29 Nether Exploration(1)
"Damn, he still hasn't responded to my request."
In a luxurious bathroom, a familiar girl was lying in a tub full of bubbles, hugging her legs and staring at her at nothing, it's just that in front of her is a holographic screen in a friends section.
This girl is Noelle ButterBlood, since she died on the first floor she has not left her room, avoiding contact with others, she pretends not to leave until she talks to the runner Steve to reach an agreement.
She thinks that if her family finds out about her performance on the first floor, they will demote her to the lowest level of importance, so she wants to compensate the situation with the weapons of that runner who saved her.
It's just that Steve still doesn't respond to his friend's request through the tower, it's natural since Har hasn't explored that function yet so his intentions haven't taken effect unfortunately.
"If he doesn't answer, I just have to find him on the next floors"
Noelle said with a sigh, she took the mobile phone from her and started looking for gossip to de-stress, she didn't know that she would find a crazy situation.
"...?"
She was very surprised, regardless of the social network she entered, they all talked about the same topic, Runner Steve who activated a hidden function on the first floor.
"This can't be him, right?"
Noelle's eyes widened and she seemed unwilling to believe that she had met this runner who is trending in almost every country.She began to brainwash herself into convincing herself that she had not met that Steve from the past. rumors.
"Right, this is better than she thought."
She didn't know at what moment a thought arose in her mind, if that Steve she met is the one from the rumors then it would be a great benefit for her to meet him.
"If I recruit the Steve who discovered a hidden function then my relevance to the family would be even greater."
With that in mind, a flame lit up in her eyes and she definitely had to meet that Steve again.
Time passed and, under the siege of the large number of monsters and the increasing difficulty, the Runners gradually came out of the first floor and began to spread rumors of Steve.
{That bastard activated a curse and turned the easy first floor experience into hell.}
{I didn't even get an E grade, this is a big loss.}
{I'm Steve, sorry guys.}
{This Steve, your location is XXXXXX, I hope no one uses the information to break your legs hehehe.}
The rumors were fanned as well as adding fuel to the fire, many only criticized and cursed, others with a little brain analyzed the situation.
{If the cons are so bad, how good must the pros be?}
{To increase the difficulty that much, there must be a hidden reward behind it.}
{The other countries are also discussing this, the effect of Reality Hurts must have spread to all rooms on the first floor.}
{Did anyone find the Illusionist entity? I only lasted 30 minutes with the difficulty increased.}
{What country is this Runner Steve from? It would be awesome if he is from our XCountry.}
{Stop fantasizing, he must be from America.}
{What crazy thing did he have to do to increase the difficulty so much? Did he mess with the daughter of the tower or something? Lol}
{He came in with a picture of your mother and broke the algorithm (¬_¬)}
People from all over the world were wildly imagining about the causes and consequences of Reality Hurts, if they were told that it all started by cutting off the arm of a skeleton, they would certainly not believe it.
...
"Eaahh, where the hell am I?"
On the first floor, the cause of all the commotion is almost giving his friend a heart attack.
There are no words to describe Zac's shock when he opened his eyes and noticed that he was underground, the craziest thing was that he was using his tower character and a lot of men in blue t-shirts passed in front of him.
No matter how much he pinched himself he couldn't wake up from this crazy dream, even the hangover seemed to disappear when one of those blue-shirted men accompanied by a humanoid monster approached him.
"U-uh, get away"
Zac got up off the ground and went into a fighting stance.
"Hahaha, calm down Zac, it looks like you've seen a ghost."
Looking at Zac's scared face, the blue T-shirt man sneered without taking a possible attack from the other party seriously.
"You, do you know me?"
Zac frowned at this person, obviously these are Har and Mike, he went back to look for him in the real world after finishing off the vampire, luckily he recovered his sanity and followed Har to the first floor to be healed.
Unfortunately his left foot was melted by the magma that Har released before going up to the roof, but Har believes that he can restore it with the regeneration potion.
Right now the clones of him are obtaining obsidian to make a portal to the Nether dimension, only with the warts of the underworld and the Blaze bars you can make potions.
Har started to explain the current situation after reassuring Zac. His eyes almost fell out of his face hearing that they were actually on the first floor, luckily Har prepared a story beforehand and I hope Zac wakes up so as not to explain two. times.
He convinced them by saying that he can enter the first floor thanks to a book that he found in a chest of a wagon, he passed the book to both of them and they could see that it is called "Book of Origins".
It's actually just a "Curse of Vanishing" book that he renamed with a label on an Anvil, thanks to the clones' previous efforts at fishing.
He even fooled them by saying that all the knowledge about the first floor is in the book, Mike and Zac's faces were full of amazement and excitement upon hearing it, the objects on the first floor are highly sought after and sold at a high price, whoever has all the knowledge on the first floor would become a great power in a short time.
They tried to take a look at the book that glowed with violet light, to Har's surprise the book opened and it was full of a strange language, it was the language that is used in the table of enchantments.
He quickly made up an excuse and told them that only the one who first opened the book can understand it.
"To think that a night of drinking would end like this."
Mike and Zac looked at each other stunned and heartbroken, almost falling under the control of a crazy vampire just for going to have a good time.
The one in the worst condition is Mike, he was turned into a zombie and even lost a foot, he doesn't have vampire regeneration but luckily he doesn't feel pain.
"Don't worry too much, we are already working to get you back to normal."
Har pointed at the clones carrying buckets of water below, Mike and Zac were shocked for a moment but then they remembered the book of origins and sighed with all kinds of thoughts.
"Yes, you are lucky to come across that extraordinary book"
"That's right, in my stay on the first floor I only pushed some monsters off a cliff, rotten meat and arrows were my only harvest."
Mike and Zac made fun of themselves as they recalled their experience on the first floor.
"Now you have a chance to change that, don't you?"
Har said with words full of meaning, obviously now they have another chance to obtain treasures from the first floor.
"Eh, how come I didn't think of that before? I'm not the weak boy I was two years ago, those monsters won't be able to beat me anymore hahaha."
Mike stood on his right foot and clenched his fists ready to go beat the monsters up, but his enthusiasm was bound to go into free fall at Har's words.
"Don't be in a hurry, don't you notice something strange in the holograms in front of you?"
Har said as he opened a chest and moved some items into his inventory.
"Huh, that's right, I thought it was something he didn't remember."
Mike said looking at the effect of Bad Omen in a holographic window, Zac to one side nodded and he also didn't remember this effect during his stay on the first floor.
"Actually, now all damage taken is multiplied by x3, monsters are more intelligent and have inexplicable means."
Har briefly explained the effect of the Reality Hurts feature while donning blue armor.
In the process of searching for obsidian, his clones had found several diamond ores, after chipping them with Fortuna III he had enough to make a diamond chest and pants as well as a sword.
He doesn't know exactly the damage absorption level of diamond armor but it should be better than iron armor, as for the diamond sword it should increase attack damage by 70 points.
"By the way Har, you said before that you could return me to normal, does that have something to do with the movement of the clones?"
Mike asked confused after Har finished explaining about Reality Hurts, he didn't pay attention to the clone ability because he knew that the items on the first floor could earn you a fortune.
"That's right, come with me, we are about to make history."
