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Chapter 93
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Chapter 93: Cactus Desert (2)
4.
Adventurers grow stronger as their Circles increase.
It’s an obvious truth, and so adventurers obsess over gaining more Circles.
However, adventurers who actually have many Circles often don’t obsess over leveling up.
“Once you reach 4th Circle, there are no adventurers who risk their lives for Circle-ups. Instead, they risk their lives for items.”
Instead, they obsess over items.
“Because they know.”
It wasn’t strange.
Even just reaching the 4th Circle was a level of recognition wherever you went, a truly extraordinary realm.
“They know how uncertain it is to reach the 5th Circle, and that they don’t have the talent for it.”
In other words, only a very few reach the realm beyond, the 5th Circle.
“That’s why they adventure.”
However, if they give up there, settle for reality, and are satisfied with that level, they can’t be called adventurers.
“They adventure to find Unique items.”
Therefore, the abilities of 4th Circle adventurers were determined not only by their individual skills but also by the Unique items they possessed.
“There are adventurers who succeed in that adventure.”
And among them were special cases.
“Those monsters are on a different level. They can defeat 5th Circle adventurers even though they are 4th Circle adventurers.”
Special cases that become outliers.
Of course, even those outliers had limits.
First of all, it was very rare to have multiple Unique items.
“Well, most of those monsters have extraordinary backgrounds.”
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“And having Unique items isn’t the end.”
Crucially, having many items didn’t mean you could handle them all.
“Some tools require skill to use.”
In fact, handling Unique items required far more skill than one might think.
If a skill becomes powerful, you need the ability to properly handle that powerful force.
Also, the more powerful the skill, the more mana it usually required.
“The sharper the knife, the more likely you are to cut yourself if you mishandle it.”
Ultimately, powerful skills were like double-edged swords. If used properly against an enemy, it was a very good sword, but if it was directed at an ally? It would simply become a guillotine on the execution block, producing horrific results.
“What if you have outstanding ability, experience, and Unique items?”
Then what would happen if there was an adventurer who met all these conditions?
Of course, anyone who heard this question would give the same answer.
“There’s no way such an adventurer exists, right?”
It’s something not even worth imagining.
In other words, no one has ever answered how powerful such an adventurer would be.
But now, El Pam was showing the answer to that question against the cactus monster, Cactus.
“Fire Arrow.”
It started with Fire Arrow.
In fact, that itself wasn’t surprising.
The members of the El Pam party had seen the amazing results of El Pam’s Fire Arrow countless times.
But El Pam didn’t just show Fire Arrow.
“Flame Vortex.”
He showed the Flame Vortex spell, which summoned a giant flame.
And that was just the beginning.
“Flame Orb.”
A 3rd Circle fire attribute spell, Flame Orb.
It was a spell that boasted considerable power, launching fireballs at the enemy.
It was powerful enough to easily handle five or six Cactuses with a single spell.
The problem was that it was activated by none other than El Pam, armed with all sorts of Unique items.
Fwoosh!
The moment it was activated, fireballs the size of an adult man’s torso appeared. The number was also twice as many as in a normal Flame Orb spell.
And its power was incomparable to when it was used by existing fire attribute magicians.
Boom!
Instead of five or six Cactuses, fifty or sixty disappeared with a single spell!
“Explosion.”
El Pam didn’t stop there and also cast the 4th Circle fire attribute spell, Explosion.
It was one of the most powerful fire attribute spells, causing a powerful explosion as the name suggests.
Needless to say, the moment El Pam cast it, its power was beyond just “very powerful.”
Kaboom!
A huge explosion occurred around El Pam, who had used the spell, annihilating a hundred Cactuses in all directions.
It wasn’t a hunt.
It could only be described as a one-sided massacre.
“Oh my god.”
Even the El Pam party, who had faced all sorts of amazing situations, couldn’t help but be dumbfounded by the sight.
‘The Boss was this strong!’
