Translator: JiuJiuBa
Proofreader: Godlycash
“You’re late!”
Kiri Kiri, who was laying and rolling in the field, cried as soon as she saw me.
I didn’t arrive that late.
It took the same amount of time.
I promised that I would buy Kiri Kiri cake so she was waiting for me.
She was so excited that she left her seat and ran around me. However, I was so tired that I just waved to her and sank down.
I had no energy to open my mouth and say hello to Kirikiri.
I just opened the shop window and silently purchased a fresh cream cake at the top of my favorites list.
I lay down and Kirikiri cheerfully rushed toward the cake.
I took a deep breath so fresh air can enter my lungs.
The refreshing feeling made me feel alive.
My body had been healed while clearing the 39th floor, but my exhausted mind hasn’t recovered yet.
I was fortunate to have this field that refreshed and cleared my mind.
Breathing slowly, I waited for myself to calm down.
After feeling a little better, I relaxed and watched KiriKiri eat the fresh cream cake.
Without a fork, she ate happily using her hands.
Cream scattered all over the place.
I felt much more relaxed over time.
Now I could bear pain with a smile, but the last few rounds were really unbearable.
Since I found out that the Poison Energy skill was much more powerful than I thought on the 35th floor, I had focused on honing it.
Of course, in order to grow the Poison Energy skill, I had to use it on myself.
Like Kiri Kiri had said, the poison is fatal.
After the latent period, the poison started to penetrate my body, and then the tolerance and physical strength that I had painstakingly developed was totally useless. I could do nothing but groan like a patient.
Fortunately, my body adapted the poison quickly.
My quirk is self-harm. I didn’t know whether my body was accustomed to the poison or was good at adapting.
On the 36th floor, it was difficult for the poison to last 10 days, but on the 39th floor, the poison survived until the 23rd day.
I drank a special antidote because I thought I would die on the morning of the 24th day.
However, even though I drank two bottles of potion, the poison wasn’t detoxified, so I rushed to clear the stage.
In the state of knowing that my life was on the line, I found out that if I cleared the stage, then my body would recover, but I fainted at that same moment.
when I regained consciousness, I was already on this field.
I was still dumbfounded and groggy due to this.
I’ve become accustomed to the poison, but the most unbearable part is withstanding the high fever, dizziness and dyspnea that did not go away for even a moment. Compared with these symptoms, the pain or fear of the poison didn’t matter anymore.
Several hours were tolerable, but I withstood it for almost three months. The stress was no joke.
Even though I cleared the stage and laid in the field, it seems that the nausea and dizziness still remained.
I remembered that one night I came home from the beach when I was young, I felt I was still swimming despite being on my bed.
Similar to that, even though the poison had completely died out in my body, I felt like I was still suffering from poison.
It was that hard and it is still hard, but also rewarding.
The stagnant poison resistance had finally evolved into poison immunity.
The level of faint resistance, paralysis resistance and pain tolerance also increased a lot.
A new skill, disease resistance has been born and the level of natural healing and regeneration also increased.
At last, being in line with the growth of resistance, the poison energy skill also raised a lot.
The situation was positive.
“It’s not positive, nothing is positive.”
Said KiriKiri, who was eating cake silently.
“The level of my skills raised a lot, this is positive.”
Especially since the level of my resistance skills increased.
This was the first time that my level of resistance skills grew this much since I cleared 1st and 2nd floor.
The levels of poison skills also increased.
This couldn’t be negative.
KiriKiri listened to my word and shook her head.
“Your poison has evolved to attack and penetrate the immune system, which is extremely dangerous. That’s why it’s called poison ‘immunity’. You must stop using the poison skill from now on.”
She had warned several times about the dangers of poison energy skill.
And I kept ignoring her warning.
“If you insist, the poison will kill you someday.”
“I won’t let that happen. Just in case, I will also have elixirs with me.”
I bought a few bottles of Elixir as the last defense for a really dangerous moment.
Only one thing, I had to consume Elixir sparingly due to the limited quantity.
“You’re supposed to be completely careful. No more than 25 days. This poison is highly toxic that even though you have a strong body with poison immunity, you’ll die in no more than 25 days. There is now there’s no way to detoxify it besides the healing effect the system provides and the elixir. Houjae ought to take this seriously. A small mistake made in a split second could lead to an irreversible accident.”
