My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 2

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 2

Episode 2. Lord of the Twisted Underworld

“So this is the first floor of the Tutorial Tower.”

How fascinating.

Just moments ago I was in a pure white space, and suddenly I’m in a forest.

After quickly looking around, I stared at the system window floating in the air.

[Defeat 50 Goblins]

[0/50]

I’d seen this plenty on the internet.

A mission to take out 50 goblins.

Clear this and you move to the next floor, fail or die and you go back down to the first floor.

This same condition applies to other floors too, so you don’t have to worry about death in the Tutorial Tower.

If you die, you just climb back up from the first floor.

Maybe that’s why I didn’t feel particularly afraid.

Well, I wasn’t really scared to begin with anyway.

I lightly loosened my neck and clenched my fist.

Unique skill, Black Dragon.

I originally wanted to try using it once in the safe zone before coming here, but I couldn’t.

Then I should try using it now.

I earnestly wished to use ‘Black Dragon’ in my mind, just like I’d seen on the internet.

Then I felt a tingling sensation in my right hand.

[Black Dragon ]

Scales began sprouting from the back of my right hand.

Starting with one or two, the scales quickly covered my entire right hand.

I widened my eyes at the sight of matte scales that didn’t even reflect light covering my right hand in an instant.

“So this is what a skill is like.”

What a fascinating feeling.

My right hand had transformed into something inhuman, something monstrous.

I raised my left hand and lightly tapped the scales on my right hand.

“Oh. Pretty hard, huh?”

It was as hard as tapping a steel plate.

Plus, my fingernails seemed to have gotten a bit sharper too.

As I was examining my transformed right hand, I raised my head at the presence I felt in front of me.

There was a green dwarf holding a club as big as its own torso, flicking its tongue at me.

“Kirik! Kiririk!”

The creature excitedly struck its club against the ground.

Soon after, it bared its yellowed teeth packed with chunks of flesh and began charging toward me.

Sharp instincts lurking in those beast-like yellow eyes.

‘…Is that killing intent?’

Aside from the goblin being disgusting, this killing intent I was feeling for the first time wasn’t very pleasant.

It felt awful.

Grimacing, I thrust my right hand toward the charging goblin.

“Kieek!”

Whoosh!

The goblin swung its club in time with my right hand thrust.

The long wooden club and my scale-covered right fist slowly drew closer.

The moment they made contact.

“Hm?”

The club shattered into pieces very easily.

“Kik-.”

The goblin behind it let out a short death rattle as its head turned into a bloody mess.

The goblin’s body staggered around, having lost its head.

Soon after, a massive chunk of meat fell powerlessly onto the grass-covered ground.

I blinked as I stared at the corpse of the goblin that had died in one hit.

“I heard goblins were weak, but were they really this weak?”

Goblins that you could easily handle once you got used to how disgusting they were.

That’s why I just fought it head-on, but I didn’t expect it to die so easily.

Well, still, if I had an ordinary body, I probably couldn’t have handled it so easily.

Maybe Black Dragon is a better skill than I thought.

“Somehow… I don’t feel anything.”

This was my first time killing something.

Monsters are alive too, after all.

But I felt surprisingly nothing.

Maybe it’s because I couldn’t feel much fear even when I was about to fall to my death.

Or maybe, do I have a personality problem?

As I seriously pondered while shaking off the blood on my hand, I glanced ahead.

“Kik, kiik…”

Another goblin making sounds in its throat while hesitantly backing away.

Well, whether I have personality problems or not doesn’t really matter.

This is probably a scene I’ll have to get used to anyway.

So I should quickly catch that one too and fill up the numbers.

It’ll take quite a while to reach all 50, after all.

I took a step toward the retreating goblin.

“Hm? What’s with that guy.”

I heard monsters are hostile toward humans.

But the goblin suddenly turned around and started running away.

“Where are you going.”

Since ‘Black Dragon’ is a growth-type skill, it’ll take a long time to get out of the Tutorial Tower.

So it’s better to get through the first floor quickly, but the goblin suddenly started running away.

Frowning, I quickly kicked off the ground to follow that goblin.

[Defeat 50 Goblins]

[1/50]

* * *

Come to think of it, maybe that goblin was a golden goblin.

I had that thought as I hid behind the rock.

“Kiik! Kiiiik!”

“Kik?”

“Kiiiiiik!”

A group of goblins chattering nonstop.

Seeing what looked like huts, this must be the Goblin Village.

“One, two…”

I chased the fleeing goblin and discovered even more goblins.

Even roughly counting, there seemed to be about 50 of them.

I guess I don’t need to go searching around?

“One punch per guy…”

That means I just need to throw 50 punches.

