Dungeon Reset
Chapter 23

Translator: WH

Kaboooom!

“Skcreechh!?”

Booom!

“Squeaakk!”

From the hand of the gorilla golem, the mud brick flew like a cannonball.

Those who were directly hit by the cannonball-like brick had their bodies tore apart and those nearby were buried alive, caught up in piles of dirt that were spread everywhere.

One shot could take care of at least 10 rats.

The rats that were crawling on the gorilla golem’s body were shook away like a storm, and it stepped on their bodies while roaring.

“Goo-oh-oh-oh!”

“It’s so dang awesome!”

The golem was a walking siege weapon.

A living tank that jumped into the middle of the enemy’s camp!

Even if this tank was damaged, it was also a self-repairing type!

“Good job! Keep throwing!”

Jung Da-woon continued to put mud bricks on the hands of the gorilla golem.

“Boo-oh-oh-oh!”

When he looked at it from the side, the elephant golem’s might was also tremendous.

Elephant golem couldn’t throw the mud bricks as it didn’t have an arm, but it could stomp on the rats with its six legs, and that in itself was a catastrophe for the rats.

At that moment, Da-woon had a great idea.

“Aha, for an elephant, the trunk is its hand!”

Jung Da-woon filled mud bricks into the elephant golem’s basket that was on its back.

“You throw it too!”

“Boo-oh-oh-oh!”

The elephant golem stretched its trunk behind its back and grabbed a mud brick from the storage compartment that was stuffed full from bricks.

And it threw!

“Boo-oh-oh!”

Booom!

“Squeak!”

“Skcreeech!”

The destructive power it exhibited was equal to the gorilla golem.

This meant that there was two tanks!

“Boo-oh-oh-oh!”

Booooom!

As the elephant stomped its feet, it continued to throw the earth brick towards the ground.

With the attacking power doubling, the number of monster rats dropped noticeably.

“I was terrified because it’s the Death Mountains! It’s not that big of a deal.”

Seeing the rats gradually dying out, Jung Da-woon was somewhat relieved.

But it was then.

A message rang throughout the whole dungeon.

[The Dungeon is resetting.]

“Huh? Already?”

The dungeon was reset as the current game was over.

With Jung Da-woon making a gorilla golem out of the core of the final boss, the participants were able to clear the boss room without any sacrifice.

It was great luck for them.

Beep beep beep……!

With the reset alarm, an earthquake began to tremor beneath the ground.

But all of a sudden, the monster rats stopped attacking and cowered.

“Skcreeech!?”

“Skcreech skcreech!”

“Huh?”

Faced with the unexpected situation, Jung Da-woon paused for a moment and looked around.

“Squeakk! Squeakk!”

“Squeakkkkk!”

The monster rats were scattering away.

“Don’t tell me they’re afraid of the earthquake?”

The sight of them running away with their tails behind their legs gave off a sense of fear.

“I think I’ve read it somewhere. I heard that when there’s a natural disaster like an earthquake, rats are the first to notice and run away.….”

It was actually happening.

As only a few of them survived, the surroundings quickly became quiet.

Beep beep beep……!

The only thing he could hear was the faint tremors coming up from underground.

“Pokyuuuuu!”

Then suddenly, Pokyuu, who was hiding in the ground, popped out in front of Jung Da-woon’s feet.

He looked awfully frightened.

“Pokyuuuu pokyuuuu!”

“Why? Are you scared too?”

Pokyuu trudged around frantically, hugging Jung Da-woon’s feet and whining and tried pulling him somewhere.

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“What’s wrong?”

Suddenly a strange feeling hit Jung Da-woon.

At the last reset, Pokyuu was not this scared.

“Minimap!”

Flutters.

A map made of parchment paper unfolded before his eyes, and he could see at a glance the maps of the observatory that he had made so far.

As soon as he opened it, he saw that the inside and outside of the stage had a distinct difference.

The mini-maps in the Stage-1 area were getting darker and darker.

The observatory was disappearing.

