100 Floors All Master - Chapter 3

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All Master of 100 Floors Episode 003

 

 

Floor 0 (1)

 

 

Kang Jun-hyeok had arrived.

At the location of the Floor 0 Quest.

It was a medieval village. Dozens of crudely built houses were scattered in all directions.

And he wasn’t alone there.

About a hundred people were scattered throughout various parts of the village.

‘It’s the same.’

The Floor 0 Quest. This thing commonly called a tutorial wasn’t done alone. It was conducted by gathering about a hundred people all at once. Kang Jun-hyeok confirmed his position.

His location was somewhere between the village center and the outskirts.

It was exactly the same position as in his previous life.

‘The position is the same too. The flow is also the same. Should I assume the basic framework is similar to my previous life?’

While Kang Jun-hyeok was coldly assessing the situation, the other people also began to understand the predicament they were in.

“Ah, ahhh…”

“Aah! No. No!”

Desperate groans erupted from all directions. The beginning of the Tower’s invitation. The survival rate of the Floor 0 Quest was only 50%.

Having been thrown into a situation with a fifty-fifty chance of dying, they had no choice but to fear and despair.

But not everyone was like that.

“Ha, hahahaha!”

“Finally! Finally my chance has come!”

A few people also existed who burst into cheers with extremely excited faces.

The Tower was certainly a place one had to climb while risking their life.

But if you survived, you could gain tremendous power. It wouldn’t be strange if there were four or five people among the hundred who wanted power badly enough to risk their lives for it.

“Grrr.”

“I’ll survive. I’ll return.”

Even those who had been despairing gritted their teeth. They steeled their resolve. The atmosphere gradually settled.

“…So what are we supposed to do here?”

Someone’s words represented their collective feelings.

They were latecomers.

In percentage terms, they would belong to the bottom 10%. The Floor 0 Quest had already been cleared by 90% of Earth’s population.

Naturally, the early participants couldn’t provide information to the latecomers as a basic rule. As such, no one knew about the Floor 0 Quest.

Except for one person.

Kang Jun-hyeok slowly began to walk.

“Huh?”

Those who had been looking around the village belatedly discovered something.

“…What is that?”

“A monster?”

The very center of the village. The plaza.

There, something that looked like a mantis was present.

The differences from a regular mantis were that it was twice the size of a person, and that its front legs had vicious blades attached to them.

Such mantises were frozen like dolls. They felt lifeless, as if they had been taxidermied.

“What are we supposed to do?”

People were puzzled.

And at that moment, the Quest appeared.

 

[Floor 0 Quest.]

[Respond to three monsters.]

[Time remaining until completion: 3 minutes.]

 

The appearance of the Quest.

Along with it, the sound of clicking buttons could be heard. The world was dyed red.

[Kaaaak!]

[Kieek!]

The motionless mantises began to move. Sharp front legs swung roughly. In an instant, three people nearby were cut to pieces.

If they had done anything wrong, it was simply having extremely bad luck.

Splatter!

Blood sprayed in all directions, staining the village. People couldn’t understand for a moment and froze.

[Kieek!]

The quickly moving mantises launched their bodies. They rushed in with beast-like speed and killed three more people.

“…Waaaah!”

“Aaaaah!”

Only then did those who grasped the situation scream and run away. The mantises rushed in and drove their front legs into the backs of the fleeing people.

“…!”

Only then did they realize what the Floor 0 Quest was.

Tag.

For 3 minutes, they had to run with all their might from the monsters.

“Grrr!”

“Waaaah!”

People ran desperately, but the mantises were faster than them. In an instant, they chased the fleeing ones and killed them one by one.

And at that moment, the more quick-witted ones realized one more fact.

The face of a man being chased by a mantis instantly hardened coldly. He reached out his hand while running.

“Ugh!”

He grabbed the neck of someone running ahead and threw them behind him.

The one who fell hastily got up and looked at the one who had knocked him down.

“You bastard…”

Those words couldn’t continue. A mantis that had approached at some point blew off his neck.

What’s the best way to survive when a beast is chasing you?

It’s very simple.

Make someone other than yourself into a sacrifice.

That behavior spread among the people like a plague. Those ahead kicked down those behind, and those behind grabbed the necks of those ahead.

Everyone began to struggle desperately to survive by sacrificing each other.

Kang Jun-hyeok in his previous life hadn’t been much different from them either.

He hadn’t proactively made people into sacrifices, but he had shaken off the grips of those trying to grab and throw him, and had instead pushed them away.

He had survived on top of sacrifices, and after returning to Earth, he couldn’t eat properly for a whole week.

Though it was very long ago, the memories of his previous life were still vivid.

If he followed the same method this time, he could survive without problems.

But this time he had no intention of using such methods. There was a better way.

Kang Jun-hyeok stepped forward.

He neither ran backward nor moved forward.

He entered a house right nearby.

When he opened the door and looked inside, it was a very ordinary medieval house. Inside it, a single dagger was placed.

“It’s really here.”

Kang Jun-hyeok muttered as if amazed and gripped the dagger.

Having obtained the dagger, Kang Jun-hyeok left the house and moved forward.

“Move! Move!”

A man being chased by a monster came running with a reddened face. The moment he was about to grab and throw Kang Jun-hyeok, he hesitated.

Kang Jun-hyeok was not running away.

Rather, he was approaching the monster.

‘Is, is he insane?’

The man quickly made his judgment. There was no need to bother with a madman going to his own death. He brushed past Kang Jun-hyeok. Kang Jun-hyeok continued moving forward.

