Reader - Chapter 112

Chapter 112

Translator: similarTIGER

Editor: Sotheno

Romian placed his map back and slowly approached the wall and began to search for something .

“I found it . ”

Finding a secret trap, Romian smiled . He pushed the wall, and a square area sank into the wall .

Then the wall began to move, and a new path appeared .

“Now, it should only take one day or at most two . ”

The path that appeared is a shortcut . The book mentioned that the shortcut would take half of the original time .

It didn’t mean that the shortcut magically shortened the actual distance between the current location and the destination . The shortcut is free of obstacles, so the time won’t be wasted on monsters and traps .

The trap path was supposed to take two days, but now with the shortcut, Romian could arrive in a day .

Romain thought of Soo Hyuk, who went to the monster path . The monster path was not actually shorter than the trap path .

This was the information Romian hid from Soo Hyuk . To be more precise, he lied to him .

The path was of the same length .

“I can probably arrive a day earlier than Soo Hyuk . I need to finish before that . ”

Romian thought a day should be enough and smiled as he walked into the shortcut .

***

‘I wonder what’s gonna appear,’

Soo Hyuk just finished clearing the sixth group of trolls and was walking towards the next monster territory .

The monsters the book mentioned, No, that Romian told Soo Hyuk ended at trolls . Soo Hyuk did not know what the next monster would be .

‘Besides that . It has been 15 minutes already…The trolls couldn’t be the last…Did I pass them without noticing?’

Checking the time, Soo Hyuk frowned . He has walked for 15 minutes, and it shouldn’t be possible that the last pack of monsters were trolls .

‘That’s not possible…’

Soo Hyuk thought as he shook his head .

At that moment, a strange sound came from ahead .

– Roaaarrr!

It was a monster’s roar . Hearing the roar, Soo Hyuk thought of a monster .

‘Ogres?’

Soo Hyuk thought the roar was from an ogre, but he couldn’t be sure . There were a few monsters that made the same roar as an ogre, but Soo Hyuk only heard an ogre’s roar before . That’s why he thought of an ogre first .

For the last few minutes, Soo Hyuk just walked thinking about random things .  

But was it because of the roar? Soo Hyuk began to focus .

‘It’s an ogre!’

In a few steps, Soo Hyuk found the source of the roar . And the source was as he expected, an ogre .  

Two ogres were blocking the path .

Unlike before, Soo Hyuk stopped before approaching the monsters .

An ogre was a strong monster despite its level .

Noticing Soo Hyuk, the two ogres roared and dashed towards him .

“Fire Strom . ”

Soo Hyuk cast Fire Storm, and the two ogres were engulfed by the spell .

‘As expected of an ogre . ’

Unlike the previous monsters, the two ogres yelled in pain but did not die instantly .

It didn’t take long for the ogres to die .

– Ogre’s Tendons x2

In about 6 seconds, the drop window popped up .

Soo Hyuk accepted the items and began to walk forward .

‘The difficulty seems to have risen quite a bit . ”

Honestly, Soo Hyuk expected the ogres to last 4 seconds .

‘I’ve also become stronger, but…’

The proficiency of the Firestorm rose, and his magical damage increased after unlocking the Wisdom stat’s special effect .

But the ogres withstood the attack for more than 4 seconds . Even though ogres were strong, this just seemed too absurd . The difficulty curve rose way too fast .

Soo Hyuk opened his character window .

Class: Archmage’s Descendant

Level: 202 

Experience: 19%

Health: 111600 

Mana: 75500

Satiation: 65%

Strength ： 40 (+10)

Agility ： 35 (+16)

Stamina ： 1108 [554 (+10)]

Wisdom： 3775 (+10)

Checking the window, Soo Hyuk was surprised .

‘The exp rose by 8%?!’

The exp only rose from 10% to 11% after defeating the six groups of trolls, but now it rose to 19% just by two ogres .

‘Their levels must have been insanely high . ’

By being able to withstand Soo Hyuk’s spells and the amount of exp, the two ogres must have been high-leveled . They were incomparable with the previous monsters .

‘Why all of a sudden…’

The difficulty curve rose all of a sudden . It wasn’t a slight rise, but a sharp one .  

‘With this difficulty…I don’t need to worry about the scale of the reward . It should be fine . ’

Soo Hyuk was worried about the reward because of the low difficulty, but now, seeing the ogres, there was nothing to worry about . The reward wouldn’t just be fine, but great .

Closing the window, Soo Hyuk started to cast spells for proficiency again and continued walking .

***

‘Hmmn, the footprints end here . ’

Carten looked up and saw a cliff . The footprints stopped in front of the wall .

‘They didn’t climb up…’

There were no marks of the group climbing the cliff .

‘And there’s nowhere else to go . ’

Scanning his surroundings, Carten did not find any marks anywhere else .

‘That means… There’s a hidden entrance?’

The clues pointed to the existence of a hidden entrance .

Carten thought of the possibility of a hidden space behind the cliff .

Carten approached the cliff and knocked on the walls . Checking the resonating sound, Carten moved sideways and kept knocking .

‘It’s different!’

There was a slight difference in the sound .

‘There something behind here . Is this the cave?’

Carten was sure there was something behind the cliff, which was related to the Kelta’s secret cave . There was a high chance, it wasn’t just associated with Kelta, but the actual entrance to the cave .  

Carten returned to the place the footprints disappeared .

He took out a small bottle that contained green powder .

“It’s regrettable to use it here, but…”

The green powder is a magical item named “Traces of the Wind . ” It was an expensive item that cost 120 gold for 10 grams .  

Carten opened the lid and slowly took out a pinch of the powder and sprayed it at the wall .

The powder didn’t fly towards the direction Carten sprayed it but flew in various directions and then stopped somewhere on the cliff and began to glow .

Staring at the glowing powder, Carten thought,

“Is there a space behind the cliff?’

The glowing powder showed traces of an entrance .  

That entrance was definitely indicating there was an empty space within the cliffs .

‘The entrance is probably there . ’

There was one spot where the traces concentrated . That was probably where the entrance was .

Carten placed his hands at that spot .  

‘A small gap . It looks like it can fit something . A key?’

Staring at the gap, Carten realized that it looked like a keyhole .

‘They shouldn’t have the key…’

Carten shook his head and denied that thought .

Heron had the key to the cave, so it shouldn’t be a keyhole .

‘Wait . What if there were two keys?’

At that thought, Carten frowned . There was a high chance there was more than one key . If they didn’t have the key, they wouldn’t have even come to this place .

Carten was considering two options .

‘Should I break in or return to report this…?’

Silently thinking, Carten began to think .

‘It’s too dangerous to break in . I should return first . ’

Deciding to report the situation, Carten walked into the forest to hide the traces of using a warp scroll .

Checking the surroundings, Carten took out a scroll and ripped it .

As soon as Carten ripped the scroll, a magic circle appeared on the ground and sent Carten to Parville Merchants’ Corps residence area .

Arriving, Carten headed straight towards Ross’s room .