My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 18

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 18

Episode 18. Surviving in the Cave

Panic is panic, but this is this.

The moment I recognized the Bloody Mantis roaring, I immediately clenched my fist.

[Smoke Mist – Shadow in Mist]

Rising black smoke.

Gritting my teeth, I threw the Black Dragon’s fist with all my strength toward the Bloody Mantis’s abdomen.

“Kieek…”

Perhaps because the synchronization rate had increased unlike the 2nd Floor.

The Bloody Mantis that took two hits to die back then fortunately went to the Black Dragon’s side with just one hit.

Wow! I won!

I survived the sudden situation!

It wouldn’t have been enough even if I spread both arms and cheered.

Naturally, I wanted to do that too.

“This is really fucking crazy.”

If only all sides weren’t filled with Bloody Mantises, I would have done that too.

I had no time to rejoice and threw my body backward.

As soon as I did, a Bloody Mantis’s front leg pierced where I had been standing.

The scythe-like sharp front leg smoothly embedded into the solid ground where I had stood.

I roughly threw my fist toward that Bloody Mantis’s front leg.

“Kieek!”

The front leg broke in half.

Having smashed the front leg like that, I quickly looked around.

‘Roughly counting, at least 20 or more.’

These huge creatures were densely surrounding me.

I deliberately breathed out calmly while looking around.

‘…This time it’s not a forest.’

The Tower of Recording had only shown forests continuously until now.

But this time it wasn’t a forest.

It was a cave dark and gloomy on all sides.

And now.

The only escape route in this space was the black passage behind the numerous Bloody Mantises.

Whether I liked it or not, there was no going back.

The only way out was that place.

“…So in the end, I have to break through all these Bloody Mantises.”

Tadadadadak!

The Bloody Mantises had already identified me and were approaching.

Deceiving those creatures’ eyes and escaping to the exit was virtually impossible.

Then I had no choice but to take them down.

I reached out and grabbed the broken Bloody Mantis’s front leg embedded in the ground.

When I pulled with the Black Dragon’s right arm, the front leg came out easily.

Right after, firmly gripping the creature’s front leg with the Black Dragon’s right hand, I charged forward.

“Kiiik!”

The previous Bloody Mantis swung its remaining front leg toward me.

I threw the front leg I was holding toward that creature’s forehead.

“Oh.”

The front leg embedded very easily into its forehead.

The effect was better than expected.

Confirming that the Bloody Mantis had fallen like that, I reached out and grabbed the huge Bloody Mantis’s rear end.

“Hup!”

Kugugugugung!

The Bloody Mantis’s corpse swung around, roughly hitting the ground.

The creature’s huge and solid body collided in a chain reaction with the Bloody Mantises that had been charging.

Bloody Mantises flipped over on the ground and struggling from just one collision.

Being large, they seemed unable to turn their bodies easily.

The Bloody Mantises that didn’t fall backward trampled on those fallen ones instead of helping them up and advanced toward me.

“Don’t these guys have any camaraderie.”

The Orcs at least got scared seeing their comrades dying.

Clicking my tongue in displeasure, I threw the Bloody Mantis corpse I was still holding with all my strength toward where they were.

“Kieek?!”

A compatriot’s corpse flying toward their heads.

The Bloody Mantises cut down what was merely an obstacle blocking their path with their front legs without a single error.

The place where the revealed prey had been.

There.

“Kiek?”

There was nothing.

It was natural.

The small prey they had tried to devour was.

“Peekaboo, you bastards.”

Hidden behind the thrown compatriot’s corpse, charging at them.

I raised the corners of my mouth and drove my fingers into the abdomen of the Bloody Mantis in the center.

Unable to withstand the sharp claws, my fingers embedded firmly into the Bloody Mantis’s abdomen.

The Bloody Mantis with fingers embedded in it raised its front leg toward me.

But I began emitting ‘smoke mist’ from the embedded claws faster than that.

“Try to endure this.”