On the other hand, the observatory at the Death Mountains remained intact.

“Oh? The observatory can’t be reset on this side!”

Jung Da-woon’s prediction hit the mark.

The Death Mountains were not within the range of influence of the reset!

By the way,

“……Did I just see something weird?”

Jung Da-woon doubted his eyes at the moment.

From the end of the disappearing Stage-1 map, the color was gradually turning red.

“What’s this?”

If the entire map was red, does that mean there are that many monsters filling up the region?

“Pokyuu pokyuu!”

Jung Da-woon hugged Pokyuu and hurried up to the nearest observatory.

And his face hardened as he watched the Stage-1 area from the top.

“What the fuck. What’s all that……!”

Rumble rumble……!

An earthquake was getting closer and closer underfoot.

Now that he saw it, it wasn’t the sound of the dungeon being reset.

It was the sound of all the monster rats that had flocked to the final site coming back to their home base!

Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!

Oh my god!

Thousands of them? Tens of thousands of them? The whole land was covered with monster rats that couldn’t even be counted!

“Everyone….! Come inside!”

Jung Da-woon rushed the elephant and gorilla golem to the observatory.

No matter how strong the golem was, the core will be eaten directly if it was covered by that many monsters.

He came into the observatory, blocked the entrance tightly, and ordered the Golem.

“The elephant golem goes down and the gorilla golem goes up!”

“Goo-oh-oh!”

As soon as it heard the order, the gorilla golem began to climb up the inner wall of the observatory.

“I can’t miss this chance!”

Jung Da-woon’s eyes glistened.

The swarming monsters were scary, but it was when there was nowhere to run.

Rather, this situation was a great opportunity to level up skills that were usually difficult to raise.

He could always hide in a tunnel if it becomes dangerous!

“Goo-oh-oh-oh!”

The gorilla golem’s menacing face shot up from the top of the observatory.

Jung Da-woon made a strong clay platform under the gorilla golem’s feet, and then poured mud bricks onto the roof.

“Good! Missile turret complete!”

Even if it threw the same mud brick, the gorilla golem could throw much farther away if it threw it from such a high place. Not to mention the destructive power.

“Gorilla golem! Attack! Throw it without care!”

“Goo-oh!”

“Don’t let them come near this way!”

Hearing the order, the gorilla golem glared fiercely under the observatory, and began to hurl mud bricks with both hands at the monster rats.

“Goo-oh-oh-oh!”

Kabaaam! Kaboooom! Kabaaaam!

Squeak!? Squeak squeak! Skcreeech!

Mud bricks were pouring from the sky!

The monster rats were helplessly attacked by the meteor-like attack.

Jung Da-woon also joined the attack.

“Vigor of the One-Horned Boar!”

He began killing monster rats with the heaviest mud bricks that could be lifted by 2.8 times his strength.

The Vigor of the One-Horned Boar was in fact the only attack skill that Jung Da-woon had.

As this skill grows, he becomes stronger and stronger.

“Hunting is the best thing for levelling up!”

Jung Da-woon used the skill one after another at the end of each minute of cooldown.

As a result,

[Skill <Vigor of the One-Horned Boar> has advanced to Level 6.]

– Temporarily amplifies your physical stats by 3x.

– Duration: 60 seconds, Cooldown: 50 seconds

“Good!”

He tried the skill right away, and the weight he could carry had definitely increased.

“I’m stronger now!”

Jung Da-woon felt thrilled.

This skill amplified not only his strength but also physical abilities such as agility and stamina.

And that translates entirely into one’s fighting ability.

“Squeak! Squeak squeak!”

Rumble rumble……!

The monster rats did not lose any of their momentum.

Even if they faltered for a while in front, the others kept pushing in right behind them.

Many of them were trampled to death.

Finally, they rammed into the observatory, and were pushed by inertia and began to step on each other’s heads and backs.

Finally, a sharp hill of monster rats was built on the wall of the observatory.

“Ackkk! They’re coming up the wall! Block it! Block it!”