“I see, I see.”
As a response to words that I had heard many times, I nodded hard. However, Kiri Kiri was not satisfied with me and pouted her mouth.
“I know you want stronger power, but you should keep yourself safe first. Don’t confuse the method with aim.”
The poison skill is a double-edged sword.
It’s indeed strong, but it’s also dangerous for me.
Because I can poison myself and endanger my life.
However, this kind of weapon is always powerful.
Although I would be careful, totally abandoning it was impossible.
The point was to test how much could I handle poison as a skill.
Or how about finding out another way to use poison rather than raising the level of poison energy skill.
I took an empty glass bottle from my inventory while thinking about this.
My finger hurts.
A bead of blood welled up.
The blood flow into the glass bottle and fused with poison energy skill.
I was careful not to poison myself.
My efforts were not in vain. The poison penetrated the blood that flowed out of my finger.
The red blood turned deep-black as soon as the poison penetrated.
It was only a few drops of blood, but no one could withstand this.
When your enemy was living being, it was far more threatening to throw a glass bottle rather than to use a siege weapon or magic.
It was effective.
The cost performance was also outstanding.
How about selling bottled poison in the auction house?
It would be a great help to other challengers attempting attack stages.
Enemies who could survive after being poisoned by this poison were few.
“No, you can’t do that.”
KiriKiri firmly objected.
“Why?”
“If this begins to circulate, the grand conference will be convened. People who don’t have poison resistance could be in danger even when they’re in the waiting room.”
Really?
Once upon a time, a potion with a strong drug effect was produced and circulated so the grand conference was convened.
I tried to think about the similarities between that potion and my poison.
At that moment, smoke began to rise from the bottom of the glass bottle with a hissing sound.
The poison melted the glass and leaked through the crack.
I didn’t expect that.
“Flame.”
I put my hand below the glass bottle and used magic.
The flame magic that I was able to master not long was the magic that could use the high temperature fire, like its name expressed.
The poison blood that leaked from the crack of the bottle of glass bottle disappeared as soon as it met the flame.
Maybe the boiling point of poison was low, so it evaporated and disappeared in a flash.
The smoke that produced because of evaporation pierced the tip of my nose.
[……!]
KiriKiri screamed out with an incredible voice.
Then a powerful gust of wind blew and pushed the smoke away.
Before the wind blew the smoke of poison away, my nose smelled the smoke for a short period and then became numb.
My face and hands that had touched the smoke also became sore.
It’s effect was so powerful even in this field, how about in the outside field?
It’s not poisoned.
I believe that if I don’t have poison immunity, I would die as soon as my nose smelled the smoke.
It’s interesting.
Wuxia novels had described about using the fire produced by the internal power to burn the poison out. So I decided to use flame magic.
However, the poison showed a stronger effect when it mixed with flame.
It may lose its effect in the long run, but in the short term, the poisoning may become more effective and stronger.
What if I apply the poison with fire?
The greatest disadvantage of poison is that it can only poison people when it touches their body.
If I could handle the smoke of poison and control the direction of the smoke, then I don’t have to worry about this disadvantage.
I had done some experiments on myself, but I haven’t tried to do some experiments about that.
It was regretful for not exactly knowing its boiling point and freezing point and the changes of its effect during a chemical reaction. Why I haven’t recognized it so far?
I kept thinking, but the rattling noise of KiriKiri from the side interrupted me.
Starting at me, KiriKiri seemed to be so angry and her lips were curled up five steps away her mouth.
She looked much angrier than that time I rubbed her of the Churros she was eating with no reason.
So I put the thoughts about poison aside and quickly apologized to her.
“KiriKiri, I’m sorry.”
The apologies reminded me of my mistakes.
She was sad because I did the experiment with the poison immediately after she advised me.
And she would be heartbroken because the smoke diffused on this field, where she likes and cherishes.
I am reflecting on myself.
Seriously.
“Humph!”
I apologized, but KiriKiri turned her head around.
* * *
Eventually, KiriKiri got over it after I promised not to abuse the poison skill recklessly before I could safely handle it, as she advised.