Smiling, I slowly walked out from Behind the rock.

“This can’t be harder than carrying cement in 95-degree blazing sun.”

I’m confident in my stamina after 5 years of construction work.

I lightly repeated clenching and unclenching my right hand as I moved forward.

“Kieek?”

“Kaaaak!”

The moment they spotted me, they roared savagely.

Somehow they all looked hideously ugly.

Moreover, even though I hadn’t done anything, they were radiating hostility toward me from all directions.

We’ll tear you to shreds, make you our prey.

Reading the message mixed within the goblins’ hostility, I muttered quietly.

“As expected, the only good goblin is a dead goblin.”

This won’t do.

I’ll have to personally make these guys behave.

Pulling up the corners of my mouth, I aimed at the one charging from the front.

“Hup!”

Putting in much more force than when I had punched the goblin I encountered earlier.

[Synchronization Rate 0.2%]

I threw my punch.

“…!”

Thud- BOOOOOOM!

A thunderous explosion echoed.

Frowning at the ear-splitting sensation, I staggered backward.

Thick clouds of dust billowed up.

Covering my lower face with my sleeve, I couldn’t hold back the words spilling from my mouth.

“Crazy….”

Something was wrong.

No, seriously.

What kind of growth-type skill in any world.

[Defeat 50 Goblins]

[87/50]

[Success]

[Moving to the next floor]

Does this without even growing, with just one punch?

Just once.

I had only thrown a punch with all my might, yet the village where the goblins lived was destroyed.

And this was supposedly only 0.2% of my power.

I swallowed dryly as I looked at my right arm covered in scales.

Black Dragon.

This was no ordinary skill.

Clenching my scale-covered fist tightly, I closed my eyes.

From the ground, bright light was already flowing out to transport me to the next floor.

* * *

I reached the 5th Floor in the blink of an eye.

This was especially true since the conditions from the 2nd to 4th floors were identical to the 1st floor, with missions like ‘Defeat 50 Kobolds’ that involved killing monsters.

In the process of climbing to the 5th Floor, I felt it desperately.

“My right hand is too strong.”

It’s really too strong.

So one punch solves everything.

I have no idea why a skill that shouldn’t be strong is so strong.

So I’m very confused.

At this rate, I might become the person who conquered the Tutorial Tower the fastest.

That aside.

“They say when you become a Hunter, your stamina improves. Is that why?”

While climbing to the 5th Floor, I had been swinging my fists without rest for even a moment.

Yet strangely, I didn’t feel tired at all.

Well, good things are good things, so it didn’t particularly bother me.

“Besides, this.”

Turning my gaze from my right hand, I glanced to the side.

[Synchronization Rate 0.2%]

Synchronization rate.

If I hadn’t seen it wrong, it had risen to 0.2% when I threw my punch at the Goblin Village.

The problem was that there had been no news since then.

This needs to go up for other body parts to be unlocked, but how exactly do I raise it?

“Well, I can figure that out gradually.”

I can learn the rest after leaving the Tutorial Tower in first place.

There’s one thing I need to do now.

Escape the Tutorial Tower.

To do that, I need to pass the 5th Floor now.

[5th Floor]

[Escape the Twisted Maze]

From the 5th Floor onward, the conditions change.

Until now, it had been simple missions where you just had to defeat monsters, but the 5th Floor requires escaping a maze.

From now on, there are no guides.

The maze structure differs for each person.

Moreover, the maze walls are so solid that they can’t be broken, and even if they crack, they repair themselves quickly.

Because of this, I read on the internet that if you get lost here, you’ll suffer for a month.

“Hmm….”

But you know what.

“Do I really need to go with the orthodox method?”

I can see a quick shortcut.

I carefully caressed the towering wall with my scale-covered right hand.

Hard?

So you can’t break the wall?

Something’s strange about that.

“If it can’t be broken, how do they know it recovers when cracked?”

Clearly someone had attempted to break the maze walls.

And that attempt had stopped at the result of ‘cracking.’

Then it’s not that it can’t be broken.

It’s that there was no one with enough power to break it.

I immediately pulled back my right hand.

And.

“Hup!”

I struck the wall with all my might.

Thud- BANG!

A tremendous roar echoed.

Thick dust billowed up.

When the dust obscuring my vision settled and revealed what lay beyond, I smiled with satisfaction.

“It worked?”

The act of breaking the 5th Floor maze wall that no one had been able to do.

I had succeeded far too easily.

Smiling with satisfaction, I lightly leaped over the collapsed wall.

“Whoa.”

Crumble!

The maze walls regenerated instantly as soon as I passed through, terrifyingly fast.