“Goo-oh-oh-oh!”

Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!

The hill was getting higher and higher.

At this rate, the entire observatory would be taken over!

He couldn’t throw mud bricks near the building in fear that the observatory would collapse.

“I have to stop their flow! Let’s level up once more and run after!”

Jung Da-woon took out a lot of smoked meat, not mud bricks, from his inventory.

Then he threw it far away and shouted.

“Eat this and fuck off!”

Squeak!?

At that moment, the rats that were climbing the wall at the forefront smelled the meat and turned their heads.

Squeak! Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!

Simultaneously, all the mice began to jump backwards along with the meat.

The hill of rats collapsed and they fell over each other.

“Alright!”

Jung Da-woon immediately prepared for the next attack.

“Gorilla golem, I’ll make you something good!”

“Goo-oh?”

“Dirt Lump! Dirt Lump!”

Jung Da-woon quickly stacked up eight mud bricks and put them together in a hexagonal shape.

And with Dirt Lump skill, he made a lot of pointed spikes on the surface.

In an instant a horrendous-looking ball of spikes was completed.

“Cannonball reinforcement complete!”

“Goo-oh!”

“Throw it!”

Carrying out his orders, the gorilla golem lifted the ball of spike up with both hands,

“Goo-oh-oh-oh!”

It threw with all its might!

Kabooooom!

“……!”

Unparalleled power that couldn’t be compared!

The rats that were clumped together were brutally bloodstained by the hard spikes of the clay ball!

“Naisuuuu!” [T/N: Nice, but in a more Korean-ish way.]

Jung Da-woon clasped his mouth with his hands and cheered.

Red blood flowed like a river over the cloud of dusts as if there was a landslide.

More than 50 monster rats were killed in one shot.

In addition, the clay balls exploded in all directions, hindering the movement of other rats.

At that moment an unexpected message came in.

Shingggg!

[You have mastered the skill <Dirt Lump>.]

‘Oh, Skill Mastery? I wondered if Level 10 was the end, but there was a last stage!”

“Dirt Lump!”

Thud!

After using the skill, the size of the mud brick was clearly different.

It was one meter wide, one meter high, and its hardness……He decided to check it out for himself.

Jung Da-woon instantly made another ball of spike and shouted.

“Throw it!”

“Goo-oh-oh-oh!”

Kaboooom!

Skcreeechhhh!?

A fierce defensive battle ensued.

After a while, Jung Da-woon was finally able to see the results he wanted.

[Skill <Vigor of the One-Horned Boar> has advanced to Level 7.]

– Temporarily amplifies your physical stats by 3.2x.

– Duration: 60 seconds, Cooldown: 40 seconds

“Yes! Now let’s run!”

“Goo-oh!”

After getting what he wanted, Jung Da-woon immediately took refuge under the observatory with 3.2 times the speed.

To the most cosy and safe underground hideout.

Rumble rumble…….!

* * *

After a long time the earthquake calmed down.

“……Are they all gone?”

When he checked the mini-map, he could see a lot of red dots nearby.

They hid in groups in caves or something like a cave.

There were three such places in total.

Considering their numbers, there would be a lot of these nests outside the minimap’s view.

“As expected, the ground above is dangerous. I should continue moving through the underground tunnel.”

It was already hard enough to defend on the observatory, so he really didn’t want to imagine fighting while on the move.

No matter how strong the earth golem was, there was also a risk of a direct attack to its core if it was covered with rats.

“Now, shall we dig again?”

“Pokyuuuu pokyuuuu!”

When Jung Da-woon rolled up his arms and shouted “Fighting,” Pokyuu raised its claws as if to support him.

“Dirt Lump! Dirt Lump!”

The two vigorously dug the tunnel.

But that was only for a short while.

Thud.

Suddenly the skill didn’t work.

“……Huh?”

“Kyuuuu?”

Jung Da-woon frowned.

“Shit. It’s a rock layer.”

It was a rocky mountain from here.

In order to move forward, he had no choice but to go above ground.

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