It was the advice that I had heard many times, and Kirikiri had never emphasized her advice like this before, so I decided to obey it quietly.
In any case, Kirikiri’s advice did not do harm at all.
The most situations that things proceeded not well were because I went against her advice or she omitted to advise.
“But could I handle the poison energy skill well?”
If it’s impossible, it means I can’t use this skill forever.
KiriKiri shook her head and said no.
“If you can use magic to detoxify, it will be possible with a holy incantation.”
KiriKiri still looked unhappy while answering my question.
It was easy to know her mood. When her face had no expression or her voice was extremely low, she may be in a bad mood.
But mad KiriKiri was awkward when I looked at her face.
It had been a long time since the first time I met KiriKiri after I cleared the first stage.
As a person who knows her personality well, I had a question.
Is she still mad at me?
Or is she pretending to be mad in order to conceal her perspective from me?
I wonder which one was true.
“I’m angry!”
Kirikiri flew into a rage and shouted out, as if she tried to prove her innocence.
I nodded at her.
Well, I know, I know you are angry.
“I said I was angry! Seriously!”
I stared at this woman’s face, and she rolled her eyes around to avoid my sights and finally turned her head aside.
For KiriKiri, who did her best to pretend to be mad, I opened the shop window once again.
I bought a set of macaroons and gave it to her.
“Hey, here’s the apology gift for angry KiriKiri.”
I seldom buy macaroon because it is not worth its price.
KiriKiri likes it because it looks cute and has beautiful colors.
Here’s the evidence. Although KiriKiri was still turning her head to the side, her eyes had already been fell on the macaroon set and moved around.
He still pouted her lips, but her mouth moved up and down. It seemed she couldn’t help smiling.
Looking at how happy she looked like, she is still KiriKiri-style.
“Is macaroon that tasty?”
When I said so, Kirikiri hurriedly lifted her hand and covered her mouth.
KiriKiri, who was sniggering and covering her mouth, was pop-eyed and made her sight full of anger on purpose.
This was more amusing.
I didn’t hide my emotion and laughed bluntly.
* * *
“Yea, Yea, it’s a stage that you have to challenge yourself.”
Mumbled KiriKiri, putting two macarons in mouth.
She looked like a hamster more than a rabbit.
Kirikiri says the 40th floor is a stage where people can challenge alone without party members.
It is the first solo stage since the 35th floor.
Usually, these stages are subject to a very annoying restriction, or have missions that require you to prove your ability.
The 12th floor, in which challengers had to survive in the jungle for a month without inventory, or the 35th floor, in which challengers had to start from the first floor again after all skills were reset.
Therefore, when KiriKiri said that the 40th stage was a solo stage, I got a little nervous.
“It’s not like that. Maybe it’ll cost a lot of time, but there is no annoying restriction.”
So it’ll take a long time if I’m not lucky enough.
No matter how much I thought about it, I still felt uneasy.
“Any tips for me before I enter the stage?”
“No, nothing.”
Every time Kirikiri assured me that advice was not needed, I can indeed manage to pass the stage, but in most cases the process took a longer time or was extremely annoying.
I was anxious.
“But I am anxious.”
“Ah, you don’t need any advice.”
Though I asked several times, Kirikiri only repeated that there was no particular advice about the stage.
Eventually, I gave up asking her more about the stage and bought consumables such as food, drinking water, toilet paper and potion before returning to the waiting room.
It was dawn when I checked the time.
It was better to sleep in the waiting room for a moment and leave in the morning.
Arranging all of these things, I went to bed, opened the inventory and took the holy sword and soul sword out.
The holy sword dislikes staying in the inventory, so I take it out as soon as I enter the waiting room. Otherwise, he’ll get angry.
[Long time no see! Warrior! How’re you doing!]
It has been a long time.
For about five hours?
“I’m fine. Why are you so happy? It seems that you have adapted being in the inventory.”
[Hoo, Hoo, Hoo, Hoo, Uhooo.]
The holy sword laughed with a low voice.
His distinctive bass sound made me uncomfortable.
It was quite uncomfortable to hear this kind of voice because the voice came directly into my head without going through my ears.
It seems that he didn’t talk near my ears, but my eardrum.
[Warrior, I made it. I made it.]
“What?”
[I got the way to talk with Seregia!]