I glanced at the wall that had returned to its original form and shifted my gaze forward.

I needed to move quickly, so there was no time to waste like this.

I threw my full strength into another punch aimed straight ahead.

* * *

And so I continued breaking through walls and moving forward.

I think I’d been doing this for almost three hours now.

How long would I have to keep this up?

Even my anticipation of what might lie beyond had been shattered long ago.

Now I was even starting to suspect I might have taken the wrong path.

After breaking through yet another wall and moving forward, I raised my fist to break the next wall.

At that moment.

“…!?”

The ground beneath my feet suddenly gave way.

Like a switch being turned off, all the surrounding scenery vanished completely.

No matter where I looked, I couldn’t see the ground.

No matter where I looked, I couldn’t see any walls.

A space covered entirely in darkness.

Within it, I began falling rapidly downward.

“Ugh….”

Was this happening because I didn’t use the proper method?

This was really too much.

I reached out my right hand to grab onto anything.

But since there was nothing around me, there was nothing to grab onto.

‘I can’t… breathe….’

An unknown pressure constricting my throat.

The suddenly thin oxygen was choking me.

I contorted my face and opened my mouth, gasping for oxygen, but nothing came in.

My consciousness grew hazy.

The only things keeping me mentally alert now were sheer stubbornness and persistence.

I felt like I might faint at any moment.

I felt like I might suffocate.

Damn it.

I’d finally made it to the 5th Floor, and now I was going back to the 1st Floor like this?

I clutched my throat and contorted my face.

I was dying.

My vision blurred dizzily.

In that situation, I.

Made eye contact with something in the darkness.

[….]

Darkness that was entirely pitch black.

A pair of eyes watching me from within it.

The moment I met those orange eyes, my fading consciousness became clear.

Only then could I clearly see the silhouette, and I realized.

It wasn’t that oxygen had become scarce.

It was just that I.

Before the being in front of me.

[The Lord of the Twisted Underworld is watching you.]

Before the Black Dragon that was silently staring at me.

I was so overwhelmed that I couldn’t even breathe.

“….”

I couldn’t say anything.

My mouth wouldn’t open.

I was afraid.

I was scared.

Cold sweat seeped from every pore in my body.

Was this what “watching” in the description meant?

My head went completely blank and I couldn’t think of anything.

Like that.

Like that.

The Black Dragon that had been staring at me, frozen for a long time.

[The Lord of the Twisted Underworld warns you.]

[That if you do not satisfy him, he will take your body.]

Slowly closed its eyes and disappeared.

* * *

Gasp!

I got up from where I lay, breathing roughly, and frantically looked around.

“Huh, it’s gone.”

Only then did I clutch my chest, exhale roughly, and swallow dry saliva.

My entire body had long been soaked with cold sweat that flowed like rain.

“What was that thing?”

No.

Even this muttering was meaningless.

I already knew.

That thing I had encountered.

It was definitely the ‘Black Dragon’ from the skill I had obtained.

“Lord of the Twisted Underworld….”

He’d take my body if I didn’t satisfy him?

Damn it.

I thought it was good that this growth-type skill was strong from the beginning, but now some strange restriction had appeared.

Just thinking about it made my body tremble.

So I covered my lower face with my right hand and.

“…Good, this is it.”

Pulled up the corners of my mouth.

Take my body?

Don’t make me laugh.

I had no intention of quietly letting him take the power I’d worked so hard to obtain.

No matter what it took, I wouldn’t let my body be taken, and I would succeed as a Hunter.

“Since he said satisfy, he’s probably talking about the synchronization rate.”

Raising the synchronization rate.

I couldn’t think of any other way to ‘satisfy’ the Black Dragon besides that.

I had to raise the ‘synchronization rate’ to avoid having my body taken.

It seemed strange somehow, but what could I do?

This was the only thing I could think of right now.

Whew.

I exhaled a long, thin breath and shook my head vigorously as I stood up.

[10th Floor]

[Defeat the ■■■■■■ Guard■■]

[0/1]

10th Floor.

After encountering the Black Dragon, I opened my eyes to find I had arrived at the 10th Floor.

Since I just need to clear this place to get out, it couldn’t be better.

But whatever the Black Dragon did, the system has completely gone haywire.

I lightly tapped the distorted system that seemed to be malfunctioning.

“Well, it doesn’t matter if I can’t see it.”

10th Floor.

I already knew the clear condition for this place.

“Defeat the Guardian of the Tutorial Tower.”

Slowly turning my head, I looked at the empty Jade Throne atop the collapsed Ruins.

Behind the Jade Throne, a single massive serpent was coiled up, sitting with its eyes closed.

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