And soon, they were filled with admiration.
It was a sight worthy of it.
A sight that deserved shock and admiration.
Only one person didn’t do so.
Boom!
“Explosion.”
El Pam didn’t express admiration at the sight he had created, at the sight of Cactuses being unilaterally destroyed by his magic.
He couldn’t.
“Yeah, we’ve come this far, let’s go!”
“There must be many good items since many have died here! I’m looking forward to it!”
Everyone cheered up and took a step forward.
Working hard to save even a little bit of time.
There was one exception.
“Boss? Why aren’t you moving?”
Only El Pam was standing still in front of the Mystic Gate entrance they had just crossed.
“Boss?”
In a situation where time was already short, he was just looking at the ground near his feet.
“Is there a problem?”
It was at that moment.
As Divo asked the question, El Pam pointed his finger at Kiri.
“Mano.”
Squeak!
At his words, the snail Mano emerged from inside Kiri’s armor, near the neck.
Soon, the snail Mano landed on the ground and quickly moved to El Pam’s feet.
Then, it looked at the ground beneath El Pam with its two eyes.
“Ah!”
It didn’t take long to understand the meaning.
“There’s something there!”
Divo, who uttered those words, moved to El Pam’s side and started digging the sand.
Thump!
After digging about a meter down, they found a wooden coffin.
Creak!
And when they opened the coffin, a corpse appeared, wearing a red robe that seemed to be burning like fire, dried and twisted into a mummy.
Everyone knew the identity of the corpse.
“It’s Bayos.”
Oz’s disciple, Bayos.
A genius who reached the 4th Circle in just one year.
Seeing the coffin containing the corpse, everyone fell silent for a moment.
At the same time, they had a question.
“What does it mean that they prepared a coffin?”
El Pam immediately answered the question.
“It means he was that important. That’s why they put him in a coffin and buried him near the entrance, so he could be found quickly.”
“Ah.”
El Pam’s companions’ expressions hardened even more after hearing the answer.
It was because they realized anew.
How important Oz’s disciple, Bayos, had been to the Sand Painting Group.
Therefore, the coffin contained more than just a corpse. Several letters were also included.
One of them was properly sealed.
“It’s a will.”
It was Bayos’ will.
A will informing them of what happened here, that he had been murdered.
It was the most important item.
“This is.”
The next item was none other than a report.
“It’s information about the third floor of this place.”
“Information?”
“The boss monster is... Dew.”
At El Pam’s words, everyone’s expressions stiffened.
“Dew, are you talking about the cactus giant, Dew?”
Dew.
Like Mushmom among mushroom monsters, it was the leader of the cactus monsters, Cactuses.
Its abilities were similar.
It produced an enormous number of Cactuses and led the group.
It was a powerful being.
“That enormous boss monster appeared here? In a Yellow Rank gate?”
It was something you wouldn’t see in a Yellow Rank gate.
El Pam didn’t give it much thought.
‘The appearance of Dew means they used Martyr.’
He was simply convinced that Bayos had been killed by the Black Mage’s followers.
In any case, one thing was certain.
‘Oh my god, this is a big deal, isn’t it?’
With the appearance of Dew, a non-standard boss monster, it wasn’t just about clearing the gate within five days, but whether they could clear it at all.
At that point, everyone thought.
‘Shouldn’t you change the plan?’
‘We have to give up on clearing it within 5 days. This isn’t the time for that. Clearing this is the problem.’
They had to stop thinking about the time limit.
They had to focus everything on clearing the gate and survival.
It was at that moment.
El Pam, who was examining Bayos’ corpse, paused as he looked at Bayos’ necklace and then spoke.
“Change of plans.”
Everyone’s faces brightened at his words.
‘As expected! We’re ditching the time limit!’
They thought the answer they had been expecting and waiting for was coming.
El Pam answered his companions’ expectations.
“We’re getting out of here within an hour.”
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