Translator: JiuJiuBa
Proofreader: Godlycash
“You’re late!”
Kiri Kiri, who was laying and rolling in the field, cried as soon as she saw me.
I didn’t arrive that late.
It took the same amount of time.
I promised that I would buy Kiri Kiri cake so she was waiting for me.
She was so excited that she left her seat and ran around me. However, I was so tired that I just waved to her and sank down.
I had no energy to open my mouth and say hello to Kirikiri.
I just opened the shop window and silently purchased a fresh cream cake at the top of my favorites list.
I lay down and Kirikiri cheerfully rushed toward the cake.
I took a deep breath so fresh air can enter my lungs.
The refreshing feeling made me feel alive.
My body had been healed while clearing the 39th floor, but my exhausted mind hasn’t recovered yet.
I was fortunate to have this field that refreshed and cleared my mind.
Breathing slowly, I waited for myself to calm down.
After feeling a little better, I relaxed and watched KiriKiri eat the fresh cream cake.
Without a fork, she ate happily using her hands.
Cream scattered all over the place.
I felt much more relaxed over time.
Now I could bear pain with a smile, but the last few rounds were really unbearable.
Since I found out that the Poison Energy skill was much more powerful than I thought on the 35th floor, I had focused on honing it.
Of course, in order to grow the Poison Energy skill, I had to use it on myself.
Like Kiri Kiri had said, the poison is fatal.
After the latent period, the poison started to penetrate my body, and then the tolerance and physical strength that I had painstakingly developed was totally useless. I could do nothing but groan like a patient.
Fortunately, my body adapted the poison quickly.
My quirk is self-harm. I didn’t know whether my body was accustomed to the poison or was good at adapting.
On the 36th floor, it was difficult for the poison to last 10 days, but on the 39th floor, the poison survived until the 23rd day.
I drank a special antidote because I thought I would die on the morning of the 24th day.
However, even though I drank two bottles of potion, the poison wasn’t detoxified, so I rushed to clear the stage.
In the state of knowing that my life was on the line, I found out that if I cleared the stage, then my body would recover, but I fainted at that same moment.
when I regained consciousness, I was already on this field.
I was still dumbfounded and groggy due to this.
I’ve become accustomed to the poison, but the most unbearable part is withstanding the high fever, dizziness and dyspnea that did not go away for even a moment. Compared with these symptoms, the pain or fear of the poison didn’t matter anymore.
Several hours were tolerable, but I withstood it for almost three months. The stress was no joke.
Even though I cleared the stage and laid in the field, it seems that the nausea and dizziness still remained.
I remembered that one night I came home from the beach when I was young, I felt I was still swimming despite being on my bed.
Similar to that, even though the poison had completely died out in my body, I felt like I was still suffering from poison.
It was that hard and it is still hard, but also rewarding.
The stagnant poison resistance had finally evolved into poison immunity.
The level of faint resistance, paralysis resistance and pain tolerance also increased a lot.
A new skill, disease resistance has been born and the level of natural healing and regeneration also increased.
At last, being in line with the growth of resistance, the poison energy skill also raised a lot.
The situation was positive.
“It’s not positive, nothing is positive.”
Said KiriKiri, who was eating cake silently.
“The level of my skills raised a lot, this is positive.”
Especially since the level of my resistance skills increased.
This was the first time that my level of resistance skills grew this much since I cleared 1st and 2nd floor.
The levels of poison skills also increased.
This couldn’t be negative.
KiriKiri listened to my word and shook her head.
“Your poison has evolved to attack and penetrate the immune system, which is extremely dangerous. That’s why it’s called poison ‘immunity’. You must stop using the poison skill from now on.”
She had warned several times about the dangers of poison energy skill.
And I kept ignoring her warning.
“If you insist, the poison will kill you someday.”
“I won’t let that happen. Just in case, I will also have elixirs with me.”
I bought a few bottles of Elixir as the last defense for a really dangerous moment.
Only one thing, I had to consume Elixir sparingly due to the limited quantity.
“You’re supposed to be completely careful. No more than 25 days. This poison is highly toxic that even though you have a strong body with poison immunity, you’ll die in no more than 25 days. There is now there’s no way to detoxify it besides the healing effect the system provides and the elixir. Houjae ought to take this seriously. A small mistake made in a split second could lead to an irreversible accident.”