[Kaaak.]

The mantis also noticed that Kang Jun-hyeok was actually walking toward it. Whether it was displeased by the fact that its prey dared not to be afraid, it pushed aside the corpse it had been tearing apart and instantly charged forward.

[Kiiieek!]

Its front leg flew toward Kang Jun-hyeok’s head to pierce through it.

And at that moment.

Kang Jun-hyeok lightly moved his body to dodge. He immediately reached for his waist. Grabbing the handle, he drew his dagger and stabbed the mantis’s neck.

 

 

The dagger smoothly pierced through the mantis’s neck.

[Ki, kiek!]

The mantis swung its front legs as if having a seizure, but he lowered his stance to avoid them. At high speed, he dragged the blade that was embedded in the neck straight down to below its body.

[Kaaaaaaak!]

A terrible scream echoed. It staggered and tried to swing its front legs, but it didn’t even have the strength for that. After struggling briefly like that, it collapsed to the ground.

 

[System locked. Will be unlocked after completion.]

 

“What’s this? Was there something like this? I guess they won’t make it easy.”

Kang Jun-hyeok narrowed his eyes at the system window that appeared before him.

[Kieeek…]

The mantis let out a desperate scream as it died. At that sound, those who had been fleeing glanced back.

“…Huh?”

“Wh, what?”

That’s why they were able to see it.

The mantis that had been brutally killing people was lying there in a miserable state.

And a man was standing in front of it.

[Kaaaaaaak!]

[Kieeeeek!]

Their kin had died. Realizing this fact, the mantises burst into cries. One mantis with rolled-back eyes charged at Kang Jun-hyeok to kill him.

Kang Jun-hyeok did not run away. He simply measured the distance, then stepped back one pace.

[Kiiieek!]

A blade swung with a sharp cutting sound through the air. The moment it touched, his flesh would be severed.

But it didn’t matter. It would be fine as long as it didn’t touch.

Floor 0’s Quest.

The beginning of everything. A terrible hell with a 50% survival rate.

Because of its meaning as the beginning, even after everyone obtained invitations to the Tower, it remained a topic of conversation among people. Then at some point, someone said:

 

-Floor 0 Quest. Isn’t it possible to kill those mantises?

 

At first, everyone dismissed it as nonsense. But the more they discussed it, the more evidence began to emerge supporting that testimony.

First.

The mantises’ speed was not as fast as expected.

Of course, their strength was sufficient to slaughter people, but their speed itself was on the slow side. Their attack motions were also quite large, so if one responded calmly, they weren’t impossible to dodge.

And second.

They had thought the houses were meaningless decorations. This was because even when people hid in houses, the mantises would chop them up along with the buildings.

But inside each of them, one type of weapon was placed.

Swords, axes, clubs, bows, and so on. Weapons meant to kill something.

And finally, the decisive evidence was the content of the Quest itself.

 

[Floor 0 Quest.]

[Deal with three monsters.]

[Time remaining until completion: 3 minutes.]

 

It was “deal with.”

Not survive or escape.

The mantises could be killed.

They had simply mistaken the mantises for monsters they couldn’t resist and were too busy running away.

People regretted that many had died without realizing such a simple thing.

And the current Kang Jun-hyeok knew this fact.

Crack.

Kang Jun-hyeok, who had dodged the attack, pierced the neck with his dagger and slashed the belly. Instantly severing its limbs, Kang Jun-hyeok thought.

‘I was lucky.’

If what had been in the house was a bow or club or something, it would have been troublesome. Fortunately, it was a dagger that was just right to use.

Click.

[Kieeeeek!]

One mantis collapsed with a scream.

 

[System locked. Will be unlocked after completion.]

 

‘Then.’

Kang Jun-hyeok’s eyes became serious. He had killed two without problem. Up to this point was according to his plan.

But there was still one mantis remaining.

The mantis whose two companions had died would not let its guard down. It glared at Kang Jun-hyeok with eyes clearly looking at an enemy.

[Kieek!]

The mantis let out an angry scream. But its front leg futilely slashed through empty air. This was because Kang Jun-hyeok had thrown his body backward.

[Kieeeeek!]

Crack.

The mantis charged. The distance rapidly closed. Kang Jun-hyeok quickly made his judgment.

The opponent’s appearance was the same as a mantis. The structure of its front legs was also the same. So he lowered his stance to the limit and slid along the ground as he dove toward the mantis.

[Kaaaaaaak!]

Perhaps not expecting him to charge back in reverse, the mantis hastily pulled its front leg back and struck downward. But its front leg got stuck in the ground.

Scraaape!

The mantis scraped the ground as it forcibly pulled its front leg, but due to the resistance, its speed became considerably slower. Slow enough that it couldn’t reach Kang Jun-hyeok.

Stab.

Taking advantage of that gap, Kang Jun-hyeok approached under the mantis’s belly, drove in his dagger, and pulled.

Riiiiip.

Its belly split open and its entrails came tumbling out.

[Kaaaaaaaak!]

Kang Jun-hyeok dusted himself off as he stood up. He leisurely moved his steps and drove his dagger into the head of the fallen mantis. The mantis swung its front legs desperately, but it only futilely cut through empty air.

[Kiiiiiiiik…]

The mantis collapsed with a scream.

 

[System locked. Will be unlocked after completion.]

 

[Floor 0 Quest Clear.]

[Time Remaining: 1 minute 25 seconds.]

[MVP: Kang Jun-hyeok.]

[Thank you for your hard work.]

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