GBAS 19

The appearance of the wolf, Frost, whom no one gathered here could fail to recognize, caused a stir among the people.

What is that?

Isn’t that the summoner from Chain?

Why is he here?

When did they get here?

And that news was delivered to the community in real-time.

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List | Comments (19)

Oshiposhi: Huh? Weren’t they not doing it?

Dragonfruit: Only now? Lolololol

Castanets: omg if this is their first try what have they been doing until now?

└ Gojo: Probably watched others struggle with popcorn in hand lol

└ andio: Their guild master is their only strength but he’s not here now, they’re all exposed right?

Kapoera: The try-hards must be shaking in their boots lol

RingsofSaturn: You’re slow on the news lol they said this is their 3rd? 4th time

HappyPuppy: Looking at the combo they probably dipped their toes and now they’ve come with a proper setup lolol

NoFear: F/uck instead of broadcasting this crap, post the dungeon coordinates
└ Aoooong: @@@ : How much do you want to be spoon-fed, figure it out yourself~lol

Moto: Ah, I don’t care who, just someone get to the 40th floor, this is so frustrating for real
└ MotherNature: I feel you

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Halting Frost near where the guild members were gathered, Hyunwoo leaped off the wolf’s back.

The moment his feet touched the ground, a party invitation pop-up appeared. As soon as he accepted, a list of party members was created on the left, and the party chat was activated.

JuJuGeneralAssembly, who had been sitting on the ground inspecting his bowstring, shot up and ran to where Hyunwoo was. In JuJuGeneralAssembly’s hands were a bow as tall as a child and a polishing cloth coated with gloss.

[Party] JuJuGeneralAssembly : You’re pretty fast?

[Party] Jeonguk-noye-jarang : thx

What does he mean, how late could I be.
He came all this way just to be met with nagging. After a short reply that shut Jiwoo down, Hyunwoo approached the gathered people and greeted them one by one with a nod.

[Party] Jeonguk-noye-jarang : Is this the lineup??

[Party] FlatDumpling : Yep yep

[Party] FlatDumpling : The office workers and students left, so we regrouped

Hyunwoo nodded and scanned today’s members.

[Party] poPlatoonLeaderwer : Ah~~ It’s been a while since we had a new dungeon

[Party] JuJuGeneralAssembly : If Neoksal had come instead of the leader, we could’ve had a perfect two-ranger setup

[Party] JuJuGeneralAssembly : The formation would’ve been killer lol

[Party] poPlatoonLeaderwer : smh that’s harsh

[Party] JuJuGeneralAssembly : Sorry~

[Party] FlatDumpling : By the way, why couldn’t Neoksal-nim make it?

[Party] Jinyoung-kun : I think he said the store’s interior work will be done around next week!

[Party] FlatDumpling : I see

First, there were four damage dealers: Ranger JuJuGeneralAssembly, Shooter Bomber poPlatoonLeaderwer, Avenger Jinyoung-kun, and the temporarily absent Mage Aqua (WaterIsSelfServe).

It was a lineup that seemed to be about the 1.5-tier elite among the damage dealers of the <Chain> guild.

‘This isn’t bad.’

For the tanker role, there was the Vice Guild Master, Paladin Camellia. For the rear support classes, three people had joined: himself as a Summoner, Bard Baek Jooin, and Bishop FlatDumpling.

It seemed Frost could fill the lack of tankers, the Bard with many area-of-effect skills could be the main healer, and the Bishop could focus on caring for the single tanker, the Paladin.

After going around and greeting everyone, the last one left was Baek Jooin.

‘Control your expression, control your expression.’

Hyunwoo focused on the movement of his facial muscles and turned his head towards Jooin.

“……”

Baek Jooin was dressed quite differently from when they had met earlier.
What Jooin wore was a leather outfit, a top and bottom set, that he only wore when going into battle. The surface of the outfit was so shiny it was blinding. It was exactly the texture of synthetic leather that would make a creaking sound if the pieces rubbed against each other.

Perhaps because he hadn’t been hunting with him for a while, there was an item hanging around Jooin’s neck that he hadn’t seen before.
The accessory, which seemed to have been crafted in the same line as the leather top and bottom set, was a black leather choker with a row of sharp silver studs. The choker, so flashy it seemed excessive, exuded a similar non-compliant atmosphere as its wearer.