“I see, I see.”
As a response to words that I had heard many times, I nodded hard. However, Kiri Kiri was not satisfied with me and pouted her mouth.
“I know you want stronger power, but you should keep yourself safe first. Don’t confuse the method with aim.”
The poison skill is a double-edged sword.
It’s indeed strong, but it’s also dangerous for me.
Because I can poison myself and endanger my life.
However, this kind of weapon is always powerful.
Although I would be careful, totally abandoning it was impossible.
The point was to test how much could I handle poison as a skill.
Or how about finding out another way to use poison rather than raising the level of poison energy skill.
I took an empty glass bottle from my inventory while thinking about this.
My finger hurts.
A bead of blood welled up.
The blood flow into the glass bottle and fused with poison energy skill.
I was careful not to poison myself.
My efforts were not in vain. The poison penetrated the blood that flowed out of my finger.
The red blood turned deep-black as soon as the poison penetrated.
It was only a few drops of blood, but no one could withstand this.
When your enemy was living being, it was far more threatening to throw a glass bottle rather than to use a siege weapon or magic.
It was effective.
The cost performance was also outstanding.
How about selling bottled poison in the auction house?
It would be a great help to other challengers attempting attack stages.
Enemies who could survive after being poisoned by this poison were few.
“No, you can’t do that.”
KiriKiri firmly objected.
“Why?”
“If this begins to circulate, the grand conference will be convened. People who don’t have poison resistance could be in danger even when they’re in the waiting room.”
Really?
Once upon a time, a potion with a strong drug effect was produced and circulated so the grand conference was convened.
I tried to think about the similarities between that potion and my poison.
At that moment, smoke began to rise from the bottom of the glass bottle with a hissing sound.
The poison melted the glass and leaked through the crack.
I didn’t expect that.
“Flame.”
I put my hand below the glass bottle and used magic.
The flame magic that I was able to master not long was the magic that could use the high temperature fire, like its name expressed.
The poison blood that leaked from the crack of the bottle of glass bottle disappeared as soon as it met the flame.
Maybe the boiling point of poison was low, so it evaporated and disappeared in a flash.
The smoke that produced because of evaporation pierced the tip of my nose.
[……!]
KiriKiri screamed out with an incredible voice.
Then a powerful gust of wind blew and pushed the smoke away.
Before the wind blew the smoke of poison away, my nose smelled the smoke for a short period and then became numb.
My face and hands that had touched the smoke also became sore.
It’s effect was so powerful even in this field, how about in the outside field?
It’s not poisoned.
I believe that if I don’t have poison immunity, I would die as soon as my nose smelled the smoke.
It’s interesting.
Wuxia novels had described about using the fire produced by the internal power to burn the poison out. So I decided to use flame magic.
However, the poison showed a stronger effect when it mixed with flame.
It may lose its effect in the long run, but in the short term, the poisoning may become more effective and stronger.
What if I apply the poison with fire?
The greatest disadvantage of poison is that it can only poison people when it touches their body.
If I could handle the smoke of poison and control the direction of the smoke, then I don’t have to worry about this disadvantage.
I had done some experiments on myself, but I haven’t tried to do some experiments about that.
It was regretful for not exactly knowing its boiling point and freezing point and the changes of its effect during a chemical reaction. Why I haven’t recognized it so far?
I kept thinking, but the rattling noise of KiriKiri from the side interrupted me.
Starting at me, KiriKiri seemed to be so angry and her lips were curled up five steps away her mouth.
She looked much angrier than that time I rubbed her of the Churros she was eating with no reason.
So I put the thoughts about poison aside and quickly apologized to her.
“KiriKiri, I’m sorry.”
The apologies reminded me of my mistakes.
She was sad because I did the experiment with the poison immediately after she advised me.
And she would be heartbroken because the smoke diffused on this field, where she likes and cherishes.
I am reflecting on myself.
Seriously.
“Humph!”
I apologized, but KiriKiri turned her head around.
* * *
Eventually, KiriKiri got over it after I promised not to abuse the poison skill recklessly before I could safely handle it, as she advised.
