章節 12: Forest of Valor (4)
[02:47:12]
"Ughhh…"
I woke up when I turned in my sleep and felt a sharp pain all over my body.
It hurt like a bitch and I wanted to cry, but the salt from my tears would probably seep into my wounds and fuck me up further.
I did not know where I was. I just knew I was in a dark place.
I somehow pulled myself up and began walking.
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[Hidden Quest — Finding Memo.]
[The ancient document "Memo of Valthor," crafted by the Tower's architects, was last seen in the Forgotten Library before vanishing along with its Keeper. Could this be the location where it remains hidden?]
[Find the Memo before the timer runs out.]
[Reward: Surrender the Memo to the Floor Guardian and get sent straight to Floor 30 or keep the Memo and lose 500 points.]
[Inability to complete the quest will result in no penalties.]
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I saw the quest and was baffled. The system was clearly trying to make me surrender the Memo. This meant it was important and would be of use.
However, I would lose 500 points. I didn't even have 500 points on me, so what would be my final score?
I was intrigued.
There was nothing that stated failure in the tutorial would disqualify you from participating in future. It would probably be worth it to find the Memo in that case.
Having made up my mind, I moved around the dark place again.
It was eerily silent around here and I had not the silghest clue of where I was heading.
I kept a watch on the timer to check how many steps I've taken in how much time and also kept moving my hands around to get a feel of the surroundings.
Soon, I felt the shape of a pointed structure on the wall and stopped.
I had felt this structure before and I felt it again. I was skeptical about walking in circles, but thinking there could be more pointed structures, I began walking again.
This time, I changed directions.
Five minutes later. I felt the same pointed object again.
I ignored it and tried to feel what was in the surroundings. They felt similar too, but I wasn't sure, so I kept moving until I felt the pointed object again.
This time when I touched the surroundings, I could tell they were exactly the same.
I cursed.
I was indeed walking in circles.
I began walking randomly in any direction from this point onwards and five minutes later, I did not feel the object again. I was relieved.
I continued to touch the walls and soon,
*Click*
*Rumbleeee*
My hand pressed onto something and the ground beneath me shook. I thought I would fall in a ditch again so I tried to stick myself to the wall at the side, only to realize it has a giant hole in it and fall within.
I crashed on the ground and let out the worst painful howl ever. It pained so much!
It was like someone was pinching my skin with sharp nails on their fingers!
Once I got over my pain, I found that the place I was in now had some light and wasn't totally dimmed. I could see it come from a source and moved in that direction.
The passage brightened as I neared the source and I was almost there, I stopped in my tracks and froze.
There was a hole in the ceiling from which light seeped in, but that wasn't the problem.
The problem was what lay in the front.
There were eggs. Lots and lots of gremlin-sized eggs!
It was like I had fallen into a treasure vault, except instead of gold coins there were eggs!
Oho-hoh-hoh-ho… now this was scary…
I stopped moving and searched around to see if the monster that had laid these eggs was nearby.
In this particular tutorial, there were only five monsters. Grunt Golems, Fire Slimes, Land Gremlins, Frostbears, and Sky Serpents. There was the boss called Ice Bully too, but judging by how there was nothing cold-related here, I assumed that these eggs weren't its.
From the five monster species, only one felt like a possible option, it was the Sky Serpents.
It could be Gremlins too, but chances were less as they seemed like they gave birth to their offspring directly.
Assuming these belonged to the Sky Serpents, and the serpent was not here… I should be somewhat safe…
Snakes would usually leave after laying eggs. There were only a few rare species like the pythons that stayed.
But again, I wasn't attacked yet. So I assumed there weren't any Sky Serpents nearby.
To test out my theory, I quietly bent down while keeping a watch on my surroundings.
I then touched an egg. Nothing happened.
I picked the egg. Nothing happened.
I took the egg. Nothing happened.
I walked away with the egg. Nothing happened.
I walked quite some distance and dropped the egg. Something happened
[Ding!]
[Sky Serpent killed.]
Points: +30
Essence: +1
XP: +7
Total points: 345
Total Essence: 17
Hoh-hoh-hoh-hoh-ho!
What was this? What was this?
I did nothing and got a reward! Ahahahaha! Amazing!
My misfortune is not flaring up right now. Good. Good. Good.
If I smash all the eggs, I might be able to obtain the minimum score and also get to keep the memo.
Excited, I ran to the egg place and picked up another egg. I was not stupid to smash it right in the same place and ran back towards the dark place and sent it flying.
I heard it break and crash, but I didn't get a kill notification.
Strange, I thought.
I ran and got another egg and smashed it, but still nothing.
To check what the problem was, I broke one egg right in the egg place. From it egg white and yolk oozed out.
I frowned.
Taking another egg and smashing it, the result was the same.
Is it something like fertilized eggs and unfertilized eggs? Did the first egg that I broke contain a snake fetus?
There was no way of confirming this since the place I threw it at was dark and I had no light source.
I contemplated my next set of moves and decided to smash all the eggs.
I had broken a few eggs in this place itself and there was nothing that happened. I should be safe then.
But before this, I had to climb out of here. The eggs were stacked on top of each other and I could climb out from the ceiling. It was a bit difficult, but I could try.
I climbed atop the eggs and moved towards the ceiling. It was a mountain of eggs so I didn't feel unstable until I reached the top where there were only a few eggs.
I could see the ceiling and the blue sky from it. I got up and tried to put my hand on the hole, but fell short by a few inches.
Tsk. How short am I even in this life?
In my past life, I had a lot of troubles but height wasn't one of them.
I tiptoed on the eggs but still couldn't reach. Thus, taking a deep breath and without thinking much, I jumped.
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