“Kik, kigeuk, kik.”

Twitch, twitch.

The moment black mist was injected, the creature stopped moving and began trembling finely.

The moment I confirmed cracks forming in the creature’s solid exoskeleton, I pulled out my hand.

“Phew. Using smoke mist a lot is quite tiring.”

I had used the largest amount of ‘smoke mist’ I’d ever used.

This is quite exhausting.

I wiped away the cold sweat beading on my forehead and passed by the twitching Bloody Mantis.

The remaining Bloody Mantises charged toward me at high speed.

But I wasn’t on guard.

I didn’t even clench my fist.

Instead, I released the ‘Black Dragon’ that had been activated.

Why?

“Cheo-ri. Cover your ears.”

“Kyung?”

Peoong!

A huge explosion sound from behind me.

I raised the corners of my mouth and stopped walking.

The scene behind me when I turned around was truly gruesome itself.

A cave filled with black mist.

Even the corpses of giant mantises scattered within it.

[Synchronization Rate 1.7%]

I roughly expected this to happen.

Therefore, I looked at the dead Bloody Mantises with a satisfied face.

“Kyung?”

“How did you do it?”

“Kyuk kyuk.”

“Simple.”

Think about it.

A solid shell armor blocked on all sides.

I pushed the black mist with physical force into it until it was about to burst.

And that black mist can be controlled according to my ‘will’.

‘Of course, that control isn’t as simple as I thought…’

What I did was simple.

Fill the Bloody Mantis’s exoskeleton with ‘mist’ until it cracked.

Then expand the ‘mist’ all at once.

With just that, the Bloody Mantis’s exoskeleton becomes grenade fragments scattered in all directions.

“Phew…”

I let out a long sigh and plopped down on the ground.

There’s nothing dangerous left in this place.

So I should be able to catch my breath for a moment.

‘This is harder than I thought.’

Not a fight of purely swinging fists, but combat utilizing ‘mist’.

This was the first time I used ‘mist’ this much at once, so I didn’t know.

Using a lot of ‘mist’ at once is quite exhausting.

I’ve never been tired inside the Tower before, but now I’m physically exhausted for the first time.

As I sat there catching my breath, Cheo-ri emerged from my pocket and began crawling somewhere, flicking his tongue.

I stared blankly in the direction he was crawling.

“What are you trying to do.”

“Kyuk, kyuk.”

Wait a moment.

With that meaning in his cry, Cheo-ri pulled something out from the corpse of the dead Bloody Mantis and dragged it over.

I stared intently at the blue stone about the size of a baseball that he was carrying in his mouth.

It looks familiar somehow.

That’s…

“A magic stone?”

“Kyuk!”

“What. Don’t tell me you eat this too?”

Nod.

Cheo-ri silently nodded his head.

Come to think of it, he did say he was hungry.

I lightly transformed my right hand into Black Dragon and struck down on the magic stone he had dragged over.

“Here, eat up.”

“Kyuk!”

Munch munch munch.

The little guy deliciously devoured the fragmented magic stone.

I watched him blankly and thought.

‘A magic stone the size of a baseball…’

If I brought it to Earth, it would sell for a high price.

It’s regrettable that I can’t take anything out of the Tower except Cheo-ri.

“Just in case, should I try it.”

I’ve never tried taking a magic stone out.

Maybe it’s possible.

I seriously pondered while watching Cheo-ri finish eating the magic stone and drag over a new one.

“Tsk.”

No.

Let’s just let him eat it.

I smacked my lips and fragmented the new magic stone Cheo-ri brought, finally turning my gaze to the side.

Toward the system that had been floating since the moment I entered the Tower, but which I had deliberately ignored.

Now then, what are the clear conditions for this floor.

[5th Floor]

[Escape from the cave.]

A very simple and clear condition.

Escape from the cave.

I pressed my throbbing forehead firmly with my thumb and index finger.

It’s so simple and clear that I can’t see ahead.

“Haa…”

Escape from here?

