Chapter 22

[2nd attempt, Day 2 . 2:22]

[You have gained Poison Resistance Lv . 2]

[You have gained Paralysis Resistance Lv . 3]

In conclusion, I failed to achieve my goal of reaching level 3 in both poison and paralysis resistances .

I was able to get level 2 on poison resistasnce relatively quickly, however it was only up to that .

I felt a little uneasy because the skill didn’t level up to level 3 as easy as it did reaching level 2, so I pushed myself a little too much and lost consciousness, wasting more time .

At least paralysis resistance levelled up quite fast unexpectedly . That gave me a little comfort in this situation .

I was investigating if the poison on the poison dart was a type of neurotoxin or a paralyzing poison

If it wasn’t, how else would the paralysis resistance level up faster than poison resistance after stabbing myself with a poison dart?

It would’ve been useful to have some knowledge about poisons .

Anyway, my reaching poison resistance didn’t end up reaching level 3 within time .

Now I had to go ahead past the 1st trap .

It would be better to progress through the end as fast as I could and calmly increase my resistance skills then, rather than being chased by the time limit near the end of the attempt .

The traps past the 1st one will surely be traps related to poisons so my plan was to increase my resistance in a days’ time .

Well, at least I got the minimum level, that itself was ok .

The first trap didn’t pose much of a challenge; I was used to it now .

As I walked through for maybe another 5 minutes, the 2nd trap appeared .

Ping-

The awaited sound of the arrow being fired .

I easily blocked the incoming arrow with my shield .

The arrow was shining quite a bit though .

Was there poison on the arrows now?

If that was the case, that means that more arrows will now fly towards me .

Ping- Ping-

[Battle Concentration]

As soon as I thought that the trap would become tedious, I activated my battle concentration skill and observed my surroundings .

Soon I knew that activating this skill early was the right choice .

There were 6 arrows in total flying towards me from the left, right and straight ahead .

Was there some flying towards me from the back?

While I thought about it, I heard exactly 2 sounds of arrows being fired .

I could hear the softest sounds as my senses were greatly improved over time .

However, this time I could only hear 2 sounds .

The rest were near perfect silence .

I couldn’t hear any firing sounds .

This was a trap that weaved in between the confidence of my hearing . It made me rely on my hearing too much as it allowed me to stay a little relaxed .

If I were to say this in a g-rated way, this was a cheeky wee trap .

If I were to say this in my honest opinion, this was a fucking dogshit trap .

There was nothing more to think about in this type of situation .

I had to quickly make a decision and swung my body to the left .

The arrows flying towards me from the left were blocked by my shield with two blunt sounds .

The other arrows from every direction continued flying where I was before .

So there were arrows coming from behind me…

Without any breathing space, I had to dodge the all the arrows that were constantly being fired .

As I had Battle Concentration activated, this wasn’t too difficult .

The problem was, in addition to the arrows being fired, there were also poison darts .

On top of that, they were flying in the same trajectory as the arrows so it was hard to detect the ones flying right behind the arrows .

If it weren’t for the persistent effect of the battle concentration active, if it weren’t for the eye lights ability to let me see in this dark place, I may have been hit by another poison dart in this place .

Tick- tick-

While dodging the arrows, I dodged the poison darts flying behind them with ease .

A few of the poison darts were blocked by my shield and all over the floor now .

Like this, with the same pattern, more arrows and poison darts were fired together .

That was the end of the 2nd trap .

It used my sense of hearing against me with its cheeky tricks, firing poison darts hidden behind the arrows . Maybe it was because two new patterns were introduced in this trap, it was quite short .

No, it could also be that there was something special about the poison slathered on the poison darts and arrowheads .

For example the poison may have been stronger .

For all I know it might not even be poison .

Hmm, Should I test this?

I have thought about this before but I think I have some sort of obsession now .

Whenever I find something new, I was to test every single one of them on my body and see how many times I have to repeat it to earn a new skill .

Hmm . .

Let’s not, for now .

There is a high chance that this could be just like the 1st trap and it could just be poison .

To grind out my resistance skills can wait until I find the 2nd floor healing well .

Of course, I need to have some resistance skills so I don’t die before I find the healing too .

After stashing all arrows and poison darts into my inventory I carried on forward .

The next few traps to come were all also just traps combining arrows and poison darts .

There were various patterns and the speed of the arrows increased as I went on, getting more dangerous . However maybe it was because of how much I grinded in the past, I was able to clear it with on big issues .

The problem was not the arrow traps .

I don’t know since when, but slowly the air was getting warmer .

If it weren’t for my heightened senses skill, it would be the slightest increase in temperature that no normal person would be able to detect, but I was sure that the inside of this tutorial, the temperature was rising .

At first it was such just a slight change that it was quite hard to finalise if it was rising, however as time went and the air got significantly warmer I finally came to my senses .

Suddenly I was at a stage where my body was hot and there were specks of sweat on my forehead .

On top of the increasing heat, as we add the heavy humid air in the equation, just staying in this environment made me tired .

With these conditions, the traps kept appearing .

Ping- ping-

Ahh, fucking hell .

I kept moving to dodge the arrows in this disgusting heat while having battle concentration active .

[2nd attempt, day 2 . 7:21]

Wow, this was really, really shit .

I was able to clear yet again ANOTHER arrow trap .

Of course poison was slathered on these arrows .

However, it wasn’t the poison that was the important part here,

It’s so hot…

The situation was critical .

Even a sauna wouldn’t be as hot as this .

It was so hot I couldn’t even breathe properly .

I drank cold water from my inventory and sprayed the leftover water in the bottle over my head .

The cold water turned into an uncomfortable warm temperature as it flowed down my face .

Fucking, now I understood why the 2nd floor arrow traps felt a little easy .

It was aimed to just train the challenger in intense heat .

No wonder I had to plan my way of dodging in such extended movements .

On top of that, they ever so slowly raised the temperature to hide the intensity of the heat .

There is a saying that if you put a frog in boiling water it will jump out in reflex, but if you put a frog in cold water and slowly boil it, the frog won’t be able to detect the change and just die .

Quite a metaphor to describe myself a frog in boiling water .

However, unlike a metaphor, I was actually about to die like that frog in boiling water .

… this is really dangerous .

First I thought this was just a device to blur my mental strength .

I thought that I would easily be able to clear this if I withstood the temperature and held onto my senses .

One miscalculation here was that, this wasn’t just a trap about perseverance .

My body simply could not withstand this heat .

From some time ago, my leg muscles were in a slight tremor .

The effects of dehydration like dizziness and the feeling of throwing up had struck me from a long time ago also .

It was too dangerous to go on like this .

Another arrow trap will surely appear and with my body like this, I was unsure if could dodge all of them .

On top of that, I’d be a goner if I were to be poisoned by the arrow I got hit by .

I could even get in shock separate from the pain .

[You have gained Heat Resistance Lv . 1]

Luckily, I earned a resistance skill .

At a time like this where I could barely breathe because of the hot air, for an instant it felt like a gust of crisp cold air was blown all over me .

It felt just like the air you feel when you leave the sauna .

But this was like I said, just for an instant .

Soon after I could barely breathe again .

A fucking hell, really .