Something touched Hyunwoo’s forehead as he unknowingly had his gaze stolen by the accessory.

“……”

He knew without having to look. What he felt so pricklingly was Baek Jooin’s stare.

‘Wha-, what. Why is he staring at me.’

It felt like their eyes would meet if he relaxed his guard for even a moment. Hyunwoo had no choice but to force his eyes to remain on the choker. He was desperate. One second, two seconds, three seconds… Each tick of the second hand felt like an eternity.

‘This is driving me crazy.’

The gaze showed no sign of letting up.

How do I just get past this. After running dozens of simulations in his head, Hyunwoo came to a conclusion.

‘Since I’m already intimidated, if I’m going to bow, let’s do it properly.’

Giving himself a one, two count internally, he then ducked his head in a nod as if greeting and naturally turned his body. The stinging gaze flowed past his temple and cheek.

Having finally left Baek Jooin out of his sight, Hyunwoo secretly let out the breath he had been holding.

‘Did I make a mistake by coming.’

Just as Hyunwoo was regretting his choice from ten minutes ago, FlatDumpling, who had looked around at the team members from across Hyunwoo, smiled with satisfaction and said.

[Party] FlatDumpling : Our party composition is pretty good, isn’t it?

[Party] JuJuGeneralAssembly : This is the best we can do right now

As JuJuGeneralAssembly gave a thumbs-up, Camellia also raised the corners of her mouth and nodded. In the meantime, Hyunwoo, who had recovered his mental state a little, asked the question he had been curious about on his way here.

[Party] Jeonguk-noye-jarang : So how many floors does this place have?

At Hyunwoo’s question, JuJuGeneralAssembly gestured with his chin in the direction of the dungeon and answered.

[Party] JuJuGeneralAssembly : No one’s cleared it so we don’t know for sure yet

[Party] JuJuGeneralAssembly : but a lot of people seem to be guessing it’s 50 floors?

Fifty floors. On Silvian Island, the dungeons were at most 30 floors, but since this was a new continent, the scale was indeed different.

Well, the view from the outside was also quite impressive. Hyunwoo took a wide look around and finally gave a sidelong glance at the cave entrance, which was gaping open like the mouth of a monkfish.

Just then, the sound of clapping came from behind him.

[Party] Camellia: One person is missing

[Party] Camellia: but it seems they’ve heard a bit from elsewhere

[Party] Camellia: so I’ll first explain what we’ve confirmed so far

At that sound, the guild members began to gather one by one around Camellia.

Camellia opened a small memo pad at the bottom of the screen, which contained information about each floor of the dungeon that she had jotted down whenever she had a chance during the last three tries, and adjusted its opacity. After confirming that everyone had gathered, Camellia began her explanation.

[Party] Camellia: When we tried earlier, we made it to the 27th floor before coming out

[Party] Camellia: and it felt like we were progressing smoothly until the 19th floor

[Party] Camellia: After that, the difficulty rises a bit, but it wasn’t impossible, though it felt a little overwhelming

Camellia displayed a blank screen in the middle for everyone to see and continued her explanation.

[Party] Camellia: The dungeon gets deeper, starting from the 1st basement floor

[Party] Camellia: The 1st floor has grassland mantises, the 2nd has plains wolves and grassland moths appearing together, and after seeing mobs like flies and giant grasshoppers, we figured similar types would appear before the 10th floor, and we were right

[Party] Camellia: You can think of them as insect and animal-type mobs you can see in the fields around here, and they weren’t difficult to clear since they’re at a field monster level

Drawing a horizontal line on the top of the blank screen to represent the ground surface and a long rectangle below it, Camellia divided the rectangle representing the dungeon into five sections by drawing three lines inside it.

Then, in the square closest to the ground surface, she wrote the words ‘Field Mobs – Insects, Animals’.

[Party] Camellia: Below that, these guys appear

In the square right below, ‘Dark-type Mobs – Shades, Skeletons, Vipers’ was written densely.
Camellia pointed to the line separating the squares for field mobs and dark-type mobs and said.

[Party] Camellia: In this section where you cross over to the 10th floor, something like a mid-boss appears, and we guess it’s a monster related to both the upper and lower floors?

Red text was engraved on the line that crossed the two squares. ‘Mantis’.

JuJuGeneralAssembly, who had squeezed in next to Camellia, added a small memo next to the mob’s name. Mantis-type boss, scythes, sound of wings, bleeding.