not know how to fall off.

Thanks to this, their noses and mouths were so close that it looked like they were kissing each other.

Kwaaak!

But it wasn’t over yet.

There were still five more Rascarts blocking the path.

I divided the saliva equally on the left arms of the two guys who were struggling while tightly attached to each other.

Now it’s time to play Tetris hard with these stone blocks!

* * *

At the same time.

“I’ve never seen a method of attaching stones to each other like that in my life.”

Han So-joon burst into laughter.

It was not because he was dumbfounded, but because he was impressed by the extraordinary method created by Shin-hwa.

The same was true for Jin Bo-mi and Choi Ji-hyuk, who had benefited from Shin-hwa’s healing needles.

Wooduk. Wooddeuk. Keudeuk.

When divided one by one, they are intimidatingly large golems.

But now these guys.

Each of them facing each other’s foreheads.

Forcibly interlocking their arms.

It was an amazing sight where ‘that part’ was strangely facing each other, making it impossible to move their lower bodies.

It was a mess that made the original appearance of standing like gatekeepers seem colorless.

Kukung! Kureureung! Kugung!

The current seven Rascarts were a jumbled pile of stones mixed in a mess, rolling around on the floor without being able to do anything.

It was a total disaster.