It was the advice that I had heard many times, and Kirikiri had never emphasized her advice like this before, so I decided to obey it quietly.
In any case, Kirikiri’s advice did not do harm at all.
The most situations that things proceeded not well were because I went against her advice or she omitted to advise.
“But could I handle the poison energy skill well?”
If it’s impossible, it means I can’t use this skill forever.
KiriKiri shook her head and said no.
“If you can use magic to detoxify, it will be possible with a holy incantation.”
KiriKiri still looked unhappy while answering my question.
It was easy to know her mood. When her face had no expression or her voice was extremely low, she may be in a bad mood.
But mad KiriKiri was awkward when I looked at her face.
It had been a long time since the first time I met KiriKiri after I cleared the first stage.
As a person who knows her personality well, I had a question.
Is she still mad at me?
Or is she pretending to be mad in order to conceal her perspective from me?
I wonder which one was true.
“I’m angry!”
Kirikiri flew into a rage and shouted out, as if she tried to prove her innocence.
I nodded at her.
Well, I know, I know you are angry.
“I said I was angry! Seriously!”
I stared at this woman’s face, and she rolled her eyes around to avoid my sights and finally turned her head aside.
For KiriKiri, who did her best to pretend to be mad, I opened the shop window once again.
I bought a set of macaroons and gave it to her.
“Hey, here’s the apology gift for angry KiriKiri.”
I seldom buy macaroon because it is not worth its price.
KiriKiri likes it because it looks cute and has beautiful colors.
Here’s the evidence. Although KiriKiri was still turning her head to the side, her eyes had already been fell on the macaroon set and moved around.
He still pouted her lips, but her mouth moved up and down. It seemed she couldn’t help smiling.
Looking at how happy she looked like, she is still KiriKiri-style.
“Is macaroon that tasty?”
When I said so, Kirikiri hurriedly lifted her hand and covered her mouth.
KiriKiri, who was sniggering and covering her mouth, was pop-eyed and made her sight full of anger on purpose.
This was more amusing.
I didn’t hide my emotion and laughed bluntly.
* * *
“Yea, Yea, it’s a stage that you have to challenge yourself.”
Mumbled KiriKiri, putting two macarons in mouth.
She looked like a hamster more than a rabbit.
Kirikiri says the 40th floor is a stage where people can challenge alone without party members.
It is the first solo stage since the 35th floor.
Usually, these stages are subject to a very annoying restriction, or have missions that require you to prove your ability.
The 12th floor, in which challengers had to survive in the jungle for a month without inventory, or the 35th floor, in which challengers had to start from the first floor again after all skills were reset.
Therefore, when KiriKiri said that the 40th stage was a solo stage, I got a little nervous.
“It’s not like that. Maybe it’ll cost a lot of time, but there is no annoying restriction.”
So it’ll take a long time if I’m not lucky enough.
No matter how much I thought about it, I still felt uneasy.
“Any tips for me before I enter the stage?”
“No, nothing.”
Every time Kirikiri assured me that advice was not needed, I can indeed manage to pass the stage, but in most cases the process took a longer time or was extremely annoying.
I was anxious.
“But I am anxious.”
“Ah, you don’t need any advice.”
Though I asked several times, Kirikiri only repeated that there was no particular advice about the stage.
Eventually, I gave up asking her more about the stage and bought consumables such as food, drinking water, toilet paper and potion before returning to the waiting room.
It was dawn when I checked the time.
It was better to sleep in the waiting room for a moment and leave in the morning.
Arranging all of these things, I went to bed, opened the inventory and took the holy sword and soul sword out.
The holy sword dislikes staying in the inventory, so I take it out as soon as I enter the waiting room. Otherwise, he’ll get angry.
[Long time no see! Warrior! How’re you doing!]
It has been a long time.
For about five hours?
“I’m fine. Why are you so happy? It seems that you have adapted being in the inventory.”
[Hoo, Hoo, Hoo, Hoo, Uhooo.]
The holy sword laughed with a low voice.
His distinctive bass sound made me uncomfortable.
It was quite uncomfortable to hear this kind of voice because the voice came directly into my head without going through my ears.
It seems that he didn’t talk near my ears, but my eardrum.
[Warrior, I made it. I made it.]
“What?”
[I got the way to talk with Seregia!]