I felt this in the Tutorial Tower too, but why are all 5th floors like this.

This isn’t even a maze, so I can’t use the trick of breaking through walls.

I really have to purely walk out of the cave.

Unlike the Tutorial Tower, while dealing with monsters that appear along the way.

“…Is this why they say you can’t get past the 5th floor.”

I don’t know who designed the Tower, but they’re truly vicious.

If this isn’t a room of time and mental torture, then what is.

To survive in the cave, I shouldn’t waste stamina like this.

I thought it was a pretty good method, but I can’t use it again.

I smacked my lips lightly and stood up, placing the seemingly full Cheo-ri on my hand.

“Cheo-ri. We’re lost again.”

“Kyuk?”

“That’s what happened.”

The little guy made an expression as if the world had collapsed.

I spoke to him with pitying eyes.

“So we have to get out of this cave.”

Cheo-ri slowly nodded as if he understood.

With him on my shoulder, I took the first step to exit the cave, leaving the corpses of the Bloody Mantises behind.

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After moving forward for about 3 hours.

“…We’re back here again.”

The Earth Bear I encountered while advancing.

I had been carrying a torch made from its hide and fat lit with Cheo-ri’s flames, and I bit my lips looking at the traces remaining on the wall.

In case I got lost and had to turn back, I had left traces on the cave wall with my fingernails.

The triangular mark in front of me now was evidence that I had passed through.

I was seeing this mark for exactly the second time.

“I definitely went in a different direction.”

Where I am now is a fork in the road.

I went left and came back, so I went right.

But going right also brought me back to the starting point.

“What am I supposed to do.”

Is there even a way out?

I looked around with a serious face.

It seems like this is the beginning area, but I’m already blocked.

This is troublesome.

“…Should I just break it.”

Seriously, that doesn’t seem like a bad idea.

The moment I clenched my fist, thinking I’d just punch anywhere.

Cheo-ri, who had been on my shoulder, suddenly jumped down.

After getting down from my shoulder, Cheo-ri began crawling somewhere quickly.

I thought Cheo-ri might be hungry, so I put my hand in my pocket to take out the magic stone I had brought.

But that didn’t seem to be it.

“Kyuk!”

Cheo-ri suddenly stopped moving in front of a wall and let out a loud cry as if telling me to watch carefully.

I approached where Cheo-ri was and tilted my head.

“What’s beyond this?”

“Kyuk!”

It looks like an ordinary wall on the surface…

I tilted my head and lightly tapped the wall with the back of my hand.

It actually feels like just a wall…

“Huh?”

Thong.

The moment I tapped the wall with Black Dragon’s solid right hand, a very clear sound echoed.

Really?

Is there really a passage beyond this?

“No wonder I couldn’t find it.”

I let out a hollow laugh and immediately clenched my right hand.

Then I swung my fist toward the wall with all my strength.

“Kup, cough.”

Thick dust clouds rising up.

I covered my mouth and coughed lightly, then squinted and looked beyond the wall.

“Wow… what is this now.”

The wall that had been blown away about 30cm.

Beyond it lay a ravine that looked like it had been carved out.

I picked up a piece of the shattered wall and lightly threw it down into the ravine.

“…”

Just how deep is it dug that no sound comes back even after a long time has passed.

I let out a long sigh and looked at the opposite side of the distant ravine.

A place that looked much more spacious than here, no matter who looked at it.

That side must be the right path.

The distance from here to beyond the ravine is roughly several dozen meters.

It’s a distance that’s nowhere near enough to cross with an ordinary jump.

I sat down on the ground and began thinking of a way to get across.

“I guess that’s the only way.”

No matter how hard I rack my brain, only one answer comes out.

I clicked my tongue softly and slowly backed away while muttering.

“…I just resolved not to waste it a moment ago.”

Thud thud thud, thak!

Taking a running start from behind, I leaped toward the other side of the ravine with all my strength.

From my hands, ‘Mist’ was continuously pouring out.

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